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  S*its about to hit the fan with my in-laws

  by pratt1 in

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  brief history:.

  both my wife and i have faded from the borg for about 10 years.

  we still maintain close relationhips with the dubs in our family on both sides.. my wife's sister has not only faded, but she has become an ordained minster, thus my mother in law calls her an "apostate" and refuses to have any contact with her.. her 4 year old daughter will stay with my family for about 2 weeks in august.

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  Pratt,

  Youre right. It is the right of your sil to determine who should come in contact with her daughter. Your dear wife doesnt have the right to covertly take her niece to see her mother/grandmother, especially if the grandmother is actively shunning the niece's mother.

  I think your wife wants, for some reason to keep peace with her mother, but if her sister finds out this will blow up in your dear wife's face. Does she really want to take that chance?

  If your mil is pressuring your wife to see the child tell your wife to push it off on the sil, say something like this:

  "I'm sorry Mom but "Sally" wont let me bring little Sally over."

  That way she won't have to feel guilty, she's telling the truth, and she avoids pissing off the sister. Grandma may be upset but if she really wants to see the niece she should contact the mother of the niece and not take the wimp's way out.

  Josie
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  boss

  by Cupcake in

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  hi all hows it going .

  im having problems with my boss.... i dread going to work theres always some drama ging on there hes in my business all the time personal that is... he makes comments to others about how im private stock and so on and so forth yet denies hes even doing anything wrong.

  he gets mad if i talk to others (males) at the work place and also gets upset when i get phone calls (males) ive been with the company for about 6 years i am a hard worker all see this around me yet he treats me like crap what should i do?

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  small companies are federally exempt from sexual harassment claims

  
  No Diamond I dont think that is really true. I'd have to look it up but I really doubt that is true. Cupcake needs to stand up to her boss if she really wants that job, or look for another job, and go to legal aid (which is free) and get some legal advice on the sexual harassment laws in California.

  Josie
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  "Candy Eatin' Curtain Climbers!"

  by jeanniebeanz in

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  did anyone else have funny expressions for toddlers in their families?

  this one was one of my favorites and i'd love to hear yours.

  jean

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  I call my 22 month old "the short escape artist" - he can pop out a screen with one hand in 2 seconds and he knows how to unlock the front door and the patio sliding door. I dont leave any windows open except for the kitchen window, it's too high, but give him time.

  Josie
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  Why would someone who has disassociated allow their child to be taken to KH

  by Agnes in

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  i just read the listeners post about baptisms at the district conventions and didn't want to disrupt the thread.

  i'm curious, why would someone allow their child to attend the kh or district convention and possibly be pressured into getting baptized?

  agnes

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  My kids and the kingdom hall - they hated it

  Josie
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  boss

  by Cupcake in

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  hi all hows it going .

  im having problems with my boss.... i dread going to work theres always some drama ging on there hes in my business all the time personal that is... he makes comments to others about how im private stock and so on and so forth yet denies hes even doing anything wrong.

  he gets mad if i talk to others (males) at the work place and also gets upset when i get phone calls (males) ive been with the company for about 6 years i am a hard worker all see this around me yet he treats me like crap what should i do?

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  Cupcake if you know your stuff why the hell not?

  Josie
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  light skin: so much for intelligent design...

  by googlemagoogle in

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  ... and evolution, by the way.

  if we were designed by an intelligent creator, why the heck do we light-skinned people get burnt to death when the sun is shining?

  not very intelligent design... .

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  Missjones5. With all due respect, the reason that your family doesn't disapprove of mixed race relationships is that it is the product of one. it also goes without saying that if your friends had a problem with this arrangement they wouldn't have made friends with you in the first place. I'm sorry, but I feel this is a pretty poor criteria to judge a society that for the most part made it illegal for a black man and white woman to sit side by side at a resturaunt until just over 40 years ago. That may not seem relevant until you consider that bi-racial people are usually considered black across the board. This is changing now that people like Tiger Woods and Strom Thurmond's illigitimate daughter have publicly chosen different labels for themselves.
  
