Super_Becka
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Question about Christmas
by Super_Becka inok, i'm fairly new here and to the whole mess that is the realm of jws and the wts, introduced to this odd world because i'm dating an inactive jw (that's a whole other ball of wax, check out my other topic on this - http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/20/101985/1.ashx), but i've been doing some research and there's one question that's been really bugging me.. jws don't celebrate christmas, i think we all get that.
they say that christmas is pagan and therefore satanic and all of that, so they've banned the celebration of christmas (among other christian holidays).
i figured that it had been like this since the beginning of the wts back in the 1870s, but i've found references to articles published in the watchtower magazines in the early part of the 20th century that state that christmas is a good time of year, that giving and charity and all of these things that come with the christmas season are good and that celebrating christmas is a good thing.
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going to see my "worldly" boyfriend
by Suzie inso, in a week or so, i will be traveling to visit my worldly boyfriend.
i am very scared, and nervous.
i have a fear of flying and all, but there is more to it... he is very sick with cancer.
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Judge tosses out parts of Jehovah's Witness case
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/lac.20060228.nats28-1/tpstory/national judge tosses out parts of jehovah's witness case
patrick brethour
calgary -- an alberta court has dismissed large parts of a $975,000 lawsuit that accuses jehovah's witness members of contributing to the death of a calgary teen who refused blood transfusions.
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Are there any condom machines in your kids schools?
by JH inwhen i was a kid going to school, there weren't any.
then later when i was in college, there weren't any, but today at that same college you see them in the bathrooms.. i was just wondering if they have condom machines in high schools too?.
and do you agree with it?
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A Teenage JW Love Story Part 2
by Nosferatu inwhen the first bus came, becky wasn't on it.
becky: is ben here?
oh yeah, what hall do you go to ben?
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Valentine's Day!!!
by kristyann inanyone want to tell me the exact reason for jws not doing valentine's day?
is it the usual "pagan roots" thing?
where do they get that from with regards to this specific holiday?
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A Teenage JW Love Story Part 3
by Nosferatu inpart two is here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/107542/1.ashx
sometime in january, i recieved an interesting phone call.
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Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Super_Becka ini was reading some quotes from ralph waldo emerson just now, and one really stuck out in my mind.
it made me think of the wts and what it has become in the last 130 years or so.. "every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man.
his character determines the character of the organization.".
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JWs and Mormons in Dead Like Me
by misspeaches infor those not familiar with the show dead like me i will give you a brief explanation.. the show is about grim reapers who have to take the souls from people before they die in accidents thus enabling them to move on.
the grim reapers walk talk act and look like ordinary people.
they hold down regular jobs and need places to live, food to eat just like anyone else.
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Tree-worshipping, Protestant pagan...
by Super_Becka in... and damn proud of it!!.
if that's what celebrating christmas with my family and friends makes me, then i wouldn't have it any other way!!
i consider myself a christian, a pure-bred anglican (church of england, which is protestant, so i agree with at least part of that title i've been granted by sweetscholar), but if celebrating the holidays with the people that mean the most to me makes me a tree-worshipping pagan, then i guess that's what i am.. merry christmas everyone!!.