As teejay said
I hope your fine son stays safe and you get him back just as he left.
Deborah
Mystery
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My Son is Going Back to Iraq for his Second Tour
by Miata inand i am so angry about it.
he leaves on the 29th of january and will be gone for 15 months.
i am so scared that if i think about it for too long, i have panic attacks that leave me breathless and immobilize me.
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Possibly the reason the Awake is going to monthly?
by Mystery inhttp://www.willitsnews.com/stories/0,1413,253~26910~2692782,00.html
sharing the 'good news'.
at a state-of-the-art printing plant in new york state, willits residents don and teri buchanan watch jehovah's witnesses turn out 120 deluxe bibles each minute and 90,000 copies of the watchtower each hour in 150 languages for worldwide distribution.
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Mystery
http://www.willitsnews.com/Stories/0,1413,253~26910~2692782,00.html
sharing the 'GOOD NEWS'
At a state-of-the-art printing plant in New York state, Willits residents Don and Teri Buchanan watch Jehovah's Witnesses turn out 120 deluxe Bibles each minute and 90,000 copies of The Watchtower each hour in 150 languages for worldwide distribution
By Fae Woodward/Staff Writer
Don and Teri Buchanan, and daughter April, returned from a fall trip to the East Coast overwhelmed by the technology and organization they observed at the Jehovah's Witnesses' printing plant in Wallkill, and audio/visual studios in Patterson, New York.
The printing presses at Wallkill are capable of producing hardcover books and deluxe Bibles at a rate of 120 a minute, or magazines at a rate of 90,000 an hour. The primary journal of Jehovah's Witnesses, The Watchtower, has an international circulation of 25,203,000 in 150 languages and is by far the world's most widely translated magazine. Translating the text into 150 languages is done simultaneously by a MEPS computer program designed by the church.
At the facilities in Patterson, the audio-visual studios produce Bible education aud-io and VHS tapes, as well as CDs, DVDs and now MP3s to stay current with the latest technology. Braille literature, as well as video and DVD for the hearing-impaired, also are produced there.
The time of the year chosen for their travels took the Buchanans to New England during the fall colors. They took photographs everywhere they traveled, including in the hospital clean pressroom at Wallkill, where computer-operated machines collected and packaged waste for recycling even as it was created.
They learned the new presses they saw replaced those sold by Jehovah's Witnesses to Rand and McNally publishers. Because the speed of the new presses proved damaging to the type of paper originally used, the manufacturer who supplied them had to redesign its paper-making process.
The latest in presses, located in Wallkill, New York, can print 90,000 signatures an hour.The family flew into Syracuse, New York, and traveled by rented car from the Adirondacks to Washington, D.C. A visit to Pennsylvania and Gettysburg was included.
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having a hard time making friends
by happy camper ini was wondering if anyone else has had a hard time making friends since leaving the organization.
being raised as a jw, it seems difficult to me, as i was never allowed to have any friends who weren't other jw's.
as a result, i have isolated myself to only my immediate family.
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Mystery
Edited to add:
try www.meetup.com , search Ex-Jehovah Witnesses
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having a hard time making friends
by happy camper ini was wondering if anyone else has had a hard time making friends since leaving the organization.
being raised as a jw, it seems difficult to me, as i was never allowed to have any friends who weren't other jw's.
as a result, i have isolated myself to only my immediate family.
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Mystery
Is a site to find other x-jw's in your area. There may be a meeting around you somewhere that you may like to attend.
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new to this site
by happy camper inhi, i am new to this site.
i have been an ex- jw for about 10years now, and this is the first time i have done this.
( trying to avoid the "apostate" label) haha i would love to hear from some ex- jw's, and see if they have and are going thru some of the same experiences that i am.
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Mystery
Welcome Happy Camper -
Glad you found us.
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One bad a$$......*graphic picture warning*
by bikerchic in.
this is mildly funny and not for the faint of heart or hardcore animal lover.......
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Donkeys are very territorial and protective of ?whom? they are suppose to be protecting. IF the cat was alive and the ?Bad Ass? thought the dogs (if he was the protector of the dogs) were in danger he would protect them unconditionally. That is why you will see a jackass mixed in with cows, horses, (around here) lamas and other animals.
It could be factual pictures.
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Programs you couldn't watch as a kid - Chocky (UK)
by truthseeker inwhen i was a kid, my mother wouldn't let me watch a program called chocky.
for those of you who live outside the uk, and those who didn't even know about this childrens program if you lived in the uk, .
see the link below...my mother thought this show had "spiritism" in it.
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Dark Shadows - i would spend the night at my grandmothers on Wed. nights so that i could watch it. She always went to bed at 8pm and it came on at 9pm.
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Intro from new member
by lespacino1 inthis site was recommended to me by someone on another ex-jw site i began frequenting recently.
anyway, i am an ex-jw who has been disfellowshipped for about 7 years now.
i was raised as a jw from the age of 4, didnt take to it until i was befriended by a pioneer who was an elder's wife, and she began a bible study with me because my mom ddnt have time to have bible studies with all of my siblings and me, there are 10 of us.
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Mystery
Welcome to the board. Enjoy your stay.
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Only Jehovah's Witnesses
by Yvonne A ini'm just new to this internet stuff and am studying with the jehovah's witnesses at present.please don't take my lack of knowledge as cheek.
i just want to know if it's meant to be only jehovah's witnesses using this site.
i fully intend to become baptised but was wondering if there's any security to prevent people who shouldn't be using the site and are maybe abusing it from doing so.
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Mystery
Hi Yvonne and welcome.
Before dedicating yourself to "Jehovah's Organization" please do your homework.
Read up on JW's and their belief's:
If you have children and one of them were in a life or death situation needing blood - would you deny your child a blood transfusion? If you give them life, blood, you will be disowned by these wonderful God loving people.
If you do become baptized and your children become baptized; if at some point your child decides that they are preaching false testament and decides to stop going are you prepared to turn your back on your child due to disfellowshipment?
Are you prepared to survive Armageddon when the only ones living will be ones that are JW?s? If your family do not participate in the ?love? and ?truth? of the JW?s are you willing to lose them due to their own religious beliefs?
Are you ready to be told what you can and cannot read? Listen to? Attend? Type of car to drive? How to dress? If you are married and your spouse enters ?the truth? with you are you willing to let him be the head of household ? meaning everything he says goes and you do not have the right to disagree? If you have children are you ready to have them ridiculed at school for not celebrating holidays, not participating in sports, not having any friends that are not JW?s?
Are you ready to have your life completely evolve around these people?
Think carefully before you connect completely with this religion.
If you have doubts about an issue you are studying about ASK ASK ASK questions. Read the scriptures they give you, read them again and read the verses surrounding the scripture.
If you have a concern or a question Blondie ? a very knowledgeable lady on this board ? can give you the JW version and any contradiction that the Bible may have on the subject.
And last, are you ready to give up the Internet ? in particularly this website ? due to apostasy?
More than ever before, do your homework before committing.
Deborah
(Raised a JW. Will never return to JW land even at the cost of ?losing? my mom, my sister, nieces and nephew and cousins.)
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Mystery
Congratulations, Professor