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  How can you help a family member who wants out of his marriage?

  by Had Enough in

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  i'm so upset i don't know if i'll be able to make sense to you all.

  how do you help a family member when he says he doesn't love his wife and wants to leave her and the kids to find happiness.

  he's young and confused.

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  Yes they've tried counselling (and not elders...he isn't a JW anymore) but not enough sessions to help. I wish he would have stuck with the counsellor longer but felt it was going nowhere.

  The goal of counselling isn't just getting couples back into a loving relationship but also, and it's sounding like this is the case, to easy any separation so channels of communication remain open. This is especially relevant here where kids are involved. I hope that the end result is your relative sorts out his problems and the family stays together but if he isn't expecting counselling to fix his relationship, approaching it as damage limitation may get him back to accepting professional advice.
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  Refusing magazines/books from JW relatives

  by JustTickledPink in

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  recently my mother dropped in on us and in front of other people, very nicely handed me some trinkets aka dust collectors for my house and some wts magazines.

  the way she handed everything to me at once i just held out my hands and took it all.. i threw the magazines away immediately, i consider them trash and don't even want them around... but then decided exactly what i was going to do.

  i am going to buy a yard sale cross or virgin mary statue and give it to my mom.. i specifically told her i don't want any publications and she slipped them in anyways.... so, on that note, she hates any religious icons, i am going to give her something that she doesn't want.

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  I can see where your coming from JTP. My mother and I have a no religion agreement, I don't speak of my beliefs and nor does she. Of course she often does and has tried to slip me the odd WT but I see it as a mothers concern and love for her child even though I can't agree with the dogma that fuels the concern.
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  Charles and Camilla to marry

  by Fe2O3Girl in

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  about time!.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,1409742,00.html.

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  I hope they have a very happy first tax year together (note date). Gawd bless ya yer majesty to be and can we have a day off?
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  In My Time of Dyin'......

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  ever given any thought to your own funeral?

  do you plan to have a memorial service, in a kh?

  or in a church?

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  As long as the disposal of my empty shell is done in the cheapest most environmentally friendly way I don't care. I'll put some money aside for the cardboard coffin and anything that's left over my loved ones can take down the pub.
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  I don't think God is fair./what do u think?

  by wednesday in

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  2. beliefs

  my therapist and i talked about the bible, specifically, adam and eve and their sinning by eating from the forbidden fruit.

  he says it is really a great lesson on consequences of your actions.

  i agreed and we talked at some length about it, but one thing i decided, god was not fair.

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  I have three views on this
  

  1 Adam, Eve and god do not or have never existed and the story is mainly a tool for the oppression of women.

  2 If said deity existed then as a spiritual being we can't oppose our physical reasoning on his actions.

  3 As the designer and creator of the two, god is directly responsible for the actions of his creations. The whole apple tree test wasn't a test of the creation but the creators design. As the test failed the design was imperfect and so god is imperfect.
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  I don't think God is fair./what do u think?

  by wednesday in

  1. watchtower
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  my therapist and i talked about the bible, specifically, adam and eve and their sinning by eating from the forbidden fruit.

  he says it is really a great lesson on consequences of your actions.

  i agreed and we talked at some length about it, but one thing i decided, god was not fair.

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  sorry double post
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  New Australian Witness Forum

  by HawkOwL in

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  hi all, i'm hawkowl, the admin of a brand new board that we have started up in the rainbow region of new south wales, australia.

  if your interested in dropping by and checking us out feel free.

  our board is password protected but i'm sure you'll work it out.

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  I'm sorry that you have lost your faith, believe me your enemy is very smart, so it is no slur on you that you feel this way.

  I don't think the WTBTS is that smart. Gaping holes all over the place.
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  I was a victim of a Baptism Fascist! (were you?)

  by slimboyfat in

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  when i was baptised it was in the kingdom hall pool; i was only a teenager.

  i was baptised by an old elder from a nearby congregation, but next to the pool stood the baptism fascist .

  people in the congregation said my baptism was not valid because of my little toe.

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  Isn?t it like the guillotine where if they fail three times they have to let you go?
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  What I feel about jehovahs-witness.com

  by inquirer in

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  i knew about this site ages ago.

  and i always thought it was a good site.

  there's always an interesting discussion here and there.

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  No no no no no! When you start a post ?What I feel about jehovahs-witness.com? you must tell us what despicable apostates we are and how by turning our backs on the one true organisation we deny ourselves everlasting life with all the other JW's *shivers*. I am forced to welcome you with open arms and give you a ?C+, could do better?.
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  In protest of my JW upbringing ...

  by kwintestal in

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  ... today i choose to eat pancakes.. i don't know why, but i hear it's pancake tuesday, and it sound pagan.. kwin

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  So New Orleans gets the most famous street party in the world and I get fried batter. Sod it I'm putting extra lemon juice on mine to make up for it.