I'm still trying to figure out what a blessin' is. IMO there's no such thing, or maybe I'm wrong, perhaps people do get petted in the ass by divine providence.
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to me this is one the most nauseating sayings.
i hear it all the time.
"i'm sooo blessed, i got over that awful cold i had last week".. how are your kids?
I'm still trying to figure out what a blessin' is. IMO there's no such thing, or maybe I'm wrong, perhaps people do get petted in the ass by divine providence.
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Don't stay a stranger nicolaou. Godspeed to you & the fam.
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are you feeling low after being disfellowshipped and find that witlesses physically avoid you?
perhaps they walk the other way?.
well, clearly, it's boogah - boogah time!.
Greetings Met,
As usual you have great advice. I'll have to try some of that.
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well, the letter was read and it applied to our area.
it seems that a lot of people that attend the district convention in our area are not following the rooming arrangements.
so the letter was strong wording about using just the rooms on the list even if it means traveling 45 miles to do so.
Here we go again. Watchtower forcing the drones to stay in the flea-bag hotels & motels they hire with holy spirit. Same ole Same ole. They should do everyone a favor and let them find their own accommodations.
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as most of you now know, i do commercial janitorial for a living !
lol!
especially after seeing the thread i posted today !
Re: Your Employment - Have you Been Stressed Mentally or Hurt Physically ?
Greetings Mr. Flipper,
I too, am self employed, and have the benefit of having my sons working for me. They do an impeccable job, so I can stay home, and stay in my command & control center a.k.a. The Home Office. It's one of the pleasures in my life that to some degree, I will attribute credit to being in the heinous cult, which otherwise I may have never got the opportunity to learn. Self-Employment is freedom! No stress, or physical injury here.
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i haven't left.... 1 thing while i'm actually in is being here though.... i'm happy here.
i actually feel for the first time really "right" about something... .
Cigars
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it can't be due to uncleanliness as the law ended when he died.
john 20:17. jesus saith unto her, touch me not; for i am not yet ascended to my father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, i ascend unto my father, and your father; and to my god, and your god.. .
http://www.scripture4all.org/onlineinterlinear/ntpdf/joh20.pdf.
Good one Priest73
hi, just here to share my life with others.. .
i was born into the cult, raised within the cottonballs all around, as a little 4 year old with nothing but angels and god in mind and how beautiful everything he has created is.
i was the sixth kid, fourth that lived.
Welcome to JWD raised2bdead
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i know many people who are stressed and depressed.
they feel burnt out and anxious.
how have you dealt with such issues?
Sex is good
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i'm not into politics and don't put much stock in the government having anything to do with my happiness, but i decided it would be a new experience and why not.. i have to admit it felt good.
seeing democracy in action was great and as small as my 1 little vote is, it feels empowering to have a say..
Congrats onesong,
Just like S4, I too, here in Vermont registered to vote. It's exciting at times.
The Watchtower, June 15th 1999 Issue, Page 30:
Questions From Readers
How do Jehovah’s Witnesses view voting?
...As for Jehovah’s Witnesses, they do not interfere with the right of others to vote; neither do they in any way campaign against political elections. They respect and cooperate with the authorities who are duly elected in such elections. (Romans 13:1-7) As to whether they will personally vote for someone running in an election, each one of Jehovah’s Witnesses makes a decision based on his Bible-trained conscience and an understanding of his responsibility to God and to the State. (Matthew 22:21; 1 Peter 3:16)
...those who have a part in voting a person into office may become responsible for what he does. (Compare 1 Timothy 5:22, The New English Bible.) Christians have to consider carefully whether they want to shoulder that responsibility.
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In view of the Scriptural principles outlined above, in many lands Jehovah’s Witnesses make a personal decision not to vote in political elections, and their freedom to make that decision is supported by the law of the land. What, though, if the law requires citizens to vote? In such a case, each Witness is responsible to make a conscientious, Bible-based decision about how to handle the situation. If someone decides to go to the polling booth, that is his decision. What he does in the polling booth is between him and his Creator.
The November 15, 1950, issue of The Watchtower, on pages 445 and 446, said: “Where Caesar makes it compulsory for citizens to vote . . . [Witnesses] can go to the polls and enter the voting booths. It is here that they are called upon to mark the ballot or write in what they stand for. The voters do what they will with their ballots. So here in the presence of God is where his witnesses must act in harmony with his commandments and in accordance with their faith. It is not our responsibility to instruct them what to do with the ballot.”
What if a Christian woman’s unbelieving husband insists that she present herself to vote? Well, she is subject to her husband, just as Christians are subject to the superior authorities. (Ephesians 5:22; 1 Peter 2:13-17) If she obeys her husband and goes to the polling booth, that is her personal decision. No one should criticize her.--Compare Romans 14:4.
What of a country where voting is not mandated by law but feelings run high against those who do not go to the voting booth--perhaps they are exposed to physical danger? Or what if individuals, while not legally obliged to vote, are severely penalized in some way if they do not go to the polling booth? In these and similar situations, a Christian has to make his own decision. “Each one will carry his own load."--Galatians 6:5.
There may be people who are stumbled when they observe that during an election in their country, some Witnesses of Jehovah go to the polling booth and others do not. They may say, ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses are not consistent.’ People should recognize, though, that in matters of individual conscience such as this, each Christian has to make his own decision before Jehovah God.--Romans 14:12.
Whatever personal decisions Jehovah’s Witnesses make in the face of different situations, they take care to preserve their Christian neutrality and freeness of speech
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