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No Room For George
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607 wrong using ONLY the bible (and some common sense)
by Witness My Fury inif this has been covered before i apologise in advance.
using only the bible and a bit of common sense.. ok, here goes:.
do the "seventy years" count from jerusalems destruction or not?
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I fell & Guess What???
by mouthy ini moved on sat...fell & fractured my wrist..... it is in a caste,thank god it is the ,left one.... i am all settles in with the help of my daughter ,sonin law,grandkids.. i was at the hospital for hours....was able to talk to doc,nurse,why.
they must not shut the door on the jw's as they have been doing.. they were very interesting took my card to give the ones they have.
been listening to.....so i feel good came out of bad....
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Prom tonight!
by FifthOfNovember ini'm excited and nervous at the same time.
i'm a horrible dancer but oh well, i know i'll have fun.
i don't have any immediate family that are witnesses, so i've had it really easy compared to most people on the board..
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Oh dear, a black man with no rhythm is so sad. :-/
LOL, aww you gotta give me a pass though, I came up in an era when it wan't cool to dance. To dance was to be viewed as a sucker. Nowadays the two step is acceptable, which it was back then too, but when I came up it was better to be viewed as Ice Cube than Usher. Nowadays since I'm comfortable in my own skin, I wish I could dance like Usher. He killed Dancing With The Stars, and I wish I could do that. This is for you Mrs.Jones, I loved this song back then.
So I spot a female up to par, jump out my car
and head straight for the bar.
As I proceed I got a shove in the back.
Turned around and said "black, you hopping like your on crack"
But he was hopping, and spinning so fast, brother put me in a trance.
mm-mm, I don't dance.Cant peep out the scene its a damn disgrace.
Everytime I try a brother slides in my face.
And I aint with breaking my back
Trying to impress a girl who ain't giving up jack.
And I never see you leave with a girl.
All that sweating dried out your curl.
Too much ants in your pants.
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The ties that keep you in chains
by dgp ini am under the impression that one of the worst aspects of life as a jehovah's witness is that every new family and friendship tie you make might become a chain if you ever want out.. i was never a jw and therefore don't have the mindset, but, being who i am, i find that i would not want to create any ties with the witness community.
but it would feel to me that every new friend i made, and every relative, would come at the price of their eventually becoming your worst enemies.. let's use marriage as an example.
i would want a woman by my side, to share my life; but then i would also feel that i would need to find her among the witnesses only; my relationship with her would need to be approved by others; i would not be free to actually get to meet her before we married; once we married, she'd be someone who would know me intimately and could turn me in to the elders; and, if, unfortunately, my relationship didn't work, i would need to sleep with someone else and be disfellowshipped in order to be able to divorce her.
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Two Sudays ago, the weather out here was gorgous and it played into the mood at the hall because it was more jovial than typical. We had quite a few visitors as one of our younger brothers did his first public talk. I shook so many hands that day, and got a few hugs. Even walking down the parking lot towards the entrance door, people were driving by and honking their horns. Some weeks before that was our special day assembly, and I hugged more than a few people. Every assembly too, there are people that remember me as a child and they greet men, a couple of them might hug me. One older woman wanted a kiss on the cheek which I didn't realize until another brother embraced her after I got my hug and then I realized why she stuck her face out. I was on the stage crew, and shaking hands back there, and being on the stage crew you feel like you're really part of something. You're rubbing elbows with the CO/DO, special Bethel Speaker, the elite families who do interviews and demos every year. All of that plays in your heart even if you say that it doesn't. You don't want to hurt them, and even the ones that you dont' give a hoot about you don't want them to talk bad about you. One of the worst things I hate that my parent say is this, "All of my kids are serving Jehovah." They have no idea how much pressure that puts on me and possibly my brother and sister.
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Why do Witnesses think they preach the "Good News"
by sabastious inthe "good news" is a heavy buzz term that any witness will need no elaboration to understand unquestionably.
it seems illogical, to me, for the witnesses to call their message the "good news.".
i used to go door to door with a message of "whatever you are doing right now is wrong and will get you killed unless you preach door to door like me.
