i don't know how others are but in my family, my grandma makes a turkey for thanksgiving, and either turkey, pot roast or ham for christmas.
all of us non-jw's go over to celebrate and enjoy the time with the family, now the jw's in the family always say, we'll be over the day after, they eat the same turkey we did for thanksgiving, eat the same food, pies, etc.
we did but just the next day?
I was told by a JW - "I can eat the birthday cake the next day...just not the day of the birthday" This is someone in the org for 20+ years. Then know of some that go to watch the Fireworks for 4th of July.
What an embarrasement that faith is. How can grown adults be caught up in this type of living, in this day and age, I'll never get it.
why are we not all getting together as a group and get back at the borg for what they have done to us?
"there is strength in numbers" and definitely enough of us.
we have all suffered in similar ways, some more than others.
This would be an easy case to win. Someone said it earlier...organization. That's the key.
Huge lawsuit settlements over pedophilia, and I never heard 1 word about it in the national news, but if someone takes a video of a dog jumping off a roof and lands unharmed.. it makes a 10 second national news clip on TV. There's something wrong there.
5,000 come forward in a major lawsuit against the WTS?......that's powerful. GET IT DONE PEOPLE.
(please delete if already posted).
http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news842622.html cable truck hits kingdom hall .
email this story to a friend.
They probably thought they were under attack ther for a moment ! HaHa
after the thread about our first cars, i was wondering what everyone drives now.
i know that roller has the apostatruck, but what does everybody else drive?.
i personally have a pontiac grand prix for work, and a saab convertible for fun.. jk.
As for my car, remember that vette from "Corvette Summer"?
Well it's not mine, but I wish it was...
i have a question for everyone regarding your personal experience with the brainwashing techniques of the wt.
(its amazing that i can even say that now.
once was a time i would have bristled at the mere suggestion that the society brainwashes people.
Scripture says we all fall short in the eyes of God,..we're never gonna live up to the highest standards of God, we're sinners. I learned this early on in Christianity. Although this is not a license to do whatever you want, it eases the overbearing feelings that you have described here. Some of the great ones in the OT & NT fouled up big time right? As males, you worried about masturbating or not, but God used a cold blooded killer to love others in Christianity.
Feartacticsarama!
That's the WTS.
i hope someone opens a new secret watchtower website with all the pages scanned monthly.
wouldn't that be a hoot?
i forget nowadays - when should the dubs expect that january shipment?
Simon, can we get a Topic Discussion section for just the JW versions of the WT, so that we can go straight to that section and not miss any postings of it if we are away for a period of time?
Pretty Please?
someone wrote about christmas and i could not find your post to reply!
so here is my reply why i think christmas is not pagan!.
i just read a thread where one of the posters was saying christmas is not pagan.
oops...sorry Susane! (wrong word)
someone wrote about christmas and i could not find your post to reply!
so here is my reply why i think christmas is not pagan!.
i just read a thread where one of the posters was saying christmas is not pagan.
Sarah Smiles....nice to see you step up and hit home run for the team.
SusaneSmiles...I know of Witnesses who have recently indulged in the luaus.
Wasn't it Paul who was jailed, and while there stated that he took joy in knowing that people were out in the streets pushing the message of Christ and the "Good News" for the wrong reasons, but atleast the people were hearing the news either way.
So no matter how active JWs are against Christians making the Word of God be known, via Christmas, etc...Paul would take joy in it.
So lurking JDubs, would you stand in an argument with Paul over it if he was in front of you? Would you talk about him behind his back about his views on it, would you turn him into the Governing Body?
ever get any invites to come in and eat or get offered breakfast or lunch, and you did it?.
i think of the scripture of jesus telling those that went before him to villages, to "eat what is offered to you".. makes me want to have a bottle of pepperocinis on hand for a witness visit.
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Ever get any invites to come in and eat or get offered breakfast or lunch, and you did it?
I think of the scripture of Jesus telling those that went before him to villages, to "eat what is offered to you".
Makes me want to have a bottle of pepperocinis on hand for a witness visit. Of course we know that JW's don't follow the scriptures as much as they claim to, so they wouldn't accept it.
handled this issue in what way?
im typing from my phone so it all runs together, sorry.
youre a jw and a business owner.
handled this issue in what way? Im typing from my phone so it all runs together, sorry. Youre a JW and a business owner. Do you accept jobs from customers that are Churches, and businesses like Palm/Tarot Readers? Would you do one, but not the other? Would you take on church jobs, but not tarot readers? What was your thinking as a JW and what does the FDS teach?
