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sowhatnow
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What could you have been if you were never a JW?
by minimus inoh, the possibilities!
there is a lot of wasted talent.
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Fun with the book of Job
by sowhatnow infun with the book of jobjob ch 1 vs4 they celebrated birthdays.
] and it was several days long...new international version4 his sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.orother version...4 his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
[how would a jw twist the following scripture that says job offered a sin offering in case the sinned...]5.after a series of banquet days was complete, job would send for them in order to sanctify them.
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sowhatnow
Fun with the book of Job
job ch 1 vs4 they celebrated birthdays. [oh my!] and it was several days long...
new international version
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
or
other version...
4 His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
[how would a jw twist the following scripture that says Job offered a sin offering in case the sinned...]
5.After a series of banquet days was complete, Job would send for them in order to sanctify them. Then he would get up early in the morning and offer up burnt sacrifices+ for each of them. For Job said: “Maybe my sons have sinned and have cursed God in their heart.” That is what Job would always do.+
ah, Job always did it, and it was ‘maybe my sons have sinned’ not they have sinned.
what would the sin be? in my opinion,
loose conduct being too drunk.
here,
Where the LORD and GOD seem to be two different beings [id say they are not, why speak of Lord and God separately like that]
and where The Lord, gives a raving lunatic the right to destroy an innocent mans family....
vs 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
CH 2 where THE Lord says Satan ‘made’ me do it.....ch2
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
so, God does things without any reason.....
Job had no concept of living again after death
ch 7
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
ch 10
20 Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and I shall not return—
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
apparently there really WERE half horse half men, lol
ch 11 vs 12 12 But a stupid man will get understanding
when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!
chapter 12 describes quite a moody Lord, [Not a moody God? read it, its quite interesting , its too long to post.]
[who was around to record THE LORDS answer to Job in ch 38 -39]
God made birds stupid for apparently no reason.
ch 39..
13. “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[a]
14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.
16 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
17 because God has made her forget wisdom
and given her no share in understanding.
18 When she rouses herself to flee,[b]
she laughs at the horse and his rider.
this is a fire breathing dragon.... and it flies....
Job 41
[a] “Can you draw out Leviathan[b] with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? 4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? 5 Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? 6 Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? 7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? 8 Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again! 9 [c] Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. 10 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? 11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. 13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? 14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. 15 His back is made of[d] rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. 16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. 18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. 19 Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. 20 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. 21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. 22 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. 23 The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. 24 His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. 25 When he raises himself up the mighty[e] are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. 26 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. 27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 28 The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble. 29 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. 30 His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. 31 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. 33 On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. 34 He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.” -
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YOU MIGHT BE A J.W.
by brandnew inif getting ready means putting on a suit........ you might be a j.w.. if going out to the field has nothing to do with grass, baseball diamonds, or football ......... you might be a j.w.. please continue my friends.......i know ya got some.....; ).
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sowhatnow
you might be a JW
If every teenage private conversation with your mother ends in this advice
'well pray on it, Jehovah will give you the answer' [and she gives you little if any advice, basically because shes clueless]
If every time you go into the ladies handbag section of a department store you make sure the handbag you look at had a place for all those 'tracts' and a bible.
If you never went into the store called 'hot topic' or Victoria's secret
If every car you bought had to be 'good for service'
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Magazine placements
by Awake at last inthis morning we opened our front door to find 5 magazines, 4 awakes and 1 watchtower left there.
someone must have been counselled about not placing enough literature.
we never heard them knock and we are not that deaf, at least we didn't think so.
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sowhatnow
where i live it was common practice to leave older magazines in the doors of not at homes.
but its also humorous to me now [though at the time i was annoyed] that one day when i was home i opened my door to let the dog out and there was a memorial invite in my screen door.
[lets review. I was home, I've lived there for 5 years, gone to that congregation for 5 yrs, and no one knocked or rang the door bell.]
no one knew i lived there because this area people at the kingdom halls are not friendly at all,
they dont knock if they can help it. when doing tract work, it takes too much time.
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Seriously, Why Can’t Jehovah’s Witness Women Wear Pants?
by Watchtower-Free ini found this.
http://jwvictims.org/2014/02/05/seriously-why-cant-jehovahs-witness-women-wear-pants/.
seriously, why cant jehovahs witness women wear pants?.
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sowhatnow
omg, i have been for wearing pants since I was a child.
heres my logic. did not paul say he was all things to all people?
if you go in service and you are working in a neighborhood that is say a low income housing project, you come across as being a human services worker, and it makes the people feel uncomfortable.its less attention grabbing if you go t o someones home dressed accordingly, not like some stuck up high society know it all.
and, going to meetings. you have either, prairie girl look or I just got out of bed look, or stuck up cindy look.lol
the younger girls are wearing super high heels. and shorter skirts, and butt fitting at that. and clingy sweaters...
no modesty there.
how about lace tights? yes ive seen those, in many colors. hair dyes? yes, extreme eye liner? yes.
and a simple black pant suit is not modest how???
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who wants to see old women's ugly legs and feet? I dont like my own let alone a 85 yr old woman's dried out cracked feet and varicose veiny legs with blubber hanging off them and yes there are those older ones who wear skirts that are not long. its like EWW.
yes i recall the day when we were temporarily allowed to wear culottes.[ or gauchos] today they are called Capri length pants that was stopped though there was nothing immodest about them.
this is purely no different than what the leaders of extreme religions, want those women to wear in the middle east.
I often wanted to just show up at a meeting with dress slacks on just to see if anyone said anything.
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Jehovah reconsiders....
by freemindfade inanyone read exodus 32 lately???
i consider the bible a work of fiction, and i consider the ot to be barbaric and the underlying theme for everything wrong with religion from jw to radical islam.
it's filled with man made analog thinking that people attribute to an all intelligent creature.
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would jehovah find himself disfellowshipped?
by sowhatnow inso lets assume that the current jw use of disfellowshipping was used back in jesus day, .
who of the bible characters would find themselves disfellowshipped?
jehovah?
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Excuses to miss the meeting that won't raise suspicion of a fade
by kairos inthe first step to fading is to begin missing the meetings.. "if" anyone misses you, a quality excuse must be at the ready.
this will produce empathy toward you as opposed to suspicion.. 1. car problems ( don't mention that you caused them ).
2. stuck on the phone resolving insurance, billing, etc issues.. 3. sick ( of the meetings ).
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sowhatnow
chronic fatigue syndrome. works every time.
see by the time I get home from work, im so exhausted that i cant move, or even think strait and wouldn't get a thing out of the meetings. it would be embarrassing to go and fall asleep. its a chronic condition.
go to a meeting, and then fall asleep... ive seen it.
oh and 'I listen in on the phone'
whos gonna question it? its absolutely been true for many people that i know.
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Pic of pinky ring
by Jonathan Drake ini realize i made a thread about this already but it was buried and i'm hoping to get some attention.
if they should be merged i apologize.. .
can anyone make out the inscribed shape?
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now its in your face all the time tv
by sowhatnow inso they dont have enough of the average jw's time, now they want your relaxation time too.
get into the houses and get on their tv, make them see the roku remote so they must be compelled to put on the 'channel' its the channel for god!
lol.
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