so as not to hijack another thread i decided that a thread on culture could be useful.
i'd like to provide a safe place for people to talk about cultural norms or abnormals.
you don't want to learn that you've done or said the wrong thing by gettin' a fist in the face, know what i'm saying?.
You do have a point, Six. But using “apostate” creates hardly the hysteria among us that the “N” word does.
But it was an honest question and I was hoping that a non-white person could explain why they use it. BTW, I don’t live in the States so I rarely ever see an American black person here, let alone be in the position to ask them the question.
so as not to hijack another thread i decided that a thread on culture could be useful.
i'd like to provide a safe place for people to talk about cultural norms or abnormals.
you don't want to learn that you've done or said the wrong thing by gettin' a fist in the face, know what i'm saying?.
broken promises said: " If the word hurts them so much, then why do they use it?"
To take the power out of the word? Who knows? Maybe ask a black person who uses the word and find out.
Well, instead of taking it upon yourself to answer the question, you could have left it for a black poster to answer it.
cc: my supervisor, our manager, our vicepresident.
guy that didn't show up:.
guy that didn't show up.
Bosses don’t like being told where they’re going wrong.
And keep company problems inside. Don’t let the clients know there’s internal problems.
will their be marriage and sex in gods new order?.
what about children being born?.
these questions have bugged me since i was a child.
Shelby also thinks God speaks to her. I wouldn’t worry too much about what she says.
so as not to hijack another thread i decided that a thread on culture could be useful.
i'd like to provide a safe place for people to talk about cultural norms or abnormals.
you don't want to learn that you've done or said the wrong thing by gettin' a fist in the face, know what i'm saying?.
Well said, Para.
so as not to hijack another thread i decided that a thread on culture could be useful.
i'd like to provide a safe place for people to talk about cultural norms or abnormals.
you don't want to learn that you've done or said the wrong thing by gettin' a fist in the face, know what i'm saying?.
If the word hurts them so much, then why do they use it?
so as not to hijack another thread i decided that a thread on culture could be useful.
i'd like to provide a safe place for people to talk about cultural norms or abnormals.
you don't want to learn that you've done or said the wrong thing by gettin' a fist in the face, know what i'm saying?.
I fail to see how this thread is a “Public Service Announcement” – perhaps it was said tongue in cheek, I don’t know.
American blacks seem to think they have the monopoly on discrimination and a suckky life. I had a black American bf who used to go on about discrimination until I said, “and you’re speaking to a fat female who used to be a JW, and you think I don’t know anything about discrimination????”
People are discriminatory towards you regardless of your skin colour. I think it’s too easy to blame it on being “black” (although we’re all black if you go back far enough) when it’s because people are jerks in real life, intentionally or otherwise.
in the waiting area of the medical office i took my husband to this morning.
i removed them from the waiting area and they will soon be destroyed.
i would have disposed of them at the medical office but i couldn't find a trash can.
LOL @ MASH
maybe it's me but i see more males act less "manly".
i dunno..
Maybe Catholic women use birth control because they know it’s not a sin.
as a worldly, i realize that, if i were to say something about the watchtower, it would almost always be something that i learned from someone else.
i have few personal experiences of what the wt is like.. the words of ray franz, for example, were a different matter.
he knew the beast from inside, to a level few other witnesses knew it.
Believe it or not, many people left the JWs before the internet.
I first came across the internet more than 10 years ago and there were websites that do not exist anymore. They contained the same information, or at least similar information, to what is on this site. Although back then the UN/NGO issue hadn’t broken, nor was Silentlambs established back then. JWD was a pro-JW website as well.
The information is out there. Freeminds is the one website that has never gone away, and I doubt it will be allowed to. Too many support it and I have no doubt Randy Watters has a strategy in place should he ever leave this planet.
The information is out there. Besides this, the next generation is too savvy to accept the lies and false prophecies that many of us accepted. Critical thinking has allowed them to look at the religion of their parents and grandparents with an objective eye. The internet allows them to examine information presented to them, in a way that previous generations didn’t have available to them.
Besides, this isn’t the only ex-JW support board in existence. There are others, catering the different stages of leaving the JWs. Silentlambs is for those who were sexually harmed, for example. Then, to the other extreme, you have the various forms of JWO (Jehovahs Witness Online) which has catered to those who have moved on beyond the exJW world. And I’m sure there’s many others that we may not be aware of.
