A WOMAN'S PLACE IS AT HOME!!!!!!

by crownboy 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  teenyuck

  I have to respond....

  My mother, a 3rd gen JW, was very liberated, considering it was the 60's. She questioned everything my father and the elders did. She was an outspoken critic of the elders. This did not breed good will. With the elders or my father.

  Long story short, she got DF'd for fornication, after parents divorced. She strongly encouraged college and not being dependent on any man. At the same time, I was going to the KH being told that as soon as I could marry, I would be "in subjection." My mother is reinstated and quiet now. She does not question the elders or why she is treated like an idiot. They have finally sapped the energy and vibrancy from her. It is scary.

  I do not claim to have answers. I do have opinions. As I recently told my mother, I hate the JW's. The split message I received at home and at the KH really messed up my thinking. On one hand, I do not want to be "in subjection", on the other hand, I have an inferiority complex that I would guess many JW females harbor.

  This type of treatment of women has been brought to light with the Taliban. I liken the JW to them, as many posters here have.
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  ItsJustMe

  It's especially humiliating when a sister begins conducting arrangements with a head covering in, a brother shows up late, and insists on finishing.

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  aChristian

  For any here who may be interested, this subject matter was discussed in another recent thread. In that thread I posted an article which shows, (quite clearly I think, and several there seemed to agree) that Paul was actually a strong advocate for the full equality of women within the Christian Church. The New Testament passages which seem to indicate otherwise were not Paul's words but were the words of others he was citing for the purpose of refuting, which he did in the context of every such passage. That article can be read here, in the fourth post from the top:
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17102&site=3
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  thewiz

  women ain't nuthin' but a bagga bones and a tuft of hair
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  thewiz

  My Dad would not sign my younger sister to go into vocational school for hairdressing, because he said, "She was just going to grow up and get married."

  She forged his name, and she NEVER married.

  I couldn't go to a college prep high school, because my father said I was not going to college anyway. And then when I graduated from the high school I did go to My father insisted that I was still not going to college, anyway. I certainly had the ability, before my mathematics teacher could rattle off a verbal problem I had the answer as soon as he finished. I took an advanced trigonometry in a local state college when I was 16 and passed with flying colors.

  I tell you it does real damage to your self esteem. It destroyed me, and does 'til this day. Ask me what 2+2 is and sumtimes I can't answer it.

  Sumbitchen' WTBS.

  Biology came like butter Teacher were perplexed why I wasn't going to college

  He said I was destined to become a missionary in Quebec which is why he forced me to take French in HS. Parlez-vous francais?

  Over 20 years later he insists that he wanted me to go to college.

  full of shit!!!!
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  Pubsinger

  Why do brides get married in white?

  Because all kitchen appliances come in white!

  he he! Just kidding!
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  Prisca

  Why are women's feet smaller than men's?
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  So they can stand closer to the sink!
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  Pubsinger

  Why did the woman cross the road?

  Never mind the road. What was she doing out of the KITCHEN in the first place!
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  funkyderek

  What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?

  Nothing, you've told her twice already.

  --
  "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794.
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  Sky

  LOL! Derek, now that was FUNNY!
  Kisses,
  Sky