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  What's Your Pet Peeve?

  by minimus in

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  i've got a lot of them but i'll share one: drivers going well under the speed limit on a single road where you can't pass.. that drives me nuts!!!

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  Technology that is "sooo cool" but doesn't really do anything different and doesn't always work. Technology companies please test it to death before you release it to us. I'd rather drive a car with 5 year old technology that works 100%. And make it simple - I don't want to read through a manual for an hour to work something.

  People who steal. Someone just got marched out of our work for stealing people's homemade sandwiches from the fridge - they were on a six figure salary (sterling) - why do it??!!

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  A Question To All on this Board

  by kes152 in

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  hello,.

  i have been reading this board for some time and would like to ask: why you come here and post?

  what do you all hope to accomplish by being here?.

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  I'd successfully faded and was searching the net for people I knew who had also left. I read some scary threads on JWN about how people had been treated. I was truly appalled.

  I'm here to support in what limited unprofessional way that I can, share the odd experience and say there is life after the truth.

  I've got 3 decades in common with many people here.

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  Favorite MOVIE SCENE - any genre - your pick!

  by AWAKE&WATCHING in

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  i realized i was hi-jacking another thread so i thought i would start my own topic.. one of my favorite movie scenes is the "to tip or not to tip" scene in reservoir dogs.

  i don't care for all the blood in tarantino movies but he is, without a doubt, a genius.. .

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  Tarantino's True Romance: Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken about Sicilians.

  Pulp Fiction: Jules & Vincent on royale with cheese and foot massages.

  Manon des Source when the letter gets read out at the end.

  The life of Brian: the bit between the opening scene and the end credits.
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  People Who Refuse to Tip at Restaurants are Embarrassing!

  by White Dove in

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  egg and i were treated out to dinner three times last weekend by out of state visiting relatives.

  just found out last night that they don't believe in tipping, at all!

  we suggested the places to eat and frequent those places ourselves.

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  I've always been on the generous side of tipping unless the service is bad.

  Most embarrassing tipping moment: I organised a work social with maybe 20 people at a restaurant and one of them used to be a server. He made us all wait 20 minutes while the "automatic" 10% tip for large groups was removed from our bill because as he said "it isn't automatic". The service hadn't been bad - I tried to interject after I eventually realised what was going on but as the new boy I was shouted down.

  I once paid for a meal with a card and didn't know how to add a tip (too much wine I think). I popped back a few minutes later with a tip after I got cash out of a machine. Got a big smile. It was a great meal.

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  How easy is it to pretend to be a spirtual JW?

  by highdose in

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  for arguements sake, lets say you walk into a hall where you are not known and introduce yourself as one of them, how easy would it be to pass yourself off as a fully paid up devout dub?.

  i reckon i could do it even now, pull out a doudy dress, look misarble, say all the right things and thanks to jwn i'm in the know about all the most recent developments.

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  My only weakness would be lack of new publications like the song book. Other than that - I feel I've a few decades round-the-clock specialist training for this mission.
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  Short Intro

  by ZeusRocks in

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  2. experiences

  i can only say i'm new here in the sense i've just been able to join.

  i have actually followed this forum for over a year now.

  i've tried joing several times but must have been doing something wrong, so i thought i'd try one more time and it finally worked.. i was a born-in jw.

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  Hi ZeusRocks,

  Sorry you've had such tough years.

  I also kept quiet instead of asking questions during the study. You must have known that what you really thought would be disapproved of.

  I think it makes a real difference to have a sibling to be able to talk to about it.

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  I'm Leaving

  by minimus in

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  for vegas this weekend.. anyone have recommendations for me while i'm there?

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  Editing Avatar

  by JustHuman14 in

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  just going to ask, how on earth i can edit my avatar.

  i got that stupid picture and i would like to replace it.

  thanks guys.

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  I just joined gravatar (needed a worldpress username & password). Uploaded some avatars. Whay happens now?
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  Why are anniversaries okay?

  by MrFreeze in

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  i'm sure this topic has been brought up before.

  i was at a jw graduation party yesterday and realized "if birthday parties are not okay because they supposedly bring undue attention to an individual, why are graduation parties and wedding anniversaries okay?

  " they both glorify individuals and put them on a pedestal.

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  I didn't get birthday presents. I didn't get christmas presents. But I had to go and buy anniversary presents for the parents?

  Off topic: I got told I was lucky that I didn't get told lies about father christmas like the other kids. Right so what about living forever and not growing old?

  Totally agree with the illogic of anniversaries - but happy to celebrate them especially the anniversary of when I became free
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  Do you know of any JWs that cancelled their wedding at the very last minute?

  by asilentone in

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  i do know one jw guy that was not spiritually strong and his fiance dumped him few days before the wedding that was supposed to take place at the kingdom hall in the early 1990's because he was not serious enough in the "truth", now that guy has 3 bible studies and he is in good standing in the congregation and he is now married to another sister.

  i saw his profile at facebook not long ago.

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  A sister in my group who come into the truth in here early 20's got engaged to a fanatic JW from another country. He was a total drain on her as he couldn't support himself (shelf stacker). She drove him everywhere and was going to have to support him when he moved into her flat. A few weeks before the wedding she tried to kill herself.

  She had a history of self harm we didn't know about but the pressure brought it to a head. She was hospitalised for months during which her fiancee wasn't allowed to see her. I thought she was going to break free from the truth. Her fiancee gave a prayer soon after saying how many wonderful things there were for her to look forward to like living forever. Didn't occur to him she didn't even want to live for the rest of the day.

  She recovered enough to come back to meetings - drugged to the hilt - and wasn't long after before she married him (some pressing visa issues). I went to the wedding out of support. I'd politely declined the invitation for the first wedding, cheerfully handing across a gift, that was the day before she attempted suicide so felt duty bound to attend the second time around.

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