Posts by Village Idiot

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Memorial Bread-Break a piece off or eat whole?

by TakeOffTheCrown in

question for some of the old-timers in the congregation.

did those who professed to be of the anointed and partook of the bread, did they break off a piece of the bread and then eat it; or did they take the whole piece and eat it?

Village Idiot

I was sitting right besides one of the anointed, a personal friend of mine, and I saw him break of only one piece before passing the plate to me. He also took one sip of the wine . This was in the 1970s.

If everyone in the congregation were of the anointed this would change how it's celebrated. For example, if you were to eat the whole bread before passing it it would make the meeting much longer in duration plus the plates would have to be refilled.

So I wonder what arrangements they had in the days of Russell and Rutherford? Did they sit at the table and have a proper meal out of the emblems? This would approximate the original Last Supper.

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copying vhs videos to digital

by dogon in

my wife's mother has alzheimers.

she asked if i would convert her mothers vhs to digital.

no problem.

Village Idiot

How do you transfer a VHS tape to digital? I've got one that's 30 years old that I would like to put in a far more durable media.

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Why do JW's stop having kids @ 29= cause 30 is to many

by Jahlove in

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Village Idiot

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Go bags?

by punkofnice in

i heard recently that there was a talk given at the kh about having a 'go bag' ready because the big 'a' must be soooo close as evidenced by syria and the russian jobo thing.. does anyone know if this 'go bag' thing is substantiated in publications or just a local nut job being paranoid and attention seeking?.

i also wonder about this 'go bag' thing, apparently, you need to make sure your biscuits (that's cookies to my over the pond friends), are not out of date.

don't carry water, it's too heavy.. too many questions do i have.

Village Idiot

Blondie,
freemindfade, I've heard of people eating bullets, but I think should add food and water too.

Blondie, he intends to kill us and steal our rusty, dented cans of tuna fish.

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Disfellowshipped people are dead people?

by snugglebunny in

jw
friends

skimming though my iphone earlier today i came across a fb post - which i now can't find!.

basically it was a claim that a gb member had stated that associating with a disfellowshipped person was akin to sleeping next to a corpse.. so obviously i'm curious as to whether anyone else has come across this..

Village Idiot

I think we should all pay them a visit:

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Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

by James87 in

i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

Village Idiot

James87,
I with strong conviction feel that married to her i could get her out or at least have her less passionate about JW.

I'm sorry to say it but your conviction is misplaced. If she is like this now how will she be when you both get married

The whole blood transfusion thing would not be an issue, if lets say we have a kid and he or she needs a transfusion he or she will get one.

You underestimate the fanaticism of JWs. Once she knows that you're against a transfusion she, with the assistance of the elders, will find ways of circumventing you. Even if the child gets a transfusion, the fact that you stood up to your wife on that issue can break your family apart. By the way, she can be disfellowshipped for allowing her child to have a transfusion.

Look forward to eventual divorce; nasty child custody disputes; and your side of the family (non-JW) unable to see your children or grandchildren.

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Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

by James87 in

i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

Village Idiot

James, if you were to actually marry her what would your fate be? Maybe she won't want a child because of the doomsday scare bit that makes them think the world will be annihilated soon.

If you do have children, she will bring them up as JWs. That is something you don't want to see. They will be isolated from those outside the religion. Forced to spend their weekends going door to door or looking like mannequins by a literature cart. And face death by not accepting a blood transfusion.

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Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

by James87 in

i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

Village Idiot

The friendliness the JWs manifested to you is none in the exJW community as "love bombing". It wears off once you become one of them. What I can't understand is why she would be jealous of you when she hasn't even let you sit next to her.

I think she's on the verge of dumping you.

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Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

by James87 in

i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

Village Idiot

You are fighting a lost cause. Your girlfriend is one of those many unfaithful believers that want to still think of themselves as JWs but are driven into a hidden life for the sake of pleasure. You do know that she can be excommunicated for simply being with you in the same apartment overnight? That is enforced by elders who, when they suspect something is wrong (Read fornication), keep the residence under surveillance, from their own vehicles, overnight.

Once she is excommunicated she will be shunned by everyone she knows in the religion including family members.

She will keep her relationship with you so long as she's out of the Witnesses but she will eventually dump you once she has been accepted by them. In many cases the penitent JW will not even give the time of day to their former lover. This situation has been played out countless thousands of times in JWdom.

Prepare in your heart to live without her. Her actions show that she will not respect you as a non-JW.

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When You See a JW Do You Get Flustered?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i used to dread seeing a witness coming toward me.

now i am quite comfortable and hope that they may say something to me..... does your blood pressure rise when you see a jw coming toward you?

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Village Idiot

Tom Harley,
The visibility of the Kingdom message expands, what with cart and website supplementing traditional methods.

Your cart duty is pathetic. Even the JWs manning them can tell.

World conditions worsen.

As for world conditions worsening tell that to the bygone victims of Tamerlane who killed 20 million people in the late 14th century as he swooped from Mongolia to Eurasia.

Now listen closely. No matter what happens in the future - and a lot of bad things are going to happen - nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing will go as your organization has predicted. They have been, are, and forever will remain a false prophet.