Welcome, Magog. Just keep cool and keep your cover and you'll do just fine and will keep learning what's good for you to do or not do. All or lots of us have some degree of nervousness at first.
picosito
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lurker first post
by Magog infirst post.
not df, so a bit nervous.
thought i would check in from lurking.
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The Great '75 Fiasco: Pantsuits
by TMS inbeing the host congregation for the district assembly, we were privileged to hear several talks from the convention administrative staff wetting our appetite for the 1975 convention held at barton coliseum, little rock, arkansas.. one short-statured brother from the southern part of the state kept exhorting the sisters: "now, pay attention!
there's going to be a dramatic announcement at the assembly that will just thrill you sisters!
" as much hype as this was getting, the only speculation that i could conjure up was that sisters might be allowed to speak directly to the audience in the tms.. after the meeting, the vertically-challenged speaker could not restrain himself in conversation with brother p. and myself.
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At that same time polyester "leisure suits" were IN for guys. I tried to wear mine onto the platform to give a #2 Bible Reading but was headed off at the pass by my PO prohibiting me from getting up there because a "leisure suit" was "not dignified." As this dedicatedly overweight dude wuz saying that, I could only stare at his humungous panza hanging several inches over his belt and hear over and over in my head the echo of his word "dignified".
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Did you believe in 1975?
by Masterji indid you believe that 1975 would see the beginning of the millennium?.
if not, why not?.
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I was just aware of it but really had my tongue in my cheek the whole time. I simply referred to where Jesus sed "no man knows the day or the hour, but only the Father." I was always somewhat surprised at how most JW's, even Prominent ones, seemed to ignore that quote. Did anyone attend the District Assembly (correct theospeak of its day) at Dodger Stadium in 1975? Wasn't it exciting to experience all the intense hubbub because it was "so close to the end"? I even saw brothers praying over their lunch with such fervor they were standing over their food with arms & hands raised to the heavens. I was about to be baptized and that fervor and zeal sure convinced me that it was the TRUTH!!! Poor me. Later in the congo I felt that established JW's were not too happy to see me because it was proof that "1975" had been a fraud. The ones that had sold their belongings and businesses were especially hard hit. I sort of felt like a "change of life baby."
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MASTURBATION MAY BE SCRIPTURAL
by picosito inthere was a very intelligent post recently about this topic, but i can't find it.
anyone know how to find it again?.
the rabbi told a prominent member of his cong that he was always falling asleep during the sermon.
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oscartheduck sez: "I think he meant that he wanted a link to this article: http://www.leevalley.co.uk/yush/rewind/yush0104/masturb.htm";
Hey Oscar That's it!!! Thanks a mil. I don't like the word, come to think of it. I'm going to do a new post in MAIN.
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Practice of JW concerning Facial Hair
by Reborn2002 inim relatively new to the board, but i wanted other people's opinions.. growing up in "the organization" i pretty much blindly adhered to all instruction as a teenager.. as i got a little older, as most here im sure, i began to see how some practices were imposed on the flock without any biblical backing.. one that bugged the living hell out of me was the restriction of being allowed to grow facial hair.. i was literally removed from carrying the mics and reading at bookstudy because my sideburns were too long and i wanted to grow a goatee, hence i often showed up with stubble.
i was taken to the back room and told i was being "too worldly.
" when i questioned the elders why it was unallowed by the society and that i wanted scriptural evidence and backing for their imposed regulations, i was scoffed at and told i should do as i am told.. i told them where they could stick their "priviledges" .
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If the Borg survives long enuf they'll start looking into whether pubic "beards" should be shaved off.
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MASTURBATION MAY BE SCRIPTURAL
by picosito inthere was a very intelligent post recently about this topic, but i can't find it.
anyone know how to find it again?.
the rabbi told a prominent member of his cong that he was always falling asleep during the sermon.
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picosito
There was a very intelligent post recently about this topic, but I can't find it. Anyone know how to find it again?
