You might find some in the local immigrant community who visits family in your wife's old neighborhood. Whenever we or family travel abroad, someone is always sticking in a box of something to take to their family in a nearby town. If you know/trust folks that travel there,that is an option. Or wait till you travel on your own. Folks usually go there loaded with other people's stuff. And come home loaded with a lot of other stuff. Americans get a lot of travel allowance and usually just take mostly gifts with them when they go abroad for family visits, rather than the stuff we take for other kinds of vacations. We plan to take other peoples stuff.
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Shipping items to the Philippines. Does anyone have experience shipping to other countries?
by adjusted knowledge ini live in the usa and want to ship my game consoles (xbox, playstation, wi, ect), laptop, and other items to my wife's family in the philippines.
i've used a company locally that ships there at a fix price of $90 per box.
so whatever i fit in the box will ship at that rate regardless of weight.
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Why We Observe the LordÂ’s Evening Meal - Jan 2015
by berrygerry inany still attending who are going to give a comment about last year's memorial study article?.
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JWdaughter
And they will say until they are blue in the face that they are the only ones who follow the Bible.
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Genuine repentance - if you can fake that you'll avoid getting disfellowshipped
by slimboyfat into paraphrase a well known saying.
is it true, in a judicial committee, if you can fake repentance, then they are likely to let you off being disfellowshipped, almost regardless of the "severity" of the sin involved?
can former elders and perhaps victims of the process shed light on the matter?
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JWdaughter
SBF went back, didn't he? I wonder how it is all working out for him?
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ex jws have you ever been helped by an active jw?
by Crazyguy injust wondering if anyone here that has left, faded away, no longer active in the congregation but not dfd, needed help, money, car, food etc.
and recieved some from an active jw?.
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JWdaughter
Yep. My mom has helped me more than once. I have helped her, too. She is hardcore in some ways but I think that my being DA'd as a teen eases her conscience a bit.
OTOH, we have totally been on the outs with each other too. I hope that is at least an encouragement to some who are going through a rough time currently with JW family. For reasons they aren't going to tell us they wax and wane with their obedience levels.
I'm thinking aging is working in our favor in this aspect of our lives. both of us! We are realising tht some battles aren't worth the casualties.
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What Was Your Body of Elders Like?
by minimus inwere they pretty much a good group of men?
we're they jerks?.
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JWdaughter
Some nice guys. Tried to get me to go along with them during my JC, but they were so irrational-and I was the 15 year old. . . no way.
I mostly remember the oldest one Brother S. Nice, stern, the guy in charge. All the rest were . . .not so much. The only really evil guy was an MS (now an Elder) who abused his wife dreadfully. Cheated folks, used his position, good looks and got away with stuff. Another MS(now elder) was clearly just in this for show. Makes him look good to have a position, makes his wfie happy, good networking.
Some of the guys were sweethearts, some were clueless. Just men. Our elders were deluded or fakes. One told the truth about 1975 and got kicked out.
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JWdaughter
Great!!!
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Non J-Dub child???
by J-DUBBED inthis in canada not the u.s. (if there is any law difference).. is there any legal way to keep away or restrain the j-dub step mother bitch from an innocent little four year old girl?
we have recently got wind of the j-dub bitch man-handling her by grabbing her by the face, scolding her, yelling at her.
it has been said that the father does nothing about it.
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JWdaughter
Contact CPS. If she is physically or emotionally abusing the little girl, that has nothing to do with religion. Leave religion out of it and document the abuse that the authorities understand. Child protective services give leeway to religion that they perhaps shouldn't, but physical abuse is not negotiable.
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BRITAIN - A High Court Judge has ruled that a Jehovah's Witness boy can receive a Blood Transfusion
by jwleaks inbritain - a high court judge has ruled that the son of two jehovahs witnesses can be given a blood transfusion despite religious objections from his parents.. mr justice moylan was told by doctors that the very young boy had suffered severe burns in an accident and might need a blood transfusion.
the judge concluded that a blood transfusion would be in the youngsters best interests in spite of the deeply held views of his mother and father.. the judge said a health trust with responsibility for treating the boy had asked for a ruling.
he did not name anyone involved and did not give the childs age.. judgment - www.jwleaks.org/blood/case-no-fd14p00803.
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JWdaughter
Sacrificing a child to make ones own perverted religious point-I do think there is a similarity, but a limited one. Using a child as a tool to kill others is even worse to humanity. As an act to try appease a false idea of some insane God who requires you do do it though, it is equally insane. Both parents are doing it to earn points with men (not actually God). God doesn't require it biblically or in the quran. These acts are constructs of men to control other men.
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Elders removed in Northern PA. Congregation
by ToesUp ina close family member just informed me what happened during their last c.o.
visit.
this occurred 3 months ago.
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JWdaughter
I think a reinstatement is when a person repents. I think a reversal is like being exhonerated=DNA proves innocent kind of thing. Wrongfully DF'd.
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Finally Gave My First Anti-Witness After 11 Years
by new light inhello one and all.. the local jws had a booth set up at my university today and something just came over me.
i went to a computer, found a list of failed prophecies, printed and stapled it, and walked over to the middle aged woman and the 10-ish years old girl.
the woman said "if you are interested in anything, take it for free.
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JWdaughter
We all had some kind of seed planted, and the ones planted with some care and thoughtfulness as to how they land are a lot more effective than crazy people screaming at folks going into meetings or the memorial and causing scenes. The crazy responses justify their claims of persecution and satanic influence. A loving approach forces folks to think.