Posts by Wasanelder Once

My folks studied in the sixties but never were baptized. They enforced the no Xmas and holidays in general but stopped attending the meetings after about three years. My mom was baptized in 1990, Dad still isn't. We were not allowed to watch army movies and never had toy guns. They even upheld the NO BlOOD bullshit, even when my mom had life threatening surgrery.

I think it was harder to be half assed about it all than fully immersed. There was all the guilt without the benefit of being in the club. We had no association "in" or "out" of the congregation. This was truly worse!

I played HS football as a freshmen and was all leauge. Then I didn't go out as a sophmore because I was studying and didn't want to "compete". The coaches were all PE teachers and gave me F's in PE. So the next year I went out for football to get them off my back.

How about you? Any others raised in this wierdass limbo?

W.Once

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Isn't resurection just you dying and leaving behind a really confused clone

by mkr32208 in

philosophy is becoming more and more interesting to me.

questions of existence of what makes you, well you!

i've been mulling this over in my mind for a while, and decided to ask your opinions on it!.

Wasanelder Once

Actually, Jehovah, through Jesus, has given permission to the tooth fairy to return all the teeth taken. This will serve as source material for DNA replication. This will solve the problem of interrupted existence and provide good dental hygene to all those ressurected.

W.Once

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Robin Thicke

by lonelysheep in

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is this alan thicke's son??

oh gosh, he's my new jon b.!

Wasanelder Once

Robin Charles Thicke (pronounced "Thick") (born March 10, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is an American songwriter and R&B singer. He is the son of soap-opera actress/vocalist Gloria Loring and Canadian actor, songwriter and game show host, Alan Thicke. Robin clearly follows in his parents footsteps and is a producer/actor/singer/songwriter in his own right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Thicke

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Dealing with dissenters while a JW

by greendawn in

when a jw how did you deal with dissidenters in the congos did you fear or admire them?

did you marginalise them or secretly approach them?

did you think they were right in some or all of their criticisms of the fds?

Wasanelder Once

During Pioneer school one of the CO's teaching asked, "How do you respond to those who criticize the society?" I remember responding with vigor, "I won't even listen to it". I look back now and I must have seemed like the assasin in the Manchurian Candidate..

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Have you ever fallen asleep while praying?

by JH in

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i don't know about you guys, but i never pray before eating and never pray before going to bed.. first of all i like a hot meal, so i don't pray before eating, and i also never pray before going to bed, because i might fall alseep before i say amen.

been there done that...

Wasanelder Once

Sparkplug,

This brother's siezures were not visible. He would just stare in the distance and swallow hard a few times and then it would pass. When he was praying, he stopped and swallowed and said a few nonsensical things and then finished. I felt bad for him as he was my friend for a number of years. It was funny in retrospect.

W.Once

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Bethel meals

by Alligator Wisdom in

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have any of you had the experience of eating with the bethel family?.

what were some of the idiosyncrasies of it?.

as i mentioned before in another thread, it was brought up to me by another jw guest after the meal that it was "as if this was like a cult" when everyone would drop their utensils on que, stand up in unison and end the meal with a prayer.

Wasanelder Once

Ate at Walkill in the mid 1980's. Yep, everyone stood up on cue and the three of us who were guests stood up about five seconds later. At that time they had three legged chairs in the dining room and you could tell how many guests there were that day because thier chairs inevitably fell over backwards as a result of thier occupants panic. The chairs made a loud echo-ing "Crack" on the floor. There was a chuckle at the table.

It was a bit boarding-school-like. It didn't impress me. Seemed too ritualistic for me.

W.Once

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Have you ever fallen asleep while praying?

by JH in

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i don't know about you guys, but i never pray before eating and never pray before going to bed.. first of all i like a hot meal, so i don't pray before eating, and i also never pray before going to bed, because i might fall alseep before i say amen.

been there done that...

Wasanelder Once

Nope, never have. We did have a Ministerial Servant who was having small siezures and had an episode while praying publicly. He thanked Jehovah for the "shoe boxes". It was moving.

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