Magwitch

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  What percentage of young ones are leaving the JW's???

  by karter in

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  in my area atleast 50% if not more..

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  Magwitch

  In my family 100%
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  Do Active Witnesses Find Meetings Exciting?

  by Band on the Run in

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  kh meetings were utter hell.

  the boredom, particularly for a child, was awful.

  i feel it was a form of child abuse.

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  Magwitch

  They were very exciting following the birth of my first daughter. I got to take a shower, get dressed up and then sit in the back room with other mothers and discuss motherhood. I actually really enjoyed those meetings for about 2 months. It was June; I was overweight, housebound with a baby from HELL. The other 41 years of meeting attendance was nothing short of torture.
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  What really happens in a yoga class

  by highdose in

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  inspiared by a convo with a dub today ...satire darlings ;).

  truthfully brothers and (lowly) sisters the yoga classes i attend are completly like wtbs describe.

  we chant to false gods while demons fly around the room.

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  Magwitch

  I love this part of yoga.
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  How was your Mother's Day?

  by journey-on in

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  mine was terrific.

  loving visits, cards, dinner, and togetherness.

  i know if i had remained a witness, at least one of my children would have left the borg, and we would probably not have the beautiful relationship we now have.

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  Magwitch

  Were you saying this facetiously

  No, I absolutely adore my two girls. They bring me so much JOY!
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  assemblies; how times have changed

  by Evidently Apostate in

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  my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?

  " (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.

  it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.

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  Magwitch

  I have posted this picture before of my cousin at a 1958 convention. The look on his face says it all.
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  IT IS I

  by Carrot the GREAT in

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  hello it's carrot, watersprouts better half.

  i have come on as when i ask sprout to type something i want to say, she won't.

  it's not always nice.. carrot.

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  Magwitch

  I feel as if I know you. WELCOME!
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  How was your Mother's Day?

  by journey-on in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mine was terrific.

  loving visits, cards, dinner, and togetherness.

  i know if i had remained a witness, at least one of my children would have left the borg, and we would probably not have the beautiful relationship we now have.

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  Magwitch

  It was fabulous! With two healthy, beautiful and perfect daughters, I feel like it is Mother's Day everyday I am in their company.
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  Tell Us What's Happening on Mother's Day

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. friends

  so many of us are free, so many of us are not.. share whatever "mother's day" activity you will be involved in this year.

  moms and those with non or ex-jw moms, whazzup?.

  tell us how that makes you feel, your involvement or lack of involvement in mother's day..

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  Magwitch

  My Mother's Day starts tonight and goes through Sunday. We are having a home coming party tonight for my oldest daughter (comes home from college today). Tomorrow we are taking the day off to shop and garden. Saturday we are sleeping in and then going out to lunch in lower downtown Denver at a place that has a Kentucky Derby party. Sunday we are going out for High Tea at the Brown Palace. To top it off, Sunday evening my girls are going to watch Masterpiece Theatre with me (they hate it, but it is part of their gift to me)

  Oh yes, and I will drop off some rose bushes for my dear mother.
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  so when did disfellowshipping start? and what took them so long??

  by oompa in

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  i should know this but have been really slack as of late....i think it was the late 50's maybe?

  i would like to know what wt they introduced this new light in.. i also wonder how they kept the rank and file under their control prior to the implementation of df and their loving ways of shunning.....anybody know?....prior to df rules wt may have been a cool place to hang out (not).... i guess you could get drunk, fool around, do drugs all without ramifacations...sounds as good as christendom even................................oompa.

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  Magwitch

  Not sure when it officially started, but with my 100 + JW relatives that have all made a career of being DF'ed and occasionally Reinstated, the first one to get the boot was 1966 for homosexuality. He paved the way for the rest of us.....
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  Do You Blame Your Current Life's Issues Because You Were A JW?

  by minimus in

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  do you tend to blame your problems on the fact that you were a jehovah's witness?.

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  Magwitch

  Yes, I spent too much time in the sun baking and burning. Now I have wrinkles. So I blame the Borg because they promised me everlasting youth.