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  Discipline for Lying -- Opinions Please

  by adelmaal in

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  our daughter is 10 and she is in 4th grade.

  she has been having a tough time this year with schoolwork and she has started early puberty (boobs, acne, pubic hair, crushes on boys, etc.).

  recently, we have been having problems with her lying to us and making up stories/excuses.

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  RichieRich

  If you punish lightly or not at all when the truth is told, then there is no encouragement to lie. Of course, there's little encouragement to avoid trouble, too, since simply admitting it gets you off the hook. So there's got to be some reason and balance in there. I'm only highlighting the way children can become trained to lie, since the consequences are the same either way, with the possibility of simply getting away with it if you lie.

  AMEN! Thats what my parents (mom especially) do. SO freaking typical...
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  Discipline for Lying -- Opinions Please

  by adelmaal in

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  our daughter is 10 and she is in 4th grade.

  she has been having a tough time this year with schoolwork and she has started early puberty (boobs, acne, pubic hair, crushes on boys, etc.).

  recently, we have been having problems with her lying to us and making up stories/excuses.

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  RichieRich

  Ok - I'm just a kid myself. I used to lie about everything. (Now I just lie about JWD, my girlfriend, what I'm doing at night/ after school -- you know- the nonimportant stuff.) The reason why lying is bad is because it betrays the trust you and your mate have with your daughter. When I was about her age, I was caught telling a lie that I can't exactly remember the details of. After mom did her JW browbeating (Jehovah hates a false tongue and will kill you ) My father told me to give me the key I had to our house. He said if I couldn't be trusted to tell the truth about school work, I couldn't be trusted to be in the house by myself. After standing outside for a day (I was only there about an hour) I made the decision that I must never get caught lying. I don't know if this will help yall. But it semi-worked for me. Whatever you do... Don't spank your kids regularrly (its ok for really serious things). I am still quiver when I see my mother holding a belt ... god knows she used to beat the sh!t out of me. But anyways... I hope that helps...
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  what's yo fantasy?!

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  so me and my boyfriend were discussing this last night and i wanted to get y'alls opinion.

  when the org crumbles and falls how do you see it happening?

  i like this idea: the fbi raids bethel, finds a bunch of illegal stuff (money laundering, list of known and active pedophiles, etc.

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  I would like to see my mother follow in my footsteps and leave the truth. I love her but she is so stubborn and so sure of the truth that I doubt she'll ever free herself of the WTBTS teachings. Unfortunately, I can't do much to help her. So I must save myself from the brainwashing, the hypocrisy, and the predjudices that are ever prevalent in JW teachings.
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  Back in the field

  by mtbatoon in

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  if you weren't known to the local congregation and had a list of dubs home addresses in your area, would you go reverse witnessing door to door?

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  To go "reverse Witnessing" would hurt us, the apostates, more than the Witnesses. It just makes us look crazier and makes them look better for turning us in...
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  My Brithday

  by RichieRich in

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  today i am 17. i just feel excited but i can't run up to witnesses and tell them... so instead i'll just quietly celebrate with all my friends on the board.

  thanks guys-- you make life easier.

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  THANKS EVERYONE!

  I appreciate it! You make it bearable to be in the situation that so many of us are in...

  And EL J- do you see that in the back of your post?
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  Bethel Pictures.....

  by RichieRich in

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  i've got all these bethel pics to share with you and i hope i can the good ones posted.

  i will only be posting ones of bethel... cause if you want to see nyc there are other places to do that.. .

  here is the entrance to walkill... another good use of those voluntary donations.. here's the boys doing some work on... bindery equipment i think (at this point i was still half asleep).

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  Are you a nephilim?

  Well, my father would like to think he a rebelling angel, I am of great size and strength, and I do go around fornicating, bulyying, and doing other sorts of tyrannical things. So yeah... I am a nephilim
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  POLL----

  by minimus in

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  how many here have been a jw since the 70's or before?......80's on?

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  Does 88 count?
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  How Do You Discern If Someone Is Telling The Truth or Lying?

  by minimus in

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  what signs do you look for in determining whether someone is really telling the truth, outright lying or possibly using "theocratic strategy"??

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  RichieRich

  I don't know when you left the org but the new TMS book (called the BE book) teaches you how to lie without lieing. But then when you use those strategies in court, school, or defending yourself from your parents, apparently its wrong.
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  Bethel Pictures.....

  by RichieRich in

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  i've got all these bethel pics to share with you and i hope i can the good ones posted.

  i will only be posting ones of bethel... cause if you want to see nyc there are other places to do that.. .

  here is the entrance to walkill... another good use of those voluntary donations.. here's the boys doing some work on... bindery equipment i think (at this point i was still half asleep).

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  RichieRich

  YEs we did go to Stanley- Here's a few pictures from there:

  This is inside the lobby... this whole place used to be a Vaudeville theatre and the witnesses took down all the pics of naked women and put up ones of Bible scenes and whatnot.

  

  This is etched glass in the lobby. While we were touring I was being a dumbass and i was like "Was that here when we bought it?" I'm good at pissing off tour guides.

  

  And finally, what the Stanley is known for... Its chandeliers... I took a lot of pictures but its taking forever to upload them to tinypic.com b/c they are all 5 mp.

  
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  Was Anyone Reinstated But Felt Marked?

  by love2Bworldly in

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  just wondering if any of you experienced what i did years ago when i was reinstated.

  although people were excited about my reinstatement and said things like "welcome home", i could tell when i would see people i used to be close to--that they still treated me differently, almost like i had a disease or something.

  maybe it's because i was married to a non-jw and had a baby by then?.

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  It just depended on who your daddy was and/or whether you had something on one of the elders.

  That is so true! My mother married out of the Truth and so the brothers always treated me like I was carrying some disease or something. All those people who have their heads up the elders ass or are the kids of an elder get away with everything. Perfect example: A sister in our hall who is a year younger than me had a worldly boyfriend. We went to school together so i saw everything that happened. SHe would sneak out of her house at night to be with him, and her older sister even walked in on her having sex... However she was D/Fed or even put on reproof- she never had any actions taken against her. However I get talked to for everything... hunting, fishing, going to worldly parties.... and the list goes on....

  ^^ I know that was off topic... But i felt like saying it.