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  Fishing and JW's???

  by lurkernomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was just reading a thread and came across a completely new jw 'rule', that of not being allowed to go fishing!..

  at least it's new to me as i always enjoyed fishing as did others in my old congregation.

  anyone else heard of this or had this imposed on them in they're jw lives?.

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  Lurkernomore Hi, I think it was me who mentioned fishing. I grew up in the home counties ( UK) . In the late 70' s I was told you could not fish for sport as a JW. In fact we had a couple around for dinner and I distinctly remember being told that they " could give up LSD for "the truth" but not fishing!" ( ie it was more troublesome to give up). This from my uber dub spiritual pioneer mother.

  She was an avid reader of dub literature so do a search on JW.org...I would put money on her being correct.

  On the other hand I was also told that smurfs had talked, the heart was the seat of emotion , aluminium pans were dangerous and chewing gum should not be eaten....
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  Bethel Family Matters

  by WatchtowerReviewz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  using the hilarious song 142 i went ahead and created a sitcom intro about life at bethel.

  this is what that song was really created for.

  i hope watchtower likes my pitch!

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  That Jackson...he's a card!
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  My First post

  by Simple Minds in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been lurking on this site for 3 years and this is my fist post.

  i would like to thank everyone for helping me wake up.

  i was baptized at 24, married at 25, ms for 18 years mentally in for 24 years but started to wake up 3 years ago doing research to give public talks, and the actions of arrogant and narcissistic brothers and sisters did not help.

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  stuckinarut25 days ago

  Welcome mate!

  Another Aussie!

  I take it that's the REAL Perth., with an icon like that!
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  Who has more Zeal, wt or Isis?

  by prologos in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35260475 would a jw shun, treat as dead, with contempt his own mother for her attempt to have him leave the wt religion?.

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  They are the same. I don't know why people cannot see that!

  Its only a question of doctrine...the utter belief you are carrying out the will of god and that others are spawn of the devil is identical. If the witnesses did not believe that Jesus ended the law they would gladly kill.
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  What is your relationship with ALCOHOL?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. physical

  here in the uk new drinking guidelines have been issued which suggest "no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.".

  another piece of the advice which is getting a lot of attention is that "if people drink, it should be moderately over three or more days and that some days should be alcohol-free.".

  already people are making cries of "nanny state!

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  Every man I have ever lived with, with the exception of my brother, drinks every day. As has been mentioned earlier alcohol is the only thing JW's are allowed to do guilt or sanction free. They can't even go fishing for bleeps sake. Is it any wonder I have met quite a few in rehabs. I used to get told that drink " was a food" by JW' s. No, its a poison. Besides which many foods can be lethal.

  However I totally get how some people cannot face life without it. Or think they can't. I know many people who are dying because of it.

  Why is it some can go totally Ott with it in their youth and just stop whenever..and others caught in a cycle of addiction/dependence/depression/death. Christopher Hitchens, despite fully knowing the damage it had caused him, did not regret it and believed he wouldn't have achieved all he had, or been the person he was, had he not regularly imbibed. That is easy to believe when you see his sober, dull, reactionary christian brother
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  bethelite kills self because of guilt 10/31/73

  by new boy in

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  2. friends

  i was working on my car in the factory {bld.

  1} on friday oct. 31 1973, when all hell broke loose, the fire alarm in bld.

  4 went off at about 9:30. the night watchman could find nothing.

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  It is the modern day Abraham and Issac...these folks pass their own flesh and blood "through the fire".. Child sacrifice is an evil thing..the Borg is always willing to sacrifice a few more.

  An earlier poster to this thread said it aright that " obsessive doctrine should never come before a life"
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  I almost died laughing at the meeting last night. OMG WTF is going on? Have I been away this long?

  by macys in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok so most of you guys know already that i am going through the reinstatement process for my parents but i do have a partially sinister plan which i will not mention here since someone told me that there are b-lites that read boards like this.

  last night and it was the funniest experience i have ever seen.

  besides that the brother doing the sound and video screwed up the whole thing when showing the videos and it took 3 brothers to fix it after 10 minutes, the whole thing was a joke.

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  @mrquik it stands for "our Christian Life And Ministry" - the new look week day meeting, tut tut you are obviously being mrslow (to the meetings) uhghh terrible jke!
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  Elder continues serving as elder after his daughter got disfellowshipped!

  by hardtobeme in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is what is happening in a spanish congregation in our area.

  this happened 3 weeks ago.

  this brother conducted the school and after the school was over, another elder gave the announcement: "( name of the person) is not longer a jehovah's witness".

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  Boy do I ever feel sorry for this kid. The poor thing could be that desperate to drive her family out of the cult, who knows?

  If, I say if, its not gossip and she is looking for love in all the wrong places the worse thing they can do is shun her.
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  Well known cartoon creator artist of SpongeBob -- was he a JW?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  was i dreaming that he posted here a few years ago?.

  len.

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  Scooby? Wooooooo ooooo👻 eldurrrs wouldn't like that!
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  Our Letter to Our Family

  by What Now? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our families have cut off contact with us for the last several months.

  they found out that we were celebrating holidays with our non-witness family.

  our families were our last tie to the organization, as our former friends stopped associating with us about 3 years ago.

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  Fantastic...really....you may have borrowed some of Daniel's words but I can guarantee there will be many occasions when people will borrow your words found here, if not the whole letter, in the future!!!