wearing faded jeans only as a bethelite is a cause for concern for the governing body.
i had jeans that were not totally faded as the "world" would consider them.
so one freaken' weekend as i passed by a wt building, a tightwod bethel elder (now just an elder) asked me how i was doing (bla bla bla).
I wonder whether the elders would have counselled John the Baptist for wearing Camel Haired clothes and not let him baptise people until he wore a white tee shirt and shorts instead?????
What other things are not allowed now?
How would the whole culottes/suit shorts go down for instance what are in fashion at the moment? Much better for the ministry I bet?
i was baptized by the jehovah witnesses in 1970. in arecibo, puerto rico.
i believed in god and i believed that jesuschrist was a god ( according john 1:1 on the jw's bible) created by the true god.
i didn't believe in life after death much less that i was a conscious spirit that would leave the body when i died.
Hallejulah!! Praise God!! What an amazing story. What a sneak the Devil is by making himself into a God in DubLand, not a rebel angel who we have the authority of in Jesus's name, and now millions have gone without a relationship with Jesus. What upsets me is I have faithful family that have now died and they may not be where they should because of the Borg! I have 2 left in and family who just don't know anymore what to do. How can we get through to those left in Borgland??????
i da'd myself two years and yet i have 3 jw cousins that continue to communicate with me.
either thru email or face to face.
when i ask them if they know the consequences of their actions they just reply "i don't care".
Maybe the older folks think it is because in the last days the young will become rebels etc. I think that it is all too sureal for most teen folk JWs and their parents know now that they haven't seen things happen as they were told that they would, so hopefully they will soon be borg free!
i am going to try this on my legs.
has anyone, or does anyone get their legs waxed?
how bad does it hurt?
Try Sugaring I am qualified at it. It is less painful, breaks less hairs and actually deminishes the hair growth. Legs I find the most painful, but I do suffer myself with very sensitive skin. The other thing is to take some paracetomol before going which will take the edge of the pain.
Also you are more suseptable to ingrown hairs as the hairs are more puny after waxing/Sugaring so use Tea Tree Oil to prevent this, this will disolve any dead skin over a hair and stop red boils from developing as it is an anticeptic (not to use if you are pregnant though) and ALWAYS MOISTURISE this will stop your next treatment from being so painful as you will not pull the skin as well as hairs.
And finally the therapist should use talc as this stops the product pulling at your skin and only your hairs.
Good luck......
Tish
i know i'm telling you guys this a bit late, but i really needed to let it sink in.
we told my parents about the baby sooner than we had planned.
we told them last friday.
Hi, sorry to hear you have such bad parents, you know now it's down to you to make sure you don't make the same mistakes. As my husband says no one can judge you except your own children.
Congratulations on you baby, may you and your wife be blessed by this child...
so i grew up as a jw and my family had no elders etc so we were not the type to have the honour of co visiting for lunch etc.. so when the opportunity arrived 5 yrs ago i tried to do it all properly.
my husband had to go into work at the last minute leaving me with a baby with chicken pox and a son off from school with a twisted ankle, my daughter was high on astma meds which mean't she was throwing roast potatos across the table at the co's wife whilst i did my best be the hostess with the mostest.. sadly my hubbie at the time did not get made a mini as the elders had hoped until i could control the children!!.
has anyone else had any funny things happen to them whilst entertaining cos?
They just probably wanted to carry on and get another hour on the ministry and were upbuilding you. Remember JWs are used to standing on a door for 20 mins when they know nobody is in, that's called pioneering.
not many people will have faced this situation, but i know at least one brother who was counselled on backpacking.
it was said that he would be damaged spiritually.. how would he get to the meetings in countries he travelled in?.
what if he was 100's miles away from the nearest hall?.
I can only imagine that there would be problems if you did not get your report in on time for talking to other backpackers!
I suppose you would have problems not knowing where to knock, but seriously does that mean that John the Baptist would have also been counselled??
everyone is making a huge deal about it.
better not miss meeting this week the do is giving talks!!!!!!!
hes better than the co because he has even less to do with you personally!!!!
Well if you want to borrow my kids to get rid of them then please feel free. When I had the CO for dinner my daughter threw a roast potato at the CO's wife, that got rid of them!!!
i knew a number of elder's wives that were nuts.
one in particular used to talk to herself regularly.
We used to have loadz of nutters - one sis used to be able to get 5 rows all to herself by eating enough raw garlic to see the whole crew off from Blade 3 off she used to sit at the front on a Sunday and the poor guy giving the Public Discourse would obivously be sitting down wind to her - oh our bellies ached esp if he was boring!!!
so i grew up as a jw and my family had no elders etc so we were not the type to have the honour of co visiting for lunch etc.. so when the opportunity arrived 5 yrs ago i tried to do it all properly.
my husband had to go into work at the last minute leaving me with a baby with chicken pox and a son off from school with a twisted ankle, my daughter was high on astma meds which mean't she was throwing roast potatos across the table at the co's wife whilst i did my best be the hostess with the mostest.. sadly my hubbie at the time did not get made a mini as the elders had hoped until i could control the children!!.
has anyone else had any funny things happen to them whilst entertaining cos?
Well during the war obviously we would have made it last but we are quite outrageous with our tea bags and hell who cares how much flava is left.
We also gage how far up north you are by how strong your cup a tea is, so if I get asked I like it slightly north of Dudley, which funnily enough is where an JayDubb Assembly Hall is!!
Obviously though we are not as fussy as you yanks about the state of coffee, we like our instant over here unless we listen to classical music! LOL
