Posts by Thirdson

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Att: ex-Elders and Their Kids: Did You Really Have a Regular Family Study?

by Room 215 in

jw
friends

friends, this is a sort of poll, directed mainly at -- but not limited to --ex-elders, their wives and kids.

it was my impression that, with the possible exception of meaningful personal prayer, the other aspect of the idealized, exemplary jw lifestyle that was portrayed at the assemblies and at meetings-- the regular, weekly family bible study -- was the one most neglected.

it seemed to be something the ``other" spiritual family did and the one thing we constantly agreed we ``needed to work on.".

Thirdson

We had a regular family Bible Study every Friday night for years. I remember when I was very young studying the old Paradise book. At some point in time it became a Watchtower study. Back in the old days the congregation studies were in the format of ask the questions first and then read the paragragh. Pre-study meant reading the paragraphs first and then asking the questions and as the question was answered everyone could underline the section. (I guess the Society knew that few studied before the meeting and thus reading the paragraphs first dumbed it down and did away with the need to study ahead of time.)

For a few years we did portions of the weekly Bible reading at the dinner table. Long enough to cover the whole Bible. Dad tried doing the day's text (numerous times it was started and surpringly these sessions always occurred after the last assembly we attended) but that was excruciatingly boring, more so that the family study. As we grew up and had work and other commitments the prolonged dinner sessions were hard to do. We eventually stopped the weekly Watchtower study when the youngest sibling got baptized.

Friday nights were so boring! We suffered through many hours of 'type' and 'antitype' waiting for it to be over so that we could watch Dad's Army on the telly.

Thirdson

39

Getting to Know You.....

by closer2fine in

jw
friends

just for fun!

cut & paste the questions & answer underneath!.

1.what time do you wake up in the morning on weekdays?.

Thirdson

1.WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING ON WEEKDAYS? 6:15 2. IF YOU COULD EAT LUNCH WITH ONE FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE?
3. GOLD OR SILVER? Gold 4. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? School of Rock 5. FAVORITE TV SHOW? MI5 (on A&E - Spooks in the UK I think?)
6. WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST MOST OFTEN? Coffee
7. WHAT WOULD YOU HATE TO BE LEFT IN A ROOM WITH? Spiders

8. CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE? No

9. WHAT INSPIRES YOU? Puzzles and challenges
10. WHAT'S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? Don't have one 11. BEACH, CITY OR COUNTRY? Country

12. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer 13. FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Like too many and takes me forever to choose 14. BUTTERED, PLAIN, OR SALTED POPCORN? Plain 15. FAVORITE COLOR? Burgundy 16. YOUR FAVORITE CAR? Mercedes SLK (Own a Chevy Trailblazer - Burgundy of course) 17. FAVORITE SANDWICH FILLING? 18. WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO YOU DESPISE? Big heads
19. FAVORITE FLOWER? Lillies 20. IF YOU HAD A BIG WIN IN THE LOTTERY, HOW LONG WOULD YOU WAIT TO
TELEPHONE PEOPLE? About 6 months 21. FIZZY OR STILL WATER AS A DRINK? Fizzy
22. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BATHROOM? Green

23. HOW MANY KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING? 6
24. WHERE WOULD YOU GO TO IF YOU HAD TO GO ON VACATION? Australia
25. CAN YOU JUGGLE? IF YES HOW MANY? 3 26. YOUR FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK? Saturday 27. RED OR WHITE WINE? Red 28. FAVORITE BEER - Grain Belt Premium 29. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY? Rib Feast with the family
30. DO YOU CARRY A DONOR CARD? Yes

53

OMG They are doing commercials now!?

by flower in

jw
friends

i just finished watching martha stewart and after it went off there was a set of commercials before the news came on and i swear i just saw a commercial from the christian congregation of jehovahs' witnesses!.

it was about raising your children with knowledge and love.

it showed a teen girl on the internet in a chat room with a person who had become her best friend and wanted to meet her in person and they said something like if it seems too good to be true it is..'love builds happy familys' was the slogan or something.. .

Thirdson

At the end of the commercial there is a toll-free number to call. Has anyone called it?

Thirdson

78

The Geek Test

by closer2fine in

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friends

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http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

closer

Thirdson

Oh dear, 25.83826% - Total Geek - must be because I once read a math book outside of class.

Thirdson

52

Were you ever an Elder? Read this Please.

by Amazing in

jw
friends

hi guys, men, former-elders:.

the last leg of the legal project is afoot.

it is good, no gooder, no great!!!.

