Oh the great goodness of Jehovah! How wonderful that he provided Abraham with these beasts! Obviously Jehovah "gentled" them for his people. That's the way any "good" JW would answer that allegation.
Michelle365
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Camels werent domesticated during Abraham's time?
by cyberjesus inone of the many factors that made me loose faith in the bible was the fact that camels were not domesticated during abrahams era.
i read this on the book "the bible unearthead".
do you know of any other evidence that shows camels were domesticated after 1000 bce.
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Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!
by easyreader1970 ini remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.
the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.
they weren't just happened upon, though.
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done and replied!
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Apparently I've out-ed an old friend THE SH**T HIT THE FAN!!
by Terry inabout three or four years ago my former "best friend" who is an active jw started coming by my work to eat lunch with me and chat.. in the course of our conversations we had religious discussions.. i posted on the former jwd about these discussions.
i never mentioned his last name, but, i did use his first name.. i honestly never expected anybody to read those posts because of the curse on apostate websites.
but, that was a bit naive, i suppose.. here is what has happened.. .
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Michelle365
Do you have his email address? Or even snail mail? It would be appropriate IMO to send a "sympathy" card after his father passed. You can write something in there that you felt a change in the relationship and try to address it. Maybe ask him to call or meet up. I'm not sure I'd mention the rumor you heard. Would that make him more upset?
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Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!
by easyreader1970 ini remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.
the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.
they weren't just happened upon, though.
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Michelle365
Woot! Jersey City Assembly Hall! I loved my assemblies there. Although I was not there for the experience you mentioned.
Good job, Brother, for not referring to it as "Stanley Theater" which was all my family ever called it. lol.
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Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!
by easyreader1970 ini remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.
the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.
they weren't just happened upon, though.
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Michelle365
When I was married my ambitious MS husband would get sent out for public talks. We had two young children and I of course was dealing with them alone. During one "away" talk I had both girls alseep on me (they were like 1 & 2) when all of a sudden my cell phone went off. I looked to my BIL in law who came with us and said HOLY SHIT really loud. Meanwhile my cell is just ringing and ringing because I ddin't want to wake up the kids and my freaking BIL could not find my phone to shut it off. So I managed to disrupt the whole meeting AND curse all in one fell swoop. Funny now but EMBARASSING at the time.
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Planted a seed today... Update on de-program of my 16 year old son
by Aussie Oz inwell, some of you know that i have a 16 year old son who lives with his jw mother.
she has already mastered the art of guilt control on him.
i am most anxious that he not get baptized at all or at least unless he has really understood the whole truth, not just the watchtower truth.
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Michelle365
Awesome news Oz! Sounds like you are doing a fab job! I really appreciate all who share these types of experiences with the kids because I too struggle on a daily basis. So thanks for taking the time to type this out.
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Let slip the dogs of war...
by sd-7 inthe calm before session 2 of borg court is a chilling one.
quietly, our units go about their duties, but deep down, they're wondering: can we match swords with the very powers-that-be?
we are fighting against mount olympus itself, the elders, the organization--with our beloved wife and child looking on.
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Michelle365
Thinking of you! I hope all is bearable after the latest session!
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I'm excited about life! ;-D
by AwSnap ini just wanted to let you know of something that has liberated me recently.
i decorated my office with hearts for valentine's day this year.
my family has known for over ten years that i do not want to practice the jw faith, although i am not df'd or da'd.
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Michelle365
Oh and YES it's freezing here. I was mostly teasing you but it's been like in the 60's here for ages and us Floridians don't have the means for survival in such frigid temps! lol. I don't have all those sweaters and boots I used to have when I was a teenager!
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I'm excited about life! ;-D
by AwSnap ini just wanted to let you know of something that has liberated me recently.
i decorated my office with hearts for valentine's day this year.
my family has known for over ten years that i do not want to practice the jw faith, although i am not df'd or da'd.
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Michelle365
I was a year younger than Awsnap and we were really good friends and spent a lot of time together. I can attest to her relationship with her parents, having witnesses said fights and the aftermath quite a few times. I also know that the elders DID know her situation and her feelings and how her family life was as her parents seemed to me (correct me if I’m wrong Aw) to drag every problem they had with their child to the elders. Even tiny stupid day to day crap.
So for ME- I was sitting in the section directly behind the baptismal candidates, after all several of my friends were being baptized that day. I watched in horror as the elder came to get Awsnap and waited while she was gone for 90% of the baptismal talk. Every minute I was growing more agitated. Asking my mom, “where did they take her?” and “how can she get baptized if she misses the talk?” every few minutes. Apparently in my mind you have to be seated for the whole talk in THAT section or you don’t qualify. Lol.
Anyway, when you came back to get your stuff from your seat and you walked away you were facing my section and I could totally see your face and knew something was wrong. My parents, shockingly, let me go down to you. I remember us going off somewhere and you crying and saying you couldn’t get baptized because you had a fight with your mom that morning in the hotel. I was thinking- um so what? These kinds of fights happened daily with your parents and the elders were fully aware. I couldn’t understand how you qualified for baptisim the week before under those circumstances but now suddenly today in the midst of the talk you didn’t? (Perhaps it was because I never heard the caboodles part of it? It IS very important to keep those clean. ) I was mad at your parents at first for even telling the elders. Then I was mad at the elders for presuming they knew your heart condition. I thought baptisim is the “outward symbol of your dedication to God” and you were dedicated no matter how much you fought with your parents. I was OUTRAGED and probably not very good support for you at the time. ((((HUGS))))
It was then that I started to doubt the elders were lead by holy spirit. How could the God they taught us of, direct them to THAT course of action? How could they break your heart and spirit because your parents thought you had an attitude?? How could that be *right*? It didn’t stop me from getting baptized a year or so later unfortunately but it DID begin to open my mind to the possibility that an Almighty God wasn’t directing this organization. It took me MANY more years to actually walk away, but I can look back and see that your experience is where it all started for me.
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I'm excited about life! ;-D
by AwSnap ini just wanted to let you know of something that has liberated me recently.
i decorated my office with hearts for valentine's day this year.
my family has known for over ten years that i do not want to practice the jw faith, although i am not df'd or da'd.
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Michelle365
It's mostly Awsnap's story to tell. If she posts it, I'll add to it. It'd be hard for me to tell how it caused me to start to wake up without telling her story.