Wish I could call them up & tell them what happened to Victor LOL
LMAO :)
Moomin
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No to soaps.
by Moomin induring the time leading up to my baptism and even more so afterwards, my study conductor and her friend were always telling me how i shouldn't be watching the soaps.
(i had mentioned to them at some point how i enjoy watching emmerdale and coronation street).
they described them as being unwholesome and encouraging of immoral ways.
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No to soaps.
by Moomin induring the time leading up to my baptism and even more so afterwards, my study conductor and her friend were always telling me how i shouldn't be watching the soaps.
(i had mentioned to them at some point how i enjoy watching emmerdale and coronation street).
they described them as being unwholesome and encouraging of immoral ways.
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Moomin
Hi Juni
I hate hypocrites!
That's what I couldn't understand. If they genuinely believed that God would be cross at us for watching such things, then why are they watching something worse?
And if they didn't believe he would be bothered either way, then why were they badgering others?
But maybe it is that power thing, she was the P.O's wife after all.
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No to soaps.
by Moomin induring the time leading up to my baptism and even more so afterwards, my study conductor and her friend were always telling me how i shouldn't be watching the soaps.
(i had mentioned to them at some point how i enjoy watching emmerdale and coronation street).
they described them as being unwholesome and encouraging of immoral ways.
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Moomin
Hi
During the time leading up to my baptism and even more so afterwards, my study conductor and her friend were always telling me how I shouldn't be watching the soaps. (I had mentioned to them at some point how I enjoy watching Emmerdale and Coronation Street).
They described them as being unwholesome and encouraging of immoral ways. I was a tad offended at this as I didn't consider that I would be that influenced by a soap at my age. :)
As with the accounts in the Bible of tales of immorality and murder, I thought that you could learn from them. For instance in any soap it would be unusual to watch as someone has an affair and quietly gets away with it.
They continued to (not so subtly) have conversations in front of me about the evils of soap. This got my back up a great deal, but saying that, I did actually try to do other things by the time the soaps came on (such as use the internet instead!).
It got to a stage that I started to feel quite crap about myself that I still enjoyed watching these programmes and whenever the subject arose I wanted to go and hide somewhere. I would imagine my SC and her friend doing some kind of wholesome activity of an evening but I wasn't sure what, maybe they studied their wt articles.
It came as quite a shock soon after I left as I was perusing around the eBay site. I decided to look up my SC's friend's eBay id to have a sneaky peak at her feedback and the items she had bought. Well I couldn't believe my eyes at some of the items, but what got me the most was the Little Britain merchandise! I don't know about anyone else but I would consider any soap as quite lame compared to that programme.
I was absolutely livid about the double speak, but was pleased in a way as I had only just left and it was just another thing to prove I had made the right choice.
It really got me though to imagine myself succumbing to the pressure of this person and tried to find other things to do of an evening, whilst all the time her and her husband are happily plonked in front of Little Britain.
Hmmph :(
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Rain before Noah's flood
by monkeyshine indoes anyone know the current thought on what happened before the flood?
i remember being taught that it never rained before the flood but now they are telling me that was never taught.
i thought i remembered a quote somewhere saying something to the effect of "can you imagine how the outsiders must have felt feeling those first drops of rain?
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Moomin
Hi Monkeyshine
Last year I mentioned to a sister about the people in Noah's day just thinking what a lot of rain they'd been having lately not realising that God's wrath had come upon them.
She said it was a ridiculous idea as they would have never experienced rain before, so the terror would have been instant instead of gradual.
This sister was quite new in the 'truth' so it must have been the teaching up until recently, although I do remember someone on these forums saying that there maybe a new light expressed about it as there is a scripture before Noah of someone mentioning what sounded like rain.
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Moomin
New Kids on the Block
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"What is a Jehovah's Witness?"
by fokyc in.
had the pleasure only someone who reports regularly".
any comments welcome please.
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Moomin
Hi, I've heard that too. I think they said it at a meeting that you can't be a witness of Jehovah if your not regulary witnessing.
But at my congregation there were quite a few who never went out.
If what the elder told you was the case then why is it only those who have been d/f or d/a that are announced as no longer Jehovah's witnesses? Perhaps they should announce those who never go out aswell.
I don't like their flakey reasoning and the way they try and frighten people into doing things. Before I found out it wasn't God's org I used to wonder what God thought of his people only doing things for him because they were badgered into it or scared of the consequences rather than because they wanted to and had come to the decision from the will of their own hearts.
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Circuit Overseers
by Outaservice in.
our congregation had some of the best circuit overseers money could buy!.
outaservice
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Moomin
Hey Jason, I think you know them. I have pm'd the names but there seems to be a delay in sending them. I don't know what i'm doing really I think I've broken it. This c.o. was a mean bean and his wife was really up herself. She said how fornication included masturbation and that it was sick and she had a real look of disgust on her face when she said it. It was really bizzare (sp).
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Circuit Overseers
by Outaservice in.
our congregation had some of the best circuit overseers money could buy!.
outaservice
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Moomin
I had a Peter - Was just like Spike Milligan
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Letter Writing Campaign. . .who's in?!?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit injimwood and someone else suggested a letter writing campaign, bombarding the wts with letters old and new on any topic, complaint, issue and problem.
participation, dates and suggestions would be appreciated!
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Moomin
Great - Count me in!
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I AM SUCH A KLUTZ! Hello!
by Geronimo ini've been lurking here and reading for a couple of months now.
i was also a jw for a few years but got myself dfed when i started asking difficult questions, wouldn't stop asking them, and kept pointing out how the wts didn't make any sense.
i am an unrepentent rebellious one who was warned and publically reproved until finally i finally had it out with the elders and they showed me the door.
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Moomin
Hello Geronimo :)