Posts by Snoozy

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Toxic Relationships

by serenitynow! in

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friends

i have had it with my mother.

i've spoken on the board before about her.

she is fanatically religious, often keeps me on the phone for hours while she talks endlessly about the bible.

Snoozy

Some people are able to block any unpleasantness (That they did) from their minds. I mean totally. I have seen it done. The funny part is they all had the same type personality. Self absorbed.

Even when confronted be a few people they still deny. And they can do this and convince you they are telling the truth! Especially about abuse.

But I have my own views on cutting our relatives out of our lives..I don't agree with throwing people away, especially our close relatives. So one said relationships would always be easy. I love my parents no matter what and my childhood wasn't easy. (Not JW) I could be on the pity train but what good would it do?

I loved my parents to the end and understood that they had their own problems and dealt with them the best they could. As far as talkng on the phone, I always dreaded that Sunday call from my Mom..just idle chit chat but still didn't like it.

Now I miss those calls. Every Sunday I expect the phone to ring and she would be on the line.

My parents didn't beat me (my brother remembers otherwise) but there are all kinds of abuse. It wasn't pleasant. I had a lot of problems in my life because of it. But I still loved my parents and respected them as such. I didn't expect perfection from them and wouldn't dream of just throwing them away because they got on my nerves..

JMO Snoozy

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Time magazine-JW's high turnover

by Lunatic Faith in

i know this is a couple years old but i found it referenced on another site and had to share it--assuming it hasn't already been shared.. www.time.com.

Snoozy

The Watchtower and Awake magazines are able to say that they are the most widely distributed magazines in the whole world and proudly do so! (

We all know what that really means...

Snoozy..

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Time magazine-JW's high turnover

by Lunatic Faith in

i know this is a couple years old but i found it referenced on another site and had to share it--assuming it hasn't already been shared.. www.time.com.

Snoozy

Jw's used to like to quote from Time Magazine as they often condemned the Catholic church..I bet this article didn't show up in their Awake magazine...

Snoozy

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Is it acceptable for JWs to put flowers on a loved one's grave?

by serenitynow! in

i want to go and put some flowers on my grandma's grave.

she died 9 years ago feb 19. i haven't been out there since the funeral.

i can't remember where the cemetary is, and i will have to ask my jw relatives (who don't know my status) where she is buried.

Snoozy

Amen Ding!!!!!

Snoozy

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Do jw's get more paranoid as they get older ?

by man in black in

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friends

my dad has been a jw since the mid 1970's and he has had his ups and downs with this religion during this time.. but the one constant thing has been how terrible conditions are in the world and that god will soon usher in the paradise... my mom died several years ago, and he has grabbed onto the religion with new energy, i can understand that he needs something to focus.

on, and it brings him some comfort.

so i just leave him alone in this area.. a month ago i went down to visit him, ( he lives 1500 miles away) just to spend some time.

Snoozy

I agree Jamie, he is assuming they will help him. Them actually doing it is a different story.

Sometimes in a really small town they may help more but I doubt it.

I'm like Jamie, just keep in touch and check up on him regularly..

You sound like an amazing and caring son/father. I would be proud to call you my son if he isn't..

Snoozy

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Is it acceptable for JWs to put flowers on a loved one's grave?

by serenitynow! in

i want to go and put some flowers on my grandma's grave.

she died 9 years ago feb 19. i haven't been out there since the funeral.

i can't remember where the cemetary is, and i will have to ask my jw relatives (who don't know my status) where she is buried.

Snoozy

Nothing like taking funeral flowers to an old folks home because they rarely get flowers..

Hopefully the name/card of the mortuary is removed first...

They may take it as an omen.

AS far as the flowers having a pagan origin..I think it depends on how evil the JW person's mind is thinking up all that crap...the more evil they are the more pagan the ritual..IMO

Just wondering if a pagan decided to start the practice of eating with a spoon, would the JW's reject eating with a spoon because the pagans started it..how utterly foolish they have become. ( Snoozy shaking her head at their stupidity)

There is nothing wrong with remembering someone you love..for shame.

