Posts by halcyon

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What is the wt biggest secret?

by badboy in

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what do you think it might be?

Did your Parents force you to do School Projects out of the JW magazines

by orangefatcat in

my parents wouldn't let us read anything but the watch tower stuff and if we had to do a report on anything at school it had to be a project out of an awake magazine.

did your parents do this to you too?

orangefatcat

halcyon

maybe in grade school, where applicable. By the time I got to high school, I quit telling my parents about my homework, and did all my own research myself. At the LIBRARY.

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in watching this lunacy in the senate of the auto-makers asking for a bail out essentially because they didn't listen to consumer demand (and flying in on private jets then talking about cutting "needless expenses" oh the irony), i'm starting to realize just how much power the average joe has.. think about this, six months ago i was paying $4.30 per gallon on gas.

i drastically cut my driving.

i used to fill up every week, now due to cutting my driving habits i fill up every 2 and 1/2 weeks.

halcyon

I look at the recent surge in places like Whole Foods and Trader Joes, and the increased availability of organic products at my local mega-grocer, and the increase of more healthy vegetable-based prepared foods, and I say "yes, the consumer has the power!" But only where there is a mass trend.

Although I have noticed that when I started buying Purina Naturals cat food at my local store, I could only find one or two bags on the shelf at a time. Now that I buy it regularly, I consistently find five or six bags on the shelf. When I go to a grocery store elsewhere and look for it, I can't find it.

So I sometimes wonder if I am single-handedly responsible for my grocer increasing his order and thus raising local awareness and therefore demand for the product.

Wishful thinking, perhaps, but then again, these types of things happen a bit too often to be sheer coincidence ....

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Scripture quotes on items not made by JW's is considered bad

by kitten whiskers in

have you ever noticed, or noticed it in yourself, that when you see a product with a scriptural quote, it was avoided, unless it was made by a jw company?

i remember my mom coming over and on a bag of potato chips, they quoted a scripture on the back of a bag.

she picked it up and said something to the effects of it being terrible.

halcyon

I remember when I had a discussion with my big brother about the YMCA. I asked why it was bad, and he simply replied, "It's the Young Men's CHRISTIAN Association ... ?" with raised eyebrows.

And while I "got" what he meant, it always struck me as strange that he would say the word "Christian" as if it were a swear word, when isn't that exactly what we were supposed to be? And I turned that over and over in my head ever since.

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Worshiping the cross

by Amyfa in

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there is a poster on here called reniaa and she has said a few times that we worship the cross.

i know i don't and know my family don't.

so i decided to look into it to find out if what she is saying is true.

halcyon

The cross in front of the church is exactly the same thing to churchgoers as the bible on the banner is to witnesses at a convention. Do witnesses worship the banner?

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Worshiping the cross

by Amyfa in

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friends

there is a poster on here called reniaa and she has said a few times that we worship the cross.

i know i don't and know my family don't.

so i decided to look into it to find out if what she is saying is true.

halcyon

The cross in front of the church is exactly the same thing to churchgoers as the bible on the banner is to witnesses at a convention. Do witnesses worship the banner?

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What makes you think

by John Doe in

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you deserve to live?

halcyon

I don't believe in the concept of "deserve." It implies someone over me, judging me. I refuse to acknowledge any such authority.

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If you cheat on me, I will forgive you, but not if you leave Jehovah

by Hiddenwindow in

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when i told my wife that i no longer believe the wt is the truth, she started crying and said that it was easier for her to forgive me if i am unfaithful to her than if i leave the wt.

i am sure now: being a witness is a form of mental illness.

halcyon

well think about it: thousands of talks and articles over a lifetime that deal with infidelity, and that the innocent spouse has a decision to make, whether to forgive or not -- and we all know forgiveness is the "godly" thing to do, because "Jehovah hates a divorcing."

And over that same lifetime, there is not ONE talk or article that suggests that an "apostate" can or should be forgiven. Instead, every talk and article is about how they should be "hated."

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Richer men are more attractive than poor men.

by mtsgrad in

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halcyon

I chose a rich man over a pauper. Biggest mistake I've ever made.

I thought it would be good for my kids, but his money's only made them lazy and insecure. It's done the same to me.

If only I could go back in time .......

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Death of JW ideology - Soon?

by excito-are in

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being a scotsman i find myself pround of the history of scotland.

however, there are many events that took place in scotland that are simply shameful.

consider the time period of 1500 - 1650 where in scotland over a 1,000 woman were burned at the stake accused of being a witch.

halcyon

As long as there are desperate world conditions to point to, there will be people out there fearful of what's happening who will respond to those who claim to have answers. It's the learning process that's the real trap. You come to the message thinking there's deep thought behind it, then as you gradually learn, your research options are gradually closed up, until after baptism when what ends up keeping you in your seats is fear: fear of being kicked out (after all, you've already given up so much, gone through fire with your relatives, etc); and fear of "what if they're right? The world certainly does look bad .... "