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  Please can someone help me with this question?

  by finger in

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  a friend of mine is becoming a jw, but her boyfriend is not, will this cause problems?

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  dustyb

  first of all, if she's just starting, you need to pound your friend with information. Because at first before you are actually "in" you are flooded with friendliness and fake smiles and such. They beat around the bush for awhile, but then it sinks in that you's not gonna get out.

  Problems = religion. They take the bible for themselves, so if you are not a JW, you are not "in the Lord". They refer to this statement i think as being a Jehovahs Witness, but i believe this statement of "in the Lord" as being a follower of Lord Jesus.

  It will become the 3 of them...Man, Woman, and the Elders. They'll tell you that the 3rd is God, but its just the elders making decisions for you guys

  Unless you guys sneak around you'll never be alone. NEVER EVER EVER. its a bad no-no to be alone when you are a dating couple as a JW

  Eventually if your friends decide to get married the JW will get ridiculed and "marked" and such because she has an "unbeliving" husband. It starts to happen when you have an ubeliving boyfriend/girlfriend, but it really sets in when the relationship is deep.

  The non-believer is going to start hearing rubbish about the End and Jesus returning in 1914 and such, and thats going to be all she'll talk about because thats what they "program" her to talk. If you aren't out in service you need to be indirectly witnessing.

  If you want more info, like i said, get ahold of me thru email ^^.
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  Please can someone help me with this question?

  by finger in

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  a friend of mine is becoming a jw, but her boyfriend is not, will this cause problems?

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  HELL yea it'll cause problems. (i'm in the exact same situation, my g/f is a JW and i'm not). If they like each other enough the first thing they need to do is sit down and talk about the religion itself and how important they are to each other, or else it'll come to shit later on down the line. If you need any advice just PM me or email me at (PM me =D) and i'll see if i can help you guys out w/ any questions.
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  What is the mood in the Kingdom Halls nowadays?

  by JH in

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  when i used to go the meetings in the late 80's, the mood was good, knowing that the end was close.

  later on in the 90's while i still attended once in a while, people were starting to be less zealous and were starting to put their needs before those of the kingdoms.

  people started to buy houses, instead of living in apartements, they were buying nicer cars, taking vacations far away, and mostly, the women started to work, to help pay for the better life style they were living.

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  iono, everyone is in their own little groups at our KH. The elders are all up at the front talking about their "eldres business". Then you have the completely clueless people that go and hand out books, then you have all the moms talking about. All the deadheads singing out of ignorance and everything else....
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  All Time FAVORITE Singer Or Band

  by minimus in

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  who or what is your all time favorite singer or band?

  even if you never saw them, if you could---you'd spend big bucks to see them.

  i love anita baker.

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  i'm too young, i still dig metallica and pantera and such....YAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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  Dating and being chapperoned

  by dustyb in

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  why the hell can't jws date w/o having a chapperone or anything of that matter?

  i have always thought that its stupid and its trying to pry into peoples lives.

  but i just wanna know why.

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  you can't even be alone in a public place anymore w/o a chapperone (which i've never had because i told them to bugger off). i can understand chapperones for some teenagers (like JW's who are immature). But if you are dating to get married there's no sense in having a chapperone, besides for the guy to get a change to whack it while we're doing our thing in the front seat
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  I like bacon

  by dustyb in

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  this post miserably failed, so i thought i'd just write i like bacon!

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  this post miserably failed, so i thought i'd just write i like bacon!
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  Dating and being chapperoned

  by dustyb in

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  why the hell can't jws date w/o having a chapperone or anything of that matter?

  i have always thought that its stupid and its trying to pry into peoples lives.

  but i just wanna know why.

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  no kiddin. it doesn't matter how old you are (unless you are a wee lad, then you shouldn't be dating period ) fact of the matter is that we are all individuals that don't need to have someone prying on if we like to "touch" each other. Who gives 2 doggy poo poo's if she feels the urge to lunge and accidentally grab the goods or vice versa ya know.
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  Dating and being chapperoned

  by dustyb in

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  why the hell can't jws date w/o having a chapperone or anything of that matter?

  i have always thought that its stupid and its trying to pry into peoples lives.

  but i just wanna know why.

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  dustyb

  why the hell can't JWs date w/o having a chapperone or anything of that matter? i have always thought that its stupid and its trying to pry into peoples lives. but i just wanna know why.
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  It just doesn't add up

  by micheal in

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  was there any particular event, teaching, experience where it all came together for you when you really questioned the "truth", or believed it wasn't it couldn't be god's organization?.

  when did you realize and say to yourself, this just doesn't add up?

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  heh badger, i can relate to the elder thing. There's only one of the elders in my congregation that tries to keep contact w/ me, and its not the greatest. and all he has to say is lets go study. then he tells me the same blah blah, you konw a lot of doctrine stuff so you should be a witness...you know, the same shit. its kinda sad when i'm not a witness and i knwo more doctrinal studies and such than a baptised witness......
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  Do NGOs receive funding from the United Nations?

  by somebodylovesme in

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  this question actually came up because i was thinking about independent charities and the potential advantages of them teaming up with the un.

  then i thought... hmmmm if they could get funding... if ngos could get funding, that might explain why the watchtower would join.

  what other benefits could there possibly be?

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  the power possibilities with being known as an NGO is incredible. you have power to international politicians, lawmakers and whatnot. and you also have HUGE influences in 3rd world developing countries. its all about politics and power and MONEY. As an NGO you don't get money from the UN, you just get a good place in the world to do some major promotions and public speaking. I don't know how easy it is to explain, but if you're banging the presidents daughter, then you are in pretty good w/ the prez himself which = power and money.