Posts by possum

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Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

by Dunedain in

there were always all types of speakers in the org.

myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

possum

In Australia to be "randy" means sexuality excited. One district convention the drama outline came straight from USA The main character was called "Randy". an american name? The name was mentioned often..... the young ones just just giggled all the way through............. the older ones where just mortified!

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Should I be mad?

by kairos in

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friends

i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

( just "serving" napa ).

so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

possum

Thanks sparrowdown

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Should I be mad?

by kairos in

jw
friends

i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

( just "serving" napa ).

so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

possum

Proverbs 15:17 ' Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a manger fed bull where there is hatred." Sharing food is supposed to be an act of unconditional love would be completely different if she had of eaten it with you as a normal part of a healthy relationship. It takes enourmous courage/resilence to live life as a disfellowshipped person we are not the ones that need conditional charity........

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Hello. New here.

by ULFBERHT in

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new around here.

wanted to say "hello".. +ulfberh+t.

possum

Welcome!

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Hartlepool UK JW groomed girl for sex

by wifibandit in

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/jehovah-s-witness-from-hartlepool-groomed-girl-for-sex-1-7504907.

possum

What disobiedant parents!

no "2 witnesses"

How dare they? the elders may have already judged him as repentant!!

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Hartlepool UK JW groomed girl for sex

by wifibandit in

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/jehovah-s-witness-from-hartlepool-groomed-girl-for-sex-1-7504907.

possum

If they want the right to self righteously portray themselves as the only true clean christian organisation in the whole world and place them self in public with their little carts and land on every-bodies doorsteps (uninvited)

they don't have the right to deny the public information to keep their children safe when child groomers/pedophiles could be at their door soon!!

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Governing body member engaged... Again!

by OneDayillBeFree in

just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

possum

I have been to Samoa and attended an assembly where Jackson was the key speaker. The poverty is absolutely terrible. The brothers and sisters I met there where kind and hospitable (as I am sure Jackson's new wife is). But she is still married to a man who will protect pedophiles in front of a Royal Commission wearing a watch that would feed 10 families in Samoa for a year. Good healthy mature relationships don't need to be based around patriarchal power Feminist theory defines patriarchy as an unjust social system that enforces gender roles and is oppressive to both men and women.....................

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Governing body member engaged... Again!

by OneDayillBeFree in

just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

possum

frankiespeakin I'm thinking 1Kings 1:2 So his attendants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm."

Still a power imbalance hes got it! she hasn't! makes her a WT groupie

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knock knock

by Sabin in

if jw`s come knocking at your door, do you open it & engage in conversation, tell them to sod off, or just not answer the door?.

my husband`s has asked me not to answer the door to them if he isn't here?

he hate`s the fact that they make a point of calling when they know he will be at work.