i can only recall one occasion.
it was when my brother and future wife were dating.
they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.
@ Apognophos indeed, but you can trust whole congregations flocked to watch Indiana Jones and the last Crusade because it said the name of God was Jehovah!! I know my congregation did! Even tho Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned.
How pathetic!
i can only recall one occasion.
it was when my brother and future wife were dating.
they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.
Absolutely! I wasn't allowed to watch so many movies/tv series when living with my parents. As a teen in the 90s my big thing was Beverly Hills 90210 and used to be broadcasted on thursday night, meeting night, so soon as I got my driving license and car I used to breeze off the KH to catch it the 2nd episode. No Tivo or re-runs those days lol. I got away with it until my mom was home sick one day and happened to watch it and after that it was banned.
But wasn't just movies with sex scenes, practically all Arnie's movies I wasn't allowed to watch and with that all B movies for too much violence. They wouldn't even let me watch WWE :/
Movies are a big passion of mine so that's one of the first things I did when I left home, I run through every single film/tv show I wasn't allowed to watch in my early years. And guess what? I'm still a normal person.
i've just noticed that the logo for jw.org is a registered trademark.. this is how the logo appears on the back cover of the new magazines.... .
maybe i'm overthinking this, but i'm struggling to understand why a website for a religious organization that purports to be involved in not-for-profit educational work needs to register a trademark for its website.
a trademark is something commercial companies use to protect their goods or services.
secret santa 2012. with only 7 weeks to go until christmas, should we start to do something now, especially for those posting overseas.
just a thought.
Sorry didn't see this before. I'm in.
can jws be df/da for giving their kid a blood transfusion?.
A friend of mine got DF twice separate occasions of course, first time was for allowing her teen unbaptized son who had an accident and was in a life threatening situation to receive blood. That was abt 9-10 years ago
Then later she returned inside and 5 years ago she got DF for the most stupid reason I've ever heard.
She's an artist and she made an abstract painting of a pregnant woman, if I find it online I'll post it here, anyhow, she wanted to submit some of her work for a prestigiuos prize in her country but realized the work she wanted to submit belonged to categories that were already closed, there were only 2 categories left open and one of these was titled "Holy Art" . She submitted the abstract pregnant woman and she actually won the first prize.
Then got DF for apostasy. I laughed so hard when she told me the story.
hi all, man i am having a hard time getting into the christmas groove this year, just cant get into it, i think i would bag the whole thing, but i have these 4 grand-daughters that really like me, my house etc.
to be full of christmas fun!!
any help, hints, etc.
Music usually does it for me too. I was out for lunch today and the restaurant had carols on despite not having decorations up yet and that put me in the mood so tomorrow I'm putting up my tree.
my short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.
can you tell i like the older stuff?.
Not necessarily a fan of all of them but I like live shows so if someone comes in town I'll go see them.
my favourite post on jwn is the new posts.
so i'd like to start a 'welcome' list of all the new people who have joined in the last 6 months, i cant remember all of them so can you add anyone you know of?
welcome to....... roostermcdooster.
Thank you Jemba :)
i am just curious, and not judging.
if you are a christian and you know that december 25th is not jesus' birthday, and may have pagan roots, then why celebrate it?
i was raised a dub as most of you know, and have learned the ttatt so i know how wrong they are about a lot.
I don't celebrate xmas for the religious part. Jesus doesn't cross my mind that day no more that he would any other day. I went to xmas midnight mass and even took the comunion, the whole thing was more for the experience (and getting brownie points with mother in law) just like I attended other religious functions for many christians and non. I do like to see what other religions get up to, instead of just knowing of them from what I read in JW mags.
Going back to xmas, I'm down for any holiday that involves food! As far as going bad after leaving the WT...have to disappoint there, never took drugs or smoked, didn't get tattoos and drink rarely, all that stuff doesn't interest me. So having freedom made no difference. If anything allowed me to do stuff I really liked, like do some voluntary work in befriending elderly people in the community where I lived. Had I stayed in the 'truth' I wouldn't probably invested time in my local community.
i was thinking about some interracial jw couples that chose each other because they do not have alot of choices like finding someone in their own race in the religion, i have been seeing alot more jw interracial couples lately.
have you noticed them in your area?
don't get me wrong.
Princecharmant, you put it quite right! I like that. I'd be up for inter-racial as long as it's not a Ferengi or I'd be in perennial trouble lol though I love those little Hobitt like houses they have.
