Just reading all the silliness makes me shake my head, just think of the millions that actually followed those BS rules. I know a sister who grew up in Cong in Baltimore and she said at wedding receptions they weren't allowed to play records, can somebody please tell me which biblical scripture that comes from?
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What "Rules" Did The Elders In Your KH Make?
by minimus insome congregations were known as liberal and others were considered very conservative.
back in the 1970s a nearby congregation made all speakers who gave public talks a white shirt to wear.
if a speaker came in wearing anything but white they were brought into the library and were given a white shirt!
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What was Jesus last name???
by James Mixon injesus in hebrew means "savior' and christ in greek means "messiah".
these are identifiers --not names in jesus case.. where did the name christ come from, his parents???
?i can see the name jesus (first name) but christ.
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What was Jesus last name???
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London fire..
by zeb ini bleed for the poor souls caught in that.
no sprinkler system in that domestic building..!.
tragically the govts various of london learned nothing during the world war..
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Splash - There are 8 congregations (not k.halls) within 1.5 miles of that disaster. In the spirit of charity and Christian kindness, I hope they have been able to organise some relief for those affected.
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Have You Ever Found Yourself Really Not Liking Someone Here?
by minimus ini've been on this board for years.
99% of the posters here i do not personally know.
a few, maybe not so much...lol..... do posters here get you upset to the point that you really don't like them?
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ShirleyW
Hey Jook - give us some initials we can guess who it is !
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Have You Ever Found Yourself Really Not Liking Someone Here?
by minimus ini've been on this board for years.
99% of the posters here i do not personally know.
a few, maybe not so much...lol..... do posters here get you upset to the point that you really don't like them?
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Well that's only human to think that everyone here doesn't care for certain others here, I'm sure my name has been torn apart at times by a few who post here and I wasn't too crazy about a few folks myself. I will say though out of the three posters who drove me absolutely crazy, none of them post here anymore, one was booted for sure and of the other two, I don't know if they faded or were booted as well
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"...You will be Disfellowshipped for 7 years"
by HereIgo inshortly before i left the "troof" a co had given a talk during his visit.
at the time there was a scandal going on in the congregation where 2 couples basically swapped spouses with each other.
it was quite the scandal.
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Seven years, oh really, that didn't apply to an Elder and Pioneer Sister that were both married but had been carrying on an affair for years. When they finally got caught, he conducted the Washtowel on Sunday and was DF'd that Thursday, she was too. After a year they were both reinstated, eventually they both divorced their spouses and got married and last I heard they're still in da troof, this happened back in the late 70's.
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"We dont mourn the dead"
by HereIgo ini remember a brother making the above statement in regards to an elderly sister who had passed.
he stated we don't mourn or even visit grave sites because we have a hope that jah will resurrect the dead.
it seemed really creepy at the time, hell, even jesus wept when lazarus died.
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I made sure the Brother that I allowed to speak at my mothers funeral did not turn it into a recruiting session, since I've been told there's a script that they're supposed to use when speaking at a funeral, He may have used it, but he cut out the recruitment part, because if he tried to be slick and sneak it in since I was sitting right there on the first row, I would've shut him down.
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Do JWs Ever Do Anything Meaningful For Others?
by minimus ini know they never gave a helping hand to anyone but their own in the past.
do jehovah's witnesses do anything useful for the community??
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James Mixon - "You will know them by their fruits" Wow sooo true..A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
So true James! I guess that's just one of the MANY scriptures the Dubs like to overlook in their favor, but then again I guess they consider knocking on your door a fruitful work, so, one of the scriptures they've twisted around to meet their twisted beliefs.
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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?
by Funchback inthere were many addressed to me.
for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.
i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.
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Not personal counsel, but from the stage from our CO at the time, Bro. Wiegel (do any of you old timers remember that name?) he ever so gently suggested that the brothers shouldn't watch football because it's a violent sport. I'm sure after that Sunday talk in either the late 60's or early 70's another male servant of Jah ever viewed another football game.
Also I remember my mother telling me that a brother that gave a talk at the circuit assembly and this is going back more than ten years said that "we" as in Jehoober's faithful flock shouldn't watch "The Simpsons" because of Bart and how we had no respect for this father, yup I'm sure that went over well.
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Police cordon around Honiton's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses after fatal stabbing
by ShirleyW inhey uk folks, what's going with this story?
was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?.
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Hey UK folks, what's going with this story? was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?