i plan on inviting a close family member ..(who has been a jw for several years).. to share thanksgiving with us this year.
my husband and i have never been jws.
what exactly is a jw's reason for not taking part in thanksgiving??.
I've never heard the gluttony argument LOL. Days when mom cooks a turkey I do tend to eat more than I probably should.
Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that has a whole convoluted list of reasons why it should not be celebrated, none of which ever actually made any sense to me. Like JWoods mentioned, the pagan origin is an issue. I'd say patriotic undertones can be included as well. You'll probably get the standard, "we should be thankful everyday, not just one day of the year!" responses.
i plan on inviting a close family member ..(who has been a jw for several years).. to share thanksgiving with us this year.
my husband and i have never been jws.
what exactly is a jw's reason for not taking part in thanksgiving??.
Turkeys don't chew and swallow the cud.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39041806/ns/today-relationships/?gt1=43001.
syl.
It reminds me of why gangsta rap become popular in the 90s, particulary amongst young males.
i mean something really serious that you won't forgive/forget..
Being born into this nonsense. Somedays I feel I woulda been better off aborted, or discarded to a rubber in the garbage can, or contracepted. Been a miserable existance. I love my parents, but I look at them somedays with scorn.
i bet people has forgotten me but thats ok because i know they have helped me a lot on here.. .
anyways i think the last time i been on here i mentioned my jw sister not going to my wedding.
for those that do remember my story, the wedding was beautiful on the beach in key west, fl!
I live in a city with a few universities, a couple are major universities. Every year we get a couple or few JWs from out of town. It makes for an awkward meeting when there are parts and comments with negative thoughts toward higher education. A couple times I cringed sitting in those meetings as it was offensive to those young gals from out of town in the audience. Like you guys mentioned though, there's all kind of opinions on education right now. I guess it depends on your geography regarding how "the friends" will view it. In my hall there's an unwritten law to be semi-cold or aloof towards the out of town college kids. It's almost like a townies vs students mentality that you see with neighborhoods having an influx of college students. The only difference is this time its religious in nature, and limited to congragation meetings.
love her little biceps, i just wanna go pick the ball up and hand it to her personally.
or wait on the sideline until she needs a new towel.
cute lil lady..
Hey Six, that picture not hot. Scary looking. Tonight though, on the court, she was bulging like the above picture. She looked very tone tonight.
this is an actually quote made by a district overseer at a convention in dekalb illinois in august of 2008...yep, no joking, swear on a holy bible...he actually said that.
just thought about the quote and thought i should post it to share it with the fellow 'apostates' (sarcasm)..
Wanted to mention another aspect of it. Granted, most do get DFd over behavior. Thats a fact, its mostly due to behavior. However, something I've wondered as of late, is how much of that behavior is a direct result of the toxic culture encouraged within this organization. The toxic culture includes being forced to accept doctrines you may not agree with it. When push comes to shove, some people can hold their own under extreme circumstances. Others may not be as strong, and may seek "certain outlets" to help them persevere through difficult times. What outlets are available to the average JW? More study, more field service, more time with "the friends", more participation at the meetings, etc.. At the same time while your encouraged to spend more time doing all those things that you've probably spent more than enough time at, the things that you'd like to do are becoming ever more a distant fantasy. That fantasy often enough doesn't have to include immoral behavior. It could be things such as participation in a book club, extraciricular sports, classes at the local community college, volunteer work, etc., all of which are frowned upon. So just like private Catholic school girl confronted with an aroused male can't hardly contain herself, so does the so called mature Christian JW when confronted with something in the same vein.
i'd like to submit a motion that we no longer respond to posts posted by madjw.
he's using this forum to spam all of us into going to his wts defending website.
he also claims to be a regular pioneer and gets the majority of his time by posting on this site.
You guys just gave MadJW four pages in one single thread. He's going to overdose from this kind of attention. To be honest, I wonder if he deserves his own deodorant, or body spray commercial now?
love her little biceps, i just wanna go pick the ball up and hand it to her personally.
or wait on the sideline until she needs a new towel.
cute lil lady..
LOL, I don't know man. She's losing though. I think this motherly looking chick is going to beat her. The anouncers keep saying this other woman has kids, and to be frank, she looks like it. She needs to be at home suckling or whatever it is mothers do. This Stosur girl though, she's got a tight little frame. She definately hits the weights. I like that. No treadmill for her!
love her little biceps, i just wanna go pick the ball up and hand it to her personally.
or wait on the sideline until she needs a new towel.
cute lil lady..
Love her little biceps, I just wanna go pick the ball up and hand it to her personally. Or wait on the sideline until she needs a new towel. Cute lil lady.
