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  WTBS attitude towards vegetarians ...

  by El blanko in

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  having flirted with meat off and on through my life, but mostly conforming to the vegetarian standard (due to the obscenity for the most part that is the meat industry) - i noticed when serving with the society, that i came under fire from the brothers.. my moral arguments about cutting down on meat consumption based around the factory farming methods were cast aside and often sneered at.. "well god gave us the right to eat meat" was the usual line i had to swallow down.. have any of you guys faced the same situation?

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  dorothy

  Gasp! I feel so ashamed...

  My own retoric to vegetarians was "God said we could eat the animals." (said while giving the veggie a "where have you been?" look)

  Sorry!
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  Ever start a BS?

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  did anyone here ever start a bible study while out in field service?

  from scratch, all by themselves?.

  i had a couple of studies but never started one from cold.

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  dorothy

  I'm a little suspicious as to what tactics simplesally was using to start her studies

  (wink wink)
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  What's your basic attitude?

  by seattleniceguy in

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  i think that if i had to describe my basic attitude toward life, the universe, and everything in one sentence, it would be this:.

  generally, and on reflection, life is better today than it was yesterday.. very anti-thetical to the wt view of things, i know.

  sng

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  dorothy

  Alas, I must agree with funkyderek. Life is certainly just "a bunch of stuff that happens".
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  Are we too hard on INDIVIDUAL JW's?

  by outbutnotdown in

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  i am definitely no longer a jw (11 years).

  that having been said, living in a "democratic" land, the one thing that is challenging is agreeing with freedom of religion, but also protesting when it becomes offensive.

  don't get me wrong..... my family shuns me completely and i do think that it is "offensive", and against the laws of nature, which makes the point even more legitimate...... : do they really know what they are doing?

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  dorothy

  We shouldn't look at it as being hard on them. They are well trained with rebuttals, including the catch-all "I can do some research on that and get back to you." Others being hard on ME was the only reason I started questioning the beliefs, finding out the REAL truth, and eventually seeing the light.
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  What Is Beautiful To Me . . .

  by Corvin in

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  the kids are off at their mom's for a scheduled visit.

  i come home from work at 2am in the morning and unexpectedly find them all sound asleep in their own beds.

  there have been no incidents, no problems .

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  dorothy

  I remember when my little girl was a few months old. I remember how every morning, the very second I would wake up, I would get out of bed and turn on the light because I couldn't wait for her to look up at me and smile, which she would do every morning without fail.

  Sigh....
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  JW cartoon Bizarro

  by Mulan in

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  i found this earlier today, all yellowed, in a drawer, probably from our jw days.

  thought i would share..

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  dorothy

  I have been laughing for a while now about the whole double entendre that could be used for "Witness Protection Program". Thanks for bringing it to life.
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  Latest Watchtower study... Still discouraging higher education!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  one of the paragraphs read that 'if in the area where you live you need higher education after you graduate, then the young person must speak with the parents in order to help them balance the schedule so that he/she doesn't neglect spiritual things'.

  alright, i thought, that's a somewhat balanced point of view; i thought, good they're coming along with the times we live in.

  yeah, right!!!

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  dorothy

  You don't need a higher education to work for a fellow dubbies' cleaning company. They have to keep a few "at the top" so they will still have big contributors to the WT. So the higher-ups start cleaning businesses and the rest of us can work for them at minimum wage. Since you don't have an education you are happy to have a job and feed their machine.
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  Deception in the Greatest Man Book

  by truthseeker in

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  i was browsing channelc.org and came across this.

  how would one follow jehovah?

  do the will of the organization and you would be doing jehovah?s will.

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  dorothy

  And what the hell is with that phrase they use at the end of every prayer "throught THE OFFICE of your son Jesus Christ? Like it's not even Jesus anymore, just some administrative staff of Jehovah.
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  SURVEY: How Long Have You Been Out Of The "Truth"?

  by minimus in

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  are you still "in"?

  have you altogether stopped attending meetings?

  for how long have you been "out"?

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  dorothy

  Still strandling the fence. Can't deny the entertainment value of sitting in a Kingdom Hall trying to keep a straight face after all the things I've read here.
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  Well, I have a GMail account ...

  by Simon in

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  ... all i need now is a good dollop of spam so i can test the searching and filtering !

  i must say, having 1gb of space for free is quite 'wierd'.

  the hotmail account i have hovers on the 80% full mark (mainly from spam) and is to all purposes unusable.

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  dorothy

  I've heard of the new GMail, and that not many people had them because it was still on an experimental basis. Quite frankly, I'm a little jelous.