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GrandmaJones
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Oh No!!! A Witness saw me buying a Christmas tree
by will_the_apostate indoing the black friday shopping with the family and we were picking up one of those nice prelit fake trees and standing right next to me was a local brother who i had grown up with staring at me.
i just smiled my biggest apostate smile and walked away... i wonder if the elders will call on me soon..
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Nobody wants to live in paradise
by eric356 ini've got some probably-not-so-original musings about why nobody would actually want to "live forever on a paradise earth.
" these are the sorts of things that probably make every jw kid (or adult) have some doubts, because the problems are so obvious.
the standard jw answer of "it doesn't say in the bible what will happen, we'll see when we get there" or "wait for the new scrolls to be opened" are totally inadequate because the problems involve the very concept of eternal life in paradise.
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GrandmaJones
Gee, that was something that I could always picture myself in and I just loved it! I pictured paradise as a stimulating world where new things were constantly developed, and improvements to life steadily emerging. I never thought of it literally, like I would be sitting under a fig tree, and having to build my own house. I don't have trouble believing that new inventions and conveniences have an end. Just look at the comforts and improvements in the last couple of hundred years. I thought we would invent fabulous new forms of transportation, and perfection didn't mean being all alike. Everyone would work at jobs they loved, and if you stopped loving it, you moved on to something else.
I never get bored. There is always entertaining things going on in my own head. (I am thinking of getting medical help for that - lol) I really can't imagine the possibility of living forever and being bored or restless.
That's what I thought. I will miss that dream. Really....
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Name Something Good About Being A Jehovah's Witness
by minimus ini've got one!.
you don't have to wait in long xmas lines at the store to buy xmas presents.
as a matter of fact, you don't have to buy a damn thing!.
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GrandmaJones
I loved the feeling that I knew what would happen in the future. I would receive everlasting life. I was never afraid. After all, death is only unconscienceness and then you wake up in the new world.
I miss that feeling.
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Confessions of a Wayward Pioneer
by Giordano infrank was concerned that they might be dumping them in the woods or something so he wanted me to check it out.. i had a hard time convincing h and h to let me join them in service, finally i dropped a few hints that i was a pretty laid back brother who didn't always follow wtbts policy......... which wasn't far from the truth.
this guy was hard core.
this guy was hard core.
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GrandmaJones
Wow, that is a great story! I wish my family could be "casual" JW's. It is fantastic that your wife came out with you. It just goes to show what a great life you can have when you "seize the day"! Congratulations.
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C.J. Woodworth - New historical information
by Lee Elder inthe following information was obtained from skip higgins who is a distant.
relative of c.j.
woodworth.
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GrandmaJones
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GrandmaJones
Thanks for saying that. I got a new camera last year, read the book carefully and I thought I understood it. I get it out while on my vacation and suddenly can't take either a photo or a video. Some "Spanish guy took pity on me, and in very broken 'english, he picked up my camera, told me how very nice it was, a was taking pictures and videos right and left. Unfortunately, they were pretty much the whole things I had on the camera.
Everything else was pictures of my feet, and my voice in the background repeating "is this thing working?"I need another lesson. My grandchildren picked up my new cellphone, and flipped around and said it was simply awesome. They took video. pictures, got online, use the gps, did facebook and downloaded ringtones for me. I have trouble answering the darn thing, and I've read the manual twice. don't worry, I'll eventually get it. Unfortunately, it will be outdated before I do. Oh well, the price of age amid a lack of understanding about how technology works. I intent to keep trying.
'thanks for all the help. I don't hope to have to ask too many more, but I don' t promise. After all, I still haven't been able to change my avatar, and I've been trying at least two weeks. Does the in private thing have anything to do with it?
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I just can't do anymore right now....
by GrandmaJones ini am constantly reading, studying, looking up more stuff on the internet, perusing old threads, keeping up with "new light" on jwn.
i am in the middle of "in search of christian freedom" (having just finished steve's cultmind control book) and i am finding it so argumentive doctrinally that my head is spinning.
i found myself this evening with my laptop next to my desktop (all the better to reference back and forth, m'dear) the wt library cd-rom open to "the modern history of jehovah's witnesses" in twenty four parts, with a plethera of "rainbow" books open for easy reference while i was listening to an old fred franz discourse at dodgers stadium!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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GrandmaJones
Yes , I was having a freak out that night. I had just done too much that day. Most nights I go to bed thinking of this, wake up in the middle of the night and think of it, and find it on my mind before I am even fully awake in the morning. I think if I could get my family out, then I could let it go, but I keep looking for things, that when the right opportunity presents itself, I'll have ready as ammunition. (I won't blast full force, even though that really is my personal style. It's hard to go slow with this, and I have to exercize a great deal of restaint. I know that to move forward with guns ablazin' will turn off my family and they might consider me a dangerous apostate.
I am working on only doing so much a day. I really am.
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Rutherford, "I made an ass of myself"
by Fatfreek in.resurrected in 1925 to rule as princes over the earth.
(millions now living will never die, 1920, pp.
89-90) they failed to show up, of course, and rutherford quit predicting dates.
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So much for Watchtower, er, Bible studies
by dgp inon another thread, i wondered whether there was an objective way to determine the effect that the internet is having on new people being attracted into the watchtower.
i get the general impression that, while we can certainly know that the internet has been crucial in quite a few people leaving, or never joining, there is no statistics that would tell us something like "millions now living didn't join because of what they read on a website".. that's for background.
now i would like to see the question the other way around.
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GrandmaJones
I don't know about the UK, but all the Kingdom Halls I have ever belonged to have them. Ours don't have the old Russell ones and such, but they go back to the fifties.
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Babies Rule
by sabastious inbefore i had my son 8 months ago a baby was just "another baby.
" now i seem to be constantly noticing babies around town and watching them more intently to see how their personality is.
i never really though of the fact that even very small babies have very prenounced personalities.
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GrandmaJones
He's adorable.