Still get invited to something once a year or so.
There was a time when we either had people round or were round at others every weekend. We were, as they used to say at the core of the congregation.
And, although my wife is still in, they dropped us like hot potatoes as soon as I stopped attending. Seems to me their love is very conditional.
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Did you still attend gatherings after you faded?
by truthseeker init's hard work pretending when you're doing the fade - it's even harder when for one reason or another, you make a decision to attend a "gathering".. i found i stopped looking at people as i used to and looked at them in a different light, new light - it can never be the same again..
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Where did you meet your lover/partner/husband/wife and..
by mtsgrad inwas it love at first sight?.
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eyeslice
I met my wife at a get together of some pioneer friends. Love at first sight and been together for 30 years now - and things just get better, even though she is in and I am out!
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Recession? I didn't see it this weekend. What's your take?
by restrangled ini'm just wondering if everyone has been holding back until the shopping season for christmas.
it was like everyone one was pent up waiting to shop.
(maybe paying off credit cards for months and worrying about the future).
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The problem with the current economic crisis is that many people have over spent on credit and credit cards and the like. Spending our way out of a recession if it is based on what people cannot afford doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
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Mrs.Chickennest has cancer
by Thechickennest inmy wife and i learned this week that she is suffering from a large malignant tumor in her sinuses.
the cancer has spread to her lymth nodes and the pet scan indicates a mass on her left lung as well.
the sinus cancer is called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.
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Sorry to hear such news. Thoughts and prayers are with you both. God bless you both.
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what's on your list of things to do before you die?
by fern in#1 to visit ireland.
#2 go to the kentucky derby....with good seats, not the infield.. i have others but they are less important..
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The idea that 'sex' is on somebody's list is a bit sad!!!
Funnily, I was talking to my son yesterday and suggesting that we ought to try and see a 'Space Shuttle' take off before it is retired. It a bit like Concorde, there'll never be another that fires the imagination in such a way. -
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Did you know of any elders who only worked by themselves in field service
by truthseeker inthere was one elder i knew, a bully type, who always worked by himself in field service.
i never saw anyone else work with him.. did you know of elders like this?.
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Not sure of what the pros and cons are here?
When I was an elder and there was an odd number out in field service, I felt my duty to work on my own. On the other hand, working with members of the group is the responsibility of the elders.
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People who actually listened to Kingdom Melodies outside the Hall
by JimmyPage indid you know people like this?
you get in their car and the kingdom melodies are playing on prerecorded piano... you go to their house and there they are in an orchestral arrangement... even when i was a complete believer i cringed when i had to hear this banal crap!
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eyeslice
Even when I was well in, never had the Kingdom Melodies tapes at home; nor any of the Bible readings on tapes, videos, etc. I never really did see the point!
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If you could, would you have many wives?
by eyeslice ini read a book a few years back entitled white moguls, which looked at the british rule in india.
apparently, quite a few upper class englishmen ended up going native in india, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems.
it seems to me that they had great lives!
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But zero wives isn't a very good harem is it!
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If you could, would you have many wives?
by eyeslice ini read a book a few years back entitled white moguls, which looked at the british rule in india.
apparently, quite a few upper class englishmen ended up going native in india, and ended up not only with great wealth and power, but also with their own harems.
it seems to me that they had great lives!
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You could use ear plugs instead!
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Shouldn't A Religion Having The "Truth" Be Pretty Simple To Follow?
by minimus inwhen you think about it, there's a lot of things about jehovah's witnesses that isn't easy to understand.. try to explain all the details about the blood doctrine to half a normal brain.. the majority of jws cannot explain who exactly the "faithful & discreet slave" is.
most will mix it up with the governing body.. the new world translation has "jehovah" in it over 7000 times.
ask a witness if the manuscripts that were found had the name "jehovah" in it.
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Shouldn't A Religion Having The "Truth" Be Pretty Simple To Follow? Of course!
Religion should be the pursuit of simplicity.
The problem with a rules based religion like the witnesses is that once you make one rule then a thousand and one other rules are needed.
Take long hair in men. If you don't have a rule but leave it to individuals, then some will grow their hair longer than others. However, society as a whole hasn't disintegrated into anarchy and chaos just because some men wear their hair long. But the WTB&TS has to have a 'no long hair' rule. Then you need another to define exactly what long hair is; is half an inch over your ears or can it be a little longer?
Also, remember the short skirts rules? The fact is that most worldly women don't go round dressed like prostitutes on the pull, but the WTB&TS thinks that without rules, that all the sisters will turn up to the meetings dressed that way.
When I was an elder I used to be at the point of pulling my own hair out on occasions over petty rule making by the elders, no wonder I am bald now!