Its sad to see all these witnesses who thought that they would see some promised Armageddon (which is sick in its own way) growing old and having to face death. Missing out on living a normal life for a lie. At least your mom is facing reality, which is good. It says a lot about the state of the people still left in the organization. Their "faith" isn't what it once was, reality does get more and more obvious over the years, just as their governing body becomes more senile, the "corporation" is taken over by lawers and the "magic" is gone. Certainly the Golden Years of the Witnesses that were the 50s and 60s and even the 80s are over. Its just sad that so many threw away their lives, because in my opinion, you only get one.
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Mom just bought life insurance
by La Capra inrecent bizarre family events have led my mom a 35-year witness (she's in her mid 60s) and my dad, the unbelieving mate (he's in his early 70s) to consider putting their "affairs in order".
neither are ill in any way, but my mom's mother is not doing too well, leaving her care to be managed by my mother.. .
when grandma's husband died awhile back, the affairs were not prepared adequately, leaving a lot of headaches for those of us required to handle things.
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Garage Sale Tips? Ideas? Suggestions?
by Prisca inerm, i believe garage sales are also known as yard sales in the states?
anyway, i'm planning on holding a garage sale in a month's time, as i will be moving and i want to get rid of my junk, as well as hopefully raise some few much-needed $$$.. those of you who have held them, what advice do you give?
any tips on making it more profitable?
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Moving Sales too
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WT 2001 CD-ROM
by zev indoes anyone know, if the new 2001 cd-rom from the wts has been released yet?.
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2001 in 2003? God's Active Force (TM) must be getting lazy
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Suspicious death?
by Nathan Natas ina 20 year old jw dies on the day after his birthday.
coincidence?
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=2035&dept_id=238099&newsid=6557380&pag=461&rfi=9
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Hmm, but no-one was beheaded?
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Did this ever seem weird to you?
by whyhideit inthe jehovah's witnesses have been saying for years now that the end could happen at anytime.
yet when you want to become a jehovah's witness it takes about one to three years of studying to actually be allowed to get baptized.
it seems to me that this would be like seeing a train about ready to hit someone and rather then push them out of the way, you first ask them if they know how to build a train and then explaining it to them in detail.. just seems to send a mixed message of "the end time is near" and then "but we have plenty of time to get things planted in your mind before it arrives.".
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But they just came out with a new united in worship book.
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A good link that you probably already know of:
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Do you believe in demons, Ted Jarasz?
by onthego inare you able to sleep at night?
knowing pat garza has gone public saying how you molested her and others when a district overseer in los angeles?
seeing that still another lawsuit was filed the first day of the 2003 new year against the watchtower society you are a governing body member of?
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The similarities are pretty obvious
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Etude in E Major! Etude in E Major!
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Your Thoughts Needed
by RandomTask inthis is a complicated situation, so i hope i can explain it well.. my wife and i were raised witnesses.
we got out about a year after we got married and haven't been back since.
although we arent disfellowshipped or disassociated, my wife's family has over the past few years limited the association that her sister, who is 15, can have with my wife.
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This is a complicated situation, so I hope I can explain it well.
My wife and I were raised witnesses. We got out about a year after we got married and haven't been back since. Although we arent disfellowshipped or disassociated, my wife's family has over the past few years limited the association that her sister, who is 15, can have with my wife. We aren't "partiers" or live what they would think is an "immoral" lifestyle, we have just decided to stop going to meetings. Although we have many beliefs about the organization being evil and deceptive, we have always kept these to ourselves, knowing that it would alienate my wife's family even further from us and further keep her sister away.
Recently, her sister has been expressing doubts, saying that she doesn't want to consider baptism until she is 18 and at that time she wants to do research on the witnesses before she makes up her mind. She has also expressed a desire to go to college when she is 18 and move away from home. Her mother has been getting more strict on her this past year, being irrational and this has further pushed my wife's sister into wanting to not be a witness and leave the house when she is 18. Still, we keep a low profile about what we believe.
Just the other day, the sister's friend who is about the same age and who's mother was disfellowshipped but just recently started going to meetings expressed to us that she tells her mom that she doesn't want to go to meetings, we simply agreed that she should make up her own mind about what she wants to do. Well it seems that this friend of my wifes sister got in an argument with her mom about not going to meetings and used us as an example of people who don't go. Her mom being newly re-instated is quite "overzealous" at this time" Well her mom didn't like this and called my wife's mom and told her that we are a bad influence on her daughter. Needless to say that all hell broke loose, much arguing went on between My wife's mom and her sister and she even involved the rest of the family.
We have been in hot water before with her family before, but we usually ride out the storm. The problem is that my wife really treasures her relationship with her sister and our association with her has been severely limited with her, especially over the last few months. We fear that this may actually have her mom "cut us off" so to speak. This has caused my wife to even have thoughts of going back to meetings just so she could still associate with her sister, but we decided that it would be counter-productive if we did so. These are a crucial couple of years with her sister until she is 18 and free to live her own life and we feel we have been providing an example for her as she is making good progress in leaving the witness mindset. We were just wondering what any of your thoughts were regarding what we are doing, how you have done similarly and if you had any advice.
Thanks for taking the time to listen.
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If ya like to talk on the phone..get in touch w/me
by LyinEyes ini just wanted to let my friends here know , i have reactivated my cell phone and i am ready to talk baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
i have unlimted nites and weekends, free phone time, starting at 8pm central time, my time.
if ya give me your number i can call you right back , and that way it wont cost you anything.
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DeDe, you crazy girl!