freedom is subjective but when you compare it to what we have had...its a damn sight better now...interesting point though.
diamondblue1974
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Has anyone got anything positive from being a JW?
by diamondblue1974 in.
i hear and read alot about peoples experiences and some are pretty horrendous....does anyone actually feel they have benefited from being a jw at least in one way or another...me personally i feel i benefited from the ministry school as public speaking is part of my job and has definately improved career prospects?.
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DID OUR PARENTS REPLACE BIRTHDAY OR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WITH ANYTHING ELSE?
by diamondblue1974 in.
what about it...i know for me i got gifts throughout the year but i didnt get as many as my friends did on their birthdays etc....what about you...do you or did you replace b/days and christmas gifts or celebrations with anything else whilst being a jw and in particular anything as personal....
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diamondblue1974
Being a JW is a cop out for being as tight as a ducks ass... what better or more convenient reason not to buy gifts...its against our religious beliefs...totally wrong....at first i thought it was a cop out but now i can see the actual reasons why the society ban it....for self esteem reasons...as another poster suggested on another thread about a different issue.
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DID OUR PARENTS REPLACE BIRTHDAY OR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WITH ANYTHING ELSE?
by diamondblue1974 in.
what about it...i know for me i got gifts throughout the year but i didnt get as many as my friends did on their birthdays etc....what about you...do you or did you replace b/days and christmas gifts or celebrations with anything else whilst being a jw and in particular anything as personal....
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diamondblue1974
what about it...i know for me i got gifts throughout the year but i didnt get as many as my friends did on their birthdays etc....what about you...do you or did you replace b/days and christmas gifts or celebrations with anything else whilst being a JW and in particular anything as personal....
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Celebrating my birthday...
by Jankyn inhi, all.. i celebrated (yes, indeedy, right down to cake and singing) my 45th birthday on saturday, and i learned a few things in the process.. my partner, who is appalled that i never had a birthday party or presents as a child, decided to make my birthday a week-long celebration.
each day, i had another gift--little things that she knew i'd like, like a box of almond roca, a little plastic moose (i love moose-s), and a book about natural ways to get the slugs out of my garden.
and each day, she made up a little poem about how glad she was that i was born.
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diamondblue1974
Happy Birthday....you are so right...there is absolutely no biblical support for the non celebration of birthdays and you have hit the nail on the head havent you; (idea for a new thread actually)...the reasoning behind it is to take away any self esteem our children have....after all how many of our parents or how many of we as parents replace birthdays and christmas with something as personal as gifts?
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Has anyone got anything positive from being a JW?
by diamondblue1974 in.
i hear and read alot about peoples experiences and some are pretty horrendous....does anyone actually feel they have benefited from being a jw at least in one way or another...me personally i feel i benefited from the ministry school as public speaking is part of my job and has definately improved career prospects?.
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diamondblue1974
Wow...when i posted this thread i didnt think i would get such a deep response...i agree with you totally; the world isnt what it is made out to be at all...how free are we?
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WHY are you here ? (on the board)
by frenchbabyface in.
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ok ... to me it's not totally related to jw life actually, i'm here because i'm used now to chat with people (you know like you go into a cafe and share wathever you want with whoever as this board is very rich and full for immediat interaction), support them, get some support ... i just like that ... also of course it's very interesting at the same time to follow some news and get information that i might spit back to my familly in time to wake them up .... what about you ?
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diamondblue1974
Brummie i have to admit...i am here for the same reasons only i didnt realise it...what fun place this is.
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HELP.. tips or advice for cleaning....
by Sassy ini am looking for any tips that might get me help getting my tubs and spots on my linoleum floor white.
i have soaked the tubs in bleach water and although it helped some, there still is some staining that i can't quite scrub out, and the same on my linoleum floor.
if anyone has any advice on things besides bleach i can try... i'd be grateful.
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diamondblue1974
BM with regards to your idea about getting some JW's in to do it for you....you have got no chance....i seem to remember it was always moaned about if anyone was in the hall cleaning rota...if they cant clean their hall they sure as hell aint gonna clean our friends floor....get real
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Can You Spot A Jehovah's Witness???
by minimus inare you able to tell if someone is a jw just by looking or listening to a person?
what are the give away signs that make you just know that they're a witness?
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diamondblue1974
just go to the nearest coffee bar or cafe on a saturday morning at about 10.30 and you will find them.
Either that look for an encyclopedia britanicca salesmen...if he or she lingers on an empty doorstep for longer than a minute then they are JW, probably of the pioneer variety...quite a common specimen apparently.
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I'm thinking of going back
by Smoky inover the weekend my cousin came to visit from mi, and her husband (elder) started to do his shepperding thing with me (have not attended meetings for over 1 year), and made a compeling argument about how the holy spirit is given by god only if you attend meeting and go to field service...etc, etc.
and the whole "faith and works" issue.
it was a different angle that i have never heard before, about me being a "instrument or tool" of god...blah, blah, blah... anyhow, it got me thinking about going back...especially when things are not going to well for me right now... (he said its because i left jehovah).. how can i convince myself that this is not true?
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diamondblue1974
another useful analogy for the poison challice is this one...
you have a selection of 100 cakes in front of you; you are told that one of them has dogshit in it...(only a little though). which cake do you take and eat?
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I'm thinking of going back
by Smoky inover the weekend my cousin came to visit from mi, and her husband (elder) started to do his shepperding thing with me (have not attended meetings for over 1 year), and made a compeling argument about how the holy spirit is given by god only if you attend meeting and go to field service...etc, etc.
and the whole "faith and works" issue.
it was a different angle that i have never heard before, about me being a "instrument or tool" of god...blah, blah, blah... anyhow, it got me thinking about going back...especially when things are not going to well for me right now... (he said its because i left jehovah).. how can i convince myself that this is not true?
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diamondblue1974
freewilly are we tuned in to each other somewhere because we seem to be writing the same stuff in as many words.... sorry to have repeated anything you said....