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I'm being DA by my family

by reagan_oconnor in

wow... it's been awhile since i've posted, there are a lot of new names here.

i just had to post on this.... i received a letter from my mother friday telling me that she and my father no longer wish to associate with my husband or me.

they will contact me in case of emergency but thats it.

Dismembered

Hi Reagan

Sorry to hear that. Another case of how the cult known as JDubs destroys families.

Dismembered

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Christmas?

by CBeMe in

info please!.

i read somewhere that jw's celebrated christmas up until about the 1930's.

is this true, and where can i find more information about this?

*** yb75 147 United States of America (Part Two) *** Yes, in those earlier days, dedicated Christians commemorated birthdays. Well, then, why not celebrate the supposed birthday of Jesus? This they also did for many years. In Pastor Russells day, Christmas was celebrated at the old Bible House in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Ora Sullivan Wakefield recalls that Brother Russell gave members of the Bible House family five- or ten-dollar gold pieces at Christmas. Mabel P. M. Philbrick remarks: A custom that certainly would not be carried on today was the celebration of Christmas with a Christmas tree in the Bethel dining room. Brother Russells usual Good morning, all was changed to Merry Christmas, all.

What caused the Bible Students to stop celebrating Christmas? Richard H. Barber gave this answer: I was asked to give an hour talk over a [radio] hookup on the subject of Christmas. It was given December 12, 1928, and published in The Golden Age #241 and again a year later in #268. That talk pointed out the pagan origin of Christmas. After that, the brothers at Bethel never celebrated Christmas again.

Did we mind putting those pagan things away? asks Charles John Brandlein. Absolutely not. This was just complying with new things learned, and we had never known before they were pagan. It was just like taking a soiled garment off and throwing it away. Next, birthday celebrations and Mothers Day were discardedmore creature worship. Sister Lilian Kammerud recalls: How readily the brothers all dropped these holidays and admitted they were glad to be free. New truths always make us happy and . . . we felt we were privileged to know things that others were ignorant about.

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Anybody Still Searching For The Truth???

by minimus in

jw
friends

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or is it something unattainable or not even real?

Dismembered

Here ta go

Edited by - Dismembered on 7 October 2002 8:43:50

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Anybody Still Searching For The Truth???

by minimus in

jw
friends

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or is it something unattainable or not even real?

Dismembered

PopeOfEruke

Where did you go shopping for that hat? It's cool!!!

Min,

Much better (Re: Anybody Still Searching For The Truth???)

Dismembered

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LIGHTEN UP!!!

by ScoobySnax in

jw
friends

what the hell is wrong with you lot.....ok although i'm inactive, and many of you will tell me to get my ass back to the kh and stay off sites like these if i don't like it,........i have to say that reading some of your posts from the past couple of days has been a really a hard slog, some of you have spent time in previous posts deriding jws for claiming to be "the happiest people on earth"......but from someone who's inactive, and on this side of the fence, i don't smell no roses much from where you're coming from.

what is wrong with you happy apostates, i thought you said life outside the borg(tm) was just great.

happiest people on earth??