What turned out to be my step dad (found this out when I was 60+) died when I was 12. That is when I got all my wonderful adopted step dad's at least that is what I called them. They just all hung out at our house. Two of them owned this great big place at Rehoboth Beach and all of us would go there every weekend and party, it was an absolute blast. These were the ones who taught me manners, etiquette, how to set a table fit for a queen, one even taught me how to drive in his Lincoln (I was scared to death). One even taught me how to put on make up, he took me clothes shopping h... he looked better in a dress then I ever would dream of. I loved all my gay daddys and they protected me from my mom.
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Things I remember growing up in the 70s
by The Rebel ini remember sitting on my daddy's lap and driving an imaginary car, i also remember sitting on my mummies lap on the front seat, without a seat belt whilst my dad drove a real car.
i remember we bought fish and chips from the chippy wrapped in yesterday's newspapers.
i remember bouncing up and down on my space hopper in the garden.
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spiritual
by stan livedeath ini read the word "spiritual" sometimes on the site.
what exactly do the jw's mean by it ?.
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rebelfighter
Stan,
Never a JW. I so do not want to answer this because the atheist on this forum are going to pipe in. I have nothing to say to them.
With that said I am 65 and at the age of 50 I walked away from Religion because I realized at that point it is all man made. I still strongly believe in God and feel a very strong connection with God through daily devotion. I also do not believe the Bible is the word of God. Just written by men claiming it to be the word of God. A question I have asked many times since making this decision is: If God had created Religion how many Religions would he have created? I believe in a loving and caring God who wants all of us to get along with one another. I do not blame God for all the suffering that goes on in the world as I did not blame God when I lost my son nor when I had cancer.
I have always felt a very spiritual closeness with God because of the troubled life I have lived and I felt only he was the one that carried me through those times. I feel he walks beside me in the good times and carries me in the bad times.
My faith in God keeps me from getting depressed during some mighty tough adventures. He keeps me going for the brighter tomorrow which does come.
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Political Correctness
by snugglebunny ini think i'm just ornery when it comes to equality.
ever since i can remember, i've always believed that all people were created equal.
the colour of a person's skin is irrelevent to me.
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rebelfighter
Phizzy,
You are 100% correct and when they step on my property with their literature they will get a witnessing that they were not expecting. ARC and the other pedophile cases, how to raise children and how to treat women as their equals.
It is not just Witnesses but any injustices are worth fighting. That is why Fighter got tacked onto my name. LOL
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Political Correctness
by snugglebunny ini think i'm just ornery when it comes to equality.
ever since i can remember, i've always believed that all people were created equal.
the colour of a person's skin is irrelevent to me.
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rebelfighter
The Answer:- The Newspapers. And because it's in the Newspaper it doesn't make it true, and if a story has an element of truth, it's because it's usually largely exaggerated.
The Rebel.
That is an extremely true statement, I personally have not purchased a newspaper for any reason other then advertisements in more then 30 years. I lived in Washington DC for 50 years, there is one National Park you see in pictures all the time it is a straight shot. All grass nothing but grass very well maintained and kept cleaned every day and night by the United States Park Service. You will see their people there all the time cleaning. My estranged husband and many of my friends are now retired but at the time were United States Park Police Officers. One particular day a demonstration went bad and the demonstrators according to the printed media and the TV media "picked up what was available to defend themselves against the police" . What they found in this very clean Grass park to us 4 X 4 with spikes nailed through them. More then a dozen officers were hospitalized and out of work for some time due to their injuries. Newspaper nor the media NEVER told that part of the story nor the Officer's horse that was injuried. They only talked about the undue force the officers took trying to break up the fighting between the different protesters. Oh and no one was shot that day.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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rebelfighter
I do not recall the north as all if our travels were DC and south.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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rebelfighter
I was asking a question about the JW. I was never a JW. But DC including it's school system was pretty much separated till 1970. I know from my travels south during this time period everything south of DC most definitely would have been separated. Restaurant, movie theaters, schools, churches etc everything would have been divided.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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rebelfighter
Stillin,
That was the southern 60'S attitude!
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Jehovah's Witnesses and racial prejudice by Werner Cohn
by slimboyfat inrace is asserting itself as a problematic issue united states once more.
i always thought jws had a relatively good track record on race.
they preach a world without prejudice after all.
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rebelfighter
TD,
DC was pretty much the dividing line back then. Everything was either black or it was white from there south. True neighborhoods were also very divided back then.
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God is Real in Principle
by looter innow the majority of people nowadays do no go by the hope of old times.
now the reason for this is important and goes beyond mere words.
our culture sees ethics especially national or civil politics as the rules and standards by which we guide ourselves.
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rebelfighter
Vivian,
Christians have choices, we as a human race are not robots we can choice what we believe. So if we choice to believe in a religion we can pick one that best fits our belifs.
Some of us even believe in God and do not believe in the Bible.
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God is Real in Principle
by looter innow the majority of people nowadays do no go by the hope of old times.
now the reason for this is important and goes beyond mere words.
our culture sees ethics especially national or civil politics as the rules and standards by which we guide ourselves.
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rebelfighter
Cofty
You clearly said Christians, I am pointing out that there are many denominations that have different beliefs. For an example how many years did you preach the JW cult interpretation of the Bible. Well there is also the Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist and so on. Within the Lutheran religion there are two different segments of believers and they do things completely different. In Christianity you cannot make a blanket statement of their beliefs like you did. My girlfriend is an Elder in the Methodist Church. One branch of the Methodist Church women can hold all positions including Minister and Board members and in the other women are treated just like in the JW cult.
All I am saying is you need to qualify your statement.