Doubtfully Yours

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  Interesting Prince quote from current Entertainment Weekly (yes, another Prince thread)

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

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  this weekend, i was reading my cousin's hard copy of the entertainment weekly prince tribute (may 6, 2016 issue) and came across a very interesting quote.

  ew journalist leah greenblatt, who conducted the last major magazine interview with prince in august 2015, recounted him saying: "religion is beautiful as long as you don't become a fanatic and start shutting other people out, other ideas.

  prince may have still been a jw, but it sounds like he had a very open-minded approach to it.

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  His behavior and life style clearly says that this artist was NOT a JW, definitely 'in name only' like so many of us in this forum.

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  Just Refused Mags from Rich Customer

  by snugglebunny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  oh dear.

  i have a customer - dave - who gives me frequent and profitable work sometimes.

  i'm retired but am happy to do a little bit part-time.. this morning i called to rectify some work he'd had done by a not-so expert "tradesman".

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  If he has been turned down twice, his sin must have been juicy/atrocious. Can you find out why he was df'd?

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  Thankful for my babies

  by BeautifulMind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i hope everyone is having a good day/night.

  so i was just reflecting on how happy i am to have my babies, despite the orgs.

  not so subtle requests that married couples not have babies in order to further serve the org.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  I do not what you are talking about.

  At the Spanish congs, we go big time celebration for baby showers. Perhaps is due to our culture being so family oriented.

  The WTBTS says a lot of things, but we as individuals choose whatever, especially these days when all their doomsday predictions have expired.

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  There are two cart witnesses outside of my office window - Faneuil Hall in Boston - should I approach them?

  by Billzfan23 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i asked a couple of them farther up the street by north station if they had ever seen beth sarim - and that they should look it up...for some interesting facts about their history.. .

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  Don't be a regular ex-JW jerk, just mind your business.

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  Chicago Med - Gets it wrong - Shows a JW Couple refuse a Cell Salvage procedure during Heart Bypass

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i like watching all the chicago shows.

  chicago med, chicago fire, and chicago pd,.

  but this week they showed a jw couple that refused a procedure that was left to the concience of a jw.

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  They got it all wrong. Obviously they did not consult the correct sources.

  JWs do not even speak the way that couple did. It made me a bit upset that they misrepresented JWs so incorrectly.

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  Here's a view on homosexuality for you...

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.

  all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.

  homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.

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  Kaik,

  A lot of horrid things happen in some people's private life; the thing with the LGBTQ gang is that they are sooooo 'in your face' and we all just better grin and bear it.

  Yes, the behavior should be kept very private.

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  My brother died last night

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.

  it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.

  there were six of us, now only four.

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  May good memories of your brother provide comfort. Sorry.💐

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  New Spiritually Weak Label: Not Using Tablet/iPhone

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with last night's meeting it became official: here in the states is a must to keep up with 'jehovah's org' that one fully jumps on board with this tablet/iphone crap.. so, now, all of us that up to this point have refused to follow the wtbts in their electronic/wireless revolution will deal with the browbeating from the 'spiritual' ones.. already receiving lots of grief from hubby and rest of the family/close friends when seen at the meetings with paper publications.

  damn it!!!

  am i alone in this resistance???!!!.

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  As usual, I caved and used my smart phone in service already. And hubby showed a video to a guy who was very impressed by it.

  Damn it, the WTBTS won again.

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  The two paths of exJWs

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's easy to think of exjws as being a single amorphous group but the more i think about it, the more i believe that there are two distinct sub-groups and wonder if you agree.. there are those who believe and those who don't.

  i know that seems obvious but let's break it down a bit more.

  there are those who don't and never believed and some who are looking for a religion to match their beliefs.. i used to think this split would be between born-ins and converts but of course it's possible for born-ins to be believers although i suspect that many, like with other faiths, do so simply because they have never experienced anything else or made a conscious choice.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Being a born-in, with JW relatives so hardcore into the inner workings of this Org, the indoctrination is so strong that it is part of my fiber like it or not; reason why I cannot approve of the LGBTQ community and other behavior radicals.

  I guess this makes me a 'JW-lite', but JW nonetheless. At the time of ultimate allegiance, you will find me in the JW camp.

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  Here's a view on homosexuality for you...

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.

  all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.

  homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.

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  JWs will not buy into the 'worldly' reasoning that the LGBTQ community is correct.

  Furthermore, in this regard, I'm on their side.

  I do not hate them, would not physically hurt them, but will not approve of the behavior. It is abhorrent.

  DY