Posts by mariposa

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Who do you love more?

by serendipity in

my uncle ocasionally complains about how my aunt loves her adult children more than him because she's always thinking about them, worrying about them and reaching out to them.

i think that's a surprising viewpoint because i thought that most mothers (and many fathers) love their children above all others.. do you think that's true?

should a parent love their children more than the spouse (or significant other)?

mariposa

The love is completely different, but the intensity is the same.

I've got a 9-month old and I worry more about her than her pop for sure. She gets ALOT more of my attention than he does, but it could be because she's a baby and needs it more. But when she gets older, like going to school or out of the house older, I'll probably go crazy worrying about her 10 times more! Maybe it's because we feel more responsible and protective of our munchkins and grown men (most of them anyways) can take care of themselves.

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Hindsight is 20/20: What were your signs?

by divejunkie in

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what i mean is now that you are out of the wt; do you ever think back at something you innocently said or did when you still believed or you were little that now feels like a sign that you would someday get out of the bullsh*t?

for me, growing up in the jw's, i feel there were signs of my "goat hairs" even way back then.

** even as a child, every saturday morning i would spend at least 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out what to say to get out of going to field service .

mariposa

Hmmmm...let's see....

...every month from the time I was baptised, I had less than 10 hours in fs. and usually never made it out at all

...for the last 3 years, I went back and forth in 3 different cong. so nobody would really know how many meetings I was missing

...study? study for the meetings? That was a brief highlighting of the required material for that day, the hardest part was picking out what color I wanted to use

....Could never seem to make friends with too many people, it was so much easier to be friends with worldlings

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Spreading Discension while participating in the Theocratic Ministry School

by general in

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were you part of the theocratic ministry school and if so did you ever try to subtley spread discension among the flock by attacking the watchtower doctrine with nuances when you were on your way out of the organization??

or did you use the opportunity to get self-righteous and ram some frivolous dribble down the throats of the audience perhaps out of revenge for all the mindless crap you had to listen to for the next hour afterwards..... did you ever know anyone that would get up on the platform and say " hello...goodbye" and just walk off...??.

curious had someone do that once...lol.

mariposa

I just listened to Littletoe' s talk.

That's awesome! Man, I wish someone had the courage to do that when I was attending meetings. That would've been one talk to capture my attention.

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I'm a grandma again

by Mulan in

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our 9th grandchild was born early this morning, a boy named gideon david.

he is the first child for our youngest son.

he has red hair like his daddy, grandpa, uncles and two of his cousins.

mariposa

How exciting! Congradulations!!

And he got the red hair....yeah!!

Both my bro and I were "doomed" to have red hair. From both sides of the family. I had my first baby last July and she's got dark hair just like her dad, I was bummed....BUT if you look at it in the sun, it really, really is a dark REDDISH brown!

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"Reasonable Service!"

by Atlantis in

are the righteous requirements the lord expects "reasonable?

not according to the watchtower!

this is just another example of how the watchtower deceives members into believing that what "they" expect of jws is actually what the lord expects.

mariposa

Damn, I can't believe I fell for this stuff for so long!

Bringing this stuff out in the open is why I love this place

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JWs & Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants

by doinmypart in

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there is legislation in the u.s. congress regarding illegal/undocumented immigrants.

part of the language deals with churches assisting illegal immigrants.. much of the increase in the u.s. branch is due to growth of spanish-speaking congregations, and a large part of these congregations are made up of illegal/undocumented immigrants.

a typical spanish congregation often needs help.

mariposa

Thanks Blondie for putting up what the wts thinks.

This is one prime example of the wts printing "the right thing" yet underneath it all not following any of its own instruction. No one I met in 3 different spanish cong. tried to get the brothers to follow caesar's law.

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JWs & Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants

by doinmypart in

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friends

there is legislation in the u.s. congress regarding illegal/undocumented immigrants.

part of the language deals with churches assisting illegal immigrants.. much of the increase in the u.s. branch is due to growth of spanish-speaking congregations, and a large part of these congregations are made up of illegal/undocumented immigrants.

a typical spanish congregation often needs help.

mariposa

That's a good question. I ended my stay in the truth in a spanish cong. and it didn't seem to phase anyone they were illegal. I think yesterday they took out the clause about people helping illegals would be a felony.

However, I don't think new, tougher laws, if they pass, would affect the spanish cong. in many ways. For one, the wts needs its dinero. If the people stayed here, then they would get more. But of the people were sent home, without good paying jobs, the amount would go way down...even if they worked in their home countries. Also, most of the new growth here is in the spanish cong. Can you imagine what the us statistics would look like if they left? Some may stay witnesses when they returned home, but I knew several who were witnesses while family back home was mostly catholic.

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a joke

by Ellie in

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far away in the tropical waters of the caribbean, two prawns were.

swimming around in the sea - one called justin and the other called christian.. .

the prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that inhabited the area.

mariposa

Ah....cute....ya got me

I had a "worldly" friend who always would say in a fit of anger...Cheese and Rice. It drove me crazy.

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Breaking News from WTS Branch-Eclipses are natural

by DannyHaszard in

jehovah's witnesses: eclipses are natural happenings

ghanaweb.com - 2 minutes ago comment box join in accra, march 27, gna - eclipses are natural happenings that occur with regularity and do not represent a threat nor carry some prediction of calamity, jehovah's witnesses said on monday.

jehovah's witnesses: eclipses are natural happeningsaccra, march 27, gna - eclipses are natural happenings that occur with regularity and do not represent a threat nor carry some prediction of calamity, jehovah's witnesses said on monday.. .

mariposa

You have GOT to be kidding me. That's something I learned in elementary school...the brilliance from the wts never ceases to amaze me.

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1975 Article: The Mental Health of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Wild_Thing in

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taken from http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/126/6/556

the british journal of psychiatry 126: 556-559 (1975).

1975 the royal college of psychiatrists the mental health of jehovah's witnesses

mariposa

Interesting...I know I was at the lowest point of my life, on the verge of a mental breakdown when I started to study. And boy did the jdubs help me!!!!!

For the first time in my life, I suffered from panic attacks....in the hall...during meetings. Then I auctually went on anti-depressents given to me by a doctor who had been treating jdubs for years. When I decided to go off of them, my witness amigos advised against it, go figure. This coming from people who had been on them for over a decade, tried to kill themselves various times, etc etc...

I haven't been to a meeting in 4 years, but believed it was the truth for 3 of those and I haven't been better...what a difference it makes to...oh..I don't know...DEAL with your problems rather than waiting, waiting, waiting on someone else to solve them for you.