i know of people who were disciplined because they observed the fourth of july fireworks celebration.
and i know many people who celebrated thanksgiving but just didn’t call it that because they could get into trouble with the elders.. do you now celebrate birthdays and other holidays or is that something you really don’t care about?
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We do!
It's not as exciting or experienced as our neighbors... but we do try to get involved.
Sparklers for the 4th, a little cake for a birthday and a tree with lights for Christmas. It still doesn't feel as normal as I would like but it's getting there.
I just hope by the time my grandchildren come along we will be having the most fun celebrations :)
this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
Yippee!! So happy for you both!!
publication court of appeal, fourth appellate district division one state of california osbaldo padron, plaintiff and respondent, v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc., defendant and appellant.findingwatchtower has abused the discovery process.
it has zealously advocated its position and lost multiple times.
yet, it cavalierly refuses to acknowledge the consequences of these losses and the validity of the court's orders requiring it to produce documents in response to request number 12. and, in a further act of defiance, watchtower informed the court that it would not comply with the march 25, 2016 order 39 requiring it to produce documents responsive to request number 12. the court, following lopez, supra, 246 cal.app.4th 566, as an incremental step toward terminating sanctions if watchtower persists in its unjustified conduct, imposed monetary sanctions.
Great news! I absolutely loved reading the opinion, I'm pretty sure the Watchtower has to know at this point their ridiculous games are no longer working! Time to pay the piper.
from reddit:.
this was an oral argument to dismiss the $4000/day fine.
both sides presented their arguments and now the judges will write an opinion (30 to 90 days).
Wonderful!! I was about to email Zelkin to ask how it went.
Thank you so much for attending and giving all of us a update.
i've seen comments by some on leah's expose on scientology: aftermath.
she actually won an emmy for this show.
rumor is that she might take on jehovah's witnesses in season 3. .
Wonderful!!
She has done such a great job thus far exposing Scientology!
I'm thrilled that she might tackle the JW's :)
i have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.
i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.
how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?
Why does the amount matter to you?
The fact they have to pay anything at all proves their wrongdoing and failures to the victims.
This is a victory and something they would have never got had they not fought for it
last month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).
i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.
I will definitely be looking at my sinks in a different light. Thanks for the warning..lol
this is from the website of the daily mirror - a british 'mass-market' red-top tabloid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/daily_mirror.
in the words of simon: "peers morgan was editor of the mirror and forced to resign after they published faked photos alleging that british soldiers were abusing iraqi's (around the time of ahu ghraib).
What a very brace woman!! I truly hopes she finds peace by speaking out and openly sharing her truth.
take 5 is a popular weekly 'women's magazine' based in australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/take_5_(magazine).
the following 1,100 word story is from their website - don't know if it's in the printed version.....take 5, may 5, 2017.
One never knows what will trigger PTSD. My daughter was watching a film in one of her college classes that send her into a panic attack. It's sadly something that you just have to live with when you suffered trauma.
i could never understand why some people who know the truth about the "truth" ever go back.
once you understand all the hypocrisy and negatives, i would think it's almost impossible to go back!.
The thought actually triggers my gag reflex.
I could never ever put myself in the position of village idoit ever again!!
