I'm over 50 and I got all my vaccinations, way back then I'm sure there weren't as many as there are today anyway. What were the vax opinions of the Dubs way back then I don't know. They flip flop back and forth, so I guess they didn't care back then or I guess my Uber Dub mom would've been against them.
ShirleyW
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Have you seen these drawings against medical procedures?
by ILoveTTATT2 inthese come from the golden age of june 8, 1932:.
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Do you celebrate Christmas?
by LovingLifeNow indo you celebrate and how long have you been out?
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3 years for me and yes i do..
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ShirleyW
This is now my favorite time of year! I'm a born in and when I was growing up my father was a UBM so I have memories of the holidays with family and friends gatherings and presents, up until the teen years and everyone was grown, and the folks that used to cook that big meal got tired of doing that because their kids were grown and so on. So during my teen years until I moved out my parents house that when the holidays got to be a boring. When I moved out I have always done something special on the holiday and my birthday which just happens to be two weeks before Christmas, So between Thanksgiving and New Years I celebrate each holiday.
One thing I've gotten accustomed to doing every Xmas eve for some reason is watch the Mass from St. Patrick's here in New York, don't know about the rest of the country, but it's televised here every year. I've been watching faithfully watching for almost 20 years now.
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Films with nudity
by neat blue dog ini guess every jw has a different conscience on the matter, and i don't believe any jw publications have ever specifically mentioned nudity in film as being off limits.
of course genitals are out of the question because that's usually relegated to r movies which most good jws don't view.
female toplessness is condoned but not spoken about, as most jws i know have seen titanic and many own it.
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ShirleyW
She took my younger brother out of sex ed in school so he didn’t know what a naked woman even looked like until he was 30!
Are you sure he didn't know what a naked women looked like until he was 30, even the pompous elders that will counsel you and tell it's a sin to shoot one off every now and then knew what a naked women looked like well before they were 30
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The Hypocrisy Of Jehovah’s Witnesses
by minimus incelebrating holidays is wrong if you are a witness.
but almost every jw that i know of has turkey on thanksgiving day.
they say , every day is a day of thanksgiving.
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ShirleyW
I'm just glad my dad at the time I was growing up was an UBM, so I grew up with the memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas with family and close friends of my parents and receiving presents. Remember the Borg told the wives if their husband was not a believer to still prepare the holiday meal for him, so most of the time we went to close friends or relatives and sometimes my Uber Dub mom even prepared the holiday meal
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What are your favorite musical scores in film?
by LoveUniHateExams inhi guys!.
this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.
here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .
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ShirleyW
West Side Story
and Lady Sings the Blues, which isn't original music, Diana Ross put her own spin on a few of the songs of Billie Holliday
and Funny Girl
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Reminder:Leah Remini Expose on J.W.'s airs Tuesday Nov.13 on A&E channel.
by StoneWall inthought i'd post this since the date is almost upon us for those who want to see it as it premieres.hope it turns out really good and that she can help many to see the watchtower for what it really is like she did about the scientologists.here's a link to a small preview of it:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/leah-remini-scientology-aftermath-jehovah-s-witnesses-special-event-trailer-1153594
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ShirleyW
As i opened this site about a minute ago I remembered that tonight is the night! Set my cable box to switch over at 9pm.
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Why can JW's attend funerals or weddings in a church?
by QuestioningEverything inwhat is the reasoning/policy behind the practice that a jw can't attend an event such as funeral or wedding in another church?
i know of someone that didn't attend her older sisters funeral because it was held in a baptist church.
she waited outside until the service was over and then went to the family dinner afterwards.
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ShirleyW
Even my uber dub mom had to laugh at this but, when my aunt went to a wake in a church, a women she knew who was a JW walked up, looked at the body, then ran out the church, like she didn't want Jehovah to catch her paying respects to a colleague of hers, just amazing, how so many people buy in to their made up rules. I don't really remember that being a strict rule anyway until the late 60's, another flip-flop of theirs.
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Did you enjoy your visit to Bethel?
by Addison0998 ini recently had to take a trip with my family to bethel.
it was a bit torturous for a secret apostate as you can imagine.
but mostly just so boring.
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ShirleyW
I have to include my visit to Bethel when I was a kid back in the mid 60's, to show you how things have changed.
After the tour and lunch we went back to this brothers room for a while, when it was time to leave, my father, who was an unbelieving mate back then was the last to walk out, so he asked before he shut the door, do you want to lock it, or use your key, whatever he said, but the brother said "we don't have to lock our doors around here"! My mother could hardly wait to get back to the KH and tell that story to everyone, like it was a good witness for my father to finally come into da troof. - smh, makes me sick just thinking about it.
Btw, this visit was in either 1967 or 1968 and my father didn't get baptized until 1977, so I don't think that one little experience had anything to do with it. And as you know, now I"m sure Bethelites lock their doors now!!
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Getting Remarried after a spouses death & then they are resurrected after Armageddon ?
by LOLS inhi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
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ShirleyW
I don't know which flip flop rule they have now about dead spouses still being married, but a friend of my mom's lost her husband ten or more years before my dad died. I thought I remember them saying that if your spouse is resurrected they will no longer be married. So my mom and this sister were talking about this and this sister said, "but a brother in our KH said that now they will still be married", So I guess all the wives that miss their husbands find comfort in the one brother in Philadelphia, who says the resurrected will still be married.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
by cofty inbeen to see the new film (movie) tonight.
outstanding!
brought back lots of memories.
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ShirleyW
then there was this Watchtower stating that "Another One Bites the Dust" is backwards "It is fun to smoke marijuana"
Seriously? Glad I was already out by then, how they come up with such nonsense and their followers blindly follow I"ll never understand.