I have to admint there are still a couple of JW tunes that pop into my head regularly, but my fav music is, but not bcoz they would be like really coarse sandpaper on the bare backs of the jws, but bcoz purely the great sound & that's the Red Hot Chili Peppers, could listen all day every day , well almost!
finallysomepride
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Do you ever turn off the music?
by compound complex ingreetings fellow music lovers:.
given the numerous "name your favorite tune" threads that are posted here on jwn, it appears that none of us can live without la belle musique.
often my cd player runs through the night.
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Abortions are evil since Jehovah "see's even the embryo" yet killing worldly babies at Armagedon is okay!
by Witness 007 inyes the bible says "jehovah see's the embryo and all it's parts are down in writting..." so abortion is evil and murder according to the watchtower.
how is this different to the gret jehovah killing millions of babies at armagedon because their parents said "not interested" to brothers during witnessing?
those babies are not yet "self aware.
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finallysomepride
never understood this one either, but, were never able to question it.
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Impossible to concentrate!
by highdose inlooking back on my time as a jw i found that i sat at the meetings just willing the time to go past and just trying to get through it.
there would be a blip were i would concentrate on getting my answer in, just so that others didn't look down on me even more than they already did, but after that i would go back to sleep.. the thing is i was a very serious jw, and really did want to pay attention... i just found it to be impossible, 5 mins at the max and then drift away.... i even perfected the art of staring intently at the speaker while having my mind very much elsewhere.
and i wonder now how many jw's are actauly listening at all?.
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finallysomepride
When I was little my dad would tell us kids how important it was to pay attention to the speaker, must have been really important to him....he always went to sleep during the meetings, especially the week night ones, I really do understand why he would sleep through much of the boring talks he did have a demanding physical job.
Me, I used to sit there pretending to pay attention, looking directly at the speaker but my mind was on another planet.
The watchtower study, rarely found any interest there, would spend my time reading the awake articles.
Assemblies I would walk around, spent at most about 1/2 hour in my seat, great if I could get on security then I had a good excuse.
On the rare occasion I actually got a chance to give a 5 minute talk from the stage, I once payed attention to who was actually listening and it wasn't very many, most had a blank look on their faces.
Damn I wish we had daylight saving here in Queensland, Australia, it's light at 5am& dark 6.30pm
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So what sacrifices did you make for da troof? Any regrets?
by hamsterbait ina few years ago at the ca, there were experiences about what people had given up to serve jehovah.. (sidebar - in every instance where i personally knew those on the platform, the experiences were lies or at best half truths embroidered with lies.).
anyway - the interviewer was constantly saying " as a <insert profession> you could have earned <insert salary>".
what annoyed me was that somebody who gave up a full time job cleaning toilets for jehovah, and took a part time job cleaning toilets was not even invited to participate.. hb.
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finallysomepride
1975 I had just turned 16 and I wasn't doin to well in high school, zero encouragement from family etc, the end of the world was apon us, so i left school and took a job in a paint shop (retail), man I regret that, my dream was to get my commercial pilots licence. something I have not done since & will never do.
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Do JW's enjoy being mean to other JW's?
by highdose ini always got the impression that they got a kick out of exluding and looking down their nose at "lesser" jw's.
anyone got any theories?.
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finallysomepride
They are no different to any other worldly group or organisation, there's always the losers. There are probably more per capita amongst the witnesses tho, due to them having the superior attitude to the outside world then it's only a natural thing to look down on those witnesses who may have less, a disability or anything else they may see as being below them.
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My dad, who lives in New Zealand, is in his 80s and very il, these elders 1 who is a relative in the congr hardly ever visit him, and if they do it's only to do with a problem that my parents are having with another member of the congr. never visited until problem arose.
I have only ever been aproached by an elder once to give support when I had cancer many years ago, I always managed to stay under the radar, I believe that the elders considered me to be to much bother so I was once told by a friend. Never asked anything from & never expected to be contacted by them, managed to keep my double life a secret. Now I don't care.
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The Silentlambs Exposed Blog Is Closing
by Bangalore inthe silentlambs exposed blog is closing.. .
http://silentlambsexposed.blogspot.com/2009/10/future-of-this-blog.html.
bangalore.
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finallysomepride
Another gutless wonder, (I Trust) im now going to puk
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Ancient International Standard of Measurement - The Inch
by hotspur inall this kerfuffle over the year 607 threw up an interesting side issue for me.. some posts relate to the wts use of chronology derived from ctrussell's "divine plan of the ages" and "studies in the scriptures".
within those pages are found some explanations of how the years 1874 and, later, 1914 were 'decided'.
it seems there was a remeasuring of a particular tunnel within the great pyramid of gizeh which was, subsequently, found to be 40 inches longer.
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finallysomepride
If russell had been a Pitcairn Islander(the world would not have listened), I wouldn't be here on this site today.
If only we could turn backtime LOL
Sorry I mean no disrespect and find your posting very interesting, I have never really thought much about wat russell promoted or believed, and yet much of it is an intigrale part of the JW doctrine
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Why were you baptized?
by bluecanary ininspired by another thread.. i was baptized at 12 years old.
i had a cousin, two years older than me, who was prettier, more outgoing and more popular in the hall than i was.
i couldn't beat her at any of that stuff, but i figured i could be a better jw than she was.
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finallysomepride
"No one will marry you if you aren't baptized. "
I was married a year later to a unbaptised sister, no KH wedding but was married by an elder, sometime later i found out the elder celebrated his family birthdays.
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Why were you baptized?
by bluecanary ininspired by another thread.. i was baptized at 12 years old.
i had a cousin, two years older than me, who was prettier, more outgoing and more popular in the hall than i was.
i couldn't beat her at any of that stuff, but i figured i could be a better jw than she was.
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finallysomepride
Hi this being my 1st post, joined a few weeks ago, been reading up on what everyone has to say.
I was baptised in 1982, why? pressure from my friends and my uncle/elder I was living with at the time.
Last time in field service November 1982, didn't last long did i, but stayed associated until 2002 memorial night that was the last time in a KH.