Mysterious

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  how would a dub respond?

  by bigdreaux in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as i stated in a previous post, i often think differently.

  now, i don't know if this has been discussed before, but, with reguard to 1914. let's pretend this prophecy is true.

  let's pretend that satan was hurled out of heaven in 1914, and came to earth.

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  Mysterious

  There are lots of years when significant events happened. They just picked a convenient one.
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  Well, it's been a while but I am online finally

  by Jesika in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well i haven't posted in what seems like forever.

  i still recognize some of the user names, but this site has so many new ones it is hard to keep up with them all.. just wondering............is the chat option gone now??

  anyway..........lots of changes in my life for the better and am just so excited i can chat with everyone again.. i have missed you guys.. jes.

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  It's pretty easy Jes. If you can work a forum I am sure you will not fare too badly. :) It loads a version of JWD that has a chat window on the side. There is a box to enter the screename you want. You just type what you are wanting to say and then press send. A list on the side shows who is in the room at the time. :) Message me if you need more help or I am sure you can find a good guide on the main gabbly website on how to use it. I have never seen it really populated when I am on though, but I keep odd hours.
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  Prayer a Waste of Time?

  by WTWizard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how often do you hear about prayer at the meeting that, if you should pray that if jehovah wills that he should do something?

  to me, this is a total waste of time to pray if that condition applies.

  you see, if jehovah willed something, why would he need to wait for you to ask him for it?

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  Prayer is not necessarily a waste of time. I think it has great introspective and focusing powers. The difference is I do think that trying to put all your trust in god to do the right thing is definitely counter productive. A double blind study showed that patients being prayed for fared no better than those who were not and if the patients knew they were being prayed for they actually did worse. It seems to me that trading things into god's hands takes the pressure off you to try your best to work things out for yourself.
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  Do you Consider yourself "Christian" and what does this imply?

  by JH in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i consider myself "christian", but don't know exactly what one must do to please christ and yhwh...

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  No I don't. A christian is a follower of Christ. However simply believing that Christ had a few good points (love your neighbor etc) is not enough.
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  Well, it's been a while but I am online finally

  by Jesika in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well i haven't posted in what seems like forever.

  i still recognize some of the user names, but this site has so many new ones it is hard to keep up with them all.. just wondering............is the chat option gone now??

  anyway..........lots of changes in my life for the better and am just so excited i can chat with everyone again.. i have missed you guys.. jes.

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  I have not seen the chat for a while. I know some use www.gabbly.com/jehovahs-witness
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  tattoos and piercings, do they have a meaning for you?

  by memario in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  lately on here someone got a piecing and my question is did it mean anything to you or was it a thing to do?

  i have thought of getting a tattoo but i don't know what to get.

  it needs to repersent something of significance in my life.

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  1. Who would wear the same clothes every day of their life?

  I am going to quit my job now so I don't have to wear a uniform.

  2.Who would sport the same hairstyle every day of their life?

  I'll tell my boyfriend's father how horrible and boring his life must have been to have the same haircut for 40 years.

  3.Who would wear the same jewelry and accessories every day of their life?

  Indeed put your wedding band in the drawer where it belongs.

  4.Who would so limit their choices that they'd never, ever change something about themselves no matter what?

  I wasn't aware that laser removal had been outlawed and that no tattoo artist would do coverups anymore. Seriously do us a favor and look up "tattoo coverups" on a google image search.

  WELL, THAT'S A TATOO.

  No that's a false analogy.

  Turning your body into a bathroom wall for somebody to decorate with graffiti is a permanent choice completely closing all options for change.

  Having an artist assist you in decorating your skin with a design of your choice is certainly NOT allowing yourself to be used as a bathroom wall for graffiti and ther ARE several good options for change.

  The art is usually mundane, tacky, obvious, commonplace and banal.

  Sounds like a JW'ism style blanket statement to me. By usual there are exceptions. The key is to be the exception. Yes tacky tattoos are bad. However even by your statement you admit that not all art is mundane, tacky, obvious, commonplace and banal.

  From a distance a tatoo looks like a bad bruise or an itchy rash.

  I think they have optometrists to solve this one.

  When you are old you'll look like the love child of a sailor and an ex-con gone wild.

  If tattoos are so popular you are calling them succumbing to peer pressure then I would expect you to not assume that growing old with a generation of tattooed people is going to make you into the love child of a sailor or an ex-con gone wild.

  Tatoos don't express identity as much as they express succumbing to peer pressure to be one of the crowd.

  Right because no one has been the first in their friend group to get a tattoo. No one has tattoos that are so meaningful they do not show anyone. Everyone wants to spend a large amount of time, money and pain just to fit in.

  Being different makes you an individual; not doing what just about every other Tom, Dick and Harriet is doing.

  I hereby vow to be an individual. I will no longer brush my teeth, sleep with a pillow or wear sandals in the summer.

  Would you draw on a flower?

  I don't care for flowers so no I would not. I would also not get a tattoo of one. So?

  What do tatoos mean to me personally? They make me very sad, usually.

  I am sorry that your closed mind does not allow you to appreciate the beauty and meaning tattoos have for others but I respect your decision to not tattoo yourself.

  Aborigines, prisoners, sailors, slaves and primitive pagans sported tatoos. How lovely it is that 15 year old girls have joined that lot!!

  I bet they all masturbated too. Wait would you be against your 15 year old daughter? Nevermind. Oh and no reputable shop would tattoo a 15 year old without parental permission. Don't blame them, blame the folks.

  No thank you.

  To each their own.

  Do what you like. It is your body. Unfortunately the rest of us have to look at your permanent selection in its monotonous banality.

  Yes girls and boys please do us all a favor and get some plastic surgery. Your faces are rather monotonous. I mean half your family has that nose right? How banal.

  Cool, it ain't.

  Cool isn't the effect many are looking for. And cool is also a subjective judgement.
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  Is it SABOTAGE or HONESTY

  by BCberean in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i think i just lost another man because of the 'sex within the confines of marriage' issue.. my sister said i should wait til i have them hooked before i make it clear where i stand.. doesn't seem quite honest to me......but....i'm wondering if i'm somehow sabotaging the relationship.. .

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  No you need to find someone who has similar values. I think letting them know right up front is the thing to do. Then you are not leading anyone on. Maybe you need to rethink where you are meeting these men if they do not feel the way you do about moral issues?
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  Google links to JWD

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  might be wrong here and i'm standing to be corrected but when i ask google how many other sites link to jwd the answer seems to be only about a dozen or so.

  if this is true (and even if its not) then everybody with a website or the ability to post a link to jwd should do so.

  google ranks websites partly according to how many other websites link to it so we can all do something to help jwd further up the results page - currently jwd is ranked 10th for 'jehovah' and 4th for 'jehovahs witness'

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  "official" sites are always ranked higher, as are those who run google ads.
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  Omelette ideas

  by R.F. in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i absolutely love omelettes.

  the problem is, i've come to realize the ones i make are pretty bland.

  i only usually use ham, and(or) bacon, sausage, cheese, and sometimes tomatoes.

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  Kittens.

  What the hell is wrong with you? If you think that's funny then I think you need to seriously rethink your life.
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  Witness Reaction to Sept 07 KM

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please post any responses you get from dubs on the latest sept 07 km.. i got my first response today.

  cognitive dissodence at its best!

  i was simply told to "stop it".

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  Mysterious

  I don't think there will be much of a reaction. I think they just take for granted the fact that everything the society says is true and should be accepted at face value. They don't really move taht much beyond that.