Posts by Xanthippe

Minimus that is exactly my point. On any other thread, perhaps about is there a god, you would have been asked to immediately define God. But you haven't even defined what a manly man is. He is different things to different people surely!

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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?

by minimus in

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so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.

shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.

men should be less masculine.

Xanthippe

This Athena poster, L' Enfant, from the nineteen eighties sold over 8 million copies and the model Adam Perry claimed as a result of it he slept with 3,000 women. Are women attracted to a manly man? Just putting this out there.

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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?

by minimus in

jw
friends

so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.

shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.

men should be less masculine.

Xanthippe

Or tells women that using their feminine charms as a step-mum to persuade a father to leave her a fuck-ton of money that was nothing to do with her and was intended to be kept within the family is totally way out of order.

Is this who you've been angry with all this time LUHE? Makes sense.

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report from vomitville and financials

by jonahstourguide in

i attended a circuit arsesemblancey today.

melbourne, melton arsembley hall.

western suburbs area.. 1. re hearing negative reports in the media about jws.

Xanthippe

Then we must remember that jehovah is backing his people and if there is anything to correct jehovah will fix it in his own time

Same old circular reasoning. So if a government is corrupt we let them fix it because we totally trust them and we don't listen to anything bad about them? Only in religion do we put up with bad conduct in administrators.

After our last convention we had a surplus of $11,663.95 so in accord of the equalizing of blah blah blah, we have forwarded the sum of $10,708.45 to the world wide work and the branch sent us a lovely letter thanking us for the contribution"

Wake up Australia! Indeed!

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Our Own Unstuck (stuckinarut2's wife) On The Shunned Podcast

by dubstepped in

--------new episode---------.

episode twenty three - sherrie is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.

today we have a really cool live recording from my living room.

Xanthippe

Thanks I'll listen to this later I've got to go to work now.

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Out of context

by Nomorejwguilt in

i’m just curious to hear other people’s input on different scriptures or quotes from the society or witnesses that are used out of context.

i’ve always found it funny when a scripture is quoted and applied to whatever point they’re trying to make, but where it was taken from in the bible passage has nothing to do with what they’re getting at..

Xanthippe

Welcome to the forum Nomorejwguilt, I'm glad you asked me that question.

This is the scripture they use as the excuse for changing the doctrines whenever prophecies aren't fulfilled, for example bringing in the overlapping generations doctrines.

'But the path of the righteous one is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established'. - Prov 4 :18 NWT

This verse isn't about new teachings or revelations from God to his people. It's about how well the righteous person lives because the next verse says 'the way of the wicked one is like the darkness, they have not known at what they keep stumbling.'

The paragraph begins at verse 14, 'Into the path of the wicked ones do not enter and do not walk straight on into the way of the bad ones'.

Everything is context and the context here is about being a good person, nothing to do with new prophecies or teachings, new light.

The one that amuses me is verse 24, 'Remove from yourself the crookedness of speech and the deviousness of lips put far away from yourself'.

Six verses away from the one the GB always quote for their new light but they never use it, I wonder why!

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I'm not alone in the congregation, after all

by ohnightdivine in

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i can now say that i'm not alone to know ttatt in my congregation, after all.. i have come to know that my close friend is awake, even without me sharing the ttatt with him/her.

on one of our recent conversations i mentioned about being tired and no longer being uplifted anymore, and my friend then told me he/she was feeling the same.

i don't know how it happened but we knew we could trust each other.

Xanthippe

Tosca we're happy to have you with us. I'm glad your son is out too! If you do decide to start a short thread without giving any details that might give you away you will find a lot of support here because you might go unnoticed on this thread.

It's up to you. Feel free to read and just hang out!

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I'm not alone in the congregation, after all

by ohnightdivine in

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friends

i can now say that i'm not alone to know ttatt in my congregation, after all.. i have come to know that my close friend is awake, even without me sharing the ttatt with him/her.

on one of our recent conversations i mentioned about being tired and no longer being uplifted anymore, and my friend then told me he/she was feeling the same.

i don't know how it happened but we knew we could trust each other.

Xanthippe

Tosca, welcome to the forum and your freedom. Don't be alone, pull up a chair and when you feel ready tell us about yourself if you're able.