Posts by brinjen

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Christians vs. Atheists...

by cognac in

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it's nice that you can respect both viewpoints and not think you are better then the other one, huh!.

just thinking about how jws can spew crap and the second you view things differently your screwed... jws can be annoying!.

Atheist here. It's my personal belief and I believe it's called personal for a reason. Everyone has to make up their own mind what makes sense to them... regardless of what conclusion they end up with.

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My Step-Son Called at 2 AM and Threaten Physical Harm

by Yizuman in

last night he called at 2 am, woke my wife up, she answered the phone.

he was drunk, yelling and threatening to break into our house and physically harm me because i had his sorry ass thrown out for punching my stomach and destroyed our property while drunk on that day on july 8th.. she hit the flasher button (strobe light attached to a remote thingy that is activated by a remote button) and woke me up.

i go to her room and find her crying.

brinjen

nelly136... my thoughts exactly. She's an adult, let her decide for herself whether she wishes to speak to or see her own son.

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We went to the meeting last night...

by cognac in

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we rarely go.

but, we went because hubby wanted to tell the elders we are switching halls.. at first, i thought to myself that i would go out back with her when she gets fussy.

but, my baby doesn't really get fussy a lot so i just took her out back and played with her as she laughed hysterically.

brinjen

I really liked Wilyloman's idea of a special training for children. Don't you think you would have been less bored in a child's school? Makes too much sense for the JW's to do something like that.

Absolutely! That's why most churches have sunday school isn't it? Because children have different needs and just aren't able to understand, let alone concentrate on a sermon. I went to a baptist church once when was around 7 or 8... (didn't tell my mother of course) I thought the sunday school was awesome, time just flew by for me.

I don't think I was ADHD. I did struggle with concentrating and spent most of the time in the meetings day dreaming while keeping an eye out for when there was some interaction required (like a scripture to look up). I learnt that was the best way to avoid the back room and at the same time make the meetings go a little quicker.

That's appauling how they treated your daughter. There were a couple of kids who were 'ADHD-like' (not sure if they were every diagnosed) and yes, they were always at the back of the hall, parents getting glares from the rest. I remember one Awake! TM (think it was around the early 90's?) article that said children should not be seen as little adults... and thinking 'but that's how they're treated in the kingdom hall'. It's child abuse, simple.

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We went to the meeting last night...

by cognac in

jw
friends

we rarely go.

but, we went because hubby wanted to tell the elders we are switching halls.. at first, i thought to myself that i would go out back with her when she gets fussy.

but, my baby doesn't really get fussy a lot so i just took her out back and played with her as she laughed hysterically.

brinjen

Can't remember exactly what age I was when my mother started receiving lectures about me going to sleep during the Thursday night meetings... it was before I started school. All I remember about those meetings is a continuous blur of boredom. Of having to sit still, maybe have a book to look at the pictures in, which would keep me occupied for about 5 minutes... did the marking on a piece of paper everytime I heard a key word as well. Generally spent most of the time bored out of my brain and wishing the thing would end so I could go home and go to bed.

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Guess who I saw on FaceBook?

by dissed in

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just as i am new to this site and many web thingy's, my daughter just introduced me to facebook.

"must get with it dad!".

so, i'm looking over my nephews facebook last night, glancing at his friends.

brinjen

I love stories with happy endings. Thanks for sharing.

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New JW email doing the rounds. Barf buckets on standby!

by nicolaou in

i'm pasting this here as i received it, formatting and grammatical errors included .

this is beautiful!.

subject: isaiah 41:10. .

brinjen

who is the farmer with the gun in this illustration?

The farmer is the apostate who killed the imaginary bully (Jehovah) who once had a death grip on us. The mother is our distant rellies/friends who tried to tell us we were in a cult. Makes much more sense when put that way.