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  How Do I Get Rid of This?

  by Big Tex in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  have you ever had your eyelid twitch uncontrollably?

  it's driving me crazy.

  it's been going on over a year.

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  When I get twitchy I take calcium and magnesium. But it really depends on the type of twitching. I had a friend who saw and acupuncturist for hers.
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  dilemna--what would YOU do?

  by Ravyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, lee and i rented a nice little house from a sweet couple for over two years when we lived in tn.

  it was the only good thing about tn.

  we had nice neighbors and wonderful landlords.

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  My vote is for the former Police Chief too. He'll have the right connections to check it out without worrying the old couple. FWIW
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  hiyo...

  by blaid in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just figured i would say hi and all that good stuff.

  for any of you keeping up on kitties posts about that 17 year old boy, thats me.

  i have decided to stick it out...but i am looking for some friends in the oregon area..around portlandish?

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  Hi Blaid, welcome to the board, nice to meet ya!

  Odrade
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  Our argument finall settled....with the Bible!

  by bikerchic in

  1. social
  2. humour

  every morning craig and i have this same arguement, but i finally settled it and with his own bible!.

  we start every morning having this argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.. .

  i say, "you should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.".

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  Yeah, don't you just love that? The nice leisurely weekend mornings drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. It's one of the best things in my whole week.
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  Is the JW religion that unique ??? do others have the same problems ???

  by run dont walk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is the jw religion that different from other religions, i am not talking about beliefs, but the set up and blueprint that they work from.. i had a great discussion the other day with 2 hetterites (not sure how to spell it) both in their mid-twenties, they talked about how they had just left about one month ago and were going up to fort mcmurray to work, as they talked about their childhood, their beliefs, their upbringing, their rules, do's and don'ts, i swear they could of been jw's, i mean they went throught the exact things that alot of us on this board went through, it was amazing and frightening.. not knowing alot about other religions, are the problems we went through with the jw religion any different from someone who is mormon, muslim etc.

  etc., do all religions although different beliefs by far, basically have the same blueprint in runnning their organization ???

  and controlling people ??

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  I just had a conversation on-line last night with a girl who escaped (her word) from Assembly of God a couple of years ago. Her family and friends now basically shun her, turn their back on her in the supermarket and such. Family cut off her college funding and stuff, don't invite her to family gatherings. When she was in, she was isolated from other children, no extra-curricular activities, no friends "outside." Very strict standards of dress, grooming and entertainment. Intensive "bible study," really indoctrination.

  FWIW,

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  Our argument finall settled....with the Bible!

  by bikerchic in

  1. social
  2. humour

  every morning craig and i have this same arguement, but i finally settled it and with his own bible!.

  we start every morning having this argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.. .

  i say, "you should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.".

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  Kate! I bow to your quick wit and superior intellect! (Sorry Craig! hahahaha!)

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  Mom's completely mental...

  by KistByQpid in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  never having been a jw...i really wish i could understand this better.

  shortly after my dad died, mom starts her "bible study" with the nice ladies from the hall.

  fastforward a couple of years...she's now a baptised jw...and a totally different person.

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  About the spanish congregation thing: English speakers changing to a Spanish hall is a BIG DEAL. You get major JW points for going to Spanish to "help out." It's like some missionary thing where you never have to leave your hometown. They probably started "encouraging" her to go to the Spanish congregation the minute they found out she speaks spanish. You're right too about the legalities of the people taking advantage. Some members are illegal immigrants. Depending on the area, many are illegal. (I know this from personal experience.) If there were ever an occasion where anything had to be taken up legally, there would not only be technical difficulties because of immigration status, but your mother would be strongly discouraged by the congregation elders (more so than normally) from pursuing legal recourse.

  You are wise to keep an eye on the situation.

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  Would you ever visit Bethel?

  by freedom96 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you ever been driving, and traffic builds up coming up to an accident?

  human nature being what it is, everyone stops to see the accident.

  of course, by the time we get there, we are so pissed at the traffic, we slow down ourselves to make sure we see what all the fuss was about.. compare that perhaps to seeing the biggest accident of them all, bethel.

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  well, they have these incredible conveyor belts that run all over the place. Like a million square feet of them. And there are lots of boxes. Sometimes the boxes even run UPHILL on the conveyors for a little ways. That's gotta be some kind of a miracle right? And the leather stamping machine is pretty amazing too.

  LOLOL @ shotgun. Yep, that's the policy, make sure you get your impressionable newly teenaged boy back there to see Bethel. Almost guarantees he'll be gettin' dunked at the next assembly.

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  Organization (Part 1 & 2)--1938 Watchtower

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here's a "normalized" copy of the pivotal 1938 watchtower articles that centralized authority in brooklyn and got rid of 'elective elders.

  ' these are based on .pdf copies of the originals, but aren't exact renditions (for example, some abbreviations and punctuations have been modified, paragraph numbers omitted).. june 1, 1938. .

  w38 163. organization.

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  Wasn't there another Franz who parted company with the Bible Students at that time? An uncle or Brother of Fred Franz? Very interesting stuff Craig, thanks.

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  Are you comfortable with voting now?

  by Brummie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i admit i have never voted (shame), the last couple of years i have decided to vote but when the time comes i back out.

  i like having the freedom to choose whether to vote or not but i never know who to vote on the day that counts and then i feel uncomfortable at the last minute.. how about you?

  brummie

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  Yes! sent my voter's registration in last month. Lemmee at em, lemmee at em! No dangling chads for me, pushing that button real good.