Dragonlady76

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  JWs and adoption

  by bebu in

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  what are your thoughts about jws adopting children?

  has anyone here adopted children while a jw?

  what are your views about this?.

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  Don't try to compare that to making them put on clean clothes and sit quietly at meetings. Trust me, I am no JW defender, but having to go out in service is nothing comapred to a one-year-old left for three days without food, cleaning, or any other attention while the mother is out on a bender

  For this reason these kids are taken from their parents, and the goal should be to place them in a as close to possible "normal" warm loving enviornment. Once again I will say that a JW home is not a "normal" enviornment. These kids need a very stable, stimulating and safe home life. I am not saying that JW parents are bad, but what I am saying is that why take them from one bad enviornment and stick them in a mentally trying and damaging enviornment with the possibity of a dangerous situation? ( Can mean blood refusal or having kids unknowingly come into contact with pedophiles. ) I'm sure you adopted with the best intentions and you have done a beautiful thing in helping a child, but remember that their are many other prospective JW's wanting to adopt out there that may not be as sympathetic or level headed as you are. So once again this puts you in the minority, in this case a very good one.

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  admit it

  by tijkmo in

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  you get annoyed when one of your threads peters out...or you make a comment on someone elses thread and it goes unacknowledged....but isnt it great when an old thread you'd forgotten about gets ressurected

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  I really hate when somebody sh*ts all over your thread. They start having a personal conversation off topic or something like that.

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  Be glad then that your not posting on JWO, the sisters over there highjack threads and start conversations on them, it's rude and inconsiderate to the person that took the time to start a topic. If you need to chit chat or want to talk about something else then use the chat room or IM.

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  Is Michael Jackson INNOCENT??

  by breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i am sure this is not new topic, but today seems to open the ???

  , is he just a target because of his wierd behavier.. i want to think he is innocent????.

  the press in this country is sometimes off the center of the subject.....maybr not representing the real truth....???.

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  Where there's smoke, there's fire.

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  JW's Make News Eating Hospital Food

  by professor in

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  after all of those hoagies and shasta colas, hospital food sounds good!

  http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2284088p-8663284c.html.

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  I have fond memories of Shasta cola

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  Have you made "true friends" over the internet?

  by JH in

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  let it be this forum or any other, have you made "true friends" over the internet?.

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  I personally can say that I have.

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  JWs and adoption

  by bebu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what are your thoughts about jws adopting children?

  has anyone here adopted children while a jw?

  what are your views about this?.

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  Buster the above vent is not an attack on you, merely my veiw on this topic.

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  JWs and adoption

  by bebu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what are your thoughts about jws adopting children?

  has anyone here adopted children while a jw?

  what are your views about this?.

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  Sometimes I think we blow the blood issue out of proportion.

  I would think you are in the minority regarding your veiw Buster. There is no way in hell that the JW's draconian and ridiculous veiws on blood transfusions are in any way shape or from acceptable, it's one thing to have your own kids and raise them in a cult, but to adopt an innocent child and bring it up in a cult with the possibilty of that child having to die due to blood refusal is not blowing things out of proportion, it is a very real possibilty. I have known people who died for blood refusal in the name of Jehovah, but a child? Give me a break! Kids do things to seek acceptence and please their parents, now ask yourself would a child not raised as a dub refuse a life saving blood transfusion? I agree that their are many kids in the care of the state and they need a home, but why put them into a JW home were they will be brainwashed and controlled? Further more these kids will not have friends, sleep overs, birthday parties, holidays, sports, academics,clubs and any sort of extracurricular activities, except field service. No they will have 5 hours a week to look forward to sitting at the boring a** kh and a bunch of back stabbing phony friends. Let's also not forget corporal punishment, JW's swear by "spare the rod and spoil the child" The state I know for a fact does not want corporal punishment used with these kids, but I can tell you from expirience that my aunt and uncle used corporal punishment on their two daughters, the sad thing is that these girls were hard to place because they were biracial, had been sexually molested and beaten. How this has affected them is yet to be seen. And heaven forbid these kids decide to stop being a JW, because we all know then that their adoptive parents love will only be conditional. Now is that healthy? I don't think the states want to take traumatized or normal kids and stick them in that kind of enviornment, and I applaud many states for taking a stance against the JW's and adoption.

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  Update on whyamihere and the little guy

  by HadEnuf in

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  good news.

  whyamihere and my son's little guy will be coming home from the hospital (hopefully) later this afternoon.

  he has regained 2 lbs.

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  AWESOME

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  are we god's imaginary friends?

  by Bas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  or is god our collective imaginary friend?

  which one is it?

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  A good friend of mine has this observation: "The Ant Farm"

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  Is there a slowdown in congregation get togethers?

  by truthseeker in

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  i was just reading thelisteners post from an earlier thread, and it got me thinking just how little time dubs have to associate togther.. it seems to be more and more the fact, that the only time dubs see each other to "associate" - if you can even call it that - is at meetings and conventions.. even at conventions though, the dubs are told not to go outside for lunch, regardless of whether it is a nice day of not.

  (note, this may not be true at all conventions).

  where is a jehovah's witness supposed to get this period of refreshment so he can do more?

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  A few years ago, my congregation rented out a hall and had "Talent Night" - it happened once. Nothing has happened since then.

  I only wish we could have had some thing like this at least once, growing up at my old hall. The only get togethers we had were the Theocratic Ministry school ,the Sunday meeting and the book study.

  The only times I ever remember anything remotely festive was a baby & bridal showers. A few anniversary dinners for the kh's elite couples, and of course weddings. My parents are nice people and they loved to cook and have some folks over, but it was always the same brothers and sisters.

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