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  Did people make fun of you when you were a JW?

  by JH in

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  did people make fun of you when you were a jw, or were you on top of the situation, and knew what to say to shut them up and make them feel stupid or without faith?

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  james_woods

  Of course, it is by far the worst for the most innocent - that is, the kids. Especially high school.

  I graduated in 1967, so VietNam and protest movement were just getting started. Mostly, my class were kind of red-neck patriotic athletic fundies. I was hanging with the math, science, and chemistry nerds.

  I never let anybody know I was one (hell, just being science nerd boy was bad enough - at least until I got my first car)...I even saluted the flag and went to the team pep rallies.

  I reasoned that I wasn't baptized yet and besides, it didn't say not to do these things in the Bible. Now, if only I could have kept that attitude going before they bamboozled me into baptizm...
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  Tattoo! (got any?)

  by mkr32208 in

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  2. friends

  i got my first (last and only) tattoo in vegas last week!

  got my wife's name on the back of my neck (low enough that the shirt covers it!

  ) i'll get her to take a pic and post it on here!.

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  james_woods

  I god hauled up before the servants when I was about 12 years old because a friend and I were playing "lead pencil fight" and school and I got a couple of dark pencil spots under the skin of one hand. She was worried that I was "marked in my skin" like a pagan tattoo or something.

  They said it was OK religiously as it seemed to be an accident, but that I was certainly not to play fight games any more like a good unbaptized dubbie. I kid you not.

  Yes, mom was a brand new dub and was really getting into the swing of it. We even sold her beloved white 1959 Ford Galaxie 500 2-door hardtop that year and got a horrible brownish-gold 4-door Rambler.

  My shame was complete.
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  JW's vs United Church of God

  by lisavegas420 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  two months ago, i wrote the wbts and requested a 'what does the bible really teach'.

  well it hasn't shown up.

  but at the same time, i ordered a "what does the bible really teach' from the united church of god.

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  james_woods

  Your edit still does not show - anyway, it shoud be "Gas", not "Gos"....d

  Because: Aren't these the AA Armstrong people that the old WTsociety used to get shorties wadded up over "plaigarism"?
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  In the spirit of match-making, who do you have a crush on?

  by MsMcDucket in

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  2. relationships

  eh heh?

  i know this is either going to be one of those topics where people consider it a popularity contest or something....i'm just being an imp and seeing if anyone will be forward enough to tell about the person that they would like to date.. me, i'm married so that leaves me out!

  but i have seen a lot of beefcakes on here!

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  james_woods

  Mine has to be that Tonga-JW girl who graduated at the top of her class, but is passing on her college scholarship - to be a missionary.

  I think I was meant to change her course in life. She really needs to know other things than missionary.
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  Changes that will come in Jehovah's witnesses organization

  by PeLe, ThE Soccer King in

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  2. friends

  i have a strong reason to believe that the change that will be announced in next few days among jehovah's witnesses will bring a major "refining" work among its members.

  take a note of this:

  if are not regular in meetings and service of field than you're signalling that you're no longer a jehovah's witness.

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  james_woods

  PeLe has a pretty good handle on the trend of the recent Governing Body...numbers go down -

  So - lash out with greater control measures. Beat up on everybody on how close the end is. Hammer them on being lazy about field service. Demand more meeting attendance, etc...its all about more control from Brooklyn down.

  IMHO, they might very well just say this kind of thing as a threat to the inactives, but just leave it as only a threat and not really follow through on the bluff.

  That way they could get their scare tactics in, but without actually alienating the many who are probably already on the edge...of course, it could also be that the "big news" is just another "the end is right around the corner"...or nothing at all but more tracts...

  James
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  BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS Twisting a life-affirming law into death

  by Terry in

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  2. medical

  turning a life affirming rule into a death-dealing policy is an amazing accomplishment.

  we can thank the watchtower society for a mindset which makes this possible.. i've gone into great detail before about the watchtower blood policy itself.

  it is a blatant and deliberate publicity stunt which takes the rather simple prohibitions of the laws of noah for gentiles on murder .

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  james_woods

  I must say that I generally agree with Terry on his original thread point:

  "Blood" really has a biblical context of representing "Life"...therefore, causing the loss of life to "abstain from blood transfusion" is silly. Also, morally corrupt if you understand the reason for the life metaphore.

