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  What Do You Think About Tattoos?

  by minimus in

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  do you have any?.

  i know a lot of women, not just younger women, that have tats.

  i wouldn't have one but that's because i don't need the pain..

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  MLE, Kat is now dating Jesse James. Given his background, unless you can dip Kat in a vat of antibiotics, I'd steer clear of her.
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  What Do You Think About Tattoos?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you have any?.

  i know a lot of women, not just younger women, that have tats.

  i wouldn't have one but that's because i don't need the pain..

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  I have one. It was a youthful folly after I left the JWs and went wild. It's just a bow with a heart in the center with my initial on it "S", but it's on my right hip up high enough that it's not easily visible.

  Wish I didn't have it but there it is. My husband likes it, oddly enough.
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  My Family

  by alice.in.wonderland in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  to those that have accused me of insensitivity about abuse:.

  my father and his brother and sisters were raised by a man who became rich in the 1950s.

  he owned a construction company during a housing boom in a metropolitan area.

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  There's not a formal arrangement in Jehovah's Organization where elders can abuse children unless they're his own. They don't teach Sunday school, the Watchtower Society doesn't own any schools where elders teach, they don't recruit young men to serve at an altar. The elders do not have open access to other people's children. The men that are appointed as elders have been in the congregation for some years before appointment. There's not a problem that has surfaced of any significance where a person should be subject to a criminal background check before being appointed as an elder.

  WRONG. Again. Alice Rachel, elders and ministerial servants and pioneers go out in field service with young JWs. In particular, when young JWs use the summer to "temporary pioneer" as we used to call it, parents allow their children to go out in service with just about anyone in the KH to help them get their time in. Elders meet with teens and possibly "rebellious" younger ones to "counsel" them. Elders may work with young ones at Quick Builds or on KH special project days. Predatory JWs go door to door selling Watchtowers and the people they meet at the door could very well have children who would be at risk should they invite the predatory JW into the home. Also, my ex-husband, when he was a ministerial servant, conducted "Bible" studies with teens from the congregation in their own homes. My ex- is not a pedophile but if he had been, those boys would have been very vulnerable.

  I don't know why you are burying your head in the sand. We all sin and fall short of the Glory of God. There are abusers everywhere and the KH is no exception.
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  Most ignored scriptures by CHURCHianity...

  by theMadJW in

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  2. bible

  just about all of them; far too many to post!.

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  MadJW, you'd better believe I'm serious. Jesus started a church, the Catholic Church. I choose to be part of the church that Jesus started, not some sect started by some man who thinks he knows more than Jesus.

  Come, we'll take you in and teach you all about the real Early Church, the real Early Christians, the truths of Christianity. You won't get any of that as a JW.

  So, when are you going to join the One, True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church?
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  Most ignored scriptures by CHURCHianity...

  by theMadJW in

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  2. bible

  just about all of them; far too many to post!.

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  MadJW, whenever I read your posts, I feel so sorry for you. I used to believe the same lies you believe. If you really want true happiness and fulfillment, come home and join the One, True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church! We'll welcome you with open arms!
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  The H.M. Riley Trust

  by alice.in.wonderland in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  because someone, someone who misused their authority as financial information of such as is posted online relative to this trust is confidential communication between a financial planner, accountant, board of trustees and beneficiary of the trust; it's revealed the mutual funds owned by the riley trust have a "consumer staples/consumer goods" component, and one of the stocks in that component is phillip morris.. it's a completely immaterial amount of money and it's not generated by securities that are able to be traded, unless the entire mutual fund is sold off.

  this is another fine example of people who have an axe to grind with jehovah's witnesses doing a whole lot of work to produce a "smoking gun" that really is nothing of the kind.. this stems from some financial information that was released related to a lady named henrietta riley.

  apparently a wealthy jw that made the watchtower society the beneficiary of the income from her trust.

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  No, but once a death certificate has been issued by the government and the person's assets are left to a beneficiary, they have a responsibility to handle the matter appropriately. I don't know for sure what would happen if the assets were rejected by the organization, but I assume they would be seized by the federal government. If the society can put the money to better use, it's perfectly acceptable for them to do so.

