What sort of feeling if any is wrapped up in your ring? Have you ever almost lost it?
Power in a wedding ring?
by mankkeli 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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jean-luc picard
Maybe this was a common custom, but I never heard of it when I was in the Borg:
leaving your wedding ring to someone close, (son, daughter, grandchild etc).
I love this idea of " immortality". Mrs Picard has her grandmothers wedding ring. It is VERY special to her.
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james_woods
leaving your wedding ring to someone close, (son, daughter, grandchild etc).
It is a very nice custom - but I suspect that DeBeers (the diamond hegemony) would hate it.
They want all young men to buy as expensive a NEW diamond as they can possibly afford - only to discover someday that they have a pretty bad resale value.
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Band on the Run
My Bethelite father married in the late 1940s. Leaving Bethel for a woman was very shameful. He refused to buy my mom her wedding ring. She did not feel entitled b/c of the Witness culture. He refused to wear one. Her ring was beautiful. When she first told me, I cried so hard for her. No one at the local KH would have anything to do with them b/c they married. Marriage cuts down pioneer commitment. She had a wedding dress with a Scottie dog print. I imagined a huge wedding as in Cinderella. Imaginine marrying a man who won't purchase a wedding ring for you. I'm glad it was an isolated incident.
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james_woods
BOTR - did you consider that as a young guy just coming out of Bethel - he may not have had the money for a ring?
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TD
When my wife and I were first married, I worked with machinery and didn't want a ring. (I had seen a man have his ring finger torn out of his hand when the ring snagged on a drive chain.) I didn't have a ring until the eighth anniversay, and it's very important to me now.
BotR
She had a wedding dress with a Scottie dog print.
I don't know why, but that touched me right in the heart. I would so love to have seen that.
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nugget
My husband made my ring from a strip of gold it is very special to me and unique.
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mummatron
I sold mine for scrap value in Cash Converters when I was strapped for cash. After consulting a jeweller when I got divorced, I was informed that because the inside of the band had been engraved, it was essentially worthless in 2nd hand terms so was only ever going to have scrap value. It had the power to make me feel sick and bring back bad memories just by looking at it. I was glad to see it go.