Odrade

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  Struggling to throw my contact lenses away!

  by Trevanian in

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  when i first started wearing (soft) contact lenses, in around 1986, they were prescribed for wearing for six months, i think, before being replaced.

  over the years the technology has become better, they've become cheaper, and wear time has become shorter... three months... one month... .

  now i'm wearing two-week (water-wada-wada-oxygen-permeable-completely-inexpensive-state-of-the-art) contact lenses.. but damn, when i have to throw the little critters in the bin or down the drain after two weeks, i feel guilty as heck!

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  Odrade

  Yep, I have the 2 week type. Usually I wear them for 4-8 weeks before they start feeling funny. Then I toss 'em.
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  Reinstated 5 yrs ago

  by Treebe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am just trying to understand what my choices are.

  i have been reinstated for just over 5 yrs and still have not had my privileges back.

  i am a single mom and have been to all the meeting that we can, doing our best outside of kids colds and flu's, not to mention car trouble, but i have always turned in my time each month and study reports, but still i can not answer.

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  Also not practicing, but I can tell you that this same thing happened to me. Finally, when I asked about it for the umpteenth time, one of the elders admitted that they had forgotten about me since I seemed to be "getting along fine." Yep, that's love for ya.

  My advice to you is to write a formal letter of request to have your privileges restored, and cc the circuit overseer and Bethel.
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  If you could get a Bible Study to visit ONE WEBSITE....

  by inkling in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so right on the cusp of my awakening, i had a sorta-bible study with the man who had almost died in a nasty car wreak .

  (he was saved by a like a gallon of tranfused blood, btw).

  when i stopped going out in service, the study was taken over by a rather dimwitted witness on conservative side .

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  freeminds.org. It was the second place my hubby went online for useful information. (The first website got taken over by the Scientologists, so it's no good anymore.)
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  Have You Ever Been Stalked?

  by eclipse in

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  i am not refering to the elders staking out a house to see if you're in there alone with another person who isn't your mate.. .

  i am talking about 'regular stalkers' who stalk you for the obsessive psychological reason of needing to be near you physically.. ever been followed?.

  ever had the feeling someone was looking through your windows?.

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  Not to belabor the point, but isn't a "hypothetical" situation a scenario that is made up for the sake of discussion? I don't see how a "hypothetical scenario" equals facts OR accusations... you seem a bit defensive, and those are a LOT of personal details you revealed, ANOTHER POSTER'S personal details, apparently. Which is against the posting guidelines. (violation of privacy.)
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  My Husband found out about this site...

  by cognac in

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  i told him that i have no intention of leaving.... he told me that i was like "a dog returning to its vomit"... .

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  ROTFL! Oh man you're both in for it now! "DNA"! LOL! um...
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  Have You Ever Been Stalked?

  by eclipse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not refering to the elders staking out a house to see if you're in there alone with another person who isn't your mate.. .

  i am talking about 'regular stalkers' who stalk you for the obsessive psychological reason of needing to be near you physically.. ever been followed?.

  ever had the feeling someone was looking through your windows?.

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  I've still got an old letter from a woman who was absolutely convinced we were getting married... even though I had only met her once and only talked for about 15 seconds.

  Jebus Cripes, elsewhere. I've apologized over and over for that! Can't you just LET IT GO????!!!! Gah!
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  You Who Have Been on the Board For Awhile - What Are your Concerns ?

  by flipper in

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  well, it's late.

  i need to go to sleep, got home from work, but i thought i started a newbie thread why not a thread for those who have been on the board a long time , or for awhile now ?

  so, lay it on me, what are your concerns for jwd ?

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  They share an account, and nearly always remember to sign their posts so we know who is talking. It seems to work. They've always been perfectly up-front about this.
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  Joseph Rutherford in Time March 31 1930

  by TD in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this on microfilm a few years ago.

  the quality is not the best, but it is still perfectly legible.

  http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=d4c55732fdad63d38814df86d2d67f5d.

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  Ha! That's great! I wonder what the writer thought when he was interviewing the "judge?"
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  My recent 7 paragraph letter to my parents, and their short reply. . .

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we haven't talked in 2 years, but i only email them smart little morsels about the gb etc that i get from you guys, you know, since i'm already not a fit associate why not try to educate them?!?!?!

  it's not necessary to read my whole letter to get to the point--his weak but kindly short response (that i waited for 4 days to get) where he spends most of his sentences explaining himself, and i hung on his every word, and i wrote back about what we've been doing, and 2 weeks have gone by and he's not responded to that.

  .and i check my email 10 times a day to see if he wrote back and nothing and i wonder.

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  ugh. I'm sorry pio.spit. What makes me furious is JW parents who pull out that martyr card: "You have no idea what it's doing to us!" Whatever. My mother told me that she was suicidal over my inactivity. This was when I was still mostly active and still a believer!!! She also blamed her anorexia on me "not serving Jehovah." Whatever.

  And yet in spite of that, I just can't make myself cut ties with them. It still makes me sad and angry that they just can't relate to me outside of their little JW prison.
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  My daughter is in the hospital .......... it's kind of weird not to pray

  by AWAKE&WATCHING in

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  my daughter shannon is 20 weeks pregnant.

  the placenta is pulling loose and she has some bleeding.

  the doc seems confidant that both she and the baby will be fine.she found out this week that it is a boy.

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  I hope she and the kiddo both turn out A-ok.