i understand that the word`holiday' has pagan conneotions,there4 should a jw take a holiday?
I think most of them gladly work on the holidays because pay is usually time and a half.
When my mom worked (she was never a JW) around Christmas time she said the Witnesses were sure in line to get their Christmas bonus check.
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how many of you, go to the occasional meeting?
i no longer believe any of the things i was raised to believe... but for some reason i still go to the occasional meeting and i even went to the special assembly last weekend (even though i got there after lunch).
i guess it will take a while to completely break away but i was wondering if anyone else is in this situation.
Since we DA'd last Aug it was earlier than that, that I had no desire to go to any more meetings and listen to their hypocritical talks, especially the ones where they diss the Catholic Church for their pedophile problem without acknowledging their own.
what scripture that always came to mind is
Get Out Of Her My People if you do not want to share in her sins.
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my next door neighbor ed is a very nice man.
he and his wife have lived in their house for 37 years.
they are avid gardeners and the landscaping around their house is gorgeous.. however, my neighbor 2 doors down (on the other side of ed) is another story.
i've heard chocolate does them in as well as grease soaked sponges,(those are impossible to pass through). just kidding folks.
A lot of states have been passing laws to have homeowners carry that high insurance for dogs like those. I wonder if the the city is aware of the others ones they have?
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edited to mean: gravey soaked sponges.
well, most of you know i have been on the job hunt again
yesterday, i went to meet up with dfwnonjw to get a video about word and excel.
on my way to meet with him, i noticed a "now hiring" sign in a window.
thats GREAT to hear Jess!
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well, obviously we english don't qualify on that score as we simply do not have any accent whatsoever.. but i do like the mid to south us accent, it's very warm and hospitable.
i'm not too keen on the accent of the eastern europeans, it seems harsh and bombastic.
englishman.
In the hall we went to, we had a brother from England, I loved hearing him say Isaiah.
but my favorite is those folks out east in the USA, Boston, Maine.
growing up in high school I had a girlfriend move from there, and I swear she had to repeat just about everything she said. It takes awhile to understand the language without using an "R" in it.
I now live in Nebraska and have heard people tell me they could tell I was from Minnesota because of my accent.
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hi ya'll, i posted my introductory thoughts in others main posts, (good or evil where do you draw the line?
) and in (what's the reason?
the part two).
hello and welcome, but Hey I ain't sighing I'm a dancing!
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i cannot believe that i am pregnant and finally going to have a baby of my own!!!!!!
yahhhhh for me.
my first born is due on christmas eve.. we are all very excited here..... .
Congratulations Kelpie, thats wonderful news to hear.
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i have been reading your posts at work.
i have been studing with the witnesses for about a year this last time.
i have almost completed the knowledge book.
OK, I wasn't going to respond because of all the other good responses. BUT
I have to, We came in when we were in our 30's, they had all the answers and believe me my husband came up with questions dealing with slavery to dates. They always came back with the answer but they were their answers. We should of done our own research. On my husbands last talk he was going to give he found information from an old WT 3/1/79 that stated the faithful and discreet slave class was inspired and infallible in the writings of the christian greek scriptures but that was NOT true of other writings since. These men in NY who are governing lives of thousands have no more spiritual insight than anyone else. With that, reading Crisis of Conscience, the date-line pedophile issue, the shunning that goes on where families are torn apart. We Left last Aug.
heres a true story about two young mom's I know, and unfortunatly they are 500 miles away. One is a third born, grew up in a Very strict JW lifestyle, no TV programs other than watching tapes of I Love Lucy shows. (K) gets a job, goes into chat rooms, meets a guy, he gets her a plane ticket, she goes, has sex, they find her, bring her back, and disfellowship her. OK she messed up, instead of lovingly help her, her parents Make her sleep out in a shed with a space heater, at mealtime after everybody is done they allowed her to eat the scraps. which brings me to #2 mom, she was date raped by a ministerial servant, he gets off scott free because she had to of been the temptress, the elders asking intimate details ( in her face with teeth clenched asking if she had an orgasim) She's disfellowshipped, end up eventually pregnant and at times so broke with nothing to eat. Her parents don't help out, don't care and is kept out of the will. People at the hall were even writing her hate letters. Loving organization? Hardly!
Now suppose you get baptized and down the road your children do, they mess up, are you going to be so cold and unloving towards them because some men in Brooklyn tell you to. Jesus would Never shun someone.
It all sounds wonderful in the beginning, oh the promises, thats just all they are, promises and failed prophesies. It's a mind control tactic they use, ( I never thought of it as such because I always felt I was still the same and doing the same)BUT when someone is told to read only their literature and told the same thing over and over again, what to wear, what to say, how to act it becomes mind control. Your Cristian freedom is lost by the subtle erosion. it's as if you have given to others your God-given right to exercise your own conscience and you eventually arrive at a second hand faith based on the convictions and reasonings of others.
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were there enough people in your age/group or did you have to hang around with much older or much younger than you?
i had that problem in my congregation... a few were my age, but they were married, so we weren't often together.. did you feel isolated in your congregation because of age difference or because you were single?.
ours was a matter that we weren't related to anybody and didn't have a 6 fiqure income.
The people we were drawn to were older, for our son's finding a friend was the pits, all the kids were very clique.
i'm so excited i could burst!
my sibling and i have been reunited, not only irl .
please give breal a much deserved hearty welcome y'all!
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