I would hear waste not want not and my favorite was don't let me catch you trying to hide your broccoli in your glass of milk. It can't be done, trust me.
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When You Were A Little Kid, What Did Your Mother Say To Get You To Eat Your Vegetables?
by LoisLane looking for Superman ini hated peas.
my mom would say, "the kids in china are starving.
eat your peas.
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When You Prayed...
by LoisLane looking for Superman inat night did you kneel by your bed, sit on the edge of your bed or pray while in bed?.
at a dear friend's house for dinner, one time in praying over the food he said, "jehovah god, we fall on our faces before you".. has anyone ever said that or done that?.
just lois.
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Can't say. Brainmelt and I have the same problem. At night I would start to pray and fall asleep. Wake up and start all over hoping to get in an amen but then fall asleep half way through that prayer. Usually it takes about seven bouts of prayers and then on the last one I say a really quick one so I can get in my amen. Weird! Too much on my mind these days:)
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Tech 49: My Tripping Point, part 1
by Tech49 ini have previously told a little about myself, and thought i would share a bit more.
my tripping point.
the point when you awaken from a dream.
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Never make yourself be nothing in order for someone else to be something! You have alot to be thankful for and we're proud of you.
LoisLane I just saw that you emailed me and I thank you.
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I am a Human Apostate, and so are YOU (YOUTUBE)
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbfc4rclay&nr=1&feature=endscreen.
her blog.
http://jehovahs-witness-cult-control.blogspot.com/.
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Welcome Apostate Chick
The most dangerous thing you can do is educate people. Because when people become educated you cannot control them, you cannot frighten them. People who are educated know their power, and don't surrender it to others! You are free at last. Welcome to TTATT.
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESS STUPID: a special category of ignorance
by Terry inworse than being stupid is thinking you are smart while you are stupid.. i should know.. for many years i was a special category of "stupid"; i was jehovah's witness stupid.. .
what does that entail?
listen and i'll tell you.. ___________________________________________________________.
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My money is on the beetle. He's in a much better state of mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Elders won't stop bugging
by El_Guapo inso i haven't been to a meeting since last december.
the elders recently have come over to my house at random times of day and during the week and one weekends.
just to let you know, i have only had one visit since december.
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We get our CO visit next week. We've gotton only one phone call to warn us that elders are going aroung asking ones what we talk to them about and that they are allowed to say hello to us but that's it. We're not df'd or have disassociated ourselves ,,,,,yet! None of them have even come up here to see us and it's been a year. These elders have also been to our last hall to dig up dirt on us and had the nerve to bring the gossip back and share it with ones who aren't even members. Gossip that doesn't even come close as to why we left the other hall. They've had a whole year to try and find something on us and now they are scumming the bottom of the barrel and still can't find anything. When they do then we get in touch with bethel and in person. Might as well go out with a bang.
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Are there people who have returned
by His Excellency inconsidering all the consequences of leaving the organization (especially the loss of family), some who have already known ttat have decided to return and continue with the flow just to keep their families and friend.. my question is if anyone here had tried it and how they have been managing living a lie constantly day-after-day?, as i am seriously considering returnning back to the full routine..
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Fresh prince of ohio
It was all set up for paragraphs and it did this. It's happened afew times. It's happened to others as well. Sorry
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Are there people who have returned
by His Excellency inconsidering all the consequences of leaving the organization (especially the loss of family), some who have already known ttat have decided to return and continue with the flow just to keep their families and friend.. my question is if anyone here had tried it and how they have been managing living a lie constantly day-after-day?, as i am seriously considering returnning back to the full routine..
