i have been a loooong time lurker on this board.
i want to get in on the action now!!
i was a jw for nearly 25 years.
We were just talking earlier this morning about a "friend" who has a similar experience, husband wanting to be a JW and wife that went along for the sake of the marriage and family. How sad that so many are in this situation. I think I know YOU! Glad to have you here finally. Call if it's you!
Little Bo Peep
i still own my new world translation bible and i really would like to buy a new bible.
there are so many translations out there i don't know which one to get.
any advice?.
Hi mama1119. How's it going. New baby soon?
Little Bo Peep
It's interesting, Jesus, in Matthew 24, time and time again, Jesus said no one, including himself would know the day of his arrival. It seems funny that not Jesus or the apostles would know when Jesus would come, but the witnesses figured it out!
i still own my new world translation bible and i really would like to buy a new bible.
there are so many translations out there i don't know which one to get.
any advice?.
I have Tyndale's "Eight Translation New Testament". It's great for comparing scriptures. The one I like best so far is Zondervan's "NIV Study Bible". The footnotes are wonderful, taking nearly half a page on each page. It's complete, Genesis to Revelation. I think you stil have to rely on context, as I've found every translation has a measure of bias. Enjoy your new "read" whatever it may be.
Little Bo Peep
i was yelled at once by a sister for buying the canadian beer 'sleemans' because apparantly it's founder john sleeman was an apostate.. trust me, you can't make this #$@& up!
lol.
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We manufacture a product...I wonder if the witnesses that know us will stop buying for fear we'll contaminate them?
Little Bo Peep
i was yelled at once by a sister for buying the canadian beer 'sleemans' because apparantly it's founder john sleeman was an apostate.. trust me, you can't make this #$@& up!
lol.
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It's hard to believe there is so much superstition among the witnesses (FEAR!). I used to fear buying something at a 2nd hand store or a yard sale, that it would be demonized, and I'd bring them home!
Little Bo Peep
anyone remember back 15 years or so ago when some brothers used to think mars bars were made with lecithin derived from blood .. we had a sister call the company and interrogate them.
funny.. .
I remember worrying that some glue and fertilizers also had blood in them. We were told we could call the manufacturers to find out for sure. Extreme beliefs forsure.
Little Bo Peep
apupi - illinois.
local jw, susan estrogen, recalls her horror when she first saw the large, orange vegetables on the porch.
"there i was between breaks while out on field service when i saw it!
A sister in Portland put straw bales, gourds etc on her front porch and the brothers called telling her they should come down (since then she has exited). About 10 years ago, our daughters made a wreath of pinecones and flowers on to place above our fireplace (in the spring, not even around xmas) and an elder made a comment about it. I kept it hanging. One just has to enjoy the colors of fall and everyone thinks you're "pagan". Conformity, no matter what. Everyone think alike.
"yes i have anger.
i've been angry at christianity for years.
that doesn't mean i don't love the people who've been brainwashed though.".
When you spend your whole life (50+ years) believing wholeheartedly you have the one and only "truth", it's a shock to the system for sure to learn you've believed a lie. We have been out over 4 years now and still, we'll read something on JWD and wonder how in the world we didn't leave earlier. I think when you invest your life in this religion, it's something like losing someone in death. You mourn, are angry, cry, are fearful, etc. It takes time to feel OK with yourself. I'd like to put the whole thing behind us but there is still family very active, some of whom are not shunning us...so it'll take awhile longer.
Little Bo Peep
hi everyone, just would like a bit of advice on how to 'corner' my ex jw mates so they see im right with only what their publications say and with the bible?
i have a few ideas up my sleave but i was hoping to get a few other good examples on other topics like the blood thing, but only prove them wrong using their material, that way they cant say its 'apostate' (although you never know what some jws will come up with these days).. for example whats the best and least confusing way to explain the blood thing?
we really need a reference on all of this so that we can make up a single letter that exsplains everything that they have contradicted themselves with and all the mixed up stuff they have done, straight to the point and soooo simple that even a jw can read and understand it (maybe a nice picture book with colouring in?).
A poster earlier today used this ilustration, as have I, regarding using fractions. My fathers doctor asked me twice how we could take fractions since we didn't take blood. As the drone that I was, I said I couldn't explain it but it was OK! How stupid. Knew something didn't sound right, but went along with it anyway.
The illustration was of a sandwich. You can eat the ham, cheese, mayo, lettuce, bread, etc. each by themselves, but you can't put it together as a sandwich and eat it. That's how rediculous it sounds to say you can take all the fractions, yet can't take the blood it comes from.
Also, witnesses say you must pour out the blood. How can you pour the blood out and produce fractions? You can't!
Even though witnesse say they don't take blood, in fact they do. You can't take a little blood, it's like saying you'll only steal a little. Stealing is stealing. Blood is blood, a little or a lot.
Little Bo Peep
