we do not choose our names our parents do so, are you pleased with the one they picked for you?
if not what would you like your name to be?
i am very pleased with my name, nicolas.
I like my given name (Melissa) although I hated it as a child, but I wish I could choose a different last name.
When I got married my named became "Moan". I get people kidding "so.... is it true?" . I used my name in the search engine and all that comes up is PORN!!!!
Moanzy
once an elder asked me if i had any problems with masturbation?
i told him, no !!!!
that was before getting baptized.
After I was reinstated I was talked to by an elder about proper sex in the bedroom with my non-jw husband. I was shocked, but just replied that I knew.
Moanzy
i remember growing up, the witness children were often ones that were left to see all those g rated movies from disney.
yet even those at time, while accepted by just about every religion out there, were considered demonic.
for example, the following movies were said to show witchcraft and in or congregation we were encouraged to discard them and not own copies of them; sleeping beauty, snow white, the little mermaid, bed knobs and broomsticks, and fantasia.
Bewitched and ET
Moanzy
(of course, do not give out their real names) i want to keep this thread going!
i think mine would be to the elder that got up and moved as far away as he could from me in the restaurant!
"the next time i see you in a restaurant, i hope you choke on a chicken bone!
I would say "See what happens when you use your own mind, you actually make something of yourself!!!!! and you no longer have the compulsion to meddle in other peoples spirituality"
Moanzy
not too long ago a new kingdom hall was built in bury, near where i live.
it is frequented by two congregations, whitefield and bury.
both have problems and are losing members (let's face it, with my family alone whitefield lost 5 .
Maybe this has been discussed before, but does anyone see the Watchtower Society creating their own bank? That is essentially what they are doing by borrowing to the congregations for reno's and new kingdom halls. They are obviously into realestate and knowing the way they work, I wouldn't put it past them to start a "special" banking system especially for the JW's.
Don't the banks borrow from the Federal Reserves which would be people like the Rockafellers and other extremely rich powerful families and then borrow that money to the rest of the population for a higher interest rate than they pay?
The banks make so much money off this. I can see the Watchtower doing this because of the vast amount of money to be made. The witnesses think this is such a steal of a deal because this is a slighty less interest rate than a bank. Of course they just don't quite get they are borrowing money with interest that they actually gave (duh!)
The Watchtower society can make it all look so legitimate on paper because they claim to be a "religion" and they can use reasoning like "look at the growth" bla bla bla to hide the real reasons from the rank and file.
Moanzy
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hello all.... sat around the campfire this weekend and laughed our butts off coming up with jeff foxworthy type humor.
it was so funny we thought it would be fun to run a thread here... i'll start.... "if your only yearly vacation is a "trip" to the district convention...you might be a jw.".
If you are released from the hospital the same day as you give birth and you make it to the meeting, you are probably a JW.,
Moanzy
i mean really...i keep making bad decisions..that seem "right " in the short term...yet go bad in the long term.. how is it possible for anyone to make good decisions..or be perfect..when we don't know what the end result of the decision is going to be?.
how can you make a mistake when you know what the end result of every decision is going to be?
guess you would almost have to do it on purpose.
I wonder if it is all about making good decisions or if it is about learning from any decisions or choices we make.
Obviously there are going to be some choices that we know are bad or not worth it, but as far as the rest go, I would just try to turn the end result into something useful.
Moanzy
this will probably apply to few here, but to me it'll always be that way.
it's the what if syndrome maybe, but it's always there.
i still think that as a core belief system the jw's have it right, even if their delivery isn't always right.
You mentioned God had a chosen people? Are you sure? Try out some books addressing who the Israelite people were. It's becoming more obvious to me that they were just another civilization and the bible is a sort of history on them and what they believe and how they developed into a nation. The Hebrew scriptures were not written during the time of Moses, but many years later. The stories were probably orally passed down and eventually written. Who knows if they are even true. Just because someone says they are "chosen" doesn't make it so.Look at the religions today that claim "chosen" does this mean it's true?
Moanzy
go back to the kingdumb hall??
even for someones wedding or a loved ones funeral?
NEVER, NEVER AND NEVER!!!!!! Where I'm from ONLY witnesses have feelings and grieve. I found that one out at my gramas funeral.
I would however visit the grave at a later time and if it was a family member, I would have my own private memorial for them.
Moanzy
i havent really had a chance to ask anyone about my favourite book - enoch, the book that apparently the church fathers tried to "remove".
has anyone else here read the book of enoch, or the book of the secrets of enoch.if so what is your opinion, i found it to bear many similarities to revelation in certain places .
also including a history of the angels who caused much mischief in noah's day is fascinating , references to the son of man in such detail and the concept of different heavens is interesting as well.
Have you had a chance to read the book attributed to Mary? It's not a long one, but it is also quite interesting. The more I read these books that were not included in our canonized bible the more I see why they don't want them in.
I don't think we would have a christian religion with these books included. We would have a more mystery religion than a dogmatic one.
Moanzy
