contained the phrase: Go home and start a family.
WHAT??? is this for real?
Calliope
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Having Kids
by feelinsketchy inregarding childbearing.
to me it's interesting that the talk given to bethelites asking them to leave for the new downsizing effort contained the phrase: go home and start a family.
that must be a slap in the face to those who stupidly if not sincerely obeyed the misguided direction to refrain from having children because we are so close to the time of the end..
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Beautiful Houses
by misspeaches indoes anyone like looking at houses for sale and dream of owning them?
i've just found this beauty.
it even has a trampoline at the front!!.
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Calliope
o yes IT support. so am i. only i'm not good at it, the support part - i lose my patience and yell at people when they don't get it.
okay, the picture of the shower drain is the selling feature for me.
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Beautiful Houses
by misspeaches indoes anyone like looking at houses for sale and dream of owning them?
i've just found this beauty.
it even has a trampoline at the front!!.
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Calliope
other than bartending, what could a person possibly do for work, that they can get away with vodka and tonic.
prrrrease don't say physician or surgeon? whew.
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Calliope
yes good night,
only i have to walk the dog first. literally. outside. walking a real dog.
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Beautiful Houses
by misspeaches indoes anyone like looking at houses for sale and dream of owning them?
i've just found this beauty.
it even has a trampoline at the front!!.
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Calliope
it's about the descriptions - holy sweet deal!!!
Country Living In the City!
This two bedroom permanent caravan with built-on annexe minutes from Manuka & Kingston is a gem. This caravan & annexe has been refurbished & must be seen to be appreciated.
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What made you lose your joy in serving Jehovah?
by JH inwe all started off as happy witnesses, except for those dragged into this religion by force as kids.. in my case, i found that there were way too many meetings.
then seeing the new system being constantly pushed back, and finally when i saw a lack of true love in the congregation.
and when they hinted that probably there wouldn't be any sex and marriage for the resurrected ones.
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What Joy ????
well said.
i began losing my joy when my soon-to-be-ex DA-ed himself.
this may be too much for a "newbie" to share... but here goes:
my stb-ex left the org. my family freaked out. i had to do damage control. my elders never spoke to me (i mean like, not even say hi at the meeting). my best-friends began leaking gossip and slander (needless to say no longer best-friends) about me and my family and soon thereafter, stopped talking to me (note: i was still attending all my meetings at the time, and like a good lil' witnoid, still commenting et al.). my sister who was desperately trying to make it back into the org. was completely ignored by her elders (like after going for 12 months saying stupid things like "are you new?"). so i felt there was a lack of unity and love. this coupled with the existential questions and doubts i had had most of my short adult-life...
then one night, when i had given up most of my brainwashed beliefs, i was smoking outside at 3 in the morning and i prayed "if you do exist jehovah, please show me with a display of perseids"... i only saw one.
and that's when all the joy had finally left me.
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EXTREME ACTIONS BY ELDERS!
by badboy in.
i understand from a previous that elders burst into a women's home in las vegas,and elders entered into a sda church in tasmania,demanding to see someone.. has they been other actions like that?
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Calliope
when my soon-to-be-ex da-ed himself, an elder told my friend not to see me, or be alone with me cause i could be considered in a "vulnerable state" and anything could happen.
unfortunately, he listened. and in addition to the slander that my other "so-called" friends started spreading, i had virtually lost all my wit-friends.
twas such a fun year. oh the memories.
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Anyone ever seen a ghost?
by Clam inhave you ever seen a "ghost"?
if you did, were you scared, fascinated or straight to denial?.
if you did see one, were you a jw at the time and therefore did you believe it to be an apparition projected by the demons?
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Calliope
needless to say, you guys are freaking me out!!i always thought the only things to be afraid of in dark and lonely places were psychotic serial killer.
(as i walk over to ensure the doors are locked and i turn on all the lights)
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Watchtower January 15, 2006, Reinstatement
by blindersoff inwatchtower
january 15, 2006, "oppose satan, and he will flee!
" pg 29, paragraphs 13, 14
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Calliope
hmmm, not to lower your opinions of me, but both times i was reproved, i was reinstate wayyyy before the 6 month mark.
AHA! Maybe the "new light" is to do away with the six month reinstatement process! WOO HOO.
i wasn't a good girl... but they liked me... which could possibly be material for a whole other thread.
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Curious as to what a wedding at the KH is like...
by Riverwatcher ini don't know why this has popped into my head.
just wondering about j/w weddings.. is there music?
are there any traditions used in the ceremony?
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Calliope
Is there music? Yes, kingdom melodies only
to walk down the isle, my almost-ex and i wanted the "Flamenco Sketches" by Miles Davis, but were told we couldn't use songs or pieces by composers/singers that had questionable lives (i.e. miles davis and drugs...). so we chose to walk down the isle to Bach's Goldberg Variations instead*.
*elders are not smart enough to know that Bach composed mostly for the church which would've likely constituted "questionable".