Since I live in Colorado south of Denver, I'm rooting for the Broncos!
Virgochik
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Super Bowl XLVIII SEATTLE OR DENVER
by ldrnomo ini have to go with seattle.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozsrq3hujme.
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Did your congregation have a "Pioneer Appreciation Day"?
by Coffee House Girl inmy mom (who is now a regular pioneer) has been laid up after having major surgery, and i assert my "biblical" rights as a daughter to do what i can to take care of her, so i have been trying to go to her house on my day off to vaccum and run errands for her since she is not supposed to drive.. she called me last saturday to tell me that i couldn't come by because she was driving to her pioneer appreciation day get-together, wtf .
i'm just curious if this only happens in my area (michigan, us)????.
chg. .
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Virgochik
My elderly widowed mother texted me on Christmas day that she was going to a dinner for the pioneers. She's darn near eighty, on a very small income and driving an ancient car, but they invited her to a special dinner and paid attention to her, so she's hooked into pioneering. I voiced those concerns, as well as asking if it was wise for her to be out in bitter cold and ice, since she's had pneumonia before, but she airily assured me the brothers are looking out for her. I guess doing this on December 25 was their way of proving they had nothing to do with celebrating Christmas and had genuinely important business to conduct. Funny, they profess to be a Christian religion.
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BTTT
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shock horror! WITNESSING ATTIRE NOW CONDONES OPEN-NECK SHIRTS FOR MALES!
by steve2 ingo to jw.org right now friends and you will see a young male jw witnessing in a rural setting with publication in hand and - take careful note - wearing a crisply-white open-neck shirt.
bring out the carnival, light the lights: the organ ization is kicking itself into an ongoing casualization of its rank and file.. in the 1960s through 1980s i know brothers who dared to attire themselves sans ties who were reprimanded or worse.
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I asked my mom why they still insist on sisters wearing dresses and skirts, because that is outdated now. Many people find the dresses and suits intimidating and don't answer their door. She was adamant:"We believe in looking our best when we're out in service."
I said, well I look my best in a nice slacks suit and heels, so why would I have to wear a dress then? Well, maybe finally, they're figuring out that dressing a little less starchy, formal and outright silly and inappropriate might get more doors to open.
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Virgochik
Comittee, I give you credit for doubtless trying to make your congregation a better place while caught between strong personalities and perhaps doubts that it's even worthwhile. Can you share more about your situation?
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Virgochik
I'm finding their stories very powerful evidence that nothing has changed since I grew up an elder's daughter. There was so much backstabbing, politics and jostling for power. We had about a twenty minute ride home from the hall and I heard all the dirt my father related to my mother as he drove. Every few years he'd change congregations because he couldn't work with the BOE. There were always divisions, with competing elders drawing their own cliques. At one point I became seriously ill from the stress placed on an elder's child to be an example, and from all the backstabbing and changing halls.
My mother's an elderly widow now. She sincerely believes it's the truth and tries to encourage me to get involved again, even though my health suffered badly when I was growing up. The elders are just responding to an invitation to post; I don't see any of them acting like they're superior over the rest of us. Many have struggled with posting thir stories and it hasn't been an easy decision for them. It seems like they decided go ahead because the information they can share will be helpful to others. It means so much to me, knowing that I wasn't imagining the unloving, competitive drive of those men of my childhood years, and knowing that things haven't changed firms my belief that I don't want to get entangled again with this religion. By their fruits we will know them, and they are not Jesus' disciples.
My heart felt thanks to current and former elders and MS. I feel your pain thru what my father went through with the org, especially some nasty CO's and you can feel very alone if you're an outcast from the good old boys.
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Is there really holy spirit at the meetings?
by Island Man injehovah's witnesses teach that holy spirit acts as a remembrancer, enabling a person to remember things he studied in the past on the spur of the moment when he needs it.
jehovah's witnesses pray for holy spirit to direct their meetings and believe that there is holy spirit in operation during their meetings.. but have you noticed how, during a question and answer discussion, the brother on the platform would sometimes forget the names of persons in the audience - persons he knows very well?
you would think that holy spirit would at least enable them to remember the name of someone they have seen and spoken to every week at the meeting for years!.
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Then there were the terrifying nightmares I had after meeting nights. I called them my demon dreams. I remembered them vividly in the morning, including the voices they had and what they looked like. We didn't have a tv during most of my school years so we could spend time reading the Society's scheize, so I wasn't getting these images from tv shows. There was and probably still is something very wrong in Kingdom Halls. Maybe, and that's a big maybe, once upon a time they had God's blessing but I feel Jehovah has withdrawn his approval due to the rotten fruit and corruption that's taken over.
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Is there really holy spirit at the meetings?
by Island Man injehovah's witnesses teach that holy spirit acts as a remembrancer, enabling a person to remember things he studied in the past on the spur of the moment when he needs it.
jehovah's witnesses pray for holy spirit to direct their meetings and believe that there is holy spirit in operation during their meetings.. but have you noticed how, during a question and answer discussion, the brother on the platform would sometimes forget the names of persons in the audience - persons he knows very well?
you would think that holy spirit would at least enable them to remember the name of someone they have seen and spoken to every week at the meeting for years!.
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I don't know what lurks in the Halls, but I felt a bad vibe in the ones I went to, growing up as an elder's daughter, almost sinister and definitely not holy or good. Ive been in churches in Scotland and Denmark and felt no presence at all inside. Then we entered a church in Mazatlan Mexico, and were just stopped in awe by the overwhelming hum inside. The place just vibrated with goodness. I touched my husband's arm and said, let's be quiet and show respect because God is truly present in this church. I never ever experienced that in a Kingdom Hall.
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My wife and thanksgiving
by DS211 inso my wife and i chatted about thanksgiving last night and decided were going to celebrate it.
she was reluctant at first but i then brought out that according to the bible that we shouldnt judge nor be judged on celebrating a festival because we are also still giving thanks to god for the life we have.
i know many witnesses are on the fence on whether thanksgiving is politicak or pagan or whatever, but its no e of those.
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Virgochik
"She could witness during such meal."
She won't have to worry about any more invitations, ha!
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ANNOUNCING the Amazon.com KINDLE version of my BOOK
by Terry inhttp://www.amazon.com/i-wept-rivers-babylon-ebook/dp/b00fmhq4gk/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=utf8&qid=1380884339&sr=1-1&keywords=i+wept+by+the+rivers+of+babylon+terry+walstrom.
i wept by the rivers of babylon is now instantly availabe at amazon.. i published the 6x9 trade paperback version last monday and the e-book book (non-kindle) versions.. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/m0rtslaw.
i hope the decent reviews are posted before the customary savage knee-jerk jehovah's witness crew jumps on and finds the juggular.. .
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Virgochik
I'm ordering the book! I feel bad that my father was the congregation servant back then in the small town I grew up in, and he was sending guys like you off to prison with his bad advise to refuse the draft. One young guy I remember especially was sentenced to prison in Milan, Michigan. In his old age, my father turned around and claimed every VA benefit he could from his Army years before he becme a Witnoid. I'm speechless over that one.