Posts by sowhatnow

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can an unhappy married woman vent?

by sowhatnow in

i continue to be saddened by the fact that i am married to such a selfish man.. i want to know if i am the only wife who has no say when it comes to using the house she lives in for activities including other people.. .

let me explain.. yesterday my daugher who is 35 got a new puppy for my grandaughter who is 13. today my daughter and son in law are going to help my uncle at a job, and my granddaughter wanted to spend the day here, my daugher said shed bring her and the puppy over, i laughed and said 'your dad wont have that, ill have to go to your house'.. after all it will 'upset' the 2 cats they will hide all day [like they do anytime someone including my grandchild is in my home] .. i already knew that he would not like it if she brought the puppy over, [weve had dogs so its not like he hates them].

he doesnt care if his grandaughter would have enjoyed playing with the puppy over grandmas house, where she likes to be for a change, and that fact that id like to see what my cats would do when they saw a dog for the first time in thier lives.. maybe id have liked to play with the puppy .. when i said to my husband that my daughter said she wanted tp bring them over he said.

sowhatnow

well, Im simply using what free time i have right now for research , and maybe learn a thing or two.

and i want to use some of his income, lol, to do some visiting relatives and friends, im planning to go to Virginia beach to visit a friend and Florida to visit a relative who is old, and has lots of photos i want to get recorded. when i get all my running around out of the way I hope to find the chance to meet people. this monday night I plan to go to my very first township board meeting. maybe ill find it fulfilling, id like to voice my concerns for we taxpayers.

i have to be prepared though, to flee that is. lol, I think Im halfway there. got some stuff sorted out and packed .

its hard though, hes so clueless. and After being married for so long do have feelings for his welfare.

plus, its not easy to give up comfortable living , future retirement income, and not working a 40 hour week has always been favorable for my random health issues.

but I have to look at it this way, If Im no longer cleaning this house and taking care of kids, I should have the energy to work 40 hours.

thanks all. ill keep in touch.

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what DO current Jws say at doors?

by sowhatnow in

i mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.. its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.. its not the gospel, when its not about jesus.

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?.

and with what result expected?

sowhatnow

my mom says that they preach the kingdom and how by knowing God and his purpose for man, that we can live forever on a paradise earth.

but, if you look at what the bible says the message was, that wasn't it.

and if anyone preaches a different message, let him be coursed!

so by preaching an earthly kingdom, and living forever in a paradise on earth,, which was the first LIE satan told eve, they are in fact going contrary to what the bible says.

my mother has been a jw for 52 years and she led one couple into this religion when she was in her early 30's.

after that, nothing ever came of her field service. and im sure her experience is not unique. me? 28 years of house to house resulted in nothing but anxiety.

I always thought it was way way out of place, for a person to show up at someones door and insinuate they are ignorant.

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Rasputin and Serums and Herbs--Oh My!

by rebel8 in

i have written a blog post about the dubs and their scorn of modern medicine and rasputin, while simultaneously touting unproven, dangerous cures.. i wonder what it is about a fake remedy that makes jws believe in it or scorn it?.

sowhatnow

the wt org doesn't specifically recommend any one treatment that I was ever aware of , But, I do know they avoid writing about medical issues to begin with and seem to support modern traditional medicine, especially cancer treatments, they do not wish to have the research for any medical subjects gathered to make any useful recommendations. its all awake articles with like two pages and ten paragraphs.

I being, favorable to natural cures, but will not turn my back on modern science. its research that we need to do when choosing any sort of healthcare.

we do more research when buying a car than for our own health! that's saying a lot.

I have always found it funny how, Christians as a whole ignore the bible scripture where God says, I give all plants to you.... including those naturally healing, and marijuana. all plants have good and bad uses. its men who complicate things by trying to control people. but at the end it should be our choice. as long as its an informed one. just like religion. informed, and a choice.

in the bible gluttony is mentioned before over drinking, yet not a thing was ever said about overeating, yet drinking is [rightfully] questioned. so, morbidly obese going to buffet restaurants and eating thousands of calories is better for us than drinking wine? [which is good for the stomach [and has resveratrol] and the soul, lol!]

I always wondered why there wasn't a study article focusing on over eating, like they did for cigaretts and alchohol. its like taboo to say, 'hey stop eating like pigs value your life to God'. they wont touch it with a ten foot pole, and hmm aren't the GB rather plump in their old age?? all that good organic farmed food.. [and lol , they dont live any longer than the next person].

as for life expectancy, well it helps when people stop killing each other and starving people and killing them with farm pesticides...

