Posts by rocketman

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Are judicial committees titillating when the wrongdoer is attractive?

by JimmyPage in

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is it more interesting to the elders if the sister doing naughty things is sexy?

or is it just uncomfortable for everyone no matter what?

do their questions get more or less detailed depending on looks?

Stevie Nicks -- witch?

by gloobster in

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do the jw's still consider stevie nicks from fleetwood mac to be a pagan witch-type?

i picked out the song "landslide" for my mother's funeral about a month ago, which most of my extended family, jw's one and all, attended.

it didn't even cross my mind when i selected the song, my mom just had always liked it.

rocketman

I never heard anything about Nicks being a witch. A nasal-sounding singer yes; a witch, no.

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Are the number of non-JW related Topics increasing at JWD?

by nicolaou in

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on the typical page of 20 topics you'll most likely find that up to half of them are not related to the jw experience at all.

i think that percentage has grown over the past 7+ years that i've been here.

not sure what it means though .

I've found that this is actually quite a good site for non-jw topics. There's good discussions to be had here on a variety of matters. I think that's a good thing. I'm at a point where talking about jw topics gets to be like beating a dead horse. But I've hung around mainly because this board is pretty cool for discussing other stuff too.

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What JW teaching did you find hardest to defend??

by karter in

for me it was that god is killing billions of people just to prove a point.

what about you?

rocketman

Lots of good replies....

For me, some of the stipulations surrounding separation and divorce were very difficult to defend, especially the notion that a woman had to be in 'extreme physical abuse' to justify separation (and that still didn't give her "scriptural grounds" to divorce). So basically, a woman had to have the crap beat out of her to justify leaving.

Another area was the nitpicking in regard to so-called sexual misconduct. Such misconduct varied between everything from momentary touching of a woman's breast to fondling them, etc. I'll never forget an elders meeting with the CO in which we went point-by-point through the Society's oddball designations of what consituted "uncleaness", etc., and trying to match such terms to the conduct to which they were applied. It boiled down to a roomfull of guys discussing breast-touching.

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Serena Williams and her "god jehovah"

by worf in

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after losing the wimbledon championship to her sister venus, serena williams was being interviewed on the court yesterday, and here is part of what she said: "i thank my god jehovah for being out here".. okay, so according to her words, jehovah blessed her by allowing her to be there to participate in a competitive sports championship match.

and not just any match.

wimbledon!

rocketman

I have no problem with what Serena and Venus are doing. After all, the problem is that jw kids have, for decades, been strongly discouraged from pursuing activities which are totally normal - such as those in which the Williams sisters participate freely and evidently without censure.

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My Avatar and yours

by LockedChaos in

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just curious .

any symbolism or meaning to your avatar choice?

mine is actually a gif .

rocketman

My avatar is the cover of Elton John's Rock Of The Westies album released in October 1975. The symbolism is, of course, that 1975 was the "appropriate time for God to act" according to the WTBS, and expectations ran high, especially for October, which seems to be the jw's favorite month for the, ahem, "fulfillment" of all things prophetic.

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Have you found a new bible translation you like?

by New light for you in

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i know, it seems like half of everyone that leaves turns athiest.... but for those of us out there, who figure on still being christian, have you found a translation of the bible that you belive lives "up to par"?

i'm really trying to research, but there's so many, i wondered if you had any input!.

thanks!.

rocketman

I'm not necessarily "Christian" but I do like the NIV. It's much easier to read and more fluid than the balky NWT.

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Did you skip the meeting to watch the superbowl ?

by av8orntexas in

i know we must have alot ofpeople on here huge football fans like myself.

born and raised in boston, i am a huge sports fan, and of course patriots fan.

so anyone here go to another meeting, makeup some bs excuse, illness, flat out miss the meeting or anything else to watch game if your meeting happened to go from the 9am to the 3pm in january ?.

rocketman

Prior to Super Bowl 12, Super Bowls were afternoon events. I missed the first half of Super Bowl 7 and in fact only recently caught it on NFL Network. My brother, a Colts fan, missed a good chunk of Super Bowl III because of a meeting. One thing that still irks me is that I missed the NFC Championship Game between the Buccaneers and Rams in 2000 due to an elders meeting. The stupid elders actually picked that date and time for a meeting. Not exactly an aware group of football fans, that's for sure. Another time, I missed the AFC Championship Game between Denver and Pittsburgh (1999) because of attending elders' school. I'm still peeved about that one too.

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