Oxnard Hamster
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How many of you were disfellowshipped?
by Oxnard Hamster injust curious.
i get the impression from reading posts that a great deal are.
i also noticed while i was studying with them that virtually everybody has/had a relative that was disfellowshipped or knew someone who is/was.
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Graduation is okay?
by Oxnard Hamster inas you all know, jws avoid celebrating all major holidays because they are "worldly" and "worldly" things displease jehovah.
however, i remember some jws talking about celebrating certain kids' high school graduations.
so it's not okay to celebrate christmas, thanksgiving, easter, birthdays, etc, but it is okay to celebrate someone's graduation?
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John Mayer Stinks
by Oxnard Hamster ini can't stand the guy or his songs.
his voice is grating.
what's worse, my local radio station plays one of his songs like every 15 minutes, and every other station is either country or classical music.
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JWs thoughts on Hell
by Oxnard Hamster inthe jws don't believe hell, as in the place where evil people are tortured for eternity, exists.
they reason that a loving god would not send his own creation to be tormented for eternity.. yet on the flipside, the jws preach that in 1914 (yeah, you all know this arguement.
) there was a big war in heaven, and satan and all his creatures were cast down to earth.
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The JWs biggest weakness.....
by Oxnard Hamster insome people say that jws are very good at what they do.
they are highly trained in their doctrine.
one website said that they would blow the average christian away in an arguement.
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Santa Clause and lying....
by Oxnard Hamster inone reason the jws don't celebrate christmas, besides the fact it's supposedly an insult to god, is that they purport that it's wrong to "lie" to children by telling them santa claus exists.
i really didn't give the issue much thought until recently.
the jw i used to study with called me and asked how i was doing, and we eventually got on the subject of christmas, and he brought up that it's wrong because parents lie to children by saying santa claus is real.
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I can't shake em!
by Oxnard Hamster inhey, what's up everyone?
i have a little problem.
you see, one jw keeps trying to recruit me.
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How would a JW respond to this question?
by Oxnard Hamster inbefore i met my first jw after going off to college, i came from a town of about 3,000 people.
the town is primarily various protestant denominations, catholic, and mormon, but certainly no jws.
as a matter of fact, i hung out with people who had friends of varying religions and denominations, but i never heard anything about a jw.
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The nerve of these people....
by Oxnard Hamster ini was thoroughly disgusted after last sunday's meeting.
the talk was about satan and his methods of trapping people.
as many of you probably know, they are adamantly against any and all forms of spiritism, including harry potter, any tv shows containing spiritism, and video games containing spiritism.
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Wow. You all were spot on. Lurkers need to read.
by Oxnard Hamster inquite some time ago, i made a topic asking for advice concerning a friend i had that is still a jw.
he's the guy who initially recruited me.
after i left, he still contacted me occassionally, sometimes offering to help me find a job and whatnot.