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  Name JW Things That You'd Like To Give a 1 Fingered Salute To

  by minimus in

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  now that we're mentally and spiritually out of the jehovah's witness darkness, what things would you like to say about the religion that you wished you had said long ago?.

  a few of my complaints: .

  the blood doctrine.

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  So much emphasis on the OT law (rather, the "pick-and-choose" parts of it). Jesus fulfilled it!
  
  All the metaphorical classes and modern day fulfillments. UGH!!!!
  
  The "duty" to mind other people's business. Feeling watched all the time. Living a shallow, surface life because it "looks good." Feeling like a perpetual child.
  
  
  No meaningful celebrations!
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  What happens to JWs who read horoscopes?

  by cameo-d in

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  do you think they secretly "peek" once in a while?.

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  I think I've got horoscopes kinda figured out. It seems the sun signs indicate something vague, like "communication," "rising," "secular," and the horoscope interpreters put some scenario together into story form that makes sense to them. like one might write, "you will get a positive review at work today." Another might say, "Be chatty with the person behind you at the store. You just might find you have something in common." And a third might say, "Be careful that your spiritual values don't slip to the background, as people around you will be preoccupied with secular gossip."
  
  I find some more accurate than others, and by looking at horoscopes through the above understanding, find them overall to be pretty decent. Except for the one-liner newspaper ones. They're pretty much just a joke.
  
  It also seems that I am just a bit ahead of my horoscope ... today's horoscope almost always describes something that happened yesterday. Which does me no good, really, but is highly entertaining.
  
  I figure horoscopes have been around for millenia and haven't gone away, so there must be something to them. Are they inspired by demons? I'm not so sure. I guess I've come to the belief that there are natural forces around us that we simply cannot understand.
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  How to (a) write a public talk and (b) write an Awake! article

  by JimmyPage in

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  every public talk ever given goes like this.... pick a subject, whether it's "god's government or man's?

  " or whatever.... open by talking about how bad world conditions are,.

  go on about how bad morals today are,.

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  I used to write my son's talks. I used exactly that formula. Threw in a couple inspiring (read: heavy handed) "we should"s and "wouldn't we want to"s at the end, and got the kid an ovation SEVEN times!!!
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  If "the time left is reduced" ...

  by halcyon in

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  ... and that was written 2000 years ago ... .

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  what possible meaningful value could that phrase have anymore?

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  I'm thinking, y'know, like they say the sun is going to burn out someday. So the time left (for the sun to stay burning) is reduced. BUT, does that affect me in my daily life?
  
  
  When you think about it, everything dies or decays. The moment after something is created, the time left for that thing is reduced.
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  If "the time left is reduced" ...

  by halcyon in

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  ... and that was written 2000 years ago ... .

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  what possible meaningful value could that phrase have anymore?

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  ... and that was written 2000 years ago ...
  
  what possible meaningful value could that phrase have anymore?
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  I can't believe what I did.

  by reneeisorym in

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  so yesterday i was watching the news and i saw something about secret santa.

  there is this movement of people who hand random strangers $100 bills at places like laundry mats and thrift stores.

  so i was "moved" and decided to give it a shot.

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  halcyon

  As JWs we felt it was our "duty" to point out how others could do better.
  
  
  I retch at the thought, now. Renee, there's nothing crazy about what you did. You have that feeling inside you because it's so different from how others act ... suppose you had cut her off in the parking lot, would you feel crazy inside? No, because that's such common behavior. Generosity is not so uncommon, It's just the Protestant ethic to keep one's good deeds to oneself. Gotta stay humble at all costs, y'know! So that's why the world seems so bad, because we trumpet all the bad deeds but keep the good deeds silent.
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  ...If Jehovah`s Witness`s did Celebrate Christmas...

  by OUTLAW in

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  if jehovah`s witness`s did celebrate christmas.......what kind of gifts do you think you would find,under the christmas tree?........maybe watchtower`s?..maybe awake`s?.....how about grandma?..she`s been dead for 15 years..now she`s resurrected,wrapped in ribbon and under the christmas tree!!..lol!

  !.........if jehovah`s witness did celebrate christmas..what kind of gifts would you find under the christmas tree?.......................................outlaw

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  JW Barbie and JW Ken would have to come with JW Chaperone in the box with them.
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  secret santa thank you thread

  by halcyon in

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  i did my first secret santa all wrong ... didn't wrap the gift before sending it (duh!

  but i'm not used to this kind of thing), and then waited too long before sending it so i got caught up in the mad pre-christmas-weekend rush to get things sent out, and then shipping cost more than the gift!

  i'm so sorry to my recipient for not making it a little more ... "special" ... .

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  What happens to JWs who read horoscopes?

  by cameo-d in

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  do you think they secretly "peek" once in a while?.

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  Nothing.
  
  
  I used to "sneak a peek" all the time.
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  I can't believe what I did.

  by reneeisorym in

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  so yesterday i was watching the news and i saw something about secret santa.

  there is this movement of people who hand random strangers $100 bills at places like laundry mats and thrift stores.

  so i was "moved" and decided to give it a shot.

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  Wow, I skipped from page one to page four, and did the tone of this thread ever change! I don't want to read the middle of it.
  
  
  I have done the same type of thing on several occasions. One time I was eating at a diner, and saw a woman who looked very sad and harried sitting at another table. When I paid, I gave the waiter an extra five bucks, and told him to please apply it to that woman's bill. ($5 might have covered her whole meal at the time.) And then I left. I have no idea if the waiter kept the money, or if he followed my directions. I like to imagine that he did the good thing, and that the woman's day was brightened just a little bit by a stranger's act of thoughtfulness.
  
  I'm not saying this to brag. That would be pointless; who here really cares what I've done? I'm saying it to inspire, because when we feel like we're alone in our good deeds, we may not have the courage to follow through. But if we know that across the world others are being similarly thoughtful, we are emboldened to say or do the good, kind and generous thing. And the point of goodness is in actually doing the deeds, rather than just thinking the thoughts.