  
  I'm not on the outside looking in either. My wife is black and we have two bi-racial children. Also, my grandparents on my dad's side were a mixed black/white couple as well. When people around our neighborhood, both black and white, give us the same stare that JW's usually reserve for the disfellowshipped it shows that things are still somewhat taboo, at least in some places.
  
  
  For those that are interested, here are some sites related to a community of so-called mixed people. While their tone isn't as extreme as what I've suggested I think it's only a matter of time before this changes.

  
  
  Sorry but none of what you just said swayed me. I guess you dont know that I am African American and know quite a bit about the race relation issues in my own country.
  Thank you so much for your short and sweet synopious of the "Jim Crow" laws, lordy I didnt know whites and blacks couldn't sit at the same lunch counter or couldnt even drink water from the same drinking fountion! Shut my mouth! Can you say "sarcasm"? My mother's family is from Sheveport, Louisana and my father's family is from Oaklahoma. Can you say former slaves and sharecroppers? In my humble opinion those of us black folks (I'm speaking of those of African heritage in the Americas) who are trying to expound the "mixed race" sub group are just looking for another way to divide us. I really dont give a hoot if someone is mixed, hell all of my family is mixed, so is my husband's family. I have seen none of what you are speaking of. I have not seen a trend of discrimination against mixed race women. On the contrary mixed race women in this country seem to be greatly admired i.e. Halley Berry (a mixed race woman - her mother is white and her father is black), Mariah Carrey (her mother is white and her father is black), Naomi Campbell (Asian mother and African father), Sade (English mother and African father), I could name more but why should I.
  
  Basicly it comes down to this...I think what ever issue youre trying to put forth is a crock of you know what.
  
  Funny how you had to show me just how "black" you are

  
  Josie
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  boss

  by Cupcake in

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  hi all hows it going .

  im having problems with my boss.... i dread going to work theres always some drama ging on there hes in my business all the time personal that is... he makes comments to others about how im private stock and so on and so forth yet denies hes even doing anything wrong.

  he gets mad if i talk to others (males) at the work place and also gets upset when i get phone calls (males) ive been with the company for about 6 years i am a hard worker all see this around me yet he treats me like crap what should i do?

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  Start looking for another job...you owe your boss nothing other than a 2 week notice.

  Josie
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  There were some good things about the organisation...

  by Do I Stand Alone? in

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  i have read a number of experiences in this discussion forum and quite frankly, i would have to agree that many, if not all, were pretty terrible experiences if not all together traumatic.

  i know that my personal 9-11 tragedy resulted in finding out that the watchtower society was involved with the united nations.

  that pretty much said it all as far as my "career" in the organisation was concerned.

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  • You were a public speaker

  No I hated the ministry school and refused to sign up even though my mother bugged me about it.

  You were studious and disciplined

  No, didn't become studious and disciplined until I returned to Design school...it was more fun.

  You were a "salesperson"

  Nah, hated field service too. But ironically I am now a Mary Kay consultant, but it is loads more fun than peddling magazines and I get paid for it too!

  You have computer skills and savvy

  No, wrong again. Learned my computer skills on the job, sorta specialized field that I would have never learned just being a jw.

  Sorry I just dont seem to pan out your theory.

  Josie
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  Reply on some good things in the organisation...

  by Do I Stand Alone? in

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  my motivation was not to "recruit" for the watchtower society.

  i thought i made it clear when i stated that i am no longer one of jehovah's witnesses anymore and that i am on your side.

  however, the impression i am getting is that no one is really understanding what i am getting at.

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  I am proud to say that any marketable skills in my career path that I have for gainful employment did not come from the jws. Do you know any jws who are patternmakers who can knock off a garment from Macys?

  Josie
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  A newbie's impression on this board, pros and cons

  by smelly onions in

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  cons.

  i don't know who is scarier, the jw's or some people on this board.

  man, r u guys bitter?

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  Yet many of you opted to leave the org and thus your families. So in truth your hatred of the org is greater than your love of your family.

  Smelly Smelly Silly Smelly,

  There you go with those blanket statements again. Will you ever learn? I think not. I'm not going to tell you my personal circumstances except to tell you I dont fit into your nice neat scenario and I'm gonna let you twist in the wind and try to figure it out.

  Heehee Silly Smelly *wagging finger*

  Josie