heybaby
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I hope I get this job!!
by heybaby inok, so i've been out of work for a little while (the economy in my state really sucks!
) and i have been putting in applications from here to the moon it seems like!!
i finally got an interview at the bank where my husband works.
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What real hope is to me - just a feel good post
by heybaby init's amazing to me how much i've come to life since i've stopped going to meetings and field service and the whole tiresome jw routine.
i find beauty and joy in the simple things.
for example, we never used to sleep in on saturday, because of course that was field service day.
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encouraging JW "nighmare" stories
by lancelink inrecently i was thinking back over the years, and thought about the horrible stories the watchtower published hoping that.
the rank and file would be encouraged, or think of ways to improve their own life.. instead of a heartwarming, or upbuilding story, it was something found in the ultimate gloom story.. the worst i can remember was back in the early 1980's, my oldest son was just born, and in some magazine / book there was a story about a. sister who was being persecuted.. she also had just given birth, and the persons who were doing the persecuting had the mother locked, or tied up and had the baby lay right outside of her reach.. all she had to do was renounce her faith, and the baby would be returned to her.. i don't remember how the story ended, but that just scared the s**t out of my wife and i. no way could i put a religion above the life of my child in that situation.. but i do remember the moral of the story was for us to "build up our spirituality" because things like this will happen soon.. good grief, this was 25 years ago, and it really made a mark on me for years.
yet i always knew that religion would be #2 in a situation like that.. and for years i felt unworthy because i did not have the correct mindset crafted by the wt society regarding this type of situation.. anyone else have a personal experience like this ?
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I want to do volunteer work - this is classic
by heybaby init has always bothered my how witnesses are discouraged from doing volunteer work because "preaching to them about the truth is the best thing we can do!
" ok, yeah, whatever.
it's true that the bible talks about preaching as being important for christians, but that's far from being the only thing that christians are encouraged to do for their fellow humans.
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Update on my situation
by heybaby init's been a while since i've posted, and i'm sure that there are many new ones here.
so let me just start by saying hello and welcome!!
please read my original posts to get my brief story.
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Dating in the Real World...
by darkl1ght3r in...or, love stinks.
i am so unprepared for this.
i feel like a kid just walking into willy wonka's chocolate factory.
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About time to "Batten Down the Hatches"
by AK - Jeff inmy wife has been out of work now for over a year.
she is tail-ending her unemployment very soon.. our county is experiencing close to the worse rates of unemployment in the country right now [ elkart, indiana - obama's economic poster child ] is just 50 miles away.
our county has a rate nearly equal to theirs.
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Wheee!!! spent a lovely evening with JW family *rolls eyes*
by Odrade inor not, as the case may be.
in-laws' family members were visiting from out of town so we went over for the evening.
my uncle-in-law is extremely religious.
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Weird stuff individuals believe
by bluecanary inthis thread doesn't just have to be about jws.
it's about the weird stuff that isn't taught by the religion, but an individual believes it.
my examples:.
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Frustrated - This is not going well!!
by heybaby ini haven't posted in a while, so i'm glad to be back.
my husband and i got into another fruitless discussion last night.
it actually turned out to be more of a fight than a discussion.