Topics Started by bk62

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What's Fair About This??
by worldlygirl in
1. jw
2. friends
i've asked my husband about this many times, and he always manages to skirt the issue.

here is the point i try to get across to him: .

first of all, you have to agree that god is fundamentally fair (he agrees with me on this point.
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Recent Vegas Experience
by bk62 in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife had never been there, so i thought it would be a good way to spend the weekend.

i made reservations for friday and saturday night at the riviera hotel and casino.

well friday afternoon i started coming down with the flu (or something), so i knew it was going to be a long weekend!
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Comment to JW's on latest KH Meeting (Please add your comments!!)
by bk62 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i again went to the sunday meeting with my wife, in order to "keep abreast" and look for any flaws to exploit.

lo and behold, this was a "special" meeting b/c the "circuit overseer???

" was there to put his spin on things.
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Still do not know where I fit in the picture.....
by LyinEyes in
1. jw
2. friends
today is easter sunday, my younger kids went with cousins to hunt for eggs.

i saw many people out and about in their sunday finest with family going to church......... i go to the grocery store in my hooter's tshirt......... i know it takes time after leaving the borg to find your place,,,,,,,,,but i am wondering if i will ever feel differently than i do now?

i can't put my true heart into celebrating xmas, or easter,,,,,,these religious holidays mean nothing to me.
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Geezer JW plows car into crowd of 13 in front of Stanley Theater Assy. Hall
by joe_from_kokomo in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
this story just out in all major newspapers and tv stations across the country.

apparently, a 78-year-old witness attending the circuit assembly meeting at the stanley theater in new jersey lost control of his car and plowed into a crowd of 13 fellow witnesses, seriously injuring 3 of them.. here is the link to just one instance of this story, on the uk guardian:.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2584228,00.html.
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Are Birthdays and Christmas celebrations really rooted in Evil????
by bk62 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
during the last two months i've tried and tried to rationalize the jw view that, since these "pagan holidays are not based upon the scriptures, they must not be practices by christians".

i've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and trying to come up with their motivation for these policies.

they can't think that celebrating will actually hurt, yet they obviously can't honestly think the practice goes against the bible.. i thought it might just be another "control" for them to place on the flock - and a way to differentiate themselves from other faiths.
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Satanic Ritual???? -- The Memorial
by bluesapphire in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have heard so many allegations and allusions that rejecting the symbolic body and blood of christ at a jw memorial is a satanic ritual.

does anyone have any info on this other than just the fact that it seems to be that way?

i would like something concrete.
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I attended my first meeting at a KH!!
by playdrums in
1. jw
2. experiences
for the memorial service i went with my girlfriend.

she's the jw.

i also brought my best friend.
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Help me welcome a new member, jillbedford!
by Valis in
1. jw
2. friends
welcome jill!

i hope you enjoy the board and you meet many new friends here.

are you in bedford, texas by chance?
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King James Bible and the WTS
by robhic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i could swear i saw a quote or something saying that years ago (obviously before the nwt) the wts considered the king james version of the bible as the best one available.. i posed this question on another group and so far have had no luck.

it may have very well been on this site somewhere but i have back-tracked as much as i can and still haven't found the post i saw this in.

anybody have any ideas or know where this statement can be found?