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  Bi-Sexual

  by misguided in

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  i guess my new-found freedom of personal expression is working its way down to my kids.. i came home from a crazy day at work, ate my dinner, was loading the dishwasher, when my 13-year-old son says, .

  "mom, i have something to tell you - i'm bisexual...i've been that way for a year now.

  i still can't help but have my old jw brain at work, thinking this is not okay - kind of like, i'm an apostate with a bisexual son...what will my family say?!

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  scotsman

  Top marks to you Rose for being so approachable. It sounds to me like you don't need too much advice from us, having handled the news well, just keep the lines of communication open and forget about your witness family. They have no right to know.

  As a caveat to EF's advice I'd be careful about telling him everything you feel (i.e. the JW programmed thoughts) because once something's said, it's hard to take it back. My own mother told me that she'd rather I was dead than gay, before she found out I was. To her credit, despite being a JW she regrets saying it now.

  Good luck!
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  Male or Female

  by love2Bworldly in

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  i have been reading over the forum today and something hit me.

  because i don't look up everyone's histories, there are people i assumed were either male or female--partly based on their avatar and partly based on the type of comments they make.

  well guess what folks--i was shocked to find out i was wrong about a few people.. does anyone else out there decide that certain posters are male or female, and then find out they're wrong?

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  scotsman

  tijkmo

  so that's how you try and explain your attraction to me? for you darling, I'll take it like a man.
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  Anyone been to Greece?

  by unbeliever in

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  2. friends

  i am seriously considering going to greece for my next vacation.

  i have been looking at websites and they look like nothing but tourist traps.

  i plan to do the whole athens tour but i want to check out some of the islands.

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  scotsman

  
  Try the Cyclades, they are lovely. I'd personally recommend Naxos and Milos as non touristy and full of Greeks. The blue of the Aegean is burned into my brain, it's as if the sea is full of indigo dye. I was on Zakynthos last year and although I enjoyed it, it is being overwhelmed by tourism. Kos is awful.

  Mainland Greece is also lovely, Meteora is unlike anywhere else. And the Pelion peninsula is beautiful.
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  The verdict is in! Michael Jackson is . . . . . . . . NOT GUILTY!

  by nicolaou in

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  the full list of charges faced by michael jackson at his child abuse trial.

  count 1: conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion between 1 february and 31 march 2003. not guilty.

  count 2: lewd act upon a child between 20 february and 12 march 2003. not guilty.

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  scotsman

  I'm sorry Brooke, but I don't find those images pornographic, nor would ownership of them convince me that an individual was a paedophile.
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  The verdict is in! Michael Jackson is . . . . . . . . NOT GUILTY!

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
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  the full list of charges faced by michael jackson at his child abuse trial.

  count 1: conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion between 1 february and 31 march 2003. not guilty.

  count 2: lewd act upon a child between 20 february and 12 march 2003. not guilty.

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  scotsman

  Agreed, which is probably why Western culture usually demarks the bedroom as sacrosanct. ; Then again, it could have been more to do with our victorian forebearers.

  How right you are LT. Slum clearances of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were, in part, an effort to address perceptions of incest amongst the poor because entire families lived in one room flats.
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  2034

  by rebel8 in

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  now that we're into the convention season, is there any hinting going around about 2034, either from the platform or among the r&f?

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  scotsman

  See here

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/92489/1.ashx

  and here

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/92422/1.ashx
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  Has the Watchtower set the date 2034?

  by VM44 in

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  the year 2034 has been mentioned in some posts here as the new date the watchtower is suggesting for armaggedon.

  has the watchtower officially stated this?

  has it appeared in any articles?

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  scotsman

  I agree withe googlemagoogle. My family are fairly hardcore and none of them thinks that the WTBTS are suggesting 2034. Nor do their bethel or CO friends. My mother thinks it's this year.

  If it were a common belief amongst the JWs, surely all the faders on the board that still attend meetings would be saying so. Any takers?
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  A question for Evil Force

  by Junction-Guy in

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  i have read in several of your posts that you are a doctor, what is your line of practice?

  if you would share that with us here that would be cool.

  also how often has the blood transfusion issue come up in your practice.

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  scotsman

  Englishman, it was the use of mercury to flatten the fur that made them mad.
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  EWAN McGREGOR

  by tijkmo in

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  mince

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  scotsman

  he's utter pants. except as Renton in Trainspotting.
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  What is it that makes posters leave?

  by Es in

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  was just reading the topic "its time to say goodbye" and it makes me wonder what is it that makes people who have been here for a long time leave?

  i couldnt imagine leaving this forum i love it and the people in it :) es

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  scotsman

  The constant rehash of some topics eventually takes its toll. Same subjects, different hotheads.