PaintedToeNail

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  Is the WTS backing away from "Bible Tall Tales" ?

  by Simon in

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  when i was a kid, it seemed like not a meeting went by when you didn't hear about jonah or sampson and other tall tales from the bible.. now though, they seem to have been sidelined.

  i guess the rest of the world caught on to the fact that these stories couldn't possibly be true and were so far fetched (yeah, even by bible standards) that they are just treated as 'stories' like aesop's fables.

  saying that you believe in them as genuine accounts just makes you look like a crazy zealot.. but the wts is different.

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  PaintedToeNail

  confusedandalone-hahaha! I never thought about all those foxes just standing there, waiting for their tails to be tied together with a torch between them and for all of them to run the same direction. It made for a wonderful mind picture, thanks! As a kid, I was outraged that he would do something that mean to foxes...didn't think that one through, obviously!

  It never made sense to me why Samson kept going back to Delilah after she kept saying 'the Philistines are upon you' and she had done something like braiding his hair. Couldn't he figure out she was on the take from the Philistines?
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  The fiance brought in witnesses today oh joy. QUESTIONS

  by OneStepOut93 in

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  so it's been seven months since i moved out of my parents place and in with my (now) fiance.

  they came to our door this morning and it's been a long time since i spoke to my parents.

  i was never disfellowshipped because i was never baptized but there is still online limited contact.

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  PaintedToeNail

  OneStep-My advice is this:TRY to get over your parents rejection, your fiance is reacting to your being sad and depressed. Try to make a life without your parents being to very central to your happiness. Try to be happier, fake it even, there have been studies (which I can't remember who conducted them), that show if you fake happiness, very often the rest of your brain follows along. You have everything to look forward to in the future with your fiance, don't let anyone screw that up for you.
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  what have you learned since leaving ?

  by man in black in

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  since leaving the jw religion,what can you say that you have learned about life/people in a positive way that you probably would have never experienced.

  if you had remained a witness ?.

  my story is regarding this :.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I have learned that people matter. All people, not just JW's at the Hall. I have far more love for man than now than ever before and have been trying to make a difference in peoples lives, doing nice things for them without any premeditated reason...such as being a good little witness. It is much more satisfying to make a real, meaningful difference in their lives than to offer them some obscure hope that never seems to come.
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  Watchtower and Women's Rights

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we are in the year 2014, women make up the majority of the jw population, yet are not given certain '''''''privileges''''''' simply because they don't have a penis.

  no talks, no leadership roles or the hope of them...ever, no matter how educated, zealous, or well spoken you are.. with the world moving towards upholiding women's rights do you see this becoming an issue that the watchtower will have to 'adjust it's thinking' on soon?.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Take a look a Michelle Duggar, she pops out kid after kid, demands that her daughters wear dresses down past their knees and not do things that all kids love to do, like stand on their heads-because their undies will show and it isn't ladylike. The Amish make women wear bonnets, the polygamist Mormons wear dresses that look like they are from 1915, many Mennonite women wear head coverings, strict Jews keep women's skin covered from head to toe, Muslim women often wear bags to conceal their personhood...religion in general is very hard on women.
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  NSA spying on Vatican! My JW parents are SOO EXCITED!

  by BU2B in

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  it just came out yesterday that the nsa has spied on the vatican and pope francis.

  when i went over my parents house yesterday, you could see the excitement, the energy in their eyes when they talked about it.

  my dad even pumped his fist like he won something when he was talking about it.

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  PaintedToeNail

  If one were to really look back at the history of the Catholic Church and the Vatican, they would see that spying and espionage has gone on for centuries, there have always been intrigues in the thrones of power...look at King David and Absalom, there were factions spying on each other in that God ordained government and how many milleniums have passed since then?
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  Sadly, fading is bad for my marriage

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while headship has always been a problem in my marriage, partly because i'm more of a team player and my wife has man issues, now that i'm clearly fading my wife feels that i have nothing of worth to say.. i resist the idea of divorce but this is not much of a marriage.

  since she doesn't/ can't hold down a job alimony would be ridiculously expensive.

  cheaper to keep her, as they say.. i get zero cooperation or even discussion for any adjustments i feel might be in order for us as we grow older: obabmacare?

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  PaintedToeNail

  Oddly enough, I was a serial purchaser while 'in'. The continual shopping, online usually, was like a drug. Now that I'm free and faded, I rarely buy anything...got a new career too, once free of the 'why bother to do anything you would like to do, when the end is so close' mentality. Maybe your wife is self medicating by buying, buying, buying, like I was.
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  A child that DIDN'T want to die ... a blood experience you won't read in Awake! or on JW.ORG

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  while doing work for a client in her office recently, we got into a light discussion about religion.

  she knew i was one of jehovahs witnesses as our business relationship started while i was still a loyal and believing jw.

  anyway, i said something that she knew didnt quite fit and she said ... i thought you were one of jehovahs witnesses ... i shared my story ... she felt comfortable to confide in me a story as to why, even though she has had dealings with jehovahs witnesses who she thinks are good people, she would never even consider listening to them about their religion.. i asked her if she would write it down for me so that i could share ... she agreed.. this is her experience.. .

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  None of the kids who died without blood transfusions wanted to, they were just more afraid of the threat eternal damnation than they were of death. So very pathetic.
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  Ran into a witnessing table at the park today

  by confusedandalone in

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  2. experiences

  i just got in from my daughters homecoming(she is a cheerleader and these guys make a huge deal out of this stuff).

  they play 3 football games of various age groups.

  it starts at 8 in the morning and just ended at 1:30. i just got in the house literally 5 minutes ago and i had to share.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I agree with KoolJo-it is a way to keeps their butts out of trouble, they got to enjoy being outside on what looks like a lovely day and chat for hours with a friend and get tons of time in. Where was this program when I was in! What a perfect way to be out in service and avoid witnessing.
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  Brooklyn Eagle Article: WT Tunnels - Mysterious, Lingering Remnants Ministerial Heights Presence

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/watchtower-tunnels-mysterious-lingering-remnants-ministerial-heights-presence-2013-10-16.

  very interesting article.

  how much do you think the wt has to pay the city for using their own four tunnels?.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Interesting. Sounds kind of creepy for some reason.
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  Latest Cable News Updates on Killer Jonathan Holt And The Murdered Young Oregon Barista Whitney Heichel

  by Scott77 in

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  "...jonathan holt, 24, a neighbor of heichel and a member of the same jehovah's witness church, appeared via closed-circuit television in clackamas county court wearing a suicide smock..." read cable news report of full story complete with photographs.

  very excellent investigation.. http://abcnews.go.com/us/murdered-barista-whitney-heichel-raped-shot-times/story?id=17534209#.ujvk-w-hk8b

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  PaintedToeNail

  This bastard should just plead guilty and spare the taxpayers the money of a trial.