i was told by several elders to not get a dog when i was looking for one in the 80s.
the end was close and we needed to focus on the preaching work.
i know some have pets but a lot don't.
Shouldn`t your post RubaDub be in the Adult -heated Debate sextion ?
smiddy ...
I guess I was just being factual and honest. When I was a kid, we had a black labrador retriever that seemed to do it a lot when people came over. My mother would make the dog go outside.
I still gets the creeps when I see people kissing their dogs.
Rub a Dub
i was told by several elders to not get a dog when i was looking for one in the 80s.
the end was close and we needed to focus on the preaching work.
i know some have pets but a lot don't.
I think that many hard-line JW's don't like dogs since they will sit in front of people and lick their genitals.
(Now that I think about it, if I could do it, I probably wouldn't leave my house).
Rub a Dub
hi everyone, i sure have been getting all kinds of replies by many on here and that's great.
i read all the post even if some don't believe in god at all.
however, i do believe and anything i say on here is from the depths of my belief and knowledge.
If they looked like JLo, Shakira or Kim Kardashian, I would have not problem with it.
Rub a Dub
not sure if this is the proper place to post this.
i have a book, it's 8.5 x 11. the cover looks exactly like the old "truth" book, complete with bible embossed on the cover.
slight title change.
The truth that gives you eternal constipation.
But you have the hope that you will poop, soon, very soon. The toilet is just around the corner.
Rub a Dub
satan peeks over the horizon in qatar :).
arbitrary borders on a map of the middle east, post wwi.. .
civilizations were uprooted.. .
But the current Iranian government clearly is. It has killed and attacked US soldiers in Iraq.
L.U.H.E. ...
You make an excellent point in just a few concise words.
The US is in Iraq ???? Then Iran is in Iraq ????
The US did not attack Iran. Iran did not attack the US. But somehow we all get sucked into these proxy wars.
The US is not going to change these people. They are hard-wired in some odd way to just fight among themselves.
The US, Britain and France all fought each other back in the 1700's and 1800's. How many wars did the US fight against Britain back in the day?
But we got over it. Now we are all butt-buddies.
Does anyone see this happening among all the factions of Islam in the Middle East? In reality, they often hate each other (think apostates) more than they hate Western society (infidels).
Their brains just have different connections, work on different voltage or something.
I don't know.
Rub a Dub
i was on the phone with a long-time friend from my original congregation north of new york city and she told me that the 'shit hit the fan' when a brother (long-time elder i know well) got remarried about 6 weeks after his wife died.. he was about 60 and his new wife (a pioneer that i also know) was about 50 and had never been married.. it became a huge issue when the co came.
due to all the talk and chatter in the congregation, he even included in one of his talks without naming names, that marriage is something sacred and that when and how people get married is a personal matter as long as it conforms to bible standards.. anyway, it shut everybody up.
any similar experiences in your current/former congregations?.
My lady and I have made it plain to all our children that neither of us wishes for the surviving partner to remain in enforced loneliness for the rest of their life.
snugglebunny ...
I really like that. If more people did that, it would certainly reduce a lot of unnecessary stress.
Rub a Dub
some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".
i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.
I guess I would say, and still say around 60-70 percent. Most of that is mainly on subjective topics in which there is no definitive answer.
I really think they lost a lot of credibility in my eyes when they always blame errors in timing and dates on the zero year. Or when they say, Russel, Rutherford or whoever didn't take the zero year into consideration so their dates were off.
Come on, if it's your job to do all of this research and study the bible, how can you "miss" a year when calculating chronological events? Isn't that like a car mechanic saying that he didn't realize you need to put oil in an engine? He "missed" it?
Rub a Dub
i was on the phone with a long-time friend from my original congregation north of new york city and she told me that the 'shit hit the fan' when a brother (long-time elder i know well) got remarried about 6 weeks after his wife died.. he was about 60 and his new wife (a pioneer that i also know) was about 50 and had never been married.. it became a huge issue when the co came.
due to all the talk and chatter in the congregation, he even included in one of his talks without naming names, that marriage is something sacred and that when and how people get married is a personal matter as long as it conforms to bible standards.. anyway, it shut everybody up.
any similar experiences in your current/former congregations?.
I was on the phone with a long-time friend from my original congregation north of New York City and she told me that the 'shit hit the fan' when a brother (long-time elder I know well) got remarried about 6 weeks after his wife died.
He was about 60 and his new wife (a pioneer that I also know) was about 50 and had never been married.
It became a huge issue when the CO came. Due to all the talk and chatter in the congregation, he even included in one of his talks without naming names, that marriage is something sacred and that when and how people get married is a personal matter as long as it conforms to bible standards.
Anyway, it shut everybody up.
Any similar experiences in your current/former congregations?
Rub a Dub
It was a bit weird in my original KH. We had about 7 or 8 young brothers and only 1 younger sister. The next congregation over had about 7 or 8 young sisters and just 2 young brothers.
Obviously, you can figure out what happened. I guess it was just inter-breeding.
Of the 6 or so marriages, at least 3 that I know of ended in divorce. One was an elder, who had 4 young daughters, and then came out of the closet and ended up with another man.
Whatever.
Rub a Dub
some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".
i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.
I like all the "fluff" stuff ... but when it comes to doctrines and teachings that make no sense (holidays, cross, birthdays, blood, etc.) my mind goes into the Alt-Ctrl-Del mode.
By the time it reboots, they are giving the closing prayer.
Rub a Dub
