garyneal
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Who is your Spiritual Guide?
by Butterflyleia85 income, now, you who say: today or tomorrow we will journey to this city and will spend a year there, and we will engage in business and make profits, whereas you do not know what your life will be tomorrow.
for you are a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.
instead, you ought to say: if jehovah wills, we shall live and also do this or that.
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Blood Doctrine Debate
by garyneal inas has been the case over the summer, my wife and i have been going to two different churches every sunday.
generally, before church service we speak of religion and the various differences and, of course, why she believes hers is right.
this time, we spoke briefly about holidays first.
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Jehovah's Witnesses participating in sports?
by garyneal ini understand one of their numerous "thou shalt nots" concerns children participating in sporting activities.
my daughter is on the soccer team and my wife (an unbaptized jw with a 'goal' of becoming baptized) was the one who signed her up.
during the first season, my wife kept telling me that she felt torn because she wanted our daughter to participate in sports but she knew she was 'going against god.'.
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Cynthia the ministerial servant's wife
by loosie inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihmzrqcf9u&feature=playlist&p=c941c78ccabebbf3&index=2.
this woman cracks me up..
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A POLL! How long did your "re-evaluation" take?
by Gayle infrom beginning to end, how long did it take you, when you first started your personal questioning and re-evaluating the watchtower organization and concluding that the wts was definitely not true?
my sister is asking this.
some of us (who left a couple decades ago - pre-internet) are saying it took about 10 years on average.
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Hypothetical Question for Christians
by Sad emo inthis is a purely hypothetical scenario but needs some deep soul-searching to answer methinks!.
suppose you die and you come to stand before god at the judgement.. you've lived a good, sincere christian life and put full faith in christ's sacrifice etc.. and god says "you're hellbound".
how do you think you'd feel towards him/what would you say..
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To understand the Bible, must we "Read between the lines?"
by garyneal inthis post goes out to any active jehovah's witnesses who are either actively engaged in or simply lurking the topics on this web site.
my wife is a jehovah's witness who is currently an unbaptized publisher hoping (as she stated as her goal) to become baptized.
needless to say, i am not and we go to different churches (hers is the kingdom hall and mine is a small community church).. anyway, this past sunday (september 7, 2009) one of the brothers gave a talk about how some people pick a church based on the fact that it seems to "feel good to them" rather than base it on whether or not they truly teach the bible.
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Cantleave went to the meeting last night
by cantleave ini have attended just a handful of meetings over the 2 months.
i went yesterday, because i had an assignment and i really wanted to see my mate talk about masturbation from the platform, knowing he would be very uncomfortable about it!!!!.
anyway after the meeting i was approached by the cobe.
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Does everyone else get this reaction from their JW family when discussing objections to the religion?
by jambon1 inwhen pointing out my objections to the jw religion with my wife, i have noticed a worrying trend which even after 3 or 4 years shows no sign of relenting.. after speaking calmly for an hour or so and logically pointing out my objections, my wife starts to put forward outrageous assertations about my points.
for instance, if i am refering to the fact that disfellowshipping is a form of extreem punishment & i mention the terrible effects that being d/f'd can have on people, she will eventually retort with something like "so what you are saying is that we should tolerate paedophiles, rapists & thieves in the organisation then?".
of course, i've never at any point said anything of the sort.. or if i have been overly critical of the amount of control the society wants over peoples lives, she would reply "so what you are saying is that we should all just go out & do what we want, get drunk & live an immoral life?
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Do mixed marriages work? What about kids?
by greenie ini'm new and have posted something along these lines recently on another thread, but i'm wondering, do marriages between non-jws and jws work?
by "work" i mean can they be loving and happy?
and what about kids?