Posts by vitty

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Bad jw e-mail of the week Warning: Hurl Alert

by RisingEagle in

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(this is an e-mail making the rounds of jdubs email lists.

my apologies for not having eye and mind bleach available for the after effects) .

vs. holy bible.

vitty

And yet, they released the first edition of the NWT in the 1950s, and released another edition, WITH CHANGES, in 1984. Must have gone wrong!

Does anyone have a list of changes ?????????

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Am I being Horrible?

by LouBelle in

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right so it's time to buy christmas gifts and the like - which is great - i do love giving.

now i don't usually give to get back.....but some of my so called mates just seem to like taking and taking..... this one guy - i'm mates with his sister and we have gotten to know each other and i'd say we have become friends - when it was his birthday (my first invite) i got him a really unique quirky gift, then came christmas and i got him 2 gifts and added a fun aspect to it, his birthday rolled around again this year and i got him another nice gift.. me: i got a card for chrismtas and he went halvies on a cheap book with his sister for my birthday.

so this year i'm not getting him anything, his sister comes to me and asks if i'm getting anything for him, so i said no - he'll be getting a card from me, she looked a lil stunned.. i do feel a lil bad but i'm tired of always giving and giving and giving and giving - hell he even forgot about my christmas party this weekend.

vitty

I think you can by feeling generous and buying gifts puts some people in a dilema..................maybe they already have a large amount of family and friends that they buy gifts for. Buy giving gifts then expecting one in return, is not what it should be about.

Im having non witness family over for xmas and have said NO PRESENTS. I just dont want it to start, worrying and looking for gifts to me is painful, id rather give something that catches my eye and I think they will enjoy, rather than HAVE to give at a particular time (children excepted)

Saying that I will be buying my DH a gift...............but everyone else NO !!

But then again maybe im horrible too

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WOULD WOMEN MAKE GOOD ELDERS?

by Dansk in

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i've come to love and cherish much of the wisdom that emanates from the dear ladies of this forum and believe watchtower boobed in making all women subservient to the men.

so, do you think women would make good elders?.

ian.

vitty

They wouldnt choose the nice compassionate sisters, who may from experience of being in a divided home or single or abused have some kind of experience and empathy..................no theyd choose the bitchy, ambitious elders wives.

Now wouldnt that be nice !!!

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personal beliefs re: life after death...none since leaving JW.... You?

by oompa in

i do not have a clue anymore.

having just accepted my own mortality, what the hey does happen at death?

i never thought about it before, because i did not have to.

vitty

Ive been thinking about this a lot. I think it is because I have lost a couple of family member since leaving the org.

I cant help but feel they are still around somewhere......... " heaven "??? I dont know but as someone who has NEVER believed in hell, im starting to really hope there is not one !!!!

I dont mind the idea of non existence................but the hell thing really bothers me.

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Remembering our Absent Apostate Friends

by wanderlustguy in

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i had thought of doing this for a while, and a good friend of mine had the same idea not too long ago, so here we go.. i've been here long enough to see some good friends leave us, some just move on and some have gone on to the next life, whatever that is.

i don't think it's so important to say how they left us, but just the fact that they were here and they had something to say, and they were/are good people.

just like us, some were tormented and made a choice to go, and some were shown the door by their choices.

vitty

I used to talk on chat to "Obviously secret" he was only 16............... the same age as my son at the time. He was having real problems with his controlling parents...............and was very depressed. He just stopped posting Aug 04. I often wonder what happened to him. If hed decided to go back or even if hed had an accident. Its horrible when they just leave.

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WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE ?????

by vitty in

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i have a jw family member coming to stay.

im sure they will look on my bookcase where i will leave my coc copy.

i wanted to write something inside to compel them to read it and not just close it in fear !!.

vitty

I have a JW family member coming to stay. Im sure they will look on my bookcase where I will leave my CoC copy. I wanted to write something inside to compel them to read it and not just close it in fear !!

I thought something quoted by the WT that could be turned round on them.................but I can find anything. I thought of the one about investigating ones religion............but I cant find that either.

What would you write if you had an opportunity for a JW to read Crisis of conscience ???

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What's the big deal with Jesus' "sacrifice"?

by bluesapphire in

what was the big deal with that dam tree to begin with!

vitty

" I want mercy , NOT sacrifice"

"Sacrificing their children did not come into his heart" or what not. Cant remember which scriptures, cant be bothered to look them up.!!!

Considering these scriptures and then in Genesis 3 he is already deciding to sacrifice his son...............a bit of a conflict I think

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God's Kingdom WILL eradicate all problems.

by hamsterbait in

by destroying the starving millions.. by killing the millions who live in poverty.. by killing most people with incurable illnesses.. killing everybody who disagrees with the witchtower.. killing the desperate who turn to stealing to survive.. killing the desperate who turn to prostitution to survive.. killing those who are repelled at doing it with the opposite sex.. killing the rape victims who dodn't scream, and had an abortion rather than an inflicted birth.. killing the doctors who save lives by giving blood transfusions.. killing those who give blood to save lives.. it strikes me it is definitely run by the sort of psychopath that lives in crooklyn.. if you are a problem, then you must die.

kill!

kill!!

vitty

Edited to explain that for some reason I thought HB was a female hamster, sorry if I'm wrong.... I like both genders of hamsters by the way, well not THAT way, you know what I mean.....

Now that was funny.

He will eradicate every fornicator.................anyone who got a divorce regardless why, who then goes on to marry again.

So id say just about everyone !!!

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DEAD JW MOTHER HUSBAND TO SUE HOSPITAL

by badboy in

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i understand from news of the world that anthony gough wants to sue the hospital because he feels they were neglient in saving his wife's life.

vitty

Maybe his grief wants him to blame someone so he directed it to the hospital instead of where it rightly belongs.............himself, his family and the WT

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are we inactive or what?

by inactive? in

i would like someone to discuss some issues i have.

i understand all are welcome here, so i am sure some elders or former elders could help me.

i was a pioneer for 7 years, before that i was a regular auxiliarry pioneer for 3 years, i have been a witness for 17 years.

vitty

If you feel your daughter is being mistreated by her boyfriend, could you possibly have her live with you again ??

She may jump at the chance of getting away from him. As for her being DFed.........isnt her saftey more important than what the "loving" Elders will do ?