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swiftbreeze
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Do You REALLY Know People?
by minimus inare you a good judge of character?
do you really know a "friend" or "loved one" like you thought?
have you ever been disappointed as to how "off" you were?
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Were You Always Afraid To Do Something Wrong As A Witness?
by minimus in.
jws are always being reminded that you "could" stumble someone.
you had to continuously question yourself about possibly offending another (weak) christian's conscience.....were you always worried that you were going to get into trouble because you might've screwed up somehow??.
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swiftbreeze
seems like some JW's looked for reasons to be stumbled as an excuse. A person would not get stumbled if they mind their own moth@ Fu*!@! got Da*@ business
what got me was the constant spying, people always always in your fu**** business. There was a sister at my cong. that would call me at work like "there's a car in front of your house, is your husband home? maybe he has company" she would do this on a weekly basis.
it got so bad i had to stop my child from working with other JW's in service because they would prey on him and ask him all kinds of leading questions. it was sick really really sick. I had to school him on what to say if someone was being nosy.
a jw reported to me that she saw another jw with another woman in his car. I said "so what! maybe it was his sister, cousin workmate whatever" get a life!
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-10-05 WT Study (Marriage--March 1)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 4-10-05 wt study (march 1, 2005 issue)
review comments
will be in black and parentheses ().
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stillajwexelder
OH MY GOD! i'm laughing my a** off at your post, because it's so true, it was always some crazy brother or teenager that would comment on that and you know they were trying to be funny. i remember sitting in the back of the KH dabbing my eyes with tissue from crying with laughter.
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Special Talk
by Es inhi all just curious did anyone go to the special talk????
what was so special about it.
i was supposed to go but like the memorial i accidently deliberately forgot opps :/ es
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swiftbreeze
thats real sick...my mother is studying with this sickening JW she told her that the special talk was about "marriage"...probably to just get her to the KH. she is always doing something underhanded when it comes to their study.
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Special Talk
by Es inhi all just curious did anyone go to the special talk????
what was so special about it.
i was supposed to go but like the memorial i accidently deliberately forgot opps :/ es
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swiftbreeze
My mother went (she is studying with the JW) she said that the special talk was going to be about marriage.
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #131
by ozziepost inhow's this weekend for you?
time to have some r&r?
i think some have had one of those weeks, eh?
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swiftbreeze
saying the words "truth", "friends" "brother" "sister" etc
looking into other religions
celebrating my birthday.... that was really weird
but it seems like now i can really listen to people and really get to know them without labeling them as "worldly" or having the WT blinders on.
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Gasp! i went to church!
by swiftbreeze inactually a local preacher has his church televised from time to time.
my mother n law was watching so i decided to tune in also.
it was very interesting.
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swiftbreeze
Actually a local preacher has his church televised from time to time. My mother n law was watching so i decided to tune in also. it was very interesting. He talked about friendship and how we all need a circle of friends to care for us. He used the example in the bible where this man was crippled and his friends was carrying him and tried to get him in to Jesus but the place was crowded so they lifted him up to the roof and made a hole and hoisted him down. he said how this man friends didnt take no for answer when they could not get him in but went to great lengths for this man. the fact that they carried him showed love.
what was really interesting is how he said that if one of your friends hasnt been to church how you should be patient and go see about the person, and if the person just doesnt want to come to church, for whatever reason, how you should go with other people that are in your circle of friends and gather at the person's house, with God's word, and have service there until the person is ready to come back. The bible does say do not forsake gathering yourselves together. The reason it was so interesting because as a JW i was always taught that if a person wasnt coming to the KH, that they were weak and you should call the elders. and if a person doesnt want to come to the KH then of course you then would start shunning.
I also noticed when they put the camera on the audience how many people were dressed in suits, dresses and the like, but some came in regular street clothes, clean and neat but with blue jeans and t-shirts etc whatever they had as their best to wear. it was very interesting also uplifting. The peacher actually used the bible! gasp! you know as JW's were taught that other religions don't use the bible and all they do in church is sing and holler. I believe i just might visit in person.
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What Is Your Comfort Zone?
by Golf inyeah, what is your comfort zone?
what makes you feel secure, relaxed, happy and comfortable?
care to share?
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sitting with friends having a drink and talking about old times.
i love to be around men talking sh** to each other. it's so funny and it teaches you not to be easily offended.
i also love my coffee with a newspaper
a rack full of clothes marked 50% off....a free afternoon... and a pocket full of money ;oP
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Were any of you "Self righteous" in the begining?
by new boy ini know i was!------------ in my "20s" there was no one more "self righteous" then me.
i thought everyone should be pioneering since we were so close to 1975!.
i actully had a card make up to hand to people saying "have sword will travel"------on the bottom it said a a a {available after armageddon} because i tought anyone who got married before then was a slacker.. what a "jerk" i was!!!.
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swiftbreeze
LEO:
I feel you. and i hated that. it was like if you were poor then Jah wasnt blessing your family.
regarding the sisters: they were the most judgemental. Elders wives would pick you apart like buzzards or avoid you like the plague. The PO wife was like the Queen bee.
I remember i had a part on the school with a po wife, and she started questioning me about my family, asking me questions about our family study, and field service time... and if we argued and fought with each other. I swear it seemed like she had looked in some personal file or something...i was like "WTF!" when i left her house i felt like my privacy had been violated.
as for me: yes i've been judgemental towards people at times..i don't want to say that i've been self righteous but i'm sure i have in some way or another... the borg trains your thinking that way
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The Dumbed Down Awake Sinks Lower ( May 8)
by metatron inthe latest awake has, on its final inside page, a section called "for family review" that consists of questions.
that witless families can ask their kids after they've read the magazine.
this new feature follows questions.
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swiftbreeze
i had boxes of old magazines i didnt know what to do with them. at first i felt bad about wanting to throw them away but i just had to because of the clutter. so i just adjusted my magazine intake to 6 each. that gave my family their personal copies and we had a few to place in field service. but we still had a pile up...oh well