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Party
by Hortensia in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm giving a party next week -- sunday, december 14 at 1:00 p.m. reason for the party?

i got a huge turkey on sale and i need to cook it.

i'm making turkey and trimmings, neighbors are bringing whatever they want, mostly vegetarian stuff.
compound complex

Soon, Hortensia! Have thought of it many a time!

CoCo
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Party
by Hortensia in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm giving a party next week -- sunday, december 14 at 1:00 p.m. reason for the party?

i got a huge turkey on sale and i need to cook it.

i'm making turkey and trimmings, neighbors are bringing whatever they want, mostly vegetarian stuff.
compound complex

O, how I wish, dear Hortensia!

Have had to turn down several recent invitations due to all my clients' being gone themselves. Don't want to sound ungrateful as I stay in beautiful homes for weeks on end, getting fed and paid, but my only companions are tale-waggers. Sweet, but conversation is hardly cerebral . . .

THANKS!

Love,

CoCo
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Stop BREATHING you SINNER!
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
(this may offend some sincere 'christians'.

can you, as a human, stop yourself from breathing?.

i have always thought that one of the basic teachings of 'christianity' is the concept that we are "mere sinners"...riddled with guilt and not worthy of god or life...undeserved kindness has been shown to us etc.... but, we have no control over that, just as we have no control over breathing air!.
compound complex

In a nutshell, what I've read recently about the so-called redeemer religions:

The original nature-based religions fulfilled the basic needs of humanity, but the arrival of the dominator patriarchal Judeo-Christian/Islam faiths quashed what truly satisfied man's spiritual and physical requirements. What was created was an artifice that perplexed the practical-minded indigenous folk who were converted -- or not -- by the sword. Their culture, their writings, their lives were destroyed.

Invented -- ??? -- was the supreme father deity, his choosing of a special people, his giving them a unique work (preaching salvation) and, last, his visiting destruction (Apocalypse) upon those not heeding said message.

Sound familiar?

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ex jws have you ever been helped by an active jw?
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just wondering if anyone here that has left, faded away, no longer active in the congregation but not dfd, needed help, money, car, food etc.

and recieved some from an active jw?.
compound complex

I wonder if it's just a matter of being good at heart despite the organization. Ray Franz said that about Robert Lang:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/142719/1/A-Man-in-Spite-of-the-Organization-ISOCF

I have been dealt with kindly and generously by most of my JW friends and family. We have all helped each other over the decades. To see me, to hear me talk, it is evident that I am by no means a cookie-cutter Witness. One dear, loving JW wants my help on a Bible study 'when I start going out in service again.'

Not all Jehovah's Witnesses are shallow and strictly adherent to the ever-changing thought and behavioral cult controls.

How it is here.

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JW.bore invades my vacation?!?
by darth frosty in
1. jw
2. friends
just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

.
compound complex

Read a FB comment on the same subject, i.e., lit carts dockside in Mexico.
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JW.bore invades my vacation?!?
by darth frosty in
1. jw
2. friends
just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

.
compound complex

Thanks, Darth!

That helps, And Cozumel is a location . . .

I, too, shake my head. Times are so different, even in JW Land.

Hope you had a good time.

When I pioneered 45 years ago in the midwest USA, we drove hours a day between farm communities and isolated homes on rural highways. I asked outr CO, Harold Lackey, how to count time because there were stretches of time when we talked to no one. He said that if we started at 9 AM and finished at 5 PM, subtract one hour for lunch and count 7 hours FST.

I liked that man.

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JW.bore invades my vacation?!?
by darth frosty in
1. jw
2. friends
just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.

than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.

.
compound complex

Good morning, Darth:

Kindly enlarge upon this:

SMDH than at cozumel I saw these lovely sisters

I don't get it.

Thanks!

CoCo
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so, what ARE society 'approved' jobs anyway?
by sowhatnow in
1. watchtower
2. bible
obviously they feel a window washer job is a job anyone can do anywhere in he world .

and makes great money, yea right.. so what are all those 'approved jobs?'.

add to the list of any and all building skills, cleaning type jobs.
compound complex

One sister's story was told in AWAKE! She sold her thriving daycare business because she loved it too much. The point made was that her heart was in her work.

You cannot love both Jehovah and your job.
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Caleb talks to his mother about the new system.
by LogCon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
mom: yes?.

you dont want to make jehovah sad, do you mom?.

mom: okay.. .
compound complex

Precocious child -- must be his native genius in combination with his avid ingesting of spiritual food, all at the proper time, of course.
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Truth Be Told documentary available for pre-order
by RayPublisher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
gregorio smith's feature film, "truth be told" is available for digital delivery and streaming download on 12-19-2014 and pre-orders are being taken.

now anyone that wants to see the film can do so, and i know a lot of you have been asking about it over the last year or so since he started screening it all over the world in major cities.. check it out here:.

http://www.hereliesthetruth.com/.
compound complex

Excellent interview.

Gregorio is well spoken and has, with intelligence and good intentions, composed this documentary. He contacted Bethel's PR department (at about 20 minutes), and they said they were not interested and hung up.

Some 1000 individuals connected to JWs replied to his call, about 1/3 being active Witnesses. None of that group agreed to be onscreen though their identity would have been protected.

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