Posts by aSphereisnotaCircle

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Legally prevent minor chidren being baptized? Anybody done it? can it be done?

by Aussie Oz in

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i am about to go into mediation with the ex to negotiate new child access arangements.

i was wondering about being able to negotiate this.

i may also end up going to court so it would be good to know if this ever been done.

Researching an artist...anyone know how?

by coffee_black in

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my daughter used to own a small antique business.

someone in her town was going to demolish an old house, and ali was given the chance to take the remaining items before the demolition.

among the remaining items was a stack of perhaps a dozen or more original pastels.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Hmm, with a nickname like Vag, I mean VaJ.

Makes you wonder...

A friend of mine deals with that sort of thing, she has access to auction records and such, I'll ask her if she'll check out the name.

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Do you prefer many people or few people to live with you?

by asilentone in

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for me, a few.

i was looking at jw facebook photos this morning, i noticed a pic of too many jws(not related) living in one home.

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aSphereisnotaCircle

I enjoy people the most in small groups or one on one.

Any more then 6 or 7 and I want to run and find a cave to hide in and have some alone time.

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Attending my mum's JW wedding

by iMARX in

so i have to go to my mum's jw wedding in 2 weeks.

it's not in a kh but there's still going to be about 40 jws there.

apparently it's "widely-known" that i'm gay and some jws have even told my mum that it's not wise to invite me because it will make other people (jws) feel uncomfortable.

aSphereisnotaCircle

If they know you are worldly and gay they will expect you to behave badly, that's what worldly people do.

Give them the shock of their lives and be a nice wordly gay person, on some level it will surprise them to no end.

I remember an uber dub friend of mine that over the years had several casual worldly friends that were gay.

She never ceased to be surprised at what nice normal people they were and she would comment on it frequently.

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Jehovah does not live by his own rules

by sinis in

i find it mind numbing that jw's and religios in particular never see this.

jehovah is the patron god of the jews.

yet he treats them like utter shit, worse than slaves.

aSphereisnotaCircle

sinis. You sound like an atheist. I've been hanging out with a lot of them lately and a lot of them are ANGRY with the God of the Bible. They just can't get over the politics.

Impossible, you can't be angry at something you believe is non existent.

I'm not pissed at Santa for never bringing me presents, I know he does not exist.

If I'm mad at not getting presents, I would have to be mad at my parents.

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Anyone here who left JWs, and then their spouse left later as well?

by JimmyPage in

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would love to hear how.

i'm sure many others here would also..

aSphereisnotaCircle

My JW husband exited about three months before I did.

In a way it gave me permission to leave too. It was something i never even considered before.

But after he did it, I realized that it was an option that I had too, so i took it.

How sheep like is that? I could not even see the open gate until I saw another sheep walk through it.

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My poor post man

by mouthy in

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he is a jehovah's witness & i have so many cards!!!!!!

he knows i am" evil".

he also knows i am watching him...so he dont destroy any of my "mail" from randy,.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Hey outlaw.

What exacty is that parrot growing in those pics?

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Did any of you study the WT lesson throughly without ANY underlining?

by asilentone in

just wondering.

it makes me think whoever underlines the wt without going throughly is purely hypocritical.

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aSphereisnotaCircle

When they started to insist that you answer only from the paragraph, that's when I stopped raising my hand, it was just so demeaning and insulting to our intelligence.

WTF?!?! When did that shit start?

They use to encourage you to eloborate and put thought into your answers.

Then sometime in the 80's they began insisting that you answer only from the paragraph, they only wanted you to parrot.

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Frustrated with the JW in law sitch

by bluesapphire in

so my husband rarely talks to his sister and never talks to his mom.

his sister, brother in law and mom will have nothing to do with me because 10 years ago when i left the jws they heard rummors (gossip) that i was apostate.. husband is totally apostate too by their standards but they ignore what they don't want to see.

he celebrates all the holidays, goes to church, celebrates birthdays and bad mouths the wts all the time.. well sister in law calls this morning and he is on the phone with her for one hour.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I think I understand where your coming from, I agree, he's not standing up for you..

but, dahum, I don't think I would ever call my husband weak, I mean, it's just so cold and cutting.

It doesn't seem productive at all.

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Did any of you study the WT lesson throughly without ANY underlining?

by asilentone in

just wondering.

it makes me think whoever underlines the wt without going throughly is purely hypocritical.

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aSphereisnotaCircle

I also rarely commented because I found it insulting to my intelligence to recite a sentence or concept that we just read without any thought or personal slant on things.

When they started to insist that you answer only from the paragraph, that's when I stopped raising my hand, it was just so demeaning and insulting to our intelligence.