the whole wt yesterday, which was supposed to be about love, actually centered on how we should react to 'persecutors'.
it was horrible to hear the audience comments...calling 'worldly people' everything from 'they are unkind and mean' to them being 'hateful and unneighborly'.
i sat there and thought about how this 'us vs. them' mentality is the very thing that is contributing to the divisive and separatist world we live in.
I appreciate your sharing this. I am currently in the process of *trying* to show my jw that "worldly folk" are not terrible at all. Or evil. I've asked my jw to look around at the people at work. and their neighbors (who are VERY sweet). and ME. And people who do volunteer work to help hungry people find food.
While the jw keeps coming back to me with silly retorts, I pray that the harsh/hateful things they say at the meetings will one day ring a bell. I hope one day, love will be the winner.
he is a jehovah's witness & i have so many cards!!!!!!
he knows i am" evil".
he also knows i am watching him...so he dont destroy any of my "mail" from randy,.
That would be funny if he started posting on here one day...."hi. I'd like to introduce myself. I was a postman who delivered gazillions of apostate mail to this one lady...she really got me thinking with all those postcards sent to her & now I'm out of the cult!" Its nice to dream, isn't it?
there are many generations of xjws here.
i'm curious as to what happened to you in school.. were you sent to the library during festivities, allowed to stay home, or allowed to participate?
enter the years if you can and the number of jw's with you.. mine: mid 1960's to mid 70's.
I had to go to the library during birthday parties and any other festivities. During Valentine's Day one year, I came back to find about 20 Valentines on my desk and I felt guilty for not participating. In high school, my father was the in-school disciplinarian and I had to go to *his* classroom for things like pep ralleys. There was one other jw in school with me & I was so embarrassed to be associated with her. She was the type who'd go up to the coolest boy in school and say "Now if you were driving and your car starting make a loud, unusual sound, would you turn up the radio and keep driving or would you find a solution to the problem?"(do you remember that analogy?it was s'posed to lead into jw talk, but I cant remember how)
just for newbies, lurkers and as a reminder for all.
mary undertook a huge compilation of critical analysis of many of the key watchtower doctrinal points.
it can be downloaded as a 150mb pdf - only 2mb so won't kill your internet connection.
Thank you
mine is "silent night".
never get tired of listening to that one..
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU (from LOVE ACTUALLY...its is my FAVORITE! )
Meaning, you sent one and it was returned to you? I wonder if whomever it was lives with a jw & they got scared.... but NOT MINE! I loved getting mine!
hiya guys and gals.
im not trying to be self-righteous but i want to understand the thought process of someone who knows the origins of christmas, but starts celebrating it (putting up christmas tree, exchanging wrapped gifts; repeating merry christmas to everyone they see in the month of december)??
it seems very silly to me (imo) after knowing how and why christmas was created (to cater to pagans sun worship and convert to christianity)!!
go on and share the lie of Santa Clause to their little ones? That just seems messed up. (yes, I know I took a portion of your sentence and you were just asking instead of stating this as your own thoughts)Try going into the children's section at the library...its ALLLLL about fantasy and *false* characters. It expands their imaginations. I believed Cinderella, Superman, and Wonder Woman were real when I was a child. When I found out they werent I wasn't traumatized. In fact, I felt proud that I was a *grown up* (at the ripe old age of 7) and didnt believe that stuff anymore. It's part of a small child's life to be filled with imagination and fantasy.
Someone else pointed this out above and I agree: While Christmas may have been rooted in pagan practices (which I no longer think is scary either since pagans are simply people who are not christians) , that isn't what is means today. In fact, Xmas means different things to different people. For me, its a time to spend with family who understands the meaning of unconditional love. "Why not do that everyday instead of one day a year?" some may ask. My answer: its not realistic. My family lives all over the U.S. ....why fight it? Slip on your pagan wedding ring, take the pagan pinata hitting stick outta your a$$, and put on a Santa suit.
I got Mouthy's, Crapola's, & Saoirse's friend's card yesterday...I didn't realize how nice it would be . I'm still smiling from it! I'm so thankful to be free and to get and give Xmas cards this year.
if a man feels it's okay to call his wife his old lady although she is not old, can a woman call her husband her tiny dick even if that is not the case?
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It took me a second to figure out what you were talking about with the Dick Van Dyke reference, and then I busted out laughing
ThYnk Youuuu fo MYking may Lof
hey, i want to google a topic...the only problem is that i know what its about but i can't figure out what keyword to google.
it has to do with those subconscious words that the watchtower throws into all their literature that influences the way jws read & agree with its contents..... examples:.
no doubt.
Ziddina, you have a pm. Thanks all for the suggestions...I'm sure more than one of those will get me what I'm looking for . When I am in a calm mood, I plan on showing information about the other people who do this, and then in a few months I will show them that they do the same thing. It's aggravating isnt it