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I could see it being good news if we were preaching in countries experiencing significant problems as in war-torn or famine. Or even in this country after a tragic event happens such as the most recent tornados. For the most part though I think people can see through the JW shtick. The literature shoots the JW message in the foot. For instance, the magazine on the Occult had the exact opposite effect of whatever it was attempting to accomplish. I mentioned this before but, I went to a door and my partner went through her presentation and went to offer the magazine, and the householder laughed with her kid and said, "we're not interested." So we wished them well and turned to go on our way, and the lady at the door goes, "We're in a cult LOL!" They thought it was funny, which I did too, but just to save face I laughed out loud too and looked at them to make sure they realized that I got the joke too! The most priceless face you could ever imagine on a householder's face. My partner by the way didn't get the joke as she takes this stuff so seriously. My point is though, the general public looks at the WT's message and they laugh because its so unrealistic, and the WT's view of nonJWs is a gross unrealistic generalization of average everyday people. As a result the public sees through the WT's nonsense and sad to say the average JW doesn't realize its largely a joke to most people. For more proof of that, see Weezer's latest album cover. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qy6qmtFIZ14/TNF2Yq-KNvI/AAAAAAAAJXA/KJJZ-0m8NX8/s1600/Death_to_False_Metal_cover.jpg
The WT and JWs have become caricatures of themselves, and the "good news" that they see themselves as delivering to the public is only good in the sense of the comedic value it presents. It gives the householder something to laugh at for the day. The sad part is this religion's adherents are in denial so much to the point that when people laugh at their message, the JW references people laughing at Noah building the ark as a way to encourage themselves and see themselves as doing God's will in the face of ridicule. They couldn't be more wrong because many people already have a hope today, whether they believe in heaven, or making love to 70 virgins while Muhamad gets off from watching in a closet. Maybe their hope is sufficient in seeing their kids grow into responsible, successful adults, and not experience the problems that they had to go through. So they're content with their beliefs, and then here comes a deranged, single pioneer to tell them that their kids are going to be destroyed at armageddon because they believe in the trinity, and the WT doesnt. Where's the good news in that?
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Prom tonight!
by FifthOfNovember ini'm excited and nervous at the same time.
i'm a horrible dancer but oh well, i know i'll have fun.
i don't have any immediate family that are witnesses, so i've had it really easy compared to most people on the board..
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I didn't go to the prom, but I didn't really want to go anyway. I saw hanging out with the local thugs and hooligans as being cooler for some reason. Even if I did want to go to the prom , it would have been difficult trying to orchestrate such an event without being found out by my parents. It was easier walking out the house with dickies than trying to hide a tux somewhere and changing before coming home later that night.
Regardless of all that though, have fun tonight!!! After its over, you'll be able to reflect on memories that many of us were cheated out of.
edit post: I'm a terrible dancer too!! I dance like I have mild cerebral palsy.
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What Did You Not Do Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness That You Wanted To Do?
by minimus ini didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.
still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".
i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.
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Something else I wanted to mention now that I thought of it, was missing out on whatever social scene that didn't involve JWs. I mentioned dating and some of you did too, but even beyond simply dating, to just hang out with nonJWs without feeling the need to look over my shoulder would have been nice. Missed out on friendships, and potential relationships. There was a guy I worked with named Chad, one of the nicest dudes I've ever known. Perfect example of why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. He had a nose ring, multiple tattoos, and actually ended up with an article in a popular tattoo magazine. One day after I quit that job, we linked up and ate dinner somewhere. I wasn't even a Ministerial Servant at the time, but still I felt uncomfortable hanging out with him, like I was sinning for eating dinner with a worldy nonJW. We lost touch, mostly because of my own issues with this retarded stupid religion. Meanwhile those cocksucker jackasses up in Bethel were hanging out as honorary members of the UN, in the UN's library, and filing Friend of the Court briefs on behalf of Jimmy Swaggart. How's that for association? Hypocritical phony faithful discreet slave, what a joke.
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What Did You Not Do Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness That You Wanted To Do?
by minimus ini didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.
still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".
i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.
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LOL Mrs.Jones.
Sports-football and basketball
Dating nonJWs without having to hide it
I wasn't college material anyway so that doesn't matter, although my outlook was skewed towards investing in my own future from being born into this cancer of a religion.
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Bachmann vs Palin, who will out cute the other....
by designs inthe presidential race will be so much fun........ .
gov.
pawlenty was on this morning touting himself and i dozed off after 1 minute of his talking .
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She looks like Bob Dole with makeup.
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We Do Not Know...
by Marvin Shilmer intoday i uploaded a new article to my blog that underscores an admission by watchtower that in reality it does not know the people it claims to represents, and has no way of knowing.
my article is titled we do not know... and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-do-not-know.html.
marvin shilmer.
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Now that is actually a fascinating admission now that I think about it!
I mean these guys know how many publishers they have in each and every country. They know how much time is spent in FS each and every year. Its a lot more difficult to track millions of publishers each and every month and the time they spend in FS.
The memorial is only once a year, and all you have to do is count who nibbles and sips! Yet they do not know, and from their article they are saying they don't wanna know!
Wow, never looked at it from that perspective. All this monitoring of what the insignificant non-annointed do, from our meeting attendance and field service hours, what we're doing on Facebook, why we're communicating with disfellowshipped relatives, all this hey to do over us non-essentials. Meanwhile the people they're REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT, the annointed, they could care less about. This religion is a crock.
