Richie, richie, richie... how did I know...
daystar
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Daughters Prom Pic
by Legolas in.
here is a picture of my daughter on prom night last month.
you have to adjust it i can't figure out how to put it in small
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CAN MEN AND WOMEN JUST BE "FRIENDS"?
by Mary inor will one of them invaribly end up being attracted to the other?
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Look what I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by whyamihere ini cut my daughters hair!
(lol) it was her 1st hair cut..mine too!.
i think i did a good job since i don't cut hair!
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Look what I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by whyamihere ini cut my daughters hair!
(lol) it was her 1st hair cut..mine too!.
i think i did a good job since i don't cut hair!
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Ok we've left the Org - Now what?
by Nellie ini am no longer a witness.
i've told all my worldly friends and my immediate family - my kids have told their friends.
i haven't been to a meeting in over a year (and have no desire to go to one) - but i'm not dad or dfd.
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daystar
6669,
I have to admit that I tend to group Secular Humanism along with the Christian religions, just without the whole "God" part. I would like to learn from where the Secular Humanist movement derives it's moral stance which so resembles the Western Christian one. It resembles it to such an extent that one may wonder if the moral set was just stolen from the Christians and stripped of its dogma. If that is the case, from where do the moral values obtain their authority, their appropriateness? At least the Christian claim such an authority, albeit misplaced, IMO.
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No longer a newbie
by daystar inyay me!
100 posts!
i know, small milestone, but still.. i'm still very grateful to have found this forum.
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CRUEL toward children!!!!
by chuckyy inmy 6 year old daughter was best friends with another 6 year old witness girl and they go to the same school.. since our disassociation it has been difficult for them to see each other.to get around this, we have recently used my mother (who is not/never been a witness), to take the two girls out to play together.
however, two witness mothers at the school noticed that this was happening and proceeded to harrass and have a go at the other witness mother for letting her daughter associate with the 6 year old daughter of parents who have left jehovah.there has been no trips out together for the two girls since.. this to me is so cruel!
after all, there was never any contact with us.
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daystar
It broke my heart then and breaks my heart now to see such cruelty to these innocent children.
What a child sees, a child will imitate.
The Org as a whole is generally a cold, cruel, self-centered, self-righteous organization. Why should we not see that the JW children imitate? I myself was raised a JW. I was a very cold, cruel child. It wasn't until many years after leaving the org that I began to understand the true meaning of love.
A child brought up as a JW runs a high risk of being damaged goods for life.
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CRUEL toward children!!!!
by chuckyy inmy 6 year old daughter was best friends with another 6 year old witness girl and they go to the same school.. since our disassociation it has been difficult for them to see each other.to get around this, we have recently used my mother (who is not/never been a witness), to take the two girls out to play together.
however, two witness mothers at the school noticed that this was happening and proceeded to harrass and have a go at the other witness mother for letting her daughter associate with the 6 year old daughter of parents who have left jehovah.there has been no trips out together for the two girls since.. this to me is so cruel!
after all, there was never any contact with us.
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How Do You React When You Realize You Are Wrong?
by minimus indo you readily admit it?
do you still try to justify yourself?
do you ignore it?
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daystar
Oh yeah, that's been a big thing to overcome. Wen I was a JW and for several years after, I could never be wrong about important things. Even when deep inside I knew I was wrong, or at least there was a question, I could never let the other person know this.
I'm much better now about it, but I still find myself falling back into it on occasion.
My parents, who are still JWs, and in particular my mother, can never be wrong. In addition, they both rarely ever, ever apologize for any wrongdoings (ugh, can't believe I pulled that word back out) towards others in the family.
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An End To Shunning
by Sunspot inwell, in my case anyway.
for those of you that may recall my posts about my family and that after i left the wts, how i wrote long (and painful) letters to my nonjw children among others.
i had tried to explain why i had shunned them and how very sorry i was, and for all the mistakes i had made throughout their childhoods as a jw mother.
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