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  Head coverings, prayer and women

  by Thirdson in

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  is the wts view on women praying publically still the same as it was in the 70s?

  the article "should you cover your head during prayer" watchtower 2/15/77 page 46 and a "question from readers" 6/15/77 are the last references i have to this particular jw custom.. has anything more recent been published?.

  thirdson

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  Well, you see, when women get too much responsibility in the congregation they start to get too full of themselves. To keep that from happening and letting them know they'll never be as good at is as the men are they have to do something degrading like putting a napkin on their head. I've heard that they may be dropping this requirement and instead making them women who do anything sing a little song about how inferior they are.

  Just for the record, those are not my feelings at all. That was just an attept to follow the JW's reasoning.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  I Need To Vent...

  by LisaK in

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  they found me.

  i went to the grocery store yesterday, and an old congregation member was hiding in the parking lot passing out wt's.

  (end of the month you know, gotta log all those placements for your service report) i don't know how they found me, but she said "i heard you're living over on so-and-so street?

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  Are you doing anything wrong? Do you have anything to hide? Just remember, they're the ones in the cult. Also, tell them if you're ever followed anywhere again you will be in touch with law enforcement to report their stalking. One other thing I'd suggest go buy any CD's by The Who that have Baba O'Riley on them. There's a pretty verse in there that nicely sums up how I personally feel about the JW's. Just remember, they're not going to be there to try to help you, they're there to get dirt against you and probally DF you. No matter what, just remember they're the cult members and you haven't done anything wrong.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  Mother's Letter To Start Off The New Year...

  by silentlambs in

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  i received this letter from my mother over the weekend, it came with a card and a special note to my children.

  i plan to let them read it someday, not today..... silentlambs.

  december 20,2001 .

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  WHAT YOU DON'T REALIZE IS WHETHER YOU ARE RIGHT OR WE ARE RIGHT ABOUT PEOPLE GETTING EVERLASTING LIFE. ONL Y TIME AND ARMAGEDON WILL PROVE THE TRUTH.

  It doesn't matter who is right or wrong but you'll see that we are.
  Send the letter. Not necisarily for the but for you. Not only that but being nice and going along with what they say only sends the message that you think what they're doing is ok. Actions speak louder than words you know. Don't apologize, don't back down. My sig. file applies to you as much as it does me.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  If Evolution were untrue

  by badboy in

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  if evolution were untrue, how come genetic studies point to an african.

  origin.eg it has been worked that the vesikela khung!

  who live in the western caprivi area of namibia had the oldest 'male lines' in the world(119,000 years approxiametly).. compare that to the approxiametly 6,000 years claimed by watchtower!.

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  Wait a minute, you're talking about how we shouldn't believe that science isn't believable because the numbers change right ThiChi? At least when those numbers change no one had died before only to find out later that they didn't have to because the numbers or anything else has changed.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  GRRRRRRR.......People!!!

  by sleepy in

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  do you ever feel like that?.

  i,ve just attended my own funeral, well it might as well have been .. i'm now nonexistant in my former friends eyes.. they have to stay away , i'm a danger to them.. so i can now count on one hand how many friends i have 2 , including my wife.. the other friend has also left the truth but i dont see him much as he lives in another town .. so since i work on my own i'm going to be pretty lonely for a while .. no more weekends down the pub or staying down anyones house.. i wonder whats on telly.. er nothing..oh crap.. well there always next door cat i wonder if hes good at conversation..here kitty , kitty.

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  I've been out for a couple years now and I've managed to make one friend here in town. I'm also very active with another group of people online and have gotten to know quite a few people that way as well. Its not that I really don't trust people, I just don't like many.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  NEWS FLASH!

  by moman in

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  news flash!.

  a worldwide phenomenon haz caused great concern among top aviarists.

  the massing of unusually large populations of birds haz bird watchers everywhere puzzled.

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  rhett

  Remind me to close the door on my parakeet Petey's cage tonight. You know how vicous parakeets can get!

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  Funniest Local Needs Talk

  by metatron in

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  true story.

  a new england congregation had to have a "local needs".

  talk on why brothers shouldn't be going to topless bars.

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  I remember one springtime back in high school I was dating a really great girl from school and there was a local needs talk on dating outside of the organization and how horrible it was. A few weeks later I had my own little private reproof from the guy that gave the talk, repeatedly. What I still get a good laugh out of to this day is that as soon as that school year was over his daughter who had just graduated DA'd herself and moved in with the 35yr old manager of the McDonald's she worked at. This was the girl who my parents were really hoping I'd end up with too!!! Needless to say, that asshole never said another word to me about my girlfriend.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  What was your favorite Christmas gift?

  by Billygoat in

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  i'm hoping nobody already did a thread on this.

  but who of you were good boys and girls this year?

  what was the best thing that santa brought you?

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  rhett

  A piece of a meteorite that fell and killed a horse in 1860. That and I don't know how many of you are Kevin Smith fans but if you know the movie Mallrats, the t-shirt Brodie was wearing the whole time.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  Loosing my fiancee'

  by chelys in

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  i am 27 year old non jw female, and my fiancee is a non-practicing jw.

  his mother is very devout, and they are very close.

  we live together, and he did tell me early on that he was jw, but at the time i only knew they did not celibrate any holidays, not the stuff about blood, voting, disfellowship, etc.

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  Chelys,
  Ok, first of all, I just want to tell you that my post is coming from an insulin dependant diabetic, nonbaptized, totally inactive former JW that married a woman who is a not very devout baptist. Sound a little familiar?
  What can you do? Not much really. Your fiance is in a cult. He has also been diagnosed with a not very pleasant disease that he will have for the rest of his life that can effect his moods and judgements. You could do research on why the JW's are wrong but you'd be barking up the wrong tree altogether. You need to find out more about cults. I would recomend reading "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan to learn more.
  What his mother and the other JW's are doing is preying on is his recently diagnosed illness (could be diabetes, could be cancer, could be Puetz-Jeugger's Syndrome, could be just about anything). That's a pretty big thing to get hit with. Any cult, not just JW's, will find something that they can work with to make you come back. Not only that but even though your fiance never went to their services and did the holidays with you he never did throw away the belief that they were right. Unless he does that they will always have control over him even if he isn't around them. You're not fighting him to stay together, you're fighting his cult.
  Look, just about anyone here can tell you that I can be one of the most arrogant jerks on here but your situation has really struck a cord with me. If you ever want to email privately my address is [email protected]. I'll even email you my phone number if you'd want to call me.
  Good luck.

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.
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  Could this be the end ?

  by Ralph47 in

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  what do you think about it ?

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  rhett

  Ralph, if you don't care what we say and we have no lives why do you ask? Wouldn't that make you an even bigger loser than you claim we are? Its pretty obvious very few of us really believe the JW schmuck about "the end" so why did you ask?

  I don't need to fight
  To prove I'm right
  I don't need to be forgiven.