Posts by LisaRose

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The Heartless JW

by babygirl30 in

jw
friends

soooo...i have recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and am scared out of my mind.

in a weak moment, i called my parents and my mom answered.

i start crying as i tell her about my disease, and this woman says to me:.

LisaRose

((Hugs)) I'm sorry your mother let you down. It's true that for a JW their religion is more important than family, but that doesn't make it any easier to take.

I feel for you, I have some serious medical issues myself, so I know what you are going through. I have learned to take it one day at a time and to think positive, even when it's hard. It's often not what happens to you that is hard, but how you feel about what happens to you. You can't change the condition, you can change how you look at it. I highly recommend meditation and keeping a personal journal. I try to remember all the good things I have in my life, if I focus on them it makes the bad things more bearable.

Lisa 🌹

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They're coming to get me! =)

by Mrs. Eden in

hello friends.

my fleshy sister is seriously getting to my nerves.

she's my only (and younger) sister, and as you know, is married to an uber-circuit overseer.

LisaRose

I would just screen my calls and not answer for a while, especially the sisters that are pressuring you to go out. Talk to your sister if she is behaving, but if she starts in again, say "I'm hanging up" then do. People only have the power over you that you give them.

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What The Hell Couples

by Clambake in

penny and leonard.

billy bob thorton and anglie jolie.

lyle lovett / julia roberts.

LisaRose

I knew a few. One couple I was good friends with the wife, she was late twenties when I met her, stunningly beautiful, professional job, seemed to have her act together. He was early twenties, never had had a steady job, and a complete weirdo dork. I never saw what she saw in him, frankly.

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Kim Davis Kentucky clerk

by James Mixon in

speaking for the moral majority, really.

married 4 times and several kids.

out of wedlock.

LisaRose

Cappytan:

Source? The only place I've seen this info is memes shared by left-wing nuts.

It's in the Washington Post. I consider that a reliable source, but then I'm just a left wing nut, lol.
Yes, she has been married four times, to three different men. I don't think it makes her a bad person, and she says she found religion later in life, but it does make her holier than thou attitude seem a bit ridiculous, in my opinion.

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If Someone Touches Woman’s Breast and Covers it up…

by John Aquila in

one of the elders schools i attended, we dealt with a person who touched a girls breast and covered it up and kept it secret until it was revealed through a source.

the instructor first laid the ground work for a guilt trip.

he read this scripture;.

LisaRose

What happened to "let him who is without sin cast the first stone"?

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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

by DJS in

scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

LisaRose

This is from the Washington Post:

But there is no serious case to be made for the right of public officials to break laws they don’t agree with, even for religious reasons. This is, in essence, seizing power from our system of laws and courts. The proper manner to change the law, in this instance, is to work for the election of a president who will appoint Supreme Court justices with a different view and for the election of senators who will confirm such justices. Or to propose and pass a constitutional amendment. Davis may be impatient with this system, but it is the one we have. Personally assuming the role in Rowan County, Ky., of a Supreme Court majority is not an option. The available alternatives are to implement the law (as public servants across red America have overwhelmingly done) or to resign in protest (as some have done as well).

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BBC interview about 1975 - never heard this before..

by defender of truth in

for any lurkers who don't believe the watchtower taught that the world would end in 1975... rare jehovah's witnesses 1968 interview "armageddon and 1975" london watchtower rep speaks to bbc.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npmt-ml-m-g. --------.

but where will this system of things be by that time?

LisaRose

I was around then. I didn't know anyone who didn't think the end would come in 1975 or shortly thereafter. In hindsight, I can see how the publications were very careful in what they said, they knew not to make very specific statements that could later be used to prove they had been wrong, but they very obviously wanted people to believe Armageddon was imminent. At the local level, they were more direct in what was said from the platform and there were enough indirect references in various publications that left no doubt they expected the end in 1975 or very shortly thereafter.

This is organization that is all about control, a strict hirarchy that believes they represent God, nothing is said that they don't want said. They had to have been aware of what everyone believed, so you have to wonder, if they actually didn't think armageddon was going to happen in 1975, why didn't they correct the record?

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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

by DJS in

scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

LisaRose

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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

by DJS in

scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

LisaRose

Davis is stuck in her position because the gay law was passed while she was in office. She does not want to loose her job. Would anyone? And she claims that she cannot violate her conscience. She is stuck.

There was no gay law passed, the supreme court ruled on laws that were attempting to ban same sex marriage, striking them down and ruling they were unconstitutional.

Davis is stuck only because she can only think in simplistic, black and white terms and wrongly feels that her name on the marriage licence would mean she is approving of the marriage, when all that means is that she has certified the marriage is legal. Frankly, I don't think she is the sharpest pencil in the drawer, and she is more motivated by hate than belief, but whatever her reason, she is wrong.

Now that she is in jail she is attempting to reach some kind of compromise that will allow her to take her name off of the licenses and keep her job. I personally don't want to see her lose her job, but she has to learn that you can't flaunt the law and justify it by claiming it's because of your religious beliefs. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if that were allowed. Other people in other backwards counties are probably watching this to see what happens. Hopefully it will all get resolved and people will figure out they can't discriminate against gay people just like they learned they couldn't discriminate against women or people of color.

I agree this is likely a transition issue, hopefully it will get resolved and we can all go back to making fun of Donald Trump.

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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

by DJS in

scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

LisaRose

To those who think Kim Davis should be allowed to not issue marriage licences to people she doesn't think should be allowed to get married:

If a devout Muslim worked at the DMV, would you support his right to not give women a driver's licences?

If not, why not?