Posts by jukief

My sister has shunned her daughter since she was disfellowshipped six years ago, at the age of 18. In the meantime, my niece had a daughter and she allowed her parents to see the little girl once a month. They picked her up and spent the whole day with her. My niece had been very clear that she didn't want her parents teaching her daughter anything about the JW religion. She thought things were working out OK until a few months ago, when her parents started to ask if they could take the child out in service, if they could read the bible story book to her. etc. She said no. They could read her version of bible stories, but not the JW version. They could NOT take the child out in service or to meetings. About a month after this conversation, she received a letter from her parents. The letter said that if they couldn't teach their religion to the granddaughter, they couldn't in good conscience continue to "associate" with her. In effect, they're now shunning a four-year-old child!

Needless to say, all association has ended. My niece is now pregnant with her second child, and she hasn't even informed her parents. All along I've had the opinion that to let her parents see her child while they continued to treat her like a piece of dirt was wrong. What does this teach the child? That her mother has no worth. That it's OK for people to treat her mother this way. That's not what I would want my children to learn about me. It's all about setting an example for children about human dignity and worth.

I vote for not allowing the grandparents to see your children until they can treat you like a decent human being. You don't want to send the wrong message to your children--that this kind of behavior is acceptable. It isn't.

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More Watchtower And Awake! Covers

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jukief

I agree. That dude doesn't look Jewish at all!

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Worst Dresses Stars

by meadow77 in

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there is always some celebrity out to prove that no amount of money, hired image consultants, and famous designers dying to give you free stuff, can buy you good tastes.

i submit the following.. .

jukief

She probablly just wants attention--and it worked!

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bad songs

by freedom96 in

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i was reading a post that reminded me of the songs that were popular but was wrong to listen to for various reasons.. we all remember puff the magic dragon being about drugs, which i hear was just a rumour.. another i remember was let it be by the beatles, which was " catholic based about mary the mother of jesus" when apparently it was written about paul mccartney's own mother.

shows what they know.. which songs do you remember that were "bad" that we were not supposed to listen to?

jukief

I was already out when these two songs were popular, but I knew at the time they would have been taboo, so I took great delight in them:

I Don't Wanna Be a Witness by Cindi Lauper :-) That song was my anthem when I quit the dubs.

and how about

I Touch Myself--one of my favorite nasty songs.

When I was young, I would stop singing along to Simon and Garfunkle's Cecelia when it got to the part "when I come back to bed someone's taken my place." I just couldn't bring myself to say those adulterous words. :-)

Ah, so much has changed!

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six degrees of separation..claim to fame!

by asortafairytale in

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everyone is somehow connected to a celebrity, with that wondeful six degrees of separation.. for me, my aunt's(by marriage), first cousin is ally sheedy.. how are you related?

jukief

I'm related to the famous Alan Feuerbacher.

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Do You Think The Society Will Ever Go Broke?

by minimus in

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if the local congregations have no money to pay their own bills and the numbers of witnesses continue to drop off, how will the society last?

we've heard about down sizing and layoffs.

we've seen congregations merge because the bills aren't getting paid.

jukief

If someone has already posted this information, I apologize. I don't read most of the threads--just pop in once in a while to take a quick look.

My nephew is a Bethel boy, and every once in a while I get a bit of news through my parents (my nephew's father--my brother--hasn't talked to me in 12 years, so I don't know my nephew at all). Anyway, he was home visiting a couple of weeks ago and he told my parents that the society is getting new presses and is moving everything upstate. He said that the guys who ran the old presses will be "out of a job." I couldn't get any more information, because my parents told me this after he went back home.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

As an aside, my mom asked my nephew what the society would do with all that Brooklyn property is the move the printing business upstate. She told him that all that property had to be worth millions and millions of dollars. I don't think he had a reply for that. :-)

Julie F

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I'M GETTIN' NERVOUS!

by Mary in

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my surgery (hysterectomy) is scheduled for this friday and i'm getting really nervous.........nervous that the cancer may have spread, nervous about the pain, nervous about what i'm going to go through mentally, physically and emotionally afterwards (i guess i'll be going through the change of life real quick).

i've done pretty good so far: am trying to keep positive, eating right, exercising (i've lost 15 lbs!

), meditating, and i'm going on tuesday to someone who does reiki (i think that's how you spell it).

jukief

Hi Mary.

I had a hysterectomy in June and I feel fabulous. Surgery is amazing these days; I had very little pain (took pain meds less than a week), only stayed overnight, and started walking again in a week. I healed very quickly and am very glad I had the surgery. I just turned 48.

Good look. Attitude is everything; stay positive.

Julie F.

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QUESTIONS: NY March-Dress for Dinner & Weat...

by abbagail in

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helloooooo -- is anyone still out there online who is going to the march in ny on friday?.

two quick questions, please, if anyone knows:.

weather in new york - thursday/friday/saturday:.

jukief

My experience from living in NY and visiting the city many times on busines is that dress doesn't really matter. Only the most posh restaurants require that you dress up. You can wear jeans and a t-shirt just about everywhere. I don't think Bill or anyone else will want to go to an expensive restaurant after the cost of flying to and staying in the city, so you're safe. :-)

Have fun. My hubby will be there to represent both of us.

Julie Feuerbacher

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Download panorama video

by caballoSentado in

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dear friends,.

can anyone tell me where can i download the panorama program about child abuse?..

thanks & have a nice day.

jukief

Simon, if you could make the files available somewhere where we can FTP them, it would be a great help. I've tried to show the streaming video files to several people, including my parents, but using a dial-up connection, the feed freezes and it's hard to follow. (At home I have cable modem, so don't have that problem.) If I could download the files to my laptop, I could carry it around and show it to the people who'd like to view it and don't have computers or decent connections.

Thanks so much!

Julie