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[cathy37]

It seems that people are not adding any new forum postings and that is making it very hard to get the 30 posts in each month.  I thought I would start this one so at least everyone could comment and get a posting.

[ssarber]

Hey, thank you for that! I have noticed the same thing. I never feel like I have much to say, but maybe if several of us started new topics, then we help each other get our posts. 

[mrisha]

You are right about no new forums.  Because of this, some are just opening a new topic to make their 30 that many make no sense.

[UGetPaid]

There are just fewer and fewer people posting regularly and it is hard to get motivated to respond to some of the nonsense posts that are everywhere.


I know I will probably get called out for saying this, but I kind of enjoy it when a certain user sends up a challenge to my religious and political views and inspires me to respond! That makes it much easier for me to reach the magic number of 30. (Not like I expect to get paid for it anytime soon, if ever, but it doesn't hurt to at least try just in case the bonuses come through at some point!)


But I expect many of you who bother to read the back and forth are crying out for us to just shut the hell up already.  If you fall into that category - my apologies... 

[linderlizzie]

There are just fewer and fewer people posting regularly and it is hard to get motivated to respond to some of the nonsense posts that are everywhere.


I know I will probably get called out for saying this, but I kind of enjoy it when a certain user sends up a challenge to my religious and political views and inspires me to respond! That makes it much easier for me to reach the magic number of 30. (Not like I expect to get paid for it anytime soon, if ever, but it doesn't hurt to at least try just in case the bonuses come through at some point!)


But I expect many of you who bother to read the back and forth are crying out for us to just shut the hell up already.  If you fall into that category - my apologies... 

I agree with you and add that I'm one of your bigger fans, with enthusiasm; not girth. Thank you very much.

[Donnamarg323]

There are just fewer and fewer people posting regularly and it is hard to get motivated to respond to some of the nonsense posts that are everywhere.


I know I will probably get called out for saying this, but I kind of enjoy it when a certain user sends up a challenge to my religious and political views and inspires me to respond! That makes it much easier for me to reach the magic number of 30. (Not like I expect to get paid for it anytime soon, if ever, but it doesn't hurt to at least try just in case the bonuses come through at some point!)


But I expect many of you who bother to read the back and forth are crying out for us to just shut the hell up already.  If you fall into that category - my apologies... 

Challenge?LOL!!!

JJ rubbed off on you?

As i have said,others read the forum and new people/members stop by.

I put the bible truths up besides you to read them.

Something you might ask/say may help me to give a better witness.

That was the case with JJ for a longtime.I knew he wanted to debate,i didnt.Others were reading too,such as yourself.

[plennis]

It is harder and harder to get to $25.00 I use to do every or every other month, now it is several months to make it.  I am grateful for some new forum posts.  Thank  you.

[UGetPaid]

Challenge?LOL!!!

JJ rubbed off on you?

As i have said,others read the forum and new people/members stop by.

I put the bible truths up besides you to read them.

Something you might ask/say may help me to give a better witness.

That was the case with JJ for a longtime.I knew he wanted to debate,i didnt.Others were reading too,such as yourself.

I am much more civil to you than JJ ever was. I disagree with some of your opinions, but I feel you have every right to express them. I don't attack you for them. I don't bash JW, although I do question things that they believe that I do not understand.


When you make side comments about Catholics and Christians that I think are incorrect or disparaging, I do comment. By using the word "challenge", I don't mean that you are "challenging" me or anyone else to a full out debate, but just like you and your vigor for JW, I am often unable to let your incorrect characterizations of my religion to go unresponded. THAT is what I mean when I use the word 'challenged'


I am right beside you trying to witness as well. But you cannot deny that there are many times when you take open and unprovoked shots at Catholics when the existing topic has nothing to do with us. When that happens, I am sometimes going to respond to set the record straight.

[Donnamarg323]

Challenge?LOL!!!

JJ rubbed off on you?

As i have said,others read the forum and new people/members stop by.

I put the bible truths up besides you to read them.

Something you might ask/say may help me to give a better witness.

That was the case with JJ for a longtime.I knew he wanted to debate,i didnt.Others were reading too,such as yourself.

I am much more civil to you than JJ ever was. I disagree with some of your opinions, but I feel you have every right to express them. I don't attack you for them. I don't bash JW, although I do question things that they believe that I do not understand.


When you make side comments about Catholics and Christians that I think are incorrect or disparaging, I do comment. By using the word "challenge", I don't mean that you are "challenging" me or anyone else to a full out debate, but just like you and your vigor for JW, I am often unable to let your incorrect characterizations of my religion to go unresponded. THAT is what I mean when I use the word 'challenged'


I am right beside you trying to witness as well. But you cannot deny that there are many times when you take open and unprovoked shots at Catholics when the existing topic has nothing to do with us. When that happens, I am sometimes going to respond to set the record straight.

