This almost not worth a reply. However, I as a college educated African-American (Black, with some indian, and some other stuff just in case someone wants to know.), I don't really care if there is a "whites only" scholarship. I just wonder if the Irish person who doesn't get the scholarship will hate the Polish person who does. Or maybe the Italian person who gets it will be sued by the Swedish person who doesn't get it. I hope that no one forgets to give the Hungarians, Poles, Yuogslavians, and Germans, not to mention the Dutch, Norwegian, and whoever else are descendants of the European continent there fair shot at this scholarship. Are there degrees of whiteness? Can someone be whiter than someone else? What are the boundaries that govern whiteness? When will this divisive trash stop making its way into national headlines?
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"whites only" scholarship
by crownboy inthe aclu has recently defended the right of a college republican group to issue a "whites only" scholarship on free speech grounds.
even before knowing the aclu (of which i am a proud member) was involved, my sentiments pretty much mirrored their's.
http://www.riaclu.org/documents/rwucrletter.doc.
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Circuit assembly : The Window for Lying
by metatron inover at channelc, you can find evidence of one of the valued reasons for having circuit assemblies.. they get to lie and deceive - away from the prying eyes of the public.. apparently, a brother novak informed the crowd that phil.
2: 9-11 - in which "every knee shall bend" to christ.
is a command to obey the elders.
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I really don't know much about the higher levels of the organization, but I do know that the elders within the congregation I attended as a child had a host of personal issues. These men who counseled others were drunks, fornicators, and possible child molesters. The wives were gossiping, controlling, hags who constantly competed with each other and put sisters who were more vulnerable through many changes. There was one elder who had a wife who fascinated me beyong belief. This woman could not stay awake during a meeting. I spent countless hours watching her nod off and shake herself awake!!!
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Things you threw away when becoming a witness
by JH inare there any things you threw away when you became a witness that you now regret throwing away?
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eteacher
I can say that being raised a JW almost led me to throw away my GOD given intelligence. I can vividly remember my mother and some of her JW friends tell me that I shouldn't be a nurse because nurses wouldn't be needed in the new system. Well, never mind the fact that I had to feed and clothe myself and my daughter in the old system. I was supposed to follow the path of least resistance and become a pioneer and find a nice boring, possibly perverted, definitely not my type "brother" and get married. Yeah, right!!! When you talk about throwing things away how about the chance to go to my jr. prom, sr. ball, any field trips outside of the Kingdom Hall, any celebrations that acknowledged my existence on this earth, music concerts, how about just throwing your whole teenage life away. Not to mention the wonderful experience of being asked to either stay home or go sit in the library during all birthday parties in your elementary classes. Then of course there is that little thing could your own free will. That is the first thing you throw away when you become part of an organization that requires you to meet 3 times a week for no less than an hour every week, attend assemblies on various weekends which last all day, and participate in an oftentimes embarrassing ritual of knocking on strange people's doors to be verbally and sometimes physically abused. Well, thanks for allowing my to vent. Big ups on the topic!!!! By the way after leaving the organization I had 2 more children by a total jerk, which probably was a direct result of my insecurity and my inability to think for myself. I was so happy to be away from my mother and that organization I clung to the most awful person I had ever met. However, I can attest to the fact that there is life after the JW's and bad controlling relationships. I went to college at the age of 24 and earned a B.A. in English Lit and am now working as a substitute English teacher in an inner city. GOD has been good to me even when the JW's were not.
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What's The Best Way To Help A Witness Leave The Organization?
by minimus inany suggestions?????
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eteacher
This another timely topic. I can say from personal experience that the fear and intimidation tactics used against people who want to leave are intense. When I left the organization JW's would drive by my house. These friends of my mother would show up in grocery stores where I was shopping. I actually was visited by some people in field service who knew me from the hall. It is not easy to leave JW's because they are master's of pshychological intimidation and control. One would have to have a strong sense of self, but most importantly a strong connection with GOD to RUN not Walk away from this organization.
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am I welcome here?...I am not JW
by Jokemyster inor an apostate..hate that term..i walked away from it, i dont believe any of it anymore.
so who is going to be the first to tell me to leave so as not to taint the board?.
i am 48 female married 30 yrs to same man, very moral, no drugs no alcohol no smokes..just common plain jane here..since i dont believe does this make me bad association..if it does i laugh in your face...now having said that and getting past this, sounds like so many here are disgruntled..if so why do you stay?
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LOL I started reading the post and got scared that I had actually joined a pro JW site. I am not anti-JW, however I believe that there are some of the same things going on in the organization as there are going on in the Catholic church. I also question the quality and accuracy of JW literature, most of which I might add seems to written on a fifth grade level ( see the Awake). At any rate this is a cool site and I will be visiting it at least once a day.
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old age and 2034
by galaxy7 inspeaking about 2034 as another end of the world.
im going to be so old by then i probably wont even know what day it is.
i will be so old i wont be able to hobble to the window to see.
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Hello to all!! I liked the past that led this discussion. I will be 64 years old in 2034. I will be happily free of a life of constant fear, repression, and indoctrination, just as I am now.
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My Dad died a few hours ago
by BONEZZ inexcuse me if i ramble...this is hard.
i have even avoided threads in the past where others have had to go thru this because i didn't want to face it.
guess i'm a wuss.
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Hello, I would like to extend my condolences to you and your family. My father died on April 01, 2003 he had been a devoted member of the JW's for many years. He was an intelligent and loving man who was constantly degraded by the brothers in the congregation. The whole elder and overseer hierarchy was disgustingly political in my view. Anyway my mother a hypocritical JW who has had more affairs than Mata Hari held my dad's funeral in the Kingdom Hall. I refused to go because I know how the people there tortured my father by advising him not to have contact with me after I left the organization. I believe that one of the greatest sadnesses of my father's life was his struggle to uphold all of the rules and regulations imposed upon him by JW's. As a black man he already had a hard time in this world, but to be constantly judged and criticized, not to mention watched by people who are supposed to be your Christian brothers and sisters must have been unbearable. I am so happy to say that before my dad died he told me he didn't want to be known as a JW. He just wanted to himself. He started smoking ( I hate that habit), and he just started living life on his own terms. This website is greatly appreciated by myself, and once again my deepest sympathies in your time of loss .