JustTickledPink

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  Is your family close??...

  by Hecklerboy in

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  i was talking to a good friend of mine the other night on the phone and i was telling him about my wife wondering why my family isn't very close.

  when we started thinking about it we both decided it was because we grew up jw's.

  i would love to be closer to my family, but it just seems we have nothing to talk about.

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  My JW mother is one of 10 kids, 9 of them are baptized, it always puzzled me how we never visited, they never visited us, and how lonely and alone I always felt. I met some of my family growing up, but no, we were never close. I have no memories of trips or weekends with them or anything. I went back for a funeral and it was so strange, these fleshly brothers and sisters hanging out with nothing to talk about or do except read the latest Watchtower.

  I married into a close family though and I'm very happy to finally have that now.
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  it's funny how people who hate the jw's so much stick around the forum..

  by jwbloodline in

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  not hating or directing this at anyone.

  but if you guys hate the jw ways so much, why stick around the forum.

  the internet is full of things to do.

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  JustTickledPink

  Because I hope that someone someday will come along like you and convince me to repent and ask for the elders to reinstate me so that I can once again be an APPROVED publisher.
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  20/20 tonight 12/10 9 pm CST: Sexual Abuse in the Amish Community

  by blondie in

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  it might be helpful to see how another religious community handles sexual abuse..

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  JustTickledPink

  We know it's everywhere. I'm in the law enforcement community.... But the way people of authority HANDLE the abuse is the problem. That is the difference.
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  "New system" questions

  by JustTickledPink in

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  do you remember all the hype about the "paradise" and then the natural questions that followed that no one has answers to... like,.

  "will we have cars in the new system?

  " - uh, well jehovah will provide us with whatever we need.

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  JustTickledPink

  Hondo,

  It's because they say that it was God's ORIGINAL plan when he put Adam and Eve here on the earth and if we will only serve him willingly we can be part of fulfilling his plan. That way, we are proving Satan to be false by being faithful to God.

  It's all about Satan challenging God and God needing his chosen faithful people to fill the earth and make it into a paradise to prove Satan a liar.

  If you don't sign up to do all this, then you are choosing Satan. So it's not really like JWs get a choice of heaven or earth... they are only told it's either earth or become a Satan worshiper.

  And from the way they describe it, we are already living in hell, everything is horrible and everyone is horrid, and the paradise is going to be soooo wonderful. But they talk to people who are very hopeless, so it's very appealing.
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  Say Something Jehovah's Witnessy........

  by minimus in

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  i know there's no such word as "witnessy" but this can be a fun thread.

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  JustTickledPink

  Go "serve where the need is great" (and there are no jobs, no money, and no market)

  the best when at the service meeting reciting "how comely are the feet of those telling the good news"

  I am dying laughing reading all of these. I have forgotten so much!
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  20/20 tonight 12/10 9 pm CST: Sexual Abuse in the Amish Community

  by blondie in

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  2. child-abuse

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  it might be helpful to see how another religious community handles sexual abuse..

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  JustTickledPink

  Very cool.

  My grandparents pre-JW, were Mennonites in the north-western part of Canada. Very similar to Amish and some of my family raised by them, has come out with sexual abuse stories.
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  Do you believe Mary was a virgin?

  by JustTickledPink in

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  2. friends

  my catholic friend and i were talking the other night about the virgin mary.

  she doesn't even believe that she was a virgin and she doesn't believe in the immaculate conception.

  if you think about it logically today, if you had a fiance that went to visit relatives for a few months and then came back pregnant and told you it was god's child, would you believe it?

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  My Catholic friend and I were talking the other night about the Virgin Mary. She doesn't even believe that she was a virgin and she doesn't believe in the immaculate conception.

  If you think about it logically today, if you had a fiance that went to visit relatives for a few months and then came back pregnant and told you it was God's child, would you believe it? Would you still marry her and raise that child and believe he was the son of God?

  OR - would you break off the engagement and tell her you're not gullible.
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  Missed oppourtunities as a JW kid?

  by kwintestal in

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  jw kids are repressed in every aspect of their lives, creatively, intellectually, atheletically...the list goes on.. what did you love to do as a kid, yet weren't permitted to do?.

  i personally loved football as a kid.

  other jw kids and i would play every weekend until the subject was brought up at an assembly as being competitive.

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  JustTickledPink

  I applaud anyone that continues to go to school. 30-40 years from now in your retirement you will be so happy that you did work your butt off and you will at least have a retirement.

  IF you stayed cleaning houses, what retirement do you get then? I remember those good ole days, cleaning houses and hanging wallpaper.
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  What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  periodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".

  smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???

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  JustTickledPink

  I remember that our congregation had a low amount of field service hours and the finally one of the pioneer sisters got DF'd for being apostate and then everyone was talking about her being an apostate is what was hindering the holy spirit and now everyone would have lots more hours and we'd have more blessings.
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  A Badger's Tail, Episode IV (and final)

  by Badger in

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  2. experiences

  episode iv: a new hope

  ?where are we going, man?

  ?i don?t know, but we gotta go.?

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  JustTickledPink

  I love your honesty.