Cameo, for a second I thought you mysteriously found the fortune in the almond cookie
Posts by teel
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21No fortune in my fortune cookie: Should I be worried?
by dissed inafter a great chinese dinner last night, we received our traditional fortune cookie for desert.. for those of you that have never had chinese food, its a cute little cookie, with a small typed message inside promoting good fortune.
how they get the message 'in' the cookie is a wonder in itself.
on the back side of the message are your lucky numbers.
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Which book ,studied at the Book Study, you Hated or loved more????
by deep-blue-sea induring my life as jw i have studied many, many books of the wt at the weekly book study.. here you will find some of the books considered during the years with their publishing date:.
1955 new heavens, new hearth.
1961 from lost paradise to..... 1962 let your will be done on earth.
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teel
Sorry, I just happened to re-read what I wrote, and can't edit any more.
Of course I meant Daniel book, not David.
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No fortune in my fortune cookie: Should I be worried?
by dissed inafter a great chinese dinner last night, we received our traditional fortune cookie for desert.. for those of you that have never had chinese food, its a cute little cookie, with a small typed message inside promoting good fortune.
how they get the message 'in' the cookie is a wonder in itself.
on the back side of the message are your lucky numbers.
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teel
It could mean your future is not set, it's in your hand to shape as you wish.
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New here
by Stimorol ini've been lurking this board the past few days and reading a lot.. i'm a 30 year old male from an unnamed european country, i was brought up "in the faith" by my jw-parents (my father is an elder and was even the "head elder" (i guess that's not the proper english term, english isn't my mother language) for a while, although i believe he stepped down when i faded away, but was reinstated as an elder later.
i never really had any interest in religion or god, not even as a child, even with my perfect jw upbringing.
it always felt like a chore and i did my jw duties, but just the bare minimum i could get away with, living at home with jw parents (attending the 3 meetings every week, and going to do field work 1 hours on saturdays).. at around age 15-16 i got baptized, i was not directly pressured to do it but some hints were made by parents/elders.
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teel
Welcome. One more european here, although my country has a name, so you're probably from somewhere else
I decided not long ago, that I will not do absolutely anything about my status as a JW. I see them as crooks with make-believe power, and by abiding their rules I would sort-of dignify their institution. So I will not send a DA letter, I will not respond to any JC they might form, I won't allow two elders in my house (I told them one can come alone if he wishes to chat, I don't want to be rude to them, as persons they're not bad), and if it will come to me being DFd, I will take every occasion to say "hi" to JWs I know Let the rudeness be theirs, I have nothing to do with those rules.
All the while I'm working on separating things I did/didn't do for the religion from things that are in agreement with my conscience, so that I may be truly free from their influence. As a matter of fact I'm contemplating of putting up a christmas tree next year. We'll see.
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Debuting my new video (the one I was asking for clips of)...
by Tuesday inhey everyone, so i finally finished the video that i was asking for clips of.
(it got whacked right away from wmg but luckily the song is actually a re-mix that i made yay so i can dispute it).
so here's the video, hope you all enjoy..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x329f9davbo.
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teel
I liked the video, nice work. It gets a bit dull at the middle, but I found that very good, that is exactly the point :)
I wasn't raised as a JW, so it was doubly interresting to me. I waited for 8 minutes thinking "ok, so when will you be doing something entertaining?" One week of school, then work, some more work, then other kind of work, meetings, and for some good measure some more work, then at the end of the week: yay! 1:30 hours of fun! Eh... me being a kid in a communist country with barely any kind of toys or candies had it easy compared to you.
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Which book ,studied at the Book Study, you Hated or loved more????
by deep-blue-sea induring my life as jw i have studied many, many books of the wt at the weekly book study.. here you will find some of the books considered during the years with their publishing date:.
1955 new heavens, new hearth.
1961 from lost paradise to..... 1962 let your will be done on earth.
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teel
I'm with the "big crowd" of Isaiah book haters too. It had no structure, no logic, all a big dull mess.
On the other hand I liked the David book. The fullfillment of prophecies were much more logical, and most were fulfilled a long time ago by big historical events - unlike 1919 and the rest of the "fullfillments" that went by largely unnoticed by the world.
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did anyone ever catch a jw kid doing something he shouldnt ?
by looloo ini was walking down my street one day while being a"study " and heard some kids on bikes coming up behind me using every swear word there is aiming it at eachother , but not in anger , i turned round and was really shocked to see it wasthe two sons of an elder who lived near me ,and one of these boys was considered a "fine example " to other young ones .
because i felt "trapped " by the jws (my kids would die if i didnt stay with them !
) i moaned to my pioneer friend about not seeing the point of being a jw if the kids are just the same as "worldly" kids who they are not supposed to mix with and look down on.
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teel
If I had a child I would fully expect him/her to do something they're not supposed to. It's how they grow up, it's perfectly normal. You're right ILTSF, everyone does something.
The problem starts when the child is dragged into the cult at age 10, so that "something" gets him disfellowshipped. Then it's just not funny any more. I would whole heartedly support banning baptisms before full adulthood. PS: by "baptism" here I mean the joining of an organized religion, not the ceremony of getting some water on someone. WTS gets these two mixed up, for normal religions they are separate process.
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how much are the wt's for .....
by carla incan someone tell me how much individual jw's pay for the wt's they are supposed to hand out each month?
pioneer or r & f?
i assume the kh covers he cost of the km?
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teel
There is no set price, the money goes into the box directly. I vaguely remember some indicative prices being read, but don't know the values.
I wonder how long will they be able to keep this up, especially in this recession. I remember an old pioneer "sister" in the KH that each month carried away a huge stock, she could barely haul it away. She was the kind that practically threw the magazines at people who so much as looked at her from the corner of their eyes. She is old, with low pension, so I doubt her donations were even somewhere close to the actual printing price of the magazines.
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The Final Remark from a JW after 1200 Emails
by maputo95 inafter 1250 emails between my friend, derek and i discussing why i am a catholic.
and not a jw and after sending him verses about how christ wants to come into.
our lives etc, i came to the conclusion, my friend who had not uttered one.
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teel
I second that: Wow. You have a lot of patience.
Yes, JWs confuse "Bible study" with Watchtower study, therefore it is very rare that something original comes out of them. That is partly also because of fear that they may talk against the GB, wich is probably the biggest sin a JW can do.
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How come people with the least means of supporting themselves ''Pioneer'' ?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmy cousin told me last week that for the month of february she was ''pioneering''.
here is a person who was divorced 2 years ago and had to move in with her mom because she can't afford to live on her own .she only works 4 days a week.
she pays $600 every 2 months for health insurance because she is self-employed.
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teel
Quillsky: it makes sense on an immoral and irresponsible level only. Social security was not invented so that people can do whatever they please and still get payed like a working man. That is just abusing the system, and noone who claims to have "higher standards of morals" should even contemplate it.
Even the Bible says it: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat" ( 2Thess 3:10 ) If they consider pioneering work, then fine by me, let their employer pay them. The state never asked them to do this work, so don't expect payment from him.