Posts by free will

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Are You Afraid To Express Your Opinion???

by minimus in

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do you feel intimidated or uncomfortable when giving your opinion?

do you shy away from expressing yourself if you believe that the majority will disagree??

?

free will

i'm getting over it......slowly.

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Did You Think "Jehovah" Was Responsible For Everything Good In Your Life?

by minimus in

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i've heard all my life, that anytime something good happened, we should thank jehovah for doing it.

if something bad happened, like being attacked by the "demons", it was because a person didn't have the complete "suit of armor" from god.

i know many of the "friends" that credit jehovah god for giving them a sunny morning, a pay raise at work or an end to their cough and cold.....were you one of those that believed jehovah was behind everything that happened in your life?

free will

it was either that (the debil) or just how things and life worked out.

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Did You Think "Jehovah" Was Responsible For Everything Good In Your Life?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i've heard all my life, that anytime something good happened, we should thank jehovah for doing it.

if something bad happened, like being attacked by the "demons", it was because a person didn't have the complete "suit of armor" from god.

i know many of the "friends" that credit jehovah god for giving them a sunny morning, a pay raise at work or an end to their cough and cold.....were you one of those that believed jehovah was behind everything that happened in your life?

free will

half heartedly - yes. good excuse as any. but my sister totally does. i can almost hear tears over the phone. 'i never could have done this without jehovah's help!' now, i'm thinking - yeah right. with not a little bitterness over the whole being lied to thing. and a little embarrased because maybe, just maybe, she's right.

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First Christmas

by yxl1 in

when we first left the dubs, we celebrated x-mas pretty much straight away, but had no decorations or tree, and only gave gifts to each other.

for some reason it just seemed wrong to put up decorations and we continued to celebrate this way for about 5 years.

we decided to put up decorations when it was my daughters 1st x-mas, and have never looked back.

free will

this will be my first also. i really want to put up a tree and all the decorations but i feel as though i'll deeply distress my family who are still in. they may come to visit and get the shock of their lives. i don't know if they'll be more distressed that i'm celebrating or that i still haven't faded back in. at any rate, i have children who i want to give a special season to.

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Why are Pioneers so obsessed with time?

by truthseeker in

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friends

does anyone have this experience.

in our cong, there are a lot of pioneers, i know most of them.

yet, all i hear when i ask how they are doing is that 'i need my time!

free will

---"It seems that 'saving people's lives' is less important than 'getting their time in." i never thought of it that way. yet another piece of proof.

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Vacationing with a Witness

by DevonMcBride in

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friends

the end of october i'm going on a 9 day cruise to the caribbean with a group of 70 people.

one of the the travelers is a jw and it will be interesting to see how "worldly" she will behave away from her jw clan.

at our christmas party (that's right she was at our christmas party) she got drunk and she buys christmas presents for her grandchildren who are not jw.

free will

just enjoy yourself. remembering that she is only human, sucked into the jw rules like you were. whatever you do, don't go to a hall on vacation. i was always amazed at the dub ability to visit a local hall wherever they were vacationing. :)

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