sometimes it just hits you how cold and unfeeling this religious corporation is.. last night there was a part in the kingdom ministry about helping new bible studies.
in one paragraph it mentioned how the new student might cut ties with former associates because they are not living by bible principles.
it says that their families might disown them.
Omg that's something I've never really read into properly. I wonder how many sentences like that we can find that when you actually read into them and listen to the words that are used and compare them to other words that could have been used, I bet you find loads of loop holes.
I'm totally gonna make that my mission. After Christmas of course :)
it's taken me a while to start watching films with ghosts in - even a christmas carol - and then eventually i started smoking pot and it didn't bother me at all.
but there are still some things i would have trouble with doing because of the remains of my christian conscience.. anything you guys still haven't brought yourself to do yet?.
Carpe have you told my mum yet?? She rang me today and didn't mention you at all :( lol
it's taken me a while to start watching films with ghosts in - even a christmas carol - and then eventually i started smoking pot and it didn't bother me at all.
but there are still some things i would have trouble with doing because of the remains of my christian conscience.. anything you guys still haven't brought yourself to do yet?.
It's taken me a while to start watching films with ghosts in - even A Christmas Carol - and then eventually I started smoking pot and it didn't bother me at all. But there are still some things I would have trouble with doing because of the remains of my christian conscience.
Anything you guys still haven't brought yourself to do yet?
buy a lottery ticket.
not because i really want to, or i think i am going to win (logic tells me the odds of winning are ridicuolsly low).
no i'm going to buy a ticket because i can.
Good luck can'tleave :D
i once new a elder and family that did not celebrate birthdays of course, but did give the kids gifts for their 'personal anniversary' !
on the day.. so i was wondering if some jw do this little trick at christmas time and give it some name twist as well.. oz.
My mum and dad nicked a trick of an elder's family and gave me and my brother a massive present each in the middle of summer and called it "Present Day".
Now my mum's just rang bless her and said she'll give me £20 for after Christmas to buy some shoes with in the sales lol! I'm gonna take it as a Christmas present anyway :)
why do the witnesses always stress "free home bible study"?.
as if other religions charge for them.
i never understood that lol..
Lol yeah that's a good point. They always emphasise the free WT and Awake, but then comes the rote learnt "...the Watchtower is based on a contribution service so any donation you wish to make is fine."
just wondering.
it makes me think whoever underlines the wt without going throughly is purely hypocritical.
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This is such a funny thread. I remember amongst all the horrific things that happen in the WTS that the little things seem so funny now. I hated how everyone was judged on whether they had done their watchtower or not.
When my mum hadn't studied her watchtower, but I had (underlined random words) she used to make me swap so it looked like she had done her study!
my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.
this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .
Omg haha. I remember when it was MySpace and Bebo that they hated. And the elder called it MyFace!
I can't believe that they're banning them all with the threat of withdrawal of privileges! Where abouts are you Straight shooter? USA?
i know some people who swear by it.
and i know that according to the jw's its meant to be one of the ultimate wicked things to do but now that i've debunked most of what they taught me i''m starting to wonder.. .
so does anyone have experiance with this?
Haha, I'd not try it just yet. I'm still getting used to saying Merry Christmas. I know some people that have tried it. E.g. my colleague smoked like 2 packs a day and as soon as she saw a hypnotist, she hasn't had a cigerette, it makes her feel sick. This was about 3 or 4 years ago now.
I think it does work on some people, I also saw a load of students at my college freshers week be hypnotised but just for fun, so they were pretending to milk cows and stuff. It was so weird but cool!
I remember have fun times when I was little, I like how my dad made the meetings and the ministry really fun, by making games up to make it interesting. I liked how we learnt Sign Language through it as well. We joined a BSL congregation and I've made quite a bit of money from using it in the workplace, so that I'm happy about. Our cong used to do plays based on biblical events and that was fun, but then it got shitty after our family started to fall apart, then we were treated like outcasts.
Now I'm pretty bitter towards the whole thing.
