Posts by millie210

starting sept - $14 per publisher toward taking care of the needs of the co in us.. love never fails 2019 regional conventions.. memorial april 19, 2019.. there will be jw contact cards with blank space to write notes..

millie210

Lost in the fog
and a free car, all expenses paid for, servicing and gasoline. And unlike regular elders who have to do different meeting parts every week, the CO. just has to learn one set of talks and regurgitate those over and over again for the whole circuit.
"Nice Work if you can get it!"

And dont forget the green handshake!

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Were You Close To Your Non JW Family?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was thinking of how little i know about my father’s side of the family.

i recently inquired about ancestry.com and i’ve come to the realization that even the closest sides of my family via my father, are unknown to me .

what a shame that jehovah’s witnesses kept us apart.

millie210

Dear Caves, that was so moving to read. Thank you so much for sharing your story.

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What Makes 🍕 Pizza Delicious To Tou?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i am watching a tv show that highlights area restaurants and pizza is the subject.

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what is your favorite style and type of pizza?.

millie210

Spicy, really good pepperoni, gooey cheese, nice yeasty crust...ok now I want pizza...

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How were God’s true worshipers to determine virginity of pagan girls?

by Ireneus in

in the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.

and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).

in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.

millie210

Appreciate all the above comments.

One other thought...

in terms of ethnic cleansing, many tribes and cultures would keep alive "breedable" females to promote their own tribal well being by producing offspring.

A woman who already had a child or who could possibly be pregnant with one, would be more trouble and more likely to raise that child with her own heritage in mind (see Moses). If the child was male he could grow up to be trouble. Why bother?

A woman impregnated while young with a tribal child would be more cooperative, She would be less likely to buck the status quo and also less likely to run away.

The save the virgins rule had a practical aspect from the point of warring tribes and domination of your enemies.

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Watchtower Says: "Please Do Not Touch CALEB and SOPHIA" (at Warwick HQ)

by HiddlesWife in

jw
friends

please check out this thread from exjw reddit: .

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/8ev6qv/watchtower_says_please_do_not_touch_caleb_and/ .

any thoughts?.

millie210

I seem to remember a thread a few years back showing the Mormon version of Caleb and Sophia. Different names same game.

Interesting to note that the Mormons had theirs first so guess who's the proud owner of the knock offs?

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Refusing to become an elder

by ragingmad in

i know someone who's family is very spiritual and says that her brother only pioneers and does not want to become an elder for various reasons, probably not wanting to deal with people's problems, and also the tremendous workload they put on them.

is this considered refusing advancement by god, or just choosing your own way?

he has not been "tapped" to become one, but he merely hasn't strived to become one..

millie210

Wasnt there some statement about 4 years ago that "sisters" should only consider ministerial servants and elders as marriage material?

That is classic cult behavoir. Control the males by controlling access to the females.

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Family members return to the cult years after not being assoicated.

by blownaway in

i have a couple of family members who not so much went back but never were associated and joined.

one is a cousin, he is about 60 now.

maybe a bit older.

millie210

You know what blownaway? From far away (me) I see a certain perspective on your Aunts behavior.

Your (dead) uncle is now the husband she always wanted. She gets to paint the marriage as successful after the fact. She is "holding the farm for him and being devout with the JWs, what a heroine in that small little local circle - or maybe just in her own mind?