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  Hi, Choosing Life

  by Jeepthing in

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  Welcome! Don't be shy.
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  Welcome Dr. Zhivago

  by BabaYaga in

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  another one of those interesting first posts that got gobbled up and rather lost.... .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/122905/2174375/post.ashx#2174375.

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  I too would like to welcome Dr. Zhivago. I just finished reading that thread about the anointed. How come it got lost?

  Anyway, if I had seen it when it was first posted I would have replied to it because it's a subject that really interests me. So I hope you don't mind but I am going to post my comments on it here.

  As a little girl, my parents had a lot of association with missionaries that were of the annointed. My mom learned the truth from one of them. She was probably the only "normal" one I ever me t(the anointed sister, not my mom).. All of these were pre-1935. All were extreemly zealous about the truth. A couple were a little batty but sweet. Others were harsh and demanding. I remember being uneasy around them. One in particular was very critical of everything and everyone and was always getting into arguments with another one who happend to be my dad's good friend. He was a real charachter but totally self absorbed.

  One particular couple were particularly feared. They were in the circuit work and and when they came around some of the friends hid their TV's before having them over for a meal. They were very critical about TV viewing. The husband was the brother of a GB member. He ate raw onions and lemons with every meal. He made his elderly, sickly wife wash their clothes by hand to aclimate her for the great tribulation.

  Those I've known of the post 35 group were odd as well. One is an elder in a nearby cong.Several families moved to our cong because they could not get along with him. One was my husband's aunt who was as wacky as the come. She went "apostate" before she died.

  I agree with Blondie that we have many kookie ones in the "great crowd" as well. But as they said in Spiderman : "with great power comes great responsibility". So the anointed are looked up to and examined by others and what they do seems to stand out. Anyway, if the ones I have know are a true representation of our future government officials, I would be worried.
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  The One Thing You Could Never Give Up.

  by lowden in

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  well.........here i am, a few pints of guinness further on and it got me thinking.. i luuurve guinness with a passion but what could i never give up in a month of sundays?.

  hmmmmmm...well it's definitely not alcohol....i don't think .

  for me, it's my music, my george lowden guitar (damn i've blown my cover) and all the amazing vibes that playing, singing and songwriting gives me.. what could you not give up...........in a month of sundays.. peace.

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  Husband and kids/ books
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  How can twelve years olds get baptized? it is crazy!

  by happehanna in

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  my daughter's step child is getting baptized at the ripe old age of 12.. my sil is angry and i feel he should try and stop it through the courts, but they feel that would make his ex more determined for baptism to go ahead.. this child has no idea of the mistake they are making .

  would she get married at 12?.

  it is so sad and irresponsible for a child to take this step.. .

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  A couple of years ago a 14 year old girl in our cong who had been baptized at 10 and was a regular pioneer, was publically reprooved and lost her priviledges. I patted her dad on the back and said: "it's OK, all kids go through rough patches, this too shall pass", in an effort to comfort him. He looked at me and said: "Can you believe the other kids involved got away with it because they are not baptized?". I was floored, he did not get the point that if his daughter had not been baptized it could have been handled w/o elder intervention and she would not have been humiliated and "marked" for life! DUH!!
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  The Two Faces of a JW

  by Nosferatu in

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  it always amazed me how jws can have almost two different personalities.

  it's not quite like having a double life, but it's the hypocricy of jws themselves.. i remember going to those meetings and seeing everyone with their plastic smiles, as if they were the greatest people in the world.

  but you lift the curtain of their home lives, and their true personalities come out.. my mother was an entirely different person at the meetings.

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  A regular pioneer, elder's wife who was always dressed to the 9n's and gosipped about everybody, but if you stopped by her house she could not let you in because it was a filthy mess. She also looked through her husband's briefcase to find info on judical issues and gave the info to her best friend, who then told everyone else.

  The "perfect family", dad an MS, mom a regular pioneer, 2 sons in bethel, daughter future reg. pioneer. Dad was a doctor addicted to Demerol.

  A teenaged boy (very affeminate), handles microphones and other small responsibiliies at KH. Among other witness teenagers uses foul language. At school and at work everyone says he is gay. At school he told a friend he was caught shoplifting at the mall...
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  What % of active elders do you think go peek on XJW forums?

  by JH in

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  assuming that all elders have the internet, i'd say that 25% of active elders in the us went to a xjw site just by curiosity.. what do you think?.

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  I think it's very low, less than 10%.
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  ROSANNE BARR to DISCUSS JWs in NEW TV SHOW

  by Amazing in

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  rosanne barr is back.

  here is the news brief:.

  roseanne barr is back with a new tv show after more than a decade away from the spotlight.

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  43???? NOT!!!
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  I figured out what's up with the golf club!!!! (True LOST fans only)

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  this is cool!

  i found out what was up w/ desmond making that lightning rod out of the golf club.. 'k....so.... remember when hurley was going back to the beach and he ran into desmond and was like, "dude!

  you're nekkid, get some clothes!

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  You're a very cleaver girl indeed.
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  How can twelve years olds get baptized? it is crazy!

  by happehanna in

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  my daughter's step child is getting baptized at the ripe old age of 12.. my sil is angry and i feel he should try and stop it through the courts, but they feel that would make his ex more determined for baptism to go ahead.. this child has no idea of the mistake they are making .

  would she get married at 12?.

  it is so sad and irresponsible for a child to take this step.. .

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  I was 10!!!
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  Blood is Thicker than Water

  by Clam in

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  "blood is thicker than water.

  " well technically speaking it is of course, but how do you feel about this saying?

  it implies that those people you have a biological link with are somehow "extra special".

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  I agree with bubble. My children come before anyone, anytime over anything.