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  Describe What a Jehovah's Witness Elder Is Like

  by minimus in

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  i know what they are supposed to be like.

  but at this point in time, do you think the elders look joyful?

  are they serious bible students?

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  Laika

  It is always plural 'we' isn't it? So weird.

  Most elders hate the job and yet would still fight to the death to keep the position. People are complicated.
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  Why JWs don't celebrate Mother's day

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the uk, this sunday is mother's day!

  ask a jw why they don't celebrate holidays and they'll tell you it's because of some nefarious pagan connection.

  but this is really just a cover.

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  Laika

  Good point vidiot, you are not an idiot.
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  How Do You Come to Terms with Being Just One of the 7 Billion?

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. jw
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  being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.

  when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.

  i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.

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  Laika

  Thanks for sharing that quote Giordano, that is brilliant/very true.
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  Why JWs don't celebrate Mother's day

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the uk, this sunday is mother's day!

  ask a jw why they don't celebrate holidays and they'll tell you it's because of some nefarious pagan connection.

  but this is really just a cover.

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  Laika

  Wisdomfrombelow,

  I like your username but I don't know the answer to your question about 'when?'

  Re: showing honour to parents, a JW would respond that they don't need a special day to honour their parents, they do it all year round. (Whereas worldly people only care one day of the year, assumingly?)
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  Why JWs don't celebrate Mother's day

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the uk, this sunday is mother's day!

  ask a jw why they don't celebrate holidays and they'll tell you it's because of some nefarious pagan connection.

  but this is really just a cover.

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  Laika

  In the UK, this Sunday is mother's day! Though I have made a point of celebrating as many holidays as possible since leaving, this will not be one to add to my list as my mother would be genuinely offended if I sent her a card or something.

  Ask a JW why they don't celebrate holidays and they'll tell you it's because of some nefarious pagan connection. But this is really just a cover. The real reason is that not celebrating holidays is one of the ways in which JWs are set apart and made to feel special. They don't involve themselves in things Jehovah hates like all you pagans! But note, it builds this self worth in a way that's very different to how holidays do the same.

  Celebrating mother's day gives Mum self worth based on her work as a mother, refusing to celebrate it gives her self worth by virtue of her membership in the group. Thus a JWs identity is, as we know, wrapped up very strongly with their group identity.

  This is important, the reason JWs can be so cruel is because anything that threatens their place in the group directly threatens their own identity/ego, and so they push back against it.

  Opposition to holidays are one of the key ways JWs build this identity around the group, and that is the real reason why JWs don't celebrate Mother's day. (or any other holiday)
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  How Do You Come to Terms with Being Just One of the 7 Billion?

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.

  when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.

  i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.

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  Laika

  I agree with every word you wrote, but does this have to be a negative?

  It's a great relief to know that the world will go on without me, to stop trying to have impact and just enjoy what's around me. See yourself for what you are, stop trying to become 'someone'. It never works anyway. Read Ecclesiastes by King Solomon or for a contemporary version listen to Pinocchio story by Kanye West. These are guys who in theory had/have everything you thought mattered in your post, guess what? They're still unfulfilled.

  Fame/money are not the route to fulfillment. Want to feel fulfilled? Find some good friends and take them out for a good meal, there is nothing better.

  As Solomon said 'who needs meaning when you can have lunch?' (my paraphrase - ecc 5:18-20)
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  Memorial 2014: Wrong date?

  by AnnOMaly in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

  so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

  sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.

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  Laika

  Thanks Ann, any ideas on how they got this wrong? I'm sure I've read on here before that this is not the first time they've made this mistake? Weird.
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  I don't believe the JWs will ever change and say the 144,000 is "symbolic"

  by booker-t in

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  it will never happen.

  because that will definitely be the "final nail" in their coffin.

  jws will not stand for it any longer.

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  Laika

  If they chance then they can point out it's being figurative may even include less than 144,000. Increases control.
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  took a break, I'm back. how has everyone been?

  by unstopableravens in

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  i had to take time away, missed everyone.

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  Laika

  I am getting by, thanks for asking!
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  took a break, I'm back. how has everyone been?

  by unstopableravens in

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  i had to take time away, missed everyone.

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  Laika

  Oh Yay! It's good to see you, how's the family?