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  Just reminiscing today thought I'd share pic's as I load them.

  by Hope4Others in

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  .youngest, now in his 20's.

  he'd kill me if he new i put this up.. .

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  Ugh, will try again tomorrow. yeah, been away. I was in hospital and then my youngest son had surgery on both legs and is in casts, so I've been caregiving more than usual. Very tired. But never too tired to share baby pictures!
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  Just reminiscing today thought I'd share pic's as I load them.

  by Hope4Others in

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  Just reminiscing today thought I'd share pic's as I load them.

  by Hope4Others in

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  Hope I did this right. This is my now 25 year-old, mohawk-wearing, hard-rocking baby. His first bath; eating baby food; and when his grandpa caught him playing with the buttons on the television.

  Why can't they stay this cute forever?
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  Pedophile crisis expanding among JWs

  by laneh in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it is interesting that the pedophile scandal among jws is broadening.

  for example, you will notice recent postings that show the crisis has popped into the limelight in finland and brazil.

  it first hit the internet and papers in the u.s., then canada, europe and australia, but not is showing up in south america.

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  WH, I had a teenaged family member who was molested last year. Her mother took her to talk with the elders and (drum roll) they told her to keep it to herself and tell no one. She "accidentally" leaked it to a person of authority in her school, who notified children's services. My family member was still having to face her molester at every meeting, week after week, until children's services got involved! Even then, her mother just sent her off to live with JW relatives in another congregation to please children's services. The abuser has never been punished or disfellowshipped. No one went to the police. SSDD.
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  I Want to Write a Letter

  by Hope4Others in

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  2. child-abuse

  the past weeks i have felt this overwhelming need to write my sister, her family has gone through an ordeal of pedophile issues over there daughter.

  the culprit.

  was an elders son and it was covered up well by the whole body.

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  H4O, my youngest brother approached me many years after this kind of thing happened to me. I'm sure he said a lot of things but what I remember most was him telling me that he was very ashamed of himself for not being supportive of me when I needed him. Knowing that he'd thought about it later and realized he was wrong and was willing to admit he was wrong has meant a lot to me. So, saying "I'm so sorry that I wasn't there for you when you needed me" might go a long way. It did with me.

  Bless your heart for wanting to make amends over this. There's no statute of limitations on apologies.
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  I Do Not Understand Why JWs Leave & Become Catholics!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  out of all religions, catholicism, to me, is wrong and clearly could never be the truth.

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  Min, there are several reasons a priest does not marry. Yes, it is in part financial, as was mentioned earlier. However, the Church considers marriage to be a sacrament and a vocation to be lived out very seriously. Priests generally get up at 4:30 in the morning to begin their morning prayers and get ready for morning Mass. My priest usually doesn't get to bed until between 11-12 midnight. He's busy all day with the needs of our two parishes. I've never known a Catholic priest who would have the time to be a proper husband or father. I've heard Lutheran ministers complain that they missed their kids' birthday parties because they had to attend meetings at their churches. Families of Protestant pastors often suffer from a lack of attention from their pastor husband/father because being a proper pastor is such an involved job. The Catholic Church feels a man can't serve his parish well and still be a good husband and father. If you take marriage seriously, you have to take your role as a spouse and a parent seriously. No priest I know would have the time to do that. My priest doesn't even have one day off during the week. There are about 100 married priests in the U.S. who were ordained pastors in other denominations before coming into the RCC. As a general rule, though, it wouldn't work very well. The Catholic Church takes family life much too seriously to risk mixing it with the priesthood.

  And I can also tell you that other denominations (such as the JWs) have as high or higher of an incidence of sexual misconduct, despite the fact they allow their clergymen to marry. Our local Episcopal church was shattered when it was discovered that the married priest was having an affair with a married female parishioner. A married evangelical pastor in a town about 30 miles from here was recently convicted of sexually abusing over 20 young boys. Less than 1/2 of 1% of all Roman Catholic priests have even been accused, let alone convicted, of sexual impropriety. That means that 99.5% of them are doing their best to uphold their vows. I think the whole issue of celibacy is blown out of proportion. There is more to us as individuals than just our sexuality.
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  Investigating Feasability of a Project: Can You Help?

  by AuldSoul in

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  2. scandals

  (from internal revenue service).

  exempt purposes - internal revenue code section 501(c)(3).

  the exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals.

