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  Greetings to all

  by Dmitry in

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  my name is dmitry!

  (i apologize for my english.

  i am from ukraine and wanted to expand communication with exjw.. well, what about yourself?

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  Tameria2001

  Dmitry, welcome to the group, and nice to meet you. Your written English is very good. I live in the southern middle part of the United States. Was baptized in 1987 and officially made my exit from the Watchtower back in 2001, just one month before everything went a little crazy that year. I remember how the local JWs in my area all thought that it was Armageddon happening because of 9-11, but what I was thinking why because horrible things happened all over the world but they never gave it a single thought until it hit close to home.

  I never got a chance to read the book by R. Frantz. I want to, just haven't had the opportunity to. What actually woke me up to it all, I had some personal things going on in my life, that forced me to really take a hard look at this religion that I was raised up in, and realized that they were nothing but a bunch of liars. It all started for me when they told my mother that if she became a baptized witness back in the early 1970s, she would be reunited with her baby girl (who had died) when this old system of things would pass away in the fall of 1975.
  
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  Idiotic Comment

  by FedUpJW in

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  i was just enjoying a you tube video clip of george carlin explaining euphemisms.

  one of the ones he commented about is how people try to soften the fact someone is dead by saying, "they passed away.

  " noo...they died!.

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  One of the terms I was raised up with was when an animal's life ended (usually by my dad's 22) he would use the term "put down" meaning for their death. There for a while, I also used that term, but not anymore, and for this reason.

  I have two sons, and when they were younger this was a term they also associated with the death of an animal. Then one day one of the cats jumped up on the table, and I told my youngest to put the cat down. He looked at me with the most horrified expression. No mom, I don't want the cat killed. It took me a moment to get what he was thinking, and I had to clarify, "Not put the cat down but put the cat down on the floor." lol
  
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  My son finally got his first car

  by Tameria2001 in

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  on saturday my son finally got around to getting his driver's license, and then on monday, he bought his first car.

  you might be thinking he is 16 or 17, but you'd be wrong.

  he is almost 22 and in his third year of college.

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  @zeb He started out in Business Management and Marketing, but did some research and switched over to Electrical Engineering this past January.
  
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  Is White Nationalism A Major Problem In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  after seeing the atrocity in new zealand, do you think white nationalism is a major issue affecting you or where you live?.

  somebody already called out chelseaclinton, blaming her for the attack!

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  Tameria2001

  I never understood what they mean when they tell people to go back where they came from, and most of the time those people they are telling it to are born US citizens, and even their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were born in the country as well, and might have also defended the country as well. If someone ever told me that (and they have when I was an active JW), I ask them where I should go, because I was born in Texas, and my bloodline has been in this country since before the 1700s, and further. My dad's family had Cherokee, Choctaw, Scottish, British, English, and my mom's side Irish, German, and Chinese. So I asked them where should I go? Plus I also told them that my grandfather (mother's side) fought against the Germans and Japnese in WW2, my dad served as well in a later time.
  
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  My son finally got his first car

  by Tameria2001 in

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  on saturday my son finally got around to getting his driver's license, and then on monday, he bought his first car.

  you might be thinking he is 16 or 17, but you'd be wrong.

  he is almost 22 and in his third year of college.

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  He did, but he saved his money and paid cash for it, so no car payments. He's very wise when it comes to money, even more so than his parents.
  
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  My son finally got his first car

  by Tameria2001 in

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  on saturday my son finally got around to getting his driver's license, and then on monday, he bought his first car.

  you might be thinking he is 16 or 17, but you'd be wrong.

  he is almost 22 and in his third year of college.

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  On Saturday my son finally got around to getting his driver's license, and then on Monday, he bought his first car. You might be thinking he is 16 or 17, but you'd be wrong. He is almost 22 and in his third year of college. I guess he finally got tired of having to walk everywhere or relying on others for helping him to get where he needed to go. Now maybe he'll come home a little more often for visits, his school is only an hour and a half away.
  
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  Surprise!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  got this surprise in my letter box today.just got my personal invite for the memorial this year, through the letter box!

  i am pimo.

  goes to show how little info they have on me.they do not even know where i live and so thinking it is a "worldy" persons house pushed one through.

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  I will find one in my door every other year, and this is the year I won't be getting one. None of the JWs in my area know who I am or who I was, and I prefer to keep it that way.
  
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  Went to the KH a few days ago.

  by nowawake14 in

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  i actually visited the kh a few days ago.

  i just needed to see some friends.

  i hadn't been in months.

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  It's been 18 years for me. I even refused to go to two different funerals because that was where they were held. The last time my husband tried to push it, and I went into full panic mode, which is something I never ever do. When I made the decision to leave, that was it for me. I'm one of those individuals who won't stick around if they don't believe in something or is lied to, no matter the cost.
  
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  Do You Think The Obama Administration Should Be Investigated For How They Treated The Trump Accusations?

  by minimus in

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  i hope that the trump administration looks into obama , clinton and all the other players for trying to usurp the legitimacy of the trump presidency..

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  @stillin I'm not saying one way or the other, but if Russia wanted Trump in, it would because they didn't want Hillary in. Hillary is nothing but BAD NEWS, there are quite a few folks in Arkansas (where she originally came from) that absolutely detest that witch, myself included.
  
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  Two lies all Jehovah’s Witnesses are told

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  lie 1).

  when you leave the jws you will be unhappy and will have a hole inside you that only the ‘truth’ will fill.

  only when you return to the jws will you feel complete again.. utter nonsense!

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  Tameria2001

  WillYouDFme - I'm not talking about those who got married at a young age, or just because they wanted to have sex and not get in trouble with the Watchtower, I'm talking about those who really love each other when they got married. When I was still in the organization, I knew plenty of active JWs who were unhappy in their marriages, but if you didn't know them personally you would have never guessed it while at the meetings. Many of those unhappy marriages did end in divorce, while they were still a JW. It didn't even matter what their position was in the organization; circuit overseer, elder, ministerial servant, regular pioneer, or just a publisher, I knew different witnesses in all those positions who all divorced for various reasons, and I know the reasons for those divorces, and it all narrowed down to unhappiness.