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  Legalized marijuana. It's coming to canada and I want to try it.

  by hoser in

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  as a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.

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  Question_Mans_interpretation

  Ok Marijuana is NOT ADDICTIVE people. You don't go through withdrawal symptoms when you're not on Marijuana for a length of time. Other drugs that are addictive will give you withdrawal symptoms when you're not on them.

  Now with that said, Marijuana can be habit forming like nail biting. Can it be harmful? Absolutely. if you would rather get high all the time instead of spending time with friends or family then you're looking for trouble.

  From our personal experience it has been just great. My husbands migraines have nearly disapeared. Instead of 1 a week he gets maybe 5 migraines a year, but my husband does admit that occasionally he has had some issues with recalling important details at his job after he's been high.
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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

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  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  I notice LJ that you only quoted part of my comment so I want to emphasize that you and I are not a like in love for god.

  I must agree with others that u overflow with hypocrisy. Remember it says woe to the hypocrites in the bible.

  Personally I could care less that you smoke pot, I myself see nothing wrong with it and it should be legal everywhere however you are part of a religion that would preach and judge it as unclean and if its illegal in your state you could be against Ceasars law. My advice, free yourself from the watchtower and ask the hard questions.

  Since you like my name so much maybe you should take it to heart and question everything the men in Brooklyn put out as doctrine as I did.
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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  Do your elders know you smoke MJ? Be Careful my brother in law was DF'd for hitting the pipe, oh but wait, you said you're not baptized. How convenient for you to avoid discipline. Is smoking Marijuana any different from smoking cigarettes? I think they would both be considered unclean habits, right? You don't smoke cigarettes do u? If you love "Jehovah" like you claim then you should quit all unclean habits because remember "jehovah's people are a clean people".

  As for the Opening post, I love God because I cant accept a world with out one but I also can't say with out a doubt that his name is pronounced jehovah so I prefer to just say god or lord. As far as what I love about him, I love the world we were given and the potential for human love and compassion to shine at the most unexpected times and how it helps me to be a better person and to reach out and help other people, communities, or organizations/ministries that reach out and help.

  Having a meaningfull ministry to support and be a part of that does more for people of all types than just throw doctrine at them has been very rewarding for me and that is something I never got with the jehovah's witnesses because they just didn't reach out to people unless they were trying to convert them.
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  Sheep and the Goats - The Light Gets Brighter

  by nmthinker in

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  2. bible

  perhaps some of you remember a new understanding of the sheep and the goats in the epic march 2015 wt study edition - specifically the article "loyally supporting christ's brothers".. while this article was studied many months ago, it was instrumental in helping me wake up.

  during my study of the 2015 article i recalled that we had just revised our understanding of the sheep and the goats a few years ago and this caused me to research the real progression of the jw understanding of this parable.

  i put the results of my research in an excel spreadsheet.. .

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  Holy crap they are pushing the underlying message of making contributions as being what makes u a sheep
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  Document Blood Transfusion Deaths - please help

  by Lee Elder in

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  2. medical

  the vast majority of deaths from the blood policy are undocumented because they are simply not newsworthy.

  if you know of a death or serious injury/disability related to the blood policy, please help us document it.

  send as many details as you can recall.

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  I know of 2 witness deaths from refusing blood transfusions.

  The first was Josh Tripptree. He was diagnosed with an aggressive type of leukemia at age 16 in 2004 i think. His parents refused blood treatments for a while but the hospital(valley childrens hospital of madera, ca)was able to get a court order to overide the parents authority and administer blood transfusions since he was under age, but the treatments didn't start early enough and from diagnosis till his death was only about a month in length.

  The second death was my friend Melissa postal from Temecula, CA(smith I think was her married name) She was about 25 back in 2005 when she bled out after a massive blood clot was dislodged a couple hours after she gave birth. She refused blood and went in for an emergency hysterectomy but passed away on the operating table. Her death really freaked me out at the time as I was also pregnant at the time with my first kid and due a couple months after her. I've never been so scared in my life. I didn't want to give birth. Lucky for me things went smooth but very tragic for melissa. Her son never got to know her.
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  Pranks to play in the hall...

  by purrpurr in

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  what pranks could you/would you/ have you played in the kingdom hall?.

  i have never but here's two i've thought of, 1) replace the liquid soap with glue 2) smear nutella everywhere in the bathroom!.

  what's yours?.

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  The prank I always wanted to do was make paper airplanes during the meeting and then just soar them over everyone's heads.
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  Where are you from?

  by BeautifulMind in

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  i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

  but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

  i currently live in georgia, usa.

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  Question_Mans_interpretation

  A little north of Fresno California. Lots of central valley people here, I like it!
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  What is the most strange action of a witness while out in field service?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.

  he was very very strange.

  he was a nice guy but goofy.

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  Question_Mans_interpretation

  The craziest thing to happen to me was in our rural part of the territory there were some very isolated houses. This one particular house didn't come into view until the last minute when you were practically in the front yard. When we pulled up there was a full on naked guy working in his garden patch trying to hide behind his tomato plants which thankfully were tall enough to hide him while we talked to him a ways off. The funny thing was he was wearing some tall rubber garden boots which the sisters and I later joked about that at least we could count on him practicing safe sex, he wears his rubbers.
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  Why did you choose Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by vinman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm wondering why ones on this forum initially became jw's.

  if you were born in, why did you make it "your own"?

  if you became one later, what was your draw and driving force?

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  Question_Mans_interpretation

  I was born into it, 4th generation. My whole family is jw with the exception of 2 of my moms sisters. I was Baptized at 16 not because I "made it my own" but because that's what my family expected and what I thought was pleasing god. I went along with the religion until a little while ago because I thought they were "gods people", and it didn't feel right to question god or go against his "organization ". Finally was able to separate god from men who self proclaim gods backing.
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  Generation changes chart - 3rd edition

  by truthseeker in

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  i started working on this chart 5 years ago.

  i didn't think i'd have to update it again so soon.. .

  linky in case image doesn't show below.

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  Question_Mans_interpretation

  Oh wow. Amazing job on this flow chart. I want to print it up and sneak it into my mom's purse or car, or, better yet just litter my old kingdom hall parking lot with flyers of the chart. If this doesn't help stir minds then they are a lost cause