Posts by sowhatnow

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wt March 1, 2015 Cover

by wifibandit in

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sowhatnow

you guys are so funny.

gee what nationality were mary and joseph that they had such a fair skinned son

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your favourite Christmas music , and merry Christmas to you all

by jhine in

i am perhaps a bit behind on this but i have just listened to " grandma got run over by a reindeer " sung by elmo and patsy .

it got me to thinking about christmas songs in general ,so i thought a thread about people's favourite christmas songs would be good .

please share your fave christmas music , a carol or something more modern .to start i will list my best carol as hark the herald and my best ever chart song as santa claus is coming to town by bruce springsteen .

sowhatnow

gee i did not know there were so many, on our airwaves here if i have the radio on i hear the same 10 or so over and over again.

winter wonderland which isnt a christmas song, i dont mind [the original, not kenny g]. jingle bell rock, rockin around the christmas tree is ok and felize navidad pretty much all i ever heard. lol i dont listen to the radio much.

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Governing Body new Branch letter begging for donations !

by ToesUp in

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friends

i just want the governing body to know how "happified" i am today.

keep sending those branch letters to the congregation(s) about sending your donations in.

not only did you humiliate the rank and file with your tony morris tight pants talk but now you are begging the same people you humiliated for money.

sowhatnow

storing up treasures on earth

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What is the point of the picture in this weeks study article ?

by stuckinarut2 in

i don't understand the relevance of the first picture in this weeks study article?!?!.

wt week of december 15-21 "cherish your privilege of working with jehovah".

can someone post the pic?.

sowhatnow

they have mush for brains, if those who sit there can find any biblical benefit to thier personal lives from these meetings.

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Freinds, how many do you have ?

by Satanus in

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friends

i'll start.

i'm low on friends, for various reasons.

scientists poke their calculators into everything, and the number of friends we can have is one of them.

sowhatnow

so many of us xjws on here, have the same ingrained issues of not getting too close to anyone for fear they 'might' be secretly apostate.

so where now are all the real people? the real freinds who are trusting? its hard to trust anyone these days isnt it.

the ones that we can call up on the phone and jump in our car and go shopping with at the last momet, or have drop by our homes as if its thiers, a freind who can go camping with, let our kids go to thier homes is rare. but thats what we all wanted. some had that.

well, truly though,

its seems there is little time for anything more than our immediate families, and lifes duties.

do we stress too much over it? are we savatoging the chance to make freinds becasue we feel there has to be planning? are we looking in all the wrong places?

we might have to rethink our use of the word freind.

know someone who has no family? make them part of yours if you have time for it. its all we can do right?

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Governing Body courageously 'Admit their mistakes'

by LogCon in

march 2015 study article learn from the illustration of the talents.

brothers and sisters worldwide will be overjoyed to know that the governing body finally has the.

courage to admit their mistakes .

sowhatnow

so, they admit to being 'apostates'.

lets get the articles that indicate independant thinkers will be lead to apostacy. so then they are apostates by thier own defenition .

that was independant thinking because God is not wrong nor does he keep things from man, nor does he reward stupidity with more valuables.

hmm so we can disfellowship them? they need to be put on trial. they admit to lieing.

I mean, If I was told i was wrong, when i knew i was probably right,

and It turned out I was right, but I was not appoligized to or given any credit for using my own noggin,

then that means no matter if I m right or wrong, I still have to be punished?? or ignored? so what difference does it make what the hell we believe?

I think they just sunk the ship.

the more your weighed down with lies the faster your going to sink.

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Can your pervert the meaning of scripture even more...

by never a jw in

for a while i have shaken my head after learning how jw's interpret (rather corrupt the meaning of) matthew 8:11. i thought it couldn't get any worse.

i was wrong.

the following is an extract of the march 2015 watchtower in pg 27. the writer is explaining the meaning of mathew 25:31-46. enjoy!.

sowhatnow

wow, ill have to print this convuluted magazine up and get out my highligting marker'

actually I believe he was talking about the sheep being his sheep as belinging to the house of israel and the goats being those outside the 'kingdom'

there is always and outside in scritpture, eaning outside the protective exclusive club of the chosen nation .

but again, the WT

but lets humor them and assume its not just that.

like a modern day pharasee, they guilt the flock into works that befit a Earthly Goal. yes man ,who seeks an earthly goal be it money or power or material things, will not inherit the kingdom. so, the GB has basically made sure that they also will not have the kingdom, as they seek earthly treasures.

they again lead the reader to the identity of thier .gb. headship and not that of jesus . the writer sure does twist and sugest, with that spew, having nothing to do with the scripture real meaning.

'jesus does not directly mention the preaching work' gee ya think?

but you think by inserting an idea that makes it right WT? AND YOU, WT critisize others for doing the very same thing.

from the above post:

['He describes the sheep as “righteous” because they recognize that Christ has a group of anointed brothers still on earth, and the sheep loyally support the anointed during these critical last days.']

now where does anyone get the idea that jesus listeners 'recognized' ANYTHING about a group of men in a far off future, or even then, that was going to lead in place of him? did he say that?

if he did they wuuld then wonder why they had to bother watching, and wonder why he just said, lift up Your heads, be on the watch, and some of you standing here today will not taste death.......

did they absorb any idea of 'supporting' anyone? was it not taught that each one must carry his own load??

let God spit the creators of such nonsense out of his mouth.

