Maybe it's possible to have a healthy and happy childhood within the Witness group with rational, objective, sane parents. My problem with that is I've never known a rational, objective, sane Witness.
My Witness childhood is not the one I would have chosen. My parents were not the parents I would have chosen.
garybuss
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Is it possible for a child to be exposed to JWism and not be damaged by it?
by Mickey mouse inwhat do you think?
were you raised as a jw and feel you suffered no ill effects?
or do you feel it had a negative impact on your life?.
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Vinyl repair and pin stripping cars......
by Gram inbesides the two above mentioned jw businesses, what other ones swept through the congs?
not counting janitorial, house cleaning and window washing.
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garybuss
Here I saw Jehovah Rug Doctor, Jehovah window chip repair, Jehovah therapeutic massage, Jehovah painting, and Jehovah lawn care and snow removal.
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How long B4 this website selling "JW Chic" clothes gets shut down?
by Open mind inhttp://www.zazzle.com/jwchic.
just stumbled across it in a youtube video.. here's the cutesy jw video link of jws running late for meetings and fs.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdi3880juxs.
i'm not able to post much these days, so i won't be able to babysit this thread very well.. just thought you might like to have a go at it.. om.
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garybuss
I loved the Mic Handler tie. They even had a picture of the pole. Damn, I miss those poles. So long and stiff. I actually had several sisters grab mine.
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Terminology: Congregation vs. Unit
by Gram indoes anyone remember when the "so and so" congregation was called the "so and so" unit?
do you know the reasoning behind changing the terminology?
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Congregations were called companies and the "unit" terms were only applied if there were more than one company in a region (city). In Sioux Falls there was just one company. The officers were called "company servant", "assistant company servant", and (I think) "book study servant". I might be wrong on the third one.
Later in the 50's the company divided but shared a Kingdom Hall building. The were called the "east unit", and the "west unit". The meeting people attended depended on their address. West of Minnesota Avenue was the west unit and east was the east unit.
We were not a religion. Our literature was promoted as "non-denominational". Our meetings were advertised as "non-denominational". Our weekly invitation handbills had "FREE" in bold type twice and "No Collections Taken" printed on them. We were proud of that, like "no collections" had a direct tie to truth. We were not politically neutral, we were political separatists, and we were politically very active. We staged separatist demonstrations by disrespecting the established governments every chance we got.
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I ordered myself the Koran...
by digderidoo ini have always wondered what exactly is in the koran, apparently it's written in poetry.. obviously there is a lot of negativity towards the koran from the west, yet many practices that are condemned are not found in the koran, for example women wearing the hijab.. so now that we can read what we want without being told what we can and can't have in our library i thought i'd order a few books.
i just received the gnostic gospels, i have ordered some buddhist transcripts, the book of mormon and the koran from amazon.. ....and why not???
paul.
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I read the Qur'an and The Book Of The Dead. I skimmed the Book of Mormon, but it didn't fascinate me. Doctrine and Covenants did. That I read and enjoyed. Mostly I enjoyed the work of William Miller and I spend days reading the work of Ellen G White. In those I saw the not too abstract blueprint for Watch Tower policies.
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help me fix computer before jw comes home frm assembly please
by carla ini don't know what happened.
i usually use yahoo as my home page (cause my mail is on there) and a google box came up that wanted me to change my home page to google, it wouldn't let me do anything other than check ok, now i can't even get to a yahoo page of any kind.
this is what pops up when i try- (see below)------- i tried going in the tools box and changing but must be doing something wrong.
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garybuss
You probably have a Google toolbar installed. You might try uninstalling that. Go to Control panel, add-remove programs, and select Google toolbar and uninstall it.
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Why December 25 is the Most Important Day to JWs
by notyetx inthe philosophical underpinning of most jw belief is the notion of "otherness.
" jws must stand out and become a "theatrical spectacle" before a wanton and profligate world.
part of this comes from the stories of first century christian martyrdom.
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John 10:22-23 (NIV)
22 Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade.
http://www.ort.org/ort/edu/festivals/hanukkah/history.htmlHanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is celebrated for eight days, commencing on the 25th day of the month of Kislev (November/December), to commemorate the victory of the Jews over the Hellenist Syrians in 165 BCE.
Hanukkah 2008
In 2008 Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday December 21.
Hanukkah Dates
Hanukkah is a eight-day holiday both in Israel and outside of Israel.
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Did Jesus every mention or say anything about Armageddon?
by VM44 inwhat is in the book of revelation doesn't count!.
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I wasn't aware that Jesus wrote anything at all. Seems to me at best, all I see is an artist's version of a translation of a of a third party opinion of hearsay.
It's a great story with good lessons and I enjoyed reading it, but I might not be ready to make too many more irreversible living decisions based on works of art, superstition, tradition, or subjective assumptions.
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Letter of Introduction
by IMHO indoes anyone know about the legalities of sending a letter when you move congregation, that in many cases contains a pack of lies about you and claiming they can't show you it as it's 'confidential'?
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The only way they could lie about me would be to say something good about me.
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"It's Snowing Like A Bast^rd"
by minimus inso said a friend of mine who was driving.
we are supposed to get another 10 to 12 inches of snow here.
white out conditions are terrible here!
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garybuss
It was so cold here this morning that I saw one dog pushing another to get it started.