Posts by Sweetp0985

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Expressions that show that you are an old-timer!

by cyberguy in

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"back calls,".

"vacation pioneer,".

"tower" (instead of watch tower, or watchtower).. .

Sweetp0985

I used this word the other day when typing a post and after I typed it I was like ewwww..I used a JW term...

"HOUSEHOLDER"

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Do You Think They'll Give????

by Sweetp0985 in

this was in the yahoo alert... http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/08/15/w1c_nonprofit_0815.html.

do you think the gb will give to someone other themselves even though it is local law enforcement/firefighters.

i'm quite sure they would benefit from these departments if someone broke into the west palms convention center or if it caught on fire..... do you think they'd do it if the issue really became a question posed to them??

Sweetp0985

This was in the Yahoo Alert... http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/08/15/w1c_nonprofit_0815.html

Do you think the GB will give to someone other themselves even though it is local law enforcement/firefighters. I'm quite sure they would benefit from these departments if someone broke into the West Palms Convention Center or if it caught on fire....

Do you think they'd do it if the issue really became a question posed to them???

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WTS Tells a Whopper!

by Farkel in

among dubs who are true believers(tm) they will readily admit that their religious leaders have "made mistakes.

" few of them however, will admit that their leaders are intentional and calculating liars, dirty rotten lying liars who lie in order to blind their flock and to conceal their own dirty laundary and miserable failures in both doctrine and policy.

i'll give but one example.

Sweetp0985

Scully said: Funny things happen to people when you catch them in a lie. Especially if you calmly confront them with facts that they know, but didn't know that you knew too.
Initially, before they realize that you know, they will go on in a whatever-do-you-mean? sort of way, in an attempt to make you look dumb and them look not dumb.

In my own experience whenever I made a point that they couldn't argue anymore OR when I USED to be a dub when in the FS when the householder made a good point they usually would give that Satan truly has a hold on them speech or Satan truly has them blinded. But yet and still the points given were facts that could be proven.I've even been called an antichrist by my JW mom because I don't agree with the teachings of the dubs.....

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School this fall?

by StinkyPantz in

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after a year's hiatus i am finally going back.

i'm so anxious, sleep it out of the question.

this first semester i have it easy.. the hard stuff starts in january.. for now:.

Sweetp0985

I'm taking 16 hrs at LSU.

I'm going to be an Accounting Major but this is my first year in college so my first semester looks like a high school schedule....

Math, English, ISDS(whatever da hell that is), Spanish, and Biology..

I had to come back and add this tidbit for Billygoat..never give up hope...I've been out of school for almost 10 yrs and this is gonna be my first year in college.. I almost gave up hope trying to go..but I'm finally living part of my dream...So never give up and you'll be able to go one day....

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My Lunch with an active JW today

by Terry in

johnny and i go back all the way to childhood.

we met in elementary school all those years ago.

he was a chubby, one-eyed kid with freckles and a coat that didn't fit him and i was a tall and vanishingly thin introvert who wore dress pants instead of blue jeans.

Sweetp0985

Later I mentioned that the Watchtower had carried many articles under Rutherford condemning Aluminum utensils. He said he had read about those and that there MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING TO THAT. I asked why. He then said, "They don't make aluminum cookware anymore---there has to be a reason for that".
I calmly looked at him and said, "People don't ride horses anymore, there must be a reason for that too."

I couldn't have said it better myself....So very nicely put...

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Celebrating Birthdays--Disfellowshipping Offense--Where stated in WT pubs?

by blondie in

blondis is asking for help.

where does it state that if a jw celebrates a brithday that it is a disfellowshipping offense.

i have searched and searched.

Sweetp0985

4/15 Awake or Watchtower, I can't remember which one, says it now a conscience matter to celebrate your b-day or not..

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Since JWs Never Helped Anyone But Themselves, What Do You Do 4 People?

by minimus in

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we, as witnesses were taught to believe that our giving the "truth" to people was the most important gift we could give!

forget about giving money to charities or helping any other group out----we needed to give them the "real life".

do you find yourself giving back to the community or to others now that you're out?

