Mark

I've seen the ads to get your free credit score from various places. Credit Karma, Discover, etc. If you have a security freeze in place with all 3 credit bureaus, can you still get your credit score though these places? Or do you need to lift the freeze and then get it?

Since your young married minded young people can only marry someone of your faith. Aren't your conventions just a large scale version of The Bachelor? For those of us who are older, its more like The Dating Game or Love Connection. Where else are they suppose to look if they want to go spouse shopping?

I recently moves and signed a new lease with a new landlord. I still have the lease agreement and all related papers from my last apartment. The final move out checks were done and my security deposit was refunded. Do I need to keep any of these paperwork now that the lease is no longer in force and I no longer there?

I've been fighting a bed bug problem in my apartment. I've been doing everything I can think to do. Spray. Vacuum, Use dryer to kill any in my clothes, bedding, etc. The treatment from the landlord has done little, or in a case has made it worse. Its to the point that as soon as I can find a new apartment, I am gone. How do I NOT take the bedbugs with me when I move. HELP!

There was a big dust up over a user (who I won't name so as not to get penalized) who was a top poster in the R&S section. You can figure out who it was. Afterwards. Has anyone else checked to see if all the notifications prior to that mess and all the previous posts prior to that in your account were erased? Once the smoke cleared from the big fuss we all raised. I noted that anything that was in my Notification box prior to that and everything related to it is now gone. Anyone else here noticed that? If not, go check. I want to know if it was just me?

Many state have laws that justify the use of force, up to and including the use of deadly force, to protect yourself from a direct threat of harm. Is a JW who is armed, they or their family is under that direct threat and there is no other recourse. Is the use of deadly force, as state law authorizes, acceptable? Would this person be sanctioned in some way by your organization for doing this? Even though the law says their action was justified?

If you answer a question that gets deleted for a violation. I know the asker gets a violation and loses points. Does YA penalize anyone who answers that question before its deleted? Even if their answer doesn't violate the TOS?

I saw a question along this line posted earlier. But it got deleted. So I'll tweak is some to avoid that. Where is (in your opinion) the most inappropriate place a person has tried to talk to you about their religion? Any religion. Not just the one this earlier question called out. If you felt it was tacky. The wrong time or just the most wrong place to initiate a conversation like that.

This is aimed at Ex JWs who still have active JW parents. My sister is disfellowshipped. I walked away with out being baptized. But they see me the same way as they do my sister. My mother is an active JW. When the time comes and she leaves this world. It will be up to my sister and I to handle the final arrangements. No doubt a large number of active JWs will attend her viewing and subsequent funeral. I have no problem with that or them. The problem will be of their creation. Being that one is disfellowshipped and the other walked away. They're not going to want to talk to or acknowledge either one of us in any way. Which is going to make things awkward at best and a little tense at worst. They might, and I stress the word might, talk to me some. But that will most likely be kept to a minimum.

So what is our move as her children? If they ignore us, ignore them? Or seek them out and at least be social? Neither my sister or I would do anything to make a scene. That would be disrespectful to our mother and the occasion. If it plays out that way. Our obvious irritation will be masked rather well and released at a more appropriate time and place.

If you are an ex JW who has been in this situation already. What did you do? What did you not do? I hope that it is quite some time before my sister & I are faced with this situation. But I feel like I should be prepared in advance. And to the active JWs. Save your breath. One or both of us being reinstated is NOT happening.

If (and I stress"if") you are right and after armageddon you are the only ones here. Have you gave any thought to how boring life will eventually become? After so many centuries. You will have done everything there is to do. Seen it all. Experienced it. Tasted it. Heard it. Eventually at some point in time there will be nothing new for you to discover or learn. Because you've done it all. And if you really a perfect person now. You will have complete and total recall of every event. Down to the last detail and emotion you felt. So there will be no need to experience it again because you have the vivid detailed memory of it. There won't be new people to meet since members of your religion will be the only ones here. So eventually you will run out of new people to meet. I already covered in an earlier post how it will be a population of nothing but adults. Once this planey reaches population capacity and all of your children grow up.

Even though they don't exist. This is the main reason why vampires immolate themselves after a few centuries. What is the point of being alive (or undead in their case) if there is nothing new to learn of experience? Immortality gives them the opportunity you believe is awaiting you. After doing things over and over. Won't you eventually get bored with life? How much happiness in paradise can one person endure? Remember, its eternity (or so you say).

I have a Uniden BC346XT TrunkTracker III scanner. Is there a way to have a mix of trunked and conventional frequencies within the same bank/system. Most trunked systems in my area are Motorola Type II Smartnet. I have some of them coventional frequencies already stored in a different bank on the scanner. But I want to combine both trunked and conventional in the same bank/system if possible.

A question from Lungboy got me cranked up thinking about this. So here we go. You believe that the 144,000 is the anointed class that will rule in heaven with your god. Those people who are part of the class received their calling long ago, they know who they are and that number has been filled. Does that mean new members to your religion have no chance at becoming part of this elite class no matter how fervent they are? What if one of the those 144,000 walks away from being a JW or is thrown out for whatever reason? Does that spot they suddenly vacated come up for grabs? Or is that something that just doesn't happen?

