Posts by sylvlef

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Sport Motorcycle riding anyone?

by SpeedRacer in

just curious to see how many on here like to carve up roads.

if so what type of bike and where do you ride.. 1987 yamaha fj1200.

1986 yamaha fj1200.

sylvlef

Wow...you got some pretty serious rides Guys...and girls if any(i have known some good riders among girls).

i ride a 2009 Kawasaki er6f (aka ninja 650R in some countries i believe) and use it in urban and periurban environement of Paris France,every day (little streets and highways of This city). Some car drivers are here to kill motorcycle people from what i experience every day:using phone and not looking in the mirrors while changing direction,etc...

i also went on week end tours in Normandy.

i do not plan to switch electric yet...it's new so adjustments Will be needed before it Is really useful...

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KM Oct 2014 - Homosexuality (week of Oct 13th)

by Splash in

it would be interesting to have some present (stonewall?

) at these meetings to witness and record talk number three on the tms.. talk 3 - "what the bible says about homosexuality" (reasoning book p.368-369).

the reasoning book tells us in part:.

sylvlef

i have Just been assigned This talk.funny i do not comment at meetings for months, report 3 or 4 hours FS for "fun", and still they give me number 3 parts. This one i believe because no one else wanted to do it.

still, i plan to Say how bad it Is to mock gay people the way i heard some JW do it...

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JDubs and home schooling

by Ignoranceisbliss in

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recently i had a conversation with a close witness friend.

i have always viewed him as moderate.

not full j-dub nut bag witness style.

sylvlef

i have been home schooled from the start until i was 14. I remember This was one of the things That made me slightly inadequate when returning to the "real" school world, things were way different than in my cosy house, and for sure it Is the reason i got baptised at 16. Because i did not have enough view of how it Was outside the jw world, then i thought the best place to be was among jw...

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Today's WT study! So hypocritical!

by stuckinarut2 in

so today's study is all about being kindly, and not judgemental to those in the congregation....we don't know their circumstances etc.... i can't believe the hypocrisy being spewed out...both in the article and by means of the answers from the audience!.

we know the reality is so different!

unless a witness does everything exactly as the gb directs...in every aspects of life, they are effectively no longer a good person, but are viewed as spiritually lacking or weak..... they are going directly beyond the biblical directives, and being ones who condemn, rather than ones who commend!.

sylvlef

always a matter of double standards:

one of my mother in law comments to This study was based on the James letter stating That we do not have to judge.agreed by everyone by force noding heads.

later after the meeting she discussed the case of a jw family they know, who is sending their 19year old daughter in another part of the country to go to high School (and live with DA relatives incidentally...): "This Is a mistake, they should not have done That, blah blah blah".

still not judging hey?

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Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses introduce themselves when knocking on doors?

by Randomthoughts in

most random people who knock on the door politely introduce themselves when you open the door.. for example "hello, i'm derick from unicef and i'm looking for donations blah blah blah".

now annoying as it may be for some at least he had the courtesy to introduce himself.. why don't jw's do this?

is it because they are embarressed or perhaps they know you won't take their literature if they do?.

sylvlef

hi.

Never tell That we are jw or the householder Will tell us to go to hell;)

as a still "active" jw for family sake, when i go to FS (not more than 3 hours per month...) i quickly say That we are jw so That every time the householder Will say he is not interrested...less time lost;)

but personnally i NEVER give my name, because i do not want to be exposed as a jw anywhere later(say...at work or else) while i do not believe those BS. I notice That people do not recognize me later in another context (gas station,bookshop,etc) than the formal door to door.

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October 1914? Really?

by sylvlef in

km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.

"the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.

for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".

sylvlef

Good one!

thanks for the insights!

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I now have a law degree!

by digderidoo in

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hi guys, i don't really post on here much anymore, having been on here since 2001. this site helped me out in the early days and has been a great support system for all of my past jw issues.

like many others i was discouraged from an education so that i could window clean and pioneer in my youth during the 80's.

having spent many years post my jw exit in alcoholism and periods of drugs, i decided to clean myself up 7 years ago by attending aa, i was still a window cleaner ... at the time i wrote extensively on here about my issues.

sylvlef

hi and congratulations.it's a very inspirationnal achievement, and a proof That it's Never too late to take tour life into your own hands...

All the best for the future...your journey Just begin;)

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October 1914? Really?

by sylvlef in

km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.

"the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.

for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".

sylvlef

KM august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for This week's service meeting):

"the month of october 2014 Will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom. For This occasion a special édition of the Watchtower Will be on This theme."

according to jw littérature world war 1 was the beggining of the kingdom in 1914. But This war started in august. So what is the rationalisation for saying That the kingdom was specifically to Begin in october 1914? Not august,not september but october?

i don't remember This one...or was it ever teached?

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Not on jw.org - comments regarding bad Jehovah's Witness employees

by jwfacts in

i used to be very impressed with convention experiences regarding how worldly employers would hire jws because they were known as the most honest workers.

i was too indoctrinated to realise these were selective experiences, and there are plenty of experiences of jws being dishonest in the workforce.

i have received a couple recently by email.. i have cut quite a bit out of the following email i received so that the person and company cannot be indentified, but you will get the message.. .

sylvlef

my father in law runs a small factory.He is an elder and is all into the jw thing he was screwed numerous time by jw businness partners and employees...never jonest, Never in time...he says he will never associate with jw business partner again (but still That dis not stop him to hire a jw woman he found hot...go figure)

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If the Governing Body Told You They Love You All Very Much, What Would Your Reply Be?

by steve2 in

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in a letter in the 2013 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses, the governing body sign off with the words, "we love you all very much".

these words were later echoed by one of the governing body in an address to french jehovah's witnesses in july this year.

these words sound so marvellously compelling and heartfelt - goosebump inducing, even.. imagine the governing body wrote these words to you or expressed them to you in person- yes to you reading these very words.

sylvlef

"don't know you, couldn't care less."

or

"Prove it and stop making arbitrary pharisaïc rules"