Posts by sowhatnow

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Craziest demon/magic/supernatural stories you heard when you were a JW
by EndofMysteries in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
share yours, i'll start if off, i have a few i heard from the platform or from other jw's.

one from the platform, a witch was studying with jw's, and she had a relationship with demons/spirits.

when she was studying they turned on her and threatened her if she didn't stop.
sowhatnow

my mom and aunt always told me that satan has creative powers, adn thats where all the poisionous and deadly insects come from
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Woopsie....See Above. JW's and Social Media
by ctrwtf in
1. jw
2. friends
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sowhatnow

drumroll ....................
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New Awake! Dealing With Mental Illness
by runForever in
1. watchtower
2. bible
contains a list of 9 practical steps except they forgot one: 10. do not become a jehovah's witness.. .

1. follow the treatment prescribed.

by qualified mental-health.
sowhatnow

number 9 should read

enjoy your spiritual blessings as given you from God.

smiddy if you let your mind boggle too much youll loose a few screws, lol
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My Mom Hopes I Die Before The Great Tribulation Comes
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
she told me that yesterday and i just chuckled.. .

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sowhatnow

Im sure mine thinks that way too, however, if she ever were t o say that, Ill simply point out that when Jesus truned to the criminal

hanging next to him, who on his death bed , so to speak, said remember me, and jesus said you will be with me in paradise.

so there apparently was no judgment time for this man, if he got paradise.

becasue all the bbile says is believe and youll be saved, so, they guy believed, and i guess he was saved, so dear mom, i can on my death bed be 'saved' if i ask to be remembered.

ill go with that for now
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1st thess 9 13-17
by sowhatnow in
1. watchtower
2. bible
who are those who have no hope?

and why.. .

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sowhatnow

who are those who have no hope? and why.
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Why I hate Tuesdays
by kneehighmiah in
1. jw
2. friends
all throughout my life tuesdays were my meeting nights.

well tuesdays and thursdays to be more precise, when we had book study but book study was at my house so it wasn't terrible.

anyways as a kid i hated coming home from school, doing homework and then going to the meetings.
sowhatnow

as a child, I hated satrudays and sundays because i was dificult to wake up. school for me was a nightmare.

i hated service, so saturday was not a day i looked forward to.

my mother would spring on me at the last moment the news that we were going out in service, be it after the meeting or saturday morn.

i was never mentally prepared.

she never made plans she thrust stuff on me out of the blue. and week nights shed be the last one out, we wouldnt get home till 10 or 11 pm

and i had to get up for school at 6. i needed 10 hours of sleep half my life.

every single time school had any sort of event, like open house , or a football game, or anything fun. it was always on a tuesday or thursday. it

never failed!

so i couldnt go. my mom never ever did anything for me involvong school.[she wouldn miss a meeting no matter what,even when my dad was in the hospital! shed leave him for a convention too.]

i had one friend in school. and if my mom had her way she would have put a stop to it.
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Where Are You on The Witno Scale?
by tresdecu in
1. jw
2. friends
1 - still think it's the truth ...came to this site cause danger is your middle name.. 2 - concerned, smoething's amiss but still believe.

3 - 98% sure it's bs, but still go for / with family.

4 - anger / denial, inactive with minimal attendance (ie memorial, spec talk etc).
sowhatnow

yea, i m a 4 1/2 to 5. because come memorial i have no clue how im going to deal with that when it comes to my mother.she will tell me to go up to her hall. but ill tell her im going to someone elses.

hopefully she will not ask someone from the current cong i did go to, if i showed up. although, its pretty crowded so no one notices anyway.
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I'm curious about the Publisher Record Card.
by HowTheBibleWasCreated in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was once told that a publisher had the right to examine their own record card.. what would happen if a publisher examined it and threw it out?.

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sowhatnow

wow, toweragent how did you not stand there and giggle like a ten year old?

ive never seen mine, never signed anything, and its MIA right now has been for three years.

becasue when i moved into an apartment while my husband and i were seperated

it got sent to that cong, and then when i came back , it never came with me. one time an elder aksed me if i was going to return to the cong and where shoud he send y card to, and i said here i guess, i was stuned becasue i had been going there for almost 8 months.

i never heard about it again. who the heck knows what it says, i never did anything to write down. maybe it says 'weak service habits' lol

and why were we called publishers?

because they publish books and 'sell' them
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Watchtower Dec 2014 page 4
by Mr Fool in
1. watchtower
2. bible
wt dec-2014 page4: "a bulgarian woman named irana rigthly observed, -it is not posspible to be close to god if you don t know his name.

".

if so many know his name, why this debate "jehovah vs yahweh" then?.
sowhatnow

because it might be jesus. everyone knows that name, who it represents, what he did, how he died and the fact that he is ruling.

its his name every knee shal bend to.

its in his name that we are saved. he died for us so that we may live.

jehovah did not.
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December 1,2014 watchtower saying buying house is bad
by hoser in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
page 15.

"take for example a christian couple in asia.

in their younger years, they admired those who could afford to own a house.
sowhatnow

so now they are investment advisors?