Topics Started by donny
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How do some stay in despite violating the Society rules over and over?
by donny inwhat i still find strange is how one person can "fornicate" or violate some other major rule of the society and elders swarm on them and almost shove them out the door, yet others can violate the rules endlessly and never seem to receive any consequence.. my oldest daughter (baptized) married a jw back in 2002 and they divorced in 2005. she then went through various boyfriends over the next couple of years and in early 2007 she married a "worldly" guy who was in the u.s. marine corps.
and shortly after the marriage was sent to iraq.
nothing was ever said about this as far as i know, but according to jw teaching when i was part of the "mess", this constitues "fornication".
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Guilty of going on vacation?
by donny inas an addition to minimus question about hating field service, did the society ever succeed in making you feel guilty while you were on vacation?
i remember during my decade sojourn through the org, there were several articles in the magazines that would talk about how you should use your vacation to spend more time in field service instead of actually relaxing and enjoing yourself (god forbid!).
there was one article that showed a picture of a family in a station wagon on a highway and the caption read something like "are you heading off to some vacation spot, while your brothers are busy declaring the good news in these critical times?
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Do you sometimes think "Did I used to be that way?"
by donny ini have been out of the "org" for over 16 years now and i have pretty much left the jw menatality behind.
i have a jw who works for me and he rarely talks about his faith, but last thrusday was an exception.
he was all happy in telling me how the organization was growing and how the "faithful slave" was revealing new light for the brothers and how he feels that something big is on the horizon.
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Anybody remember the BS transplant horror stories?
by donny inback in my day, although the ban on organ transplants had just been lifted due to the light getting brighter (gags), i remember the outrageous stories regarding transplants.
one that i will never forget went as follows.
this sister, known for talking a lot, described how this white brother in "another congregation", ignored the society's advice on the matter and went ahead and had a heart transplant.
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Yahoo Answers and 1919
by donny inthree weeks ago i posted the question below on "yahoo!
answers".
i was amused by the silence and i only got five answers the first week, and most of them were not jw's.
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Clothing in the New Order
by donny inthe society teaches that once the new order is up and running, we will achieve perfection as adam and eve once were.
if thats the case, why do they portray folks in the new order as fully clothed?
i thought clothing was the result of sin, so once sin is eliminated, should not clothing be also?
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How big of an idiot are you really?
by donny insent: monday, april 21, 2008 11:04 pm.
to: reed, donny r.. subject: how big of an idiot are you really?.
from way back then.
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Living forever
by donny inthe society teaches that if adam and eve had not sinned, they would still be here today as perfect humans.
how do they justify that every other living thing dies?
did lower animal life sin as well?
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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What happened to Rutherfords wife and son?
by donny indoes anyone know what happened to rutherfords wife and son?
i had read somewhere he had sent them away, but what was the reason?
with the society's emphasis on how important the family unit is, how is rutherfords case explained?