I am not a religious person, never have been. There were others there like me. It's not like an assembly, because you can go dressed as yourself, you can get up & go out into the living room areas & socialize & no one will give you dirty looks for missing 'spiritual fruit', lol. I didn't see any kids getting the shit kicked outta them, everyone looked happy, lots of hugs were exchanged, & many went just for the fellowship & to make new friends. Not all "talks" were even religious in nature on the Sat. am I went. I will go again next year, becaue of the ones that were Christian, they were the most balanced Christians I ever saw. having once been part of a group shoving their beliefs down other's throats, I think they know better. I would recdomend it to anyone, you won't be disappointed!
gypsywildone
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Convention pictures #1
by borgfree ini will post some pictures now and more later.
i am waiting for permission to use the group picture of board posters (haven't gotten all yet).
japanese group of ex-jws.
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Witnesses ForJesus Convention!!!
by mouthy intom!
you were great!!!!!
how lovely it was to see flower, brian,jadin, joy, dr bob( better half also).
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gypsywildone
lol, just kidding to my sweet adopted ma. One of these days I am going up there to visit you & Brenda & everyone up there! Anyone know who the Elvis was? He DID sound like Elvis. I did want to see flower's little cutie pie up closer, but I am afraid he was overwhelmed by all us huggy ladies. Love to all, old friends and new :)
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Witnesses ForJesus Convention!!!
by mouthy intom!
you were great!!!!!
how lovely it was to see flower, brian,jadin, joy, dr bob( better half also).
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gypsywildone
Dear, sweet Mouthy:
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Ewanchuk v. Ewanchuk: JW grandparents' rights case
by expatbrit inearlier this month, the supreme court of the northwest territories rendered judgement on this case, involving grandparents rights of access to their grandchildren and their right to expose the grandchildren to their religion.
practising jehovahs witnesses.. tracy ewanchuk (respondent): the mother of asia and alecsa.
a second is that he views their exposure to his religious practices as something that is healthy for them.
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gypsywildone
It's never in the best interest of a child to get the shit kicked outta them in the back of a kingdom hall, tell the kid their whole family is gonna die because God's gonna kill them, have the kid sit through hours of mind numbing rotten spiritual fruit, or make them feel like a freak because all the joy is drained from their life. Kids just want their grandparent's love, and this making "love" contingent on following a cult is spiritual abuse!
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How were you perceived .............. as a jw
by A Paduan in.
as a continuation of minimus' thread.. how do you think people perceived you - when you were a jw?
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gypsywildone
Lol, about the same as Francois, only the jws thought I was a crazy trouble maker. My real friends and I had a ball!!!
Did my stint in the watchtower concentration camp from ages 13-16, but it WAS memorable :)Gypsy, the havin' another toke class
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Joseph Frantz (Hyghlandyr) To be Disfellowshipped?
by Hyghlandyr inthey left a note.
he is the one that kept trying to get me to state i wanted to da myself.
to which evil elder kept trying to get me to da.
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Lol, this is great! Hyghlandyr outsmarts them again.
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'Prepare for Banning' A HOAX! READ INSIDE
by ashitaka inmy friend called me last night and said that his mother heard a letter read on monday night at her congregation meeting that said that the rank and file should be prepared to be banned, to go underground, and persecution is coming soon, that halls would be taken, and such.
that these things are definitely coming soon.
could this be the spin that the wt is heading towards.....instead of facing the hard issues, make the issues the boogeyman and shut down the halls, giving the elders ultimate power?
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gypsywildone
After reading a book called Seductive Poison, by a survivor of the Jim Jones mess, I realized immediately the paralells were striking! This cult has always ruled by fear, but what are they stooping to now!
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Elder LIES to Downey, California Reporter
by Brymichmom indungbeetle and brymichmom delivered a stuffed lamb to the downey, ca kingdom hall at 12116 woodruff avenue today.
present were a reporter and a photographer from the downey patriot newspaper.
while we were placing the lamb at the front door, an elder approached us and asked us why we were there.
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gypsywildone
High fives to you! Little by little the tower teeters on exposure!
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My B/F told me he's a J/W after months of dating!
by Funky_Diva_53_2000 inhi, i'm 17 and i've just recently become a member of this website and i want you to know what has happened to me over the past months.back in sep/oct 2001 i started chatting to a 20 year old bloke via the internet and we developed a great friendship over the net.we would talk online for ages,text and phone each other loads,we sent each other photos of ourselves and he would often put his webcam on for me to see.before i knew it he played a great part in my everyday life...and i spent so much time chatting to him that my college work suffered a lot & i wasn't doing my coursework (i eventually got told to leave as i hadn't done loads of the assignments and stuff & had fallen behind).
after about 6 months we arranged to meet up (i made sure my parents were at home coz i know it's dodgy to meet people from the internet).anyway,he came round my house one evening in march and we got along soo well...he lives quite locally too which was good.our friendship then grew into a relationship and we started dating and going out together,i was sooo happy and i fell for him in a massive way & he said he felt the same way too.to me,he was a girls dream come true...he was kind,caring,fit,good-looking & gentle and i loved him to bits!,i still do,and i thought we'd be together forever.
something that i did find a bit strange though was i hadn't met his family yet or heard my boyfriend talk much about them.i would question him about his family but he seemed to get a bit funny about it and when i mentioned about meeting his family he said something along the lines of ''they're a bit strange,you might not like them'' (or something like that anyway).that got me thinking and i though prehaps they lived in a run-down place or something,or they wern't very nice people and i thought my b/f could be ashamed to let me meet them.i thought to myself to give him time & he'll see that i'm an understanding & nice person and hoped that he would soon come out and tell me what the problem was (thinking it was about what i've just mentioned).
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gypsywildone
is Savanah hopelessly naiive, or in denial of reality?
Diva, you are way too smart & together for this! Dump this mixed up mess, never get used again! Read a book called
Women who Love too Much, that way, the next time "crazy" comes along, you'll recognize it & run the other way! You are
waaaay too good to get any further into this & waste any more time! You can't save people who don't want to be saved, but you can save yourself. -
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Why are people racist?
by MrMoe insomething on the song thread that i posted, song by tu pac, got me to thinking about racisim.
why do people discriminate against people that have different color skin?
i understand it is a learned response, but my "elder" father is very racist... and this is how i was raised.. i don't get it.
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gypsywildone
I think NewWay & Gravedancer have the most insight into the subject. It is a more complex thing than to put little labels such as "ignorance", "fear", "hatred' on it & be correct. It is about culture and language. It is about the USA being founded by immigrants, Polish, Italian, German, Chinese, etc. who never asked the taxpayers to finance their assimilation & learning at least enough English to function. That is one reason the early immigrants successful and prosperous. It is about entering into a culture & not attempting to foist your own upon it. It is more about respect and appreciation of tradition.