Topics Started by funlovingirl

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Counseling/Guiding your kids on their sexual awakening...
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in
1. social
2. family
if the mods feel this should be moved to 'relationships', which is clearly labeled 'sex', that's fine.

i think it more appropriately falls under 'family, teens', as i am looking for advice from parents with kids about how they plan to manage/guide their child's transformation from teen to adult.. do you still subscribe to the no-sex-before-marriage rule for your kids?

i, personally, don't.
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Lyme Disease, anyone have experience with this?
by free2beme in
1. jw
2. friends
it's weird, but always thought lyme disease was something you got from ticks and it was this minor thing that could be fixed with a pill.

i had no idea how serious and destructive this disease really is.

my sister got bit by a tick about four years ago and thought nothing of it, after all she lives in the country and has animals, and ticks were just common life issues.
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Nathan Knorr and Bethel Life in the seventies
by Boxed elder bugs in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
when i was at bethel in the 70's the president of the watchtower society nathan knorr was really unpopular among a lot of bethelites because he supported the four year oblligation for bethelites to stay at bethel and stay single for four years.

i had heard that over nintey percent of the people who left bethel fell away from the jw religion afterwards, i was among that number, and i had heard that the majority of people who came to bethel did not keep there four year commitment but left in less than a year, i know the majority of people i started with lasted about a year at bethel, i was dumb enough to stay at bethel three and one half years.

i guess it was because i was raised in the witnesses and didn't know what to do after i lost my faith in that religion while i was there.
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Do you consider posting here as "Therapy" for you?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
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is this place therapy for you, or just a place to mingle?
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Birthday card from my uncle!
by THE SHOOTIST in
1. jw
2. friends
this week on jan.11 i turned the big 55, you know, senior citizen stuff.

i'm not real happy about the age but life if good.

i been out of the jws now for 5 years with no contact from witness relatives.
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Check this out! my first act of "rebellion"...
by freedomlover in
1. jw
2. friends
well, not really rebellion but that i've wanted one of these for a long time so i went and did it today, and i love it!

my little sister came out for a visit this weekend and i told her everything about leaving the jw's.

she has pretty much left about 6 months ago when she went away to college.
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very weird happening.
by riverofdeceit in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just sitting here reading some posts and the phone rang.

my wife looked at the caller id and it said jehovahs witness!!!!

she hands me the phone.
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Pictures- Just for fun
by RichieRich in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just browsing through my files, and came across a few cool / neat / weird photos i thought i'd share.

these are from my trip to bethel in mid-april of last year.. .

there i was, right outside hq.
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Pre Armageddon Preparation.
by Clam in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
are there jws who prepare for the tribulations they assume are around the corner?

when i visted the us once in 1999 i met a few guys who were expecting a global meltdown due to the millenium bug.. as a consequence they had generators, guns, ammo, tins of food, bottled water, fuel, all kinds of stuff to help them through a civil disorder situation.

does anyone know or remember any jws who have prepared like this?
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You know you're an apostate when...
by MsMcDucket in
1. social
2. humour
.

i'll start off with... .

when you go to a jw convention and then go to a casino the same night.