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  I wonder how many donations to the "Worldwide Work" are used for legal fees? On top of the sexual molestation scandal, they've spent a lot of money on lawsuits to shut down "defamatory" websites like the Quotes website. People deserve to know that this self-proclaimed champion of free speech spent their donations on legal fees to shut down persons who used free speech against them.
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  Mother Pregnant With 18th Child

  by snowbird in

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  2. family

  there were 13 of us - one baby girl died in infancy, however.. here's the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24537885&gt1=43001.

  sylvia.

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  The Duggars are interesting, to say the least. I always wanted 10 kids but have problems with infertility. Given that most Americans are too selfish to have more than one or two children, I don't think the Duggars' 18 kids are going to be a serious population threat. Regarding overpopulation, see the following: http://www.pop.org/

  Also, for the people who say that the Duggars don't have time to spend with their children, many parents of only one or two children both work and send the kids to a combination of public school and day care. Since just about the only time those parents have to spend with their children is an hour or two after coming home from work and eating a quick dinner before putting the kids to bed, I'd bet a minute by minute comparison would show that the Duggars spend at least as much individual time with their kids as the average American couple does. The Duggars homeschool and, while I don't particularly care for their curriculum choice, they do take total responsibility for raising their children themselves.

  Europe is dying because of small families. In France, the government is paying women to have children. If we didn't have so many immigrants in this nation, we would be losing population, too.

  I thought this was supposed to be America where we have freedoms? Seems like having more than two or three children is one freedom our society has been brainwashed into believing is wrong; that children are a drain and a burden. Nobody seems to think about the contributions those children might make to society~like paying taxes and helping keep Social Security afloat or working in the nursing field and caring for the elderly, etc. I don't know who is going to take care of my generation when we get old, since no one is having kids.

  Now that I've probably offended everybody, better jump down off my soapbox and go feed the few children I have....
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  Yeah - 1919 HAS to go first.

  by hamsterbait in

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  2. bible

  on this board some have said that 1914 cannot be ditched, otherwise the 1919 faithful and discreet slave and its appointment will not hold water.. my recent - yes - fake article showed, using the tried and tested methods, how this could be done.. the only way to ditch the 1914 teaching is to uncouple any doctrines which depend on that date.. separation of sheep and goats since 1914 gone.. the generation change has now gone.. the invisible return of christ in 1914 has gone.

  ( watered down to "turned his attention" to the earth.).

  all that remains is the appointment of the "slave" 3 and a half years later in 1919. the order in which this is happening is following the sequence above, which i reckoned would happen, after i heard the talk in 1993 about the "celestial phenomena", and the new application of "when you see these things.".

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  The FDS is the program or process of feeding the sheep the spiritual food.

  Anasazi - The FDS is not a program or a process. It is allegedly the GB. And the food they've been feeding the sheep is contaminated, to say the least.
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  Phone Interview with Tom Cabeen 5/16/08 on Catholicism

  by Dogpatch in

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  2. friends

  phone interview with tom cabeen 5/16/08.

  http://www.freeminds.org/media/cabeeninterview.htm.

  former jehovah's witness.

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  StAnn

  Questions to be asked:

  1. After all you learned about religion and Christianity as a Jehovah's Witness, how could you make such a blind leap of faith into an old, decaying religion?

  Here are my questions to you: given that the WTBTS lies to the their own members on a consistent basis and changes their so-called "bible-based" beliefs almost daily on a whim, why should anyone believe that what the WTBTS says about other faiths is true? Seems like, given their blinking "new light," they don't have an accurate grasp on what they believe, let alone what other faiths teach. Why would anyone believe that anything the JWs say about "religion and Christianity" has a modicum of truth to it, given the source? What makes you think Tom's "leap" was blind? Given that the Roman Catholic Church has grown to over 1 billion members worldwide, what gives you the notion that it's a "decaying" religion? Isn't it logical that it would be an "old" religion, since it's been almost 2,000 years since Jesus founded Christianity?

  I look forward to hearing your interview.