It wouldn't happen, but if it did - they would find a way to justify it of course. Another new light, what a blessing!!
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Jehovah's Witnesses can celebrate Christmas now!
by sacolton in... birthdays too!.
well, not yet, but if the governing body decides that it's okay to celebrate christmas and birthdays .... how do you suppose the typical jw would feel ... especially those who lived their whole life being told to not celebrate and.
wishing they could?.
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There's been some CHANGES made - and, apparently, not everyone is pleased
by berylblue inseems likes i'm annoying others and hurting feelings on quite a few occassions when i post here.. oh, well.
when i first came here, i was a people-pleasing wimp.
i express my real opinions now and i'll be damned if i ever go back to silencing myself just to fit in.
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Glad you are embracing the real you! If your not being yourself, who are you being?
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''This Site Is Spiritual Pornography''
by minimus indo you realize that when we were witnesses, we believed these "apostate" sites were nothing less than "spiritual pornography"?
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Yup, guess I'm a porn addict!
MMO
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It's alright, could be better and could be worse.
I do type a lot better.
MMO
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When you went out in field service
by megaflower inhow often did you have to talk yourself into going out?.
how often did you wait till the end of the month to get some time in?.
how often did you fudge your time?.
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I absolutely hated it!! I pretty much had to pioneer so I was very resentful of the whole thing. The only remedy was to work with someone fun or someone I really liked and then it became somewhat bareable. I just prayed for my partner to have a long call so that I could just listen and waste time.
I didn't fudge my time too much, but when working with people from other congregations, we would go to RV's in each others territories and that would eat up a lot of time. Or I would go to an RV that was way in the country who I knew would probably not be home in order to waste time.
I was extremely drained after I went out. And then I had to go to a meeting or personal study after. No break ever.
It was awful and I don't miss it for anything!
MMO
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Why don't Elders who are sick and elderly ever step down?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inin my 35 years as a witness,there have been many elders in my congregation who were old,sick,tired,weak,and could hardly walk.
they had a hard time reading the material,couldn't remember names, and sometimes forgot where they were in their reading material and talks.they never stepped down as elders.. what are the reasons why most never step down?
can they be asked to step down because of age?
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What would they do without the star treatment??
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Bye-Bye Brooklyn....were OUTTA there! Real Estate news.
by oompa ini was told today by a heavyweight elders wife, both of whom were at bethel for many years and are very well connected to the brooklyn brass, that all brooklyn bethel operations will be moved to wallkill and patterson.
in fact, there is a very exclusive walk-through next week for some of the top real estate investors/developers who will see all the properties, starting with the sands, and its lobby has now been remodeled to look just like a high-end hotel..................just fyi.................................oompa
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Wow!
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The Miracle Wake up!
by Hope4Others inmemorial day we received a call from and elder in the local congregation.
his mother is a partaker, he mentions he could not get over with the invitation so was calling.
to invite us.
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Yes I'm sure this little "experience" will be relayed at assemblies for years to come! What a miracle...
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What have you done to heal yourselves from the borg & lead a content life?
by cognac inor, at least made progress in healing yourselves.... right now i feel like i have made a lot of progress.. i did the following that helped tremendously:.
joined this forum!
faced my husband regarding how i felt and feel that we have met eachother 1/2 way on this - even researched and prepared how to talk to him in a better way (i have a blunt, tactless way of bringing things up - in case you guys didn't notice, lol.
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Well ever since I left, I have tried to surround myself with positive people who are real friends. They like me b/c we get along or have something in common, not b/c we are of the same faith and have to be friends.
I have also been in a lot of therapy trying to deal with things. I have been going on and off for years. It has really helped.
This site and those on it have been wonderfully supportive, and I visit almost daily. At this point I don't think I could be without it.
Thanks to all of you!
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How did you find this site?
by truthseeker init seems as though an age has passed from discovering this site seven years ago to where i am now.
just before we started studying the daniel's prophecy book, i went online to see if anyone had made a study bookmark with the dates and paragraphs on.
i "stumbled" across this site, way back in 2000. of course, like a good christian i pretty much determined that this site had gone apostate from the other jw sites, such.
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Actually a distant friend of mine had sent me an email with a link to this site. I didn't look at the site for several years but I kept the email b/c I wanted it just in case. Last year I finally decided to explore it and here I am!
Thank goodness for friends, distant or not!
MMO