I did! And thought I was the only one, when I was a good dub how i struggled to get my pioneer hours in! But towards the end of this service year I started putting about 4 a month, but hadn't actually been out for months. I stopped pretending around October, so I wont be on next years report either! And in 2 months time I'll stop being irregular and be officially inactive!! Woo Hoo.
Poppy
hi everyone, i have a question about tattoos.
i was told by a jw that getting a tattoo was going against jehovah, and that he forbid them is that true?
is it wrong?
The tattoo thing in the mosaic law times was all about religious tattoos of other gods,
Also if we were under the mosaic law there's lots of other things we should be doing, ie washing up to the elbows, observing the sabbath..
It's still considered to be a conscience matter.. but you certainly wouldnt be considered 'spiritual' if it became known you had one done, and if you were a brother your privileges would be removed..
I had my first tattoo aged 30 when I was still a good dub. Now I have 4, my favourite one being on my lower back, I used to love to bend over and search through my bag and flash it..
Guess we had to make our own fun at the meetings!!
ok as you have gathered im a wittness and i for one beleave we have the truth.not saying every thing is or has all ways been right because we live in a imperfect world with imperfect people.but as far as jehovah being god and jesus being his son.and the coming war of arrmegeddon.i would say we have the truth.i no about all the mistakes and misunderstandings we have had in the past.but i feel that is past and we have moved on.and abandoned i no what you all say about the year 607 being wrong but that date all deapends on it desolation was 70 years or not.so im just trying to understand how some of you say you lernt you was being lied to?
I'm so bored with your posts!!! You just post to stir things up and it always works, if YOU believed you had the truth you would not be here!! You just like controversy. The GREAT thing about you being here is some of the replies to your posts have really proved to me that the JWs are whitewashed graves, rotten to the core. So keep posting, you are a fab apostate,
Poppy
as jws we were told only 144000 go to heaven from the time of christ right up to this day.it dawned on me before i was baptized one day during my study that the numbers dont add up.
the brother was telling me that the roman persecutions of the christians were killing thousands every week.
initially, within weeks of jesus death, there were 5000 christians at least in jerusalem.
mkr.. I could never get this one!! How unfair, that anyone, regardless of their life course, if they die before the end will get automatic entry into the 'paradise', yet billions of good people will die and not ever get the chance..
Poppy
think not knowing that australia is in a different time zone has more to do with being american than being jwoh and its nowhere near france
tijkmo.. laughing my ass off.. I'm sorry I thought it was just me thinking this!
Poppy xx
finally got rid of the book study from our home last week, so this is the first Thursday (we had it then cos our cong shared a hall) I haven't had a meeting thing going on, even though I wasn't attending I used to have to get the chairs out etc and listen to it all afterwards and some of them would shout upstairs...arrgggh.
So relieved!!! I felt good since Iwoke up just thinking about it.
Poppy xxx
im looking for your help with an issue.
although im agnostic and not a bible believer, im currently having regular visits/discussions with a couple of jw elders.
im fully aware of the jw doctrine that christ is a created being and im familiar with scriptural texts and the reasoning they use in support of that claim.
Can I hijack this thread a little.. and also ask..
How do you trinitarians on the board explain the 'let not my will but yours take place' and also.. take this cup away from me, when jesus was dying, and god speaking to jesus when he was on the earth, ie this is my son the beloved...
I am genuinely interested, and also open minded, I'm not defending the JWs mistranslation of the bible, but other texts in the bible just point out the separate identity of Jesus and God.
Poppy x
i mean - many of us had a history that was exclusively in the 'truth'.
nothing else.. now having left, do you long for a discussion with some who share your past culture, understandings, and lifestyle?.
is that the 'appeal' of this board to many?
Huh? I talk proper English I do!
Oxford English Dictionary:
Loose: Not fixed, not tight, not exact, immoral
Lose: to no longer possess something because you do not know where it is, or because it has been taken away from you:
- I've lost my ticket.
- He's always losing his car keys.
-- He lost his leg in a car accident.
So unless your internet connection has come off the wall, is no longer tight, or has run away with the broadband next door..
You lost it, not loosed it.
And yes I'm joking, dont jump on me.. oh go on then.
Poppy xxxx (loosing my mind )
a sister sent me this link via email, and i found it threw me all over again.
i just dont know what to think about the whole blood transfusion issue.. it's a nhs site.. (for us etc, thats government health, not witness related at all) and seems to be backing up totally the wt thing about blood being dangerous.. i want some other opinions, it's one jw belief i dont know what to think about!.
poppy xx.
Thank you for your responses, and yes the reason I posted is because I DO want to make an informed decision BEFORE it becomes a life and death issue, but it's so hard to be informed with so much crap still in my head from 36 years as a JW and about 6 months not!!
I will check out the sites you linked to, thank you.
poppy xx
i mean - many of us had a history that was exclusively in the 'truth'.
nothing else.. now having left, do you long for a discussion with some who share your past culture, understandings, and lifestyle?.
is that the 'appeal' of this board to many?
Ballistic.. you've been talking to the USA too long. LOOSE your inernet connection????
Where did you let it loose? Come on now, we may be outnumbered but we're still British
Poppy xx
