we have long queried why so-called things of pagan or religious origin like christmas or easter are banned by the wts but the use of wedding rings were not.. i was talking about this with a friend who follows a wiccan path of belief and he has sent me the following information from one of his magic magazines.. quote: .
" why do we wear our wedding ring on our ‘ring finger’ ?
thus, to properly activate the ring finger we need to wear a golden ring on it.
Add the classic board game Snakes and Ladders to the formerly pagan but now acceptable list.
I am too lazy and beerily hazy to provide links, but look it up. It is thoroughly rooted in ancient Indian and Hindu philosophy. Karma, and all that.
I hereby declare that any JW found playing Snakes and Ladders shall be liable to the ultimate sanction. And don't think that Ludo gets you off the hook either.
exampler.
like in christ is ours.
add this to liberry pronounciation and aks.
One speaker, trying to go all Greek on us, referred to Vine's Suppository of New Testament Words.
He meant to say expository, of course.
having learned more actual christian beliefs since awaking from the org, looking back we had such strange and unhealthy obsession with demons compared to any other denomination that i know of.
i recently remembered this article from when i was a kid.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101986604?q=talk+to+the+demons&p=par#h=23.
I recall a brother saying to me that Chris De Burgh was demonized, because he was listening to him in his room one night and he felt the bed shake and his legs being pulled from under him.
Some months down the line, it turned out that it wasn't the demons but the family dog sleeping under the bed that caused the experience.
hello all, first post so a whistle stop of who i am first!.
’unbelieving husband’ here married to pimi wife living in uk.
anyway on with the post.... i attend the kh this weekend with pimi wife, i’ve been a handful of times before.
I remember being at a Pioneer meeting the day before a circuit assembly, around 1997. The KH had cordless microphones, and during a dramatic pause in one of the speakers talks, 'Baby Love' by The Supremes came wafting over the sound system.
Best part of the program!
1.just been listening to this lady's innovtive tool as music instrument.
incredible story too.. https://youtu.be/_nlmm9kcbks.
2.listening to this gives me so much peace and relaxes me .
Been listening to a lot of Miranda Lambert today. I'm not a big Country fan, but there's something about her style and her often witty lyrics that keeps me coming back.
She's also in a side project called the Pistol Annies who are definitely worth checking out.
"everything we do in the truth is voluntary" ... something i heard many times.
does that include reporting ministry?.
https://youtu.be/chgdiof05bk.
As a newbie to this site, could somebody please tell me what 'Pimo' means?
i did not have any connection to jw's when they published this, about two weeks before i graduated from high school.
i'm now on medicare and collecting social security.
so much for their ability to see into the future.
I got a scholarship to go to grammar school, but my devout JW mum refused to let me go. It would be unfair she said, to take away a place from somebody else who would be staying on beyond the minimum term.
So to seek first the Kingdom I was packed off to the local secondary school. Can you believe that? Still hurts 35 years on.
in the old testament, god was always full of anger and jealousy resulting in the murder of millions of people.
we’re told jesus perfectly reflects his fathers qualities.
why in the new testament does jesus show no hint of anger and jealousy and wanting to kill people?
Anybody ever wonder why the Gospels were written down if the end was meant to come so soon?
Why preserve them for future generations if there aren't meant to be any?
Yes, TOTP was something I hardly ever saw on TV, as it was always Thursday nights.
Lucky I was sick for the wonderful FA Cup final reply between Spurs and Man City back in 1981. That was a Thursday night too.
i have read extensively about the origins of birthdays, and i still don't get it.
but it's not what it means today.. even wedding veils were used to ward off the "evil eye".
but it's not what it means today.
Yeh, I also wouldn't mind some clarification on the birthday issue.
Is it a DF offence? That would mean that you could be expelled on the basis of having attended one birthday party but were 'unrepentant' of your gross sin.
I should have thought that it was more of a 'marking' issue, where the person is engaged on an dangerous path but does not actually commit a gross sin.
It may seem like splitting hairs, but being marked means that you can still access a support network to a degree, but without the hassle of having to socialise with JWs.
I am not up to date with current non thinking on the issue, so any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
