oh i do enjoy a good laugh.
i watched the naked gun movie last night i was surprised at.
how funny it still is or maybe i was just in the mood for some silliness.
Oh I do enjoy a good laugh. I watched the Naked Gun movie last night I was surprised at
how funny it still is or maybe I was just in the mood for some silliness. Leslie Neilson is so
funny the way he plays it straight. In the beginning of the movie a cop gets shot (O.J Simpson?)
and gets sent to the "Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle" Hospital soo funny.
We all need to laugh more.
What is yor fave comedy?
i just have 2 questions regarding the u.s law around sex abuse.. (1) in this country it is quite common for the events of a sex abuse trial, to have suppression orders placed on it.
one i can think of was when the offender was given name suppression because to identify the abuser would also mean identifying the victim, so hence both were given name suppression.
now with regard to the out of court settlements and gag orders by the watchtower, and yes i do realise that the wt would have the most to benefit by doing this.
Sounds like this religion dealt you quite a shitty hand Blondie. Sorry you and many others have to live with that.
What is paticularly cruel is the men in the congregation the family "heads" blah, blah are supposed
to be the ones protecting the flock. Truly wolves in sheeps clothing.
the desert areas of central australia, the so-called 'red heart' of the nation, still has a significant population of original australians.
and many of them seem to have difficulty with the law.*.
that's a very brief and simplistic introduction to this video of prison guards in the alice springs jail, manhandling a young boy.
Indigenous Australians, especially up north have many struggles with
alcohol and drug abuse mental health issues crippling poverty and unemployment
domestice violence, children born with feotal alcohol syndrome and the list goes on and on.
This kind of generational abuse and dysfunction is so sad and I wish there were easy answers
but sadly there are not. The police and guards have a difficult job to do .
i just need to vent.
i want to scream from the rooftops right now.
life is hard enough when you battle blood cancer but is an unnecessary evil put upon good people by this evil cult.
This is awful.
We had five different sisters die in my cong because of not taking heart meds, going the natropath route.
As well as leaving hospital and refusing treatments. The cong stood by and did nothing to encourage
taking better care of ones health. Two of the sisters died at home and were discovered by non- witness
neighbours a week later.
Oh this religion is dangerous.
i've been out nearly two years but it's not out of me.
i am on school holidays now til february so i thought without work to worry about i can come off my medication.
i phased it slowly, starting in early november to avoid the physical side effects of coming down.
I feel your pain Julia, I have real trust issues myself since leaving a year ago.
And dare I say it "men" issues. Which I didn't have before becoming a witness.
I do not consider myself a feminist as I quite like men, and I have always gotten along with them, better
than other women actually. But in the congregation women's opinions are neither needed nor wanted.
We are not viewed as having any value apart from homemaker or support system for the men.
At worst, the mysogynist elders viewed women as bad, mad or irrelevant.
This really eats into your self esteem, and you can start to believe it yourself.
It can really hard tapering off meds and that can affect mood as well.
Just take it day by day, that's what I am doing, waking up and leaving the truth is a big deal
it takes time for the grieving process to run it's course, give yourself time and patience and love.
is being a "good" elder the same as being a "good" catholic priest?.
is there any difference between representing the rcc and representing that other bastion of child abuse the wt?.
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Thanks terry, that does sound informative.
christians, should i attend kingdom hall meetings to discreetly "preach" to jws about the real jesus and the lies of the watchtower?.
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i plan to go undercover and plant seeds into them.. .
There are posters here that not only attend meetings,they help with "presiding" over them,
maybe they could answer your question, as to the best way to live amongst JWs while pretending
to be one of them.
i was just considering the copyright issues that the wtbts impose on other people and thought about their so called appointment of the fds as discussed in matthew 24:45 "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics ?.
this is how tje governing body identify the domestics.
who, then, are the domestics ?
Interestingly the W states that "the domestics are simply those who recieve sprirtual food..."
Well that rules out JWs then, aint no "spiritual food" being served there.
so i noticed something the other day on facebook.. a group of "sisters" in several neighboring congregations got their young daughters together for a "girls day", to spend some quality time together.
now this group, of whom i know many, is composed mainly of elders' and ministerial servants' wives.
the general theme, or focus of the "party" was to build gingerbread houses with the kids.. ok, no big deal right?
There is a local sister who owns her own business and puts up christmas decorations in the window each year.
One of the brothers complained to the elders and CO only to be told it was "just part of her job she wasn't
actually celebrating".
Bloody hypocrites!
hey guys!
here's what i found to be the best way (for me at least) to debate jw's without earning the laber of apostate.
this is mostly valid when debating jw's that don't know you personally, but it could help with those that do too.
I found I need to a bit careful with the old "defend your faith approach", because many
witnesses now (especially ones baptised post 2010) are not familiar with this concept of
being able to "defend" their beliefs in any way. They are very surface level and are supicious
of anyone that probes too deeply on subjects.