This is aimed at ex JWs who were raised in the religion, then left for whatever reason and are now adults. If you have parent(s) who are still active JWs and they still speak to you. Do they talk you like the adult you are? Or do they talk down to you like a disobedient child who needs correction? Even if the conversation has nothing to do with religion. Do you get this sense that just because you walked away or were thrown out. They now believe your mentality level suddenly reverted to a young child? If it happens a time or two and a gentle reminder fixes the problem. That is one thing. But if it is an ongoing way of being treated. How do you deal with it without losing your composure.

Okay. I've heard this a few times in a what I think was a joke. Or maybe it wasn't So JWs, you tell me. I've heard stories of one spouse reporting another spouse to their elders for requesting oral sex. Which brings the question. Do your leaders get to dictate what a husband and wife do in their bedroom? If that is true. How is that any of your business? If both of them and consenting to it. Whatever it is as far as sex. Its between the two of them. And any hang ups, reluctance or not doing something is between them. Not you. If this is true. Does it not disturb you that the level of your control reaches into such a persona and private matter between a couple? It should.

And if you are one of the spouses who went to your elders with something like that. Why are you dragging a private and personal matter into an arena where it is no one's business but yours? That is between you and your spouse. And if you can't work it out between the two of you. Then there is a bigger problem besides sex.

I already know how you view someone who is disfellowshipped. What about someone who was never baptized as a witness and just walked away from being one? No big production made out of doing it. Just faded off. Are they seen the same way as far as shunning? Or are they just another worldly person who you can acknowledge or talk to? As far as the way you deal with a family member who has been disfellowshipped. How can you just turn your back on a family member? Even if that person was truly in need of help and came to you. Do you just do nothing? Outside of the alleged religious reasons you give for doing this. How can you treat your own flesh and blood like that when they have done nothing wrong that would get them arrested or jailed. Just because you say it was wrong. How loving is that to act like they don't exist? Steph, jump in here anytime.

How is dividing families over a morality issue a good thing?

This is aimed at ex JWs. I'm not interested in hearing from the active ones. For the ex-JWs. When you were having your doubts about being a JW or never really bought into it in the first place. What was your a-ha moment or epiphany that made you decide now is the time to leave? After making that decision and seeing how your life is being out of it. Did you make the decision at the right time or did you did ask yourself why did you wait so long?

I was born into being a JW. So it was all I knew. I never really bought into it. But not doing it while I was growing up was not an option. My a-ha moment was after my sister had been disfellowshipped. I had just turned 18 and graduated.There were some other things going on in our family with my parents. When I realized that I was no longer being pushed to go meetings. I took that as my cue to exit and never looked back. No regrets about it either

Okay, its pretty established that you can't drive in the nude or be nude in the car when you're a passenger. What about nudity in a recreational vehicle or motor home while it is on the road and you're not the driver? So long as you're not making yourself visible to other motorists on the road with you. It is still a motor vehicle, but is also considered a living area (albeit temporary). Is there an expectation of privacy so long as you have taken steps to prevent being seen?

When your version of armageddon comes and goes. You're the only ones left standing as you believe you will be. At some point in time. All of your kids that made it though with you are going to grow up and have kids of their own. The process keeps repeating until you've filled the planet. Since you believe that you will all live forever. What next? The planet reaches population capacity. Does your god somehow shut off your reproductive capabilities? If nobody dies. You don't need to reproduce to replace them. If that is the case. When the last batch of kids grow up. Then you're going to have a planet full of adults. No kids running around to raise or teach anything. Something about that seems so wrong. A world with no kids. And grown adults who really want to be a parent won't get that opportunity. Haven't any of you given that possibility one iota of thought? What do your leaders say about that possibility? Or do we get the "all will be revealed at the proper time" answer?

Think about it.

There seems to be an over abundance of girls of various ages on YA who talk about various sexual experiences with their boyfriends and possibly being pregnant. He only did this or that. We only did it once. He said you can't get pregnant doing it the first time. He only fingered me. He pulled out. He stuck it in once. How they did it so many days before, after or during their period. The condom broke. He shot it on me and not in me. Are these girls just trolling or are they really that naive? And if they are really that naive. What aren't parents educating both their sons AND daughters on exactly how a girl gets pregnant; what condoms and birth control are; how to properly use it; how BOTH partners are responsible for birth control. Outside of whatever moral objections parents have. Or the belief that using BC will encourage them to do it more. Whatever argument. They're going to do it if they decide to. If you can't convince them how important you think it may be to wait. What is so wrong about educating them on how not to become young parents? How to show some self responsibility? Its sad that they feel the need to come here and find their answers. Granted, some of them may not have a parent(s) who give a damn about educating them. Conservative and moralists object to teaching it in schools. If someone doesn't give them correct information. Where does it end?