Posts by Botzwana

Yknot, Still thinking about those things. Give me some things to think about. I have been reading here and that is a start. Terry I believe his name is has been great with the field service posts. 100 years of preaching but yet if you get 10 random worldly people in a room and ask them what witnesses believe they could not tell you. Most will say witnesses don't believe in Jesus...That is not a good record.

GL, Thank you. If people are still hostile I don't blame em. I was scripturizing with the best of them. I was making an ass of myself too.

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How many of you have had these in your congregation?

by bottleofwater in

brother smart: the serious brother who thinks that he is an intellectual and believes he is "smart"sister armageddon: the sister who says "armageddon!!!

" after any little thing in the newschase: the little boy who is always running around and crawling under the seats no matter what the parents sayjohnny: the little boy who keeps on leaving his snot on the sides of the bathroom stallbrother squeaky: the one in charge of cleaning who tells everyone what to do, but just stands there and conversessister coquette: the congregation slut... or as close to a slut as she can get... flirting with every brother... oh yeah and she was raised in the "truth"brother borrow: the brother who owes everyone money... and still asks to borrow from othersgreg: the boy or girl whose parents are so restrictive that the kid can't watch anything higher than g-rated moviesstormy: the teenage boy or girl who you could bet does stuff behind the scenes, so to speaki'm just speaking from past memories.

not in all of this anymore.

Botzwana

Brother Carl Salesman-Say it fast! Get it? Car salesman? He goes up to everyone and shakes their hand and smiles and says how ya doing brother so and so then he is on to the next one. You REALLY can tell he has no personal interest in you at all but is just doing his routine. Phony smile included. He is usually the WT conductor.

Brother Can't wait- You ask him how he is doing and the laundry list of problems he tells you and always at the end he says...I can't wait for the new system....

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How families were broken up by wifes becoming JWs back in the 50s

by life is to short in

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there is this sister in the hall i went to who is in her mid 80's.

she is very active and pioneers, etc.

well when i was still going to the meetings and out in service she would talk about how she came into the "truth.

Botzwana

They had me cut off my family too. I never went to anything christmas with them. They tried to tell me that it wasn't really Christmas but a family get together but I refused. I didn't want to upset Jah....

I am starting to dislike this religion very much.

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Looking for former brother in Atlanta area

by Botzwana in

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according to reports he is an apostate now.

i would like to talk to him.

he is married with two kids i believe.

Botzwana

I think north Atlanta.

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Medical Cannabis

by mrsjones5 in

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over the thanksgiving weekend my family and i stayed with a dear friend.

our dear friend partakes of medical cannabis which helps with his depression, insomnia, and panic attacks.

he suggested that my husband should give it a try because it could help relieve his pain and help him to sleep during the night.. so hubby tried it (three nights in a row, about 15 minutes each session), didn't like the scatchy throat he got from inhaling the smoke but he said it helped his pain and he was able to rest.

Botzwana

Why does the society say that a plant created by Jehovah God is evil?

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Medical Cannabis

by mrsjones5 in

jw
friends

over the thanksgiving weekend my family and i stayed with a dear friend.

our dear friend partakes of medical cannabis which helps with his depression, insomnia, and panic attacks.

he suggested that my husband should give it a try because it could help relieve his pain and help him to sleep during the night.. so hubby tried it (three nights in a row, about 15 minutes each session), didn't like the scatchy throat he got from inhaling the smoke but he said it helped his pain and he was able to rest.

Botzwana

I am for legalizing it too. I would love to smoke it as I did in my youth. I did take it in pill form when I had cancer.

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Looking for former brother in Atlanta area

by Botzwana in

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according to reports he is an apostate now.

i would like to talk to him.

he is married with two kids i believe.

Botzwana

According to reports he is an apostate now. I would like to talk to him. He is married with two kids I believe. He came to my wedding reception and we were close with his family. His name is Randy. His father is very dominering and is known in all the Atlanta circles.

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My first time

by not bitter in

i am new to this site.

i've been out of it for about 17 years.

i've never really looked back or felt nger about any of it.

Botzwana

OBVES, you sound like me a few months ago. I hate your condemnary tone. Man I must've sounded like a complete ass...

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I was BANE...I have an apology to most of you.

by Botzwana in

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i was bane and i think i got banned because everytime i tried to log in i couldn't.

i was defending the society as best as i could.

something has happened in the last few months.

Botzwana

Yknot, that list is golden. That is pretty much right. A few more things I could add on though...

Little stuff list:

Halloween is evil and so is every other holiday.

Facebook and social networks are evil. That was recently said at our DC.

Beards. That is absolutely a man made rule. Good call on that one.

Bad comments list:

"You know if you don't go to the meetings you will never see your father again"- that was said to me when my father had died and I had missed two months of meetings...

"You can't be a real effective witness unless you own a computer"- That was said to me when I didn't have one. I countered with OH YEAH? what about the brothers in Africa that don't even have clean drinking water? He said I was being ridiculous...

What is conditionally of the congregation mean?