My first post on JWN is for you, Grace, and Bonne et heureuse année 2009 !
aligot ripounsous
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Welcome Mouthy !!
by Simon inmouthy is in da house .... she logged on but because of a small resolution display couldn't see her username at the top right without scrolling.. i may need to do a version of the site / skin for small resolution displays but hope you manage with it as it is for now grace..
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What's "The Perfect Storm" To Become One of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inwhat ingredients go into making someone become a witness?
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aligot ripounsous
When I started "studying" with JWs at age 26, I knew, and my parents discerned, that I was doing it in order to react to my catholic upbringing which had left bitter memories, having had to live in boarding schools in tender years when I needed my parents, confronted there with some mentally or physically brutal members of religious catholic orders.
Also, I thought, and still think that, somehow, a religion that puts its teaching in words and sentences accessible to simple people must have God's approval, even if it is not the only necessary condition, whereas catholic mysteries are indigestible.
Third, after having met on a weekly basis with a JW in France without attending even one meeting in 18 months, I landed on my own in London and, after diverse types of experiences, I came to the conclusion that I couldn't associate with better people than JWs.
When I was an active witness, I never adhered to their fancy teachings about modern days fulfilment of prophecies but I thought that since God was allowing a people to wear His name, He was engaging His repute in the entreprise and therefore must have backed this organization, lest He would make it impossible for any future organization to exploit the same religious niche as this one if the latter were found false.
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aligot ripounsous
reputation system
Simon, don't you fear that this system will open the way to lynching or, conversely, to cheap popularity ? IMO former JWs should be, more than others, wary of crowd effects.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-21-08 WT Study (HEARTFELT)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 12-21-08 wt study (october 15, 2008, pages (12-16)(heartfelt).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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aligot ripounsous
18. A humiliating end awaits determined opposers of Jehovah's sovereignty. God's Word reveals that those who" do not obey the good news" --and for this reason are executed at Armageddon--will suffer "everlasting destruction." (2 Thess. 1:7-9) Their destruction and the survival of those who worship Jehovah in truth will be convincing evidence that Jehovah is the only true God. In the new world, that great victory will not be forgotten. Those who come back in the "resurrection of ... the righteous and the unrighteous" will learn of Jehovah's great act. (Acts 24:15)
I said during the WT study that we could see in this paragraph an attempt from the Society to find an answer to the perturbing question re. Who will be saved at A. On the two extreme ends the answer is plain : determined opposers will be definitively destroyed, Jah's worshippers will pass. In the middle grey area there are billions of people who fit in none of these categories. For those, the society reserves death with resurrection and teaching on the other side. Harsh as this position is, it represents at least an attempt to bring forth a solution to an important problem within the WTS's logic, with a semblance of justice. The two most ignorant and fanatical elders reacted, one saying that there is no such thing as neutrality in connexion with Jehovah, the other reminding that in ancient times all those who were not in the ark were destroyed. Nice to see such shepperds' loving care for their neighbours.
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The Bucket List
by purplesofa ini suppose a few years ago, i have no illness that i know of but, i realized i was dying.
i can't turn back time, my youth is gone.
i have no hope of a paradise and living forever.
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aligot ripounsous
Purps, I think you can nurture the desire of earthly paradise, based on what you learnt from the JW religion but on terms which are not the WTS's ones, that is exerting yourself with preaching, meetings, stifling your human desires. Instead, I'm convinced we can rely on Jehovah's ability to read hearts and He approves whoever He sees it fitting, regardless of our belonging to such or such organization. He is well beyond our petty religious chauvinism, that's a fortunate thing, and in the end He certainly doesn't want to prevent us from enjoying life according to how He gifted us, in just a normal way. Once JWs have understood that, they are freed from organizational bondage.
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aligot ripounsous
giving too much one way is quite often a manifestation of emotional neediness and as such is not the sign of a balanced relationship, which is based on mutual giving. As said by an earlier poster, it will rather put off the recipient. In the worst case, it will draw him/her to take advantage of the situation and fool the giver, illustrating the saying that a person whose friendship (feelings) you try to buy is not worth the money you put on him/her. Good to be a giver, provided a deserving receiver is facing.
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RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008
by faundy inhave posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:
i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.
he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.
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aligot ripounsous
Faundy, please accept my very sincere condolences for the loss of your Dad
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Being Prejudiced
by purplesofa inmy daughter(she is feeling much better btw) sat down with me a little while ago to tell me about a conversation she had with her boyfriend over the phone.
the guy he works with is black and seems he has been calling him the n word, i don't think to his face, but my daughter has heard him say it.
so she says something to him about it and how wrong she thinks it is.
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aligot ripounsous
Pre-conceived ideas ...previous experience.
In some places, racism is closely related to political posture and intricately mixed with nationalism (whether you call it colonialist attitude or, conversely, anticolonialism) as it is clearly the case in french territories where the locals want to manage the money from the "Metropole" without interference from the europeans.
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Been away from JWD for a while
by heybaby ini've been away for a few months, but i want to get familiarized on the board again.
please read my other posts to get my background.
i look forward to meeting many of you.
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aligot ripounsous
I don't remember having, yet, said thanks for continuing the service, Simon. So, thanks a lot.
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Being Prejudiced
by purplesofa inmy daughter(she is feeling much better btw) sat down with me a little while ago to tell me about a conversation she had with her boyfriend over the phone.
the guy he works with is black and seems he has been calling him the n word, i don't think to his face, but my daughter has heard him say it.
so she says something to him about it and how wrong she thinks it is.
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aligot ripounsous
I don't know if one must call it racism but the first time I experienced different treatment based on skin colour was in a french overseas territory where I found that locals, mostly black, would purposely adopt an insulting attitude toward the white, small telling things like overtaking them while queuing at the post office, and the tone they would take to speak to them. I've married a mixed blood girl but it was within the JW congregation and I must admit you wouldn't find such racist attitude with JWs, so it was all the more a malaise when I would face it outside. No surprise, under such conditions, that we white JWs would limit our frequentations to JWs.