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Can you see it?
by TweetieBird ini don't know if this will work or not but notice anything?
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Hello
by letsgetout inhi everyone, i have been a longtime lurker to this website, but i have never posted.
so here is a little bit about myself:
i was raised a jw, got baptized at 13, became a regular pioneering right out of high school, i was used extensively at the hall and on assemblies, came from a nice jw background.
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Welcome Letsgetout...your parents sound like they are really nice and that you have always had a good relationship with them. My guess is that they will be disappointed (not in you but the situation) and will no doubt try to talk you into breaking up with this person but I would suggest that you be honest and not try to hide it. From a parents standpoint, I would rather my children hurt me with the truth than with a lie, however, I don't wear blinders anymore so my children have the freedom to live their own lives.
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Has anyone ordered from Schwan's before???
by babygirl75 ini was given a catalog by schwan's delivery men that came into the salon i was at yesterday.
my husband wants me to try them out, to help save time since i'm invovled in so many different projects at this time.
it would definetely help so that i wouldn't have to go to the grocery store (which i hate!
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I used to order from them along time ago. It's a little expensive but the convenience is nice. We really liked the mint chocolate chip cone things with a clump of chocolate at the bottom of the cone. Yummy! They will come by every 2 weeks once they come the first time. I used to really like it when they came by and I didn't have anything in the house for dinner that night, saved me a trip to the store.
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I am so bummed!
by TweetieBird ini live in an apartment and work from home.
earlier today i see a couple of sheriff's cars, an ambulance, and fire truck go whizzing by my apartment and head down to my friends building.
she just called me and told me that the guy that lives above her hung himself.
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I live in an apartment and work from home. Earlier today I see a couple of Sheriff's cars, an ambulance, and fire truck go whizzing by my apartment and head down to my friends building. She just called me and told me that the guy that lives above her hung himself. His girlfriend found him. He was only 21. It makes me sick to think that someone so young feels death is their only option.
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RutherfordsForgiveness?
by R.Crusoe inthis intrigues me!!.
as a jw i was taught and melted into the mould of forgiveness so that i pained over seeing the reasons why wrongdoers do wrong and if they repented everything was fine!
i am an extremely forgiving and understanding person when given the opportunity to be via reasonable communication!.
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from Wikipedia...
"Rutherford was born to a Baptist farm family in Morgan County, Missouri on November 8, 1869. Harboring an interest in law for many years, his father initially opposed his interests in law studies, but eventually relented and allowed him to go to college,provided Joseph pay for someone to work for him on his father's farm. After completing his education, he worked as a court reporter and was admitted to the bar at Boonville, Missouri. Later he became a special, or substitute judge in the same Fourteenth Judicial District of Missouri. Because of this background in law he was often referred to as "Judge Rutherford", a name he carried with him for the rest of his life."
FYI
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RutherfordsForgiveness?
by R.Crusoe inthis intrigues me!!.
as a jw i was taught and melted into the mould of forgiveness so that i pained over seeing the reasons why wrongdoers do wrong and if they repented everything was fine!
i am an extremely forgiving and understanding person when given the opportunity to be via reasonable communication!.
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Interesting question. Everything I have always read about Rutherford (outside of organization) indicates that he was not a nice person. I think he was more of a "do as I say and not as I do" guy. I don't recall reading on favorable thing about the man.
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My wife says "They miss you at the Hall"
by OnTheWayOut inshe comes home with "sis.
curious says she misses you.".
"tell her i am right here, a phone call away.".
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At the last hall I went to, I use to get that from 2 of my close friends when I would run into them in public. They would always say "we miss you!" One day one of them was going through a separation with her husband (a real piece of work and a brother in good standing) and needed some furniture. I happened to have a table and chairs that I was going to give her and she avoided me like the plague. I guess she must have thought it would be demon possessed.
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Need help with MIL
by TweetieBird ina few weeks ago she asked if we still believed it was jehovah's organization.
i hadn't heard from her until this morning.
i asked her to show me from the bible only where it says that this is j's organization.
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changeling and dkeithia, you are probably right. It really didn't (and doesn't) matter what I said, she can and always falls back on "the light gets brighter" and "Jehovah will straighten it out in his own time."
She asked me why I felt like the organization seemed more like the scribes and pharisees of Jesus' day and I said that no matter what I did, I always left the meetings feeling like I would never measure up and likely not make it anyway. She doesn't think the meetings make people feel that way but I heard it way too often. She's in denial.
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Need help with MIL
by TweetieBird ina few weeks ago she asked if we still believed it was jehovah's organization.
i hadn't heard from her until this morning.
i asked her to show me from the bible only where it says that this is j's organization.
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I just remembered something funny after reading another thread...when we were talking about the UN issue, she actually blamed it on Ray Franz. I told her that Ray Franz was long gone before they joined the UN.
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Need help with MIL
by TweetieBird ina few weeks ago she asked if we still believed it was jehovah's organization.
i hadn't heard from her until this morning.
i asked her to show me from the bible only where it says that this is j's organization.
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A few weeks ago she asked if we still believed it was Jehovah's organization. I hadn't heard from her until this morning. We talked about a lot of things, she kept saying that I turned my back on Jehovah. I told her that I hadn't turned my back on J but just didn't believe he was using the organization anymore. I asked her to show me from the bible only where it says that this is J's organization. She kept quoting stuff from the publications but I asked her to only give my scriptural proof. We moved on to another subject. Really so much that my head is spinning.
UN issue - (again) She basically told me to get over it and not let it stumble me. Bottom line, if they joined it was a mistake, but now it's over and to forget about it. I asked her if she thought it possible for Jehovah to remove his holy spirit from the organization of which we moved on to another subject. i.e. JW's are the only ones preaching in 234 lands.
Here's what I need help with...we talked about other religions that preach and maybe they don't do everything right but neither do JW's. She asked me what specifically JW's do wrong or don't do (scripturally). My mind turned to swiss cheese. I want to be prepared for the next round and I KNOW there will be another round.
Knowing that I'm discussing this with a die-hard, pioneer who literally has never done a wrong thing in her life, is there anything that I can say to her that could possibly make her stop and think? She feels like people that leave the organization do so because they are either immoral or apostate. Since I'm not immoral that makes me an apostate. I know that there are so many on this board that were former elders, ministerial servants, pioneers, really good publishers, not so good publishers like me, circuit overseers, district overseers, etc., a lot of really spiritual minded people that finally saw through the bs and got out. That's what I want to hear about...the straw that broke the camel's back.
Thanks, I know this is long.