Posts by Cacky

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Latest Watchtower lays into the United Nations like nothing ever happened...

by cedars in

for those of us who are familiar with the watch tower society's 9-year affiliation with the united nations as an ngo (non-governmental organization), a portion of the latest "armageddon article" produced in the september 15th 2012 study edition provides some interesting reading.. for those not familiar with the scandal, i can do no better than point you in the direction of the pertinent article over on jwfacts.com, which you can access via the following link:.

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/united-nations-association.php.

to clarify, here is a letter from the united nations confirming the affiliation:.

Cacky

Someone could send it to that reporter at the Sun, was it, that exposed the Watchtower's affiliation in the first place.

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Letter I am writing to local Newspaper......

by tresdecu in

jw
friends

still going back to correct grammer / spelling, but this is basically what i am writing to them.

it probably won't do any good, but you never know:.

thanks for taking the time to read this.

Cacky

From what I understand, any letters to the editors must contain a name of the persons sending it or they don't use it. I hope they see in this situation that would not be possible and still consder it. If you give them contact information so they can be sure of you, they also might be more likely to do it, so long as they can say they checked out the writer.

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JW s in Cali

by criticalwitness in

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is their a different set of laws for jw in california?

it seems to be so much more lax as opposed to other parts of u.s?

from beiang able to get tats the parties oh mean gatherings lol just seemed dif anyone else notice?.

Cacky

I'm in the midwest. Years ago we knew a family who had just moved here from Cali. They were surprised that they weren't allowed to attend concerts, even rock concerts. The mom of young adults said she even went to them in Cali. So I guess they do go by different rules there. Oh, as far as the concerts, they just went to Six Flaggs to attend whatever concerts were playing there. I'd overhear the MS sons whispering to each other about going to Six Flaggs about the good seats they had at the concert.

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Did You Watch The Waltons?

by snowbird in

if so, did you enjoy the show?.

i loved it.

missed quite a few episodes due to attending kh meetings, but i'm making up for that.. the show reminds me so of growing up in a large family, having to share everything, and looking out for each other..

Cacky

Loved the Walton's, in my early teens. I once brought home the movie The Homecoming, which was the movie that precluded the series. My one jw daughter in particular, I could tell, didn't trust me in that it was ok to watch, because it had Christmas as the background to it, but she absolutely loved it and seemed surprised that it wasn't something they shouldn't have watched after all. I was considered by my kids to be a bad, non-spiritual jw mom and they were pretty brainwashed by the other moms in the cong and what they learned from the pulpit. Poor kids! I wish I had woken up to the what was being done to them in that religion.

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JW Longo Story on ABC TV July 11th "Final Witness"

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120611abc02/.

final witness*.

air date: wednesday, july 11, 2012. time slot: 10:00 pm-11:00 pm est on abc.

Cacky

I'll be watching!

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Oh, the pain

by Cirkeline in

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friends

it hurts like hell to listen to my 17 yo girl, crying, saying she misses our real relationship.

that she gets depressed every time we talk about spiritual things.

and i really do the utmost to leave it out of our conversations.

Cacky

I'm going through similar stuff, but my two jw daughters are older and do shun me now that I have turned "apostate." I once heard an interview by the mom of (I forget his name, some famous guy who was always pushing for consumer rights, anyway) his mom was interviewed on Phil Donahue (really giving my age away lol), and the mother said, "Don't expect your children to thank you. Just expect them to respect you." Or maybe she said, don't expect them to love you, either way, it has a similar sentiment. My problem is, I was never a good, spiritual jw mom, so my girls hated me when they grew up, blamed me because we weren't a popular jw family (funny, inactive dad never got the blame), and I found out years later their friend's mom's would criticize me (I was going to college and other things) and they told my kids I had no business doing that, if I loved them I would be concerned for their spiritual welfare. The thing was, I believed a lot of the teachings, but just thought the imminent end just might not be quite as close as they kept saying, and wanted my kids to have more of a life, in case it was much farther away than they thought. I was really pulled between the real me and what I wanted for my kids and the jw teachings and always struggled with that. Anyway, I hate the religion, too, and so wish I had never raised my kids in it. I know for certain things would have been better, different, but better. I could have freely encouraged them to go after whatever their passion was, that kind of thing. I lived through 30 years of cognitive dissonane with that, and tha affected my kids, too. If only we could go back and do things over. All I can do for now is hope and wait. I have actually resorted to sending out mental messages to my kids in the hopes that somehow our mental thoughts do go out there in some sort of brain waves that maybe, just maybe, could get picked up by them. Crazy, I know. But that's what I've had to resort to, since there just is nothing more I can do. Believe me, I've tried. So every night, I sit out on my porch and think some thoughts and mentally send them toward where they live.

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Quote where WT says people can leave org. without repercussions?

by ronwashington in

months ago someone here mentioned a quote from some sort of interview where a wt spokeperson (brown?

) said a person can leave the org.

without repurcussions.

Cacky

Too bad the reporter didn't know to ask, "But are they ANY repercussions, such as being shunned by other jws, even by family members who are jws?

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How Will The Watchtower Handle Disclosure?

by metatron in

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friends

for me, the disclosure of ufo's as being real is just matter of time.

it's not a matter of any mayan calendar or galactic alignment.

it's simply the eventual outcome of increasing and increasingly bold ufo observations.

Cacky

Remember the scriptures that say there will be great signs from the skies, or something like that. My jw daughters have already told me they believe if there are ufo's, it's Satan trying to mislead people. I think that's a general jw thought on the subject.

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What do you think would happen if somebody in the GB needed blood

by keep in

would they refuse the transfusion?

or come up with a "new understanding" that you can accept blood in certain situations?.

btw as you can see this is my first post so hi.

Cacky

I honestly think they'd take blood.

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If you got apostate vids on Youtube take em off now!!! Legal Dept to Sue!

by smithmandy1 in

i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.

legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!

my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.

Cacky

IN the one in Armenia, the television station really did lie, saying the guy was a jw, when he wasn't. That country hates jws and I guess that's why that was done. That has nothing to do with this issue. They are in no way similar.