I never could figure out why buying a $1 lottery ticket was considered greedy or wrong. There are many brothers who are greedy when they go to a restaurant with an all you can eat buffet...plate after plate of greasy chicken, spaghetti or desserts...and this seems OK.
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Witnesses Ban gambling using no Scriptures only stupid logic...it's greedy! What?
by Witness 007 inthere is no scripture that ever said "thou shall not gamble.
" the bible never mentions gambling.
yet it's a disfellowshiping sin.
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Higher Education and Disqualification for Privileges in the Congregation
by 00DAD inwhen i was still serving as an elder in the late summer of 2006 in a congregation of jws in socal we received a letter from the "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses" (read: the governing body) directing that anyone pursuing a higher education would be disqualified from privileges of service: elder, servant, pioneer, etc.
i remember this quite distinctly because i had just received by ba in education in june a few months before this.
in 2002, i had decided to pursue a degree under the society's then current "it's a personal decision" policy and was quite shocked at their drastic policy change.
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PaintedToeNail
Shades of Mission Impossible: This letter will self destruct in 30 seconds....
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Jehovah DOES hear and answer our prayers...........
by punkofnice in.........the same way pink spotted unicorns do skip in my garden!.
now i'm not saying a god does or doesn't exist but the brand name god of the watchtower certainly doesn't exist.
he is the magic imaginary friend in the sky that jws talk to telepathically.. .
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@Breakfast-I too suffered serious mental illness years ago and prayed constantly for relief. None came. Had I had to pray on bended knee, my knees would have holes in them from so much praying. I prayed for years as did my parents to me to have some mental peace. Peace finally came after I was DF'd and felt that I could finally get professional mental help. (Paxil is a friend). Counciling helped alot, the medication even more.
@Punk-no, I don't believe prayers are answered. Never seen any personal evidence, no matter how hard I've looked.
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Soldier Surprises His Son in School Cafeteria
by leavingwt in.
"on september 15, united states soldier matthew peters surprised his son while he was eating lunch at his elementary school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kskgtcg9f_o.
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PaintedToeNail
Several years ago I would have felt moved to tears, but had to hide them from myself as well as others and felt guilty for feeling so moved by something like this. Now however, I am moved to tears and feel no guilt whatsoever and say to this soldier 'Welcome home!'
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New here looking for some help
by angel.face inlong story short, i have been a jw for the pst 7 years.
i am married with 2 kids.
hubby is a die hard jw who is an ms and would like to be elder.
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PaintedToeNail
Welcome lola-rabbit, nice to have you here, good luck and best wishes with your family too.
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New here looking for some help
by angel.face inlong story short, i have been a jw for the pst 7 years.
i am married with 2 kids.
hubby is a die hard jw who is an ms and would like to be elder.
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PaintedToeNail
Welcome angel.face, I empathize with your pain and your situation and wish you the best in your endeavors.
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Poll: What do you believe now?
by Lunatic Faith ini have been noticing we ex-jw's are very different in our choices of beliefs once we leave the wts.
some choose christianity, others flee christianity.
some find they can't beieve in anything any more.
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I am personally at a loss on what to believe at this point. I feel like I'm adrift in an endless sea of uncertainty. It is very uncomfortable for me. Being raised in the org. caused me to never be able to have an ability to talk with people on the 'outside', or, on the 'inside', as I never wanted to be a pioneer or elder's wife...never truly convinced it was the truth and yet terrified I'd be dead forever if I left it completely. Most of the time I'm not terrified anymore...just hideously lonely...living way out in the rurals and not having friendships with other adults is lonesome.
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911 forgotten amongst JWs
by fade_away ini noticed over the last 10 years that in every 9/11 anniversary, jws that i know personally don't even mention it.
not a word about the anniversary.
not a compassionate comment, not a prayer....nothing.
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PaintedToeNail
I had a neighbor who was killed in this act of terrorism. I've never forgotten her or how her family was traumatized by the loss of their wife/mother. Whenever I walked by her house, it seemed somewhat forlorn and sad, weeds growing in the flower garden...the gardener had died and everyone was so very sad. The spark and glue of that family died. The husband tried very hard to deal with his and his childrens' loss, but it was so obvious that she was so special to them and she couldn't be replaced.
Flight 93 flew over my house, and I was, thankful that plane didn't crash into our town, the loss of life would have been much worse than it was. It was and still is a numbing thing to think about America being attacked by people we had opened our collective arms to.
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Stressful Session with Uber-Zealous Parents--The Mermaid needs a hug!
by Cadellin inokay, for those of you who don't know, i was raised jw by really great though uber-zealous parents.
i'm now an adult and have been inactive for about two years due a bunch of reasons, the primary one (or at least the one that got the ball rolling) being the pathological intellectual dishonesty of the wt in how it handles secular quotes and citations.
anyway, my parents are aware of all that and have left the issue alone for about the last year.
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PaintedToeNail
Consider yourself hugged from me too.
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Chimps see Daylight for 1st time in 30 years-EMOTIONAL!!!
by ohiocowboy ini get so angry at mankind some times.. sorry again, but firefox won't let me link the website so you will have to copy and paste-sorry...it is worth it though!.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3797606/lab-chimps-see-daylight-br-for-first-time-in-30-years.html.
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PaintedToeNail
When I saw this video the other day, I had to tell my son to come watch it too. It is very moving, bittersweet and touching...and I'm not particularly fond of chimps or monkeys (sorry shamus100, no offense meant). The fact that these animals are so intelligent and feeling and to have been treated as they were is horrid. It is heartwarming to see some people cared enough to help these chimps is wonderful.
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