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  Happy New Year! My personal success this year...

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch.

  a few shotgun shots ( i hope they were blanks!

  ) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in baltimore about 25 miles away.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thanks, Xanthippe!

  I only have the one child, so at least I only have to go through this teaching him to drive thing once!
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  Happy New Year! My personal success this year...

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch.

  a few shotgun shots ( i hope they were blanks!

  ) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in baltimore about 25 miles away.

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  Sorry! I meant to post this in the wee hours of the morning last night, but when I checked this morning it was still in the text box. I hope everybody is having a great New Years day!
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  Happy New Year! My personal success this year...

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch.

  a few shotgun shots ( i hope they were blanks!

  ) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in baltimore about 25 miles away.

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  We've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch. A few shotgun shots ( I hope they were blanks!) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in Baltimore about 25 miles away. A New Year's kiss from my husband, and now it's time to go pick up my son from his girlfriend's house. He wanted to spend the night (No!) and then he asked to stay to 3am (No!). It's hard letting your 15 year old grow up, or rather, find the right pace to let that happen.

  Our goal for 2017? Teach the kid to drive! Yes, he turns 16 this year. Just spent the day turning the Peter Rabbit nursery back into a spare bedroom with a full size bed, convenient when spouses snore!

  And time rolls on...

  My personal success this year? I started a full-time teaching job in August, so I am officially finished half of my first year teaching! It's been so difficult, but so rewarding, too. Baltimore's a tough town, but there are some really sweet kids and some really smart kids whom I need to push hard so they can reach the next level. I can't save every kid, but I am really going to focus on those I can push forward.

  So, I feel gratitude, but trepidation for the final years of child rearing. I'm working, I'm paying off debt, we had a great holiday. So much to be thankful for!

  I hope you all will be able to move forward in your journey, wherever it takes you in 2017. Thanks to all of you in this wonderful community. I haven't been able to keep up as much lately, but I think of lots of you often and drop by occasionally to keep up with things.

  Ps. I finally earned my name. A little friend of mine that needs a little extra help, but also a little extra discipline threw a paper airplane at me. I angrily snatched it out of the air and scolded the child. A few days later, I was clearing off my desk and found the offending piece of paper. Before I threw it away, I opened it up and there was a hand-drawn picture of this student and myself holding hands. The caption read, "I hav a gret teatcher." I cried. It's for moments like these that I do what I do. I hung it up on a cupboard in my office, pointed it out to the student and thanked him for the sentiment. I then suggested that a direct delivery rather than airmail might have been more appropriate!
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  Girls are unpredictable, materialist, and use us, men, as a toy - Part 2

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  well here am i, a couple of years passed since my original post (link here), somewhat less mysoginistic, more open to relationships, heartbroken again.

  this is an official "fuck my life" thread.. being chased by the elders makes one arrive at the conclusion that there is nothing better than not being chased by the elders.

  i had a pre-jc meeting a week ago.

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  That girl started lying when she asked you to hold her purse while she went to the bathroom.

  Girls always take their purses with them to the bathroom!

  Learn signs of deception. And never have sex with someone who is drunk. There are questions of the ability to consent. You put yourself at risk there.

  People don't fall in love at first sight. Keep this in mind, both when evaluating the true feelings of others and your own, as well. What you felt was lust, not love.

  And she is a very screwed up young woman, out sleeping with others while she has a boyfriend. She brought her "stuff" along with her and shared it with you and now you've got her "stuff" causing you issues.

  In general, "Crazy" parties and picks up other men when she's having trouble in her relationship with no serious intentions for the pick up. Despite professing love, which is really only confused feelings.

  This situation could happen with men or women.

  So, everybody would do well to keep these types of situations in mind and avoid them.

  By the way, you find people when you are not expecting it. You are just moving along in your life, dealing with your stuff as a person, and you meet someone new. You may not even pay much attention to this person at first, but since you know how important it is listen to others in order to learn because people will tell you all kinds of things about their character without saying a word on the subject. And, when they pass that sniff test, and you realize you'd like to see them more, then ask if they would, too. Hang out. See how it goes. Eventually, after some time, you might actually fall in love. See, that's how this whole thing really works.
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  Honest Questions About Child Abuse

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i have two honest questions for everyone here.

  i understand that most here want retribution from the courts against watchtower for child abuse allegations.

  but let us take away the instances where someone was accused of child abuse and then later put back into a position of authority, such as an elder or an ms. let us just take the cases where a regular publisher or even an appointed person, with no previous accusation of child abuse has come up against that person.

