when I was an 18 year old dub, I decided to become vegetarian. I was vegan for awhile and I ate super healthy. My very strict dub mom actually had a big issue with this. She thought I was being influeced by worldly ideas and that being a vegetarian was unspiritual. She said that the only legitimate reason I could have for being a vegetarian was health related. I couldn't be vegetarian for ethical reasons because Jehovah had given us permission to eat animals and not eating animals would be "going above Jehovah". The elders had an issue with it, too, and seemed to think I was being rebellious. 15 years later, I'm not a dub, but I'm still a vegetarian (for ethical, as well as health, reasons).
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by kristyann inwe don't talk to them anymore, but a couple of years ago when we did, my boyfriend's jw mom and sisters all of a sudden decided that they were "vegetarians.
" they decided it was wrong to eat jehovah's animals, and plus, they said it was "healthier" anyway.
i found this to be pretty ridiculous for a few reasons.. one, they were not really vegetarians.
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is it just me or do mormons look happier than jdubs?
by in a new york bethel minute init seems to me that mormons enjoy their work a lot more than jdubs... and they do it 12 hours a day.
they have to walk everywhere.
they have no social life or money.
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lucky
check out this link:
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is it just me or do mormons look happier than jdubs?
by in a new york bethel minute init seems to me that mormons enjoy their work a lot more than jdubs... and they do it 12 hours a day.
they have to walk everywhere.
they have no social life or money.
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lucky
check out this link regarding rules for mormon missionaries. I found it pretty interesting: http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon244.htm
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What view did you have of apostates when you were a JW?
by bull01lay ini can remember being an attendant at one of the circuit assemblies in nottingham, where a group of pentecostals were picketing out by one of the gates.
i was intrigued for a short while, until a guy in a motorised wheelchair type thing, tried to get into the assembly by ramming himself into us.
i could of quite happily baptised him in the trent !!
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My mom instilled the fear in us from an early age that all apostates were demonized. I can remember in our congregation the apostates were marked on the back of the territory cards as Do Not Call - apostate. In one territory, apparently there was a particularly bad apostate and I remember my mom and the other sisters saying that they could just FEEL the demons emanating from his house.
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Did you ever 'Google' yourself?
by Legolas ini'm not on it, but my husband is!...
(his business picture)
try it and if anything funny comes up show us!
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I got 76 legitimate hits.
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What's the most ridiculous thing you were ever counselled on?
by micheal inone of the cornerstones of jw's is counsel.
they just love to give counsel and many times they will literally make things up just for the sake of counsel.
i was once counselled for joking around too much.
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lucky
Someone in my pioneer school told me I looked like a JCrew model. I took this as a complement at the time, but apparently not everyone was so keen on the fresh-faced, preppy look. The elders counselled me that I should get my hair cut and get a perm (I had waist-length thick blond hair), start wearing makeup, and not wear such long skirts. I guess they preferred that I look like someone out of a ten year old JCPenney catalog, like all of their wives.
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Do you feel comfortable with celebrating the holidays?
by Jamelle injust curious how different individuals have reacted to the though of celebrating holidays after they left the jws...?
any holidays you have more trouble with than others?
does halloween freak you out?
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lucky
Like others have said, my biggest stress is the fear that my mom will find out (I'm not df'd or da'd). It hasn't been too much of an issue since we live across the country and don't do much for the holidays, anyways. But, we're hoping to have a kid and I'm not sure how I'm going to deal with the holidays after that. I definitely don't want to deprive the kid of the holidays, but I would hate to have to resort to something like, "make sure you don't tell grandma about this". On the other hand, I don't want to tell my mom we're celebrating and then have her never speak to me or any of her potential future grandchildren again. Any advice from those out there in a similar situation?
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lucky
I knew a couple people in Kingman. Carrie and Wilma? (last name escapes me at the moment). Wilma was the mother; Carrie the daughter. Carrie was a pioneer (this was about 10 years ago). they had moved to Kingman from the congregation I was in (in the eastern part of the state). Were you in the Kingman congregation?
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Earthquakes in one place after another
by free2beme ini realize that in the 1990's, the witnesses changed their view on this thought of "earthquakes in one place after another" to be more figurative and not literal.
yet most active witnesses still see them as signs of the end.
i did when i was younger and something occurred to me today as i watched the news from pakistan.. did anyone ever have witnesses that expanded beyond the warning of this natural disaster (earthquakes) to include all natural disasters?
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lucky
The reasoning in that watchtower article is just mind-boggling.
I would venture a guess that the population in Tangshan was quite a bit smaller in 1914 than it was in 1976. But if the earthquake had struck in 1914, it would still have been in "the last days".
I would venture a guess that the bay area earthquake that hit in 1989 would have caused significantly more damage had it hit in 1913. Was Jesus not able to forsee engineering advances? Or do only earthquakes that cause a large "magnitude of human distress" count towards the "signs of the times"?
All indications are that the world's population will keep growing. What's to say that an earthquake that killed 15,000 people in 1980 wouldn't kill 50,000 people in 2080? How can they say that "the population is big, so that means the time of the end is now", when there's no indication that the population is going to stop growing? Although, I guess with the "new light", 2080 will still be "the time of the end."
It's disturbing that I use to buy into this crap.
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Finish This Sentence....You Know you're a JW teenager If....
by doodle-v induring class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
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you take the PSAT on a whim to get out of saturday morning field service, get the highest score in the school district, become a national merit semifinalist, have a big debate with your mother as to whether or not to write the required essay for the national merit competition, decide to write it on the topic of "why the truth is more important than college", and completely mortify all the teachers and counselors in your school.