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anyone from nashville know where to buy quinua cheap?

by sowhatnow in

my son just called me and asked me to send down with my daughter who will be visiting, next week,.

some quinua [i konow im spelling it wrong...] he said it got to be real expensive.

up here is in a 12 oz box for like 5 dollars which is highway robery to me.

sowhatnow

my son just called me and asked me to send down with my daughter who will be visiting, next week,

some quinua [i konow im spelling it wrong...] he said it got to be real expensive. up here is in a 12 oz box for like 5 dollars which is highway robery to me. all of the sudden its real expensive, like beef, all of the sudden real expensive. i cant get over how much groceries have spiked in price, anyway

anyone know a good place for him to get it loose and by the pound instead of prepackaged for a good price?

he lives close enough to downtown that it be worth his drive, but he lives close to brentwood area. and franklin area might be not to far either.

hed go to a farm too for eggs if he could.

there might be some markets around where he can buy in bulk?

if anyone knows let me know! thanks.

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Can anyone tell me any narrative of having successfully avoided Baptism while being raised JW?

by SonoftheTrinity in

i just worry for my stepkids about their future that way..

sowhatnow

if the stepchildren were to bring it up, you might want to point out that jesus christ a perfect man did not get baptised till he was a a mature adult at age 30

if your not ready for marraige, your not ready to get dunked either. it takes years to learn enough facts about anything, God doesnt want people making choices based on what someone else thinks should happen in thier lives, or pressure from adults.

no one should bring baptism up to anyone, the person who wants to get baptised should bring it up themselves.

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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

oh dont worry about it, im not a bit upset or offended over a comment that led me to post that i have to defending myself, Im

im sure it wasnt meant to be read as a verbal assult,

remember, not tone on text, lol,

I know what the poster was going for with that, reasoning. but i figured id clarify so as not to leave unanswered questions.

well as with all of us it take a year to explain all the ins and outs of our messed up past lives. its like a puzzle, when we find out why 'this' was , then 'that' makes sense.

one of you said 'do you know what you want' , i have no idea, it was never about what I wanted but rather what 'jehovah' wanted.

so I ve never thought about it.

what I want is my past 20 years back when I had the energy to do something! and thats not happening. What I want I cant have. what I want Ill most likely never get to experience, namely, meeting someone with the same intrests as me , falling in love with that person, sharing freinds and family, and doing good things for others with that person.

I dont have the evergy and means now, to get involved in world affairs, hug trees , local politics, join the pta, own my own buisness or design cars houses , do photography , publish a magazine , design greeting cards, or all the other interesting things I used to ponder while raising my kids.

I dont think like that because i consider myself already 'blessed' while so many others have nothing. I tend to look at what others dont have and what i do have and then reason, that i complain for no reason!

now im running out of strength, i dont have it in me physically to work a 40 hour work week. thats a problem for me because how does one support themselves with not enough income? I have no useful 'resume'. when my husband left me two yeas ago, i got a job as a cashier, I was a horrible cashier, they kept giving me fewer and fewer hours to make me quit.

selling shoes was ok but too competitive where i was, too many employees and then they wrote me off the scedual, i was too slow .

I cant bend a lot, lower back issues, or lift anything heavy, kids annoy me, so i wont babysit. plus i cant lift them. Im allergic to chemicals soaps and perfumes,so any store that puts scents in thier air blowers to make the store smell nice. I cant be in there for long, so working in a craft store or gift shop is out.

so in my mind, I have no way to save money with the goal of leaving, when i do have a casual housecleaning job its goes in the gas tank so i can go someplace extra.

Im unfortunately dependant on someone taking financial care of me while I help out with all the duties a wife can do when she can.

i dont mind being a wife, what i mind is being treated like a fleshly sister and not a wife. I get no comforting when Im sad, but Im his right arm,

no fun, no sex, no date nite, no freinds ,no common intrests. so im basically single now.

Im not so rotten as to demand that my husband sell the house and give me half. though I can. he has not done anything in the past few years that any judge would consider good enough reason to demand he surrender half his assets.

I always have it in the back of my mind that if I have to leave , I can and will, and Im certain that I will have half his retirement. which will not be too much anyway. my car is in my name though its got almost 100000 miles on it. so how long is that going to hold up? Im sure I could stay on his insurence somehow, dont know how, he told me if were divorced, i get kicked off it. hed also allow me to use the credit card if i needed something like a repair or food or a utility paid. he wouldnt leave me high and dry, but If I left for no reason in his mind, he might give me a fight.

I have had many discussions with him about his drinking, he has tried to stop several times , and then caved in about week 3. he wont go to AAA becasue someone where he works said al lthey do it talk. well my husband is private and rarely talks.

so its all a matter of what circumstance is going to arrise to change the path? and for that I wait.

im off to bed, thanks all for such good advice. will look into some of those sugestions.