Posts by sowhatnow

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not till after the meeting.....

by sowhatnow in

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the dreaded phrase i will never miss!!!.

some of the ones i had to hear ,.

we cant go over grandmas... till after the meeting.

sowhatnow

I will never forget that my mom used to drag my hyper active little brother down the the ladies room and beat him with a wooden spoon, because at age 2 thru 5, he couldnt sit still. he would just cry himself to sleep.

my mom was a firm beiever in wooden spoons. my dad made a paddle out of wood and hung it on the wall. my brother one day,got up on a chair got it and broke it in half. he was like , 4 yrs old. lol . my brother never liked meetings and as soon as he was around 14 he refused to go to anhy more meetings, my dad not a jw agreed he did not have to go if her did not want to. somehow he wasnt on my side for that. I was guilted into going,

my mom would use sad guilt stories to get me to go.

oh, dont make jehovah sad by staying home.

oh, jehovah appreciates every effort we put forth to get to meeetings,

hey you dont know if the meeting you miss armageddon will come! and youll be out there and we will all be in the kingdom hall.

and my all time favorite,

sister so and so is handicapped, ans SHE can get to te meeting, and whats wrong with you?

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Why is shunning wrong?

by noonehome in

consider an example i often hear.

youre sitting at a dinner table.

the topic of conversation is regarding your mother.

sowhatnow

well, do unto others as you would like them to do to you comes to mind.

lets assume there is no such thing as religion. If someone does or says something that isnt our standards, we simply choose other freinds .

but we dont slander them, and treat them like a deadly plaugue. you simply avoid them. everyone has a right to thier own opnion.

if someone tells falsehoods, were to go directly to them and ask them where they heard such a thing and why they would spread such rubbish

if they are stubborn enough not to consider our advice, then we wash our hands of the person, and were free to choose other association.

the person who has such a problem of spreading lies, and doing reckless things will eventually not have any freinds, and that alone will wake them up to the folly of thier behavior.

they will hopefully be sorry and appologize, and the humiliation of the past deeds and the lack of freindsh will be punishment enough.

like some scriptures say.

THAT is what is meant .

everyone must come to accept and realize, the bible is not what we all think it is. the men who chose what books to use

were not inspired by God, just by thier zeal to make a book that they felt man needed.

many of the original writtings of those letters books and scrolls pages were damaged ,missing and altered by copiests.

which is why we have so many translations. we will never have a whole complete book that is the pure word of God.

If such a thing even ever exsisted.

anyone can claim to be inspired, who are we to call them a liar? I was inspired to reply to his post.

people are inspired to write poetry [psalms] or inspired to move to action in a life threatening situation. so that claim is pointless.

we are to take the valuable advice from any person, confusious, to Jesus to nelson mandela.. whoever they all have personal revelations that make for great quotes. wise words. make us think. make us act in a positive way hopefully.

as a human on earth it is up to us to try our best to enjoy the life we have contribute to mankinds needs, and help others to do the same.

by doing that, we have the mind of Christ.

we need no other burden

now im going to get off my butt and go enjoy the perfect 72 degree day.

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Another religion celebrates 100 years

by A.proclaimer in

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this is from the iglesia ni cristo, another jw-like religion.

they even boast about growing numbers and having missionaries in other countries.

the only thing is they made it to the yahoo!

sowhatnow

hmm, so if jesus is the way and the truth and the life, follow him, look to him, believe in him, if we look to any earthly org for 'enlightenment',

wer'e in direct opposition to what jesus says for us to do, right?

he IS the truth no church can claim to have truth or they would be claiming to in fact BE Christ.

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Praise For Witnesses On Welfare Who Full Time Pioneer!

by minimus in

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the watchtower has always praised witnesses who are on welfare and decided to pioneer.

many in my congregation, including my mom, were given kudos, praise and assembly parts because they took advantage of jehovah's provision through the government....did you notice this, or was it obvious to me because i was raised in the inner city and many people recieved government help?.

sowhatnow

wow like where is anyones conscience these days, they say but dont do. just shocking cultbgone !

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not till after the meeting.....

by sowhatnow in

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friends

the dreaded phrase i will never miss!!!.

some of the ones i had to hear ,.

we cant go over grandmas... till after the meeting.

sowhatnow

the dreaded phrase I will never miss!!!

some of the ones I had to hear ,

we cant go over grandmas... till after the meeting

we cant go to the zoo...till after the meeting

we cant go camping till after the meeting

we cant eat till after the meeting

we cant visit grandma in the hospital till after the meeting [she could be dead]

we cant go to the lake till after the meeting

hey, cant have that baby till after the meeting!

cant look for your lost dog, till after the meeting

cant wipe your a@@ till after the meeting

hey, you cant die till after the meeting

care to add any you couldnt believe you heard?