  Wrong. This woman, as a supposed JW in good standing, was responsible for what was in her portfolio. Also, the legal dept. at Bethel should have ensured that no shares of this stock came into possession of the WTS.

  For example, as a Catholic, I participate in Ave Maria Funds. These are all stocks that perform well (let's hope) but aren't in opposition to Church moral teaching. For instance, when E. I. Lilly began manufacturing oral contraceptives, the Ave Maria Fund dropped them from their list of approved funds because using artificial contraception is a sin. This is called Socially Responsible Investing and it is the responsibility of every investor to know what they are putting their money into. Perhaps the WTS should try it.

  So it looks, once again, like the WTS just can't maintain the high moral standards of the Catholic Church.
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  need to get over it but cant :(

  by bez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i text my little girls friends mum today as her daughter left some clothes (funnily enough, they were army pants and a t shirt, what ever happened to not supporting the army by not wearing calmoflage print etc!!!)..

  i told her i would put them in a bag and told her she could call in for them whenever she was passing... anyway i just had my reply, hi, just keep them, *** will be out of them by next year anyway, so *** may as well just have them.

  hope your all ok...x. so i take it thats her in basic words sayin... keep them cus i dont want to see you again and your apostate influence... i knew people would take this approach to our decision to not continue going to the meetings but i just am really struggling to deal with it without feeling like i have a disease that they do not want to catch :(.

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  bez, you DO have a disease that they don't want to catch. It's called sanity. You now know the truth about the Troof and you'd better believe it is contagious. Deep inside, she knows this and fears you.

  As hard as it is to do this, don't take it personally. This is the JW knee jerk reaction to any perceived threat and pretty much everybody here on JWN is a perceived threat to the JDubs. We've all been through it and some continue to go through it.

  Chin up. Eventually you come to expect it and aren't so blindsided by it. In time, it hurts less.

  {{{{{}}}}}
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  Could you die without anyone noticing?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.

  i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.

  then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.

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  Aww, you're sweet AK-Jeff.
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  Could you die without anyone noticing?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.

  i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.

  then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.

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  Que sera sera who cares whose at your funeral anyway

  It is my intention to have a funeral Mass at my church and then a graveside service. No visitation, unless it would be one hour prior to the funeral and held in my Catholic parish. I don't want any of my JW relatives coming to gloat and see me laid out and feel good about themselves for doing their familial duty. And the funeral dinner afterward would be in our parish center, which used to be a one-room schoolhouse. No JWs welcome.
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  Could you die without anyone noticing?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.

  i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.

  then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.

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  I must tell about what happened to a neighbor of mine years ago. He was an elderly man (Mr. Peters) and stopped at the fire house to get a Paramedic to check him out because he didn't feel well. The firemen and Paramedics were out on a run. Mr. Peters got tired of waiting and just decided to walk home (3 miles walk). He had nine pit bulls living with him in his house. He got home, sat down in his recliner, had a heart attack and died. The dogs ate him. After a couple of weeks, the people at the farm next door noticed the non-stop barking and howling coming from Mr. Peters home. They called the police. The dogs had gone completely mad from lack of water, etc., being trapped in that hot house in the middle of summer. The sheriff broke out one of the windows in the house and as the dogs leapt out of the window, the sheriff's deputies shot them all. Then they went inside and found what was left of Mr. Peters in his recliner.

  Can't blame the dogs. They absolutely destroyed the house trying to get out. But it was certainly a sad way to go.

  The neighbor bought Mr. Peters farm, tore down the house, and now the whole area is planted in corn.

  Poor Mr. Peters had another bout of very bad luck a few years earlier. A boy I went to high school with won $150K playing the lottery. He was Mr. Peters grandson. He lived with Mr. Peters, spent the whole amount in a week on cocaine, beat Mr. Peters up pretty bad, and then shot and killed himself. Mr. Peters survived. The police took him to the police station to question him, patch him up, and then just let him go, didn't even offer him a ride back home, although it was 11 miles to his house. My dad picked him up and took him to my parents house and Mom looked after him for a few days until he was able to go home. A very sad, tragic life. I had a crush on the grandson when I was in middle school. He was very cute. It was so sad to see him go downhill like that.