garyneal
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Jehovah's Witnesses are a sad lot
by garyneal inmy wife is a baptized publisher and i guess everything is going okay for the moment.
i believe that slowly the love bombing is beginning to wane now that she is in.
her mother, of course, is still sending 'encouragement' now that she is dedicating her life to jehovah the organization.. but, of course, the tests are coming forward and my wife is trying to 'endure to the end.'.
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Disfellowshipped People Are A Bad Lot
by garyneal ina week prior to my wife being baptized she and i discussed the reasons why people are disfellowshipped.
she says that people are disfellowshipped because they simply want to live their lives the way they want to and no longer submit to god's will.
in other words, they want to do something that is immoral and goes against bible principles.
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Interfaith marraiges and children
by garyneal ini just wanted to share this story with everyone:.
last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.
all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.
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Non-beleiving partners, are you getting your JW partner something for Valentine's?
by garyneal ini figured that although my wife is busy getting herself ready for baptism, answering the pre-baptismal questions and all, i would still get her something for valentine's day.
i wanted to give it to her at work and give her some 'bragging rights' with her female co-workers but it did not work out.
any others like me planning to do the same for their jw partner?.
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Question for Bethelites and former Bethelites
by garyneal inaccording to paul blizzard, there were a lot of drunken parties and a lot of drinking at bethel back when he was a bethelite around the 1970's or 1980's (http://www.watchthetower.com/).
out of curiosity, does this stuff still go on today?
for any of the more recent bethelites, can you describe what your experience was like serving in bethel?.
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What is "Present Truth?"
by garyneal inthought i'd share this little bit of 'research' with you all.
i remember sometime back when i was visiting my wife's kh, they sang a song from the song book that contained the words, present truth.
i did a quick search on google to see what people on the internet were saying about this phrase.
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"Encouragement" from my mother-in-law to my wife
by garyneal inmy wife did not attend the holiday celebrations with my daughter and i and instead chose to spend the time with her parents.
she told her mom how she saw nothing wrong with the holiday celebrations and my m-i-l told her that she was right in that the things people do this time of year are very beautiful indeed.
however, it is the reason why people do these things why we are not suppose to partake in them.
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A JW attending funerals at a church.
by garyneal inmy mother-in-law attend the funeral of her father-in-law (my wife's grandfather on her father's side) at his church (a baptist church).
before we went in the church, she (mother-in-law) told me that she wanted to warn me that if they get into the singing and praising of god, don't be surprised if i see her not participating.
i said, "because of that whole, interfaith thing, right?
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Favoritism within the WT
by garyneal inthough my wife does not really see it and i myself am only beginning to actually see it, it appears that there is a lot of 'favoritism' going on in the wts.
now maybe i should not judge especially since, in my case, i do not have all of the facts.. therefore, i will just let this passage of scripture stand on its own and allow people to comment on what they see as favoritism within the society.. .
james 2.
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The 607 / 587 / 586 B.C.E. Research
by garyneal infor anyone who read through my previous thread concerning the conflict my wife and i had over my coming to this forum will recall that my wife agreed to go with me to the library to research 607 b.c.e.. well, unfornately my daughter and i got sick over the weekend so we could not make that trip.
however, my wife did do some research in her wt publications and on the internet!
frankly, i was surprised she even went to the internet but i told her that to 'stay away' from 'apostate' sites all she had to do was google 'babylonian captivity' and see what comes up.