Posts by shopaholic

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Did You Enjoy Listening to the Scriptures on Tape?

by prophecor in

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reading the scriptures took on a whole new meaning when listening to the written word elloquently delivered on tapes.

did you enjoy listening, as well?.

shopaholic

My mind would wonder on the bible reading tapes but I did enjoy listening to the dramas on type.

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What is concept of worship? Why would God want it so bad? I don't get it.

by oompa in

that pretty much says it all, but i just dont get why god so craves worship.

what is he really getting out of it???

but he wants it so much that if he can't get it, he will whack you out forever.. never felt like worshiping god but say thanks for great sunsets.....oompa.

Exactly. One way to express our love for the creator is to live freely. Living a suppressed life yet always wanting more and denying yourself of your god-given talents and waiting for God to destroy everyone that doesn't follow the FDS is not worship. Its cruel and mental. We have amazing minds but to be told not to use them and to become a drone blindly following a religion is not worship.

I'm beginning to believe that worship is an organic process that we manifest by how we enjoy life and help other people. For instance, if you have a choice of mentoring/helping a homeless family get back on their feet vs. going door-to-door telling folks if they don't follow the FDS they will get destroyed, I see worship as helping the homeless family. If you have a choice of going to meetings 3X/week and learning religious teachings by rote vs experiencing the grandeur of the Andes (or even the Rocky Mountains), I see worship as experiencing the grandeur of creation.

Someone mentioned that worship, as most people know it, is purely a human concept. I couldn't agree more.

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I'M NEW WISHED IWOULD HAVE FOUND THIS SITE A LONG TIME AGO

by okiesooner1966 in

here is part of my story until i have more time.

i am know 30 years old, i have been married for almost 9 years to someone who has no relgous ties at all.

i was baptized when i was 19 due to pressure from my family, they wanted me to to get baptized when i was 16. i think i may hold the record for most comitee meetings probably about 20, i was publilcly reproved and disassociated.

shopaholic

okiesooner1966, there are many that can relate to your story. It feels really good share your feelings and know that you won't be judged, doesn't it?! Welcome to the board.

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Record breaking!!!

by arker in

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friends

i want to break the record for number of replies to a post!

i don't know how many that would be but i think it's a lot.

so if you could please reply with however long or short a reply you want.

shopaholic

Hope this one helps!

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amgdn survivialists: stockpiling beans and rice?

by tula in

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friends

just wondering why, if the end is coming so soon, why the jw's were not warned to make plans and stock the ark?.

faith without works is dead, you know.

works require action.

shopaholic

I always wondered if the GB would pull a rabbit out of the hat one day and make some sort of announcement to "be prepared" materially for the "big disaster".

If they do, I really think it will be the final straw for most JWs. I don't think this current bunch will go for it. They do, however, love when a natural disaster hits or if there's a major horrid news story because it all points to the "last days".

And in regards to the survival pack recommendation, I wasn't impressed...people (including myself) have been doing that for years. Every job I've ever had has also recommended that you have a survival kit at work. Besides for alot of JWs I know, the survival pack gets hit when groceries run low and they never getting around to replacing the items. That's because they create their own survival pack with items that they like to eat instead of buying a survival kit with the space age food packets.

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Whats the funniest thing you've ever seen happen in the KH?

by shell69 in

i remember being a kid and we didnt have the fancy fabric seats, they were plastic stackable chairs all set out in the usual lines.. an elderly bro, rather rotund, farted, the noise so loud and thundering against the plastic seat!

or the time when i must have been about 7, my dad brought his bible study family to their first ever meeting, i had to sit on mums knee.

i recall giving the daughter of the new family a very vigorous v sign during the meeting.

shopaholic

When I was a kid, a sister's slip fell to the floor after she walked onto the platform to give her talk. All the kids really got the all-night giggles over this.
Several years ago a young brother sang most his talk...it was a bible reading from the book of Rev. I had to go stand in the back because I was gonna lose it.

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"Homebounds" sad, single, only-ever post here a month plus ago.

by oompa in

hello all, yes i am still in, but man it's getting so hard to continue to give up my life , for something that's just not happening, my wife is pioneering, and i just cant contiue to do this.

cost of living,gas, we sold our home 4 yrs agao.

man that was a mistake.

shopaholic

I wonder just what percentage of the JWs have doubts and never verbalize them.

Plenty of them do. I've heard JW say all the time "we all have doubts". My sister, who is a super-dub said it just the other day. I had serious doubts for years and never said a word.

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Sweet elderly sister reproved...

by changeling in

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friends

for having too much contact with her df'd son!.

she's a loyal, long time witness in her seventies, with a "non-believing" husband.

she harms nobody with her bevavior.

shopaholic

people get DF'd for this all the time.

This true, depending on who knows about it. I also know folks that allowed Df'd relatives to move in with them, some were reproved and some were not.

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Like Craig's List ... Only Worse

by Shepherd Book in

i am currently making a concerted effort to rid myself of all unnecessary/unwanted possessions.

included in this purge are: .

shopaholic

I recently did WT purge as well. Some items went to the local recycle bin (tracts, mags) and others to the salvation army (bible on cassette, noah's ark video) and some items were tossed in the garbage (videos, studied material). Books that could be used for research, like the Insight volumes and Proclaimers books were donated to the library. I kept a personal copy of a couple of books but they are tucked away in a box. I just got to the point where I couldn't stand to see their literature anymore.

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Fading? What's up?

by arker in

i was a jw, finally saw my chance and wrote a letter to the elders saying how bad i am and how i don't want to meet to discuss it and to df me if you want.

that was the end of it for me.

my question is if you know you are "fading" you are already gone so why not make the leap?

shopaholic

The shame is for the one that stays in even though they know it's wrong, and stays active and regular.

Everyone is different but its difficult to understand how folks can continue in the ministry and give parts from the platform when they know its all a lie (or most of it anyway). Going to the meetings for a slow fade is understandable but wasting your time on the extra credit stuff that doesn't count anyway is a shame. I never knew how wonderful saturday mornings could be!