Feliz Navidad - Merry Christmas - Gelukkig Kerstfeest - Joyeux Noël - Geseënde Kersfees - Frohe Weihnachten
Oh and ILT... looking forward to your writing!
Bruja-del-Sol
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The history of Jehovah's Witnesses and Christmas
by ILoveTTATT ini intend to make a chronological history of christmas among jehovah's witnesses.
i look to make it as accurate as possible, and have it include as many wt publications references as possible.. i will post it when i am done with it... my jaw dropped to the floor various times when researching this article, so i hope you like it!.
ilttatt.
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Our teenagers first Christmas tree
by truthseekeriam inwe had fun putting together our first artificial tree last week, it came out so pretty!
the lights and cheap ornaments just add to it.. we have been careful to close our blinds at night to avoid our jw neighbors from calling in the elders, that worked for a few days until we decided to go out for an early dinner and yes, i forgot to close the blinds!
as we drove up to the garage door i could see the tree in the front room and started to freak out a little.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Enjoy this wonderful new experience with your family. I'll never forget my first Christmas tree, a very small artificial one. I just loved it, so it stayed in the livingroom until February :D
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I am having a Bad Day today
by KateWild instressed again with my circumstances.
very tiresome, but i need to be positive.
are you an optimistic soul?
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Bruja-del-Sol
Here's also a video which is very funny and definitely will make you laugh!
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I am having a Bad Day today
by KateWild instressed again with my circumstances.
very tiresome, but i need to be positive.
are you an optimistic soul?
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Bruja-del-Sol
Hey Sammy girl, here's just a very
SUNNY
warm, and heartfelt huge
H-U-G for you
and a big KISS
on both yer cheeks!
Sending you lots of love.
And always remember that life WILL get better and better, it just takes time!
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I know TTATT... so why do JW apologists still scare me?
by ILoveTTATT inanother of my rants.... .
why am i still scared when i read something that the jw's have written?
why does it still upset me to read jw literature?
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Bruja-del-Sol
You're probably right adamah... Maybe I'm just being caught on another tiny piece of old 'cult thinking'... some sort of stupid pride residue about "our" pubs... Need some more rewiring!
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JW.org site: Have You Folks Seen This? Telling Kids How to Dress??
by daringhart13 inunder jw.org/children.....become jehovah's friend...time to get ready.....they are encouraging kids to dress the doll up and get them ready for service!!!.
my god......this is so sick.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Of course it's making us vomit when we see this, we're out of the cult. But I have to admit, when my kids were young there was nothing for them, only the Book of bible stories. I often felt sorry for my kids, that they were so left out. At least the organisation is doing something for the kids now. (Even though we know it's brainwashing and dragging them deeper in their cult).
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Has anyone else gotten rid of their TV?
by NewYork44M inwe have not had a tv for about 2 years.
and even befor this we did not have cable and spent very little time in front of the tv.
that does not mean that we are anti entertainment.
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Bruja-del-Sol
We've still got our television set, but we only watch things we've downloaded from the internet or things we've got on DVD, like concerts and movies and nice youtube videos. We are not connected to any cable or satellite provider.
I also download Dutch programs from the Dutch stations to watch every now and then and some old series I used to watch years ago. We don't watch every day.
And yes, it's great to not have to see all those commercials!
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The medical specialist told me something alarming today. Pretty bummed.
by Julia Orwell inso i've been going to doctors for years with chronic fatigue, a condition i managed ok but which took a drastic nose dive in late 2011 to 2012 to the point where i could barely function.
work was part of the problem, so at the end of that year i left that stressful environment.
but in the meantime, for the last few years i've been going to doctors, specialists, psychiatrists and psychologists and undergoing every sort of blood test you can imagine and seeing all sorts of medical people.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Glad you're physically alright Julia, the rest will follow in time. You'll get there, just hang in and let time (and lots or rest) do it's job.
About the house... I've bought houses, even being a JW with my ex-husband together. But if you have to get a mortgage for it, please don't do it! If you can pay for it, so it will be YOUR property it's okay, but as long as you have to involve a bank... better not! We've lost a house to the bank twice. It's a ruthless game they play and they play to win. You think it's your house, but as long as there's a mortgage not a brick in the wall is truly yours!
We're happily renting now, no more worries and if we want to move house we can go whenever we want, without the struggle of having to sell a house first (and the risk of not being able to sell, like we experienced, and being stuck with double payments for months or even years and finally having to face the worst case scenario, like bankruptcy).
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I gave up my job to pioneer, did you? Matt 6.33 did Jehovah provide?
by KateWild ini was a chemical analyst.
i loved my job, and love chemistry.
i worked in a variety of fields such a pharmaceutical and industrial.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Started working right out of high school, age 16. Never went to college, since the only thing I was ever told was 'you're going to be a housemom anyway', so my goal was to find a suitable JW-husband ASAP and get away from the suffocating, manipulative and abusive behaviour of my parents. So I married when I was 18 and quit working a couple of weeks before our first child was born. I was 20 then. I was a stay-at-home mom for thirteen years and when I wanted to have a job again my self esteem was very low, so I took a job as a cashier with Aldi's. I just thought I wouldn't be good enough to do anything else.
At the moment I'm learning to be a hypnotherapist.
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I know TTATT... so why do JW apologists still scare me?
by ILoveTTATT inanother of my rants.... .
why am i still scared when i read something that the jw's have written?
why does it still upset me to read jw literature?
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Bruja-del-Sol
When I was out for nearly two years, a sweet old lady I worked for had a surprise for me one day... she had two JW's at the door and accepted a Watchtower and Awake... She thought it would be fun for me to see this, but the second I saw it I got pain in my stomach. I couldn't even get my self to opening them and read... it just made me sick. I told the lady that I understood why she took them and that I appreciated her thoughts of me, since she was only trying to help me and have some fun, but that I wouldn't read them. Later we did have a laugh about it, but the initial feeling it gave me was horrific. Like something awful tried to jump inside my head...
A couple of weeks ago when JW's left their tract in our gate it was the first time ever since that I read something from the WTS. It wasn't really upsetting, but it did give me a couple of funny feelings... knowing that I used to spread things like that (well, actually the tracts in my days were 'a little more' intelligent...)... Like Simon said, it's conditioning that is still there, faint... but still there.