First and foremost, read your employee handbook. 5 out of 6 companies I've worked for tied their alcohol policy directly to the legal limit for intoxication for their state (usually 0.08%). That roughly correlates to 2-3 drinks for men and 1-2 for women within the span of an hour. In other words, a drink or two is fine, but don't come back to work sloshed!
Razziel
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Is it socially and professionally acceptable to drink a beer during your lunch break?
by miseryloveselders ini've been watching my alcohol intake for dietary reasons.
i've been limiting my consumption to a small half glass of vodka, or a shot or two of bourbon.
alcohol just doesn't do well with the gains i want to make working out.
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Help with irrefutable arguments- creating dissonance
by confliction inhello- i'm arguing with my parents now... well, call it debating.
i'm trying to give them a question they'll actually think about- something that will make them want to do more research.
a question (or questions), that if right, will make them reconsider whether they are in the "truth".... .
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Razziel
djeggnog,
In regards to your second to last post:
I understand the point that you were trying to convey, that those following the prevailing truth of the "present time" are blameless for any changes in "truth" that occur afterwards, and would not be considered apostate by today's standards.
However, I disagree that the answers to mentallyfree31's questions are subjective. It seems your argument is based on the supposition that if someone still believed the things taught be Jehovah's Witnesses in the early 20th century (or 20 years ago) without readjusting their viewpoint to updated "light", they were never really one of Jehovah's Witnesses to begin with in God's eyes. I think that line of reasoning is dismissive, dissembling, and had very dubious scriptural support to say the least.
The teachings of Jesus were a paradigm shift from the teaching of Judaism, and in his reply to the Samaritan woman, Jesus included the worship of the Jews right along with the worship of the Samaritans. There are no further paradigms prophesied in the Bible until the mention in Revelation of "new scrolls being opened" after the start of the millennial reign (which may or may not be a paradigm). Anything else not expressly written in scripture that comes before that time is either human interpretation or false prophesy.
By equating interpretational changes of Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine over the last century with the reply of Jesus to the Samaritan woman, you are elevating the interpretations of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to the same status of God's appointed prophets and Jesus himself, a status which they have expressly denied and a status that finds no support in scriptural prophecy.
In regards to your last post,
Comparing a willfull visit to a known website for former JW's and a chance meeting in a public bathroom isn't even in the same ballpark. Pun intended.
However young and full of "righteous zeal" you feel you are, keep in mind that many of the members here were not "fringe" witnesses swayed here and there by the waves of the sea so-to-speak. Many served faithfully as Elders, Regular Pioneers, Bethelites and other positions of responsibility probably for more years than you've been alive. (An educated guess, judging by your posts, and likely to infuriate you.) Arrogance is completely wasted on most of us.
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Do you know anything about Morocco?
by asilentone ini am going to meet attractive lady that is from morocco on july 3rd.
she teaches the language of french for living.
i do not know anything about morocco culture or anything like that.
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Razziel
Love is a universal language. Just be yourself. If she decides she really likes you, she'll ignore or overlook any initial cultural slip-ups you make.
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Staunch JW Niece,getting a gastric bypass for obesity
by aquagirl inso,why dont they all just wait for the "new system"surely,jehovahs wouldnt allow 350lbs+ women to suffer too long,would he?
for that matter,if it is so close,why even have any medical attention at all?.
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Razziel
The wife of an elder in my mom's kingdom hall died recently after getting gastric bypass surgery. A couple of months after the surgery she had lost 30-40lbs, so she decided to reward herself and (from what I hear 3rd-hand) had a jug of coke and trashbag-sized popcorn at the local movie theatre. It caused her stomach incision to tear open resulting in an gangrene-type infection that killed her.
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JW replies on my Shunning article
by besty ini have a google article on shunning -.
http://knol.google.com/k/why-jehovah-s-witnesses-practice-religious-shunning#.
its had almost 15,000 page views :-).
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Razziel
From all the experiences I've read and all of the friends I've had who experienced JC's firsthand, I'd venture to say that repentance might factor into the JC decision half the time. And that's highly dependent upon getting truly sincere elders in your JC.
Shunning is just the visible part of being disfellowshipped. The part not visible to the public is the intense guilt and condemnation that comes from the JC decision as being viewed as agreement with judgement in heaven from Jehovah that you are in a spiritually dead condition.
If the elders disfellowship you, then in accordance with their beliefs, they are in effect acting as judge and jury and sentencing you to death. Since they can't take you out back and stone you, they expect God to be in agreement with their decision and act as your executioner at armageddon. In the mean time, you are treated like you are already dead.
This is very pharisaical and I think Jesus would say "Ok, but let the sinless Elder cast the first stone."
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I started taking control of my life
by loosie in5 years ago when i attended my last meeting.
ever since i started making decisions, instead of waiting on jehovah, things have been happening faster for me, its weird.. all my life i was told just wait on jehovah, wait on him for a husband, wait on him for children, wait on him for a happy life.. well you know what i stopped waiting and i am happy!!!!.
yes i did get a wonderful husband (who adores my every move) while in the org.
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Razziel
Even when I was a very active JW, the "wait on Jehovah" mantra didn't make sense to me. Most biblical examples of blessing were upon men and women of action. Those who "took the bull by the horns" and took decisive steps to do what needed doing or kill who needed killing. The "wait on Jehovah" stuff was for the old and decrepit who could do absolutely nothing about their circumstances.
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Why not make a true religion?
by frigginconfused inwith everthing ive read here it seems like eeveryone has the attitude that they cant fix the wts.
why havent you all joined together and made a declaration of independence?
why not fix it and make a true religion of peace and jesus' message?
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Razziel
I'm sorry if I'm cynical, but I think after a post-WTS period of time with reflection and research, many of us have come to the conclustion that the term "true religion" is an oxymoron.
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Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?
by Witness 007 ina "spiritual leader" tells his followers the must put on rebok running shoes and "drink the cool-aid" to join a ufo in the tail of a comet and "go to a better world" so, afew dozen young people do just that to get "beamed up" to the mothership.
heavens gate cult 1990's.. my mother says "she is faithful to the organisation till her death" which makes me wonder if they ordered a mass suicide like the reverend jim jones did to escape a "great tribulation"....how many witnesses would really drink the cool-aid?...
without a gun pointed at their head of course!.
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Razziel
Alot of the older ones who have lived 30-50 years of one dissapointment after another would probably view this as a sweet mercy from Jehovah as compared to spending the few years they have left with no retirement fund or health insurance and in a constant state of depression.
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CANCER and spankin' de monkey...
by ninecharger ini read a report in a science mag recently,.
it said that males who ejaculated more than six times a week in their teens to late 20s were less likely to get prostate cancer.
godalmighty - does this mean that being good boys now puts us at risk??.
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Razziel
This information has been around for at least 10 years. Regular ejaculation (sex or masturbation several times a week) cleans out your pipes, so to speak. It helps keep that part of your anatomy functioning healthy and keeps carcinogens and hazardous chemicals from accumulating in your system.
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Razziel
As OnTheWayOut said, we've become better people not because of the JW experience, but despite it, which is not the same thing.