just wondering...if there aren't, i'll be sad....
Sure, but I don't know a lot of industrial heavy metal bands besides this Chinese band: AK-47, they're on youtube.
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Amon Amarth and they're amazing.
You might find something you like on here: http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/
(a little background info before i ask my question...).
my sister-in-law (non-jw), who manages a popular chain restaurant near a kingdom hall, just found out that my wife and i have recently faded, so she decided to get something off her chest the other day... you guessed it: she wanted us to know that jws are the worst customers ever!
she then told us some really embarrassing stories about how jws would request a table for 15 to 20 people (after a sunday meeting) and then (when the bill came) some of the jws would start deliberating amongst themselves on whether or not the waiter was diligent or not (to justify the low tip he was getting anyway).
They may not tip big, but I've never heard of any JW's "dine and dash."
i was just reading of a dude who is going back to the matrix.... to save his wife?
to meet a wife?
to divorce scripturally his wife?
i want free books and magazines to fix wobbly tables and chairs
prayer topics seem to be the bandwagon of the moment so i'm jumping on!
seriously, has anyone here asked for something specific in prayer and actually gotten what they asked for?
what convinces you that you wouldn't have got it in any case?
Yes - maybe once
No - over 9000 times
The one time that prayer worked for me was when my cousin was born. He was born premature and had to be on an incubator. It made my aunt cry thinking that her son might grow up to have some health problem. So I prayed several times for my cousin to recover. Months later, I see him healthy and eating.
Fast forward to his 8th birthday party, my cousin is still healthy.
No brain disabilities, he was able to play the piano in front of his friends and family. No digestion problems, he was able to eat his icecream birthday cake and more food. No vision and hearing problems, he can watch tv and play video games. No breathing problems, he can run around and play with his friends for hours. In short, he turned out pretty well and I hope it stays that way.
The prayers might have been a lucky coincidence. Then again, the doctors never said it was impossible.
Yes, this religion...
tl;dr : I was very depressed as a JW. When I was A JW, a lady from my old work place once told me that I looked very sad and wondered why I never smiled. Ever since I stopped going to everything and cutted ties, I started to recover.
theres a scripture much touted by the jw's, goes somthing like " who has not lost brothers, sisters etc and not got tons more etc" ... no i ain't going to bother to look it up.. this was always offered as a great compensation for upsetting your family with your extreme jw beliefs.
but i never found it to be true.
yeah you went to the meetings and your so called spritual family was there.
I did, because they were my only source of support at that time. I was starting high school and had no friends and got bullied a lot. It didn't help that I had a dysfunctional family either. I never went to the counselor's office and avoided telling others about my problems. It was because I was afraid of getting my parents involved, being kicked out of the house, and the wrath of certain relatives.
I noticed that younger people studying would get lots of attention at the meetings and if a person fitted into an existing group then they swiftly developed a social life
What nugget typed is so true, I remember being "love atmoic bombed" even though I was mildly interested. Sisters were giving me presents and bags of second hand clothes. I had 4 spiritual mothers who looked after me. The young people group invited me to places and gatherings. No matter how simple my comment was, I got praised for it. There was always a someone willing to give me a ride to the meetings, service, and to my house. I was assigned to a lot of householder parts for the school. Being around the witnesses at the love bombing phase felt so much better than being at home and school.
Of course, this all disappeared after I got baptized and became part of the R&F / college student instead of a pioneer.
Then one of the "in crowd" sisters managed get a Bible study and her young children to attend the Kingdom Hall. Instantly, they're love bombed and become celebrities in the congregation.
There were older Bible studies who attended, but they usually don't attract as much attention as the younger Bible studies. It was pretty sad watching them sit alone with only their Bible teachers and a few would go up and say hi to them.
this is a good story and is true, please read it all the way through until the end!
(after the story, there are some very interesting facts!
the class was asked to go!
Now that's really an act of kindness that's hard to forget. It reminds me of a time in high school. My teacher saw that i was only having a small peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bottle of water for lunch. So she gave me a bag of chips from her lunch wrap. She was Catholic and knew that i was a jw. i suppose that she had that unconditional acceptance all along.
i went to both collage and uni when i was a jw, i got marked and shunned as a result.
it seemed like every week there would be some dig made from the platform about " those that chose higher education" , my so called "freinds" were constandly on at me " why don't you pioneer highdose?!!".
i even had the ciruit overseer denounce me from the platform as being "spirtualy weak" never mind that most of the peers i grew up with had got themselves reproved or disfellowed and that i was the only who had been good!.
Yes, I got mixed reactions as part of the R&F. Before I enrolled in college, there was a lot of pressure to forget about college and pioneer. Even a missionary CO's wife from a another circuit was discouraging me to go. However, my parents insisted heavily that I go (Asian parents value education a lot, in fact i met an Asian mother in field service that wanted to throw away a WT because it was bashing college). So I did.
Ever since I was in college I was told that it was "a waste of time, you're better off pioneering, it's a foolish choice because armagedon can come any second, what if college interfered with your meetings and study," and other negative opinions. It affected my standing in that "I have weak faith and relying too much on the world."
Others were curious about college and asked a lot of questions like what i was studying, which college i'm going to, and what college was like. However, a lot of witnesses asked me how many years I had left to graduate...at almost every meeting.
I guess they weren't too happy when more R&F were considering college after I proved that going to college and remaining an active JW was possible.
are you a jw or if you were one do you still have any jw traits left?
take this quiz to see... .
http://www.thebentinel.com/jw-quiz.php.
27% and i owe it to college
loading the language is a propogandist tactic to trigger a reaction in the mind.
a prime example is the word 'apostate'!.
i have been called 'spiritually weak' for quitting field service, meetings etc.. how would you respond (without swearing or giving a punch up the hooter), if you were called this?.
"Bad associations" - I remember that it applied to everyone outside the borg, even straight A nerdy kids who never get into trouble. Even some witnesses in the hall were called that because they rarely go to meetings, report a few hours of field service, etc. (spiritually weak) Of course other witnesses can accuse you of being a "bad association" and you're suddenly ostracized. My Bible teacher / "spirtual mom" once told me to be careful around a certain brother just because he hasn't been to the meetings often. It turns out that brother had a skin condition that prevented him from going. I can certainly feel the love of this borganiztion [not].
