The C.O. told our congregation "marry someone more spiritual than yourself".
Posts by AnneB
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17Misleading advice at the Hall.
by edmond dantes inwords of wisdom at the kingdom hall went something like " don't marry for looks because looks fade.
" what i want to know is if the person you married turns out to be a crabby old miserable so and so how do you cope with ugly personality plus ugly looks.i mean if you marry a looker at least you have enjoyed some vision of delight, if you get stuck with both you are in a double bind.
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Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall?
by greenhornet ini was driving on some back roads today and seen a large building, the building was about 700 feet square and only 2 cars in a very large parking lot.
the sign in the front said jehovah's witness assembly hall.
the doors were locked and i heard no machine noise inside.
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AnneB
Actually a lot of the work is done offsite by unpaid workers. Making a new Jehovah's Witness can take a long time since the workers usually have other, full-time jobs to support themselves and their families and are often reluctant to become involved in the required process.
What you saw is actually a testing facility. They fire it up most weekends.
If you do investigate further exercise extreme caution; in a place like that there is always a danger that you will be sucked in.
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When did apostasy set in?
by My Struggle ini know that dubs think that apostasy set in quickly in the early church, but i am not certain how early the think that it set in.
do they think that it was in the apostolic fathers, directly after them, legalization of christianity, etc.
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AnneB
I have never seen anything in any of their publications that puts in kind of certainty as to when the apostasy fully took hold.
According to JW's there have always been members of the Annointed on the earth..so there were always at least a few faithful Christians, those with correct understandings.
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how do you prove to a JW that they they were wrong about 1975?I
by paybacktime19 ini need written proof in their own publications ..
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AnneB
Awake! 1969 May 22 p.15
If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
I wonder if Truth In Advertising might be at issue here. That was their slogan for such a long time ("Advertise, advertise, advertise...").
The cigarette companies finally had to pay...
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A BS Propaganda Poster Award!
by frankiespeakin ini was thinking rather humorously how to keep part mother earths brains the "internet" from being clogged with useless or misleading information that might cause moma to respond poorly,, kinda like our brains when they get chuck full of crap and we start hurting ourselve because we got a bad or faulty program running inside our mind.. so i was thinking of simons effort to stop this type of faulty useless information cluter in the space he has dedicated for jwd.
and i was thinking it might even be a good idea for a vote that goes like this:.
if you post something political and it is propaganda of a very biaed kind and a couple of member posters flag you on it and if it gets over a certain a certain amount you get an award or blue ribbon on you avatar saying you are in the lead and hold that award till someone passes you out and the ribbon get passes on to them,, and the mods can use this as a gage as to when to errase a post so as not to clog up mother earths brains with garbage..
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AnneB
And what are the mods going to do when the board owner holds the award?
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People who make the truth EXCITING!
by slimboyfat ini have been fading for years now and attend meetings very rarely these days.
but something happened recently to make me think about going regularly again.
a couple have returned to my congregation who used to be special pioneers here twenty years ago.
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AnneB
I think you're in mourning. There's a stage of mourning where the only things that are remembered are good; the happy moments, the love, the caring, all the things that you mentioned concerning that JW couple.
The reality is that even if such memories are based in fact, they're just that, memories. The reality is something much more harsh. Your desire for peace and calm must be balanced against all the disturbing elements in the WT world which you know well.
Ever watch a sci-fi or fantasy show where a person has a chance to go back in time or into another dimension where they can be with someone or something that they once loved? Some go for it, some don't. The ones who try to re-live their past can only succeed if they remain focused on just that one feature of their life and times, nothing else can exist for them. Do you have an ability like that; to block out literally everything else except the slender thread of beautiful memory connecting you to these people and to the org? Do you have the ability to sustain yourself indefinitely in what amounts to an artificial existence? Are you willing to let go of anything else to which you may have formed an attachment in order to live in an imaginary world?
Mourn, but don't lose yourself in mourning. Let the pleasant memories have a place in your heart but live in the present, stay rooted in reality.
A.
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What is the shortest prayer you have ever heard in the KH?
by asilentone inone time, a elder said like "heavenly father jehovah, thank you for the meetings.
i pray thru jesus name amen" i was so stunned it was a very short prayer.
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AnneB
I've heard a couple of those one-liner "prayers" as well. They happen right after the congregation sings only one verse of the song so the elders can bring the meeting to a close on time.
Nice thing when a timeclock takes precedence over True Worship. (Hey Farkel, how do you make the little copyright symbol?)
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HELP ME, HELP ME...PLEASE!!!
by Quentin interry gave me a copy of "in search of christian freedom"...no disrespect to ray franz...i am bored to tears....can't get past the frist chapter...soaked up coc, turned around and soaked it up again.... highly recomend coc to any jw (one that's not brain dead) or ex-jw (also not brain dead) who needs to know something about how the tower works....great book.... sigh, i seem to no longer have the attention span it takes to read a book of this depth....a sad commentary on me...has the internet dumbed some people down to the point that they can no longer read a book?
if that's what's happended somebody shoot me please... .
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AnneB
It's not you...ISoCF is far less riveting than CoC.
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For my Birthday = I will break 10 of Jehovahs Laws in one day! Ideas?
by Witness 007 inyes, i plan to break the 10 "witness commandments" on my birthday!
any idea's...did i miss any?
i can't think of ten!.
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AnneB
Learn to "act" instead of "react".
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Dinner guest- When you bring wine shouldn't they offer you some?
by Witness 007 ini've gone to many a witness dinner where i would bring one or two nice wines, hoping we would have some with dinner.
{to numb the boring conversations} only, to find the couple say "thanks" put it in the cabnet....and serve up lemonade..... and it's not an alcohol thing....two different brothers brought out there own "home made" vino instead, which taste like a mixture of fruit punch and vineger!
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AnneB
When a guest brings food or drink to a pre-planned meal (not a picnic, pot luck or covered dish dinner) the item is not served with the meal but simply viewed as a gift. The guest's opinion on the matter is moot; they were invited to consume the meal, not contribute toward it.
In other words, if you want to eat/drink a particular thing, do it somewhere else or at another time. When you're invited to someone's house and accept the invitation, eat what's served without thinking about how you would have done it different.
Etiquette-AnneB