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Watch out asking for tools this season it could backfire. The wife will figure if you can build a boat surley you could tackel something easier, like an intertainment center arround the big screen. Or a china cabinet after-all they are only BOXES. Well that could lead to even more tools you would need. What a shame. Worst-case-senerio , I have been interested in Straw-Bale Houses for a number of years. My daughter knows this, bought 4acres 31/2 miles from us and she wants to build one. Guess who is in charge! Ha! Man-O-Man-O-Man!

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Well, being one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I don't observe Chrismas. But my wife and I do that aniversary thing every April. It seems that the more I hint at tools, the more likely I am to get yet another article of clothing. What is this all about anyway?

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Isn't it amazing!! The person that never has the fortitude to pursue his own dreams, will be the first to try and discourage you from pursuing yours.

Maybe she is telling you that she thinks you are dressing like a barbarian!

hey Dave..you JW's dont observe Birthdays either...now if that isnt another good reason to go Catholic what else is ???

Steve


Course you can always just make up your own make believe holidays and just call them whatever you want ..which is what I suspect you do. Heck, I would make up about fifteeen of them and ask for tools each time !!

heck, i don't even ask for tools anymore, just gift cards to my fav. home improvment stores. that way i get the tool i need, not what they think i need. i have friends that are jw's, no birtdays or christmas, you guys suffer almost as much as catholics. just joking nobody suffers as much as catholics.

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"Make the most of yourself, for thats all there is to you" Emerson

Yes, but I was dressing this way when we met. Heck, what does she expect? We barbarians need our tools man! lol



Lemme think about that..............Naw!



EXACTLY!! At least this way gift giving doesn't come from an "everybody else is doing it so you have to too" mentality. Seriously, we're liable to be giving gifts anytime of the year. Truth be known, I'd be willing to say that most JWs give as many gifts throughout the year as other folks give at Christmas and for birthdays.

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Isn't it amazing!! The person that never has the fortitude to pursue his own dreams, will be the first to try and discourage you from pursuing yours.

As a non-christian I have a good excuse to celebrate Xmas day, it's my son's birthday!

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Graham in Shepperton, England

Good, Quick, Cheap, pick any two.

Seems to me, that we've been around some of these here threads before.

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PS........... All I want for Xmas, is it to be over!

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One day.

I have a good friend that is a JW. (I keep telling him he needs to buy a vowel, and start coming to the synagogue) I have to give him a hard time any place he goes, if he has to bring anything big home it takes him an hour to get all the boxes of literature out of his truck.

I gotta admit one thing: I have never seen a nicer group of people who can discuss religion without getting really sensitive about each others feelings and beliefs...just that fact that we can mutually disagree and mutally admire each other for standing for whatever is remarkable.

Trust me, I am not half as kind with my follow Catholics !! It gets really ugly sometimes when I start smacking them up side the head for what they think we believe !!

Okay...back to boats...I thought I had baited Dave pretty good...I still owe him a few !

Steve

THIS IS EXCELLENT! I hope you don't mind but I've GOT to use these one liners at the Kingdom Hall soon.



All kidding aside, I'm often asked if I miss it. My answer is honestly NO. I do NOT miss it at all. One reason is that having been a JW for my entire life, you don't miss what you've never had. But when I see my nonJW friends struggling with how they're going to pay for it all, going through the set up of the tree and decorations and then taking it all down, sending the cards, all the shopping in addition to everything else that keeps their lives on full throttle, many would just rather do without the added stress. I see their moods change, no one's really happy, everyone's rushed and when it's all over, it never seemed to bring the real joy that folks were hoping it would bring. Personally, I can see where it would be a lot of fun. But I really think that many are getting caught up in trying to make each one bigger and better than the previous year's Christmas.

Also, I've seen some of my good friends really get their feelings hurt when they obsessed over buying just the right gift for someone only to have that recipient really dislike it. ....or not appreciate it at all.

Even my therapist said that she needed therapy after the holidays.

So John, I'm finding more and more of my non JW friends are agreeing with you.

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Isn't it amazing!! The person that never has the fortitude to pursue his own dreams, will be the first to try and discourage you from pursuing yours.

Dave,

All those folks stressing out should NOT be christians. The people that are stressing out are stressing out for all the wrong secular reasons and they deserve everything they get !...That's why I love to pour a six pack into my thermos and pack up my lawn chair and head to the mall and watch people in pain on Christmas eve...(Course that is right before I have a couple more and then head off to midnight mass !!! ...Ah...the benefits of being Catholic...)

Each of my kids has spoken to me over the past month about what we can do for another family, and has never once asked for anything for Christmas. (Coarse I have a list a mile long on the refridgerator..for ME...you think anyone has even LOOKED at it ????)

I'm gonna threaten em that if I dont get anything I'm heading down to the Kingdom hall and enlisting !

Steve