Posts by PaintedToeNail

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Role Reversal: Placing 1969 Awake with JW's Manning the New Portable Literature Displays

by snapdragon4 in

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friends

in recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.

as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .

the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.

PaintedToeNail

Utterly and completely brilliant! Bravo, man, Bravo!

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JW women and breast implants or other cosmetic surgery

by Comatose in

*first* - a clarification that needs to be made.

this is not about all women.

i am not against cosmetic surgery.

With the way sisters are treated in the organization, to be seen and not heard, many sisters probably feel their appearance is all that they have. Their sex appeal is their power and as they age, they lose this power. For an elders wife it is probably worse, hubby gone all the time dealing with problems and she would love to have some of the attention he is lavishing on the problem people and the congregation. She tries to get some of his time by sexing herself up.

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The Mermaid Takes Notes at the DC...in Limerick Form

by Cadellin in

for those of you who missed the dc, i thought i'd share my notes so you, too, can partake of the spiritual feast.

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PaintedToeNail

There was a hubby who went to convention

With a daughter who felt it was detention

He forced her to pack a sack lunch

So with masses of others they munch

Then she is ordered for part two to give attention

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The Mermaid Goes to the District Convention and this is what She Hears

by Cadellin in

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PaintedToeNail

Mermaid, Nice job in taking notes. Don't know how you were able to sit through all the vitrol. To me it seems that the WTBTS want their new 'truth' to be accepted without a moments hesitation, so they attack, making anyone who isn't choking the message down without reservation, feel guilty.

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DC "Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned"

by Separation of Powers in

several weeks ago, i had the opportunity to attend one of the dc.

the final drama was quite interesting as it depicted a "ban" on the jehovah's witness religion without an explanation as to why?

i'm sure many in the audience pondered on what they had learned from their previous studies i.e that babylon the great would fall and then that gog of magog would eventually turn his attention to the organization.

PaintedToeNail

Separation of Powers-Esther could hardly be said to have abandoned her belief system. She lived at a times where women had no say in what happened to them. All the attractive women in the district were rounded up and sent to the King to be bedded for a night, and if he liked them, he kept them around.

The WTBTS will use ANY example and attempt to force it to fit a situation. They could've made an example of the Rich Man and Lazarus eating pizza, one with everything on it and one with only cheese, fit whatever they were trying to convey and everyone in the audience would comment on how fitting it was. The WTBTS makes no sense at all, never have, never will.

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JW family trying to compensate for us being "spiritually weak" through increased activity

by cedars in

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friends

hi folks.

one of the things that has been most frustrating for my wife and i since beginning our fade as been the way certain family members have responded by ramping up their own involvement in the organization seemingly in a bizarre attempt to compensate for our lack of activity.. close relatives who were once doing precious little study and weren't going out of their way to attend meetings or go on the ministry are now studying every morning and busting a gut to attend "theocratic" arrangements.. it makes no sense to me, because salvation is supposed to be based on the beliefs and actions of each individual, not on those of his or her loved ones.

just what is the logic by which they think they can make things better by doing more themselves?.

PaintedToeNail

My husband has been doing the exact same thing, and it is maddening!

Yet, last night, he told me I looked radiant, and was glowing (no, not pregnant!) and that I looked happier than he has ever seen me. I told him that was true, I felt happy, and useful, liberated and at peace. He never, ever said those things when I was in...then today, he races off for the convention...something he would've tried to avoid 3 years ago...

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Preaching work

by Kool Jo in

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friends

hello folks:.

i was just thinking...what do you think the borg would look like if they said it's no longer necessary to do the preaching work...it's voluntary?

1. some would go tru the motions just to appear 'spiritually strong'.

PaintedToeNail

My parents and in-laws would be completely lost. Their whole lives are wrapped up in their scheduled days of field service. I would have broken out the bubbly and shouted "Hallelujah", myself.

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Introducing Myself

by DilloTrace in

jw
friends

i'm new to this forum and wanted to give everyone a shout out.

i've been a silent observer of this forum for a long time, but now i feel it's time for me to break the silence and get involved.

i've been inactive since november of last year.

PaintedToeNail

Welcome! It is rather difficult not being a people person and trying to go out in service, isn't it? I had the same problem.

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JGnat Says Hi

by jgnat in

i have been wandering around the board for a while now, and have decided it is time to contribute a bit of my history.

i have described my involvement with the witnesses as being from the outside looking in.

my sweet honey has been trying for two years to get reinstated.

PaintedToeNail

jgnat-What a delightful and heartwarming story! Thank you that you've stayed here for all of us who came after.

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Friend gets "scriptural divorce" over wifes transgressions before they got married...

by sosoconfused in

so i have a friend in a congregation in new jersey who recently called me to tell me that he got a divorce.

nothing surprising there at first but it is the fact of when it happened.

his wife began pioneering april 1, and after about three weeks she came to him and told him that about 4 years she had engaged in loose conduct (fondling the penis and the guy kissing her breasts) during a time that she was inactive.

PaintedToeNail

I agree with Diana, why would she want him, if all this comes out as being in error on edict from the Branch, and he finds out he can't get remarried. He is an ass. Poor woman, she tries to do 'the right thing' JW style, by pioneering, gets a lecture about secret sins and starts feeling guilty about something that happen years earlier. She confesses, they make her feel like crap and poison her pathetic husband's mind against her.

To him: Good riddence, jerk.

To her: Have a happy, wonderful life. Find your old college boyfriend and make up for lost time.