Maidden: I was wondering if anyone here has any theories as to why it is that, the more meetings we skip, the less we want to go. If we're missing our spiritual meals, shouldn't we be getting more hungry?
Brilliant question! (Welcome, btw)
I think it's to do with how much pressure there is one meeting nights to get dinner, get ready and get out of the door, which it's just so much easier to have a quiet evening in, or *fun* evening out (or vice versa!)
Going back the first time after missing some weeks was always strange, aside from people coming up and saying "We missed you these last few meetings" (code for "Why haven't you been here? Why? Why?") and bringing the wrong WT, it just felt *strange* how everyone and everything was. It was back to normal the next week, but I did used to notice a difference when going back - the bus journey and walks just felt so much longer thinking about and going back that first time.
Alan F:
LJ = Live Journal, an online diary site.
LJJW = I'd assume a shared online diary for JWs.
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First post
by maidden inbut weirdly enough, i've been mentioned here before, when one of my posts at lj (about whether or not subjection to the organization is relative) caused a bit of a war among ljjws.
i found this forum googling my username, actually.
i was wondering if anyone here has any theories as to why it is that, the more meetings we skip, the less we want to go.
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Favorite Cartoons as a Kid
by prophecor inone of my stellar favorites was the flintstones and a close 2nd the jetsons.
their appeal to family values are things i have ascribed to in my adulthood.
willllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
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Dungeons and Dragons
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Belle and Sebastian
Pole Position
Dangermouse
Will o' The Whisp
Dogtanian and the Muskerhounds
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JW Grandma Sentenced For Dog Attack Death of Granddaughter
by ValiantBoy inwoman sentenced in dog attack case.
by heather leskanic .
the clarion county resident was ordered to serve six days in jail in connection with the death of her granddaughter.. clarion - a 62-year-old lucinda area woman was sentenced wednesday for her negligent conduct related to the 2003 dog-mauling death of her young granddaughter.
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The sentencing was appalling - did the uncle stand trial too? He ought to have if they were his dogs.
Both grandmother and uncle ought to be banned from keeping animals for life as they *clearly* cannot train, control or house animals in a safe way.
If the mother knew the dogs were large and not good around the little girl (obviously, as they weren't kept indoors and she didn't want her daughter in the yard with them), and that they had got out of the pen before *that same day*, then unfortunately, horribly, some small part of the blame is surely with her too. -
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Are the JWs ===THIS === Freaky ??
by Lampokey inif anyone perceives the jehovah's witnesses as a strange bunch , then please do take a look at this site:.
http://www.landoverbaptist.net.
regrettably, a condition of registration is that their beliefs are not to be questioned on the forums.. i will find a way around this by careful syntax .
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Landover go too far occasionally, but I've never read anything that went *as* far as genuine fundies go - Westboro Baptist Church, etc.
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Parents defend convicted Abu Ghraib guard
by kaykay_mp inhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/law/01/17/graner.parents/index.html
i personally think that his parents fail to see the big picture here.
graner did get a fair trial and he deserves his sentence.
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"Just following orders" ought to be investigated as well as just the people in the photos being convicted, but no matter what, the difference between right and wrong was obvious.
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Why does God have to be a Person???
by frankiespeakin inthink of this,,why does god have to be a person?
is it not because we impose our own manlike image of him?
why do we even think god has emotions like ours??
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Mum: Be careful with the ladybird (ladybug), it's a creature.
Mum: God is a spirit creature.
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"Fleshly" brothers and sisters
by glitter ini hate how the wt makes a member's family seem less important than their jw "family" by conditioning them to add the "fleshly" qualifier to "sister" or "brother" when talking about their siblings.
it just always made me shudder.
did this really bother anyone else?
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I hate how the WT makes a member's family seem less important than their JW "family" by conditioning them to add the "Fleshly" qualifier to "sister" or "brother" when talking about their siblings.
It just always made me shudder.
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What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???
by minimus inperiodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".
smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???
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A JW told me that *he* - not even a friend of a friend - was in bed one night and it started the levitate off the ground then started crashing into the floor... I said "Yeah, there's something called sleep paralysis that's to blame for alien abduction memories and..." "No, no, it really happened, when I called out to Jehovah it stopped!".
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How did 1975 affect you?
by AK - Jeff ini lived thru the 1975 fiasco.
many here did too.. on another board there was discussion about the way the congregations were before 1975. some thought that they were like small country churches in some ways.
we did our own work on repairs at the kingdom hall, like a family.
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I wasn't born in 1975, and my mum wasn't a JW, but I remember how I felt when I found out about it.
I was in the school library, sitting out of RE, and I don't know what reference book I was leafing through, but there was something about JWs (just a paragraph - may have been an encyclopedia) and 1975 and there was a b/w photo of lots of cars and a caption that said "JWs sell homes and businesses and leave San Diego".
(Was there an exodus from cities other than "going where the need is greatest"?)
I remember thinking "What idiots to do that!". I'd never heard 1975 mentioned before, I wasn't sure if I even believed it, and I'd never heard it said it was the R&F dubs' fault for thinking that (though I did later - that those who DA'd after were the bad ones!)... yet as a good little JW that's what I immediately thought!
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What goes around, comes around ...... both ways????
by outbutnotdown inwhen most people use that expression: "what goes around, comes around", it seems to be used more in a negative way.
for example, you find out bob just ripped off something small from work.
you and your co-worker don't necessarily want to rat on him so you use the famous "what goes around comes around" phrase.. but how often do we say it the other way around?
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I don't think it's true in the way that The Universe is out to get or reward anyone, but it's certainly true that kind people make friends and nasty people make enemies.
I'd never say some random person having a hard time was getting what they deserved, but I'd definitely laugh at another's misfortune if I *knew* they were a total sod and were getting their comeuppance.
On the news there were people talking about how mosques and churches were still standing after the tsumani (in fact in some areas the only buildings intact) and of course this was nothing to do with quality of materials and design, it was because God *destroyed sinners and unbelievers* that day... ugh.