So interesting.
I'm outside of the US and over the years garnered the impression that JW's in the US were sort of Michael Jackson/Prince/George Benson/Venus and Serena Williams.
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Blackness. If the JW religion is a majority black religion, is this a majority black board?
by Quillsky inbefore anyone asks whether it's important.... no it's not, it's just interesting..
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Blackness. If the JW religion is a majority black religion, is this a majority black board?
by Quillsky inbefore anyone asks whether it's important.... no it's not, it's just interesting..
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Mostly english speakers post on JWN from countries where the majority of jws are white. The countries where the majority of jws are black or brown tend to mainly speak other languages and find the language a barrier.
Aren't the majority of JW's in the US black?
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A letter to my parents stating I dont believe in the Org anymore.
by cyberjesus ini just sent this letter to my dad 3 days ago.
i roughly translated it from spanish, so it has many weird sounding sentences but i just wanted to shared it with the board.
practically i just say good-bye to my family.
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Quillsky
Nice letter, though it will take them a week to read.
(((((cyberjesus)))))
So you seem like such a nice guy. Why do you behave so shitly to ex-Dubs on here who don't believe in "the Lord"?
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Blackness. If the JW religion is a majority black religion, is this a majority black board?
by Quillsky inbefore anyone asks whether it's important.... no it's not, it's just interesting..
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Before anyone asks whether it's important.... No it's not, it's just interesting.
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Admit It: You Wanted to Be One of the 144,000!!
by cameo-d inwhat do you think it takes to "qualify" to be one of the 144k?.
do you think it is just awarded for good behavior or does it have to be earned?
what do you think will be the duties of the 144k?.
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Quillsky
From a practical perspective, being part of the "anointed" was never a possibility. My parents explained to me that if you knew you knew, and as a child growing up why would we want to be more different than we already were?
The only people I knew in real life who claimed to be anointed were odd, old, cookie, a bit strange, anyway. Why would I claim to be one of them?
From a mathematical/ecumenical perspective, it didn't make any sense, this silly 12x12 thing. It was clear to me as a child that the number was symbolic.
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Did you personally shun anybody? Experiences?
by Quillsky ini'll never forget being at a restaurant and seeing a df'ed witness, a previous friend, leaving the restaurant.. i watched him through the window, looked him in the eye and raised my hand, a bit, to say "hi".
i felt guilty doing it but at the same time it seemed like the only right thing to do..
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I'll never forget being at a restaurant and seeing a DF'ed Witness, a previous friend, leaving the restaurant.
I watched him through the window, looked him in the eye and raised my hand, a bit, to say "hi". I felt guilty doing it but at the same time it seemed like the only right thing to do.
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Mistresses??
by diana netherton inwhat are your thoughts on them?
would i be a simply terrible person if i became one?.
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Quillsky
No way. I'm done. I think I've learned my lesson here.
What exactly is the lesson you've learned?
Some of the comments have been open-minded, generous, thoughtful, helpful and interesting.
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Mistresses??
by diana netherton inwhat are your thoughts on them?
would i be a simply terrible person if i became one?.
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Quillsky
if your conscience isn't disturbed by exchanging sex for money, then this is probably the perfect job for you.
Being a stay-at-home wife is the perfect "job" for some. Sex and money certainly enter into that equation.
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How did you choose your screenname for jw.net?
by Voices inalright, i'm curious now cause i've been wanting to know how certain people go their screennames.
now some people have their names involved with makes sense and so forth.
but i guess i'll start out.
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Quillsky
It was just a joke.
I actually got that, knock knock, thanks!
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Mistresses??
by diana netherton inwhat are your thoughts on them?
would i be a simply terrible person if i became one?.
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Quillsky
It's predictable how closed-minded the arguments on this thread are. Prostitution, money, would you want your daughter...? all that stuff.
Looking at it from a purely moral position, I consider the lying aspect to be more important than who you have sex with. Let's face it, being a wife is often a financial arrangement.
Imagine one were living in a polygamous community. The man would have one, two or more sexual partners. So that in itself is not the issue. (Hi King Solomon and all the others in the bible )
The only real issues are sexual and procreational health, and emotional health.
It's similar with consecutive sexual partnerships. If you've had multiple partners over time, and most people have, then the key issue with regard to actually having sex is sexual health and childbirth, or lack thereof.
So a man living in a monogamous community who takes on another sexual partner without alerting his wife is dishonest. Having said that, is it better or worse than releasing his wife from her financial contract with him? Divorce, leaving a wife for another woman, is accepted in Western society, but not as well accepted in polygamous societies.
However, if a person lies to a current sexual partner (wife, girlfriend, husband, wife) about who else they are having sex with, to me the deception is a problem, not sex.
So to Diana I say, think about how honest this man is being. If he can lie to his wife about meeting you, he can lie to you and everyone else in his life. Whatever you choose to do, stay sexually safe and look after your emotional health.
As Ynot said...
One size morality doesn't fit all.