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PART TWO of AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE BY A PRACTICING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

by Sparks in

jw
friends

while you are sitting there reading this, there are literally hundreds of thousands of young males and females all over the world [ mostly in america / canada and england] sitting in their grotty little smelly bedrooms or flats, designing computer viruses that they will up-load onto web-sites to cause anonymous innocent peoples computers to malfunction.

these creeps spend literally weeks,months or even years hoping to make a computer viruses that will get into peoples computer bios to completely destroy their computers.

they never see the peoples anger, frustration and distress.... the damage can cost each person about 1,000 [ $1,660.74 ] or more to replace a basic new laptop or tower.

sowhatnow

must be my night for reading the dumb posts.

ok, um, there is a good point here, why IS this site called jehovahs-wittness.com if most here are no longer in agreement? I mean, personally, I do wonder. why is it not called something like ' lost souls of the jworg'. lol.

and i had NO idea stuff like this even exsisted until 5 months ago. i wish i had known sooner.

im not looking for arguments, like this person assumes. but genuine conversation since jws including my mom refuse to talk bible with me.

even if Im border lining on favoring the opinion of bart ehrman, and Christopher hitchens

you just never know though, so dont burn your bridges too soon, right?

is this person with the novel of a post going to read replies?

Id like to speak to that lost soul. maybe I can make them feel better. maybe they can read in search of christian freedom and feel better. I did. I think people take life too seriously, and loose out on living worrying about things they have no control over. we cant save the world, but we sure can do our best to enjoy it while were here . otherwise whats the point?

im afraid now, so I WILL UPLOAD all my photos to my walmart account and go print them all.

and gee im starting to think no one on here can figure me out anyway. I must be some sort of outlier. i haven't found 'my people' yet. lol.

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Still pointing your Finger when having a Rafter in your eye?

by DocHouse in

yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.

many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.

but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.

sowhatnow

wow, lol, I just read every post here, and have not a freaking clue what the heck is being discussed,

let alone asked. i just had to reply out of morbid curiosity. yes you may giggle and call me naive.

what nonsense is this? mr docHouse WHAT are you asking? use plain english. what is the whole point of this post? seriously, more riddles here than in the bible itself. troll? or not, what is your question? and omg what are these answers? secret codes, lol.

let me say this. I am here now, after having no one in the org with any claimed intelligence in jw doctrine, answer my questions for the past 20 years, learning by myself, how people may reason on some things, as to understand, and get a hearing ear possibly. i accept what makes sense to me personally. and this post sure makes no sense.

i can honestly say, I have never accused or pointed a finger at anyone, I have no rafter in my eye, never have. who is my accuser? I have none.

im not df, i have been 'ignored' out of the jw org . Im sure no matter what good i did, it will never be remembered the moment someone who is a jw learns that I know more about what is wrong than right in the org.

no one, not even the Lord. not even God , accuses me of a thing. I am innocent to any 'sin'.

I sleep at night.

[So people what the heck?]

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

sowhatnow

if at all possible allow the poster to choose. that way everyone is happy

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Proud JW.ORG Photos everyone needs to see! The Watchtower Sanctified the Internet for Preaching!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

i am proud to be a jehovah's witness in the last days, what religion has done this much to proclaim the message about the organization?

other religions are preaching about jesus, some wear the crucifixion, other's wear shirts with fishes but we wear shirts with jw.org!

no other religion has our courage!.

sowhatnow

wow. just wow.

its funny,

I clean for a woman who works for Unitours,inc. shes the associate director of religious and cultural tours.

shes got flags and tiny wooden symbols and brochures she hands out at her table during these events.

shes working on the popes visit to Philadelphia pa. She arranges pilgrimages. [of all places, why Philadelphia pa?]

whats so ironic is that i answered her Craigslist ad for help . who'd have thunk it.

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what DO current Jws say at doors?

by sowhatnow in

i mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.. its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.. its not the gospel, when its not about jesus.

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?.

and with what result expected?

sowhatnow

I mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.

its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.

its not the gospel, when its not about jesus

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?

and with what result expected?

I mean it would have been more successful if people who are believers in Jesus, [Christians] simply went to a door

knocked on it, and said to the householder

'do you accept Jesus as Lord and savior?'

if the answer is yes, then say

May you have peace my brother [or sister] and have a nice day!

if the answer is no, then say

perhaps you may wish to consult your bible to find out about him, this is my mission. thank you,

and have a nice day.

ta da.

lol

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Recommended Lodging List

by piztjw in

just a few instructions orders from mother about motels.. please use only hotels that appear on the recommended lodging list.

(one page, with only one motel locally).

one nights deposit (credit card, money order, etc.,) is required, and should be sent to the hotel within ten days of making your reservation.

sowhatnow

or you can save yourself a whole lot of stress and money and stay home.

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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!

by wifibandit in

http://imgur.com/a/e6dos.

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sowhatnow

so, was Fred a secret apostate? lol.

are the current writers of the articles secret apostates trying to dismantle the society from the inside?

does the GB actually READ THOSE ARTICLES?

the definition of discreet Is lost on the GB.

Observe who leave early from those studies come those Sundays