I still have a hard time wishing people a Merry Christmas and Happy Easter. It was hard the first few times I was involved in birthday parties to sing Happy Birthday, and to ring in the New Year, but I've gotten over that.
BB
What Dub Habits have you kept?(On accident or on Purpose?)
by mama1119 43 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
My question is would a brother be dissed for voting right now?
Joining the military and taking a blood transfusion are considered a conscience matter but that won't stop the WTS from saying you DA'd yourself and announcing that.
In countries where voting is required, JWs get some leeway but in the US where it is voluntary, you will be considered having DA'd yourself.
Blondie
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blondie
If you want to stop using WTS terms like "in the truth," substitute something else instead, like "in the lie" "part of the WTS" etc.
I have tried to keep "Jehovah" out of my vocabulary (except quotes from WTS material) and use only God. I am fairly successful and it does help my thinking.
Want to change a habit, substitute another in its place.
Blondie
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BONEZZ
Oh yeah I almost forgot...I love eating a chocolate pudding cup whilst I'm at the strip club.
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Ironhead
Still won't vote, grow a beard, only drink in moderation. Don't celebrate Christmas, etc. Still call it the truth even if it's BS. I make sure myself and wife are up, washed shaved ( legs in her case), eaten before 9am. It'll take a while to deprogram myself.
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jrjr4189
in the US where it is voluntary, you will be considered having DA'd yourself.
Blondie,
There was a question from readers where they talk of a woman being told to vote by her unbelieving husband and it being said that it was concience matter. So I guess what there saying is that only women can vote if they have an unbelieving mate in voluntary countries?
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Ironhead
Like Blondie not saying Jehovah has been the most successful. Before I stopped going to I actually got pulled up by one elder who criticized me for saying god too often.
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blondie
Point taken; but men cannot say their non-JW wives ordered them. Headship only works one way.
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w99 11/1 p. 29 Questions From Readers ***What if a Christian woman’s unbelieving husband insists that she present herself to vote? Well, she is subject to her husband, just as Christians are subject to the superior authorities. (Ephesians 5:22; 1 Peter 2:13-17) If she obeys her husband and goes to the polling booth, that is her personal decision. No one should criticize her.—Compare Romans 14:4.
Of course, this woman can vote for whomever she wants, by writing in God, Jesus, God's Kingdom or nothing. Even her husband will never know. She better check it out with the elders first and will probably have to prove her husband ordered her.
I have never heard of a husband ordering his wife to vote. But I suppose it can happen and she won't be considered DA'd. But in most cases this will not be the situation.
I grew up in a family where the husband/father was not a JW so we were "ordered" to do many things like go to a wedding at a church, miss the meetings, attend Christmas parties, celebrate Halloween. Anything so we didn't embarrass my father in front of his non-JW friends. I wonder if wives can be ordered to cheat on the family taxes?
Blondie
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rebel8
My father ordered my mother to vote and she refused. He was running for office. That was pre-1999. Maybe I should tell him about the change and see how she reacts to the order now.
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jrjr4189
I grew up in a family where the husband/father was not a JW so we were "ordered" to do many things like go to a wedding at a church, miss the meetings, attend Christmas parties, celebrate Halloween.
Same here. Oh and I also got to play little league and basketball, go to school dances, and was ordered to go to college, not pioneer. I was one of the lucky ones. However, my sister didn't listen and is still living at home, and pioneering in her mid twenties. I wish there was something I could do.