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  What should I say to the Mormons?

  by bluecanary in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday as i was leaving the apartment, there were two women in skirts, holding bibles at the door across from me.

  i almost panicked!

  i definitely want to talk the jws if they ever come to my door (no one knows me in this area) but i'm not ready yet!.

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  Ok, an emergency came up last week so I didn't visit with the mormons then. They came today. We had a lovely conversation. They were three very nice girls. They wanted to come back again, but I told them not to. First they'd have to convince me God exists, then they'd have to convince the Bible is an authority, then they'd have to convince me the BOM is an authority. Waste of time for everyone. I thanked them for sharing their faith with me.

  They started out asking me a bit about my experiences as a JW. I told them it was a high control group; they speak for God so you have to do whatever they say. The girls laughed and said they could NEVER belong to a group like that. Eye roll.

  They asked what I knew about Joseph Smith. I said, "Just the scandalous stuff." They laughed and went on with their spiel. Later, I said that JW leaders had scandals, too, but I wasn't allowed to know about those until I left the JWs. I was surprised that they seemed aware of scandals involving JS. I forget what she said, but she seemed unaware that some of his wives were also married to other men, so I mentioned it. Maybe one of them will be interested enough to look into that.

  One gave her testimony about how she asked God for the truth and she had a warm hug-like feeling, etc. I asked, based on the fact that people of many religions, and even non-religious people, have such experiences, how could one know whether it was truly a God-given experience. They said that God could give such an experience and God would never lie to you. Stuff that didn't really answer the question. But maybe one of them will think about the absurdity of that reasoning.

  In all, it was a very nice conversation and I'm glad I invited them. It's definitely more relaxing to be on this side of the conversation, rather than the one doing the preaching. Hopefully it will help me be more prepared for the JWs. I definitely have the knowledge to have a more useful discussion with JWs than LDS. But I need to prepare what tack I want to take with them when they show up unexpectedly. Very unexpectedly, considering I've been here a year and no one's so much as left a tract in my door.
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  Decorating for Fall/Halloween

  by bluecanary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even as a witness we always used to decorate for fall with pumpkins, goards, mums, candles and other natural things.

  now that i can decorate for halloween, i realize that i really prefer to stick to the natural stuff.

  i will have a few homemade hallween things when the time comes but for now i've decked my apartment out in fall goodness.

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  White Dove I'd love to see pics of your alter.
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  1980's

  by asilentone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you think people are smarter today than people living in the 1980's?

  sometimes i wish there was internet back in the 80's.

  if there was no internet today, i would probably be attending the kingdom hall again regularly, probably reaching out to be ms again then eventually become an elder sometime down the road.

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  I'm definitely smarter than I was in the 80s.

  //BC of the born in '82 class.
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  Decorating for Fall/Halloween

  by bluecanary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even as a witness we always used to decorate for fall with pumpkins, goards, mums, candles and other natural things.

  now that i can decorate for halloween, i realize that i really prefer to stick to the natural stuff.

  i will have a few homemade hallween things when the time comes but for now i've decked my apartment out in fall goodness.

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  parakeet, I can't take credit for either of those ideas, so knock yourself out. I found the chandelier here. The site has all kinds of good ideas. I also plan to make some ghost gourds and paper bats later on. I don't know a website for the collage. If you need any tips, pm me and I'll tell you what I used.

  Thanks for your concern. Mother's still feeling lousy but hasn't had a full on attack yet tonight.
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  Anyone from;Michigan,Wisconsin,Minnesota,North Dakota,Montana,Idaho,Washington?

  by jookbeard in

  1. social
  2. current

  i've always wondered which is the coldest state in the winter, these ones that border canada?.

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  I lived in Wisconsin for a few years. In fact, that's where I left the dubs. Sorry I missed you guys while I was up there.
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  Huge baby!

  by crapola in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you hear about the 19 lb baby?

  he's huge.

  but cute.

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  A lot of weird birth stories this week. There's the woman who's pregnant with a kid that's not hers. She has to give it back to the rightful parents. Then there's the woman that got pregnant. And two weeks later got pregnant with a second one. They're not twins, just two separate pregnancies at the same time. WTF?
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  Falling Asleep at Work

  by daniel-p in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so who has a job that is boring enough to fall asleep at?

  i've never yet fallen asleep on the job, but it would be very esy to do so based on how inane most of my work is, despite the fact that i actually do use my brain.

  sometimes it's just so dry and technical i can't keep it up.. i have a nice fancy chair that leans back to my specifictions of resistance, so it would easy to tilt back and snooze a bit.

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  So who has a job

  You lost me here.
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  Recent Example of Molestation Policy

  by xelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in the 80's a very righteous elder in our congregation was caught molesting his 2 stepdaughters.

  he was df'd.

  within 5 years he was 60 miles down the road serving as an elder in another congregation.

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  I was molested by my step father as a pre-teen. My mother found out years later right after she found out he'd been having an "emotional affair" with another woman. So when I had to tell the elders about it, they didn't believe me. They thought I was just trying to give my mother reason to have a clean divorce. I hate the smarmy bastard who led that JC.
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  The WTS & The Sound of Music

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i recently watched the classic 1965 film "the sound of music" for the umteenth time.

  it was the winner of 5 academy awards, including best picture.

  i originally saw it on the big screen when it first aired and loved every minute of it.

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  Great catch Farkel. And thanks for the bit of trivia, rocketman.

  Another musical I love is Fiddler on the Roof. I was thinking recently that this depiction of Jewish life was similar to the JWs as well. Tevya, caught up in the rules of tradition had difficulty adapting to the ways of the world, while his daughters did not. My ex loved the part where Tevya clapped his hands together and ordered his wife to dance with him--not too far off from the way JW wives are expected to obey the orders of their husbands.
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  Decorating for Fall/Halloween

  by bluecanary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even as a witness we always used to decorate for fall with pumpkins, goards, mums, candles and other natural things.

  now that i can decorate for halloween, i realize that i really prefer to stick to the natural stuff.

  i will have a few homemade hallween things when the time comes but for now i've decked my apartment out in fall goodness.

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  Can't go wrong with candy or pie. My family always decorated for fall. When I got married and wanted to have a pumpkin, my husband wasn't happy with it. He said that was a halloween decoration. Like Satan created the pumpkin.