I have to disagree a little with what some of you are writing. I've never felt obligated to go beyond the strict written word, that what I've always used. I know a lot of other people, including elders that look at it the same way. There have never been any consequences to following that course, and no one has ever thrown that 'mature' thing at me. I know not all congregations are the same, but I've been in a number of different congregations and that's the way it's been. Some people may not have liked what I have done but I figured it was too bad for them. It has never effected things like additional responsibility, etc. Like I said, I know that's not everyone's experience, but sometimes I think we allow ourselves to be manipulated. If someone tries that stuff with me I just tell them to take a hike.
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Real sad
by claudia inthis is copied and pasted from a jw forum, its so sad.
the topic is excluding relatives from your wedding.
this guy wouldnt even let his own mom watch him cut the cake!.
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Mommy I want to marry you !!!!!
by Maxee inhello mommy, let me get straight to the point here - (not like amicus who has been desperately trying in vain to sweet talk his way into sevens panties) - i think you are a living doll and i would like to marry you right now.
yes you can take this as a proposal.
i need to get some service in on you every month starting immediately.
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Xandit
Maybe Simon should heave this one out of here. It's not like he's even funny.
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Jesus second coming in the first century
by Jr inthis discussion will be quite extensive.
so, i have broken it up in to subtopics.
it will be shared by myself and associates in the faith.
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I'm sure we're all waiting with baited breath, it's not often that we are privileged to be witness to such profundity. Jr, that's junior right? Yeesh
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Spy vs. Spy
by TR inprisca's comments about wol made me wonder about official wts sanctioned spies and moles.
we all know for a fact that to the wts lies are ok, and spying does happen.
does anyone know of officially appointed wts spies, or do hard-core militant and/or plain old sneaky jw's just feel it is their duty?
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Paranoia springs eternal... Let me tell you, the heavy hitters in the organization are so sure of themselves they coudn't care less what most people are doing. It's only the piss ants that get excited about that kind of stuff. It's a way of trying to make themselves look more important than they are.
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Non-JW Friends...
by LDH inwhen you were active, or if you still are, did you all maintain non-jw friendships?.
i've always kept some close friends who weren't jws.
but reading a .
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Xandit
I've always had non-JW friends, some very close. If they want to talk about religion we do, if they don't we don't. I figure it's their call.
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1975 ???
by Scorpion inthe end of 6000 years is 1873. wt 7/15/1894 p.1675.
"in what year, then, would the first 6,000 years of man's existence and also the first 6,000 years of god's rest day come to an end?
the year 1975.
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Sassenach, never bought into the "present understanding" or "present truth" business, at least not completely. To be fair, it's very rarely mentioned, a few times in some of the older publications I think. There is scriptural support for some things apparently being situational but it typically doesn't apply to basic doctrine. I have some questions about the marriage/divorce situation with Israel because they apparently were allowed some lattitude on the basis of their own attitude.
Hey, I'm not sheep in wolf's clothing or a wolf in sheep's clothing. I'm a hawk amongst sparrows. )
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God Changing Chosen Peoples
by eyes_opened inmy huband posed something to me yesterday that i had never even thought of before.
he said, wouldn't it be possible that if a group <ie.
jehovahs witnesses> fell out of gods favor, what would stop him from choosing another group?
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Oh man, the Two Witnesses Must Come boys are here. They sure are persistant, I guess it's the Witness background.
By the way, on the name issue. I've seen a pretty good case made several time, most notably in the Biblical Archaeology Review, that it was probably Ye-ho-wah, three syllables. I think the Witness guy that did the computerized linguistic ananlysis came up with something similar, three syllables anyway.
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Resticted liberties "and justice for all&a...
by Smartgirlpw in.. edited by - smartgirlpw on 23 january 2001 16:44:50
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Xandit
I seem to have missed the whole thing here. From one comment I am getting the idea that smartgirl was disfellowshipped for watching movies! IF that's true then those guys need to be disbarred because that's not grounds folks.
My all time favorite English comedy is keeping up appearances. I find it almost painful to watch, I want to strangle the woman, she's exactly like my mother. )
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1975 ???
by Scorpion inthe end of 6000 years is 1873. wt 7/15/1894 p.1675.
"in what year, then, would the first 6,000 years of man's existence and also the first 6,000 years of god's rest day come to an end?
the year 1975.
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Xandit
ianao, since I don't ascribe to the "weed them out" theory I don't feel like I need to defend it. As far as the reduction in numbers goes, I think most of it came from people who came into the organization because they'd had the bejeezus scared out of them and when nothing materialized they went right back out. Of the few that I knew that sold houses, etc. not one of them went out. Most of them seemed to get along quite happily afterward. There was a certain convenient memory loss about their adamancy as to future events but that was about it. I've knocked 1975 pretty hard a few times in public talks and it doesn't seem to bother most people. One or two old duffers tried to give me some grief about it but they backed down pretty quick.
Never thought ignorance was bliss, don't understand the idea to tell the truth. Ignorance is bloody awful in my opinion.
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What Charitable Orgs. are you involved with?
by LDH inboys and girls clubs of america.
rotary.
school board advisory council.
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American Cancer Society, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Girl Scouts (only because I like the cookies), I used to give to the Humane Society until I found out they were anti-hunting, anti-fishing, etc.