Around 1969 or '70 I was advised not to wear pastel colored shirts with my tie. Gotta be white! God's watching.
No light blue, grey, beige, or...........horrors, pink!
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What was the silliest thing they told you NOT to do?
by goddess_baal inthere was some really piddily-crap that i remember.. for instance, when i was about 17 toe-rings became popular, and one of the sisters bought one....wore it to the kh during the summer with her sandals.
my best friend in the hall wanted one, which of course caused this huge debate about whether it would be okay 'in jehovah's eyes', and didn't it go against the scripture that counsels women against "bodily adornment", blah-blah-blah.
toe rings??!
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Thanks, Gently, I did not know that. Nice observation.
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Religious meetings once a week=enough
by JH inof all the religions i know of, the one that is the most time consuming, is the jw religion.
it's not just the fact that there is a meeting every 2 days, but these meetings have to be prepared ahead of time.
being a jw, is almost a full time job.
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It's my opinion that spiritual or weighty matters need to be reflected upon over some time. Digested, if you will. So if you go to church and hear a really profound sermon, you need some time to gather in the information, think about it, try to see where it fits into your own life.
Meetings five times a week are only to bombard you with so much information (most of it "tired" and over repeated, nothing new messages) so as to keep you from actually thinking. I think that's the true WT motivation.
Finally, if you're going to say that we attend (ed) meetings to satisfy our "spiritual hunger", then isn't it also true that not all of us are equally hungry. Some people are clearly more pious than others. I personally don't feel the need to go live high up on a mountain in some sort of enclave to be nearer to God. But there are those that do. Good for them! But just don't go telling everyone they have the same spiritual "itch" to scratch.
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Ooops. Hit the enter key too soon.
Ok, ...........so it's not a heavy subject. Just fluff, but kind of a pet peeve. But has anyone else noticed how much our language is becoming colloquial? Real casual-like? Anyway, everywhere I go I seem to hear more and more examples of this kind of thing.
Not that it hurts anyone, it's just an observation. What similar expressions have you heard or noticed lately?
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Will man evolve a beyound any need for religion???
by frankiespeakin insince evolution has caused our species to have bigger and better brains as time went on,,will we eventually evolve beyound any need for religion??
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XQ's wrote...
"Dumb people have more children than smart people" .....statistics, please.
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Brooklyn is off the hook in the Amarillo TX case
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.amarillonet.com/stories/040404/new_abusecase.shtml
web-posted sunday, april 4, 2004 .
abuse case going to trial .
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The wheels are falling off the JW wagon.
Hooray! ....Love the picture of a wagon stuck in the mud missing a wheel or two!
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Memorial Schemorial... what did you do instead that tops my weekend?
by shamus inwell, saturday i went to a haunted house in the middle of the night;.
sunday i watched the ten commandments and had a dube.
i fell asleep.
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Took Friday off, drove 261 miles to a casino/resort. Rode mountain bikes all afternoon with hot blond. (wife). Friday nite, went to a REAL country bar and danced swing with same hot chick.
Saturday, played golf at Wild Horse.
Sunday golf at China Creek. Just got home...yep, with said hot blond wife.
Missed the Memorial....
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If you're holding the microphone....
by onintwo inlast nite my 20 year old son and i got into a debate about rap music.
we were watching a show about eminem.
i stated that it seemed like this guy sings about some pretty destructive things.
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Great comments you guys, but how about this. I agree that emotionally mature persons that have mental health, say, at least 90%, no problem. But let's talk about persons who are borderline.
Here's an illustration. Say a three year old child is standing on a bridge. You walk up to it and tell it "hey, doesn't that water down there look smooth? Wouldn't it be cool if you jumped into it? Bet that'd cool you off, afterall it's pretty hot today. My friend did, just yesterday, and he said it was the best thing he ever did", blah, blah, blah. You get the point. Sure as kids get older, they'd just tell you to **ck off, but how about a child? Point being, ...any suggestion from an older person can influence some persons. Maybe they're not three years old, but maybe they're unbalanced, depressed, suicidal, etc.
Don't you believe that entertainers have any responsibilities? (with regard to their message?)
Badger, it's true, parents should be the most influential and best guide for kids. But guess what, when kids are reaching adolescence, the absolute last person they're hearing is their mom and dad. They're listening to their peers, friends and entertainment figures. That's a natural part of growing up and leaving the nest. Too bad many kids live in disfunctional homes with missing-in-action parents.
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If you're holding the microphone....
by onintwo inlast nite my 20 year old son and i got into a debate about rap music.
we were watching a show about eminem.
i stated that it seemed like this guy sings about some pretty destructive things.
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Last nite my 20 year old son and I got into a debate about rap music. We were watching a show about Eminem. I stated that it seemed like this guy sings about some pretty destructive things. And that kinda started a good healthy exchange, bit nothing too serious. But he is making the point that these guys are all about their "art". (he's a musician himself)
So we get into it, and I'm trying to state that if you make racist, sexist, violent comments, you probably have a greater degree of responsibility because you really don't personally know your audience. More so than say, the guy who maybe tells his friends an off color joke. Racist or otherwise. At least the joke teller knows his listeners (presumably) and their sensitivites, and they also know what he's all about, so there's less worry about how someone may take something.
But an eleven to fourteen year old kind might not know how to handle certain things. I would hate to think some kid commited suicide, or a violent crime, because of anything I may have said.
Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre is still against the law as far as I know, even though we have free speech in this country. So my point was we have to consider how what we say might be taken by the hearers. Basically, you're holding a microphone and reaching 50 million kids.
We both agreed to consider the other persons point. But I wouldn't mind hearing from other young persons about this topic.
Onintwo