Posts by Dragonlady76

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Baby's "second head" removed -- no moral issues described?

by AlmostAtheist in

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in this news article, a baby is described as being born with a second head, referred to as "the parasite".

as a parent, i would have had a hard time looking at this under-developed conjoined twin as a "parasite".

it really looks like a second child, though one incapable of independant life.

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I am not sure how I feel about this one, Yes it isn't viable on its own, but it has a brain and it is attached to a living twin, many conjoined twins share organs and would die without the other half, but being just a brain makes it very difficult, I don't think we can really judge as we don't know how the family must have felt and what caused them to come to that decision. In addition we have not observed the child to see what the quality of life is and how the other head affects and interacts with the child, it may just hang there and do nothing.

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"A PREDATOR'S TOOLKIT" (& you won't find these tools @ Ace Hardware either)

by abbagail in

i ran across this "predator's toolkit" the other day and i thought it was right-on.

a predator's toolkit .

chapter seven from .

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Thanks for posting this, makes my skin crawl, but as a parent of a young son I would like to know what to watch out for.

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Things That Youths Hate About Being A JW:

by Englishman in

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1. everyone in the congregation knows that you're still a virgin.. englishman.

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Not being able to have a normal upbringing.

No school sports or activities, running into class mates in field service, not having personal time to yourself due to org obligations.

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Has being a JW...

by the_classicist in

... ruined certain words for you?

words like "the truth," "watch tower," "jehovah.

" each time i hear words like these get a strange mental reaction.

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Yeah I feel weird when I hear words that remind me of my lost childhood thanks to the org.

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Why would you want to kill the org?

by what_Truth? in

i know that there's a lot of people here who have been deeply hurt by the jehovah's witnesses (i have as well).

i also know that the gb are a bunch of lying bastards.

still i have also met a lot of people who have made their lives much better by becoming jehovah's witnesses.

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I Actually look down on them (JW"s) and I don't let them make me feel like they are better than me, because I know they are not.

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Big experiment this weekend.

by JeffT in

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friends

i'm leaving the office early and debbie and i are going to a rented cabin on whidbey island.

we are going to attempt something called "having a life.

" .

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Have fun!

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Hate leaving my family behind.

by Big Dog in

after lurking about for a while i finally decided to join the board.

i have never done anything like this and was amazed at how stressful it was to sign up and press the return key to join up and actually post something.

just a quick bio: 41 year old lawyer who was raised a jw but had the good sense to never get baptized.

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Welcome Big Dog,

I to was raised a JW, but knew it wasn't for me at an early age, I never got baptized and just faded away. My parents still talk to me and I have a good relationship with them. But it does break my heart to think that they are wasting there time slaving for the org. My parents know that I will not go back, as they don't preach to me as much anymore, but they have their moments. My parents are actually my grandparents that raised me from birth, they are quite old now and my dad an (MS) was forced to retire from work, he's always been an activeman, now that he is at home with nothing to do I can see that he gets so much satisfaction from field service and going to the KH and shepperding calls.

Keeping this in mind I have decided to keep my mouth shut, and let him enjoy what time he has left on this earth. I have read so many stories of mean and corrupt JW's(I even know some myself) but my dad is actually a good person that does try to lead a good life, and he is helpful of others even when they are not JW's. They tried to bring me up the best way they knew, I resent having lost my childhood to the org, but I don't resent him. He even gave me away at my wedding (not in a church) but I know that despite him loving the org, he still loves me. And I have come to terms with that

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Jehovahs Witness and the internet

by Dragonlady76 in

i was reading another thread of the high # of defections within the org, and this lead me to question:.

when and if, do you think the org will totally ban jw's use of the internet?.

i think it will happen, they are starting to see a big drop and need to curtail it some how, and they know that many surf the web and come across sites like this, and once people discover all the coverups and the "new light" stuff and personal stories, their are going to be questions that lead to being df'd or da's.

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Those are some good theories and ideas posted but, they are losing lots of folks, (almost 1 mil in 3 years, yikes!) and they have taken a hard line on so many other things, why not the web, They may say at school the kids can use it for educational reasons or at work if you need it, but at home there will be some kind of crackdown.

I doubt org will just allow themselves to continue bleeding like this, and it will get only worse, they need people to make $ for them and spread the word, oh and control every aspect of their lives. (can't forget that!)

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Shunned by the WalMart people greeter!

by heart2heart in

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I am glad you called the manager and let them know what this idiot did.

When I was a young girl maybe 5 or 6 my mom and I were shopping at the grocery store and I saw a lady I recognized as a sisterat our cong, so I told my mom pointed her out and she came towards us and I said hi to her, my mom scowled at her and jerked me away in the other direction and told me I could not talk to her because she had been df'd, I was little and really didn't understand,my parents had just become JW's about a year earlier. Now I think back and wonder how this poor lady must have felt.

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Things that make you feel like a Daddy...

by confusedjw in

last night my daughter (8 years old) came down to the bed with a belly ache.

she has a couple of legit issues which cause belly aches beyond the regular kid stuff.

her poor little face grimaces in pain.. so i had her get into bed, got out my iriver mp3 player, put one of my ear-buds in her ear and one in mine and we listened to music and i rubbed her belly and tapped out the songs we were listening to.

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When my son looks up into my eyes and smiles.

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