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  JWs and Clothing

  by the_classicist in

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  where i live, its not usual for people to "dress up," especially business people and executives, you are more likely to see them with a button up shirt, khakis, and one of those fleece vests on.

  so, on the whole, jws look very out of place wearing their cheap suits (though a few elders didn't wear cheap suits and they made that known, "look at this, i got a spot on my new $200 designer shirt" -- really, something like this happened).

  but what i did notice is that, in my area, dressing guidelines usually weren't followed, or enforced for that matter, for good looking women.

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  diamondblue1974

  I did not matter what I wore. I was always looked down upon because I had BOOBS.

  That will be the elders wives and other sisters being jealous...funny how that influences the menfolk isnt it?
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  the love you had at first?

  by eye 23 in

  1. watchtower
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  i have been so sadend by finding this site and wanted you all to know that the organization is indeed a loving one with only your best interests at heart...but i'm sure, if you look deep within your hearts you already know this to be true...dont you?.

  if you search your inamost thoughts and feelings and put away your debeauched/immoral life style ( because if you are truly honest with yourselves, guilt is the reason you needed to distance yourselves from righteousness) and come back to the truth you will see that only kind, loving and overwhelming compassion has always been at the forefront of the wtbts and that although you may feel contentment in a (deluded sort of way) you would have a real happiness within the true christian organization...as your former bible trained concience must know... all others that profess to be 'christian' are satanicly influenced even though they may appear to do good/kind things....how else would the last days of satans system be?.

  so i urge all the 'lost sheep' to 'find the love you had at first' and return to the loving compasionate embrace of the organization....you know this makes sense!!!!

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  diamondblue1974

  I love the sense of humour....keep it up...

  Welcome to THE forum.
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  JW Lawyers getting fed up with cleaning up after the GB?

  by ithinkisee in

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  i hope that those that are jw lawyers get tired of the governing body and quit bethel because of the bull shit theyv'e had to clean up after the gb.

  it may be happening right now.

  think about it the gb have issued the call for more lawyers to the congregations,, perhaps there is some disloyalty growing towards the gb being manifested in the legal department and the gb needs help desparately.

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  diamondblue1974

  Its a dirty job but somebody needs to do it....dont know how a lawyer could be bankrupt from dealing with them though...they have plenty of money from peddling books door to door dont they?....or am i talking about Encyclopaedia Britanica?

  Any lawyer who bankrupts themselves doing the work must be daft...or not charging enough...
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  I'd like to share this with you

  by heatherg in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  february 26, 2005

  i hope this is the final time i will be annoyed by letters from the witnesses.

  i have had many dealings with your membership; all of them bad.

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  diamondblue1974

  Your gran sounds great...good intelligent response...keep up the good work.
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  Who Do You Think Really Knows That The Organization Is BullCrap???

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  do you think the governing body really knows it??

  the lawyers??

  the average elder or ministerial servant?

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  My dad and uncles made so much money of the org...still do...

  How so, how did they make so much money from it? Just out of interest.
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  The New Light that burned me

  by czarofmischief in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was reading the 1975 thread, and considered posting on it, but since i wasn't born until the carter administration, i don't think i really can comment on it.

  i can sympathize, however.. you see, i was raised in the truth.

  rarely missed a meeting.

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  diamondblue1974

  Also being brought up in as a JW I was led to believe that 'millions now living will never die' and when the startling news that the view had changed the words 'goal posts' and 'moving the' came to light.

  It was then I started to gradually fade away and doubt the information I had been spoon fed since being little; I had the balls to raise this with an elder at the time and I suppose it was then I began my career as an apostate because I dared to doubt the word from the platform.

  I raised a very pertinent point in that why didnt Jehovah reveal this 'new light' earlier in the generation; why is it that this supposedly 'new light' only came to be when they were on the brink of being exposed? i.e when those people who had seen those times were on the way to passing over from this life onto the next...why why why?

  The answer i got was classic...the elder said 'you should be very careful about what you say and pray you ask the right questions'....

  The fade began not long after...
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  What's your greatest coincidence?

  by ozziepost in

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  well, haven't you had things happen and you just know they're not accidental ...... or are they?

  some people don't 'believe' there are such things as coincidences but whatever, what's the greatest of coincidences that has ever happened to you?

  kinda like "what's the most coincidental of coincidences", eh?

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  My gran was in hospital recovering from being seriously ill, she was on the mend it seemed; given this i decided to go see my then girlfriend and stayed away from home. It was New Years Eve and I was in bed because we didnt celebrate it then you see; and i woke and sat bolt upright and felt totally stunned but for no apparent reason....it was like awaking from a nightmare...I looked at the clock and it read 00.13. I couldnt sleep for another hour or so but couldnt understand why.

  Later that morning i woke and the phone rang; i had the most horrid feeling ever and said to my girlfriend that it would be my mum telling me that gran had died....and i later found out that the time of death was 00.13 exactly.
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  Tough day -- my mom died today

  by cruzanheart in

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  poor thing, she's had alzheimer's for about 10 years and the last year she's been on hospice care because she's been so close to death.

  the past few months she's been slowly filling up with water -- they gave her lasix (not sure of the spelling) to relieve the edema and it worked, sort of.

  last weekend she actually looked a little better.

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  diamondblue1974

  So sorry to hear of your loss; my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
  I lost my grandmother some time ago and she had already prepared for the worst but her favourite and in turn my favourite poem was the one below; draw from it what you will.
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  Do not stand at my grave and weep.
  I am not there.
  I do not sleep
  
  I am a thousand winds that swiftly blow.
  I am the diamond glint
  on newly fallen snow.
  I am the sunlight
  on ripened grain.
  I am the soft and gentle autumn rain
  
  When you wake from sleep in the early morning hush,
  I am the swift, uplifting rush
  of quiet birds in circling flight.
  I am the soft, starlight at night.
  
  Do not stand at my grave and weep.
  I am not there.
  I do not sleep
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  My thoughts on hating the WTS.

  by kwintestal in

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  2. friends

  " i was thinking today about hating the wts, and you know i really do, and for many reasons which i won't really get into here.. on this thought, i imagined the jwd (jesus' wacky discussion forum) website of 2000 years ago.

  i'm sure many of jesus' new followers would start threads about having their hands cut off, being stoned and the secret backroom shenanigans of the pharisees.

  all there is, is hate here!

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  diamondblue1974

  Posted this on another thread....i think it says all that needs to be said.
  
  'Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true'.
  
  Martin Luther King.
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  Queen Won't Attend Charles & Camilla's Wedding:

  by Englishman in

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  gosh!.

  the drama!

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4289225.stm.

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  diamondblue1974

  This makes me laugh....shes almost lowered herself to JW standards...lol