Posts by AwSnap

I think this is just a phase, Dan. We've all gone through it. Take some time off, and come back when you're ready. The "disturbing" threads won't seem so disturbing when you're in a better place in life

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When are you putting up your Christmas Tree?

by AwSnap in

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i haven't decided.

maybe i'll put it up the week of thanksgiving... i am so excited i cant wait .

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Blondie, I cannot WAIT for you to organize the Christmas card exchange again this year. I've ordered holiday postcards from vistaprint.com & it even has our picture on it. I've ordered 100, so hopefully lots of folks participate .

ps...last year, a lot of folks wrote very generic Xmas greetings. I hope its a little more personal this year...maybe include a picture

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When are you putting up your Christmas Tree?

by AwSnap in

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i haven't decided.

maybe i'll put it up the week of thanksgiving... i am so excited i cant wait .

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LoL, Darth. Finally-Free, I love that you do things like that for your bird. I feel the same about my dogs. I'm using a fake tree this Xmas...I've always used real ones. But I found a fake one that really looks real! So excited

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Are you suspicious of LURKERS?

by VampireDCLXV in

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we all know they're here but we don't really know who they are.. they are people who sign up here and then never comment (or rarely ever do).. doesn't that make any of you regulars here at the very least a tiny bit suspicious?.

why would a person sign up to a forum like this and then never say a damn thing?

it seems to me that there is a primary reason why some folks sign up and then never comment on anything: to spy.

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When are you putting up your Christmas Tree?

by AwSnap in

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i haven't decided.

maybe i'll put it up the week of thanksgiving... i am so excited i cant wait .

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I haven't decided. Maybe I'll put it up the week of Thanksgiving... I am so excited I cant wait

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The Holiday Thread

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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[i'm sure this thread comes up several times a year by us noobs but it's new for me.

btw, i'm not advocating or opposing the celebration of holidays, just giving a perspective we've taken recently.].

okay, so before we got df'd a few weeks back, we weren't sure if we were going to start celebrating holidays... for a few reasons:.

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I aspire to be like you and your wifey one day, SBC. I've had real trees up in our home in the past, but the hubby still isn't comfortable with them. So I'm putting one up in my office instead. It makes me feel a little melancholy, to be honest.

I can't believe how many people are putting up their trees already...it makes me want to do so as well! But I just keep thinking its too early! Ohhh, decisions decisions

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strange comment from elder at the meeting today

by Evidently Apostate in

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todays watchtower was especially nauseating but during the study one of them made the comment concerning the big a " jehovahs timetable is not contingent on all nations being saturated by the good news".

the study conductor reafirmed his point and then continued.. wait a fuggin minute!

there are 1.4 billion chinese on the earth and only 40 million profess christianity.

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True, untouched territories still exist, and it may be that in Jehovah’s due time, a large door leading to greater activity will open. (1 Corinthians 16:9) Nevertheless, the Bible does not state that Jehovah will wait until every individual on earth has received a personal witness.Rather, the good news must be preached to Jehovah’s satisfaction. Then the end will come.—Compare Matthew 10:23.

This infuriates me. Didn't they used to push it in the 80's that the 'good news would be preached in ALL the inhabited earth (or land...can't remember the exact phrase)....?

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Do you feel sorry for the family members who shun you?

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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as each instance of shunning happens to me, it seems even more ridiculous than the last.. this weekend i took our kids to the park - wife opted out, understandably - and we let our daughter call my parents to inform them we'd be there.

this was my first time in the presence of my parents since our df announcement two weeks ago.. my mom and dad were 10-20 feet away much of the time and yet they never said a greeting or.. well anything.

at one point my daughter, who is aware of the shunning, mistakenly thought my mom called my name and shouted excitedly, "mawmaw, were you talking to daddy??

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I'm not trying to make excuses for my mom but I see her as truly incapacitated by the WT and my dad. She wants to be loyal to god and thinks that means being submissive to Dad and the WT. She has very low self-esteem and doesn't think she's capable of trusting herself.

I do not think you are alone with this comment. My sister is shunning me, and I flip flop betweeen your reasoning here and the reasoning that she's still an adult and is choosing to ignore/shun me. I had family in town recently, and it was so awkward. There were times when I had to make sure I was working so that she'd have time to hang out with them without me. It felt pretty rediculous and degrading, and I was mad at myself for working to keep myself out of the picture.

I think this is all still fresh in your parent's minds. In your other thread where you mentioned your dad and the hugs goodbye & he said something like, "Good grief! How many times do we have to do this??!" ..... that stuck with me. It really reminded me of my own father. But now years have passed, and things have gotten MUCH better. He's still an elder, but he KNOWS I am never coming back & will now associate with me. Then again, I am not DF'd