Topics Started by snugglebunny

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How to Choose a Wife!
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
back in the day, when my family moved to a new congregation, i fell head over heels with a young sister who was an elder's daughter.

it wasn't long before we were talking about marriage and i was contemplating buying her an engagement ring.

my parents were not happy at all.
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Where did the Buzz go?
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
i recently came across the very first kingdom song i ever heard.

twickenham, 1955. i was just a kid then of course, but i do recall the "buzz" that seemed to permeate everything, not dis-similar to that of an international rugby match.

people were smiling while singing their hearts out, the lunch-time queues for the cafeteria full of old friends getting re-aquainted, young lads and lasses eyeing one another and blushing furiously, sessions 2 untl 4 then 7 until 9.30 giving folk plenty of time to socialise.. where did it all go wrong?.
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How Radicalised are Jehovah's Witnesses?
by snugglebunny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
back in the early 70's, the wt stated that all persons who had lived and died would be resurrected after armageddon.

only non believers would be killed at armageddon, never to return.

in short, if you died before the big a, you were guaranteed to return.. this gave rise amongst several ex's to concerns that their well-meaning jw parents might just consider the possibilty of having their offspring "lovingly" bumped off so as to ensure their resurrection!.
17
Must the Elders Always be Told?
by snugglebunny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i recall that some years ago the wt stated that not all offences need to be reported to the elders, but that confessing serious sins to another person who was not an elder could suffice.

the article stated that this did not include sexual offences and that these must be reported to the elders.. can anyone throw any light on this please?.
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Why a JC if the adulterous mate is forgiven?
by snugglebunny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
supposing a man's wife has had an affair, confessed all and genuinely regrets what's happened.

the husband, after much soul searching and agonising, realises how much he still loves her and how much both of them want to rebuild their shattered relationship.. why should that woman then have to sit in front of a judicial men-only committee and give a blow-by-blow account of her affair?.

how would that make her husband feel, knowing that his wife is sharing intensely private stuff about her affair with several other guys?.
7
Over Education leads to Ugliness, Premature ageing and Beard Growth
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
it could have come straight from brooklyn!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls37snyjg8w.
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More Child Abuse Issues in today's Sunday Times
by snugglebunny in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
there's several letters from readers published today.

there's also mention of another abuse - shunning.

i can't locate the letters on the sunday times website, can someone else have a go?
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Who leaves first, the husband or wife?
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
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Automatic disfellowshipping if "sin" is repeated?
by snugglebunny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
back in the day, if someone was put on probation for an offence, rather than being disfellowshipped, if he re-offended whilst that probation was in force, disfellowshipping was automatic.

normally a probation lasted 12 months.

after the probation was finished that was it.
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Has David Jason become a JW?
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm hearing all sorts of rumours that delboy has become a witness.. say it isn't so!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdlexiu8.