I did think about family names but they really aren't that nice. Actually they are all pretty horrible thinking about it....
FeelingFree
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Girls names
by FeelingFree inok so i know its not really anything to do with jwness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like.
its getting a bit desperate as i'm due in about 8 weeks .. i'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).. **cash prize for the one we choose!
** ....... no not really lol.. .
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Girls names
by FeelingFree inok so i know its not really anything to do with jwness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like.
its getting a bit desperate as i'm due in about 8 weeks .. i'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).. **cash prize for the one we choose!
** ....... no not really lol.. .
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FeelingFree
Thanks Dale very original, thats what we are after!
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Girls names
by FeelingFree inok so i know its not really anything to do with jwness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like.
its getting a bit desperate as i'm due in about 8 weeks .. i'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).. **cash prize for the one we choose!
** ....... no not really lol.. .
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FeelingFree
Ok so I know its not really anything to do with JWness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like. Its getting a bit desperate as I'm due in about 8 weeks .
I'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).
**Cash prize for the one we choose!** ....... No not really lol.
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Happy bonfire night England
by jean-luc picard ini love fireworks even now, so imagine how i was when i was a little boy.. .
i celebrated bonfire night until i was 7. and then i didn't.. .
my parents had become jehovah's witnesses, and realized that bonfire night was wrong.. .
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FeelingFree
Woohoo our first pagen outing and it was fun! Little one loved it
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Happy bonfire night England
by jean-luc picard ini love fireworks even now, so imagine how i was when i was a little boy.. .
i celebrated bonfire night until i was 7. and then i didn't.. .
my parents had become jehovah's witnesses, and realized that bonfire night was wrong.. .
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Me and lurkernomore are going to our first ever firework display with out little one later . Just hope she isn't frightend by the noise!
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Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??
by FeelingFree ini hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
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FeelingFree
Well yes that as well Rattigan350! Of course if they are old enough to know thats what you should do, the case of very young children is a bit different. I expect a lot of kids are afraid to go straight to the police for some of the reasons that MissFit mentions.
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Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??
by FeelingFree ini hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
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FeelingFree
MissFit - What a terrible thing to have to go through. It must of been tough as you didn't know how it was going to effect your lives but I'm sure you know that you really made the right decision in telling someone though even if the out come was out of your control. I hope that you managed to save your youngest sister by telling your foster mother?
I have realised that yes it is viewed as a sin and not a crime, which I sort of get to a point but they are supposed to be in subjection to the superior authorities and the authorities of this world view child abuse as a crime. I'm sure if someone in the congregation had murdered someone it wouldn't be covered up even though this is also a sin in terms of the bible. First and foremost (I'm hoping!) they would call the police as it is for them to deal with the criminal and the justice system not three men in a back room. To me there is no consistancy and bits a pieces of the bible picked to suit their own agenda. This applies to everything within that organisation.
Jerimiah - Thank you for your experience, what an extremely unfair position for you to be put in, which is another reason their policies suck. I'm sure the legal dept don't think twice about the people involved and have a peaceful nights sleep knowing that the buck has been passed to elders such as yourself.
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Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??
by FeelingFree ini hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
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FeelingFree
Cognac - if only more people withing the org were like her!
Vidiot - You were a very wise 10 year old :) glad your dad changed his mind.
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Service meeting week of November 3rd! How to indoctrinate children
by stuckinarut2 inoh yep...here we go..... this weeks service meeting has a part designed to show how children should be indoctrinated and manipulated into going "out in service".
the part first asks for the disturbingly corny cartoon clip to be played on the big screen at the halls: "lets go out in service!".
(if you haven't watched it yet, please go to jw.org and watch it....you simply won't beleive it until you see it!).
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FeelingFree
Urgh that is so distasteful. Unfortunately I used to let my child watch those awful brainwashing cartoons and she loved them :/ so know the one you refer to.
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Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??
by FeelingFree ini hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
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FeelingFree
The level of mind control they use, its a wonder anyone manages to break free from it! I never realised how bad it was until I left as I have always been exposed to a lot of negativity regarding the org by other family members, I could see what they were saying but still thought I wanted to part of it all. I was much more of a free thinker than most and it never went down very well lol.
Im finding all these abuse cases and cover ups very upsetting. Everytime I start to question my decision I just need to think about this subject and know that I cannot be part of something so disgusting.