Lilycurly

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  JWs and the calendar

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
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  i was in italy over new year's eve week and i visited the vatican.

  on the tour, the guide pointed out a monument to pope gregory, who invented the gregorian calendar which we use today.

  that made me think: jws are so hell-bent on avoiding anything non-biblical, yet they are ok with using the gregorian calendar, which was invented by, *gasp*, a catholic pope.

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  Lilycurly

  HA!! Never heard of that!lol I'd love to know what all the new names were.lol! Dear ol' Pastor!
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  hmmmm I wonder

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wonder if its possible to formally disfellowship schizm, scholar and the other dub apologists?.

  what if we unanimously decided that it was time to shun them and not respond to one word they have to say?.

  meagan

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  Lilycurly

  Their comments and our answers are also very useful to lurkers, they can experiment JW logic first hand....Also, it's quite entertaining, you have to admit.
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  Awake! Less Emphasis on the Bible!

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i picked up the march copy of the awake!

  magzine, looking to find more "emphasis on the bible.

  to tell you the truth, there is absolutely nothing of the kind!

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  Lilycurly

  That's exactly what they are trying to do...lol, ever noticed how every year around Christmas it's all about "Where does the christmas celebration really come from?" "Who was really Jesus?" "Does the holidays give you satisfaction?", and then when it's near Easter time "Do you know the real Jesus? (again)" and now it's about love just in time for valentine's day.

  I guess they think that people at the doors will be more inclined to take the mags using that technique...

  And it doesn't really work, I still got that vivid memory of me presenting an Awake magazine called (Yes!) "Who was really Jesus?" And the women just looked at me, then the mag and said "Yes, I know who he was and I don't need other people to tell me." SLAM! Back then I was kind of pissed, but now I think....well, good for her!:)
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  Slippers / shoes at book studies

  by billyboy in

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  2. friends

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  hi everyone!

  was there ever an issue as to whether you were / weren't allowed to wear shoes at a group book study in someones house , so everyone had to dump their shoes at the door?.

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  Lilycurly

  Two words....Spandex Slipper. And in flashy/neon colors most of the time. At least everyone had to wear them. After a few studies I got the brilliant idea to bring my own though, you know those nice ballet-shoes-like ones, in black.
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  A silly post......

  by EC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bob and sue meet....bob says he loves sue and wants to marry her...sue's lawyer's step in and give bob a list of things that he has to do to show how much he loves sue:

  1. you must go on 5 dates a week with her.

  they will be predesigned and you will only be allowed to stay within the structure of those predesigned dates.

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  Lilycurly

  The lawyers....um..darn, as much as I try to think of something clever representing the no-blood issue and shunning, I can't. I'll leave it to the pros.
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  RATE YOUR JOB!

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what kind of a job do you have?

  rate it below: .

  i absolutely love my job and wouldn't trade it for anything

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  Lilycurly

  2---I work at a daycare and I love working with children....but it's some of the parents that really make me pissed sometimes.
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  Witnessing Fun?

  by Mr.Beaker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  heres one for you all,.

  what did you used to do out witnessing to make it a little more fun that it really was?.

  my best friend misspeaches and i were regularly partnered up to go door knocking.

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  Lilycurly

  I liked to work with elderly ladies or kids...because when we would have a not-at-home territory to do, I would take care of the paper and mark a lot of them as not at homes again, lol, of course, we had to knock at a few houses or they would have suspected something, so I was careful to go to the ones that were obviously really not home. On top of that, they walked very slowly, so we really didn't do that much.

  When I was with other people, I would comment on how pretty the houses were, or flowers, anything...talk about anything to keep us walking slowly.
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  awake helps to educate people...

  by DannyBloem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  regardless of my last topic on non-information (non spititual information) i have to see this:.

  in my experience this is actually true, the awake helps people to get some general knowledge.

  especially jw''s in developing countries seem to have a bit more of general information because of reading the awake then others do.. can you agree on this one?.

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  Lilycurly

  As a kid, I used to like (read hate less) to read the informative articles about animals, other countries and stuff like that. But as soon as it started to drift to the "push the religion" part I would stop, it was always the same anyway. As I got older, I found the articles less and less interesting...(but I was in college then, lol, guess I had other sources of info.)
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  One-eyed cat no hoax

  by skyman in

  1. social
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  at least they claim it is no hoax look at the link for pitcure http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/oneeyed-cat-no-hoax/2006/01/13/1136956335177.html

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  Lilycurly

  Oh...poor baby.
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  Check this out! my first act of "rebellion"...

  by freedomlover in

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  2. friends

  well, not really rebellion but that i've wanted one of these for a long time so i went and did it today, and i love it!

  my little sister came out for a visit this weekend and i told her everything about leaving the jw's.

  she has pretty much left about 6 months ago when she went away to college.

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  Lilycurly

  After I got out I had a very delicate outline of a crescent moon on the back of my neck, just under my hairline. It's small and light brown. My sister got a matching one. All the time I was having it done I told to myself that every time I would think about it, I would remember not to let my life in the hands of a person or group ever again. This one is very symbolic to me.

  I also bought a pentacle, a cross and a anke-cross necklaces, because I have always found them absolutely beautiful and wanted to feel how it was like, wearing one. Freedom! lol But I felt really strange at first...like everyone was staring at my neck, wich I'm sure they didn't.lol