If you had a truthful and correct bible study you would see throughout the bible Jehovah and Jesus despise false worship.

You made a big deal RE using True Gods name.

When Jesus was asked what the most important commandment was he answered,You must love Jehovah with your whole soul and mind.When one doesnt use Gods name its a pretty good indication if they REALLY love him.Of course obeying his commandments prove their love as well.You are on the side of the fence RE Satans world Not Gods.Thats why many do not care for JWs.Jesus warned us you will be hated in this world on account of me.The stand the JWs take is for Gods kingdom NOT this world.They remain neutral and still are kind and are law abiding and pay their taxes but Gods laws come first.

[UGetPaid]

This is a GOD'S Honest Truth story - I swear upon the name of Jehovah.

You know, there's this guy I know, who used to take part in a different bible study group I belonged to. For whatever reason, that group broke up because of schedule conflicts and people moving away, etc. He used to be a greeter at Walmart and when I saw him a few years later at Walmart, he said to me "Hey, Mark!"  (except that my name is not Mark). I didn't hear him and didn't realize that he called me by that name. The next time I saw him, he called me Mark again and I was too embarrassed to correct him. To be 100% honest I was truly honored that he recognized me at all.  That was about ten years ago and to this day he still thinks my name is Mark. EVERY time he sees me, he doesn't just smile or say a bland hello. He calls me Mark.


I am not God or anything close to it. But I have to tell you the fact that this guy says anything at all to me - demonstrating that he recognizes me and is forward enough to greet me rather than just let me walk by unrecognized = a tremendous courtesy to me in my own mind. He knew my correct name when we were meeting regularly, but somewhere along the line confused it. I could get upset that he didn't think enough of me to remember and call me by my correct name. But am I really that spiteful? I am far from the holiest person on earth, but if we hypothetically take the holiest man on earth who does everything right but he only refers to God as the Dear Captain of My Salvation (truly meant to be a term of honor and not made in jest), is that holiest man alive really damned for eternity simply because he used the wrong name??? I cannot buy into that. I'm sorry.


MY God does not care if I call him Mark instead or Joe or Mike or Willie. My God knows that I love Him, that I praise Him, that I worship Him and He loves the fact that I pray to Him and ask him to bless me and my family and friends.

In the wise words of Thomas Merton:

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.


I have zero fear that God will ever strike me down or damn me to hell for not calling him Jehovah. If I desire to please Him, that desire IN AND OF ITSELF pleases Him. Not some crazy technicality that I called Him by the wrong name.

[Donnamarg323]

This is a GOD'S Honest Truth story - I swear upon the name of Jehovah.

You know, there's this guy I know, who used to take part in a different bible study group I belonged to. For whatever reason, that group broke up because of schedule conflicts and people moving away, etc. He used to be a greeter at Walmart and when I saw him a few years later at Walmart, he said to me "Hey, Mark!"  (except that my name is not Mark). I didn't hear him and didn't realize that he called me by that name. The next time I saw him, he called me Mark again and I was too embarrassed to correct him. To be 100% honest I was truly honored that he recognized me at all.  That was about ten years ago and to this day he still thinks my name is Mark. EVERY time he sees me, he doesn't just smile or say a bland hello. He calls me Mark.


I am not God or anything close to it. But I have to tell you the fact that this guy says anything at all to me - demonstrating that he recognizes me and is forward enough to greet me rather than just let me walk by unrecognized = a tremendous courtesy to me in my own mind. He knew my correct name when we were meeting regularly, but somewhere along the line confused it. I could get upset that he didn't think enough of me to remember and call me by my correct name. But am I really that spiteful? I am far from the holiest person on earth, but if we hypothetically take the holiest man on earth who does everything right but he only refers to God as the Dear Captain of My Salvation (truly meant to be a term of honor and not made in jest), is that holiest man alive really damned for eternity simply because he used the wrong name??? I cannot buy into that. I'm sorry.


MY God does not care if I call him Mark instead or Joe or Mike or Willie. My God knows that I love Him, that I praise Him, that I worship Him and He loves the fact that I pray to Him and ask him to bless me and my family and friends.

In the wise words of Thomas Merton:

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.


I have zero fear that God will ever strike me down or damn me to hell for not calling him Jehovah. If I desire to please Him, that desire IN AND OF ITSELF pleases Him. Not some crazy technicality that I called Him by the wrong name.

The bible says there are many gods,but ONLY 1 God the father.

Do you have any idea what that means?

Or do you have any idea why Jesus said,I have made your name known the ONLY true God and the one you sent forth?

Or why God says MANY times in the bible,The nations will have to know MY name is Jehovah.

Maybe eventually you might see why Babylon the Great is doomed.

