I was in the "starting again at 40 with no friends". Fortunately I have many good hearted co-workers who have filled that void. All of them have been non-judgemental and welcoming. Cheers, Taz
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Starting again at 50 with no friends?
by eyeslice inno sympathy please.
generally, i never get depressed and am fairly resilient when having to cope with change.
all my life, i suddenly stopped everything last december.
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Dreams again,(WARNING TRIGGERS)calling LadyLee & Big T
by LyinEyes ini woke up crying again just a little while ago,,,,,,,,again it was a dream .
i just can't go into details of all the horror, but will touch on certain parts of the dream that i feel the most able to talk about .it was about my sister, mother, father, (his wife named satan,) and me.
basically , i can say there was child abuse of my sister .......at one point of the dream.
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Dreams dreams dreams, Just when I think I am well adjusted I have some freaky witness dream. My last one I showed up at the hall and everyone was waiting for me to conduct the WT study. I was like, doesnt everyone know I am DF? So I BS my way thru the WT study, then just like the standard weird dream, I look down and I am not wearing pants. LOL. I do remember one etrememly vivid dream. I was DF in the dream and armageddon comes exactly like the witnesses say. I am allowed to join the JWs heading to a safe area. I am lead to believe that I am going to make it thru. Then suddenly tremendous lightening and thunder. Out of the clouds comes a booming voice. "I am Jehovah, and will not be mocked". A lightening bolt slams me in the head. I wake up, tears in my eyes, wet with sweat and trembling. Took me days to get over that dream.
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Did you ever catch an Elder doing something "Un-theocratic"?
by tazmaniac ini remember finding 2 week old lottery tickets in a elders car i was working on.
he said they must have been from the previous owner.
he owned the car for over a year and a half and the lottery tickets were just a little over two weeks old.
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I remember finding 2 week old lottery tickets in a Elders car I was working on. He said they must have been from the previous owner. He owned the car for over a year and a half and the lottery tickets were just a little over two weeks old.
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The God of Christians is Very Vague
by frankiespeakin ini no longer consider myself a christian.. i feel that there may be a god, but if there is, he's not the god christians worship, for such a god makes no sense.. if as the bible says we need to have faith in jesus to get everlasting life,,, why would this god make it so misleading and leave so much room for ligitmate doubt,,, by having this information passed on to us by men and organizations that have not been totally honest????.
why would he use the bible to relate this information, when the bible is so full of errors????
the evidence is very clear that the bible has been tampered with over the centuries, so that a reasonable person can have legitimate doubts about the bible's origins.. also, why would god use men who are so prone to dishonesty, to convey this lifesaving information?.
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You are a mind reader (frankiespeakin). Those are my thoughts exactly. I think I am going to print your post and put it on my fridge. Cheers, taz
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How fanatic were you as a dub?
by JH inwhen you look back to your jw days, what actions did you do, that you would consider fanatic today?.
i remember being on my night shift (midnight to eight) and went in the field service at 9am.
i got home from work, washed changed cloths and went straight to the field service meeting, and spent all morning in the service up to noon.
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I would come up with immediate defenses for any witness belief. I was in awe of the governing body. People would apologize if they swore or told an off colored joke near me. But now looking at it....it was all self righteous "I'm saved..your not" attitude. Makes me sick to think about it now.
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Book Studies in Your Home
by Xena ini'm curious (was reading the other thread about book studies and got to pondering) who had a book study group in your home and what was it like.
and did you go to any homes where they made you take your shoes and socks off and put on slippers or anything like that?.
we had one in our home....got counciled about having the demonic disney movies out, but for the most part it was a pretty good experience.
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Marble trick....LOL...I never thought of that. I remember one book study in the creation book. A sister tried to make a comment about some "living organism". It came out Living ORGASM. When she tried to correct herself it came out orgasm again. We were laughing so hard we had to cancel the last 15 mins of the bookstudy.
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Why are there kitchens in KHs?
by meat pie inis it some sort of charitable status requirement?
ours was only used when the co visited and there was a coffee break at the hall part way through field service.. any one know?.
shirley.
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Many 50's thru 70's KH's have kitchens for wedding receptions, cong cleanup parties etc.
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Need Super Geeks...
by Valis inok...my campus computer lab has all machines running win2k sp4...all new dell p4's.
well i've got the problem where it isn't reading many floppy drives formatted in me, win 9x...this is causing a huge problem because win2k isn't reading the media descriptor or the floppy doesn't have one and then it proceeds to ask the student if they want to format the disk.
you could see how this might be deleterious to the undereducated computer user and all the yes clicks that might happen.
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I think you can be da'd if you convert to fat 16.......wait.....thats accepting a transfusion. Sorry....got confused.
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What Aggravates You The Most ???
by minimus ini can't stand it when people do not pronounce their ings and instead finish those words with in'.
"talkin', eatin', typin'"....i hate that!
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When I catch my wee wee in my zipper. Now THAT is aggravating !!!!
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Were Most Of The Elders "On The Ball" In Your Congregation?
by minimus ini think most of the elders relied on the "smart ones" to help them out.
my experience was that there was probably 2 or 3 "sharp ones".
the rest were dopey!
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Most were fairly on the ball. Most of the older generation elders had died off. We had one though who thought it would be ok to tell his wife a few things that were going on. Within a week the entire cong would know more details than the elders. One leak became so serious that the CO made his visit and the DO came with him. That BOE meeting was like a reaming and a half. We had a real doosy of a school overseer. He barely had mastery over the english language. The cong would almost burst out with laughter when this elder would counsel some poor publisher on a point from the guidebook when he himself was the worst offender.