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garyneal
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Elders wife says being upset with pedophiles in the hall being the same as having to eat sauerkraut and wieners.
by life is to short inthis couple in our hall an elder and his wife gave us a anniversary gift.
it is a wall hanging that says "as for me and my household sister life is to short and hubby will worship jehovah forever.".
i felt i should send her a thank you card even though i hate the gift.
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A term that put me in my cult mind set...but only for a second
by doublelife ini was just hanging up my husband's shirts and started on the section where he had his dress shirts.
but what i thought in my head was "meeting shirts.
" and i quickly realized that i have to start saying "dress shirts" instead.
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garyneal
Not me personally, but definately my daughter is catching on to it. She has her regular shoes and her 'kingo hall' shoes, her regular clothes and her 'kingo hall' clothes. I am trying to break that by telling her that people dress up in 'formal' clothes to some churches, weddings, funerals, and of course the kingdom hall.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - The 2nd Poorest Religion
by Elsewhere inhttp://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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garyneal
Yea those dum dums like C. Everett Koop http://www.answers.com/topic/c-everett-koop
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Just to be clear, my comments were not an attempt to perpetuate stereo-types. They are just my personal observations and I also know that things are not as simple as black and white statements. You mention C. Everett Koop, the most I remember of him was him being the surgeon general in the 1980's. Reagan was also president in the 1980's. A lot of ultra conservatives liked him. A lot of ultra conservatives also think that those who vote democrat are immoral people. I voted for Dole in 1996, Bush in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and Obama in 2008. When I told a midwestern person that I voted for Kerry back in 2004, she said that I was an immoral person.
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The person I studied with asked me if I 'minded' that there were so many black people at the assembly (because this person didn't want me to think it was a 'black' religion), I told them No because if it was the 'truth' what difference would it make?
My thoughts exactly. Truth is, the segregation of people that we see in churches is one of the more dissappointing aspects of religion that I see but things are changing.
My wife went with me to church at a predominately white mega-church. Then we later attended the meeting at the KH, her comments, "One of the things I like about the Hall. It is diverse!" Okay, we later went to their annual memorial and I look around at the crowd. Predominately black? What happened to the diversity? I recall a few years earlier when I attended my first assembly with my wife and her family, lots of racial diversity and lots of brotherhood across races. Wonderful, wonderful, I thought. Then I started attending a local Church of God church, very balanced racially, good diversity. The church I attend now comprises of a mosaic of 7 different churches on one 'church campus.' Fairly good diveristy both within some of the churches and across them.
Bottom line, Jehovah's Witnesses are not predominately one race and they also don't corner the market on diversity.
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for the long time posters
by rockmehardplace indo you get tired of rehashing the same things over and over with us "newbies"?
if not, what is your favorite topic to discuss?.
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garyneal
I just laugh at trolls like angel eyes.
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for the long time posters
by rockmehardplace indo you get tired of rehashing the same things over and over with us "newbies"?
if not, what is your favorite topic to discuss?.
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garyneal
YES YES AND YES AGAIN!!
A totally ORGANIC experience. Anyone remember those commercials?
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guys do you do this girl thing?...
by highdose ini've recently met someone and we spent all last evening chatting on the phone.
this morning comes, i text him and get no responce.
a few hours go by and i start thinking that hes obviously gone off me, i will never find anyone, must be totaly unattractive and repluse the opposite sex etc etc...basicaly start thinking myself into a depression.. then i get a text midday... hes phone had run out of battery(!
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garyneal
I always think he should be happy such a beautiful, intelligent woman digs him so much.
You forgot to add modest.
Truthfully, I remember back when I was 18 and very unsure of myself how I would always assume the worse if a girl I like did not return my phone calls after leaving messages for her. This was before I learn to just stop caring so much and lo and behold things end up working out the way I want them.
Hmmmmm, maybe I should try more of that with my wife. "Honey, I don't care if you become a witness or not."
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Divided household, spiritual widow, spiritual orphan. Propaganda expressions
by Mattieu ini grew up in what the society calls a divided household being a spiritual orphan the son of a spiritual widow.
looking back now, these terms certainly isolated us, or marked us as being different from the ideal families in the congo.. there were quite a few of us divided households in our congo when we were growing up and as most of the spiritual united families wouldnt associate with us on a social scale, we mostly hung out with each other.
a few of our dads became good friends as no doubt they had a few things in common, being the cause of divided households.. i remember one elders son saying they couldnt hang around us as his dad told him we were bad association, not that we were doing anything wrong, we pioneered on school holidays gave talks, answered up, did all the right things except we had a dad who wasnt in the truth.. these terms that the society use, also create an us versus them attitude within the family arrangement.
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garyneal
As the 'worldly' husband of a 'spiritually widowed' wife, I can only hope that my wife doesn't become so indoctrinated that she fails to see through this propaganda and starts building walls.
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for the long time posters
by rockmehardplace indo you get tired of rehashing the same things over and over with us "newbies"?
if not, what is your favorite topic to discuss?.
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garyneal
Remember Angel Eyes and it's followers? Yuck - I just threw up a little.
She and PJSChipper were very funny. I actually miss them in a way.
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for the long time posters
by rockmehardplace indo you get tired of rehashing the same things over and over with us "newbies"?
if not, what is your favorite topic to discuss?.
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garyneal
Good grief, OTWO. Do people actually come on this board and say that?
Billy the X: Yeah, I haven't seen scholar here in a while either. Been reading The Gentile Times Reconsidered, I am going to have some fun with him next time.
Robdar:
The public bleeding is embarrassing and usually they are written by somebody that seems just as controlling as the JW partner they are complaining about.
Unfortunately, it takes longer for some people to realize that control is really an illusion. I must admit that when I was studying and learning some of their ways, I too found myself pointing out things to my wife that she was doing that was not in agreement with her religion. I often did that when she was doing things I did not think she should be doing. Boy, how wrong I was and to think if I had went through and became a JW, I think things would have only gotten worse because NOW I can report her to the elders.
I am so thankful that I woke up to that insanity.
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How miserable are Witless Kids REALLY?
by hamsterbait in25 years ago i lived in an apartment overlooking the grounds of the local high school.. at the time i still totally believed the lie.
a lot of the dub students went to my hell.. i noticed looking out my window, that the witless kids always looked miserable and isolated.
yet in the kingdumb hell they would behave almost euphorically.. what was going on?.
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garyneal
OTWO
Little adults
That's how the witchtower society wants all the kids to be.