i'm having my sister over this weekend to hang out and bake (i know, i'm such a party animal .
i have nothing against this friend of my sisters, so i don't want to make a fuss.
i think what's pissing me off is the double standard that just happened.
LOL....Lurk3r...I'll give you one guess.
That email you sent me was so cool we're gonna try out the cupcakes that look like cheeseburgers! And we're also gonna make 'corn on the cob' cupcakes with yellow & white jelly beans & corncob pokers at each end
How'd YOUR project go?
i'm totally computer illiterate, but i'd appreciate it if somebody could post the youtube video for adele's "chasing pavements" and for leona lewis's "better in time"?
every time i hear either one of those, i can't help but thinking of my family who is still in the jw's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnodublate.
I'm totally computer illiterate, but I'd appreciate it if somebody could post the YouTube video for Adele's "Chasing Pavements" and for Leona Lewis's "Better In Time"? Every time I hear either one of those, I can't help but thinking of my family who is still in the JW's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrNoDUblAtE
(I know how to look it up on YouTUbe, just dont know how to post it and I wanted to share it with ya'll )
i'm having my sister over this weekend to hang out and bake (i know, i'm such a party animal .
i have nothing against this friend of my sisters, so i don't want to make a fuss.
i think what's pissing me off is the double standard that just happened.
I'm gonna think about that . I really like that idea....so...passive aggressive
i'm having my sister over this weekend to hang out and bake (i know, i'm such a party animal .
i have nothing against this friend of my sisters, so i don't want to make a fuss.
i think what's pissing me off is the double standard that just happened.
I'm having my sister over this weekend to hang out and bake (I know, I'm SUCH a party animal ). She commented that a witness (whom she thinks is encouraging) found out that we were baking & said "ooooh I wanna come too!"....so now she's coming to my house as well. She didn't ask me 1st if the chick could come over. She just assumed it was fine.I was trying to figure out why this got under my skin so bad.
I have nothing against this friend of my sisters, so I don't want to make a fuss. I think what's pissing me off is the double standard that just happened. If the exact same situation happened and I said that one of MY friends would be joining us, I'm fairly certain my sister would not come over. I'm gonna have to say something about this. Its not cool
i can't believe it.
i've actually had two studies with my sister from that book.
yesterday, she told me i was being argumentative.
Oh boy, I'm if I were to say what you just said, she'd know something was fishy . I'm not that articulate and persuasive. I'd probably start stuttering right from the get-go, trying to remember what you said here .
Maybe I could copy it on my hand, hehe. or maybe I could do practice sessions. Do you do the review on Chapter 3 on YouTube? Can you post the link to that? I am definitely reviewing the study Before the actual study, and am also looking at the link someone posted on this thread (very helpful). I will also check out the commentary on JWS. Thank you!
....this is the only ex-jw site I am aware of. Can you post the link to JWS? Por Favor? Gracias.
i can't believe it.
i've actually had two studies with my sister from that book.
yesterday, she told me i was being argumentative.
Finished up Chapter 2 yesterday. Almost every question was impossible to answer without saying "well, according to this book..."
The answers were so biased! I did good, going with the flow. But somehow (and thankfully), she brought up the proper use Jehovah's name again...and whaddya know- I'd gone to the library yesterday & told her about it. "Sis, its really wild because I went to the library today & hit the encyclopedia section. I checked out about ten different books, and all but one of them said that "Jehovah" is artificial and false. " She said "Well, what do they suggest then?" "They all said the true form of YHWH is YaWeh, and that "jehovah" was made up & realized to be a false rendering, but that since it had gotten to be well known, that's the version people choose to use" (But it's a false rendering! JW's have never seemed to be concerned with what the "popular" thing to do is.)
She said she wasnt familiar with any of that info and that she'd have to go to the library to check it out herself. I don't know if she actually will. I certainly hope she will, considering the pile of brochures and booklets and books she's brought ME to "study" recently.
Can anyone post this link so people can click on it? http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/3719/1/Bad-Defensive-Arguments
There was a thread on here from about 8 years ago that discusses whether Isaiah mysteriously knew the earth was a globe, when supposedly everybody else believed the earth was flat. Firstly, I googled this...it appears that many people back then DID recognize the earth was a globe. Secondly, take a beach ball and stick it next to a pizza. Which one would you say is a "globe" or "round" and which one would you call a "circle"? Isaiah wasn't showing the earth was a globe. He said it's a circle. Like a pizza.
The subject of prophecies that came true were touchy. I said that I googled all the different prophecies, but there were pages and pages of pro-Christian and anti-Christian opinions. Of COURSE it Happened!!! or Of COURSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! I said "I want to find the actual scientist or person who discovered all this to tell me their findings, and that's going to take some time for me to find. But I'm willing to search!" she was okay with this.
We were discussing why the Bible is unique, and she asked me to read 2 Timothy 3:16. After reading it, she said "you have a funny look on your face" My question...doesn't every single religious book in effect say that their book is inspired, good for teaching, for reproving, and for setting things straight? How is that unique? One of my best friends is Hindu, so I just sent her an email with some questions, including:
do their religious books show mistakes made by the writers ?
Were there many writers that spanned over thousands of years?
Were there prophecies that came true?
....till next Monday...
To The-Borg....curious to know how your cover was blown
i can't believe it.
i've actually had two studies with my sister from that book.
yesterday, she told me i was being argumentative.
Do you think I'm a moron for studying? just curious...
i can't believe it.
i've actually had two studies with my sister from that book.
yesterday, she told me i was being argumentative.
I received a phonecall from sis yesterday. She said "remember the other day when you asked me about Jehovah's name & who first said it?" "oh, sure, I remember"....Ready for this??....she said "Eve. Eve is the first one who used Jehovah's name." I was so shocked that was her answer, and I didn't want to argue, so I left it at that. When I told my husband, he started laughing out of shock and said 'are you $hitting me? Does she know what you were asking her?'
So I sent her a text message that said " I think you misunderstood my question...who was it that first discovered that YHWH translated to Jehovah?" The answer to this question, I believe though not positive, is a Spanish man who was never a jw and who never became a jw. I want her to find this answer.
We have our study tomorrow and I'm going over chapter 3. Ya know, this is something I was always kind of scared of....starting a study again with a jw and finding out that it actually IS the truth and realizing my wicked ways. Seriously, the more I'm delving into my research and study, the more I do not feel scared that I will realize it is the troof. Its not. Quite simply, it's just not.
WAS totally faded/inactive for ten years, but then fell in love with a baptized jw...so we're going through the whole fade process again. The elders pretty much leave me alone but they havent given up hope on the hubby
