Super_Becka
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As promised... "You know you're a Newfoundlander when..."
by Super_Becka inok guys, here it is.
i read the "north vs. south" thread last week and promised to post this to see how many people here actually understand it.
it'll probably really confuse all of you, unless you're from newfoundland or know a newfoundlander to ask about it, so i'll be sure to explain some of them after i get a few responses..
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How does one deal with a JW at Christmas??
by Super_Becka inok, i'm looking for a little more advice.
it's christmas, i'm an exceptionally festive person (seriously, i start listening to christmas music the day after halloween, i'm not kidding, i love christmas!!
), and as anyone who's read my other topics and posts knows, i'm dating an unbaptized, inactive jw who hasn't been to the kh in forever but still completely and utterly despises christmas and all things associated with it (and other holidays, too, he just hates celebrations).. so the question is, how does one deal with this situation??
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I'm back!!
by Super_Becka indid ya miss me??
hehehe, you guys probably didn't even know i was gone, but i figured i'd start a new topic to get myself back into the swing of things and let everyone know what i've been up to these past couple of weeks since i've posted.. let's see, it's a new semester, i'm back into my school routine once again and trying desperately to love it, but hey, university gets a little old after a while (this is my third year here) and right now, i just wish i was finished so i could go and make something of myself.
but i'm getting close to the end, just one year left!!
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Some wise words...
by Super_Becka in"life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
" - kahlil gibran.
if only the wts could see that.
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Help with flip-flop doctrines
by Super_Becka ini have another thread going on practices and objects of pagan origins that are permitted by the wts, so now i'm looking for a more concise look at the organization's flip-flop doctrines.
i know they're scattered all over this forum, but i'd like a nice list of some of them here, on one thread, because i don't have the time to look them all up myself here.. let me start with:.
) blood - blood fractions are now permitted as a matter of conscience (anyone have references and/or dates for this from wt or awake!
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Anyone watching "Two and a Half Men"??
by Super_Becka in.
hehehe, this must be a common thing on tv lately, i've been seeing a lot of people mentioning this here on the board.. i'm watching "two and a half men" right now, and in the pre-credits intro part, two of the main characters were talking, and one of them was bragging about the great sex he'd had the night before, and there was a knock on the door.. "hello brother, we're here to tell you about the good news!!".
the character invites them in to tell them about his nocturnal adventures.. i don't know if they were supposed to be mormons or jehovah's witnesses, but they certainly reminded me of jws with their white shirts and ties with the books in hand, and i loved how they looked absolutely mortified with the other character started bragging about sex.. is it just me or are mormons/jws turning up at the butt of jokes a lot on tv lately??.
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WTS views on theatre and film
by Super_Becka inok, this is something that i've been wondering about for a while now, so i figured i'd ask my favourite jw forum about it.
of course, it wouldn't surprise me if nobody has even considered this, but it's worth a shot to ask.. does the wts have any doctrine against theatre and film, other than the generic "don't watch anything with an r-rating"??.
my reason for asking this is as follows:.
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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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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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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!!.