When my husband (skeptic2) would show me fossils, tools used by humans much longer past than 6k years etc., I would get very angry because I knew I couldn't believe it as it went against the teachings of the wt. I had nothing I could say in reply and nothing I could back up my views with. I would end up saying stupid things like 'Satan did it' and then storm off in a huff. So maybe they did make me doubt but I tried to deny it and the pretense made me angry. If I was so certain that I had the truth, I'm sure there would have been no need for anger or arguments, I would have calmly and politely disagreed and continued on in my beliefs unaffected.
Moomin
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DID FOSSILS MAKE YOU DOUBT?
by badboy indid/does discovery of new fossils make you/or those around you doubt the creation version of things?
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POLL : Your reaction IF all religion was suddenly banned worldwide
by fish inim interested in hearing what your personal reaction would be if (i say if because probably 99.9% here believe this will never happen) all the religions of the world were to be suddenly banned/shut down/decommissioned/liquidated/dismembered/etc.. by the political powers of the world.
what would your first post here say?
would it change your view of jehovah...of the "org"?
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Whats your worst household chore.........?
by vitty in......................mine has got to be the weekly grocery shop....................oh how i dread and hate it.
i used to think it was the ironing but id rather do a ton of ironing if i didnt have to shop.. its so boring, same food week in week out.................loading it onto the conveyer belt, packing it putting it in the car.........taking it out of the car...........putting it into cupboards then saying " what shall i cook for dinner?
" but by then i just can face the food.. so whats yours?, mowing the lawn and cleaning the car are included .
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I really enjoy doing the housework, especially laundry and ironing but am with Nancy Drake & kittyeatzjdubs on the litter tray as it is awful. I hold my breath too, even when pouring in clean litter as the powder clouds up and goes in my sinuses.
I don't like cleaning the oven either as the products I use have awful fumes. When it comes to cooking, I can still smell the fumes and it really stings my eyes when I open the door.
Love everything else though.
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Finally going to the Dr...........
by whyamihere inas some of you know about my aneurysm(leg area) last year - well after much persuasion and basically getting my arse thrown into a vehicle i am going for my check up.
i was supposed to go in jan(oops).
undergoing 3 surgeries and being told i am going to die left and right scared me of going back.
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Good luck Brooke. I hope everything turns out ok. How often are you supposed to have check-ups?
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Door To Door Disfellowshipping
by unclebruce inclik here: jehovah's witness elders announcing disfellowshipping at the door.
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The video makes me feel ill and some of those comments underneath are just awful. My headache has just got much worse now :(
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Should I marry a JW ?
by curiousabouthim ini am new to the jw world, not one, but do love one.
met a man who down to the tee is amazing.
he is a great man, the only thing i am not so sure about is his "religious" beliefs.
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I'd definately go with fokyc's advice :)
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Should I marry a JW ?
by curiousabouthim ini am new to the jw world, not one, but do love one.
met a man who down to the tee is amazing.
he is a great man, the only thing i am not so sure about is his "religious" beliefs.
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Hi Curiousabouthim, welcome to the board.
I wasn't a witness for very long and my husband wasn't at all. We hadn't been married long before I started going to the meetings. The strain on our marriage became evident very quickly. The amount of time we spent apart was a real problem (5 meetings a week, bible studies and field service, also district assemblies and curcuit assemblies.).
Christmas, birthdays, easter etc. was a problem. As was wondering what way our children will be brought up. The pressure from the other witnesses to get my husband interested was a real strain and I knew they would be the same when I had children.
The witnesses would poke their noses into our private life and expect to be given all the information they asked for.
Moomin
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What does your REAL name mean?
by Peaches-n-Cream injordon is hebrew and it means "to descend or flow"....ha~!
not very interesting, .
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Princess :)
I AM A PWINTHETH SO THERE
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Anyone here any good at fixing TVs?
by ballistic insorry for the completely non-jw related topic, but.... my sony trinitron tv had a number of thin blue horizontal lines appear towards the top of the screen.
i did some research and these appear to be "fly back lines" caused by the retrace showing as the gun moves back up the screen.. rather than call an engineer, i decided to buy another tv on ebay.
get it home, plug it in and this one has exactly the same problem except red lines instead of blue.. i'm just wondering what are the chances of this happening???
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Moomin
Could be some magnetic or electro-magnetic sources near your tv?
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The most annoying issues you found within the organization were ...
by The wanderer inuntitled document <!-- .style1 {font-family: verdana} .style2 {font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; } --> the things that seemed to bother us the most before leaving the organization there were a number of.
things that used to bother me within the organization.. for example, the time that the organization use to.
absorb, it seemed that i gave more than i received.
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My friend has been on the look out since then hoping to see the JW somewhere around.
lol
I hated the slapping sounds of the kids getting hit all the time by their parents, for not sitting still for 2 hours. Once there was a talk about it and I was relieved as I thought they were going to tell them off for going overboard.
The elder began his talk with the slant of going against hitting, but then he did a turnaround halfway though by using the scripture about disciplining with the rod and said how its okay to hit your child and should be encouraged for their benefit.
I'm not sure but I think its against the law (uk) to hit your child if it leaves a mark?
My friend would hit her 5 year old very often and I think it taught him that if you are cross with someone then you hit them. He was a very angry and violent little boy, always getting into trouble at school for randomly punching the other kids. Once he punched me very hard in the stomach, I was so mad I almost throttled him. (more violence!).
My friend attracted a lot of attention. During the meeting, if she got annoyed with her child, she would shoot straight up from her seat and point to the back of the hall with a fierce look on her face. Her son would be beetroot red and cower on his chair. She would continue to stand there pointing until he moved. It was so embarrasing!
When he reluctantly got up from his chair, she would snatch him by his arm and drag him outside, he would be screaming by this point. After a while he would come back in, all sweaty and stressed with a tear stained face. He really seemed to go through a lot.
One of the worst things was even when he was off school due to illness, he still got dragged out on the field service. :(