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Question for Freedom Lover (Mrs ITIS)

by Severus in

but i have, as many others, followed your husband's story with much interest.

please accept my apology if i am too forward, but i would like to hear your viewpoint of this story.

i too have an intelligent, thinking wife that is still afraid to look beyond the organisation for hope.

Country_Woman

((Severus))

You too, welcome to the board.

II hope you will succeed getting your wife out as well....

Branda

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How many more years do you think you have left to live?

by JH in

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since i'm relatively healthy, don't smoke, hardly drink (2 beers a day), and if i base myself on my grandparents and parents age, i think that i should live up to anywhere between 85 and 95. which means i should have another 40 to 50 years of posting here.

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Country_Woman

my first known ancestorDirck Cornelis 1505-1571 = 66--------his wife Neeltje ca. 1510 - 1570 = 60

his son Cornelis Dirkxe 1560 -1634 = 74---------------his wife Lijsbeth ca. 1570 - 1624 = 54

his son Leendert 1599 - 1669 = 70---------------his wife Lysbeth ca. 1607 - 1681 = 74

his son Gerrit 1643 - 1681 = 38---------------his wife Jannetje ca.1646 - 1695 = 49

his son Gerrit 1667 - 1720 ? = 54---------------his wife Maartje 1677 - 1720 = 43

his son Gerrit 1705 ? - 1774 = 69---------------his wife Wijntje 1713 - 1760 = 47

his son Gerrit 1736 - 1802 = 66---------------his wife Willemijntje 1752 - 1802 = 50

his son Leendert 1788 - 1859 = 71---------------his wife Pietertje 1798 - 1859 = 61

his son IJsbrand 1834 - 1895 = 61---------------his wife Klazina 1839 - 1915 = 76

his son Pieter 1866 - 1948 = 82 ---------------his wife Jannetje 1875 - 1936 = 61

his son IJsbrand 1908 - 1993 = 85 (my dad) - my mum Leonora 1915 - 2002 = 87

So the man in my (fathers) family has an average 67 and the woman 60.

Looking to my parents and grandparents : My mums father 69 and mother 72

woman : 79,5 man 77

that would give me at least another 18,5 year (else my prospect -60- aint good at all since I am 61.)

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Incredible logic of an unfiltered child (or "I'm so proud of my boy!")

by AlmostAtheist in

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gina and i were reading over jwd when zach (my 7-yr-old) came in and asked what we were doing.

i explained that i was reading about how a man came to be a jw, and how he managed to get out.

(auldsoul, good story so far!

Country_Woman

I would be proud too - great guy - they won't fool him easely

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Should I quit my job?

by Jordan in

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friends

i'm getting a little sick of being taken advantage of.

don't get me wrong there are times when it is a great job, it's probably my ideal job, but it has such a negative effect on me, i'm depressed when i think about going there, i lose practically all of my friday and saturday nights and there are people there that i absolutely detest.

and i'm a keyholder, so for a small increase in salary i get so much extra responsibility and bs over it.

Country_Woman

Good Luck.

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I study the WTS now far more than I did when I was in

by Lady Lee in

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i keep seeing this post all over the place in here.

repeatedly people say they find it far more interesting.. i know i feel this way too.

i hated studying wt material.

Country_Woman

How true Lady Lee,

When I joined this forum, I too made an observation: Forum members spent more time to study the Watchtower then the dubs do.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/54551/1.ashx

Funny, you would think that, once free, you would want to forget al that misery as fast as possible, instead all of us are still involved in a way.......

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Well, they say a change is as good as a rest--------------------

by vitty in

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---------------so what do you think ?.

Country_Woman

yes Vitty, the avatar is me - at age 2,5

recently I scanned a lot of old pictures from my childhood - brothers-sis and parents and since those pictures are of interest for the whole family - I made 10 CD's and distributed them.

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Have you done your family tree?????

by Es in

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my folks have had one lying round for years so now that im more mature and older i have taken and using a program to put it on the computer.

i have spent all day on it and prob no where near finished.

i have so much more research to do it.

Country_Woman

One of my nephew's did a lot of investigations and went back to 1505 at that time the big church in Maassluis has been burned down - no further trails.

We don't had any famous person in the family.

The picture starts with my grandparents, then my parents and all of my brothers and sister with their children...no place for more yet.....

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