i've personally never met any of those who claim to be anointed but the other jw's who have are always unanimous in their praise of how lovely and what wonderful people they are.
and i don't mean the gb i mean common or garden anointed.
i was told that when they speak about being in heaven that they almost "seem to glow".. is this right?
The majority of them are usually one sandwich short of a picnic.
Although I was kid, the one anointed in our Cong used to get talked about for being a bumbling, Barney Fife type of guy.
BTW he and his wife saw the real light and walked away from da troof more than 20 years ago.
i'm a postman with the royal mail and was assigned to train a new starter yesterday.
my line manager introduces me to 'dave', within seconds my jw radar was on maximum!
in his mid to late 30's, politely spoken and with that haircut - i just knew it.. the post he'd applied for was saturdays only, he said he did a lot of volunteer work.
so why is celebrating mother's day wrong according to witnesses?.
is it not an opportunity to show respect to the giver of life (mother) and therefore god, the originator of families?.
does it not give an opportunity for members of the family to give a hard working mother a day off?
Nothing wrong with it at all, they just want to take all the fun they can out of a Dubs life.
as i seem to remember, in april 2010 i bought one of the first ipads.
i saw the virtue of using it immediately.
it was wifi.
this is a photo of the bethel repair shop taken in 1976. anyone recognize any of these lads from 40 years ago.
i know it's a long shot, but was wondering how many were still in after all these years.
i remember a few of them.
Well, one strike for me ! But the guy on the far left of him kinda looks like Jack Nicholson.
hello friends,.
i was on he ex jw reddit page the other day and came across a posting from a woman who has become a successful author.
she was raised a jw in new york and pioneered at one point in her life.
this is a photo of the bethel repair shop taken in 1976. anyone recognize any of these lads from 40 years ago.
i know it's a long shot, but was wondering how many were still in after all these years.
i remember a few of them.
The guy on the front row, brown shirt looks like a total wise ass. Like he's in Bethel but his room was probably party central with illegal substances and booze.
i've been confronting my mother with her dubious parenting skills (abuse) of me as a child.
particularly the beatings i would get with the wooden spoon.
not a light smack but hitting me as hard as she could for as long as she could.
Spanking to the point that leaves welts and scars I don't believe in AT ALL , but I have to say though that it isn't just JWs who believe in spanking, if you watch a certain rerun of The Andy Griffith Show at the end he asks a dad if he wants to go to the shed in the back and teach his son a lesson. Raven Symone on THe VIew is just 30 and she has several times that since her folks or southeners as she is, if she even attempted to do certain things she knew she was "gonna get a whuppin".
I'm over 50 so of course most of the kids back then were spanked but nowadays not too many parents believe in spanking, which just might be the problem with some of the young folks today (yea, I said it) since some parents do the "friend thing" with their kids and/or just give up. I believe in spanking, have no kids, but believe in it. Just my opinion and probably not a popular one here on this forum.
the extraordinarily high pollen count has finally done me in.
i started with head congestion and coughing on friday and have steadily felt worse.
i now have an earache and a heavy feeling in my chest.. yes, i do have a doctor's appointment for tomorrow, as i'm sure the advice would be!
Eat some local honey, even here in NYC a lot of people do that, they buy some a farmer's markets, but it has to be locally harvested, don't know if that's an option for you but it helps.
I may be speaking too soon, but so far I've just had one bad day of what I would call allergy symptoms, usualyl in the morning I want to scratch my eyes out, accompanied by sneezing all day, so far just one day of moderate sneezing . . .knock on wood.
i saw she went under the handle of lovejahforever.....she said she is very smart and had cleaning jobs and was going in the ministry this morning.. when she told me she looked forward to beating me (she won the first game) she sid she was smart because she's a jehovah's witness.
my response was we will see how smart she is.. what next?
any suggestions??
You know if you do tell her you're a former JW she's gonna drop you like a hot potato and find someone else to the play the game with. Jah forbid a JW play a game on the computer with a former Dub!
