from reading this site i've learned that jws frown up buying used clothing etc.
from second hand stores because of possible 'demonization.
' my neighbors are jw and i notice that they have fairly frequent garage sales.
Ps: have you noticed they haven't been any stories about a cassette tape or a cd being demonized. Or maybe they just don't talk to me about it anymore. lol
Yes I have, but then again they don't talk to me about it anymore, either! I think maybe they have just switched their focus lately from demonzied music to demonized games and cartoons!
from reading this site i've learned that jws frown up buying used clothing etc.
from second hand stores because of possible 'demonization.
' my neighbors are jw and i notice that they have fairly frequent garage sales.
In my exerience, that was not a common belief among most witnesses. There may have been a few kooks (within the larger pool of kooks!) who may have thought that about all garage sales, but 99% of the witnesses I knew loved to shop at Garage Sales! In fact, their Friday morning (and sometimes Saturday) field service consisted of return visits purposely mapped among the path of the best garage sales!
There was a common belief, it seemed, that some garage sales had items that might be considered demonic ... like records and such, demonic symbols or books. They believed that if they had very obvious "demonized" items, then there might be a chance that some of their other items might be demonized. My mother would make us leave that garage sale and not allow us to buy anything. I only remember it happening a handful of times, though. Definitely not an everyday occurence, and definitely did not keep us away from all garage sales.
Did anyone else have this experience?
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.......instead of wtbts?
i always called it wtbts for watchtower, bible, & tract society.
.......instead of WTBTS? I always called it WTBTS for Watchtower, Bible, & Tract Society. Right?
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sometimes i hear someone say: "hold on just one cotton pick'in minute....".
i'm wondering, is a "cotten picking minute" a "bored" minute that feels like a long time or is it a "busy" minute that seems to fly by?
Seeing how it is a southern expression, I would guess that it is a lot longer than 60 seconds!!
this is hilarious!
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http://www.amishdonkey.com/media/bushblair.ram.
This is hilarious!
introductions so i never said the official "hi i'm a newbie thing".
now i'm a junior member and i thought that maybe i should speak up and just say hi to everybody out here that gave me good advice when i needed it and made me laugh in spite of things.
hi to all that i haven't gotten a chance to talk to yet and hopefully we'll get the chance here soon.
Although I have only just recently been looking at this website, my husband has been here much longer and this is his moniker. Maybe i am a chicken not to put my own moniker up, but here I am anyway. I also am searching for real truth though still I hesitate at times. Please welcome me. too.Leo's wife
Welcome Leo's wife! If you are still feeling scared of looking for the truth about the Truth?, go buy the sticker and put it up! It helped give me strength!
whilst i was sitting upon my porcelin thinking chair today i had a flash(originally translated as "splash") of new light.
why not get some wbts toilet paper printed.
i checked around and getting it done is no problem.. you can have up to 16" x 3.5" repeated area.
So ... who is gonna sneak in a Kingdom Hall and replace all the toilet paper in the bathroom??
I don't want it to wipe my butt with it! Let them wipe their own sh** with their own sh**!!
introductions so i never said the official "hi i'm a newbie thing".
now i'm a junior member and i thought that maybe i should speak up and just say hi to everybody out here that gave me good advice when i needed it and made me laugh in spite of things.
hi to all that i haven't gotten a chance to talk to yet and hopefully we'll get the chance here soon.
I imagine "u u s" is like double U's two U's as in dubbyas as in JWs as in...But anyway LOL at that poster Wild thing!
OH! I get it!
<Duh! And I'm not even blonde!>
we've all hurt people at one time or another.
some may have managed to keep it to the "made me feel bad" level, but others of us have hurt people severely.
this has almost surely been true down through the ages.. sometimes the people we hurt can't be asked for forgiveness.
I think that may be another reason why the invention of God has remained. I think primarily he was invented to control the masses of people.
This reminded me of an argument that people use to still justify believing in a God. Free will. When people ask ... why does God allow this or that? Why does God not intervene? etc. Their answer? Because God "granted" us free will! Yeah right! That is just a cop-out answer to justify them still believing in an imaginary being who does NOTHING!
introductions so i never said the official "hi i'm a newbie thing".
now i'm a junior member and i thought that maybe i should speak up and just say hi to everybody out here that gave me good advice when i needed it and made me laugh in spite of things.
hi to all that i haven't gotten a chance to talk to yet and hopefully we'll get the chance here soon.
UUs? What are UUs?
(The only time I have heard that term is when refering to Unitarian Universalists, but that wouldn't make sense!)
