Wow, you are truly a strong and amazing Woman Learningtofly! That is so disgusting and disturbing that the children are not protected. Amazing, you can abuse the most vulnerable in the most heinous ways, and remain a good standing member, but you'll get disfellowshipped if you have a YWCA membership!
I'm sorry for your suffering, the organization should be made to answer for their evil.
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My Story
by LearningToFly inhello fellow forum members, i am very new here, and feel it is time to share a little about myself.
this site has gotten me quite riled up again, and even after many years my experience is not memorable and still upsets me when i think of it.
my beginning experience of joining the jw organization at age 6 was not unpleasant at all, and was not for many years.
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Update: How my Cake business idea is going... (pics)
by reneeisorym inso .. at the suggestion of krw, i checked with the health department to find out the laws for my state.
i learned that they do not allow home bakeries here.
so i had to rethink some things.
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mmmmmmm. Cake.
I love cake Renee, alot. There can never be enough cakeries. Keep it up, and yum.
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We have the truth
by MutualRespectPlease ini will be respectful.
but in reading past posts it seems we are allowed to speak frankly?
i think jehovah's witnesses have the truth.
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Welcome to the forum MutualRespect.
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I Wouldn't Be Here Today If.........
by smellsgood inmy dad had been a jehovah's witness.
he was in his early twenties when after zooming along on his dirtbike and running a stop sign, he collided with a vehicle, went sailing through the air and received life threatening injuries.
he was in rathdrum, idaho, and as far as i've heard it told, he stopped breathing for quite a long time.
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Dismembered, lol! I hope your roommate has received the proper scorn for such disgraceful behaviour. Did he become a Witless too?
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I Wouldn't Be Here Today If.........
by smellsgood inmy dad had been a jehovah's witness.
he was in his early twenties when after zooming along on his dirtbike and running a stop sign, he collided with a vehicle, went sailing through the air and received life threatening injuries.
he was in rathdrum, idaho, and as far as i've heard it told, he stopped breathing for quite a long time.
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"my dad nearly died because of that policy. he had a lot of luck to make it (blood cancer). of course the fact that he survived even though the doctors gave him lil' chances is proof how jehovah blessed his firm stand on blood."
Wow, that is amazing! I'm glad your dad is still around! For a time I forgot how many illnesses required the use of blood. I wasn't thinking of heart patients, cancer patients and the like. After I remembered that, it made the picture of the WT twisted policy that much more horrible. There really is so many that need blood.
About your Dad and blood cancer though, I just learned from MY Dad that his former bosses wife has blood cancer. She's in Seattle receiving care right now. I don't know much about it. Does it spread easily? Is it actually like cancer of the individual red or white blood cells? That seems like a horrible cancer to have, you can't really have a portion of your circulatory system removed.
She's probably getting transfusions if they are necessary.
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Reasoning with JWs using Galatians
by R.F. inone of the final death blows to my beliefs of wt doctrine was really pondering over galatians 1. paul was very clear and strong in saying that there should be no gospel preached than what they taught, and they taught the simple message of jesus christ coming to earth, dying in our behalf, and his resurrection.
the gospel that jehovah's witnesses preach is obviously very different.
they've put in elements that are no where to be taught by early christian leaders.. so my question is.... how many of you have used this reasoning with the witnesses?
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R.F. you might have seen this, might not have, but that was one of my very astute "points" in my very enlightening topic "Why the WT is NOT Christian"
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/135381/1.ashx
could also use Galatians in arguing against their "preaching work
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/136661/2435671/post.ashx#2435671
I've used those points in arguing w/ witnesses online. They are either ignored or brushed to the side. And I thought they cared about spreading the good news?? -
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I hate Walmart!
by Elsewhere ini rarely ever set foot in the place and will go out of my way to avoid shopping there.
tonight i made the mistake of giving walmart the benefit of the doubt and walked in the door.. they didn't have the main item i was looking for, but they did have one other small item.
i headed to the front to check out only to find they had only a few check-outs open and all of the lines were far too long.
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What way is that Tatiana? I said I don't like the idea of Wal-Mart, I probably just like it because I like to shop, especially for food and cake, and I get excited when I see green onions 3/$1. So sue me! I think pretty much all the food is made in U.S.A. Of course WalMart is a huge, corporate powerful juggernaut that is ridiculous. I can't help but shop there though!
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Does Anyone Else Smell A "Cult" After Reading the Sept. KM??
by Lady Liberty inin light of the recent "spiritual food",.
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm.
sincerely,.
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*sniffs* GAG!
Yup, being the resident smeller incarnate, I definitely smell something putrid. If the Watchtower ISN'T a cult, it must mean that I'm living in some backwards dimension where Ice Cream is hot, Water is dry, Mt. Everest is below Sea level and Britney Spears is Super Classy.
I don't believe I can say in good conscience that Ted Jaracz....
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I Wouldn't Be Here Today If.........
by smellsgood inmy dad had been a jehovah's witness.
he was in his early twenties when after zooming along on his dirtbike and running a stop sign, he collided with a vehicle, went sailing through the air and received life threatening injuries.
he was in rathdrum, idaho, and as far as i've heard it told, he stopped breathing for quite a long time.
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My Dad had been a Jehovah's Witness.
He was in his early twenties when after zooming along on his dirtbike and running a stop sign, he collided with a vehicle, went sailing through the air and received life threatening injuries. He was in Rathdrum, Idaho, and as far as I've heard it told, he stopped breathing for quite a long time. He really miraculously survived after being rushed to the hospital, having emergency surgery where his Aortic valve actually had to be REPLACED with a n artificial one made from DACRON (http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0814472.html)
Of course he needed blood! As I was reading about R.F.'s Mum it made me remember that, how I wouldn't even be here, and my Dad would have been dead long ago if he had been a Witness. He bears the scar to this day, a scar that reaches around from his mid-torso around to his spine.
Not only would my Dad be dead, but my Grandmother would have been dead YEARS ago, she has terrible heart problems, and just had another surgery last week. This didn't seem possible last year, I don't know exactly what happened. She has high blood pressure that won't quit, diabetes that exascerbates that, and many many stents, and requires alot of medicine and visits to her Doctor.
Neither of them have contracted diseases, luckily.
Nothing gets my blood boiling like the idiocy of the WT blood policy. It's so heinous and moronic it makes me want to bludgeon the GB. -
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OKM 09/07 (english)- Just another brick in the wall...
by metaspy inok guys and gals, i (being the assistant to the magazine counter) have acquired the newest okm.. i have uploaded it to imagevenue.com: here.
hopefully that works!.
by the way drew, your translation was very close.
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smellsgood
wooooooooooooow! How pathetic can they get! Oh well, more ammunition for the opposers!