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  Thank you Ingognito and Saename for bringing up the obvious: the age of consent is totally irrelevant if the sexual contact wasn't consensual.

  I have no idea why the OP would think this is relevant at all.

  I kept reading page after page and finally you guys nailed it: just because someone is 14 in a place where the age of consent is 14 doesn't mean that that person consented, and if they did not, then that is a sexual crime.

  This is actually the most disturbing thing that Richard has asserted in this entire post.
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  MERRY CHRISTMAS

  by jhine in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  l don't visit very often now , but l wanted to drop in to wish all you folks a merry christmas and happy new year .

  as l cannot find a thread already started for this l have started one !

  in the immortal words of chuck berry ( l think ) " come on everybody " join in wishing your fellow posters a merry christmas , happy holidays etc .

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  GrreatTeacher

  The tree is up, the gifts are wrapped,

  The annual bonuses have all been scrapped.

  When the credit card companies say, "Payment due!"

  All they'll get is, "Merry Christmas to you!"
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  Poor people are sub-human?

  by Alostpuppydog in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  has anyone noticed how many jw's really seem to be rollin in it?

  escpecially the elders, and they treat their subordinates like filthy gum on the bottom of their shoe?

  just wondering because i too am poorer than poor and have spent a fourth of my life homeless already and i am 22.. another thing to consider is why domost of the population on this planet seem to hate the poor, even though we outnumber the middle class and the rich greatly?

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  Without trying to be cynical, some people just won't be able to cut it in college.

  We can push that goal like crazy in our schools, but, realistically, some kids just don't have the cognitive ability to do university level work.

  And, that's a natural limitation.

  Sorry for the cynicism.
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  I want the Jehovah that celebrates Christmas

  by Anony Mous in

  1. social
  2. family

  't is the season and my oldest is now 5 (and in school), it's also how long i've been 'out'.

  i just wanted to share this story about my daughter.

  you can find some of my history on these forums as well.. in the mean time, i've started a new family, i have shared custody (half the weekdays and every other weekend) with my oldest and my youngest is 2 and we are celebrating christmas.

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  This is a great story! I'm so glad you posted.

  Yup, it's just another religion. Once they figure it out, half the battle is over.
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  "While I love my two children very much, I feel today I should never have had them."

  by running_away in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is interesting:.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38145118.

  "a whole lot of the time, i just don't like being a mother, and i generally don't fit well into this role.".

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  I'm glad my husband and I had 10 years together before we had our son.

  It was rough going at first and I thought I had ruined my life.

  Now I kind of like the little guy, well, not so little anymore; he's almost 6 feet tall!

  The point is that I like the fun parts of parenting. I love playing with kids, reading books to them, even buying their clothing.

  I like kids so much that I'm a teacher!

  But, the unrelenting marathon of monitoring their food input (and output), monitoring their nightly sleep needs, monitoring their health, dealing with chronic and acute medical conditions, monitoring their schooling, providing transportation, the requirement to monitor his whereabouts every minute of every day. It's the Management of Every Facet of Another Person's Life that is wearing. I could only do it for one child. Thinking of having another was too exhausting.

  However, the older they get, the more of this work transfers to the child himself. My teenager doesn't have to be supervised every minute. He is able to feed himself, wash his own clothes, get up on his own and get himself to school on time, and take his meds. I still have to monitor these things, but the 24/7 nature of parenting has lessened over time. This has reduced much of the stress of parenting and I have more emotional energy to bond with him than ever before. I love him more and more and more and now I am looking at letting him go in a couple more years. It's just heartbreaking.

  I've come to realize that what I like most about parenting is meeting a new person and giving him the tools to be an independent person. It's a thankless job, and if you do it right, you work yourself out of a job. For me, it's about helping him grow up. I feel that way as a teacher, too. My job is to help them learn and grow, and at the end of the school year, to be one more year closer to independence.

  There's a new person in the world. He looks like me. He looks like my husband. But, he's his own person.

  And I'm unleashing him on the world in 2 years!
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  Do You Remember When JWs Relished Explaining Their Beliefs?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i bet most witnesses could not explain their blood policy, their understanding of the slave, and even simple biblical doctrines....they are an embarrassment to any old timer..

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  And if they told you from the platform tomorrow night that the lifesaving work is over, would you stop preaching?

  I believe you would.

  I believe you are a follower of man.

  What could they possibly say that you wouldn't follow?