Posts by Younglove1999

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My newest grandchild

by NanaR in

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hey friends,.

my sixth grandchild was born last week.

my daughter had severe preeclampsia so the delivery was an emergency.

On the way back from the grocery store....afternoon chuckle!!

by sweetstuff in

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we went shopping this afternoon, my two little girls and i, on the way home, they were both excitedly talking about halloween.

my youngest, who is seven, lets out this comment that nearly had me veering off the road with laughter.

she said, "i know what i want to be for halloween already, a jehovah's witness" well, i started to laugh right away, my eldest girl asked her why, she says, "they knock on people's door all the time and they are really scary".

Younglove1999

that's awesome!

She definitely needs a Lapel badge!

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Questiions that JW's can not answer

by TooBad TooSad in

i was an elder for 10 years.

there were some questions that i was asked by the flock which.

i could not answer.

Younglove1999

great post-

I've often wondered these very things myself-

Also, if I were to lose my mate in this system and then I die later on but before armageddon. When I get ressurected, will I still know my mate, but just not be "in love" with them? If I'm to be the exact same person ressurrected as I was before I died, wouldn't those emotions I had for my mate still be within me? If not, then in a sense, I'm being ressurrected as a completely different person? Isn't that reincarnation?

Or will I have those emotions but not be able to do anything about it since I can no longer marry?

*runs around in circles*

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Are all the GB members bachelors & childless?

by lfcviking in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7ilnoxvu4&mode=related&search=.

is it so that the 10 members of the governing body have never been married or had any children at all in their lives?

i find this astonishing if is true!

Younglove1999

I too remember hearing that Albert Schroeder had a kid(s).

I remember an elder telling me last year when I found out I was pregnant that the Society has so much good information for raising children and how they really kept quiet on stuff like that until Bro Schroder had a kid and thus ensued more articles about kids. I remember him saying "isn't it great that Jehovah made an outlet for ALL people of various walks of life to receive instruction? Having Bro. Schroder on the GB certainly was a blessing for all parents in the truth" and blah blah about how Jehovah truly blessed-

I almost responded "so before Brother Schroeder, Jehovah could give two craps about families???"

This elders "theory" screams the following: Once again the WBTS was losing members by condeming families so they came up with the bright idea (hmm light getting brighter?) to start making "we love kids and family" articles in hopes to keep people in the organization.

Oy Vey

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I now know what is wrong with the Watchtower Society!!

by TooBad TooSad in

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posters, readers, and lurkers of this site know that the watchtower society does not know.

the meaning of "soon", "near", "very soon", "very near", "just on the horizon", "just around the.

corner", etc.

Younglove1999

I immediately became ill when reading the WT paragraphs.

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Did all those refreshing moments/ideas make you cringe?

by Younglove1999 in

i have to admit- the idea of having to live forever and having to continue going to meetings 1,000 times a week and studying "the new scrolls" sounded so annoying and tiring and not at all refreshing and exciting!

i honestly did not look forward to "it" .

when discussing how exciting going to assemblies and conventions would be and how we'd always leave feeling rejuvinated and happy, i never did.

Younglove1999

I have to admit- the idea of having to live forever and having to continue going to meetings 1,000 times a week and studying "the new scrolls" sounded so annoying and tiring and not at all refreshing and exciting! I honestly did not look forward to "it"

When discussing how exciting going to assemblies and conventions would be and how we'd always leave feeling rejuvinated and happy, I never did. It was such a pain in the you-know-what to have to make all the arrangments- go grocery shopping, figure out who'll watch the dogs all 18 hours of the day that I'm gone, pay for meals out, pay for hotels, get time off of work and so on. I HATED them.

Clapping when someone got baptized? Puh-leeze. I'm trying to eat!

and nothing annoyed me more than when the Memorial fell on a day that wasn't a normal meeting night. You mean an EXTRA night out that week?! Ugh!!!

how about you all? What are your moments that made you go

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My Dating horror= You can't have coffee at the mall without a chaperon???

by Witness 007 in

being a pioneer/servant for years, i thought i was very responsible.

when dating a sister whom i later married, i read every publication on courtship the society had.

i then spoke to an elder whom i thought was "resonable" and we agreed as the publications say: "a couple can meet together in a public place, when courting, without a chaperon.

Younglove1999

When I was dating my now husband, we were both young- around 16. Nobody chaperoned us. They thought we were too young to date and decided they would boycott chaperoning us. So we continuted dating without a chaperone for over a year. Then we got engaged and about 5 months before our wedding we had sex. At that point we had been together for a year and a half. Had nothing to do with not being chaperoned- hell, we had "restrained" ourselves for a year and a half sans chaperones! We were both just ready to go to the next level and thought it was stupid to wait until after we were actually married since we were going down that road anyways.

We ended up getting d/f because I think about 3 months before our wedding our "guilt" got the best of us and we confessed and thus ensued the most digrading Judicial Committee meeting ever- We got DF'd and ended up having a small wedding (which we wanted initially in the first place since 3/4 of those JW's my parents wanted to invite didn't approve anyways).

Our only regret was that we took the steps needed to get reinstated. That was 8 years ago. Live and Learn I guess.

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Yoga anyone?

by changeling in

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yoga anyone?.

the yoga instructor passes around little sandalwood scented eye pillows, pops in a "mood music" cd, and dims the lights.

we all sit cross legged on our slightly sticky mats.

Younglove1999

I could have written this post myself.

I tried Yoga for the first time last weekend (on a Saturday morning-yay for no more service!!) and it was WONDERFUL.

I had this energy afterwards that was just so wonderful, yet I felt so at peace.

I'm going again tmw

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The fade is over, talked to my parents last night. (very very long)

by Paralipomenon in

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there would never be a good time to have this conversation.

quite different from most people raised a witness, i have very few horror stories about my upbringing.

my family was just a family, my mom and dad fought and argued, my siblings and i misbehaved and got in trouble.. .

Younglove1999

wow-

thanks for sharing what happened-

I wonder too if I'll ever have to have that in depth of a discussion with my parents-

currently my mom knows we don't want anything to do with the org. but she thinks it's just stress and we'll eventually wake up-

your post really hit home-

thanks again for posting it

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ATTN: Sign Language Jezebels! Get those hats back on! (BOE letter)

by BFD in

once again i have been selected as the "chosen channel" of commnuication by an paranoid elder apostate in waiting to spread this divinely inspired information: .

bfd.

a recent letter to all traveling overseers and bodies of elders in the u.s. contains an interesting "change in policy".

Younglove1999

for real? *rolls eyes*

I used to do sign language interpreting for my mother in law who is deaf.

I hate the head covering "rule"