blacksheep
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Fabulous vacation spot
by blacksheep inhttp://www.bethelcoachtours.com/english.htm#top
(for some reason, i'm not able to get a good link)
check out the "bethel classic with dc & holocaust" - sounds like a truly upbuilding trip:
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Will the World ever Die?
by blacksheep induring the last few years, i've progressively observed a phenomenon which i hadn't really seen before in my jw mother.
lately she's been talking about her will, about wanting to get long term care insurance for herself and my dad so they won't be a burden on us kids.... it's like she knows she's going to eventually die in "this system.
" what happened to armageddon's right around the corner??.
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Persecution of JW's Imminent?
by blacksheep inprobably dating myself, but remember all those assemblies/yearbooks, etc., that focused on the possibility that jws would suffer persecution at the hands of nazi-like regimes?
i remember attending an assembly which dramatized jw's being held, as in wwii, as having to make a choice to either "renounce?
" their jwism or die.
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The Passion Christian Hype is Making Me Sick--Thoughts
by blacksheep ini've seen the passion.
thought i'd be moved.
it supposedly has changed people's lives, caused them to confess sins (actually turned themselves in as criminals), etc.. please, can you explain to me why shindler's list didn't inspire such actions?
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Can someone please explain
by blacksheep ini've been out of the org so long that my memory is fading as to exactly what their rationale is for not celebrating thanksgiving.. i was speaking to my dad, whose not a jw but a supporter of it (for my mom's sake), and he was for some reason informing me of my mom and his attempts next week to take a relative (for whom they are caretakers) up to visit my aunt and uncle (several 200 miles away) for thanksgiving.
but he made sure to inform me how my mom and he would not eat with them (they'd go somewhere, like a movie, for a while).
again, forgive me, i've been out too long.
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Violins in rock music?
by blacksheep inso the dixie chicks are abandoning country for rock.
apparently because they're not appreciated or understood by the country music industry and fans.
didn't we have some sort of post-anti-bush discussion about how they were making more money since their ill-fated comments?
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Ban Babycenter.com-- they behave like JWs
by blacksheep inokay, i've been banned/shunned from a website called "babycenter.com".
i've been posting to their debate boards ever since my first child was born three years ago.
in one particular site, they behave very much like jw's (it's a breastfeeding board).
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Has anyone seen the hogwash on this issue on the JW site?
by blacksheep injust out of morbid curiosity i was checking out the wts site on the blood issue.
what particularly stuck out was the "risks" of blood transfusions.
of course they pointed to the hiv debacle as support.
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The Shunning Paradox?
by blacksheep inas i am in the midst of continuing bizarre hot/cold treatment from the jw members of my family, a thought occurred to me.
if my jw family members don't like what i do, feel i've been led down the wrong path, and generally "disapprove" of me, why the heck not just avoid me altogether???
why come into and out of my life in whenever they deem it desireable?.
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What's the deal with not needing Bethelites?
by blacksheep inas a disclaimer, i am an ex-jw (da'd) for about 15+ years, so i really haven't kept up on what's going on in bethel (come to think of it i wasn't really interested in it when i was a jw!
recently, however, one of my relatives (current jw) commented that, although my nephew had applied to bethel (oh what a privilege!
), he was basically told he wasn't needed at this time because they aren't "mailing out the publications" there like they used to.
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