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  Does anybody else still have an obsession about Saturday morning weather?

  by Exelder in

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  i am still enjoying the luxury of weekends to do whatever i want....but....out of habit i am still obsessed with looking at the weather for saturday mornings.

  rain on a saturday morning was a very rare treat and we got the morning off, although as group leader, i still had to go to the group just in case somebody turned up.. does anybody else still watch the weekend forecast with interest?

  (i am aware that this is probably a uk thing as we are obsessed with the weather ha ha).

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  The only time I might pay attention to Saturday (weekend) weather if my hubby has to work. He works quite a few Saturdays. Other than that, no.
  
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  When you were an active JW, did you ever have dealings with a pyramid scheme?

  by Tameria2001 in

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  2. experiences

  i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?

  at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.

  once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.

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  I'm not sure why this memory popped up, and I was wondering if any others, when they were still active JW had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization? At the time it was 1993, and my husband and I were still newlyweds. Once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time. One night before we left the meeting, my husband's cousin's husband pulled us aside and asked if we wanted to make some extra money and if we did, to show up at his home at a certain time on a different night. Money was extremely tight, and both my husband and I was thinking that he had some work for us. He owned a small company, and why we thought that. So on the night, we were told to show up, there were at least 4 other witnesses there as well. We soon discovered that we were not there for work or for a job, but a stupid pyramid scheme. He had all these charts and graphs explaining how we would make all this money, but we would have to pay him $250 to get started. Talking about irate, I was royally pissed. There was no work, no job, and a wasted trip to this person's home. At the time my husband was only bringing home about a $160 a week from his regular job. I did not know who most of my new husband's family was, but I took an instant disliking to this guy from that point onwards. Biggest slimeball ever in my book. Well, I shouldn't say the biggest slimeball, but one of many that I eventually came across in that organization.
  
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  Do You Take Any Special Vitamins or Meds That You Would Recommend?

  by minimus in

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  as we get older , we tend to feel the aches and pains or some tiredness like never before.. i have some friends who are in excellent condition and i’ve asked what their secret was.. some swear by cbd oil as a cure all for aches and localized pain.

  greek yogurt is a natural food that can attack gut fat as does taking probiotics.

  have you found anything that makes you more energized?

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  My husband and I take One A Day 50+. We both have seen some very positive results taking them.
  
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  Need Help - How do I refute this???

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was talking with my husband about all the things the organization is doing ie.

  hiding pedophiles, lying about what 1914 was etc.

  so his response was that the nation of israel had times when they weren’t doing the right thing, but it was still gods chosen organization.. another topic we were talking about was disfellowshipping.

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  That "light" that keeps getting brighter and brighter also loves to flip flop around like a fish out of water. At one time in time you can get disfellowshipped for one thing, and then later on it's not a disfellowshipping offense. One of the biggest would be rape that they flipped around over the years on. And this is not the only thing, their history is full of different examples, and also issues where young JWs would go to prison in one location, while in a different location there would be a workaround so as not to go to prison. These are just a few examples, you can find a ton of information dealing with this. Also if a JW teaches stuff that they taught back in the 1980s, they would consider that very same teaching apostasy today.

  But yes, they have proven themselves time and time again to be false prophets - Deuteronomy 18:21-22.
  
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  I HATE JW funerals

  by jws in

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  jw funeral last night.

  it was about half an hour from start to finish.

  they opened with basic facts about the person.

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  My son went to a funeral about 6 years back. We left the JWs just before he started Kindergarten, so they never got their chance to brainwash him. When they got to talking about the resurrection of the dead, my son was not thinking of some paradise, but rather a zombie apocalypse, and the rising of the dead. He was about 18 at the time. After I finally explained to him what they meant, he told me that that was the dumbest thing he ever heard. After that, he gave me one of the biggest hugs and thanked me again for not raising him up in that bull, I can't use the actual word he said because it would be censored.
  
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  Is The Watchtower Society Just Copying The Mormon's Model?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was a faithful jw i was pretty much obsessed with the mormon religion.

  to me it was like lord of the rings.

  i knew the characters, the history, the events, the joseph smith stories, the religion's history etc etc etc and i long suspected even then that the watchtower society has been copying certain things from the lds church.. for example, the first thing i noticed was when the book study was dropped and family worship was started.

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  About 30 years ago when I was still a JW, and a regular pioneer, I asked a return visit about the Mormons (he was a member of that religion), and I asked him about the Mormons I saw going from door to door as well. He told me that it is a requirement for a young man to do that for only two years, and only if they are going to be a leader of the church, as part of their training. No women do this he said when I asked him about that. He was curious about the JWs and their field ministry activity, so it was a two-way conversation.
  
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  Maybe it could be worse...

  by Olig in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i just watched a documentary on netflix called "the end of the world cult" about some geezer named wayne bent (self proclaimed as michael travesser).

  some of the stuff this guy says is absolutely unbelievable, and made me seriously think that there are some god awful cults out there, and made me think my time in the jw's (however boring and restrictive) wasn't all so bad... has anyone else seen this?

  does anyone have any recommendations on other documentaries of the like??

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  It could be worse, there are some wack cults that have killed its members, such as Jonestown (my dad knew the leader of that group), at least I survived the JWs.
  
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  Maybe it could be worse...

  by Olig in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i just watched a documentary on netflix called "the end of the world cult" about some geezer named wayne bent (self proclaimed as michael travesser).

  some of the stuff this guy says is absolutely unbelievable, and made me seriously think that there are some god awful cults out there, and made me think my time in the jw's (however boring and restrictive) wasn't all so bad... has anyone else seen this?

  does anyone have any recommendations on other documentaries of the like??

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  As much as I dislike the Watchtower, I too am very thankful that my crazy mother decided not to join some other even worse wack job.
  
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  Michael Cohen... sleazebag or patriot?

  by Queequeg in

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  so, what do you think?

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  fwiw, i say sleazebag....

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  When it comes out that someone is a proven liar, I will never believe another word that persons says, regardless of who they are.
  
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  How do I find local ExJW - Redlands California

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering how to find any local exjw in the inland empire area, i am in redlands california..

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  I just want to add to what smiddy3 said, don't divulge too much information. There are some very off people out there. Shortly after I had left the JWs, another former witness was trying to meet up with me. My dad was never a JW, and one thing he taught me growing up is to find out what a person's motives are, what do they really want. Anyways I decided to ask this guy why he was no longer a witness, and he told me that he was disfellowshipped, and I asked him if he didn't mind sharing with me why he was. Not to go into too many details, but he was disfellowshipped because he was involved with NAMBLA. I had no idea what that was, and when I check into it further, I decided there was no way I was going to allow someone like him around my young sons.