Well done you. You and your daughters are doing something truly self sacrificing for others and they are learning true christian values. This should help them to see the contrast between good works and watchtower busy fools.
Posts by nugget
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24Typical JW Response
by Magwitch inmy 76 year old mother and her 94 year old mother (my grandmother) are still regular pioneering.
if anyone should understand helping the less fortunate it should be these life time pioneers.
however, this is a conversation i had with my them yesterday.... me: mom, the girls (my 2 teenage daughters) and i have volunteered to serve breakfast and lunch at the soup kitchen new year's eve.
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My JW wife misses meeting, insists I watch rated R movie
by JimmyPage inmissing the meeting was my fault, mostly.
i took her out to her favorite restaurant (a good strategy on meeting night for those with jw mates).
oh my, look at the time!
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nugget
Who would have thought an R rated movie could bring so much joy. Good for you.
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Four die out in service in Texas
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land ina real tragedy here yesterday; regardless of our feelings about the religion itself, we lost some good friends and genuinely nice people yesterday; these were some of "the good ones"--why is it always them??.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/accident-80138632.html.
southlake four people died saturday after their car flipped over into a six-foot-deep pond in southlake, police said.. just before 11:20 a.m. saturday, the toyota sedan drove through the intersection of lonesome dove road and burney lane, crashed into a metal fence, hit a tree, and landed upside-down in a pond on the grounds of a mansion.. "they came through this stop sign and, from eyewitness accounts, they never slowed down," said neighbor byron copeland.. copeland said the residents of the property raced to try and help.
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nugget
I feel sorry for the families such a terrible accident.
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phrases I dislike
by John Doe inpat of oleotelling competitors they better "bring it"talk to the hand
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Give it 110%.
100% is all you've got.
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So after a month on here...I would like JW lurkers to read as well.
by Aussie Oz ini learn: the watchtower society's first president was not ct russell, that he was into pyramids, that rutherford hijacked his little religion and turned it into a powerhouse for publishing, that he liked sly grog, had 2 cadillacs to al capones 1, was a bully, and had cancer of the bum, that over all the years they can't make up their mind between new and old light, that the governing body dont even consult the bible, that they had at least one gay g/b member, manipulate prophecy, set dates and blame the flock, invented disfellowshipping just after critizing the catholics for excomunication, avoid taxes, lie on the stand, joined the u.n, own billions of dollars worth of ny, trade stocks and shares, tried be friends with hitler, condoned bribery in mexico, let the flock think they were resticted by the mexican govt, let mallawians die for nothing, keep watering down the blood policy, whitwash their own history, have secret books to help child custody battles, hides criminals, runs heretic witch hunts, spys, has two watchtower mags, supported swaggert in court, lies, controls minds, protects pedophiles, punishes victims, tears families apart, is anti education, is practically run by lawyers, has more corporations than wallstreet it seems, promote wt lit as part of the bible, supported racial segregation in the south, policed the bedroom, that the bible and preaching work are a front for a massive, giant megalomaniacal malevolent publishing house.
that none of this is unsupported lies!.
and to think that a month or so ago, i thought the only dirt on them might have been being a little to harsh on shunning.. i feel sick.
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nugget
It's amazing what you can learn when you apply yourself. No wonder independent study of the Bible and the organisation is discouraged. Thank you AO I learnt pretty much what you did.
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Is There Any TV Show That You Wished Was Still On?
by minimus ini know a lot of people were upset when mash ended.
i never was a big fan of the show, probably because it was on a meeting night, but it was a very popular show.. i loved hill street blues, taxi, all in the family, the rifleman, even superman!
i wished those shows never stopped!.
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nugget
Dead like me. I enjoyed it immensely but they only seemed to make 2 series.
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Faded 10 years ago, now considering DA'ing!
by NutFlush inlong-time occasional lurker, first-time poster.
cliffs notes version: i'm thinking of da'ing in order to shake my family up a bit, even though i haven't been involved with jws in more than 10 years.
longer version: i was raised as a jw but never got baptized.
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nugget
My sister did the same as you she never got baptised. She lives in Chicago and visits the UK periodically. Because she was never baptised the family receives no censure keeping in touch with her. Wouldn't matter anyway as we're not the shunning sort. You can have more influence in your present situation than if you send a letter.
You were smart and built your own life. I can't see any benefit in writing to the congregation now.
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The moment you know you will die, too
by dgp inat some point in life, everyone outside of the wtbts realizes that death if a fact of life.
no one gets to accept that fact easily, and the moment when you realize you will die, too, usually comes all of a sudden and takes you by surprise.
when you were a jw, did you have such a moment, even though the society told you you would never die?
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I have sat by the bedside of a much loved Grandparent and watched her die and been called out to stand vigil in hospitals. Even before learning that men had made false promises they could not keep I had felt the fear of dying. Now I worry that I haven't enough time left to really live.
The only difference was that in the past I always had the thought that there was to be a future life where I could get on with all my thwarted ambitions now I think that I'd better get on with it.
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Pioneering !
by iknowall558 inquestion :.
why is 'pioneering' a 'privilege' when every jw goes out in ministry anyway.
even those who have lost privileges, or been disciplined, or been reinstated after being disfellowshipped are still expected to go out in the ministry.
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In JW world there is no way to achieve aceptably outside of the cong. All those thwarted ambitions need an outlet and the society rewards people with meaningless titles. If you pioneer you have abased yourself more than most so you deserve the name pioneer. This reward for meaningless activity is relatively common for cults.
In our congregation we have recently lost our only 2 pioneers because they didn't meet the requirements. Their hours were fine they are a couple of poison pills. They still do the same number of hours but aren't allowed the title.
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Do JW's Really Believe That the End is Near?
by Sour Grapes inas i listened to the brother giving the public talk.
sunday, he mentioned several times how close we.
are to the end.
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I always took the view prepare for the worst and hope for the best. I used to believe that my parents wouldn't die and so talk of who would inherit what was pointless. I have pension schemes and although I never expected to benefit from them I was concious that many had lived on small means in their old age as Jehovah's day hadn't come as expected.