Sweetp0985

I started out by giving donations to United Way. Then I progressed to donating plasma, mostly because I needed the little money they gave you for donating but I was helping out other people too...Now I just donate blood...I feel better donating blood too because I get no compensation for it. The only thing is they call and hassle me sometimes to come and donate because my type of blood can be used for more people(O positive). I try to go as much as I can but I'm very busy most of the time. My JW mom had a hissy fit when she found out I was donating plasma, now she has cows whenever I tell her I just finished donating blood. When I got my driver's license renewed last month I also became an organ donor.......

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Is the Watchtower Part of the "Antichrist"?

by metatron in

in the apostle john's day, a variety of religious sects appeared in christian congregations called the gnostics.. many of these gnostics thought that matter and flesh were bad and anything 'spirit' was good, so they believed.

that jesus couldn't have been flesh and blood.

so, john condemned them , in his letters, as the "antichrist" because.

Sweetp0985

This is kinda off topic but I just had to post it somewhere....Talking to my JW mom this morning and she asked me about coming to the meeting on Sunday. To which I replied...no I don't think I'll be coming back there anytime soon. I don't have no reason to come there. To this she replied," Are trying to be 'antichrist'? An I was like "WHAT"??? Are you trying to be antichrist...going against Jehovah's organization or in opposition to Jehovah is antichrist. This totally pissed me off being that it was early in the morning and I was on my way to work anyway but I told her, "antichrist means against Jesus and I love Jesus and not against him. And you saying I'm against Jehovah's organization would mean that I'm an 'antiJehovah" which I'm not that either because I love Jehovah/God (same person). She then said "Tasha you really need to do some research" I said,"the reason I don't and never want to come back to the KH is because I HAVE BEEN DOING RESEARCH (yes I hollered)...and my research shows that you may actually be the antichrist. I then got the poor Tasha you're so confused bit. I ended with just telling her she really needs to do some research and not me.....

After about 15-20 mins. the phone rang again and I knew it was her because no one calls this early in the morn. She called back to tell me she still loved me and she hopes one day she'll see me back at the KH. I told her I loved her too.( I was still pissed about being called an antichrist/antiJehovah because I don't want to be a JW again?

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Now you dont believe the Bible , which characters sound dodgy?

by sleepy in

when you stop believing the bible to be the word of god the motives behind the actions of gods prophets and followers come across rather differently.

in fact much like fundlmentlists today.you have joshua comiting genocide , and paul moving in and tacking control of the christians and changing the religion to his own beliefs.

which other characters actions can be interpreted differenly when you see them just as ordinary humans with more selfish motives?

Sweetp0985

Speaking of Noah and the Ark...if all the earth flooded and no creatures/animals survived except those in the ark, what about all these little bitty ass irritating insects that we still have...Did Noah go around and get each one of them too...Or did God create them again after the flood. Think about how dirt is now after a little rain. Ground all soggy, trees falling over in some places. There are some plants that can't take being under water for 2 weeks less more than 40 days/nights. But yet there was that good ole olive tree that survived right? I mean mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters, fleas(well i guess those could have been on some of the animals), the wicked serpent(why did he even allow Noah to take snakes on the ark if they were cursed anyway???), there are so many more animals that I wonder about but Noah had every last one of them in the ark right and those that didn't make it in the ark survived 40 days/nights of water.....RIIIGGHHHTTTT!!!!!!

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Why Does God Permit Wickedness?

by undercover in

how many times did we, as jws, see that question?

how many times did we read or recite the same ole bs about allowing wicked people to try to rule themselves and failing?

god's soverienty was brought into question and now he'll give satan and man so many thousand years to give it a try.

Sweetp0985

We're Earthlings on this Earth = Ants in a Ant Farm!!!!

That's how I feel God views us.