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Why did you get married?
by pratt1 inas a young dub in the 80's me along with many of my friends got married, either in our teens or early 20's.. in my area, if you were over 25 and not married, it was percieved that something was wrong with you or you were probably engaging in sex with a "worldly" person.. by why did so many of us feel the need to get married so young?.
i believe it was because of one of three reasons.. 1. you wanted to get out of your parets home.. 2. you had already gone "too far" with you girlfriend or boyfriend.. 3. you were just an average normal teenager and you knew this was the only way you could legally have sex.. .
was this true in your area?.
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Ok, What celebrity gets your blood pumping?
by Dragonlady76 ini have been inspired by the what do the jwd posters look like thread....my avatar picture is jude law, he's my dream guy..... so who's your heart throb?.
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Ground Zero
by Sunspot insitting around a campfire last weekend, a few of us were discussing what is "going on" on the rebuilding or the construction of what is being built at ground zero in nyc.. we all agreed that we see nothing on the news....we see nothing in magazines....we hear nothing at all about the progress (or lack of) in whatever was chosen to be built there!
it is as if this never happened.....at least to those of us far beyond walking past the site to actually see what is going on!
(being 400 miles away from nyc!).
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Bethel - Forced retirement question
by pratt1 ini was recently told by a friend that many bethelites that attended congos in brooklyn ny were among thoses who were asked to leave.. .
according to my friend, many of these bethelites were offered the chance to serve as "special pioneers" in other areas.
these other areas were rural areas in the us and the borg has offered to pay for their housing and living expenses indefinitely if the agrred to stay in the full time work.. since this friend is an inactive dub (like myself) who always feels the need to defend the borg, i have some misgivings about this information.. does anyone have any factual information about compensation being given to members of bethel who were asked to leave?.
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a card I received that reallly upset me
by quietlyleaving ina couple fo days ago two witnesses knocked with their children, they gave me flowers and a card with the following message:.
"we want you know that we love you, and that you are in our prayers..we are thinking about you.. we remember too, and are grateful for yur support in the past, especially 6 years ago, when you came to the home, following our loss of dennis (not his real name).. in these last days, life is harder then ever.
satan is trying to break all of us, be it through health problems, the ones we love and even our brothers and sisters where it hurts the most.
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Do You Approach Disfellowshipped JWs?
by R.F. infor those of you active jws, though mentally inactive of course, do you you approach the disfellowshipped?.
there was a disfellowshipping announced in my congregation last week and i had the mind to talk to her.
there is also a dfed brother that lives on my street.
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How long do the elders expect a DF'd person to wait before coming back?
by JH inwhen i attended meetings years ago, if a brother or sister got df'd they weren't supposed to come back to their meetings right away even if they wanted to repent..... if i remeber well, you had to stay away from the meetings for a few months and them come back if you wished, as if to show that you made changes in your lifestyle and then decided to come back.. if you were disfellowshipped and went back to the meetings right after, it was a sign that you didn't understand what happened to you and you weren't trying to fix what you did wrong.. .
maybe it was different in other congregations..
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Any Circuit or District Overseers That Made An Impression On You?
by minimus ini used to enjoy do paul illingsworth's talks.
he thought he was a greek scholar.. anyone that you liked (or didn't)?.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man ini often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.