I really come down on the side of "thank you!" or a wide-eyed maintenance of eye contact. You won't be swayed by any original way they come up with for saying "you should be coming to meetings" and they aren't going to be swayed by any original way you come up with to say "mind your own business." And any attempt to make any JW who is coming to a babyshower in the hopes of winning your daughter-in-law back to the congregation sorry they said anything, is more likely to just make your daughter-in-law uncomfortable. But you knew that. I do think fantasizing all the things you could say is a great idea, though! And good luck--I hope you and your daughter-in-law have a great time. And, I'm hoping the JWs go against tradition and actually bring neat stuff for the baby!
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Hit Me With Some Snappy Comebacks Puleeeeeeeeze!!
by HadEnuf inokay...so i'm invited to a baby shower for my daughter-in-law which will most likely be attended by myriads upon myriads of jw's.
i won't go into the nasty details...but they've been married four years now and have another little daughter...their wedding was boycotted by most jw's because she was not baptized yet (but grew up a jw)...and my son was.
so every since the wedding fiasco...they have been pretty much shunned by the jw's...and attend meetings infrequently.
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Could Disfellowshipping Finish Off the Watchtower?
by metatron inlet's do some speculative thinking about the watchtower's future!.
suppose some holes are legally poked thru the watchtower's actions on disfellowshipping,.
whether in the us or other countries.
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If the law, in the US at least, is to have any effect, it will have to be in the area of child abuse. Child endangerment. That kind of thing.
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Medical question re: immune system, viruses, etc.
by cruzanheart inalright, all you smart people out there, help me out with this one: jackson (our 7-year-old) has tons of allergies, eczema, and occasional asthma.
in the past year or two it appears that he has become very susceptible to viruses.
a year and a half ago he got what the doctor diagnosed as a sinus infection and he was put on antibiotics.
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No, advice, but LOTS of sympathy for all of you. It sounds miserable.
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ratio of active to gone
by kgfreeperson inif there are 6 million active baptised jws in the world, how many inactive, df'd or da'd jws do you think there are?
what effect do you think this number of not-active-for-whatever-reason has on the potential growth of jw?
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I've been thinking about the poster who suggested that only people who were already having doubts would show up on a site like this. And thinking if there are twice as many people who left but are still wondering if they've left "the truth" discover THE truth, what effect that might/will have on the faithful. (That is a terrible sentence, but my head hurts and I hope you get it.) I'm thinking tipping point, critical mass, 100th monkey. At what point does the exodus make a difference?
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ratio of active to gone
by kgfreeperson inif there are 6 million active baptised jws in the world, how many inactive, df'd or da'd jws do you think there are?
what effect do you think this number of not-active-for-whatever-reason has on the potential growth of jw?
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Really? I've been building the perception (obviously false) that there might be two or three times as many who have left or been thrown out as those who are active. Or do mean 1 million in the US?
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ratio of active to gone
by kgfreeperson inif there are 6 million active baptised jws in the world, how many inactive, df'd or da'd jws do you think there are?
what effect do you think this number of not-active-for-whatever-reason has on the potential growth of jw?
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If there are 6 million active baptised JWs in the world, how many inactive, df'd or da'd JWs do you think there are? What effect do you think this number of not-active-for-whatever-reason has on the potential growth of JW?
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What Do You Do Besides JWD?
by pettygrudger inwith so many new ones, and not so new ones, its kinda hard to get to know people.
i'm just wondering, what do you like to do besides post on the jwd discussion board?.
me, during the spring - fall months like my yard & gardening.
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I think this topic probably lit a small fire under me. I was grousing about all the time my JW friend spends on meetings, et al, and thinking how much good could be done in that time and had the sudden thought--well, why don't you see what you could do in that time. I've been pretty much a slug for years and getting worse, so this might not look like much, but so far, for this week, I: went to the volunteer meeting for the United Way to find out about opportunities for volunteering, attended my community organization meeting which I haven't gone to in probably 3 years, gave blood and Saturday, I'm having a group of friends for lunch. (Years ago, a friend told me my parties were my ministry, so I figured I could count that.) I'm really getting into the idea of converting JW time into community time. Even though I've never been a JW! So, thanks!
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judge in OLK. stops the "no calll list"
by wednesday inhttp://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20030924120209990008&_mpc=news%2e6
here is a link.
iti s aol so i hope u can read it.
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kgfreeperson
google to the rescue! http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=25078
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Has The Internet REALLY Hurt Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inthe watchtower society tries to "demonize" the internet.
what damage do you think the internet has caused on the jehovah's witness religion??
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JW Admits She Doesn't Want To Think!
by minimus inone of my wife's best friends talked to her yesterday about "the truth".
she wanted to know if they could get together to "talk".
after some conversation, my wife asked her if she thought all the "prophecies" in the isaiah book seemed reasonable.
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Actually, I think we all need to watch ourselves for this--no matter what our belief system. Human beings--especially adult human beings--do not like to have their world views shaken. We will do everything we can to avoid facing that something that we firmly believe is true is, in fact, not true. It can be that a friend is not trustworthy, or that an "enemy" has been right all along. Humans are like that and it takes a great deal of work and emotional strength to keep our minds and hearts open to reconsider what we believe we know to be true.