My husband bought my 1st cross for my birthday 2 weeks ago and even though I have been out for 5 years still look around constantly to see if there are any witlesses around. But I now have freedom in Christ and tend to notice whenever I am pondering something that I am touching the cross isn't that's what it is all about looking to Jesus n what he did for us by dying on the cross not worshipping an execution implement as I was brought up to believe.
Posts by Tish
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28I bought a cross.
by lostlantern ini will consider this my first act of spiritual freedom.
i bought myself a celtic cross, i will admit i picked one out that i hope isn't recognizable to my parents.
i know it is pathetic to be 31 and still afraid of what they think but i am not ready to lose them.
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Red eyes
by beautifulisfree injust the other day i had a horrible witness flashback.
i remembered that when my dad was an elder...he would come home from his elder meetings with red eyes.
he also would get red eyes whenever he was mad at the family about something 'spiritual' like how we didn't have the pioneer spirit or how we were wearing to short of dresses (even if they came down to the floor).
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Tish
I think that it's down to KHs not having windows so they can't see the light.......... Even though it is getting brighter and brighter (on new builds anyway)
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CO Visit Nightmares
by Tish inso 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?
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Tish
No this was chicken!!
But seriously don't all COs eat strange we used to have anouncements saying CO is on Hays Diet so no combining your foods.
I think that's where the COs get the idea of not combining a personality with their job.
The COs wife if I remember did not get off her lazy bottom the whole time just sat there, frowning n sniffing. For any one from the UK it was the CO who had a fetish with "Do as Ya Mather Tells Ya" refering to the Borg.
But seriously, the elders said that Jah wanted my hubby to be a MS even though he was having an affair behind me back now that's spirit directed!! But my Group Study Conductor blamed my lack of mothering on why he wasn't not that I was virtually bringing the kids up on my own.
Oh happy times, I'll have to try and remember some more gems it has been a while since living in DubLand
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CO Visit Nightmares
by Tish inso 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?
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Tish
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?
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Elder's school.
by ithinkisee inmy father-in-law and i had a big discussion about elders and how they are not loving.
i said this was indicative of the society as a whole.
he countered by saying, "i go to the elder's school, and it is full of loving advice.
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Tish
I wanted to go but I was a GIRL, so therefore did not have a brain as some elders insinuated when I was in DubLand.
Stepford Wives is not that primative!
Anyway I thought the idea was that the elders had a good excuse to go to the races for 2 days and get very very drunk!
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144,000 are you one of them?
by JCinme inhey i've been studying jehovah's witness beliefs but i had a question, how does anyone know who the 144,000 are?
if you could respond with what you know that would be great.
thank you.
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Tish
Well, I was told that I was not as I was too young when I was growing up in those days it had to bee you had seen 1914, but now the 30s when did that happen??
Is this new light or was I asleep in that WT?
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Switching Holy Ghost on and off and using KGB as Gods servants...
by Trojan inthis weeks study of daniel's prophecy book.
this one made me really feel sick....
chapter 16, page 273-275 #7-10. i never saw this and it was there - all the time!
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Tish
Please are they still studying this book again!! I've been out for 5 years and this was one book that went fruit cake saying that certain things said at assemblies I went to were prophesied in Daniel. Poor guy, now that's scary!!
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Watchtower "study" - a puzzle for drones
by Gregor inok, here's how you prepare for the watchtower study.
come on, it's fun!
an unmarked copy of the watchtower for thewt study that week.
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Tish
But it does look pretty
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Live for 100 years
by Ellie in.
did anyone see the tv programme 'time' last night?.
maybe you all know this already but i was quite shocked to hear that scientists are working on some kind of gene therapy to prolong human life.. according to 1 scientist, within the next 40 years they will have figured out a way to alter our genes which will enable us to live an extra 20 years, by the time that 20 years is up they will have advanced to be able to prolong our lives to 200 years, and he predicted that before long we will be able to live to be 1000 to 2000.
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Tish
That would probably be ok but according to statistics our children will not live to be as old as us as they are living such an unhealthy life, so maybe they should sort that out first
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Watchtower "study" - a puzzle for drones
by Gregor inok, here's how you prepare for the watchtower study.
come on, it's fun!
an unmarked copy of the watchtower for thewt study that week.
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Tish
Oh my goodness this takes me back, what would have been even more fun would be to print out all the scriptures on a separate sheet this however was condemned in my cong as it wasn't read from the bible itself, but scored high in the old spiritualometer of supremicy!!