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I get where your coming from. But remember the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. There is not one religion on this earth that knows the bible completely. However, what if there was something closer to the bible than what you were ever taught. Would you be willing to learn and share it through questioning your family and friends? If your going back because of family and friends then your going back to please them and not yourself. But if your going back because of the religion then your committing a grave sin knowing TTATT. Maybe our technique of telling our loved ones about what we've learned about their religion was done wrong. You know they will take offence if you show them things like misquotes but what if you could challenge them by questioning their knowledge of the bible? Teachings society never taught like why did Jesus keep all the feasts, festivals and Sabbaths right up to when he was killed. If it were to be done away with then why did Mary and the others have to get ready for the Sabbath after he died? Why was Paul keeping them? We've learned a lot through studying other topics that society doesn't want to teach. Did you ever think that Yehovah is guiding you in another direction to getting to know him. Doors will open if your willing to knock. And just maybe you can open up your family and friends minds as well. Leave what you've learned about TTATT for a much later date to tell them. Start reading your bible. Look up some really good teachers on the internet. Test to see if their teachings originate with Yehovah's. We found some really good teachers to listen to that would blow society's teachings right out of the waters. It was becoming easier and easier to never look back when we have so much to look forward to and yes what we listen to agrees with almost everything society teaches but didn't know there was way more to learn that society doesn't teach. It's your choice if you want to go back but will you really be happy? How sad to be hanging out with friends and having to agree with them on whatever they say about their golden calf, the governing body. For witnesses never talk the bible when they are together hanging out or in a car group. This religion venerates creature worship and a whole lot of label licking. Jesus taught against that kind of worship. PM me if you want a list of what we listen to. You will learn new things and will be exited to tell others what they were never taught. And it's all really good. Take from it what you want as long as it comes from the bible which it does. And these men don't pluck a scripture and twist it into their doctrine. They take in the WHOLE context(scriptures before and after) of a scripture, meanings and the cultures back then. Nothing like what we've ever been taught before. Scriptures are a lot easier to understand when you've learned some of the cultural roots back then. Only then you start to understand the knowledge of Yehovah's wisdom:) Don't knock it until you've tried it. You won't go hungry that's for sure and then you be the judge and match what you've learned to the JWs. It will disgust you on how society dummied us all down. Any scripture they use is towards themselves. They'll even take the old testament and every scripture seems to be about them. Too bad they didn't follow the way a judicial committee was set up back then and too bad they don't follow even the new testaments rules on how NOT to form a tribunal against someone but to leave the judging to Jesus when he comes again.(I looked up tribunals in other bibles and it's not there. Human courts is so these guys felt it was ok to add that. Back in OT the people were gathered at the gates of the community along with the older men. They were allowed to have their accusers there as well. The community would listen to both sides and decide who was lying) There's just so many things wrong scripturally with the way society has set things up that goes against my conscience. Along with what we've learned here we know now we're on the narrow road. Religion is the broad road! Religion is just an excuse to abuse people. Wishing you the best on your journey. Hope things go well for you and your family.
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Just curiuos
by newsheep inhas anyone here looked into or became part of the messianic movement?
the conections they make between the old and new testaments are really interesting.
the changes supposedly made by christ are shown to be clarifications of what the original intent of the law was and in no way were they to be changed.
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The feasts, festivals and sabbaths is what opened my eyes. Jesus kept them right up till his death and the others kept them right to the end. Look at when Mary had to get ready for the sabbath after Jesus died. If Jesus had done away with it then why did she and the others keep it. How in Zechariah chapter 14 states we will be keeping the festival of booths in the millinium. Why was Paul keeping feasts(Acts 18:20,21) years later and yet society takes one whole sentence out of their NWT to suit their doctrine. Then they say that he probable had made a vow and had to keep it before becoming a christian. Ok, but this was done roughly fifteen years later. He was keeping it yearly. Are we allowed to celebrate Christmas after becoming JWs saying that we had to keep it for we had made it a vow before we came into the religion. What would society say to that excuse?
Why through out the OT Yehovah is telling them to keep HIS apppointed times throughout the generations to TIME INDEFINITE. Didn't the word time indefinite have the same meaning when Yehovah said that was his name to time indefinite? The greek scriptures show Jesus doing it. Jesus came to teach. The people were going beyond what Yehovah's laws stated and adding to them, making them burdensome like ALL religions today.
When I started learning the feasts, festivals and sabbaths then you see how the seven trumpets come into play. They are all intertwined with deep meanings that are easy to understand. But when your told the seven trumpets represent jw conventions, umm, DUH! Yet society never touched on that aspect of teaching. How sad. I guess they couldn't write that in to somehow worshiping them. God forbid if they were to keep the sabbath( from Friday sundown to Sat sundown) which was spending a whole day relaxing with your family and worshiping him but instead get out on Sat and peddle their crap is more important. Yehovah didn't make it burdensome but man did!
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Two To Five Year Faders, How Often Do Your JW Friends Who Promised To Die 4 U, Check Up on You?
by ÁrbolesdeArabia inwe all were told, even in these stupid songs we sang at the kingdom hall that our brothers would die for us because they loved us so much!
they had the love of jesus christ so deep, they would do anything to make sure we stayed aboard the patterson ark.. .
now i can't create a fancy time-line like the july 15, 2013 watchtower that shows all those cool pictures and charts.
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It's been a year now and still no one. As a matter of fact, close friends of ours have gotton three shepherding visits all within a month. They've been in it for over thirty-five years and never a shepherds visit. The last visit was pure harassment. The elders told them and a few others not to associate with us. That it's ok to say hello if we're seen on the streets but that's it. No official announcement from the platform but that we're questioning the fds. We're just waiting for their next move and we will start the ball rolling. They've also been going to our last hall we were in ten years ago to find out why we left. The gossip is disgusting. I hope society is reading this to see how their teaching techniques for the elders school are absolutely childish. The problem with this elder body is they have all sponged off their parents all their lives and now in their forties are still having their butts wiped. They won't pioneer and at the most work part time if that. How sad it's a bunch of delinquents with emotional problems that determine who can talk to you and who can't. Surely there's gotta be someone in the congregation with half a brain that notices they are having their free will taken away from them.