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Posts by shamus
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37QFR....Is It Wrong To Take The Life Of a Very Sick or Old Pet??..6-1-03 WT.
by minimus inthere's a number of bible principles mentioned but ultimately, they say it's up to you.......... can you think of any other questions that we could ask to see if we can do something or not??
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Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries Is Unscriptural! You Gotta READ This!
by AlanF inthe may 18, 1956 awake had the article entitled,"husband and wife worship unscriptural".
it states:"nowhere in the bible do we find that mates are to be worshipped, or that there should be a wedding anniversary day kept in their honor.
worship belongs exclusively to jehovah god, as he himself says:' i jehovah your god am a god exacting exclusive devotion'.
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shamus
The pharisees strike again.........
The babylonians used to go to the bathroom too... are we not allowed to do that, b/c it promotes false worship?
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6-15-2003 WT. Says That JW's Would Not Bribe Officials!!!
by minimus inpage 32 shows the example of a young woman in poland who had to make the decision to either follow the simple custom of bribing the teachers with money or gifts to get better grades or to follow the bible and realize that god disapproves of any bribery.
she said," i understood how easy it is to succumb to peer pressure.
i thought it over and since then never shared in this custom again.
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shamus
How do you spell PHARISEES???
For goodness sake...... how do they get away with printing that crap???
Does anyone know that scripture, where men put burdeons on men.... I forgot.
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Bad Elder Stories
by shamus in.
what was the worst elder that you ever had to deal with?
i will post my story in a second...
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shamus
Forgot to mention...
This was a Friday Night Bookstudy, where the C.O. had the study and special talk w/ the whole cong... so everyone knew that something was up!!! LOL!
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Bad Elder Stories
by shamus in.
what was the worst elder that you ever had to deal with?
i will post my story in a second...
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shamus
Okay - maybe you have heard this one.. maybe not....
I was planning on auxillary pioneering one month.... and got turned down... the P.O. found out about it, and gave the elder body ROYAL S*$#!!!! Here is how it happened!
You see, I had just moved from a different cong., and had my time written down... only, I did not know which months they had, and asked the service overseer which months were missing? His reply was "he'd get right back to me". Well, this went on for 3 months, me badgering him, and he was not doing anything... so, I just didn't care.... I got a long-awaited chance to auxillary pioneer, and put in my app. Well, again, did not hear anything from him... no "announcement" (God, how stupid, how we needed that announcement). After telling everyone that I was auxillary pioneering, I finally ask the bro, and says, "oh yeah, I was meaning to talk to you about that... you are not regular and therefore cannot pioneer...". Idiot. I then reminded him of our conversations over the last few months... "Oh right! I'll go talk to the other elders.." Next meeting - "Oh, sorry bro.... you can't aux. pioneer b/c you went against jehovah's arrangement by not properly recording your time..."
What an ass.
Well, the good ol' Circuit Overseer was in town, and I got assigned to work in service with him.... he's encouraging me to aux. pioneer, yada yada, yada, then I tell him the story.....
THAT NIGHT they have an elders meeting before the book study, and make a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT that I was auxillary pioneering... LOL! THEN, this idiot fat goofball elder comes up to me after the meeting PISSED OFF AT ME.. SQUEEZES MY ARM HARD, and HISSES AT ME.. YOU REALLY NEED TO PUT YOUR TIME IN PROPERLY..., to which I ripped my arm away from him, in the most unfriendly manner, and said, "WELL, I TRIED BRO. ******* BUT YOU GUYS WOULDN'T LISTEN". The last time that I ever talked to him - he ignored me!
They were SOOO PISSED AT ME!!!! I loved it!!!!
Any other stories?
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Bad Elder Stories
by shamus in.
what was the worst elder that you ever had to deal with?
i will post my story in a second...
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shamus
What was the worst elder that you ever had to deal with?
I will post my story in a second...
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Why do I have to move 3000 miles away to get away from this religion?
by DIAMOND inthat is the question.
i am literally moving from the east coast to the west coast just so i can lose my religion.
is that nuts?
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shamus
LOL, normalty is contagious......
Anyways, good luck to you!I found your post quite interesting.... shave your head, grow a beard... I did the exact same thing!!!
When in the borg, I always wanted to have a beard. I finally grew it... only to shave it off b/c it made me look too old, and was too hot. When in the borg, they tried to reprove me b/c I had my head shaved down to like #1, and thought that I was a skinhead!!! I told the elders which hairdresser I went to - a black man whom lots of the brothers went to. It was simple - either I could produce a note to them stating that I did not look like a skinhead by my hairdresser or DROP IT. They finally did.... just one more X in their bad books!
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Kingdom Hall Spankings
by JH inmost meetings i went to, children were brought to the washrooms in the back to be disciplined.
often i could hear a child yell or cry due to the spanking given by the parent.
people in the hall would have that look on their face meaning that it was alright to discipline a child by spanking him.
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shamus
Some kids, it is the only way that they will listen, is to give them a "swat", NOT a beating. The only time that it is okay to do it is if: They know if they do something wrong they are going to "get it", and have no questions about it.... Done in private, where no-one can hear... and most important, not, not, NOT done in anger. Should be done at home - not a KH.
MOST KIDS need ever get a spanking. Taking privleges away, or talking to them is enough. If you have a kid that needs a "swat" every now and then, with the mentions above, you are a rareity.
Personally, I will never spank a child again. I did it once, ONCE to my nephew, 2yrs old, and left a little welt. I will never, ever hit a kid again. That is up to the parents to do, and certainly not hard at all. (Although I did have permission to do so... I will never again.)
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Celebrating Mother's And Father's Day Is Unscriptural! You Gotta READ This!
by minimus inthe may 8, 1956 awake had the article entitled,"mother and father worship unscriptural".
it states:"nowhere in the bible do we find that parents are to be worshipped, or that there should be a father's day and a mother's day kept in their honor.
worship belongs exclusively to jehovah god, as he himself says:' i jehovah your god am a god exacting exclusive devotion'.
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shamus
C'mon!!!!!!
I am not worshiping my mother!!!! Who the hell says that???????? I am just saying thank you for being a wonderful Mother!!!
WTBTS.... land of the idiots.
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How Many Here Are DF'd, Disassociated Or Not Worried That They Might?
by minimus ini'm curious as to whether the majority of the board's disfellowshipped.
and i'm curious as to whether or not push came to shove, that you would not be overly distressed if you did wind up getting df'd........as time goes on, i am caring less.
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shamus
I am neither DF'd, or DA'd. That is the society's rules and sayings, taken to extremes. Like that's new.
I don't worry about getting either put on me. If they wish to do so, then that is their business - not mine. They no longer control me, therefore, I am free of mind control.
When they come to my door, they will get lots of questions - questions that will rock their faith.