i was bane and i think i got banned because everytime i tried to log in i couldn't.
i was defending the society as best as i could.
something has happened in the last few months.
You can't be a real effective witness unless you own a computer"- That was said to me when I didn't have one.
That's an interesting one, i remember back in the early 80's when computers were becoming the new must thing to have, there was a talk given by the circuit overseer at our circuit assembly to suggest that it was a bad thing to own a computer. I remember afterwards hiding the fact i owned a zx spectrum.
if you feel that it was abuse then why?.
personally my parents became jw's when i was 13 so i never had the earlier years within the religion.
but by being controlled so much during my teen years i would liken it to abuse.
If you feel that it was abuse then why?
Personally my parents became JW's when i was 13 so i never had the earlier years within the religion. But by being controlled so much during my teen years i would liken it to abuse. Being told not to bother with an education, being told where and when i could go anywhere in my late teen years and not doing the 'normal' teenage thing was abuse. Being repressed sexually was abuse. Not making my own mistakes and finding my own way was abuse. Being told that i could only go out with a girl if there was a view to marriage was abuse. In fact i'd say my whole teenage experience and my lost youth was abuse.
But occasionally when i bump into an old friend who is still a JW, some have not had the negative experience that i have had. Some old friends i may bump into from time to time who are ex jw's also have not been as messed up as i did. So i do question whether the whole JW thing is abuse or was it just my experience.
As i feel that my teenage years were abuse, does that therefore make my mother an abuser? Or was she just doing what she thought was right by her two sons? I still love my mother, there may still be a slight resentment still there for introducing us to the JW faith, although i will readily say that it was abuse i'm at odds to describe my mother as an abuser.....hope i'm making sense.
bank holiday for those in the uk is confirmed:.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/governmentcitizensandrights/livingintheuk/dg_073741not for those in bethel though.
mmxiv.
So there's no bank holiday in Scotland for it?
The one that killed the most innocent civilians.... George W Bush
i have closely followed the premier league for the last 13 matchdays, and i am getting ready to pick a team that i will not only follow this year but for the foreseeable future.
i am not interested in chelsea, manchester u., manchester city or arsenal.
all four remind me of teams i loathe in american sports (cowboys, yankees, celtics).
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Plus if you're ever this side of the pond i'd take you to a game
maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?
in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.
one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.
@djeggmog
What if the person with whom I was speaking at the coffee shop those ten minutes was a brother in good standing; would that be direct worship to God? No, it would not.
Why not?
What if the person with whom I was speaking at that coffee shop those ten minutes was a brother not in good standing, someone that had been disfellowshipped; would that be direct worship to God? No, it would not.
Why not?
I think you're forgetting Jesus' words...
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.....Matthew 18:20
ireland swallows bitter pill, asks eu for loan .
debt-crippled ireland formally applied sunday for a massive eu-imf loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks, joining greece in a step unthinkable only a few years ago when ireland was a booming celtic tiger and the economic envy of europe.. european union finance ministers quickly agreed in principle to the bailout, saying it "is warranted to safeguard financial stability in the eu and euro area.
" but all sides said further weeks of negotiations loomed to define the fund's terms, conditions and precise size.. ireland's crisis, set off by its foundering banks, drove up borrowing costs not only for ireland but for other weak links in the eurozone such as spain and portugal.
Why did Ireland decided to insure it's banks against ALL losses ??
Because at the time there had just been a run on the British bank Northern Rock, it came to light that the British Government only insured for the first £35,000 and Ireland saw insuring against all losses as a way for the British to transfer deposits from their bank accounts into Irish ones. A quick input of money into their economy, they saw it as an opportunity that has now blown back on them.
Paul
i have closely followed the premier league for the last 13 matchdays, and i am getting ready to pick a team that i will not only follow this year but for the foreseeable future.
i am not interested in chelsea, manchester u., manchester city or arsenal.
all four remind me of teams i loathe in american sports (cowboys, yankees, celtics).
Just a quick correction before i post....it looks like you're looking for an English football team, not British! The scots have their own league and the Welsh only have 3 teams in the English league, apart from that they also have their own league,
Anyway why not go for Wolverhampton Wanderers!!
We may be sitting 2nd from bottom at the moment, but have the greatest fan base, we're the hardest working team in the Premiership. We have the USA goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann If Los Angeles Galaxy are you team at the moment, Wolves won the American League in 1967, we played in America along with 12 other English teams as Los Angeles Wolves. We have a great history formed in 1877 and was one of the founder members of the league in 1888. We were the best in England during the 1950's and 60's. We currently have an Irish manager, along a number of Irish players aswell as Scot, Welsh, French and of course English amongst others.
We may not be top of the league, but we are the greatest football team the world has ever seen!
And here is the fans forum... www.the-wolf.co.uk
Paul
maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?
in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.
one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.
djeggnog wrote
'Even active current JWs know that the JWs were predicting the end of the world before the generation of 1914 passed away.
What you say here is not true for the majority of Jehovah's Witnesses. You may have been guilty of making predictions that were not supported by God's word as to when Armageddon would arrive when you were one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and you may have been in association with some who persuaded you to this opinion, but I've never done this, for I shared with others how we understood Jesus' words at Matthew 24:34 and neither have other Jehovah's Witnesses done this, for our providing such explanations is not the same as if we were using uncanny power and pushing ahead in cooperation with the demons. (1 Samuel 15:23) Were this the case, 55-year-olds in 1965 with a life expectancy of age 70 might have expected Armageddon to arrive before 1980, and it would really have been presumptuous for anyone calling himself or herself one of Jehovah's Witnesses to have been predicting a specific date for Armageddon, which you might have done, @lisaBObeesa, but the majority of Jehovah's Witnesses never did.'
Bullsh*t! .... i was there!
I gave up an education because of it and so did many others!
Paul
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Thought i'd resurrect the first thread
