i sent my birthday document (http://thebentinel.com/jw-birthdays.html) to a poster here that is at the very least a jw-sympathizer, if not a full-blown jw.
the response i got back indicated that my reasoning on it was seriously flawed and essentially any idiot with a passing knowledge of scripture and history can tell that birthdays are not something christians should celebrate.. of course, if you're not a bible-believer or a god-believer, you couldn't care less about pagan origins and all that.
but let's keep this conversation on the 'appropriate for christians' vein.
was it you that did that good thing about birthdays. where you spoke about eye makeup and how only two other people in the bible wore eyeshadow and they were bad people so if we're not gonna do birthdays then we should nt do eyeshadow?
that was dead good reasoning, i would also like to know about jobs children as that reasoning would be hard to show a jw?
ok so its nearly christmass and i'm thinking of celebrating it for the first time, but i feel alittle wrong in doing so, i know all the witness reasoning of why its wrong and just wondered what your reasons are as to why its right!.
i have a 3 year old little girl and would love to make it nice for her (tho my family would go mad!
) im thinking of getting a baby tree (one that can easily be hidden!
thanks everyone,
guess 30 years of believeing christmass is wrong is pretty hard to let go of, i'd like to know some more things that we do with pagan orgins so i can feel better about celebrating it!
wow what alot of brothels!
there was one on the same road as a jw old peoples home and two of the old dears used to walk down each week with the mags, ethel pushed doris in the wheelchair, they used to come back and tell us what good calls they had theyd no idea it was a brothel they had a mag route with someone called gemini and one time came back so happy that shed invited them in but someone had said 'the wheelchair was extra' so they hadnt gone in, (good job eh?)
I used to love knocking on vircariges used to be so certain i had the 'truth' and loved talking to them (mad or what!)
ok so its nearly christmass and i'm thinking of celebrating it for the first time, but i feel alittle wrong in doing so, i know all the witness reasoning of why its wrong and just wondered what your reasons are as to why its right!.
i have a 3 year old little girl and would love to make it nice for her (tho my family would go mad!
) im thinking of getting a baby tree (one that can easily be hidden!
ok so its nearly christmass and i'm thinking of celebrating it for the first time, but i feel alittle wrong in doing so, i know all the witness reasoning of why its WRONG and just wondered what your reasons are as to why its RIGHT!
I have a 3 year old little girl and would love to make it nice for her (tho my family would go mad!) im thinking of getting a baby tree (one that can easily be hidden!) I will be more open about it next year but i want to be sure it isnt wrong to do it?
what you all think?
was it weird at your first christmass?
soooooo any of you thats been following my threads thanks (and poor u) i have changed my mind so many times.
i have finally decided that i must stop trying to get reinstated, basically i got dfed 9 months ago had a boyfriend i felt i loved, was married tho still to my hubby who is only just starting to divorce me, (hes waited coz he keeps saying we could try again for the sake of our daughter but he would expect me to be completly in the 'truth') i hid the bf from my family coz they were so heartbroke and i decided to please them i would get reinstated and then fade, but as time went on i realised that wasnt an option as with a family like mine it would be so hard to do, plus there was the bf still hidden poor guy, anyway we spilt up several times, i was a complete physco i kept blaming him for everything,.
anyway last month i put my letter of reinstatement in and sat there scared stiff that they would reinstate me (as that would defo mean the end of the bf) they didnt reinstate me, and i blamed the bf and we spilt for good;.
ross i do actually blame myself but you have made me feel better tho if it is cancer i dont know what ill do, my dad is so wonderful he even says he doesnt want to tell me about it as he doesnt want to influence my decision, he wants me to come back for jehovah he doesnt want me to go with 'the boy' but he wants me not to do things for him, he is a lovely man,
biker chic i know what u mean but i had made a decision, the problem was carring it thru, esp when i did tell my parents and they keep acting like i could still do 'the right thing!'
dont ask me why, but my family and friends call me "skinner"!
how about you?
i know a few who have several different ones.
when i was at school i used to be called roundabout, (coz i made people dizzy!)
not sure what it is now, i dont think id want to know!
well it's my first christmas and i am excited!!!!
i am shopping for giftola's, and on saturday the b/f bought me my very first christmas tree!
hurrah!!!!.
i want to get one of those baby trees (you know the kind you can hide just in case!!)
i feel wierd thinking of celebrating christmass coz my family would have a fit but i kind of want to, is it worth it you guys?
and what do you do?
soooooo any of you thats been following my threads thanks (and poor u) i have changed my mind so many times.
i have finally decided that i must stop trying to get reinstated, basically i got dfed 9 months ago had a boyfriend i felt i loved, was married tho still to my hubby who is only just starting to divorce me, (hes waited coz he keeps saying we could try again for the sake of our daughter but he would expect me to be completly in the 'truth') i hid the bf from my family coz they were so heartbroke and i decided to please them i would get reinstated and then fade, but as time went on i realised that wasnt an option as with a family like mine it would be so hard to do, plus there was the bf still hidden poor guy, anyway we spilt up several times, i was a complete physco i kept blaming him for everything,.
anyway last month i put my letter of reinstatement in and sat there scared stiff that they would reinstate me (as that would defo mean the end of the bf) they didnt reinstate me, and i blamed the bf and we spilt for good;.
thanks diamond that helps alot i am gonna see my solictor next week, feel abit wierd today coz ive found out my dad has a tumour and i feel really bad at the pain ive caused,
i feel like making him happy and just going back but i love my boyfriend so much and just cant give him up, and even tho ive told my family about him they keep acting like i will come to my senses and give him up but we are actually planning on living together soon, im scared to go ahead in case my dad does have cancer, but i have come so far now, am i being selfish?
some days are just worse than others: my mother screamed at me for like 10 minutes because i was running late for the bookstudy!
i don't even wanna go to these things!
and ever since that damn km that came out a couple months ago telling family heads the importance of having a regular family bible study my father won't even let a week pass by without us all gathered around the living room doing a question and ansewr out of the secret to family happiness book.
I actually had a really good childhood in the 'truth' it was only when i grew up abit it was really hard.
we had two studies a week one was the bible reading and one was a proper study, we did it without fail every week even the phone was unplugged! it got so boring us kids really kicked off and i have to admire my dad always kept going eventually made it interesting for us by letting us choose what we studied and i had a little brother who would always prepare a play act of something from the bible story book and we had to guess what it was,
makes me kind of sad thinking back! (im just in that kind of mood today!)
i have to tell all of you here about the shocking thing that i have witnessed at my place of employment.
let me say that i own a cell phone and i don't have a problem using it.
but there has to be some common sense guidelines about where and when a cell phone should not be used.
way to go katiekitten, that would of shut her up! youre right i would of thought of all that too think its a girl thing!
ive had a lad answer the phone while having sex with me just to tell the person what he was doing and then put it down, (not sure how i feel about that!)
