Posts by aSphereisnotaCircle

I have a jw friend who on one hand states that child abuse is damaging and has lifelond effects on the victim, but on the other hand knows people who had been very abused as children, and she regularly tells them "to get over it".

I think it's something people say when they really don't want to hear what you are saying and would rather talk about something else.

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June 1st Noah Cover for your artistic efforts Re-title Have fun!

by Wasanelder Once in

here is a copy of the june 1st wt blanked for your editing purposes.

have fun.:.

i'll try to do another fun with covers if we get enough responses here, w.once.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Kurtbethel, that sheep looks soooo sad.

just hilarius...

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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

i guess its time to throw my little story out there.

i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .

i only last august disassociated myself.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Welcome str8? !

My ex JW hubby is gay. He tried all kinds of ways to "overcome" it but to no avail. If being gay is a choice, he never, never would have chosen it. He did not want to be that way.

At one point in our marraige, when he started coming out to me, I Looked up everything I could find about homosexuality in the societys lit. OMG, even as a die hard JW, I could see what a bunch of hogwash it was! In one article they basically used the trems homosexual and pedophile as though they had the same difinition.

This was one of the things that helped me see just how disfunctional and rediculous the dubs were.

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A Touching Heartfelt Experience at The ATM Machine!

by caliber in

a touching heartfelt experience at the atm machine!.

it was a very touching experience that i had this last weekend at the atm machine.

it was about half an hour discussion but what follows is the highlights that i remember most vividly.. it begins with a once a upon a time pioneer partner of my wife (h4o) coming in to the atm.. jw says....how are things going?

aSphereisnotaCircle

Great story!

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Mother Pregnant With 18th Child

by snowbird in

there were 13 of us - one baby girl died in infancy, however.. here's the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24537885&gt1=43001.

sylvia.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I agree, it's irresponsible.

No one can be a good parent to that many children.

Makes you wonder what the motivation is.

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Our CO gave a talk to kids. Stay OUT of school!

by easyreader1970 in

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friends

he wanted to talk to the young ones in the congregation.

the main theme of the talk had to do with avoiding higher education.

basically the main idea was this: witnesses are losing alot of young people here in the last few years.

aSphereisnotaCircle

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District Conventions are awful if you have kids. (Learn why!)

by easyreader1970 in

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friends

i know that many of you have not been to distric conventions in some time, but what i am about to describe is a recent trend.. 1. more people than seats.

for the past six or seven years, they've tried cramming too many congregations into one convention hall at one time.

in many cases, if you do not get to the convention more than an hour before the program starts and you need more than a couple of seats, you cannot find seats.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Boy I could easily go on a rant about going to assemblies with little ones in tow. But a couple of other posters have allready stated it very well.

I will add though that he last two assemblies I attended the sound system was so poor that I could not understand one word, it was just wha wha wha, like a snoopy cartoon. later, when i expressed my frustration to an elder, he said "don't worry about it, just being there is whats important!"

I could not wrap my mind around that one. How could making myself and my kids perfectly miserable, spending money we didn't have to spare, and not hearing one word benefit us?

Yep, another nail in the JW coffin for me.

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Tsunami Contributions

by DisconnectingDrone in

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friends

one of the things that woke me up to the hypocrisy was when the tsunami struck in 2004. the elders used a box for a tsunami fund, we raised around 750, the elders put a vote out to use some of the congregations funds and we increased this to nearly 3 times this amount.. the congregation got a letter thanking us for the donation but requesting that for future donations we do not stipulate where the money should be channeled too (i assume the elders requested this go to those affected by the tsunami) as "they have already set aside money for this disaster relief and this makes things very difficult for them and all future relief money should goto the wwf".. at the end of the day they would not have got this money if their was no disaster-but that stank to me, i realized i was part of a greedy corporate empire that wanted money and didn't give a toss about the people affected by this tsunami.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I remember that to.

They hype a disaster to get you to give money.

Then they say "Oh we have that problem covered, but go ahead and give us money to use elsewhere".

Makes you feel a little duped doesn't it?

I use to work for a small non-profit organizasion. It was great when people made donations to the general fund because the bookkeeping was easier. But we never solicited for funds for a particular cause and then tell the donors to just make it out to cash. I mean really, what would people think?

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Current or exJW parents: What did your congregation do for kids?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

i'd like to know what your congregation did (or did not do) for children of various ages.. were there any playdates for your kids?

did you have children's parties?.

in my old hall, the elders and moms would rent a hall out and organise parties for the kids but as we all grew older we were pretty much left to make our own entertainment.. a friends congregation used to have "talent night" but this has gone the way of the dodo.. were you in a hall with very few children?

aSphereisnotaCircle

Growing up dub, I remember lots of congregation parties and events.

But In the eighties the elders in our hall put the kabosh on one event after another.

It got to where the only thing that was allowed was weddings and the occasional, modest, not to many people in attendance, anniversay party, uhh I mean get together.

I have two adult children, born in the early eighties, I can remember one event that was aimed at kids. A sister at our hall had a party for the kids where they could come dressed up as clowns. That's it, nothing else other then meetings, assemblies, service etc. etc.