JustTickledPink
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Starbucks and Subway in church!!!!
by JustTickledPink inmy husband went to church in tn a few years back with a friend for easter and told me they had a starbucks inside the church.
it was just like barnes and noble or the local target now, have their own starbucks.
so i found this article in the christian science monitor and it says there are churchs with subway franchises in them... i think that is hilarious.. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1229/p01s04-ussc.html.
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Who remembers "Welcome to the Great Crowd" ?
by JustTickledPink in.
i was baptized in 1986 at the tender age of 11 yoa, but i remember after sitting through that stupid talk (where i almost fell asleep, no kidding) and then prayer, then getting dunked, then they announced a welcome to all newly baptized people and said "welcome to the great crowd" .
it's so weird remembering that specifically.. now i think, welcome to the great dwindling crowd of duped people not going anywhere.
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Paradise = Fountain of youth
by JustTickledPink in.
i realized today that jws aren't unique, almost everyone is searching for the fountain of youth.
there are more plastic surgeons and medicines and elixers, drugs, herbalists, and religious nuts all promising the same thing.... youth..
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What if "the end" happens in 2150?
by JustTickledPink injust a question.... what if the wts came out with a for sure prediction based on new light that without a doubt armeggedon will be here in 2150?
well, that means that our generation will all die, but we can hope for a resurrection and we have to continue to preach and our grandchildren or great-grandchildren might actually be the ones to walk through the "end" into their "new system"
the question is how many jw's would there be?
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The actual turning point -- where you regain your own power
by JustTickledPink ini have done a lot of thinking about what it's like to actually believe the wts has "the truth" and what it felt like to be immersed in the religion and i finally figured out the exact turning point a person has to get to, that allows a person to let go of it all.. it doesn't matter what scandals you read about, what sort of a victim you were to the society, it doesn't even matter if you quit attending meetings years ago.
there comes a day when you finally realize inside your heart and throughout your mind that it's just a religion.
not "the truth," not "inspired by jehovah god," but in fact just a religion.. i started thinking about it in terms of a profession.
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Court case dismissed ref church morality enforcement
by JustTickledPink inhttp://floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20050307/news01/503070336/1006
very interesting article from fl, a 25 yoa woman worked as a day care worker at a church and was terminated when she announced she was pregnant and unmarried.
she sued for wrongful termination.
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The idea of perfection and living forever
by JustTickledPink inthis past year i turned 30, my father in law is visiting and he's turning 62 tomorrow so i'm baking him a cake.
i have been thinking about aging and how it seems very normal to me.
if adam and eve sinned and no longer were going to live forever, how come there aren't plants and animals that were also living forever.
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Leading double life
by JustTickledPink ini ran into a young jw i hadn't seen in probably 12 years, anyways, she was the presiding overseer's daughter, perfect little jw... she's now 25 yoa, she is still an active witness and in fact a sympathizer to their crap but dressed in a low cut top, belly showing, carrying a beer, trolling for guys out a hot spot on a friday night with a "worldly" friend.. she talked to me for 5 mins and told me she had been df'd for a year but how horrible it was, she is reinstated and doing good..... but everything about her looks said she wasn't a good little jw.. i think more and more hypocrites are being raised in the organization.
i wouldn't be able to stand leading a double life, i would much rather be honest and not hiding who and what i am... but there are more young jws, including ones i would never suspect, that are jws by day, and regular people at night.
i think they are falling into the "sunday morning christians" mentality and carrying tons of guilt around with them.. i just wish they would wake up.
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Awake! from 1968 predicting 1975
by JustTickledPink ini'm not sure if anyone here has posted this, i saw it on another site and had to share it, considering all the talk about 1975 lately.
i was born in 1974 and my mother did count on it being the end, based on articles just like this one.
http://http://www.nextwish.co.uk/19753.jpg.
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Refusing magazines/books from JW relatives
by JustTickledPink inrecently my mother dropped in on us and in front of other people, very nicely handed me some trinkets aka dust collectors for my house and some wts magazines.
the way she handed everything to me at once i just held out my hands and took it all.. i threw the magazines away immediately, i consider them trash and don't even want them around... but then decided exactly what i was going to do.
i am going to buy a yard sale cross or virgin mary statue and give it to my mom.. i specifically told her i don't want any publications and she slipped them in anyways.... so, on that note, she hates any religious icons, i am going to give her something that she doesn't want.