Yes they may "Not say the truth" so this can be equal to a lie, but not for them.
That's what my mom did, and taught me (and I assume my brothers) to do, to conceal from my non-believing father that we were going door-to-door. He didn't approve of her doing it and he had flat-out forbidden her to take us kids. To defy his "headship" would have been a sin, but to deceive him was just fine.
.. you may be aware of recent media coverage on 'the salt threat'* where the fda is trying to regulate the food packaging industries use of salt in the products.. if they go forward with it what would stop them from trying to regulate the salt content in usda meat since it's common knowledge that blood contains salt and if the production line is slowed down allowing for a better quality of bleed in the carcass reducing the amount salt or blood in the meat.. * http://abcnews.go.com/gma/oncall/story?id=3929972&page=1 .
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The point is that if the USDA regulates the term of bleeding of the dead cacuass to elimate high consintrations of salt in the blood, the Jw's will be able to eat USDA meat since it would compliy with the bible standard at Genesis 9:4, not to eat poorly bled meat.
Huh? The JWs I know already eat USDA meat, and have been doing so all along.
ok, so i have this lump on the right side of my neck, bout half the size of a golf ball, though you really cant notice it unless i point it out.
a year ago i had a biopsy,,(for cancer),gosh, if i knew ahead of time how they were going to do it , dont think i woulda shown up lol.
anyway,,i think i have a thyroid conditionl,,,cold,,tired,,and found out daughter takes med for a thyroid condition.
You definitely need to see a doctor.
My thyroid is underactive ("wearing out" is how one doctor put it). I take a pill every day and I mostly feel pretty good, but as someone else posted, it's very hard to lose weight. If you end up on thyroid meds, be sure to read the directions carefully. For example, I'm not supposed to take any other meds for an hour after I take my thryoid med, or take calcium supplements for several hours afterward.
im new to your website and im very thankful i have found it.
i was born and raised a witness but managed to get myself out after highschool and havent been back for five or six years.
now that i have a family of my own im totally confused.
Relax and take your time. Enjoy your husband's enjoyment of the holidays. Enjoy the food and presents. Over time, you may find your way to really liking the holidays. And if you don't, so what? Not all non-JW-raised people like the holidays, either.
thats pretty much it....my at home son seems so much younger than he should be...he is now 20 but hangs with much youger dubs...and has no girlfriend to date.
i had like ten by then and had done everything but impregnate a girl................................what the hey is going on here?....................................oompa..
plus he is a ministerial servant and reg.
As a devout JW, your son probably believes that dating is appropriate only in the context of seeking and courting a spouse. If he's not ready to marry, he won't consider it appropriate to date. He may also not see the need to move out of your house until he marries. If you want him gone, you may have to push.
ok, dansk and all you other fab guys out there.
any suggestions for what to get besty this year?
it's our first christmas and it's his birthday on boxing day!!
PoppyR's suggestion is my favourite so far, although the last time I tried something like that, it took me about 2 hours to try and get into the item in question!!!!
But how long did it take you to get out of it?
is it just me, or has everyone noticed many more lurkers and newbies posting now?
i have been reading way too much lately, in light of the nbc broadcast, and it seems as if each time i read a new thread, there's someone posting their first post, or third.
right offhand, i remember leaving-jws, rmcgill_leader, jwdonotcall, confused and lost, xfdwg97, and another post i just read from mom--something or other.
I'm new. I signed up this month instead of last month because I just found the place. And also, frankly, because technical problems have made it impossible for me to post at a (non-JW-related) forum where I used to quite active. There's only so much time in a day for reading and posting.
There are several things I like about this site. There seems to be little demonizing of, and broad generalizations about, individual JWs. The posts are written in English, not leetspeak. It offers some inside info on doctrinal changes that I can't get from my mom.
watchtower farms plans millions in expansionhttp://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20071129/news/711290360
Imagine the money they can make by selling off their remaining Brooklyn real estate. That property must be worth a fortune.
i've finished writing my novel (50 thousand words) about my years spent in federal correctional prison when i was an obedient little jw.. the editing and rewriting stage now commences.. i need your help!.
here is how you can help me.. i can't know what an outside mind wants to find out concerning this experience.
i can only conjure up what seems interesting to me.. tell me what you want to know about such a personal experience.. that will give me a checklist to compare to what i've written already.. i may have missed many little details which are very important to a reader.. i may have neglected essential questions which must be answered in order to satisfy the mind.. please offer me your curiousity.. thanking you in advance; i appreciate your taking the time to advance my novel to the finish line.. (i wrote it as a fictional work because i could not honestly write about myself without the distance of this device.. so, i made myself into a character with a different name.. the identity of everyone else is non-fiction.
Mum said:
I was part of a congregation in the late '60's in which there were two young brothers sentenced to work in hospitals in lieu of prison. It was considered a "compromise" to accept alternative service, so some savvy judges actually made alternative service the sentence - a real win-win.
The same thing happened with a couple of my oldest brother's friends, around the same time. According to Terry's account, his BOE specifically told him not to accept alternative service. I don't know if there was a doctrinal shift sometime during the war, or if this was another case of BOE-to-BOE variation.
