Posts by NVR2L8

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Jehovah, the God of Parking Lots

by 00DAD in

this idea was brought up on another thread today, but i thought this particular angle deserved it's own thread.

have you ever noticed that jws that have completely swallowed the kool-aid are really whacked in their thinking when it comes to interpreting life's events.

bb, "because i got the parking place and they didn't.

NVR2L8

I told my sister that God provides a used car to a pioneer in need but doesn't intervene when a sexually abused child begs him to stop the pain...

God answered my prayer and provided me a job the day after the company I worked for 27 years shut down my division but he didn't answer my prayer when I asked him to spare the life of my best friend who died from cancer...I would rather be on unemployed than without my friend!

By the way, that new job that was such a blessing from God is now turned into a trap from Satan since I am working all that overtime and missing all my meetings!

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Is this $h!t Written for Idiots?

by Yan Bibiyan in

like the warning given to.

it comes from god through.

"...they obeyed the warning that god had sent by means of angels".

NVR2L8

The Bible Teach book states that God doen't interfere in favor of man because it would make it appear like Satan's world is succeeding...then how can JWs claim angels are guiding the preaching work...isn't this implying that God is interfering?

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2011 Yearbook= BEARDS are still for non-Witnesses ONLY!!!! Beard Fear?

by Witness 007 in

1960's the watchtower pictures showed jesus clean shaven and with short hair {watch 1954 p.511 "why do watchtower books now show jesus with short hair and no beard?

....because he is shown that way in representations that are older than the traditional effeminate looking pictures..."}.

yearbook 2011 p.57 "a bearded man named eric showed up at a congregation in the united states {oh god a bearded man!!!

NVR2L8

I was often involved in dramas at the District Conventions and in the the early days of costumed dramas some brothers grew their own beard. Then all those who were in dramas were told to keep quiet about the subject of the dramas and that growing a beard would not be a good idea if you didn't want others to know you were a participent. Of course while you were growing a beard you would not be fit to go out in the ministry...At a quick build in my own congregation I was turned away because I hadn't shaved for a couple of days. I had no intention of growing a beard, I had been on site almost day and night and hardly went home to shower and shave...I guess my unshaven face nullified all the free labour I had put in and God could not see through the facial hair.

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"We miss you."

by dontplaceliterature in

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it's beginning to annoy me when people send me text messages and e-mails of this sort.

it's even more annoying when it comes from people who i primarily associated with while i was still active, but who i haven't heard a word from since i quit going to meetings a couple months ago.

most of these people live less than five minutes from me and would be welcome at my house anytime.

NVR2L8

DPL, none of these people are your friends. If they were they would have inquired after a few missed meetings...I play hockey with "wordly" people and when I miss a game I get a bunch of e-mails asking me if every thing is OK the very next day. When JWs say they miss you, all they want to achieve is to make you feel guilty for missing the meetings. Then it is left to those who have the spiritual qualification to take care of your case, assuming that something must be terribly wrong with you and they don't want to get involved. It took nearly a year for elders to attempt a visit and except for one brother I used to be close to, I received no calls or e-mails. I am closing in on my second year of inactivity and I have been avoiding all contact with the JWs because I don't want to give them any reason to think that I may come back. At time it has been difficult since my wife is still active and we used to be very social. I also was well liked because I did a lot for the "brothers" both spiritually and financially. But I guess you are easily forgotten when you no longer go tho the KHall. This is not a surprise because my own familly hardly kept in touch after we moved 300 miles away. They are much too busy with their spiritual familly (congregation elder) and recruiting (pionnering). So my advice is just ignore the "We miss you" because that is just an automatic reflex...an attempt to have you come back within the fold...

15

quebec/ontario

by agent zero in

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anybody here from montreal, ottawa, or sherbrooke?.

NVR2L8

Montreal born and raised, now living in the Kitchener Waterloo area...

16

Tom Cruise announcement: Scientology and WatchTower to merge!

by mP in

i just saw it on tv straight from the scientology satellite..

NVR2L8

At this very moment are you wearing a hat made from aluminium foil?

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After leaving the "Doom & Gloom" mentality of the JW's life is good.

by mrquik in

i was in for 50 years.

life on hold, always waiting for an end that didn't come.

sacrificing so many things.

NVR2L8

I was in for 50 years and I have been free for 2....now I can focus on the good in people and not the evil. I want the world to get better and not worse because I am no longer waiting for the big A. I just bought a larger house and I am spending time decorating and renovating it thinking that when I am gone my children and grand children may benefit from my work and remember me throught the things I built. I have made some new friends who love me for what I am and not for what I believe and I have a better relationship with my younger brother who never became a JW. Most importantly I am free to love my daughter who disassociated herself 15 years ago. No one can dictate to me how a father should love their children by shunning them...

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Any other ABENAKI tribe Native American descendants here on JWN?

by oppostate in

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it's been my experience that many witnesses i've known are of native american background and eventually they phase out of the wt's grasp, but not without going through some hard times and deep depression.

several dear brothers i know are out, some faded, one inactive, all going through the same patterns.

and why does it seem more prevalent among those with a percentage of native american descent?.

NVR2L8

When I was a child I would spend my summer by an Abenaki village in Quebec called Odanak (Pierreville). I know that the local JW congregation would preach there but there was very little success...

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I'm not a camper. I don't see the point in pretending you are homeless

by wha happened? in

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i used to camp alot as a kid.

i was in cub scouts and boy scouts.

dad and i went to lot's of camping trips.

NVR2L8

Camping for us was always associated with the district convention or preaching where the need is great. We would spend the summer in an unassigned territory and my dad would drive from town to join us on the week end. Now that I travel for business I only stay in nice Hotels...right now I am at the Hilton in Quebec City looking at the parliement building and the plains of Abraham. My wife and I travelled across America on our motorcycle and every night we stayed in a nice Hotel. I have to admit that it was fun to go camping when the kids were small, but as we are near retirement, Hotel luxury is much more apealing.

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I am a moody bastard. What is your main vice?

by usualusername in

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discuss....

NVR2L8

Billy Joel describes my vice in one of his songs: "Darling I don't know why I go to extremes, too high or too low, there's no in betweens..."

I am either passionate about something or I just don't care at all. So you can understand that when I was a JW I gave it my all, but now that I know the truth about the WT, I hate this organization with a passion...