I wasn't irritated.
As a very young person I accepted what I was told. Also, anything that came from the US was like Hollywood, the movies that influenced us as teenagers.
Freedom of belief and religion played a part in it too. This is what your country symbolized back then.
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Attn: All Non-Yankee JWDers! Did the U.S. origin of JWs irritate you?
by Open mind injust curious.
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open mind.
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What are some J.W buzz words you hope to never hear again??
by karter inthe elders will sort it out aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggg.
we realy do like field service.
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God's spirit directed organization, the channel, the Governing Body.....
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As a teenager what was your 1st car
by XOCO ini got my car from an elderly sis from my congo and it only had 52000mi and its a subaru gl-10 wagon '88 it looks just like this.
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A Hillman Minx, no frills, bench seats, and gear change on the steering wheel.
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Your Top 3 All Time Favorite Scary Movies- Hey, It's Halloween Time !
by flipper inhello folks!
thought i'd start this fun thread since it's close to the hallowed night !.
1. the exorcist .
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I remember decades ago watching 'Alien' and couldn't get out of my mind the scene where the creature burst out of the person's chest at the dinner table. Yuk!
Recently, we watched 'The Descent'. A group of women take a weekend break and choose a cave to explore. I found it terrifying. Don't know if anybody has seen it here...I couldn't quite make sense of the end scene.
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New tactic in halls with sisters
by darth frosty inwas visiting with some 'friends' who my wife knows last night.
they were talking the ussual kh gossip whos gotten married you know the spiel.
but, what caught my ear was they were talking about all the recent marriages in the congo(3 this year.
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'Slim pickings' yeah.
As long as a bloke is breathing, he'll do.
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Resurrection or Truth
by XJWNB innot sure if this has ever been brought up.
but because of thsi forum and the realization that things said in the jw empire are not true.
do you still believe in the resurrection hope?
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The body is disposable it's the person inside that is important.
When you think of it our body changes every 7 years through shedding cells etc.
I believe that regardless of what type of resurrection a person undergoes, into a spirit body or a physical one, neither is the exact same one we had before. Does it even matter? As long as we are remembered in God's eyes or memory.
Yeah, I believe we live again.
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IT IS EASIER TO LEAVE JWS IF NONE OF YOUR FAMILY ARE JWS
by steve2 inone of the biggest - if not the biggest barriers - to leaving the organization is family ties - particularly immediate family (i.e., those living in your household: sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, mother-in-laws, father-in-laws).
i know of no bigger barrier.
therefore, it's relatively easy to predict who will face the most adversity in trying to leave.
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The only person I had to contend with when exiting was myself. That was 2 decades ago. Went back and forth also but have now completely left.
I couln'nt imagine anything worse than leaving my family members and even with just myself I felt disloyal. It has taken years to overcome - guess it went deep.
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What's your opinion on genetic engineering?
by LtCmd.Lore inare you opposed to it?
where do you see it heading?.
would you allow your future child to be genetically altered if you knew it would drastically improve them?
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I have to go a bit further and voice my concern about scientists turning mad and producing a strange breed made up of half man and half animal.
Currently in stem cell research there is a combining of human and animal genetics and I read somewhere recently of tissue taken from dead persons instead of human embryos to overcome ethical objections.
Remember Frankenstein.
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As we grow older
by greendawn inas time passes and you grow older and more mature how does your life or your outlook on life and one or other issue change?
i was thinking yesterday how silly it was to fall in love with a girl, focus exclusively on her and run the risk of serious disappointment and trauma if she left when there were so many other women in the world.
when you had no marriage or children to worry about.
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'No being overly attached to the wrong people or things is what results in heartache.'
Problem: Sometimes ones own adult child/children can bring on the heartache in life - more difficult to de-attach.
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Things YOU eat, that other people think is weird.
by misanthropic inthis mornings events have got me thinking about things.
i love peanut butter, not the sweet kind but i like the old fashioned peanut butter, usually laura scudder's with no sugar or preservatives - it just tastes better imo.
i put it on everything including pancakes which are really good with peanut butter and maple syrup.
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misanthropic,
'I don't think you can even get it in the US though or even order it online.'
You are right on. Vegemite contains folate and US forbids this product (folate) unless it's prescribed by a doctor.
Glad it has'nt happened over here.
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