Posts by troubled mind

There actually was a CO here in the US that I remember giving council that it was a GOOD thing for Fathers to expect a Bride price from suitors . This would have been back in the 1980's . If you have a cd rom for those years research Bride Price _I think there were a few articles back then about it . He was trying to make it sound like Fathers had all the clout and young men should be able to afford a wife before dating .... in other words discouraging teen weddings ( Back then we had so many teens getting married at 17-18 )

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JW Speak - The Latest

by Slidin Fast in

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ok - we have "direction".

delete the word society we don't talk about the society any more.

we talk about the organization.

troubled mind

Remember when instruction was given about no longer saying New World order ....it was to be New System of things instead . Conventions versus Assemblies .

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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Rh Factor

by Dogpatch in

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jehovah's witnesses and the rh factor.

written by marlene mercado wednesday, 31 january 1996; revised 2012. .

i want to share with our readers an experience i had when two jehovah's witness elders came to my home to enlighten me regarding the new "technology" that allows for the taking of certain blood fractions with a clean conscience.

troubled mind

I am Rh-neg , and our first son was born in 1981 Rh + . I researched all the JW literature ,was thoroughly confused on what was the correct understanding . To me no blood meant no blood .....so I refused to take the shot . I was very young 20 at the time, and wanted to do what was right in God's eyes. We had two more rh positive children after that ,and thankfully they were heathly .

What a highly dangerous decsion I made ....i put my children's life in grave possible harm because of misguided religious belief .

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Help me pick 2 shirts

by Tater-T in

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so my sister sent me and my brother 4 shirts i get 1st pick ... i can never pick last time he got first pick i got the ones i didn't want .. but i like them anyway so ..i saw some of you posted on obves, you got nothing to do..lol thanks in advance.

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the to on the bottom were they ones i was passing on .. but they are nice too..hummmm?.

troubled mind

The dark blue button down (second to last ) looks very nice on you ,don't pass it up !

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Attending an International Assembly.

by man in black in

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That doesn't sound right ,having to interview in order to go to an international ???? We had a group from our old hall go several yrs ago ,and it was all approved through letters of recommendation by BOE and CO/DO . Sounds like she is making excuses, because she wanted extra time off for volunteer business maybe @BEthel ...

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The Worst jw Is Better Than The BEST Worldly Person

by TOTH in

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did anyone else used to hear this?

i can remember this growing up in the 1970s.

my folks joined the wt back in 1968 under threat of armageddon coming in 1975. i was in first grade and ran the gauntlet of no flag salute, national anthem, holidays and no worldly friends.

troubled mind

Oh yes I heard those very same words as I grew up . I also grew up in the same era as you TOTH . I could have friends at school ,but was not allowed to go to any of their homes after school and they were not welcome at our home either .

When I was in jr high a girl my age finally moved into our congregation .....so immediately she was my ready made best friend because she was a JW . Just because she was a JW she was immediately suppose to be better than any of my school friends . Yeah she was a great influence ...smoked, taught me how to get beer,and introduced me to older boys in her neighborhood .......