Posts by SafeAtHome

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Peer presure to use Ipad

by Gorbatchov in

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earlier this season i advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his kingdom hall congregational visits.

his response was hopefull, but between the lines i could hear he had no choice.. yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb ipad air 2. he had no clue what he has to do with it, he told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.. so, i feel he had to deal with presure to buy this ipad and i think he is not the only one.. do you recognize this?.

gorby.

SafeAtHome

This is so sad and crazy. When my parents were still alive, they could barely manage their VCR. Someone had to repeatedly show them how to get back to the TV mode when a video was done playing! And my dad (a long time elder) was very mechanically savvy all his life, he could fix anything, so he was not stupid, but modern technology would be beyond him.

Can't say for certain what other churches are doing, but in my job I am often out on Sunday mornings. I pass many churches and see people going in, and you know what? I see lots of Bibles in hand but nothing that looks like a tablet!

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Thanks GOD JW's don't have Beauty Pageants

by James Mixon in

i can see it now, we are the most beautiful and smartest people in the world.. steve harvey will never be the host of another beauty pageant.

lol.

i was thinking, don't you think it's time for our society to move on from beauty pageants?.

SafeAtHome

Maybe you have to be a Northeast Ohio sports fan to appreciate this, but we are all getting a laugh out of this:

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Very Sad ... Another Terrorist Attack here in the USA ... and not enough guns to defend us

by RubaDub in

if only there were more people with guns perhaps some lives would have been saved.. it's a sad state of affairs here in the us when enough people aren't armed when there is an attack.. if someone simply had a gun or was wearing a suicide vest to take the perpetrators out, other lives could have been saved.. rub a dub .

SafeAtHome

Hey, you could be a speech writer for Trump!😠 I realize what you said was with tongue in cheek, but sadly that is what some in this country advocate.

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FB experience

by WasOnceBlind in

so on last saturday, one of my good child hood friends (i consider her like a real sister) who is da posted on facebook that she was going to be having a birthday party for her son.

well another person we grew up with immediately posted a comment about how she should know better then to celebrate bdays and referenced 2 peter 2:20-22 (about being like a dog turning to its own vomit).

i countered with with luke 11:37-49 and didn't hear back.

SafeAtHome

I don't know the workings of FB, but don't you have to be "friends" with someone for them to post on your FB? And why would a JW be friends with one who is DA? Well maybe the normal people who sees that posting will realize what nut jobs they are, comparing a child's birthday celebration to dogs vomit!

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Lazy shepherds. Then they wonder "where are the sheep?"

by stillin in

a guy who has come to the kh for years but never been baptized has a medical condition.

the elders became aware of the fact that the man did not refuse blood for his surgery.

the man consented to submit to the doctor's expertise.. there will be no calling on that man.

SafeAtHome

I would like to know how these elders find out so much personal medical information? Why would you even tell them you are going into the hospital or having any procedure done, especially if you are just on the edges of this religion. Maybe this will be a wake up call for him to completely drift away.

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An elder bought my son a suit

by Clambake in

i guess being two months old and coming to the kh in his onesee was kind of offensive .

how rude of me.

i am thinking about returning to him.

SafeAtHome

Uni You beat me to that comment! Did it come with a white shirt?

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING ERRRRRRRRRR BODY.!!!

by brandnew in

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just wanna say.....im thankfull for y'all....n stuff

SafeAtHome

I will be off to sister in laws house, taking lots of wine. There is no piece of meat hubbys family can't dry out!

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I put up lights this year

by Zoos in

i have always wanted to do that.. nothing special.

in fact, i have learned i'm not very good at it.

i have many talents.

SafeAtHome

Great thread. Let's post some pictures of our decorations. We too have lights strung up on a screened patio all year, I love the little white lights. By mid November I start putting away my fall decorations and bring out winter. Mine is not so much Christmas as winter so I can leave it up till spring. Here is the guy who greets anyone who comes to my front door.

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I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide

by SnakesInTheTower in

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my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.

our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.

he hung himself.

SafeAtHome

So sorry, never easy to understand why. Take care of yourself.

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Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?

by Wonderment in

i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.

could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?

perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.

SafeAtHome

I lead a happy full life free of any formal religion. I come here because I have family still in and, like many of the others have said, to stay up on current beliefs. We never talk about religion but if it ever comes up I have gotten a lot of good ideas from this site, also a lot of laughs! And it never ceases to amaze me how many former elders are in this group.