Waited for a special feeling, it never happened.
Posts by Emma
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How did you feel when you got baptized?
by Schnufti inback in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.
8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.
my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.
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Bless Me, For I Have Sinned
by snowbird ini've just finished eating a slice of delicious birthday cake!.
depart from me, for i am a sinful person.. tee hee hee.. sylvia.
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Emma
I love birthday celebrations! Cake is my favorite dessert. Or pie, birthday pie. I bake my own and get whatever kind I want every year. I love to bake. And eat!
And congratulations for partaking and enjoying!
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Has anyone here joined a different church after ditching the JWs?
by NikL ini am just curious.. i have a cousin who is a baptist and his church streams their sunday services and i've been checking them out before i go to meeting with my jw wife.. i haven’t been to a church except for the occasional funeral and wedding and the only sermons i had heard were the tel-evangelist type.
anyway, all the church bashing by jws over the years made me unsure what to expect and i was pleasantly surprised.
they do use the bible and they don't spend the whole time begging for money.
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Emma
Still Totally ADD, I am a UU, too. I still had two young children when I left j-dubs and was looking for a community. Nothing like walking off a cliff and leaving family and friends behind! My daughter's best friend's mom was the RE director at the local UU church and she described it and invited us to come. After a few weeks I went to the new-comer welcome and asked if it was christian based and if I had to believe any doctrine. The answer to both was NO. That was 18 years ago. I've been more or less active since then. I'm on the Social Justice Council; I love that we can really help others! I'm in Ann Arbor MI>
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Are There Many JWs That Have Actually Left?
by minimus init seems that most people who have been witnesses that i've known in the last 20 years are still jws.
they may not be as zealous as before but they still remain as jehovah's witnesses.
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Emma
My daughter is in her mid 40s and she's found many of her old friends are out. They've connected by FB and other social media platforms. I'd say the majority are out but I wouldn't guess the percentage.
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Cooking With Cast Iron
by Simon ini can't even remember what got me interested in pans, probably wanting to try cooking more and watching some cooking videos on youtube, but i kind of started wanting to get a cast-iron skillet specifically so started reading up on them.
hey, if you're going to spend $50 on something you need to study them and create a comparison spreadsheet ... right?.
not only did cast-iron look great for cooking but there are some studies that show risks to aluminium / teflon cookware ... not that the wts was "right" about aluminium, but teflon can give off carcinogenic chemicals if overheated (so what if it chips off into your food?).
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Emma
I have my grandmother's pans, one a ten inch the other rather small, maybe five or six inches. I'm so happy to have them!
Listener, was your pan made in China? I've heard they are inferior and it's a common event.
My daughter found some old cast-iron pans in her inlaws shed. They thought they were ruined and were going to throw them away. She took them home and they are beautiful.
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Will Donald Trump Be Impeached Before His Term Ends?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini'm thinking his willful failure to be briefed by the cia about russian election tampering and not understanding diplomatic protocall.
making off handed statements without proper research about the mater.
he's an outsider when it comes to running the government that will make big mistakes at every turn because he seems clueless when it comes to running a government.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-moore-predicts-trump-impeach-resign_us_58261464e4b0c4b63b0c6dee.
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Emma
I don't think he will do any of the real work of being president. This is just a business opportunity for him; he's already making deals and mixing his business with national activities - Japan meeting right after election. If the GOP can get what they want done, which they will, they don't care what he does. He may not be Putin's puppet but doesn't mean he isn't a puppet! I think the mid term elections will be interesting. If he alienates the public, could bring an unpredictable result. Could be that Pence and Ryan run the country. Frightening.
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elders are leaving me alone. what to make of this?
by nowwhat? ini am a born in that goes back to the 1960's i am in a very zealous congregation with super dub elders.
i have been inactive for 3 years and only go to about 2 meetings a month.
i made my displeasure known about the overlapping generation b.s.
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Emma
Don't exhale just yet. They'll get around to you.
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Emma
Oh, yes, and I used to play piano for the cong. Sad, sorry music.
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question from readers: with all the animal sacrifices, wouldnt the temple smell worse than a stockyard?
by nowwhat? inwith all the cattle, sheep and others wouldn't they be shitting and peeing all over the place?
along with the gallons and gallons of blood being drained and then the flesh being burned as well.
wouldn't the stench be unbearable?.
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Emma
It would have been awful.
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Elders removed in Northern PA. Congregation
by ToesUp ina close family member just informed me what happened during their last c.o.
visit.
this occurred 3 months ago.
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Emma
This goes back to the early 1070s, central PA, maybe DuBois. George Dobas, not sure of spelling, was removed and a good chunk of the congregation followed him. He gave the public talk every Sunday (except when a rare traveling speaker was allowed to visit), conducted the WT study, and took over the ministry school and service meeting. I'd moved to PA to pioneer and felt it was creepy that he had such huge parts on circuit assemblies. He always had a gaggle of young people around him. He led much of the singing, too. Really strange and creepy. Someone contacted Brooklyn and a group was sent in. It shook the entire circuit.