The congregation I was in a a kid was kind of relaxed, even cool. Several of the elders played in a band. No one interfered too much.
I remember other congregations I visited though, where waist coats and bow ties were not allowed.
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Assembly Call: PLEASE Come Back & Help Us Out---Ministerial Servants & Elders!
by minimus ini was told they were practically begging those elders and servants who are no longer "being used" to help carry the load once again.
these people are unbelievable!.
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Serena Williams , Five Minute Interview with the BBC
by BluesBrother inas always, if you have put this up already, i apologise... halfway into the video she is asked about j w's.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8408673.stm.
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I enjoyed watching the Vid. thanks for posting. Good on her for not letting JWs pust her around. She is clearly not afraid to admit the kind of music she likes, or even her "superstitions".
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The emperor's new clothes? JW know there's something wrong but no one dares admi it/
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I can not understand how people can take the bible so literally. I mean, is believing in a literal story about snake, fruit and the garden of eden, any more far fetched than believing the earth rests on elephants? I just find it hard to understand how intelligent people are so gullible. Having said that, I don't care if people belive in the spagetti monster, but being condemed for not believing, that is another matter.
Yes it was the little boy who shouted, he ain't got no clothes on. I wish my JW family could see the similarity.
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The emperor's new clothes? JW know there's something wrong but no one dares admi it/
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Do you remember the story of the Emperor's new clothes.
Do you see the likeness in JW's organisation?
Surely these people, deep, deep down, can't actually believe this crap?
... world wide flood ... humans only 7,000 year... literal interpretation of Genisis... God about to wipe out 5 billion people???
The coggs must be turning somewhere. Are the majority just afraid to admit it?
Will some one ever shout, he aint' go no clothes on! Will they ever realise it's just a sham?
Maybe they will just walk around naked forever.
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The emperor's new clothes? JW know there's something wrong but no one dares admi it/
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QFR..Feb 15 2010. RE Shared Living Accommodation??
by BluesBrother inif this has been posted, then i missed it... .
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This really annoys me, as a not witness (never was), my family will not stay over night even though they live a long way away. Apparently it is immoral to live with my boyfriend as we are not married.I can't understand this. The old testiment was full of fornicating. Look at Solomon,Did God suddenly change his mind?
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I can't help that I think less of poor spellers
by gubberningbody ini just do.. if a thread title has misspelled words or someone's rant has misspelled words, all i see are those ragged, misplaced letters all akimbo.. it's like watching early morning tv and i can't notice anything said by the fat woman who doesn't know how to dress for her figure.. i just think silently ... "you're fat and you dress poorly.
how can you stand it?".
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I am an awful speller -it is the bain of my life. I have tried and tried to improved. I have a spelling book and a game on the internet, but I don't seem to have improved much. When I went to school it was at a time when spelling just was not important. I think it was about 3% of our grade. I passed with an "A" in English Lit, without even being able to spell literature. Mm this was about 15 years ago. Since then the spell check on computers have just made things worse. I have tried to study the origin of the language to try and understand it's meaning more. I am not sure if this has helped my spelling but it is interesting to learn about. I did not know there was a spell check on here.
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What response would you give to this JW illustration ?
by troubled mind inmy jw in laws send us these types of emails every once in a while .
never is there any real personal correspondence from them and it irritates me.
i have sent emails back before critiquing the logic of some of their emails.. i will be sending a response to this latest one ,and i would appreciate some ideas .. i know many of you on this forum are so excellant with your words i would enjoy your input .. the first thing that came to my mind after i read the illustration was "i am so glad i am no longer on the endless tread mill of witness logic that has you running forever from scary imaginary spirit beings ".
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How about tell them about the fable of the boy who cried wolf. When the real wolf came no one believed him.
My argument is that JS have cried "Armageddon" so many times with false dates, that no one believes them. If it ever did come and we all died, JW would be directly responsible as that they cried "armageddon" so many times no one believed them. This makes doing the preaching work completly pointless.
This is what I say when I get the story of no one listening to Noah.
Arte:)
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Is it my imagination or have the wording in WT publications been altered?
by artemis.design ini am fairly new on here.
i grew up as a jw but never got baptised.
i have distanced myself from jw teachings for at least 10 years.. recently i was reading dawkins "the god delusion".
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Yes I can imagine that, reading allowed and one book says something different. haha. Now I need to find the bits in the blue evolution/ creation book that has changed so when bro comes round I can point that out to him.
I find the sneekyness of it really awful. If you have screwed up fair enough admit it, or write a new book. But changing the words to pretend no one will notice -ah! That is really dishonnest.
It seems they have screwed up on a lot of things. Yet I doubt I will be able to make family see that perhaps they were not guided by holy spirit after all. Thats what gets me they believe one blind prophesy after the next. Never question anything.
On reading both Dawkin's and the creation book, I am still no close to believing or not believing in God. God as a God to be worshiped, not a Deity that is.
Thanks for your comments, Arte:)
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My Boyfriend's not a Witness...
by Hikaru inalright, with my last post it should be obvious i'm in conflict...if it's not, then yeah.. my boyfriend is not a witness.
he understands that witnesses can't marry or date non witnesses.
but i guess could say we've been stalling...looking for a solution a gray area to that black and white situation...but with time getting as it is...stalling doesn't work anymore.
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If you try too hard he may convert for you without ever wanting to. Then he will be living a lye. If he did that and got DF a couple of years down the line, how would you feel? That would be very selfish.
How can you live life in terror? The first few years I left JW I did think that perhaps I they were right, the end is nigh. But I just ended up living every day as if it was the last. By that I mean just enjoying every moment of life. If you can not get over your beliefs that the end of the world is comming, then at least you need to make the most of this life. If you do that you will probably forget about armageddon and come to see it as a false prophesy that has been keeping subjects under control since the dawn of civilization.
Arte:)