My JW MIL carries her dead hubby's ashes around in a cardboard box in the back of her car..I wonder what they say about that? Nothing! They make a joke of it.

Snoozy

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How were Rutherford's Cadillacs purchased?

by InterestedOne in

i mentioned rutherford's cadillacs to my study conductor, and he said maybe rutherford was able to purchase them because he was independently wealthy.

were they purchased from his own personal wealth or with the wt funds?.

Snoozy

I thought I read there were three cars...thanks!

Nice to know I'm not senile....yet...

Snoozy

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The WTS extinguishing one "Light" for another....

by Snoozy in

here are some examples of the wts extinguishing one "light" for another:.

the great pyramid of giza is "gods stone witness" detailing his plan for humanity (studies in the scriptures, vol.

3, 1890, 313) and later a "monument of demonism" (wt, nov. 15, 1955, 697).. .

Snoozy

Here are some examples of the WTS extinguishing one "light" for another:

The Great Pyramid of Giza is "God’s stone witness" detailing his plan for humanity (Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 3, 1890, 313) and later a "monument of demonism" (WT, Nov. 15, 1955, 697).

Jesus should be worshiped (WT, Jul. 15, 1898, 216); then he should receive only "relative worship" (WT, Jan. 15, 1992, 23); then relative worship is forbidden (Make Sure of All Things, 1965 edition, 249); finally, he should not be worshiped (WT, Nov. 1, 1964, 671).

The sower of the seed in the parable of the mustard seed (Matt. 13:31–32), is Satan (Man’s Salvation Out of World Distress Is at Hand, 1975, 208), and, in the same year, it is Jesus (WT, Oct. 1, 1975, 600).

The men of Sodom and Gomorrah are to be resurrected (The Harp of God, 1921, 344), then not resurrected (WT, Jun. 1, 1952, 338), then resurrected (WT, Aug. 1, 1965, 479), then not resurrected (WT, Jun. 1, 1988, 30–31).

The "higher authorities" of Romans 13:1 are earthly governments (Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 2, 1889, 81), then Jesus and Jehovah (WT, Jun. 1, 1929, 165), then the commercial and political elements of Satan’s organization (Preparation, 1933, 127), then Jehovah and Jesus (Salvation, 1939, 58), then human governments once again (WT, Nov. 15, 1962, 686).

The WTS has said: "It is a serious matter to present God and Christ in one way, then find that our understanding of the major teachings and fundamental doctrines of the scriptures were in error, and then after that, to go back to the very doctrines that, by years of study, we have thoroughly determined to be in error. Christians cannot be vacillating—wishy-washy—about such fundamental teachings" (WT, May 15, 1976, 298).

The article went on to ask, "What confidence can one put in the sincerity or judgment of such persons?" This is a point to ponder seriously when assessing the reliability of the Watch Tower Society as a spiritual guide.

Roflol...

Snoozy

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How were Rutherford's Cadillacs purchased?

by InterestedOne in

i mentioned rutherford's cadillacs to my study conductor, and he said maybe rutherford was able to purchase them because he was independently wealthy.

were they purchased from his own personal wealth or with the wt funds?.

Snoozy

The title to Beth Sarim is vested in the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in trust, to be used by the president of the Society and his assistants for the present, and thereafter to be forever at the disposal of the aforementioned princes on the earth

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How were Rutherford's Cadillacs purchased?

by InterestedOne in

i mentioned rutherford's cadillacs to my study conductor, and he said maybe rutherford was able to purchase them because he was independently wealthy.

were they purchased from his own personal wealth or with the wt funds?.

Snoozy

I found this article from 6- 10- 1935:

"By a curious telescoping of events and ideas, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. They, under Judge Rutherford's leadership, distrust formalized religion, lump clergymen with financiers, politicians, the League of Nations and Lucifer, the last of whom they believe to be actively at large. In their scrutinies of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have concluded that three "cosmos" divide history. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they are more concerned with Judge Rutherford's prophecy that a universal war is looming. (And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground—Jeremiah, 25:33.) As to when the universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME, March 31, 1930)."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883470-2,00.html#ixzz1DnoT6Y00 Wondering how you deed property to ghosts? Snoozy