this photo (taken from a jw group on aol) is quite typical of jw marriage matches.
don't get me wrong, i'm sure they are great people as far as jws go.
but, it made me think.
I see nothing wrong with the couple in the picture.
I have heard of young female witnesses being pushed to get married. This I do not approve of.
I have also heard a few say they married to young.
I am also apposed to strict shaperone dating because you need to spend time with someone you are going marry to get to know them. If you can only see them once a week for a milkshake with your parents that isn't going to happen.
i was wondering if anyone here could remember their last tug of fear in their stomach after they left the watchtower society, concerning armageddon coming where you may have had a moments regret or fear of not being a jw, and so you wouldnt be "saved".
you know, the stupid conditioning we as jw children received growing up as jw kids.
i realize this may seem like kind of a weird question, but i remember my moment, and going through that experience it was very a freeing feeling once i came through it on the other end.. i was visiting a church in about the 1984 time frame.
Yes it is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Cult Exposure
it's time to let them go.
the majority of the books are abuse related or about recovery.
many are academic books.. i'm not selling the cult related books.. this is going to be hard to do but i have a small apartment and no where to put things.
WIth Books Amazon is the way to go. You only pay them a percentage if the book sells. You set the price you want and you can even set your vacations so that your listings will be temporarily removed
as much as i love reading what you all have to say, i must be gone for a few.
my wife has this crazy idea that she needs to go to the district convention.
what a life we unbelieving mates (ubms) have, eh?.
Pick up a new hobby. I have a friend that took up wood carving, she makes these cute little characters and it is pretty portable. I personally crochet and sew and love an afternoon by myself. You could also search the net, I am sure there are things to do in Georgia.
i see the excitement and thrill when a jw gets nailed for pedophilia.
i'm happy when any of these creeps get caught.
but i just don't think that this is what will bring down the organization.
It will bring them down a peg. The women I studied with went on and on about the Catholic Priests and said that if that ever happen to the ORG, she would leave, blah..blah..blah
my mum was just telling me today how 'good' my cousin is as she got to the assembly with her four kids, even though one of them is poorly with chicken pox!.
wouldn't you call that just being plain stupid?!.
me, i'm reduced to just smiling politely and remembering when i would have been that stupid!
How is it spread?
Chicken pox is very contagious. It is a respiratory disease that is spread by contact with nasal mucus and saliva. it can be spread by coughing and sneezing, kissing on the lips and sharing food, eating utensils and mouthed toys. It is also spread by touching your hands to your nose and mouth, reusing tissues, and forgetting to wash your hands after blowing noses. It spreads most easily in crowded and poorly ventilated rooms. Rarely, it can also be spread from contact with the oozing skin lesions.
When is it contagious?
Chicken pox is contagious from 2 days before the rash appears until 5 days after the start of the rash. In milder cases, the contagious period may end sooner, around the time that the pox scab over. After exposure to chicken pox, it usually takes 11-14 days (up to 21 days) to develop the illness.
Should the child stay home?
A child with chicken pox should stay home until 6 days after the start of the skin rash or when all the skin lesions are scabbed over, whichever is earlier.
If the child was still contageous than that is just plain mean and dangerous.
i want a bible that hasn't been written by or for 'apologists'.
i want a bible written in english that correctly translates 'yhwh' as 'yahve' or 'yahweh' and 'elohim' as 'gods' instead of 'god'.
a recent bit of study has shown that many modern english bibles commit pious fraud by translating words like 'asherah'(idol used in sex worship by the patriarchs) as 'grove' or 'tree' in order to cover up the true roots of ancient 'hebrew' worship.
Rotherham's Literal Bible uses Yahweh
i don't know if anyone has posted this, but i found this and just had to share.
http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/87.htm.
comments?
Yes in art you can only create from your imagination or from pictures you have taken of living models. If you look at sample picture even public domain pictures and paint/draw/color from them together that is stealing of intellectual property. I am not sure if books work the same way as websites. With websites you can purchase images to use so two websites could be legally using a similiar image. If they claim to be created by artists at Bethel then something shady happen according to current plagarism laws. Of course I don't know if these laws were as strict in the 1950's.
the witnesses we know are obviously brainwashed, but do you think we ever recover from what it did completely?
does every part of jw'ness leave us?.
i have a feeling that even if its not obvious, things from our personal insecurities to how we act and who we are is a result of the org, yes even if your the rebellious type cos then your just running away .
Anytime I see witnesses I literally have a panic attack and I only studied with them. Of course I have PTSD from them so that makes a different.
we all know witnesses believe in the paradise.
they make it seem like it will be such a beautiful place free of crime, pollution, sadness,etc.
but, if there was really going to be a paradise here on earth the world as we know it would be so different.
Russell original opinion was that the increase in knowledge in science, technology etc was happening for the purpose of being used in the new age. He felt that the downsides of advances such as things being used for evil or pollution was because of man had not perfected it yet but in the new age theses things would be there and would be perfected.
