did anyone mention Hank Marvin, lead guitarist for the Shadows? He joined jw's in the 70's, great guitarist but i prefer jimmy hendrix anyday, would like to hear him play a kingdom melody!
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85Famous JW's (or exJW)..an almost complete listing.
by badwillie infamous jehovah's witnesses
dwight d. eisenhower - u.s. president (raised jw) .
venus and serena williams - world chamption/olympic gold medalist tennis players .
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If the organization is a diamond, what are we???
by spiritwalker inas a witness, i remember the illustration of the diamond, in regards to the organization.
it referenced the fact that a diamond, when examined from afar, looks perfect and like something of high value.
yet when you looked closer, it has minor scratches and flaws that make up the large more perfect picture.
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i don't know about you, but i'm the pink panther.
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Is it true that JW Missionaries...
by dh in.
is it true that jw missionaries sign a legally binding contract with the wtbt society to say that they cannot work for pay, even casually, or own a business for the duration of their contact to the society.. i have a jw friend who's a missionary out in the middle of nowhere who told me so a while ago, wondered if anyone else knew anything?
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missionaries get paid an allowance from the society every month.
thanks celia, just got done with my first ever birthday party and cake, haha, 26 now!
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Is it true that JW Missionaries...
by dh in.
is it true that jw missionaries sign a legally binding contract with the wtbt society to say that they cannot work for pay, even casually, or own a business for the duration of their contact to the society.. i have a jw friend who's a missionary out in the middle of nowhere who told me so a while ago, wondered if anyone else knew anything?
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is it true that jw missionaries sign a legally binding contract with the wtbt society to say that they cannot work for pay, even casually, or own a business for the duration of their contact to the society.
i have a jw friend who's a missionary out in the middle of nowhere who told me so a while ago, wondered if anyone else knew anything?
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hey it close to smurfy's b-day
by freelife insmurfy's birthday is on christmas day.
everyone please wish her a happy b-day.. .
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happy birthday and make sure you get double presents!
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Demons
by dh inanother post to add to my list of things i wanted to ask ex jw's but never had the chance.. have you ever had any unexplainable experiences or encounters with something paranormal and been told by jw elders that 'it must be the demons' literally, or 'we'll pray to jehovah for help' due to some 'demonic' thing you are going through, being tormented or whatever, if so, what do you put it down to?
do you subscribe to a belief of angels & demons?
do you believe these beings, if they exist can interfere in our day to day lives or do you dismiss anything 'paranormal' as being in the head of the person who thinks it happened to them?.
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thanks for the replies so far, and for the welcome.
for what you described cruz, it surely could have been to do with your mothers mental state, but you can always question whether or not in a weak mental state someone is more susceptible to these things. this is what jw's say, that when you are spiritually weak (which is usually when you are going through some real world problems or mental issues) is when 'demons' attack, jw bullshit if you ask me, but you can see a shred of logic in it too.
about what you said tex, i'd never claim to know what you've experienced, but a person who'd never been through something wouldn't have said 'there must be other people out there who've been carrying this type of baggage inside them their whole life and never spoken about it' for no reason.
i've my own share of disturbing shit and i wouldn't write it on a postcard either, that bit was a joke, i don't think it's irrational to believe that there must be good to counter evil, but neither do i think it irrational to think that good in fact created evil, my eyes twinkle sometimes because i know something, sometimes they are dark because i know the same thing, being cynical is my safety net, it keeps me from caving in.
take it easy and thanks for writing,
dh'
(edited because all of the paragraph's were double spaced!)
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Get on the 2004 Birthday Calendar
by nicolaou in.
this is the current 2003 birthday calendar, just leave your details here if you'd like to be included in next years.
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december 25th
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Demons
by dh inanother post to add to my list of things i wanted to ask ex jw's but never had the chance.. have you ever had any unexplainable experiences or encounters with something paranormal and been told by jw elders that 'it must be the demons' literally, or 'we'll pray to jehovah for help' due to some 'demonic' thing you are going through, being tormented or whatever, if so, what do you put it down to?
do you subscribe to a belief of angels & demons?
do you believe these beings, if they exist can interfere in our day to day lives or do you dismiss anything 'paranormal' as being in the head of the person who thinks it happened to them?.
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another post to add to my list of things i wanted to ask ex jw's but never had the chance.
have you ever had any unexplainable experiences or encounters with something paranormal and been told by jw elders that 'it must be the demons' literally, or 'we'll pray to jehovah for help' due to some 'demonic' thing you are going through, being tormented or whatever, if so, what do you put it down to? do you subscribe to a belief of angels & demons? do you believe these beings, if they exist can interfere in our day to day lives or do you dismiss anything 'paranormal' as being in the head of the person who thinks it happened to them?
i'm sure a lot of people who were jw's in the early 90's will remember the way the society used to write about places like papua new guinnea etc, a place a lot of people would call a home of these things, and i know sound minded people from a lot of remote parts of the world who tell stories of bizzarre goings on that people back home would laugh at, as well as what some go through themselves and what you hear, is it possible to seperate the ignorrance and mysticism and the 'unknown' from something that really happens, do you think this stuff happens or is it all in the mind?
answers on a postcard please, i'm more than a little interested to hear some first hand experiences of things people have gone through that have no rational explanation, that jw's would call 'demons' and how the jw's dealt with it, and how you dealt with it, or how you still deal with it.
maybe this is a weird post but there must be other people out there who've been carrying this type of baggage inside them their whole life and never spoken about it, pm's welcome if you don't wanna post in public.
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Resurrection
by barbar inif a person is resurrected, are they really the same person?.
it is a bit difficult to explain this, but are they not a copy of the original person (all of the cells are new) with just the memory etc reinstalled?.
it seems to me that even if resurrection were real then it would not be the actual person who was resurrected but an image of them who thought, acted and remembered the same as the original.
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it depends whether you think of a person as being just the flesh and bones or whether you believe the conscious can be seperated from the body, and be sort of saved or put on ice after death and put in a new vehicale when resurrected... that's if you believe in a resurrection of course! like buying a new car but still being the same driver.
what's a person though, an appearance or the thoughts, feelings and emotions?
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What I would do if I were God....
by Aztec inif i were god there would be no explicit sex on t.v.. like little opie eating pie when he made it with aunt bea.
if i were god thou shall not worship false billy idols.
and thou shall add the book of flavor flav to the bible.
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It'd have to be suicide.