My mother committed suicide 23 years ago by drug overdose. She was severely depressed . My husband and I always feel that the religion played a big part in her illness as she never felt she was good to serve Jehovah( actually the org!). The elders were aware she had committed suicide but they still held a memorial service for her in the congregation and the sisters put together a luncheon which was served at the KH after the service. I am not sure if that would be allowed now, but I always found our congregation at that time to be much more free thinking than others, not sure why, I suppose it was the people who attended.
lilybird
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Suicide and Jehovah's Witnesses Blog Article
by Hoping4Change ini haven't seen this posted yet and just bumped into it.
sorry if it's already on here somewhere:.
http://www.progressiveu.org/234028-jehovah-witness-suicide.
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If something sounds too good to be true...........
by Gill inmost relatively intelligent people usually understand that if 'something sounds too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true.'.
so why do normal people lose their common sense when it comes to the beliefs of the watchtower society?.
in a nutshell, the wtbts claims that if you go to all their meetings, study all their literature, spend numerous hours trying to make new recruits, and just believe without thinking all of their doctrine, you stand some sort of chance of never dying.......living forever in paradise on earth, and should you die, you should be resurrected into such a world.. now, i'm not saying that doing all those watchtower things is 'easy' in any way.....in fact they're incredibly tiresome.
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I guess its sort of like how people always buy lottery tickets and scratch tickets..Its always nice to believe that you can win the big one!! Many people feel the need to belong to an organized belief system and lots of people obviously can't think for themselves and need other people to set goals and beliefs for them. I still buy lottery tickets and dream of winning the big one but at least now I am free thinking enough to be able to establish my own belief system about life and the afterlife.
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Can You Suggest The Perfect Song
by Nellie inthis april will mark our 25th wedding anniversary.
music has always been a part of our relationship.
back in the day, my hubby spent a lot of time in the back room because of being a dj both at witness parties and in clubs around nyc.
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lilybird
Congratulations on your 25th anniversary. Not a lot of couples make it that far these days..It will be 29 years for us this May. You mentioned "The closer I get to you" That was our first song we danced to out our wedding.
The perfect song for me now is.. "How do I live" by Trisha Yearwood.
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Newbe saying hello
by Shanna Korin inhi everybody sorry i just got so excited to be able to vent that i just jumped right on in replying and blabbing that i forgot to say hey!
thanks for this site and all of you.
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lilybird
Hi Shanna..Welcome!!!
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Are you good at noticing details? Try this.
by bebu inok, my dad sent me this, and it was very clever:.
check this out.
if you can, you're a genius like me.
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lilybird
Well I just jumped out of my seat.. .. Thats a good one!!
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Who is DF/DA or Fader???
by mama1119 ini was just wondering, how many dfed to we have on here compared to da or faders??
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lilybird
My husband and I DA'd in 1987 . We had both been raised as JWs.
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Peanuts.....
by SWALKER ina tour bus driver is driving with a bus load.
of seniors down a highway.
when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.. she offers him a handful of peanuts,.
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numbers?
by lesterd injust an observation, ever notice that the count of remaining anointed is never done as a demographic?
no ages or average age, ever wonder why that information is not divulged to the other sheep?.
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FLUFFY FLUFF FLUFFY...What is your pets name?????
by mama1119 inthis is a follow up to yesterdays pet thread.
what are your pets names, and why did you name them that??.
my oldest dog is baylor...from the book ya ya sisterhood (he was the little brother, i just loved the name).
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lilybird
WE have a yellow lab called Wilson..not sure why we picked that name ,, it just seemed to suit him,, so he gets called Willy for short.. his pic is in my avator
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Nasty week-end weather wise
by JH ingee, this autumn isn't the best i've seen.
it's windy, rainy, cloudy, cool and a great time to stay inside today.
we didn't have any indian summer this year, and not much heat even in september.. i just hope that the snow won't get here too early this year !.
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lilybird
I agree. Fall came early here in southern Ontario. So much rain , it seems to rain almost every Saturday, and much cooler temps than the last few years. I guess maybe things go in cycles, and we can't have great fall weather every year. Hopefully it will be a mild winter like last year, but if these weather conditions are any indication, it could be a tough cold winter. They are saying snow flurries for parts of Ontario and into Quebec for this weekend. Right now it is just pouring pouring since yesterday morning and doesn't seem to be easing up. I am happy their are some great CFL games on this weekend to watch. !!