Wasanelder Once

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  Visited My Grandfather

  by Saethydd in

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  my grandfather is a longtime jw with advanced parkinson's.

  on the advice of a good friend mine who is inactive but not "out" i went to visit him monday and we talked for awhile.

  his health isn't well, but he was happy to see me.

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  Wasanelder Once

  It just keeps rolling along in its horribleness.
  
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  Question

  by poopie in

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  if i text my disfelowshupp daughter and it's a normal text do i go to gehenna?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  I would say "roll again" and see if you can make it to Park Place.
  
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  How many anointed have come and gone; how many remain?

  by Moster in

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  2. beliefs

  just wondering if there is any data about how many anointed there were in say 1914, and considering most would have passed 'beyond the veil' already, are the jw's numbers adding up?

  we know there are more in 2017 then there were in 2016, but just where are we in the grand total column?.

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  Count me out.
  
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  Years REALLY DO FLY BY!

  by somebody in

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  i just realized that i was 39 years old when i joined this discussion board.

  i remember the morning conversations that always brought me laughter, and i think there were only a but about 9 or 10 regulars back then!

  i will now turn 57 years old in a few months.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Just watched a skit on YouTube. It was from the Steve Allen show aka the Tonight Show. Don Knotts, Steve Allen, Louis Nye and Chuck Connors. They're all dead and I am old. Go figure. It was funny though, timeless.
  
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  The wife told me I think too much...

  by James Mixon in

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  please tell me how not to think too much and get a good night sleep.

  when i was a jw i didn't think too much because i knew everything, but now my mind works overtime.

  how in the hell can i shut it down and stop the anxiety???

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  Wasanelder Once

  James, sometimes obsessing on a thought is simply a looping prison for the brain. Examine what you are thinking about. Are you thinking to resolve a problem or just replaying the same thought again and again? I would call that worrying. Instead, take command of your thoughts. I channel them to some enjoyable event or memory I prize and engage in reliving some aspect of it mentally. Before I know it I am asleep. It can be a struggle sometimes but it works for me.
  
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  Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

  wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

  good effort, jw organization!

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  Wasanelder Once

  JW math; 2 + 3 = 2000 baptized
  
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  Is this life all there is?

  by Fisherman in

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  what do you sincerely think?

  do you nurture any hope?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  After this life everyone will be straight and white and ironically eat fruitcake.
  
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

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  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Not ruined, just delayed.
  
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  Is it just me or are the street sign, road,car verification excessive?

  by nonjwspouse in

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  2. suggestions

  i must go through six of new verification screens on average before verifying.

  i seriously try harder and harder, i don't know if we include the tiny little piece of sign or not.

  i have done both,and still get another screen.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Tis evil
  
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  Can't believe we are still here

  by moreconfusedthanever in

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  2. beliefs

  just this week i had the jws knock on my door.

  sisters from my old congregation.

  we exchanged the usual polite conversation.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Even though I am long faded and not at all sympathetic to the doctrines, there is an ingrained weirdness when I see little children born in the 2000's. They weren't supposed to be born. I am settled with the reality, it just seems so antithetic to my belief of many years. So glad the children have been born and I was wrong.