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  Keep the meeting going! (even if somebody's dying)

  by TimeBandit in

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  this is a true story.

  it's about a sister named henriette venema.

  she was a very loyal jw.

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  rebelfighter

  Wannaexit,

  You and I were typing at the same time. Never a JW, so these people call each other Brother/Sister but if they fall over sick in a meeting no one really notices? A couple of attendance will get them to the back of the Hall all others just carries on.

  You know when the "Elder" kept telling me the way I read the Bible the organization you belong to falls under the Babylon blah blah I sure wish he would talk to me today, he most certainly would get the lecture of a lifetime. Because if this would occur in our Lodge room during a meeting, the meeting would be stopped our sister or brother would be tended to and NOT until 911 has left the premises would our meeting resume. This is ludicrous! ! They show NO compassion whatsoever for their fellow brothers and sisters NO wonder they can automatically SHUN people at the drop of the hat because they don't give a cxxp for the person sitting right next to them. Did I read or hear this was a loving organization BULL!!

  Sorry rant over.
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  Keep the meeting going! (even if somebody's dying)

  by TimeBandit in

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  this is a true story.

  it's about a sister named henriette venema.

  she was a very loyal jw.

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  TimeBandit

  I am so sorry for the loss of your friend.

  Slidin Fast

  He continued and it was his "WIFE".

  OK, I was never a JW, besides all the threads on child abuse, wife abuse and shunning this has got to be about the most heartless thread, I have read.

  No wonder the "Elder" continually told me over 5 years that I had the most caring sensitive and forgiving heart he had ever met. After reading some of these stories I am beginning to think these people do not even have hearts.

  His WIFE really, someone should have gotten up there and smacked some sense into him. Was he not married in the name of God/Jehovah in sickness and health is he not to be by her side?

  Are JW just stupid robots?
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  There is a new letter to elders about Child Abuse

  by ttdtt in

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  anyone see that there is a long letter on how to handle child abuse?.

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  rebelfighter

  I have a sever migraine or I would write more but I think what

  LoisLane wrote should have been IN BOLD AND CAPITAL LETTERS.
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  Can JWs Use Corporal Punishment On Their Children?

  by minimus in

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  can a parent slap or use a "rod of discipline" on their kids?

  i know it's politically incorrect and perhaps illegal, but is it a personal decision based upon the scriptures or is it taboo these days?.

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  Vanderhoven7,

  Oh those terrible two's. My kids were six years apart and when my daughter hit that two year mark her 6 year old brother towered over her. We just could not get her to stop biting. Tried everything but her favorite target was, at the perfect height for her petite size, her brother's stomach. Well one day he had ENOUGH saw her coming grab her arm and placed it right in the target area and she bit herself, she came crying to me. BINGO, like majic it worked she never bit again. Solved by a six year old.
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  Things I remember growing up in the 70s

  by The Rebel in

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  i 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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  rebelfighter

  Thanks Rebel

  I like your tags those are cool.
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  Things I remember growing up in the 70s

  by The Rebel in

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  i 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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  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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  spiritual

  by stan livedeath in

  1. watchtower
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  i read the word "spiritual" sometimes on the site.

  what exactly do the jw's mean by it ?.

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  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 in

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  i 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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  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 in

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  i 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  race 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.