One might argue that preparing food for soldiers is different from producing weapons. Weapons serve only one purpose. Soldiers are people and would eat whether they were in the military or not. Also, anyone who prepares food in a restaurant might unwittingly prepare food for a soldier.
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I'm converting again.
by reneeisorym in2 years ago i left jws.
i went to a baptist church because it was what my husband was.
i knew i wanted to go to church but which one i really didn't know yet.. two years later, i think i have made up my mind: presbyterian.. anyone have anything they want to share?
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Here is another point, Parents with children shouldnt force their kids to go to muslim countries, christian or not. Parents are free to make martyrs of themselves, but dont drag the kids into it.
Who in their right mind would want their children to be raised in Bagdad or Tehran?You do know that there's more to the Muslim world than Baghdad and Tehran, don't you?
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Christmas shopping unhealthy for men.
by BrentR inmost of us guys hate shopping and now there was a study done on the psysiologic effects of shopping on men.
so ladies, when we don't want to go shopping with you don't take it personal.
it might be relaxing and enjoyable for you but it has the opposite effect on men.. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/1998/12/22/xmasshop981222.html.
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Not all women enjoy shopping. It's just another chore to me, and a particularly unpleasant one when the stores are crowded (e.g., between Thanksgiving and New Year's).
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How many of you were the wife of an elder? Please post your story here!
by averyniceguy inthank you!
it might help lurkers to post here!
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That's odd, and very stupid actually, because i've seen many black brothers with shaved heads with priveleges. My head was almost always very near completely shaved and I had priveleges.
And a lot of men start shaving their heads when they start losing their hair. Why is it okay to go bald naturally but not to hasten the process?
My oldest brother, who's been balding since he was in his 20s (he's about 60 now), started shaving his head a few years ago. Hasn't stopped him from reading the Watchtower on Sundays at his congo.
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Is it possible be blind? while seeing? Bible thumper read if you dare
by skyking inis it possible to have your eyes wide open and not be able to see?
when facts prove us wrong can we change?
when we can't it is call cognitive dissonance.. which came first the chicken or the egg?
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Hi UU.
Several of the posters on this site do deny it.
BurnI wasn't aware of that. None of atheists I know personally deny Jesus' existence. Isn't the existence of the historical Jesus a fairly well established fact?
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How many of you were the wife of an elder? Please post your story here!
by averyniceguy inthank you!
it might help lurkers to post here!
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My husband was an elder, 10yrs before he stepped down. The reasons were cumulative but it all hit the fan when he was a visiting speaker at a neighboring congergation. Our son, 13 had cut his own hair, shaved the sides, normal on top. He showed he was sorry and the situation was resolved and we attended with dad to his speaking assignment. At our next meeting the other elders informed him that he would not be giving public talks until further notice. Why? A brother had complained about our son's haircut, too worldly - fadish, and that he did not have his own family in control so he could not teach others.
Aside from the triviality of the whole issue, what exactly did they expect your husband to do after the boy had cut his hair? Shave his head? Nope, too faddish, might be mistaken for a skinhead. Make him wear a wig? Nope, too effeminate and vain.
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Is it possible be blind? while seeing? Bible thumper read if you dare
by skyking inis it possible to have your eyes wide open and not be able to see?
when facts prove us wrong can we change?
when we can't it is call cognitive dissonance.. which came first the chicken or the egg?
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Lovelylil said to Sweetstuff:
just for your information. Paul was not even a Christian yet when Jesus appeared to the women after his resurrection. It was not until sometime after Jesus ascension to heaven that Paul became a Christian. So your assumption that Paul was somehow upset because he did not see Jesus first is off base as Paul was not around then.
Bolding mine. Sweetstuff didn't say that Paul was pissed because Jesus didn't appear to him first; she said (bolding mine again):
Paul was very devoted to Jesus, was pretty damn pissed that he appeared to women first,
Not quite the same thing. I interpreted sweetstuff's comment to mean that Paul resented Jesus' appearing to women before he appeared to the (male) disciples, not because Paul himself didn't get to see Jesus first, but simply because Paul was a misogynist and didn't think any woman deserved the privilege of seeign Jesus first (or maybe even of seeing him at all).
Trygon said:
I've never known an atheist who denied that Jesus existed.Well as a athiest I am sure you can provide us Christians with solid evedence that Jesus did not exist.
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The official "Reminisce about your most hated convomition site" thread
by B_Deserter ini cannot think of any worse place to have a convention than the pontiac silverdome.
for years my family went to south bend, indiana to avoid it.
then when south bend stopped having conventions (probably having something to do with the catholics not appreciating the brothers slamming the religion that financed, built, and hosts the lovely arena they were using), we tried madison, wisconsin for a year, before finally trudging back over to silverdome.
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Tiger Stadium in Detroit (1970?) was pretty bad too. Hot and uncomfortable wooden chairs.
I was at that one! Miserable.
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Beards and dress clothes...
by B_Deserter ini often wonder about the unwritten rule in kingdom halls that a witness should be in dress clothes and brothers cannot have beards (the beard rule i think is pretty much us-only though).
sure, they won't stop you from coming to a meeting in your work clothes and they might even treat you fine.
but, if you want to go anywhere in the congregation (i.e.
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Two of my brothers are still JWs. One has a mustache, which doesn't seem to be a problem. The other, who I suspect is a fader, used to have a beard. My mom didn't like it, and kept trying to think of ways to get him to shave. Telling him he'd get more "privileges" in the congregation didn't work, so she came up with another tactic. This brother has a dimple that is exactly like the one our long-dead paternal grandmother had.
So one day Mom says to J, "I know you like wearing a beard, but I miss seeing Grandma D's dimple."
And J says, "Dig her up."
The cool part is that my mom thought that was really funny. The uncool part is that between her and the congregation, he was eventually pressured into shaving his beard.
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Crazy JW Urban Legends
by Wordly Andre inok its time to recount all your favorite crazy jw urban legends, ill start i remember this one was told to me after i had left the org, there was a newly married couple, they were good little dubs, evil mother in law lived with them, she did not want to convert or study, well time went on they had a baby, and mother in law was into some spiritual stuff, unknown to jw mommy and daddy.
anyway jw mommy wakes up one night to find little baby dub sitting inside the fish tank with most of the water taken out and there was some kind of evil spirit present, mommy dub yells out jemimas name and breaks free with baby dub.
evil mother in law is asked to leave their happy home.
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I remember one story I heard. Don't know where it was from, or when, but it was something like this:
A rapist was loose in the town/city, and especially one park or forest area was his favourite crime scene. A pioneer sister was on her way home (or to) FS or a bible study one dark evening. And she had to go through that specific park. She prayed to Jah, and went on. In the middle of the park, she met this dangerous man, but he did not attack her. Later, after he was arrested, he was asked why he did not attack this woman (I always wondered how anyone could know what he did not do...?).
The rapist answered: But she was not alone, she was walking along with two men on her side.I've heard that same story told about a woman who had been "born again" (ie more conventional fundamentalism).
Aside from the problems mentioned above, I was always troubled by the idea of God selectively protecting certain women from rape just because they thought to say a prayer. And why don't these women pray for anybody's safety but their own? I have the same problem with all those "I prayed and God kept me from dying in that [insert catastrophe] that killed all those other people" type stories.