Bumble Bee
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Need help with doctrinal changes
by Bumble Bee ini've started to talk to hubby about things.
i started with the lack of love in the congs and he readily agrees.
how "worldly" friends are so much more loving than the so called jw "friends" (which we don't have anymore).. next i'd like to talk about the changes the "society" has made in recent years, how it's so hard to keep up with things now, it changes all the time.. can you help me with a list of changes and some wt references that i can discuss with him?.
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Does the average JW feel the "end is near"?
by Bumble Bee inmy hubby recently had a discussion with his older brother.
my brother in law told him he wants to reach out to become a ms. he's going to cut down on his work schedule, go out in service more, spend more time with his son etc.
he's in his mid forties, has always been regular at meetings and fs, but never aspired to reach out before.
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Apostate music
by Bumble Bee inas a jw kid, i was always hearing about not listening to certain music.
one reason my mother called me apostate is because she saw some cd's i had - she called it gospel.
some of them were decidedly what is termed "chrisitan" music in the store, some are crossover artists (chrisitian but played on mainstream/top 40 radio) and there is alot of country music that is spiritual for lack of a better word.. i was always under the impression that "unapproved" music would be songs with lyrics that go against biblical principals - sex, drugs, etc, not music that promotes good things in life, or glorifiying god and jesus.
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How can she pick and choose who she wants to shun?
by Bumble Bee inrecently my mother and sister have cut me out of their lives.
they made it quite clear that they don't want anything to do with me anymore, my mother going so far as to change her will (not that there was much there anyways).. i have not da, am not df, have never said anything to anyone in my family about my doubts or what i have uncovered about this religion, i just stopped going to meetings.
(i usually go to the dc with her, and some ca, and the memorial at her cong.).
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Feb KM - Jesus' ransom
by Bumble Bee inreflecting upon what the ransom means for us personally intensifies our heartfelt love for god and his son and motivates us to exert ourselves in doing god's will.gal.
gal 2:20 (nwt).
i am impaled along with christ.
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Do JW's consider Jesus to be their saviour?
by Bumble Bee inthis coming from a person raised "in the truth".. recently i shared a scripture with my sister - she is ill and will have to have some pretty serious surgery.
i shared isa 53:4,5 with her.
(this is the niv version for those that don't have a bible handy.).
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I need to tell my hubby I don't want anything to do with this religion
by Bumble Bee ini've been "inactive" and a fader for over 10 years, it's been a slow and gradual transition.
things have recently come to a head with my mother and sister over this and they are basically shunning me now.
they've told me they don't want anything to do with me anymore because of this.
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JW's on TV
by Bumble Bee inrecently i've seen more jw's on tv.
first it was jayla on america's next top model - described as "the rebel jw".. the other day i saw a psa on omni tv about diabetes and it pictured an older man sitting by his piano and there was a "sing praises to jehovah" displayed.. yesterday i saw a program on the lifenetwork about jackie - a jw woman that had breast re-construction after cancer.
it showed her attending a meeting at the kh, (gag alert) - everybody was hugging and kissing each other, singing etc, showed her reading her nwt, and going out in service using the standard greeting - "hi, my name is jackie and this is my friend pat - we'll be very brief - we're just talking to the people in your neighbourhood today - latest wt and awake yadda yadda yadda".
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What's worse than a lump of coal?
by Bumble Bee inwe went for dinner at my bro and sis in laws house on christmas day.
no turkey though .
bb.
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I'm taking the societies advice to ...
by Bumble Bee in.
... simplify my life - by throwing out old publications!
wow, i can't believe how much room they took up in my storage space under the stairs.. bb