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  Local Elder advises Young woman to make up with abusive husband

  by troubled mind in

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  just never ceases to amaze me how things in the organization stay the same .

  you would think by 2011 these guys could come up with something better than " makeup now ,you know jehovah hates a divorcing !

  " ( but obviously he doesn't mind a woman being abused !

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  I like my dads solution. When he was a young elder, giving the public talk @ an out of town cong., he saw a childhood friend who was battered and bruised. Between the talk and WT study, he took her husband outside and kicked his ass, told him he was taking the wife back to her family, and not to come to get her, or else.
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  Abusive Women and manipulation

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. child-abuse

  the other day we were talking about abusive mothers (toxic relationships).

  i was sent this link today and think it is worth sharing.

  i think it is an excellent article.

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  Interesting responses, but I am dismayed at the antique attitude displayed by the article... It almost sounds as if we're back in the late 1940's to the 1950's, when women were supposedly "catty, vindictive, petty, manipulative, sneaky, cowardly"... And so on. You pick your insulting term indicating weakness and mental or emotional fragility and use it against women in general...

  Really? Where? This was written by a WOMaN describing WOMEN who do these things. Who ARE these things, and abusive to boot. It's not talking about "emotionally fragile women", it's talking about abusive ones. To deny that women also have the ability to be assholes is really sexist, and deny's their humanity.

  Is it any wonder that women under stresses will act out - often violently - towards their own offspring, under such unfavorable dynamics???

  False dilemna. That's like saying "Is it any wonder the JW's are abusive to thier own members after being persecuted by so many govt.s?"

  I was beaten and abused as a child, I was abused in many ways by the JW's. And went thru alot of other shit. Does that make it OK for me to pass it on? No. I worked @ a group home for emotionally disturbed kids, went to parenting classes, read books, etc. and chose to have a child @ 32 rather than younger, because I wanted to fix it, learn as much as i could not pass it on. That's what you do.
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  Need tunes to play when my JW window cleaner is next here...

  by highdose in

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  as you may remember, i have a jw window cleaner, one who likes to whistle kingdoom melodies while he works.

  drives me crazy!

  so i put music on while hes here and it stops him.

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  avishai

  NSFW, but the song "die, MF, die" by the band Dope is great.
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  Abusive Women and manipulation

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the other day we were talking about abusive mothers (toxic relationships).

  i was sent this link today and think it is worth sharing.

  i think it is an excellent article.

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  avishai

  Ugh, that's horrible, Zid.
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  Abusive Women and manipulation

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the other day we were talking about abusive mothers (toxic relationships).

  i was sent this link today and think it is worth sharing.

  i think it is an excellent article.

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  avishai

  (((Lee)))
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  Abusive Women and manipulation

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the other day we were talking about abusive mothers (toxic relationships).

  i was sent this link today and think it is worth sharing.

  i think it is an excellent article.

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  avishai

  Thanks for posting, I think many of us feel immune to this, would'nt enter a Church, much less an amway mtg. But unwittingly would fall right into something like this and not even know.
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  So an 8 year old is killed by a machine-gun and it's no ones fault?

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.

  saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).

  single-shot hunting rifle?

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  avishai

  marking for later
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  Our Stories and Why They Matter

  by Farkel in

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  stories are perhaps the most important thing we can contribute to others in our short life on planet earth.. mind you, i am not saying that stories are the most important things in our lives, because they are not.

  the most important things in our lives are experiences, which are moment-by-moment things.

  the best we can do with our own experiences is to tell stories about them, which will never convey the actual living of them.

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  avishai

  Brilliant
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  On A Scale Of 1 to 10 How Would You Rate Your Looks?

  by minimus in

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  be honest.. .

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  avishai

  blue. No, red.
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  Eek! A Male!

  by laverite in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  "eek!

  a male!

  treating all men as potential predators doesn't make our kids safer."http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748703779704576073752925629440.html.

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  avishai

  I'm a stay @ home dad, and get funny looks all the time. The stepdaughter thought she'd be funny and call me a kidnapper the other day when i was picking her up from school. Geez. Boy did she get a talking too.