Posts by lilbluekitty

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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?

by african GB Member in

jw
friends

i remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.

i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..

lilbluekitty

Oh but really the most embarassing thing for me was having to explain to a judicial committee a couple years ago what I meant by living with my husband before we got married and when they asked me if it was intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex? I was like, um, we did everything. That and the shame of hearing the announcement that I'd been reproved when I had just started making friends with people in that congregation. I got treated a lot differently after that.

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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?

by african GB Member in

jw
friends

i remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.

i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..

lilbluekitty

When I was a kid (and therefore we still met at people's houses for the book study), we were in someone's basement and we were sitting on metal seats. My sister leaned over and farted, right into the seat while a paragraph was being read. It was one of those really long farts with a whine at the end. :P I felt so embarassed for my sister but then my mother made it worse and hissed my sister's name. I was sitting next to her so naturally everyone's gaze fell on me AND my sister, even though I didn't do it. My face burned for a long time with embarassment for her and, I'm sad to say, shame at her being my sister.

It was always horrible going to houses and meeting my friends at school, some of whom didn't know I was a JW and found out the hard way.

I think the most embarassing thing as a kid anyway (besides having people make fun of my meeting clothes when we'd go to the grocery store after the meeting) was this weird part my dad had where my sister and I had to pretend we were fighting on the platform so my dad told us we should bring a doll to play tug of war with and say "give it! it's MINE" and stuff. I think the part was about how to witness to people who are busy and don't have time to talk. This other sister pretended to be our mother and my sister and I are in the background behind her trying to yell and look like we were fighting even though it's wrong to do that at the hall while my dad was pretending to give her (the one playing our mother) magazines and she was busy pretending to yell at us. It was just a really weird part but my dad loved to have props (he had this public talk he was famous for where he would use our Play Doh to explain how Jehovah molds us). But the most embarassing part was that I was 10 or so and didn't play with toys much anymore so when people saw me walk in the hall with a doll it was awful how many people told me I should be ashamed of bringing toys to the hall, espescially at my age. I still cringe when I think of that night!

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2011 December Kingdom Ministry & 2012 January Kingdom Ministry-PDFs!

by Atlantis in

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credit goes to anonymous**2011 december kingdom ministry-pdf*click the link in the blue box.

*http://www.sendspace.com/file/avzdl1**---------------------------------------------------------------*2012 january kingdom ministry-pdf*http://www.sendspace.com/file/zb7mi9***atlantis

lilbluekitty

I can't seem to download them? There are too many download buttons, which one is the correct one? I got some .exe BearShare file??

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Blood Transfusion?

by Friend in

considering the latest questions from readers article on blood transfusion, i was wondering what the feelings are among this forums participants about blood transfusion.

over the years the society has been receiving a growing amount of letters on the subject of blood and blood transfusion.

any interesting biblical perspectives here about whether "abstain from blood" means abstain from blood transfusion?

lilbluekitty

Where's the latest Questions From Readers? I don't read the literature anymore but it'd be interesting if they have any New Light™ on the subject.

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Is Field Service really a Commandment?

by Quarterback in

jw
friends

heard something strange last week.

a speaker in the congregation said that you must preach.

he stated that this is a commandment.

lilbluekitty

Everyone I know who's a dub says it's a commandment...I disagree though, I don't see in the Bible that it's a commandment for everyone...

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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article

by Butterflyleia85 in

inspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.

if you would like to join me that would be great!

we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.

lilbluekitty

I won't read that stuff anymore, it messes with my mind =/

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Ex-JW Women website!

by Chemical Emotions in

jw
friends

i just created a website for jw and ex-jw women.

please visit it and tell me what you think (and maybe sign up hehe)!

it's a work in progress.

lilbluekitty

It looks pretty good but I didn't see anything about it being for women? Just saw it was about Ex-JWs now following Jesus, maybe you should have put that in the title of the thread, not everyone here wants to be religious anymore...though for me, it's good, I am trying to convert to Christianity so I feel happy whenever I see anything about other ex-JWs following Jesus :)

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Is there any way around this? (Preaching when you don't believe)

by venusinfauxfurs in

i figure i can do more to wake friends and family up on the inside than the outside and i didn't come to that decision without a great deal of pain.

i know it's not "the truth" but it isn't a bad life for me,and i still very much believe in god.

the witnesses aren't right but neither are the mormons, the catholics, etc and i have other family devoted to both those faiths.

lilbluekitty

I wouldn't know how anyone (who doesn't believe that crap they teach) could do it if they have a partner at the door with them without them freaking out and "telling" on you. I'm inactive and never spoke up while I was active, I just basically stopped going and quietly faded away. If you're okay with the fact that some of the JWs with you in service might get offended or rat on you, go ahead. Though if you're a guy maybe you can go to the doors by yourself, then it's cool. I can't tell which gender you are, I'm female so I always had another "sister" with me.

I applaud you for still believing in God and the Bible! A lot of people who don't want to be JWs anymore are so angry they stop believing in God, or they never did in the first place. I'm learning how to convert to Christianity (the real kind), so if you have any interest in that, my suggestion would be to read another translation of the Bible, for me it's the NIV translation which makes it soooo much easier to understand! Anyway, that might be too soon for you since you say you have to be in for now. But just a suggestion anyway. :)

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Is anyone else getting ready for Christmas?

by juni in

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friends

i was in the mood today... got the tree cheap (came w/lights), decorations and ribbon for half price and made the bow myself to save money.

i was going to put it aside until after thanksgiving, but couldn't resist completing the project.

i just have to get some fiber fill for "snow" at the base.