Posts by Quillsky

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watchtower site on Facebook, ,,is this stuff for real ?

by lancelink in

i was looking over the watchtower site on facebook this evening, and was just mesmerized by many of the posts.this stuff can't be real (can it)?

nelson birdwell ?

it's like something out of mad magazine, or better yet the onion !.

Quillsky

Loooove this recipe for Jehovah's Free Tomato Soup at McDonalds!!!

If you go into Mcdonalds on your next coffee break, you can buy a cup for 25 cents. My husband grumbles about this and insists on bringing his own cup from home. Then my husband or I go into the bathroom and turn on the water until its nice and hot and fill the cup up. Then we take a ketchup package out of our pockets (usually we get extra from a kindly sister in our hall who also washes out bread bags and egg cartons for us, more about that next time) Anyways I digress. The ketchup package mixed with some salt and pepper from the condiment stand and hot water! Ta da! Instant Tomato soup, a nourishing and frugal way to enjoy the coffee break while saving more of our money to pioneer and put in the contribution box for where the need is great! Sometimes, if we are really lucky someone will leave a creamer on the table and we can make cream of tomato soup!

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New BOE letter on inactive ones

by JWFreak in

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again..please do not ask for a pdf scan as the only copies i have are the interbranch electronic copies from the us branch to our local branch.. .

november 3, 2009 .

to all bodies of elders .

Quillsky

Very interesting, this.....

They may feel that if they confess their wrongdoing to the elders, they will be disfellowshipped. But they will not be expelled from the congregation if they have discontinued the unscriptural practice and are genuinely repentant.

It sounds to me as if it could be a slight softening of the DF'ing policy.

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Volunteering

by Quillsky in

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now that you, as a former jw, have a few evenings and some weekend time freed up, and "charity" is no longer a dirty word, ........ do you do any kind of volunteer work?.

i'm seriously thinking about it..

Quillsky

Now that you, as a former JW, have a few evenings and some weekend time freed up, and "charity" is no longer a dirty word, ........ do you do any kind of volunteer work?

I'm seriously thinking about it.

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Need some support

by ~Jen~ in

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i don't post very often but i'm in need of some support.. i left my husband and the jw's back in the summer.

we have 3 kids and have joint custody of them.. i've spoken to my family once - back in the fall and it was a great conversation - my parents (dad is an elder) said that they just wanted me to be happy however that is.. last week i got a voicemail from my mom saying that she loved me and thought about me every day.

i was so happy.

Quillsky

I'm going to be extremely unpopular for pointing this out, but I've thought about it and I'm going to say it.

Jen said....

When I left my husband - I commited "adultery" because it was the only way I knew how I could get out and not have them suck me back in.

This doesn't make any sense to me at all. There are two dynamics at play in your unhappiness, your marriage and all the convoluted JW stuff. And I know it's not simple, and the two themes are inter-related....... But to go out and find another man to have sex with in order to end your relationship with the father of your children doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

It was the only way you knew how to leave your relationship, was it? Why not simply leave? That's one way I can think of.

Is going to another man's house or his motel and having sex with him and then letting your husband find out more sensible than just leaving with your head held high and your panties on?

So perhaps you couldn't leave for financial or social reasons? Having sex with someone else has zero benefits financially or socially unless there is something else you are leaving out of your grand sob story Jen.

Sorry, woman, what I'm reading here are EXCUSES for your infidelity rather than REASONS.

I am tolerant towards infidelity in some circumstances, but not as an EXCUSE for leaving a partner. Own up, woman, to the fact that you have NOT been completely honest when you said "it was the only way I knew how". Pathetic.

0% support or sympathy from me.

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April KM Question Box

by JWFreak in

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Quillsky

What do you mean "TIED" to the next generation? It's OVERLAP, dammit, OVERLAP, aren't you paying attention? A true Christian would only use the term "overlap". It's in the er...... Bible.

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Gerrit Losch (take a look at his pic!)

by asilentone in

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how does he keep up with his hairstyle daily?

shampoo?

( alots of hair in between!

Quillsky

There are stories of the sunbathing activities of Losch at Bethel. Losch comes from an area where many people have (relatively) darker skin..... How do these two things equal racism????

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what is your job ?i was wondering how varied our different jobs are !

by looloo in

i am a support worker for adults with profound disabilities and some with autism and i love caring for people ..

Quillsky

Sorry to be a spoilsport but I'm willing to bet that on the whole the jobs sound so interesting because only people with interesting jobs are keen to post them here!

Come on window-cleaners, confess........

(My job is very interesting but I have personal reasons for not putting my money where my big mouth is.)

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Woodworth - the Weird "Awake" editor encourages Smoking dies of throat Cancer!

by Witness 007 in

watchtower's magazine editor clayton woodworth recommended smoking in the "golden age" magazine.

10/25 1933 "...infeebled constitutions inherited from fashionable mothers cannot stand up under tabbaco.

" {translation= only a pussy doesn't smoke} he prefered a pipe until 1951 when he had his voicebox removed due to throat cancer...months later he died.

Quillsky

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/187928/1/WTS-Smoking-in-the-1940s

See Blondie's post, 10 posts down.

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Woodworth - the Weird "Awake" editor encourages Smoking dies of throat Cancer!

by Witness 007 in

watchtower's magazine editor clayton woodworth recommended smoking in the "golden age" magazine.

10/25 1933 "...infeebled constitutions inherited from fashionable mothers cannot stand up under tabbaco.

" {translation= only a pussy doesn't smoke} he prefered a pipe until 1951 when he had his voicebox removed due to throat cancer...months later he died.

Quillsky

Smoking was okayish until about 1973. Disadvised, but the brothers would take smoke breaks outside the hall.

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What would you all do in this situation?

by EndofMysteries in

- a married ex from a few years ago who has a kid now too, who after being with you got married within a few months, seems to decide they may have made a mistake, and want to meet you for a weekend but supposedly not to do anything wrong just for closure.

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Quillsky

What do you mean by......?

meet you for a weekend

Like a weekend away, just the two of you?

If so, how scary is it that you could have married her and this same woman would be trying to set up a weekend away for "closure" with somebody else? If I were you I wouldn't really have any interest in being friends with this woman. Even the idea of coffee or phone calls feels a bit creepy to me.