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The rabbi told a prominent member of his cong that he was always falling asleep during the sermon. The response? "Shows that I trust you, doesn't it?" -
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CIRCUITLEASING.COM=CO's cars?
by GermanXJW insorry, for starting a new thread again, but this is discussed on german http://www.infolink-forum.de.
is there proof that http://www.circuitleasing.com is really a wt-kind corp. for selling the co's cars?.
i noticed that all given delivery points except clc-headquarters (?
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If I remember right, Circuit Leasing even plays Kingdom Melodies on hold, just like Brooklyn & Patterson.
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Your Most Embarrassing JW Moment
by Sky inim just curious about this:.
mine is stupid, but thoroughly humiliating at the same time.. my mother made me wear high heels for the first time to an assembly when i was 15 years old.
it was all snow and ice that day, but i made it inside fine without slipping.. during the first session, the naughty girl that i was, had gotten bored, so i decided to go to the restroom.. i guess the floors were wet or something, because i slipped and fell down about 17 or 18 steps.... head over heels, quite literally.. i landed at the bottome with my dress up over my head, showing off all my under "wares: lol!.
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79th & Ashland. I rode by there every day going to Calumet HS in the early 50's. What did they have to tear down to build an Assembly Hall?
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Fear and pain and death...
by Cowboy indo you fear death?if so,do you fear it because of the pain that is likely to go along with it?or because of what will become of your soul(your self)after death?.
curiosly,i find that i no longer fear death.not that i want to die-i don't.but i wonder if this how i should feel.. i don't like pain,but i have a fairly high threshold of pain,i think.i'm sure there is much greater pain than what i have experienced,but though i avoid it when at all possible(including spankings...sorry chat babes),i'm not afraid that i can't deal with it if i have to.. likewise death,i just have no great fear of it anymore.i don't think that it's due to my beliefs about what will happen after i die...i don't have any.sure,i was raised a j.w.,instilled from birth with the idea that if i didn't survive armageddon,that i'd be resurrected thereafter.but i don't buy that anymore...neccesarily.nor do i believe in the heaven or hell concept...neccesarily.i do believe that if i'm the best kind of person i can be,then it will have to be good enough for whatever,if anything,lies beyond the life i'm living now.. in talking to others,though,i find very few(if any)people who don't have a pretty high degree of fear about death.it has me wondering,and i'd appreciate your comments.. cowboy.
we ride and never worry about the fall.
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Thanks Wallaby Jack.
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Fear and pain and death...
by Cowboy indo you fear death?if so,do you fear it because of the pain that is likely to go along with it?or because of what will become of your soul(your self)after death?.
curiosly,i find that i no longer fear death.not that i want to die-i don't.but i wonder if this how i should feel.. i don't like pain,but i have a fairly high threshold of pain,i think.i'm sure there is much greater pain than what i have experienced,but though i avoid it when at all possible(including spankings...sorry chat babes),i'm not afraid that i can't deal with it if i have to.. likewise death,i just have no great fear of it anymore.i don't think that it's due to my beliefs about what will happen after i die...i don't have any.sure,i was raised a j.w.,instilled from birth with the idea that if i didn't survive armageddon,that i'd be resurrected thereafter.but i don't buy that anymore...neccesarily.nor do i believe in the heaven or hell concept...neccesarily.i do believe that if i'm the best kind of person i can be,then it will have to be good enough for whatever,if anything,lies beyond the life i'm living now.. in talking to others,though,i find very few(if any)people who don't have a pretty high degree of fear about death.it has me wondering,and i'd appreciate your comments.. cowboy.
we ride and never worry about the fall.
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What makes me mad is that we're born without being asked (not a complaint, just a statement) and then are subjected to a varied number of choices of organizations and philosophies to choose from (if not raised a JW or something else). A number of the religious orgs tell us that they are the truth, and if we fall away, even if we realize their falsehoods with the brain we were given, then there'll not be everlasting life of some kind for us because we rejected their TRUTH. I think whoever or whatever created us or let us be born should bear the responsibility for our not being condemned because of whatever we have to go thru in this life. That would be fair and loving, so we could have a real chance to make valid decisions.