Thirdson

Amazing,

PM me. I'll do what I can to help.

T.

19

Embarassing moments you witnessed?

by starfish422 in

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not yours; but those of others you had the good fortune to watch happen.

my favourite is the time we had the co and his wife for lunch after field service, and my mum swore in front of them.

Thirdson

This is not JW related. I had a boss whose speech was laced with clichés and idioms which we all got used to. One day he showing a senior manager from our German parent company around our facility. He introduced the manager to the accounts office supervisor and said, "If it wasn't for Norma's skilled accounting we'd all have skid marks in our underpants." This particular phrase was quite new to the German who responded, "vos ist der skid marks in the unterpants?" My boss went bright red, mumbled something and then changed the topic. We all fell about laughing once they left the office.

Thirdson

56

If you can answer this, you're Einstein!

by Jennie in

jw
friends

here are some mind boggling questions.

and if you want you can make your own questions.. .

did the people in the bible go to the bathroom?

Thirdson

I seem to remember that the Bible mentions number 2s and digging holes outside the camp. In NWT language the Israelite with the need would take a peg with him/her. This presumably was used to clamp the nostrils and keep said Israelite clean (ceremonially) 'cause what you can't smell can't hurt you.

Thirdson

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Thirdson has left...almost

by Thirdson in

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friends

the family thirdson are off on vacation saturday for a week.

two years after 9/11 mrs thirdson feels ok about flying again but i know she won't be at all happy until we touch down again.

i chose a direct flight, even if not the cheapest, so as not to prolong the stress.

Thirdson

The family Thirdson are off on vacation Saturday for a week. Two years after 9/11 Mrs Thirdson feels OK about flying again but I know she won't be at all happy until we touch down again. I chose a direct flight, even if not the cheapest, so as not to prolong the stress. But flying aside we should have a good time. We booked a condo in the Cannon Beach area, OR. It's not the best time to get away but it should be quiet.

See you all later.

Thirdson

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If your parents left everything to Watchtower, what could you legally do ?

by run dont walk in

jw
friends

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i'm sure this must happen, brother faithful and sister subjection, spend their whole life in jw land, have an average/good living, have three kids, both pass on, leave it all (or most) to the watchtower, would you have a case or any legal grounds in getting your money back.. definitely a case for johnny cochrane.. i'm a little worried my parents might do something this stupid.. any experiences or ideas .................

Thirdson

For all I know I was disinherited a long time ago. At one time I was one of the executors of parents will. Their will was to divide what was left of their estate equally between the six siblings. At the time one sibling was living at home and was to inherit everything if he was still living there. He stuck it out until age 31 when he moved out and got married. Another sibling was disinherited a few years back. Later I heard that the inheritance was to be shared between only those children still resident in my parent's country, i.e., leaving me and the youngest sibling out.

My parents haven't got a lot and if they need to move into residential care they'd have even less. They own their own home and at the most it's worth $160,000. Divided by 6 that would only leave me $27,000. I aint going to retire on that much and it would barely cover 2 years college education at the local state college. I'd prefer they give the whole lot to Firstson, he's the one who reaches retirement age the soonest and the one who's suffered the most due to following Watchtower promises..and still believes it. As for me I can take care of myself so I don't give a damn (frankly) who they choose to give money to when they transition to whatever comes after this life.

Thirdson

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Were You Ever Put On Any "Restrictions" While You Were A Witness?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the elders and the watchtower society are big fans of using "restrictions".

anytime a person has judicial action taken against them, they are imposed with "automatic restrictions".

even if a body of elders felt that a person was too fragile to have any restriction placed upon them, they were required by the society to "restrict" them in something.......were you ever put on restrictions?

Thirdson

I got restricted from reading the Watchtower paragraphs for about a year. I upset the WT conductor (and PO) when he asked me to read at short notice. I could have quite easily read but I disqualified myself because I hadn't marked my copy with lines under selected sentences and told him so. He took it out on me by not assigning me to read. When I was made an elder a year later I got WT reading reinstated which sort of made sense since I'd be occasionally doing the conducting anyway.

My skydiving activities when I was 20 were the subject of a local needs item on dangerous sports. I don't remember any restrictions but the less you had to do the better it was anyway. I'd sort of like being DF'd now and attending meetings, what a great excuse for not doing anything!!! I don't do anything anyway which is even better.

Thirdson