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Jesus H Christ on a Popsicle stick, these people are freaking morons....

by DATA-DOG in

i had to spend the evening with a bunch of dubs.

they went to the ic and are just enraptured.

i have heard the term "emotional" about 100 friggin times.

sowhatnow

wow, sounds like an acid trip lol. where the heck are you that your seeing this ?

pretty soon they will start singing 'we will overcome' in the car on the way home from conventions and looking all glassy eyed .

this is a spectical, and id not jesus say those who pray in the public eye and want attention are having thier reward in full?

the bible says not to let your left hand know what your right is doing. These jws are bragging about imagined favor.

sad and disturbing.

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Malaysian flight crash in Ukraine VS Flight 93 in Pennsylvania

by EndofMysteries in

i wonder if anybody else has wondered about the differences between those 2 flights?

in the malaysian flight that crashed from 30,000 feet high, tons of wreckage, body parts, bodies, documents, etc, all over the place.

yet in the pa flight 93, just a crater in the ground, no bodies, everything supposedly vaporized.

sowhatnow

I watched the two documentaries on that, 9/11 in plane sight and loose change, 9/11 and american coue,? cou? definately weird.

sorry i cant spell that word and dont know how to spell check on here.

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What is up with the epidemic of sinkholes?

by EndofMysteries in

this is definitely not a thing where media is paying more attention, they are definitely on the rise.

too bad the gb didn't think of foretelling that years ago haha.

i have only 2 theories, 1 is perhaps it's due to pesticides and acid rain, and if that is the case, then it will get real bad.

sowhatnow

underground mining, fracking, tunneling, and earthquakes moving water tables?

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New Article in JW.ORG "Should Christians Drink Tea?"

by EdenOne in

should christians drink tea?.

would you like a cup of tea?.

this seemingly innocent question has been asked countless times, and is regarded as a gesture of courtesy and hospitability in many parts of the world, in both eastern and western culture.

sowhatnow

i love tea. must have 6 cups a day.

You know I always ponder stuff like this.....

who thought of taking a plant picking off the leaves drying them and soaking them in water and drinking it? who thought of

picking beans and 'roasting' them?

who thought of taking a plant pulling it out of the ground , discovering it had a big orange long root, , and eating it, and then calling it a carrot?

who thougt, gee I wonder what will happen if I take this plants leaves and dry them and inhale the smoke from burning it. hey I feel silly.

hey, lets smash these little bunch of round things and make juice.

oops dad died eating poision berries, wont do that now.

oh my look at this watery plant, it heals my itchy rash.....

there must have been angels showing humans how to do everything!

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Praise For Witnesses On Welfare Who Full Time Pioneer!

by minimus in

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the watchtower has always praised witnesses who are on welfare and decided to pioneer.

many in my congregation, including my mom, were given kudos, praise and assembly parts because they took advantage of jehovah's provision through the government....did you notice this, or was it obvious to me because i was raised in the inner city and many people recieved government help?.

sowhatnow

honestly, here in my area if someone is on welfare they have no money for gas to go in service so they then have to get a ride. thus burdening the owner of the car.

then since they have no money, the car group here in this area always has t o stop at some resturaunt of gas station to have coffee or eat, after all 2 hours is just too long to go without drinking or eating huh? so then if you dont have money, you sit and either wait in the car alone, or watch people eat. [no one had ever bought me so much as a cup of coffee. yea ignorant.]

i always thought, gee, if your a teacher of scripture, dont you have to be knowlegeable enough and have experience?

who is going to study with a child, an elderly person with fading memory, and someone with mental disabilities? people are not going to agree to a bible study with people like that.

seriously?

why are they even going out in service to begin with? they 'hold back and burden' the ones who do have the knowlege and ability.

yea, 300 pound people weighing down the car and breaking the springs. elderly people needing help getting in and out, poor ancient elderly senile people looking like homeless people goind to the doors yelling out a presentation, with vericose veins popping out of those bare legs with sandles on the ugliest feet ever, and rotting breath. because they need something to do after all. someones little kids taking a crying fit or getting crumbs all over the car, and always wanting to get out, and feeling like an idiot at the door with a child and two adults, well as if We arealy didnt feel like that.

oh the freaking joy.... not!

these are handicaps, stay home already.

all i see are magazine pushers, and elderly and mentaly handicaped people getting some daily entertainment and attention. and in one case I know of, nothing more than a adult sitter!