Posts by Open mind

if you took a snap shot of the last five days, can you find moments of exercise or doing something besides sitting in front of the computer, lifting a remote or fork, or perhaps walking to get the mail?

Open mind

@ highdose,

Can you honestly justify before Jehovah that your routine is ALL you can do?

Good for you. And thanks to free2beme for starting this thread.

(I've just started back into a routine of 6 days a week alternating between weights and aerobics one day to the next. I'm going to stick with it as long as I am able to avoid injuries.)

om

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Memorial musings

by undercover in

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things i thought about during the memorial talk last night:.

i don't know if it was just the memorial i went to or if this was across the board, but it seems that the talk was dumbed down a bit more than it had been in the past.

not that it wouldn't surprise me if was dumbed down.

Open mind

Enjoyed your musings UC.

UC: "I could be out doing something useful or fun."

On the infrequent occasions my wife and I now go to a meeting, a smartphone with a recently downloaded good book is always at the ready.

om

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of the mags that get placed, how many get read?

by highdose in

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another magazine question.

of the magazines that actualy get placed by the jw's.

once the door is closed, how many house holders do you think will actualy read them?

Open mind

100% of the mags we get at the K Hall, end up in the recycle bin.

It's the least we can do to promote Kingdom Interests.

om

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It's sundown on 17 April and there's a full moon

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... and i'm cooking dinner and planning a nice evening at home.

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what are you planning to do tonight?.

Open mind

We'll be having liver with fava beans and a big Amarone.

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Not "Rocking the Boat"

by What Now? in

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these thoughts were inspired by a comment made on my very first post, in which i mentioned that while my husband and i have had our eyes opened regarding this religion were not ready to give up the friends and family just yet.

Open mind

Begin developing outside interests and non-JW relationships right away.

Consider switching congregations if possible as an interim semi-fading measure.

If we had to be in the same congregation as JW relatives, our lives would be much more hellish.

As it is, we're flaky, fringe JWs in a congo with virtually no former JW "friends", and our relatives don't have the full picture of just how inactive we are.

It's helped our sanity considerably.

om

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Watchtower -

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The Wine Thread.

by Open mind in

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if you enjoy a glass of vino now and then, tell us what you like and how your tastes got to where they are now.

wine snobs & non-snobs alike welcome!.

my intro to the world of wine was my jw parents buying a huge screw-top bottle of paul masson or gallo red or white, having half a glass, and sticking it out on the back porch thinking that wine stayed good like that.

Open mind

bttt

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"House" TV Show: Did I Just Hear a '1975'/Witness Reference !!!??

by metatron in

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i'm starting to think i hallucinated this!

house picks up the 'bi" babe from prison.

she stops the car to go to a door and he wisecracks, 'i didn't know you were a jehovah's witness'.

Open mind

Wifey and I just about spit up a really good Pinot Noir when they said those lines.

House is good skeptical medicine for one-the-fence JWs.

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