[Donnamarg323]

Challenge?LOL!!!

JJ rubbed off on you?

As i have said,others read the forum and new people/members stop by.

I put the bible truths up besides you to read them.

Something you might ask/say may help me to give a better witness.

That was the case with JJ for a longtime.I knew he wanted to debate,i didnt.Others were reading too,such as yourself.

I am much more civil to you than JJ ever was. I disagree with some of your opinions, but I feel you have every right to express them. I don't attack you for them. I don't bash JW, although I do question things that they believe that I do not understand.


When you make side comments about Catholics and Christians that I think are incorrect or disparaging, I do comment. By using the word "challenge", I don't mean that you are "challenging" me or anyone else to a full out debate, but just like you and your vigor for JW, I am often unable to let your incorrect characterizations of my religion to go unresponded. THAT is what I mean when I use the word 'challenged'


I am right beside you trying to witness as well. But you cannot deny that there are many times when you take open and unprovoked shots at Catholics when the existing topic has nothing to do with us. When that happens, I am sometimes going to respond to set the record straight.

Comparing you to JJ and Countrygirl,they were rats to Hitch and all.

We never thought you were.

There were others too.I wont reveal them.

[Donnamarg323]

This is a GOD'S Honest Truth story - I swear upon the name of Jehovah.

You know, there's this guy I know, who used to take part in a different bible study group I belonged to. For whatever reason, that group broke up because of schedule conflicts and people moving away, etc. He used to be a greeter at Walmart and when I saw him a few years later at Walmart, he said to me "Hey, Mark!"  (except that my name is not Mark). I didn't hear him and didn't realize that he called me by that name. The next time I saw him, he called me Mark again and I was too embarrassed to correct him. To be 100% honest I was truly honored that he recognized me at all.  That was about ten years ago and to this day he still thinks my name is Mark. EVERY time he sees me, he doesn't just smile or say a bland hello. He calls me Mark.


I am not God or anything close to it. But I have to tell you the fact that this guy says anything at all to me - demonstrating that he recognizes me and is forward enough to greet me rather than just let me walk by unrecognized = a tremendous courtesy to me in my own mind. He knew my correct name when we were meeting regularly, but somewhere along the line confused it. I could get upset that he didn't think enough of me to remember and call me by my correct name. But am I really that spiteful? I am far from the holiest person on earth, but if we hypothetically take the holiest man on earth who does everything right but he only refers to God as the Dear Captain of My Salvation (truly meant to be a term of honor and not made in jest), is that holiest man alive really damned for eternity simply because he used the wrong name??? I cannot buy into that. I'm sorry.


MY God does not care if I call him Mark instead or Joe or Mike or Willie. My God knows that I love Him, that I praise Him, that I worship Him and He loves the fact that I pray to Him and ask him to bless me and my family and friends.

In the wise words of Thomas Merton:

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.


I have zero fear that God will ever strike me down or damn me to hell for not calling him Jehovah. If I desire to please Him, that desire IN AND OF ITSELF pleases Him. Not some crazy technicality that I called Him by the wrong name.

I wanna comment on your story.I can relate being called by NOT my right name.I also went along with it too.I think in some cases and maybe at the time how i might have felt and the perception i had on the person there is a chance in a kind way i might correct them......or in some cases let it slide.

Its very clear in the bible that Jehovah says i will NOT share my glory to any other gods.I dont think i have to explain why he says that.Hallowed or holy be thy name.His name means "He causes to become".All things exist because of him.

I think you can use his name....He told haughty Pharoah i could have gotten rid of you a long time ago,but because he is patient and long-suffering he also told Pharoah my name will be declared worldwide soon and you will know Jehovah is God!!!

Burying the Egyptians in the sea i think proved his point!!!

He wants US to know He is the TRUE God and use his name.

[Donnamarg323]

Think how foolish some of the Israelites were.Jehovah frees them from Egypt in a spectacular way that gives NO doubt Jehovah IS GOD!

And then some turn to false worship and worship idols.Tsk tsk,it cost many their lives.

The JWs emphasis how God views false worship and there are examples of it in the bible.

All who call on Jehovah will be saved is a scripture in the bible.

For whatever reason many dont wanna use Gods name or are ignorant of it HE will know the TRUTH why.

UGP,i would think with the Easter season coming up TV will show The Ten commandments movie.The movie is soo INCOMPLETE cos they NEVER mention Gods name and you NEVER know who the TRUE God is.

Also in the movie Pharoah doesnt perish with his army,but the bible shows otherwise he did.If you are interested im sure you can look it up on JW.org,it will show you where in the bible.

Again earlier in Exodus Pharoah said to Moses,"who is Jehovah i should let his people go"?Tsk tsk!!

[ccandpam]

I have noticed that too. I think a lot of members have given up because we are not getting paid.