i know this is silly, but i love it when people on here say "whilst".
we never, ever say that in the us.
whenever i see that word in a post it makes me smile.
I am from the U.S. My great-grandma used to use "whilst."
For example, when she said, "T'aint whilst to leave yet!" she meant, "It ain't time for you to leave yet!"
She'd also say, "T'aint whilst to bile!", which meant, "It isn't (well, ain't) time for it to boil yet!"
This is in rural North Carolina, by the way.
She's about the only person I know who used it in regular conversation. Sometimes I use it when I'm writing.
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Also, I thought that using one's own blood was "a matter of Christian conscience" at one time in the past, and that "some Christians choose this option." Now they do not? Am I just imagining this? I'm almost positive that I saw that somewhere in the past.
have you ever experienced it?
if so please let say why you know or feel you were discrimated against.
was is gender, age, race, sexual preference, religion?.
In answer to the topic question,
"YES" to racial discrimination (I am Black and I live in the US, in the South, need I say more?)
"YES" to gender discrimination (I am female)
"YES" to age discrimination (I am very small and supposedly look very young for my age, 36 yo)
"YES" to African American color discrimination as well (i.e., "light-skinned/dark-skinned" issue)
Most White people seem genuinely shocked that I speak regular English, have manners, that I have a husband, and that I am an considerably intelligent person. Throw in a lot of "unusual" tastes and interests, and sometimes I feel like I'm viewed as a freak, or an alien at most. A lot of White people only feel comfortable with trying to use "Black" slang, and high-fiving and trying to be a "homie", and talking about the latest rap/hip-hop songs/movies to a Black person. Most do not know how to address me or act towards me. Um, how about just as a regular person?!? Hey, that'd probably work!
The Turkish hair salon owners near my house have a habit of chatting up the White customers, asking about their health, laughing, talking about the weather--while I got only the barest, most perfunctory service. I no longer frequent their business because there have been several instances where they have rushed to wait on White customers who just walked in the door, while I (and other Black customers) had been waiting (and waiting, and waiting....) My mom let my sister and I take a craft class when we were 11-12, we were the only minority kids in the entire class, and the White teacher could barely hide her contempt for us, the freckly bitch. That was pretty miserable.
I had a White boss (a pharmacist) who would show her White customers all the OTC options on the shelves when they had medical questions, but to the Black ones she would always snap, "Well, I can show you what we have, but it's the cheapest--all the other items will probably be too expensive for you."
The Chinese waitresses at the restaurant we used to visit frequently left us stranded at our table for eternity, empty glasses and plates, while they laughed and joked with and basically ass-kissed the White customers. My husband still goes there, but I REFUSE to pay somebody to treat me like shit. And if I go into one more hair-supply shop and have the Asian cashier ask me if my hair is real...I swear to God.
A lot of people don't like when I use "big words." Some have said that "I don't always have to be so smart." Not "smart" as in flippant, but "smart" as in brainy. I never hear men being told something like this. I have to really assert myself sometimes to keep from being talked down to by people who think I'm a lot younger than I am.
Stuff like this doesn't happen every day by any means, but these are all incidences that I have had happen to me.
i was in the borg for 20 of my adult years and i must say that in all that time i only knew of one sister who got pregnant before she was married.
she was given a public reproof and was never treated badly.. considering a lot of the teenagers did most things they shouldnt have and many did get reproved for immorality, i am surprised that many didnt get pregnant.
especially as they would of likely not have been taking contraception.. was this common in you kh or area?.
HAH!!! In the 2-3 surrounding congregations in my area, my former cong included, girls were getting knocked up left and right. Hell, they basically don't even have young people in those congs anymore, all of them have been DF'd or DA'd after having a kid(s) out of wedlock. A lot of them, though, stay "out" for a few years, long enough to actually have a normal dating life (and to marry a "worldly" guy), then go back "in" whilst their new hubbies either convert or make sporadic visits to the KH and/or Memorial.
One girl, though, got pregnant and claimed she was raped. I hear that he lost a college scholarship because of this incident. About a year later, she had another baby by the same boy.
many of us have family in the borg, we are anxious to get them out, .
we might be very angry with the borg.. but who among the jw do you really just pity?
is it elders, pioneers, retired folks w/o decent retirement?.
the children are the worst off. By the time they have a choice, their most important developmental years, and often education opportunities, are gone.
YUP!!!
my g-daughter and i were in the video store this morning.
[she was out of school with a cough and fever - they won't let her back for 24 hours].. as we prepared to check out in comes sister rita righteous.
actually i jest here - rita has been df'd three times as a fornicatrix, married out of the 'truth' to a drug dealer, has raised three children who never accepted the religion, and has never, in my 35 years of her acquaintance been 'spiritually minded' or 'active in the service'.. anyway - i am freshly announced as 'no longer one of jehovah's witnesses', and apparently she has heard.
fornicatrix
I love it
har dee har har
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i remember being a teenager and my hormones were on overdrive.
the young witnesses i knew, male and female, were all feeling the same thing.
we would bring up sex, in one form or another, all the time.
Dating was also a guilt trip for most...
It's sad when a young person is made to feel guilty for being on a simple date. We were made to feel guilty for having mere crushes on guys, not to mention actually going on a date with one.
I remember my youngest sister wanting to have a next-door neighbor over to watch some movies (while my parents were home, I might add), someone she had basically grown up with. He was a JW too. They were just beginning to have little crushes on each other. My dad sat down with her, Bible and literature in hand, for a serious lecture about dating and the opposite sex.
I feel genuine sorrow for "youths" still in the org and what they have to go through.
i remember being a teenager and my hormones were on overdrive.
the young witnesses i knew, male and female, were all feeling the same thing.
we would bring up sex, in one form or another, all the time.
If you're a Witness you technically can sex the minute you're engaged. Since you have made a promise that should not be broken
This was most certainly NOT the case in my old cong. I know many (MANY!)who were DF'd for sexing while engaged and before getting hitched.
Although there were more than a fair share of man-whores who basically got DF'd and reinstated many times for banging anything in a skirt. These were usually either 18-21 y ear-olds or widowed/divorced men in their 40's-50s.
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i remember being a teenager and my hormones were on overdrive.
the young witnesses i knew, male and female, were all feeling the same thing.
we would bring up sex, in one form or another, all the time.
Well do I remember that sh@t.
In almost 23 years of Dub-ism, I remember only about 2 couples who didn't marry straight out of high school. The majority are DF'd or DA'd for "fornicatin' ", or a massive wave of congregational nuptials would occur, as all the congregation "youths" decided as one to start hitching up. Just one wedding after another. It happened with my aunt and her friends in the 70's, and just happened with my younger sister and her friends a couple of years ago.
I had to endure a scene with the "chaperone" too. Talk about awkward and embarassing. I was about 18, then. We cut the date short because I just couldn't deal; it was too weird. Some old dude in a SUIT AND TIE, and we weren't even going to a formal event. My dad tried to get a chaperone for my prom too (my JW bf's brother) but we ditched that as soon as we left. If I am grateful for anything during those years, it is that I never married a JW.
I wasn't exactly attractive as a teen, so I didn't have a lot of male attention nor sex anyway. I was a late bloomer.
I more than made up for it after I turned 23, though
