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Do you regret confessing your sins to the elders?
by asilentone inyes, i do!
i did it 20 years ago, but the elders still remember what i did, sometimes i wish they never knew about it.
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Ugly Sisters
by XPeterX ino.k i have noticed that most female jws are ugly.and by ugly i mean ugly.they won't work out,they are fat and won't go on a diet (some female teens won't even shave their legs),they neglect their appearance/body in general.any opinions?.
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p.s many will eventually get fat after marriage.
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What year Did you Stop Attending Meetings - How Long were you a JW ?
by flipper ini'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.
and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.
so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .
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What would you do if this site was shut down?
by dissed inalthough, unlikely, but what if jwn was shut down?
you came here and you got a message like....."the wts has seized this site".
where would you go for solid jw information and support?.
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Missing meetings due to the weather, and then attending meetings is making me Bipolar I think.
by miseryloveselders inwithout divulging too much information about myself, i'm on the east coast, up north.
we've been hammered by snow storms, and from what i hear we've got another one on the way tommorrow night.
this month, i've missed 4 meetings total.
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Getting Your "Time" in On Time
by OnTheWayOut ini spoke with a fellow ex-jw whose wife is still a jw.
she was missing some meetings, but had to get to her first meeting of the month.
she needed to turn her "time" in.
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20yr old daughter cant deal with my new self - advice please
by nearlyfree inmy eldest daughter is having a hard time dealing with our new family dynamics.
since my marriage breakup over a year ago, i have finally started to enoy life and fading fast from the jw's , well actually i've done a disappearing act.
i have not attended a meeting for 4 months now!
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Calling all Australians
by Aussie Oz ini'd like to know who you all are on the board.. you dont have to identify yourself personaly as i understand some need to be ingocnito.
i am also curious to see if any of my old childhood and adult life friends have made it onto here.. me: lived in ballarat 70s, naracoorte in the 80s, adelaide in the 90s.
traveled to york w.a as a teen and to alice springs and brisbane early twenties.. of course, if you need to be silent, thats fine too!
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Anyone read/studied Art Costas -Habits of Mind & Edward Debono Six thinking Hat
by nearlyfree inmy daughter has been accepted into a school for gifted and talented kids.
at this school their aim is to teach kids higher level thinking skills and applications and have extensive exposure to problem solving.
(sounds great) this will be achieved by teaching specific thinking skills from art costa - habits of mind and edward debonos - six thinking hat.