  However, I am not so sure that we can make the blanket argument that the scripture above just meant "abstain from murder". Notice that the immediate preceeding and the immediate following have a definate dietary context. Of course, you could also make the argument that "abstain from fornication" would not have a dietary context. On the other hand, isn't there annother reference that says, whatever you find in the meat market, eat it?

  <<< I am sure that since this is serious religious thread, no one will point out the various obvious puns that could be drawn >>>

  Also, it is not without amusement that I remember the NWT take on "do well" - it was written as approx. "good health to you!". Much was made of this in the old days - "see, this was given to us JW Christians because blood transfusions are unhealthy". Right along the line of SuperHooper's blood transfusion danger fixation.

  Be that at is may - it is still pretty unbelievable that a religion would let an injured child die over such theological semantics.

  James
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  Investigative / judicial committees are a function of Brooklyn.

  by garybuss in

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  2. beliefs

  the investigative committees and the judicial committees are a function of brooklyn, not the congregations.

  the elders on the committees are appointed by headquarters, not the congregations.

  the elders on the committees report to headquarters, not the congregations.

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  Ancient History from an OldFart Warning Here!!!

  However, back in the 1970's (both before and then after the "elder" reorg), my recollection is that the local committee was at first made up only of the Cong Servent, the Service Overseer, and the BookStudy Overseer. The committee could include other elders (even other congregation elders) if it was deemed necessary. I never saw one case where either the Circuit Overseer or Brooklyn was even consulted. We also only kept a simple DF letter with just the reason (in generic terms), date, etc. mentioned. No gory details were kept.

  If things have gotton as pervasive as getting permission from the Service Department & Circuit Overseer, then there has been a big crack-down from the way I remember things...

  James
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  Sending a Message to Brooklyn, Big Time!

  by drew sagan in

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  well last night i was doing a few boaring things and then this idea just popped in my head.

  i was thinking about differant ways that a true 'disturbance' could happen from the ground up in the organization.

  the basic idea is this: .

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  james_woods

  Estaphan - you posted: "You should not partake unworthily, this is written. What would Jehovah think of this?"

  Do you partake?

  I assume you would not want me to judge you if you should answer in the affirmative. I also assume the reverse, if you do not partake, you would want others to respect your position.

  Are you aware that one of the fundamental reasons that a lot of certain still-christian dissenters here left the WTS was disbelief in the two-cast system? And, especially now that a lot of the 8100-8300 still partaking are about halfway considered bogus by even the society? For many here, the idea of forcing people to not partake is an act of the Anti-Christ. It encourages believing Christians to disobey Christ's own instructions and in a sense, reject him in favor of a select group of humans. Those references in Rev. do not say a word about going to heaven or partaking of the emblems, whatever they may mean.

  As Deep Purple said in Smoke over Water - the Swiss Time was running out. Indeed it is when the society themselves said the sealing was over by 1935. I suggest that you should be taking up this cause (all Christians celebrate the memorial) as it might be the biggest first step available to the society to right their listing ship. Assuming, of course, that you support the society and want to help them avoid disrepute.

  James

  PS, I know you are a new poster...and one with apparantly strong opinions. Please view this as given in great seriousness and sincerity.
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  That Crucial Criteria guy rips off JWD's forum list

  by under_believer in

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  2. friends

  remember that guy from watchtower.cc who was in here the other day claiming that his site was "protected by a federal judge" and that he knew of a legal case where the "watchtower was going down?

  well he made his own forum at http://p072.ezboard.com/bwatchtowercrucialcriteria.

  lol... does that board list look familiar to anyone?

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  james_woods

  In kind of a strange way, this site proliferation speaks to the power of the growing dissention movement with JWs, and the influence of the internet.

  Who would have thought back in the Ray Franz days that these kind of websites, (and others like the Quotes one) would be popping up all over?

  I am pretty sure that the good ones will have success, and that others will kind of "fade" away. It is obvious that sites without an agenda can appeal to a wider audience than the Johnny-One-Songs.

  But, maybe a certain Masonic theorist could start another new one on that basis and prove me wrong...look at it this way- if it does fail, you will certainly have several groups to blame it on!

  James
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  WTS NO HIGHER EDUCATION dumb dub

  by DannyHaszard in

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  2. scandals

  high cierra: teen scores best-ever ib mark at bhs

  royal gazette, bermuda - 4 hours ago .

  ... cierra, a jehovahs witness who was named the islands outstanding teen 2006 earlier this year, does not intend to go to university but will instead carry ...

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  james_woods

  And, lets not forget - according to the Watchtower & Awake, she was only using about 10% of her brain while she achieved this...