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  Time for something cute

  by Tameria2001 in

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  how about something to take your mind off of anything negative?

  today i adopted a new puppy.

  i already have a cat named loki, and now my new puppy's name is thor.

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  And is Loki as mischievous as the original Norse God of the same name?
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  When you missed several consecutive meetings or took a vacation did you feel "weird" when you returned?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every now and again i would miss meetings due to health, surgeries, work etc.. when i would miss a meeting here and there i didn't particularly feel this "weirdness.".

  it wasn't until i would miss 3 or more consecutive meetings that i felt this weirdness upon entering the kh.. i can't really explain it but it feels like i was entering the kh for the first time.

  it's not like when you take a 2 week vacation and come back to work.

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  I remember one elder who criticised an MS during an elders meeting because he'd taken time out to be with his family. He wasn't best pleased when I reminded him that he had asked off all public talks for a year while he was studying for exams his employer made managers do for their continual improvement.

  Years later as I drifted I made constant reference to Timothy who must have missed lots of meetings because of his FREQUENT bouts of illness (possibly a dysentery-like illness because of impure water quality). On the whole it was accepted as a reasonable excuse until I slipped away completely.
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  Magic

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.

  it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.

  it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.

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  Regarding CHESS, our congregation had an elder who was prepared to form a judicial committee if anyone continued to play the game after he had warned them.

  Why? Because the Society linked chess playing to warfare! I know one kid in the 1970s who quit the congregation over this very issue.

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/lv/r1/lp-e/0/54995
  
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  Organized To Do Jehovah’s Will - Book.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  did you know that the current organization book for jws is available to freely download from their jw(dot)org website?

  seemingly gone are the days when it was treated with the same secrecy as the holy grail and wasn't shown to a bible student unless they were genuinely considering baptism.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/organized-to-do-jehovahs-will/.

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  Did you know that the current Organization book for JWs is available to freely download from their jw(dot)org website?

  Seemingly gone are the days when it was treated with the same secrecy as the Holy Grail and wasn't shown to a bible student unless they were genuinely considering baptism.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/Organized-to-Do-Jehovahs-Will/
  
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  Window Washers

  by Nikki collins in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i know @hiddenpimo is going to laugh at me for this because we had several in our old congregation, but what is with all the window washing businesses owned/managed by jws???

  they are everywhere!

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  We know a married pio couple who are window cleaners/washers and can take off on foreign holidays up to 4 times a year. They must have a fortune to travel from the UK to Canada, to Turkey, Greece, and the Americas.

  If the average publisher makes it to the seaside once or twice a year they think they're doing well.

  Not judging, just saying.
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  Faith is a Personal Matter.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apparently according to the jw (dot) org website - wait for it - your faith is a personal thing.

  if this were really true then the elders shouldn't be asking you awkward questions about what you believe (as a pimo).

  or if they do, you can just say that your faith is a personal matter.... .

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  Apparently according to the JW (dot) org website - wait for it - your faith is a personal thing.

  If this were really true then the elders shouldn't be asking you awkward questions about what you believe (as a PIMO). Or if they do, you can just say that your faith is a personal matter....

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-bible-study/
  
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  Why the Catholic Church outlast Jehovah's Witnesses

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many of us who are old timers in "truth", will clearly remember how we and the organization gloated when christendom began selling off their churches, as we saw many ending up becoming cafe's and art galleries.

  i personally remember being told (both in general conversation and in print) that the fall of their congregant numbers meant that most churches were ultimately attended by the elderly and it was clearly linked to the "drying up of her waters" in reference to the fall of babylon and babylon the great..

  how ironic, that this very situation has now befallen the society and our local kingdom halls..

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  Joe134cd, a most interesting post, thank you.

  I have long been attracted to the Roman Catholic Church after reading books by Thomas Merton and watching EWTN in the past. Although I don't think I could embrace the Trinity doctrine....

  The WTS says that the troubles of this world from 1914 came about because Satan was cast down from heaven in that year. I was always at a loss to explain the number of wars and massacres that took place prior to 1914, who was to blame? just evil people?

  I enjoy visiting Anglican and Catholic churches because of their sense of sacred space and glory to God. I'm really glad to hear that you have found a home Joe in the RCC, I wish I could find somewhere else to go to for a sacred community, but I don't know if I can ever trust any religion again.
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  Wedding Rings.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we have long queried why so-called things of pagan or religious origin like christmas or easter are banned by the wts but the use of wedding rings were not.. i was talking about this with a friend who follows a wiccan path of belief and he has sent me the following information from one of his magic magazines.. quote: .

  " why do we wear our wedding ring on our ‘ring finger’ ?

  thus, to properly activate the ring finger we need to wear a golden ring on it.

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  We have long queried why so-called things of pagan or religious origin like Christmas or Easter are banned by the WTS but the use of wedding rings were not.

  I was talking about this with a friend who follows a Wiccan path of belief and he has sent me the following information from one of his magic magazines.

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  " Why do we wear our wedding ring on our ‘ring finger’ ?

  Haven’t you always wondered? Why do we choose to put our Wedding Rings on the ‘Ring Finger’? Well, as you can understand, the name of the finger itself actually implies its participation in Wedding Rituals.

  Why a Golden Ring on Ring Finger?

  This part of Wedding Rituals actually dates back in ancient years. First of all, the Ring, symbolises the Wholeness and Unity. It’s the perfect shape of Alchemists and it’s linked with Ouroboros - the symbol of eternity.

  Now why on the Ring Finger? This finger is associated with the Sun and Apollo, god of all blessings. When we ‘activate’ this finger we actually activate the power of the Sun and Apollo in us. As every ‘Planet’ is associated with one Metal, the Sun and Apollo is associated with Gold.

  Thus, to properly activate the Ring Finger we need to wear a Golden Ring on it. Therefore, in Wedding Rings, we conjure the blessings of Apollo and the Sun, the bringers of timeless happiness. "

  So WTS put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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  Speaking with Demons

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  having learned more actual christian beliefs since awaking from the org, looking back we had such strange and unhealthy obsession with demons compared to any other denomination that i know of.

  i recently remembered this article from when i was a kid.

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101986604?q=talk+to+the+demons&p=par#h=23.

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  I remember an elder in a Watchtower Study back in the 70s denouncing the TV show Bewitched as demonic and that he wouldn't allow anyone in his household to watch it.

  Hilarious. Most of us had grown up watching it because it was a clean funny comedy.

  But let an elder with a bee in his bonnet start denouncing TV programmes and where might it end? Tying guilty publishers to the stake and burning them outside in the KH car park. Hahaha.
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  Owners of Noah's Ark replica file lawsuit....

  by TD in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ...over rain damage.. i guess they don't make them like they used to.

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  https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/noahs-ark-replica-park-sues-for-rain-damage/index.html.

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  We had an elder who told people that Noah's Ark had a pitched roof to keep the rain off it.

  And brothers would show him the picture in the Society's literature of the ark with a flat roof. But he insisted that the brother who studied with him said it was pitched. So it must have been an upturned V shape on the top.

  Then it finally dawned on the others that the fool was mistaking a roof covered with pitch with the idea of a pitched roof.

  Lol.