Diogenesister

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  Been encouraging my husband to contact his DF'd brother

  by atacrossroads in

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  my husband has a brother he has not spoken too in years not even when he became an adult.

  there is a big age gap between them and when his brother was df'd he was still a small child.

  his brother was 17 when he was df'd for sex and when he turned 18 he left home and never looked back.

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  Diogenesister

  Maybe the DF'd Brother is happy and content with his life. I can relate to this. When my family gets involved in my life it causes nothing but stress and it is just not worth the trouble. Maybe the DF'd Brother is happy and wants to move on with his life.

  I guess this is the reason I would approach hubby first, you can't risk a wronged man being rejected twice.

  That said, I do hope he doesn't hold your husband at quite the same level of culpability as your parents in law. I guess your BIL has tried to build a life away from his family and pulled up the emotional drawbridge for his own self protection .

  One thing I would make no apologies for though - straight taking alert here - if you have kids, for goodness sakes don't let the next generation have to go through this shunning cr@p. That really is the place where you have the ability to effect the most positive change.
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  Your Baptism Pics

  by kairos in

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  from the most important day of your life.... .

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  Diogenesister

  They have mustoshios! Two!!

  Your wife!? Wow, Im getting old, I thought you were kids! I guess you were really.😊
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  John Lee Hooker - Jehovahs Witness

  by apostrate in

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  a couple of excerpts from an interview with john lee hooker, american blues legend, a few years before he died in 2001. i found this to be somewhat humorous.. have you been married more than once?.

  four times.

  i aint never gonna get married again.

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  Diogenesister

  Steve2 remember some years ago listening to my hero Bob Dylan

  
  Mine too!

  Didn't he convert back to Judaism in the end or am I dreaming?!
  
  

  Goodness we are a bunch of old farts! John Lee, Robert Zimmerframe.... hmm (scratches head)nah...we just have great taste!
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  John Lee Hooker - Jehovahs Witness

  by apostrate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a couple of excerpts from an interview with john lee hooker, american blues legend, a few years before he died in 2001. i found this to be somewhat humorous.. have you been married more than once?.

  four times.

  i aint never gonna get married again.

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  Diogenesister

  Lucky enough to see him in the early '90s though

  Me too, BoC, I guess not in the UK for you? (always thought you were British with a name like Breakfast of Champions & your avatar pic)
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  John Lee Hooker - Jehovahs Witness

  by apostrate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a couple of excerpts from an interview with john lee hooker, american blues legend, a few years before he died in 2001. i found this to be somewhat humorous.. have you been married more than once?.

  four times.

  i aint never gonna get married again.

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  Diogenesister

  orphancrow Sometimes, some things are just too much information, right, Flipper?

  Ha ha!Waaay to much!

  Makes me wanna cry...

  🎵"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer!"🎶🎸
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
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  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Diogenesister

  I'm a selfish bastard.

  Nah...challenging accepted norms is not selfish. You had your fingers burnt by the Watchtower - you have learnt well my son.

  As to your bastardy I wouldn't care to comment without your asking your mother.
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Diogenesister

  If he accepted it the GB knew he would keep quiet. He would not have been DF'd and the shunning rules would never have been re-introduced.

  As is often stated on this forum:

  A good (or honourable)deed never goes unpunished!

  Interesting example of the complexity of lifes "moral"choices - for us JW black and white thinkers out there!
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  Been encouraging my husband to contact his DF'd brother

  by atacrossroads in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husband has a brother he has not spoken too in years not even when he became an adult.

  there is a big age gap between them and when his brother was df'd he was still a small child.

  his brother was 17 when he was df'd for sex and when he turned 18 he left home and never looked back.

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  Diogenesister

  I say go for it. What's the worse that can happen, they dont talk to each other?!!

  You know you only live once. Your only gonna have so many siblings. Can you at least determine for sure if your husband would shun him. If not, you have your green light!
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Diogenesister

  Franz wanted to rule the world like everybody else

  Ha ha So true! Except maybe if your Jesus Christ...no, wait.....didn't...?!
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Diogenesister

  Possibly both. The threads on the forum say that the accusations were made by a boy. Decades later a (now grown) man by the name of Mark Palo made the accusation on video.

  Well that alone TOTALLY blows the whole 'appointed by holy spirit'bs. Maybe the odd elder could slip through the net but a GB member?I thought big J could see the future, being omniscient n'all.