I had a gotee when I went to the last dist assembly in 06. The people who knew me looked at me like I had grown a 2nd head. Others thought I was new or studing, and asked all kinds of stupid questions. I loved the look on their faces when I told them I was baptized in 1980. I just had to go out with them knowing that I was out by the beard and saying that most of the teachings were non sense.
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Beards?
by Think About It ini'm new here and probably missed the latest discussion of the beard topic.
what's the latest on beards in jw society?
i'm 2 weeks into a beard and just got to wondering about it.
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Mama will not be transfused
by voodoo lady ini've been a long-time reader of this site and have found it everything from informative to entertaining... but i'm now posting because i'm craving the ears (or eyes, i guess) of people who understand.. .
my mother was just last week diagnosed with an "ovarian type" cancer.
the oncologist discussed with her how far the cancer has already spread, and said she would operate immediately to remove as much of it as possible, but would not proceed if my mother resisted a transfusion as the risk of blood-loss will be too great.
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Hi Voodoo Lady and welcome to the board.
Your mother sounds like mine. Even though they have to have doubts, they will probably never leave. They are comfortable and familiar with their way of life. They can't face that they were lied to for all those years, can't face the fact that they have wasted their life on these lies. Believing in lies is the only belief they have, to take that from her now, even if you could, would be devestating to her. I agree that optimisim and hope does help a person stay healthy or recover faster.
Best of luck to you and your mother.
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Are there any good kind of wine for people with low blood sugar?
by asilentone ini have low blood sugar since i was a teenager, very rarely, i drink wine, some people said it is not good for people with low blood sugar, i like the taste of wine.
i am thinking about buying a wine, but i want to find the right one especially for people with low blood sugar.
any suggestions?
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With low blood sugar it shouldn't matter, high blood sugar you should avoid wine at all cost
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Is it really okay for a JW to lie?
by dissed inbeen away from the wts for 13 years and noticed at jwn many are mentioning its now okay for jw's to lie, if....... its for the right reasons.
like misleading the jw's and worldy people about district convention parking.
to raise monies for the wts.
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Dubs lie ALL the time, especially ELDERS. I got to know them so well that I could tell by their facial expressions and body language. Each and every one in my cong would lie, or avoid the questions that they did not want to answer. This is especially so if some want to appoint you to a position and others didn't want that to happen. The lies and half truths fly.
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A "Brother" wore a WT logo tie tack today
by JerkhovahsWitless inafter the meeting, a few people came up to show me some fake love like the wt lesson instructed (this is my 4th meeting in a row in over a year of not going, yuck!!).
i noticed one of them was wearing a tie tack of the watchtower logo.
its ok to idolize, by wearing, the corporate symbol of a worldwide multi-billion dollar company, but a cross is wrong?
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I'm sure the WT gets their cut from all sales. They are in desperate financial need you know.
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Worldly friends on Facebook
by dgp insome people i know to be jw's have worldly friends as facebook friends.
i apologize for my ignorance, but, isn't this supposed to be socializing with worldlies?
if so, it seems many jw's are simply ignoring what the wts says.
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It appears to me that the younger ones don't follow the loving admonition of the GB as far as non witness friends and that pesky internet thing. I have seen future wannabe and baptized dub kids with 350- 400 friends. Nowhere near half are fellow dubs. Maybe hounders haven't figured out how to use FB, or they keep their pages private, but if I saw their friends, so could an ingenoius hounder.
I'll revert back to my first thought, they just don't care/listen.
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When misery loves company
by cattails inwhen misery loves company.... .
it is a tongue in cheek look at going door to door.
highly acclaimed in jw e-mail circles.. this links to a video by jw brother who has a bad day in service but his bible student makes progress so i guess for him it isn't so bad.http://gravytrain5.com/movies/bad_day.html .
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LOL @ jamie bowers
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A "new" tablet double dated that refuted the idea of a co-regency between Darius I and Xerxes
by chasson ini have found by inadvertance a tablet that confirm that there never had a co-regency between darius i and xerxes in a french's website "achemenet.net".. it is important, because i have never seen before a double-dated tablet between this two kings, and rolf furuli, as gerard gertoux a french jw, has tried (in accordance with the book "insight" of the watchtower) to prove a co-regency between the two king in the final goal to have the 20th years of the king artaxerxes in -455. this date is important for the jw's calculation of the prophecy of daniel 9, concerning the 70 weeks.. if there is no co-regency so the reign of artaxerxes has really start in -465 (and note -475 like the jw's theory) and the interpretation of the 70 weeks of daniel by jw is false.. here is the translation in english of this tablet, that carl olof jonnson has provided to me, after i have contacted him concerning this tablet.
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More made up or inaccurate dates from the WT? How can that be???
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When misery loves company
by cattails inwhen misery loves company.... .
it is a tongue in cheek look at going door to door.
highly acclaimed in jw e-mail circles.. this links to a video by jw brother who has a bad day in service but his bible student makes progress so i guess for him it isn't so bad.http://gravytrain5.com/movies/bad_day.html .
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Video #2 should show him going back to get his car, and it has been towed & impounded.
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Over half the world population have never heard of Jehovah's Witnesses
by alanv injust looked through some of the largest populations in the world and ten of them add up to 3,500,000,000. how many witnesses serve these 10 countries.
no more than 60,000. the largest are china and india which together have around 2.5 billion people.
so is the jw good news being spread earthwide.
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Third world, India, China? The last I heard in the city I live in there are 3 congs. I have lived there almost 2 yrs, and have never seen or heard of any of them in the area. I've asked many of the neighbors who have lived here for 15 - 20 years, no one EVER remembers JW's coming around. Reaching the most remote parts of the earth? They haven't even reached parts of Maryland yet.