what is the wt publication you hated the most?
why did you hate it?
for me, it was probably that damn pink great teacher book.
I would definately say Young People Ask... I got that stupid book thrown at me SO many times during my early teenage years! :P And all it ever did was cause me misery...
Next would have to be the Revelation book... did anyone really understand that crap? LOL, I remember I used to think the reason why I couldn't understand it was because I wasn't deep or smart enough.
i am in the process of hunting down every "source" the jws use in their books to "discredit" evolution.
i think it could be fun.
for instance - robert jastrow, the first scientist cited in the reasoning book, wrote in the same book: "the fact of evolution is not in doubt" (the enchanted loom, pg.
LOL... you know, even as a jw I always noticed the disturbing frequency of the "..." in the literature's quotations. Of course, as a good little jw, I always assumed they were just shortening a really long statement down to its real point. Still, in the back of my head, I wondered why all the long quotations that needed to be shortened?
Unfortunately, at that time, I didn't have the resources at hand to be able to actually look those quotations up.
in the paper yesterday,.
google starting new service, g-mail.. g-mail will provide users with a huge one gigabyte (1gb) of free storage, making the need to clean out the e-mail box inbox irrelevent for most people.. the companies believe the new service will rewire the way information is retrieved in e-mail messages.
g-mail will automatically organise e-mail according to topic and allow users to search their messages --including who it is from, the text and subject lines---in the sam way they search the internet.
Hee, hee, I'm an email pack rat myself. I usually store all my email in Outlook but of course that limits where I can access my emails. I hope they start the service soon...<br><br>Just as a side note, they're also going to use computers to scan your email for certain subjects so they can personalize the advertisment links on the side of your email page... no one's reading your email or anything, but some people who are big on their email privacy might still have an issue with that.
i was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer.
thanks :)
Thank you everyone. :)
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I knew I could go to the store and buy it, but somehow that didn't feel right, since I'm pretty sure they didn't go to the store and buy it, lol.
i was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer.
thanks :)
I was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer. Thanks :)
anyone else have an aversion to dress clothes, now that you aren't forced to wear a suit and tie (women insert their version here) to sit a stadium for 8 hours on a summer day?
being forced to do this as a young child traumatized me pretty good!
I tried for a long time to avoid dresses AS MUCH as possible... as a kid, I was a tomboy that found dresses too restrictive since I always had to sit in them with my legs together and couldn't do things such as climbing trees, etc. and I had to keep them nice. So of course I always hated having to dress up for meetings, lol.
Then when I got older I wanted to wear short skirts and dresses and couldn't. When I got out of the Org for a while I avoided dresses still mainly because somehow it didn't occurr to me yet that I could now wear short skirts and dresses... when it did finally hit me I aquired a motherload of them overnight. Now I just wear whatever I feel like wearing, most the time jeans, sometimes if I feel like dressing up, a short skirt. I don't think I've worn a skirt that's knee length since I left, lol. *grin* So yah, the only issue I have with dressing up any more is wearing the "appropiate" length skirts.
To answer your question...
Women usually dress conservative, i.e. nothing revealing, no sleeveless tops or anything that reveals the back or midriff, no low cut tops, no skirts above the knee. It's like dressing for a school or work dress code, basically, except your applying that code to a dress and not casual wear. If I was you though, I wouldn't worry too much, since you're new, everyone should understand if you make a mistake. :)
Sorry if you got rather overwhelmed here, just this is mostly a forum for people who have lost faith in the Society, and with good reason. They're simply trying to prevent you from making the same mistake they have, before you become so enchanted with the Society that you stop listening to anything but "the faithful and discreet slave." If this is really for you, go for it, but just please remember that a blind decision is a poor decision... and that you can't just look at one side of a story, turn a deaf ear on the other side, and say you know the truth about it, as the Society will soon enough expect of you to do. They may tell you to only listen to them because something else will "stumble" your faith, but ask yourself how strong is your faith if it is easily stumbled by you so much as listening or reading something contradictory to it?
i was trying to find an article on the wbts website about jesus' death that would give some history references about the stake issue... after a while i got rather frustrated when i was coming up empty handed.
then the realization dawned upon me that it seems that the publications for the public never seem to have any research article references... just scriptural ones, and then when an interested one "progresses", they start gaining access to the "deeper" publications with research references... of course, you're only supposed to refer to the references they give you most of the time, lol.
i may be wrong since i grew up in the organization and didn't get to experience coming in on my own, but it feels uncannily true, and it makes sense for them, toss them a scripture to make them feel like they've discovered a wonderful new point of view and then throw in some "worldly" references to hammer it in that it's the truth!
LOL! No not really but it still would be nice to know where the stake doctrine came from.
i was trying to find an article on the wbts website about jesus' death that would give some history references about the stake issue... after a while i got rather frustrated when i was coming up empty handed.
then the realization dawned upon me that it seems that the publications for the public never seem to have any research article references... just scriptural ones, and then when an interested one "progresses", they start gaining access to the "deeper" publications with research references... of course, you're only supposed to refer to the references they give you most of the time, lol.
i may be wrong since i grew up in the organization and didn't get to experience coming in on my own, but it feels uncannily true, and it makes sense for them, toss them a scripture to make them feel like they've discovered a wonderful new point of view and then throw in some "worldly" references to hammer it in that it's the truth!
I was trying to find an article on the WBTS website about Jesus' death that would give some history references about the stake issue... after a while I got rather frustrated when I was coming up empty handed. Then the realization dawned upon me that it seems that the publications for the public never seem to have any research article references... just scriptural ones, and then when an interested one "progresses", they start gaining access to the "deeper" publications with research references... of course, you're only supposed to refer to the references they give you most of the time, lol. I may be wrong since I grew up in the organization and didn't get to experience coming in on my own, but it feels uncannily true, and it makes sense for them, toss them a scripture to make them feel like they've discovered a wonderful new point of view and then throw in some "worldly" references to hammer it in that it's the truth! A fact!
Anyone else notice this trend? It would also be helpful if someone could toss me one of their history references that says that criminals were traditionally crucified on stakes during the Roman Empire... somehow I remember them having at least one... I could be mistaken though.
Omg, it felt so wierd to see a picture of him nailed to a stake again too... brought back alot of old memories and feelings at once... oddly enough, my first reaction was that of wanting to run. Not run from Jesus, lol, just... it wasn't him in that picture somehow. It was like looking at a picture of a demon and then that demon trying to reach out and grab you. Your first reaction to a demon trying to grab you? Run. That's one really good lesson I learned, lol. ;)
i was just wondering if there were any new members out there who haven't yet said hello... if so.. please come in and say hi here.. .
its an easy way to get started.. .
i know there are those who will read/lurk for a while but one day they jump in and say hi.... .
I'm new and I've sort of introduced myself but I still tend to not say much... don't really have anything interesting to say most of the time.
