What a nice experience! I've been talking to Clyde about attending a church, not to join, but just for the association. We still don't want to make waves around here, though, so we might go out of town where no one would recognize us. Amazing how much fear they instill into you for attending a church of Babylon.
Bonnie_Clyde
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New Experience: I went to a Christmas service at a church Monday night....
by WingCommander init was my wife's sister's church, a lutheran church.
i wanted to see my neice's sing in the choir and also just to take in the whole experience.
i have been married for 4 years (to non-jw woman) and have only participated in christmas activities breifly.
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Reading between the lines in the January 2008 "Our Kingdom Ministry"
by TooBad TooSad ini like to read the km to see what the wtbts is saying, and then to think about what they really mean.. information appears in the km when problem need to be addressed in the organization.
the article on.
the front page "make the most of your time in the ministry" was insightful to me.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I can only imagine what it would have been like trying to take my mother in FS during the last 7 years of her life. Not only was she in a wheelchair most of the time, she had Alzheimers. She wouldn't have had the least idea what was going on. After she couldn't make it to meetings any more, the congregation forgot she existed, until her funeral. Then everybody told me how much they missed her and what a wonderful person she was.
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Watchtower says JW's can reach different conclusions & it's fine!!!
by Must obey! inwatchtower study article "responding to your conscience" (october 15, 2007, pages 25-29, studied december 3-9, 2007) .
dealing with, inter alia, oral sex, contained what i thought was an interesting new way of describing how jw's can form their own personal, and different, conclusions and that no one needs to be 'disturbed' by this.
i have never seen the watchtower describe it quite this way, even in relation to conscience matters like whether to attend a church wedding.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Lois reflects on the serious Bible command, `Get out of Babylon the Great,' the world empire of false religion. (Revelation 18:2, 4) She once belonged to the church where the wedding is to take place and knows that during the ceremony all present will be asked to share in religious acts, such as prayer, singing, or religious gestures. She is determined to have no part in that and does not want even to be there and be under pressure to break her integrity. Lois respects her husband and wants to cooperate with him, her Scriptural head; yet, she does not want to compromise her Scriptural principles.
This situation came up with a friend of Clyde's who attends meetings with his wife of 43 years--only this time it was a funeral. She read this WT article and decided to be like Lois and not attend. Clyde's friend is really ticked. I don't see how this is showing "respect" to her husband. He has shown her "respect" by attending the Kingdom Hall these last 43 years, but she won't attend the funeral of their friend because it's in a church.
The Watchtower continues to devise ways to break down marriages.
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crisis of conscience online?
by Gringa ini thought i read that someone was reading this book online but can't find the post.
does anyone know if that option is available?
tyia!.
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Bonnie_Clyde
had to order it through a book store and gave them a false phone number so they wouldn't accidentally reach one of my dub family and start questions I didn't want to answer. Just showed back up to the store after a week and picked the book up. I actually read it in front of my family at times with a slip cover from another book over it. Worked great!
I guess a person might think someone was paranoid to do this- ie give out a fake number when purchasing book. However, it did cross my mind when purchasing this book from amazon that JWS may work here and what if they report this stuff? May sound paranoid but I have had this experience in doctors offices/ hospitals where JWS worked- reporting on others.I remember looking both ways when I entered the book store and again when I left to make sure no witnesses saw me entering or leaving a "Christian Bookstore." Talk about paranoid.....
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If Adam did not sin, would humans have lived forever on earth?
by jwfacts inthe new testament talks consistently of a heavenly hope, not an earthly one and the idea that humans are to live forever on earth is not supported scripturally at all.. however, what would have happened if adam and eve had not sinned.
the watchtower likes to make the point that it is only sin that caused adam and eve to die.
romans 5:12 that is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.. what do christians believe regarding this scripture?
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Jesus was a perfect man and yet HE DIED! That is the amazing thing JWs don't seem to get. Ask them if when they make it to their New System and they fall out of a tall tree, or off that mountain in all their pictures, would they die. They're stumped.
Well you know...a perfect person would not fall out of a tree or off a mountain. They wouldn't make that mistake.
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Little flag, big stink... you won't believe this.
by Wasanelder Once inso, on my youtube page there is the personal profile.
in this profile you state your sex, national location... country etc.
i had botswana on there for a joke, who gives a rats butt anyway?
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Bonnie_Clyde
When my mother died shortly before Christmas (five years ago), one of my colleagues sent a poinsetta directly to the KH where the services were to be held. About 30 minutes before the service was to begin, I found the plant, unwrapped and attempted to set it on a mantle which was in the vestibule. One of the "sisters" became unglued and ordered that I set it on the floor. I looked at her and said, "JEHOVAH made that poinsetta." I think I capitulated and set it on the floor--I wasn't in a frame of mind to argue at that point.
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DFED PERSON HOME BOOKSTUDY?
by isaacaustin incan a disfellowshipped person attend a bookstudy in one's home?
i was told of an event last night where a dfed person was permitted to attend the bookstudy in one's home.
the rest of those in attendance were shocked.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Some friends of ours had the book study removed from their home because they attended the wedding of their DF'd daughter.
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Old People Rock
by hillbilly inhow to call the police when you're old and don't move fast .
anymore.
george phillips of meridian, mississippi, was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.
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Police have to prioritize calls for assistance
In our area I've been told that in the last year or so, you can't even get a police officer to come to the house when you've been robbed unless there was bodily harm. Yet, they are very proactive in patrolling the highways and stopping speeders. Not saying it isn't important, but one "speeder" not far from our house was stopped for going 58 mph in a 55 mph zone. She was fined $150. However, responding to a B & E isn't important because there's no money in it.
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Old People Rock
by hillbilly inhow to call the police when you're old and don't move fast .
anymore.
george phillips of meridian, mississippi, was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Police have to prioritize calls for assistance
In our area I've been told that in the last year or so, you can't even get a police officer to come to the house when you've been robbed unless there was bodily harm. Yet, they are very proactive in patrolling the highways and stopping speeders. Not saying it isn't important, but one "speeder" not far from our house was stopped for going 58 mph in a 55 mph zone. She was fined $150. However, responding to a B & E isn't important because there's no money in it.
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Old People Rock
by hillbilly inhow to call the police when you're old and don't move fast .
anymore.
george phillips of meridian, mississippi, was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Police have to prioritize calls for assistance
In our area I've been told that in the last year or so, you can't even get a police officer to come to the house when you've been robbed unless there was bodily harm. Yet, they are very proactive in patrolling the highways and stopping speeders. Not saying it isn't important, but one "speeder" not far from our house was stopped for going 58 mph in a 55 mph zone. She was fined $150. However, responding to a B & E isn't important because there's no money in it.