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  When You Were A Little Kid And Your Dad Said Prayer, Did He Ever Say Anything Strange?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  my dad used to pray for the witnesses behind the iron curtain.

  i couldn't figure out why were they caught behind this heavy curtain.

  couldn't they just find a door and leave?.

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  Mum

  That's funny, Lois! I was always afraid to ask questions about things I didn't understand for fear of being laughed at.

  Your story reminds me of something that happened in my pre-JW life at my grandpa's church in the woods of Tennessee. Both of my grandfathers were country preachers. I lived with my maternal grandparents and was taken to church often. My sister would come and spend a few weeks with us from time to time. My sister was not ever taken to church except when she was with us.

  On one of my sister's visits, when we were both preschoolers (she was 3 and I was 5), my grandmother was preparing us for Sunday School. She told us that if we were called on to say a Bible verse, the shortest and easiest to remember would be "Jesus wept."

  So Sunday came and we were taken to church. Our church was a shack in the woods and did not have amenities such as Sunday School rooms. So we split up into groups by age, and each group occupied a pew or two. My sister's group was across the aisle from my group. My grandmother was my Suncay School teacher that day.

  Each of the little kids was called upon to recite a Bible verse, as we called them. When my sister's turn came, she, of course, said, "Jesus wept." After she said it, she stood up in the pew and yelled across the room at my grandmother, "Hey, Mamaw, didn't Jesus ever mop!"

  The whole church exploded with laughter.
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  Gifts for C.O.'s and D.O.'s

  by sosoconfused in

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  does anyone else find it funny that the circuit overseers and district overseers go to a new congregation every week, have all their bills paid and then for some odd reason the elders always find a way to give them extra money.

  on top of that there are atleast 10 families in every hall that give them a green handshake.

  then the people who give them expensive gifts (i am ashamed to say i participated in this) like watches etc... yet these guys still act like they are giving up so much.... .

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  Mum

  Once when I was a dub, my mom commented about how the JW's wouldn't celebrate birthdays or anything that could be construed as special attention or "creature worship" for anyone. BUT, she said, when that Circuit Overseer comes around, they all bring out their best food and hospitality and treat him like a king.

  Years later, she became a JW herself. Go figure.
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  west Virginia outcasts

  by infernosdante in

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  iwas given my leper status(df)12/1/2011,i was in princeton wv,was curious if anyone i knew from west virginia was on here.

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  Mum

  Welcome to the forum! I'm from the hill country, too - East Tennessee.
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  Article on Religious fundamentalism may be a mental illnes

  by sherry11 in

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  the table turned.

  found this article in regard to religious fundamentalism may be a mental illness which can be cured.. "someone who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.".

  http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in/2013/05/leading-neuroscientist-religious.html.

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  Mum

  So almost all of my relatives and neighbors I grew up with were mentally ill? My grandmother was one of the most sane people I ever met, but she was uneducated and never exposed to the larger world.

  Apostates are "mentally diseased" too, ya know.
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  Due to Ongoing Concern about Dwindling Meeting Attendances, IS THE BOOK STUDY ARRANGEMENT GOING TO BE RE-INSTATED NEXT YEAR?

  by steve2 in

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  i have some family and friends still in the organization.

  i don't actively seek updates - my lovely contacts provide me with them unsolicited.

  so far the updates have been reliable and confirmed sooner or later by subsequent developments.

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  Mum

  Do they still meet at the book study sites before going out in service, or does everyone report to the KH before service now?
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  Are your emotions your own?

  by Stauros in

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  have you ever wondered, why do i feel this way?

  are the feelings we have our own or are they being influenced by satan?.

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  Mum

  Emotions don't make sense. I love Elvis, and my friend loathes him. We have all been "domesticated" to react in certain ways to certain stimuli. We all have variations in body chemistry that makes us react differently to things. I don't see how anyone outside yourself could influence your emotions. If that were possible, I wouldn't care about certain people who do not merit my concern because of their attitude and behavior.

  Maybe you need professional counseling. As far as "making sense," very little in life does.
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  Big Revolt Among CO, DO, Bethelites, and Branch Servant Likely

  by frankiespeakin in

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  as the information age is apon us and it doesn't take that much information to easily prove this new light by the governing body granting them absolute loyalty and power is a blatant power grab by a bunch of over the hill ego maniacs i see a revolt in the making..

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  Mum

  If things worked that way, there would be no Roman Catholic Church today, there would have been no Nazi Germany, no genocide in Cambodia, etc. etc.
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  College Update

  by noni1974 in

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  so, in 2010 i recived my ged with the goal of going to college and getting a degree.

  in the mean time i have been an active member of my schools honors program and have finished all of the requirements for graduation from the honors program.

  they were 15 credit hours of honors classes, 12 hours of volunteer work in my community, and 16 hours of cultural activites offered by the honors program.

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  Mum

  Congratulations! Let's have an apostafest graduation party when you graduate!
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  For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends

  by Jomavrick in

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  i am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.

  so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.

  but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.

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  Mum

  Thanks, Tater. My father-in-law used to remind his conservative wife that the real welfare is at the top of the ladder, not at the bottom.
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  My name is Michael.

  by new hope and happiness in

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  research has shown that " generally" the best way to challenge someone is to use their first name.

  to me being addressed by my name " michael" and addressing someone by their christian name is more friendly than using a title.

  i think it would also make it easier for elders to accept someones different point of view if they referrd to the brother by therir christian name.

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  Mum

  Hi, Michael. You may not realize it, but a lot of fundamentalist Christians refer to one another as "brother" and "sister." My early childhood years were spent attending such churches in the woods in east Tennessee. I think these folks did consider themselves different from "the world" and acknowledging one another as brothers and sisters kept them aware of their dependence on one another and their rejection of worldly pleasures and pursuits. They were honest, sincere, good people, with a few exceptions of course.