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would you reveal info about what you consider to be the worst turnoffs re: people you've dated?
frannie b
Sens, *I* have....thought about it....serial killers, such as Bundy, are notorious for relying on their charm and seeming innocuous behavior to seduce women into becoming their victims.....they HAD to have learned constraint from *somewhere*...
Frannie B (with quivering toupee like the "Frightened Family" from Saturday Night Live class)
was anyone you know's entire faith in all things jw shattered by one specific incident or teaching?
or was anyone you know's faith squeezed from them by systematic taunting for not towing the line?.
for me it was a whole combination of things, not one specific incident, and it was gradual.
1. The BOE "da'd" my UNBAPTISED oldest son for getting in legal trouble, after they made lipservice to contacting him for upbuilding purposes without any followthrough, and refused to notify him of the "da-ing", leaving it up to me to be the heavy when he returned with the determination to pick up their "torture stake" and be a good little jdub. Talk about a SUCKER PUNCH!!!
2. The BOE and cong. members ridiculed my partaking as one of the anointed, had cong. members spy on us and repeatedly refused to allow my youngest to be baptised when he sincerely made the effort to qualify. Their excuse was that he had been seen by elders' children eating with worldly classmates and heard cursing (things which the elders' children also did)
3. I was publicly, though anonymously, ridiculed from the platform by the circus serpent for attempting to help my youngest son attain a baptised status. He referred to it as "nepotism" in his denigrating diatripe. I guess God's a nepotist, too.
4. I was witness to MANY, MANY acts of blatant unkindness and cruelty on the part of BOE's and cong. members...toward those who were deemed "weak". Also, acts of obscene and public displays of fighting among the members of an elder's family.
5. I witnessed a public verbal "flogging" by a cong. per-sniding overleer during what was supposed to be a disf-ing talk, when a pioneer sister was df'd (sobbing her heart out) for fornication, when the P.O. GRAPHICALLY and majorly deridingly described the sights, sounds and smells that must have occurred during the offending act, while the guilty young bro who participated in the act, merely got mentioned as publicly reproved. I wish I'd given 'em the whole "flock" of "birds" for that one.
6. I discovered that the chapter in John which covers Jesus saving the adultress from stoning by an angry mob by saying "Let the one among you without sin, cast the first stone..."....those verses in toto were in FINE PRINT in the Gnu-Whirled Translation...and upon researching DECADES of volumes of WT's and Awakes, I found that those verses had NEVER been mentioned or referred to in ANY of their publications......WHY? They LOVE to hate.
This isn't all...it's just the main ones....I'll add more tomorrow.
Frannie B
would do or accomplish, if you could?
i'm speaking of something that you either think or know is beyond your present capabilities or circumstances?.
i would fly autonomously, if i could.. frannie b.
Smurfette, I quit watching Oprah after I wrote her a letter depicting the horrible trauma my son had in school over an unidentified learning disorder, which resulted in him almost having a nervous breakdown (he was plucking out his eyebrows, shaving his head, and screaming...aged 12 yrs. old), because of the abuse he'd received from teachers and school authorities for 6 yrs. instead of the help he needed. The "show" sent me a form letter thanking me for watching their show in reply.
Frannie B
would do or accomplish, if you could?
i'm speaking of something that you either think or know is beyond your present capabilities or circumstances?.
i would fly autonomously, if i could.. frannie b.
Yah, Tink....sens' post made me feel selfish, too....but maybe I could make up for it by flying "care" packages full of food to the hungry, beginning right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Actually, though, what I've always wanted to do in a philanthropic way since I was a small child....is to be like a fly on the wall, listening in on people's conversations, so I'd know what problems they were having and fix their problems for 'em.
Frannie B
anything that you've regretted, that "if only" you could take it back, you would??
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My 2002 Chevy Malibu.....and get a Toyota or Nissan instead.
Frannie B
would do or accomplish, if you could?
i'm speaking of something that you either think or know is beyond your present capabilities or circumstances?.
i would fly autonomously, if i could.. frannie b.
would do or accomplish, if you could? I'm speaking of something that you either think or KNOW is beyond your present capabilities or circumstances?
I would fly autonomously, if I could.
Frannie B
we have all read and watched so many of the child abuse / sexual abuse scandals, and it makes us all sick to our stomachs, i want to touch on a different kind of abuse, i am not trying to draw a parellel between child abuse and being abused.
the abuse i am talking about is just as bad but so different.
i remember growing up a jw, basically having no choice, whether i wanted to go to the meetings or in service, and i always resented this in my parents.
Weren't we ALL psychologically abused into doing everything the GB wished us to do? From the Platform? At every gathering? Weren't we even coached to informally keep psychologically abusing one another to keep putting the (publishing) Kingdom first? While they chose to call it "encouragement", it still reeks of psychological abuse....emotional blackmail....
Frannie B
i'm starting early this year cuz i want to have a rockin halloween.
i''ve been the devil, the grim sweeper, medusa, an alien,...i was thinking this year maybe one of those warriors from lord of the rings...and what are you going to be this halloween, or do you even celebrate the spooky day?.
sincerely,.
hmmmm, Valis...If I were preggers, it'd be SO much easier to decide...I'd just wear a plum-colored body suit and a felt "green leaf" hat and go as an Eggplant...
Frannie B
i have just finished reading for the 2nd time "who wrote the bible" by friedman and american professor but first published in london.
he gives solid evidence that the pentateuch was written by 4 writers who are called j, e, p and d --- and so on -- traditionally of course written by moses.
my question is 2-fold .
Earthling men.
Frannie B
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jehovah's witnesses must "believe" whatever the watchtower bible & tract society publishes.
now that you aren't forced to accept beliefs that you might not have wholeheartedly endorsed, there must be many different things that you don't accept.....what comes to mind?
More 'n more....every day, Min....every day.
Frannie B
