Posts by Open mind

every day i have to face the fact that i followed the "godly wisdom" from the gb and didn't get higher education (except the degree equivalent from reading all the wts and awakes-i haven't gone to personnell to see how that would work out).. this morning, a fellow aide that i rarely see was coming in the door at the same time i was.

Open mind

From your description, it sounds like she's a fairly low-key JW. You had to practically drag her JW status out of her.

1. You initiated the question re: summer plans.

2. She could have easily launched into a "witness" but instead just said "New York.

3. When pressed further, she used an expression that she probably wouldn't around JWs, ("church trip")

4. When finally pinned down and directly asked "what religion?" she revealed her JW status.

Doesn't sound like she's wanting to flaunt her JWism too much. Might be hope for her yet.

Thanks for sharing this.

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Amazing Animation

by cantleave in

this blew my mind!

be warned it contains a spider.. http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/05/loom-incredible-masterpiece-3d/.

Open mind

Definitely worth the watch.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

om

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Waking Up From a 34 Year Slumber.

by alg1052 in

july 11, 2011 will be 34 years since i was baptised as one of jw's.

the sleeping pill i took was in the form of them providing the information that made the bible come alive with the truth and insisting that they go by the bible not adding or taking away from it.

i had negative experiences from local brothers from time to time, however i excused them as part of being imperfect.

Open mind

Welcome to JWN!

Excellent first post.

(Please check your Private Messages when you get a chance. It's the envelope to the right of your username.)

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She shows too much cleavage. What should I say to her?

by Iamallcool in

i met a gorgeous lady yesterday and she shows too much cleavage.

i see her facebook page, all of her pictures has cleavage in them, i would not want to date her because she shows too much all the time.

i am tempted to tell her to cover up her cleavage, she might not like me telling her that.

Open mind

Explain the headship principle to her and then have a "spiritually qualified" person give her counsel.

She'll be putty in your hands.

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Is there no hope? (daughter getting baptized)

by camicia in

i'm really distraught about the fact my 23 year old daughter is ready to abandon a potential career in writing where her talent lies, and become a jehovah's witness.

i banned the study being held in our home, but it only hurt my relationship with my daughter, who screamed at me "i pay to live here and i'm not hiding, you're sabotaging my relationship with god!

" so i gave in.

Open mind

Oh well. Strike one. Like I said, it was uninformed.

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Is there no hope? (daughter getting baptized)

by camicia in

i'm really distraught about the fact my 23 year old daughter is ready to abandon a potential career in writing where her talent lies, and become a jehovah's witness.

i banned the study being held in our home, but it only hurt my relationship with my daughter, who screamed at me "i pay to live here and i'm not hiding, you're sabotaging my relationship with god!

" so i gave in.

Open mind

"WHAT KEEPS HER GOING BACK!"

Let me make a wild, uninformed guess: A dude?

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trying to reach teenage daughter

by Aussie Oz in

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had some interesting chats with my daughter today about whether she believes everything she hears at the meetings and reads in the watchtower.. turns out she does.. until i pressed on a few subjects... turns out she does not think worldly people are bad, that the wt is wrong for blanket statements about how evil they all are, that she does not think it is right that they have failed predicting the end for over a hundred years and disagrees when they keep pushing the end,.

and i find this all rather alarming!.

because although some lights are firing (and i mean that in a nice way!).

Open mind

If I was an elder assigned to "counsel" Scully, I think I'd decline.

Scully rocks!

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A Monday Morn Ditty

by snowbird in

607 and 1914 never really interested me.. is it perchance just man-made chronology?.

my faith hinges squarely on the messiah,.

not something that happened to zedekiah.. 2520 years or 25 years or 20 years.

Open mind

Not bad for a Monday morning.

(Except for the "happified".)

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Recent activities at the laundermat and Payless shoe store

by loosie in

ok last time i went to the laudermat all i found was a trifold tract from the jw's.

they gave me so much room to write ( why do they do that?

) i wrote on there "when will you jw's stop leaving mags and tracts at this laundermat"...lol i wonder what will be there next week.. my friends works part time at payless shoe store.

Open mind

Somebody posted on here a while back about JWs renting a fancy winery for a party and then leaving JW literature hidden all over the place.

There are plenty of active JWs who would also give this a thumbs down.

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