One thing I've learned is things portrayed in the media are rarely what they seem. Only one person knows what truly happened and that's Pistorious. Glad I'm not the one that has to judge - potentially someone innocent of murder being locked away for life or someone guilty of premeditated murder getting away lightly.
krejames
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Oscar Pistorious
by LouBelle inis anyone here following what is happening with the trial in south africa.
what are your thoughts?
how are the media handling this?
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New Article on JW.org about gay people
by ateograciasadios inok, sometimes i go to jw.org just to laugh a bit about the 'food at the proper time', and i would like to know what people think of this hillarious article 'am i attracted to the same sex.
does that mean i am gay?'.
this has to be one of the most remarkable pieces of logic (last paragraph of the article).. the bibles stand is not unreasonable.
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This is an older article (I think two or three years old) reposted on website. yes all very politically correct compared to their stance up to the early nineties when you were told to report to an elder if you thought you might be gay. some if their early 70s articles on the topic are so way off it's almost funny until you realise what psychogical effect they must have had on gay bros and sisters at the time.
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Advertise Advertise Advertise
by ctrwtf infrom time to time my commute on the bqe takes me past the old brooklyn properties.
many of which stand now sans advertising.
soon the watchtower sign will be gone altogether.
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My mum said, on the subject of UK bethel moving to Essex, that the SocieTy are moving from the cities because they figure if any disaster happens it's most likely to affect the cities. not sure whether she got this from any official source or whether it's just her supposition but does seem to fit the stereotypical cult strategy.
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Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?
by humbled inthinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
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Always thought it was ridiculous.
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Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?
by truthseeker init's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?
for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".
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@ShirleyW: hehe that would figure wouldn't it? Actually she was quite an elderly lady at the time and I think she kind of drifted away from the witnesses and died some years ago. In fact most of the members of that book study group at that time aren't witnesses anymore (unsurpisingly I guess). The ex-spirit medium went back to being a medium, the other sister divorced her husband and I heard she later got disfellowshipped (no idea why, I think she was affected mentally by psychological abuse from her husband).
@Magwitch - I like your cats' style! lol
I agree with those who said it was a big strategic mistake for the book study to be scrapped. I distinctly remember all the talk about the book study groups being the lifeline when the persecution started and then suddenly, out of the blue, it was done away with. It did make it much easier for me to fade.
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Praying To Jehovah To Find Something Lost
by minimus inmy mom begged me to find some wt.
(rag) literature that she had been looking for, for 2 days.
she had been praying to jehovah to find it and she figured he used me to quickly locate it..
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Hello
by GoUnion inhello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.
this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.
please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.
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Welcom GoUnion - enjoyed reading your first post and will look forward to more.
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Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?
by truthseeker init's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?
for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".
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My goodness I've started remembering all sorts of incidents around that book study back home now! I could write a book on it! hehehe
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Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?
by truthseeker init's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?
for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".
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I also had a love/hate attitude towards the book study. When I was growing up, the book study was in our home for some years and we had all sorts of odd characters in our group and loads of drama, which I loved. We had a sister who said she had a demon living in her big toe. Me and my sister had to walk her home afterwards and she would fart all the way back and blame it on the demons lol.
In the same group we had an ex-spirit medium and another sister whose mum had been a spirit medium who had been in competition with the other sister before they were witnesses and they didn't like each other.
One of the sisters had an opposed husband and during one book study he came around and put his fist through our front door and smashed the glass. Then the following week he came with her to the study and he was in his pyjamas claiming to have lost his memory and started introducing himself to everyone - completely cuckoo lol
Then I remember having to read the paragraphs. We had a spanish sister who used to tut and huff and puff and roll her eyes all the way through the study and she was sitting next to me making me laugh. I remember on several occasions having to get up and leave the room in the middle of reading the paragraph because I was laughing so much.
They were the good times.
When I lost my privileges as an MS I was the only brother in the group apart from the study conductor and they would get a sister to read (nothing wrong with that in itself but it was the shame of being unworthy). Thankfully it was during this time that they abolished the meeting. Can't say I was disappointed because at that time I had to travel right over to the other side of town during a time when I had no car so I had to rely on the bus and I used to have to literally sprint up the road after "amen" so I could get the bus or else I would have to wait another hour or so. I loved the family atmosphere though and yes we would often have cakes and coffees afterwards - like others, that's what I missed when it stopped - not the study itslef which I often found excrutiatingly boring.
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According to WT rules, the virgin Mary and Jehovah are guilty of Por'neia!
by BU2B inaccording to wt tamud, if a jw does in-vitro fertilization, carries a surrogate child, uses a surrogate, and so forth then it is "por-neia".. the bible says that mary was a virgin when implanted with the embryo of jesus christ.
under the mosaic law adultery was punishable by death.
since mary was already engaged to joseph, if she was to sleep with another man it was the same as adultery in the eyes of the law.
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i like your thinking BU2B!
