(Apologies for splitting this post up, but I can’t seem to get my browser to allow me to post in paragraphs!) Since leaving jws I find I am much more willing to accept health care advice from the traditional scientific sources. I get a little twitch when I hear someone say ‘I read a book about that and So-and-So, the Doctor said…ya da ya da ya da (against traditionally accepted advice).’ I get an even bigger twitch when I hear someone accuse “the establishment” of deliberately misinforming the public and/or concealing information just to ‘keep profits up’. Have I become Establishment Girl just because I was denied that as a dub??
Kaethra
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Milk, Vaccines, and Carbohydrates
by Kaethra in(apologies for splitting this post up, but i cant seem to get my browser to allow me to post in paragraphs!
) since leaving jws i find i am much more willing to accept health care advice from the traditional scientific sources.
i get a little twitch when i hear someone say i read a book about that and so-and-so, the doctor saidya da ya da ya da (against traditionally accepted advice).
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Milk, Vaccines, and Carbohydrates
by Kaethra in(apologies for splitting this post up, but i cant seem to get my browser to allow me to post in paragraphs!
) since leaving jws i find i am much more willing to accept health care advice from the traditional scientific sources.
i get a little twitch when i hear someone say i read a book about that and so-and-so, the doctor saidya da ya da ya da (against traditionally accepted advice).
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Kaethra
I ask because I have a couple of friends who are intelligent and educated (not to mention staunchly atheist) yet believe things that I consider somewhat bizarre. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate having someone say to me to read “The Research”, as to my mind that means: ‘read the biased pseudo-science that backs up my point of view.’ I guess I did that to people enough as a jw (see: the Creation book) and I can’t stand to have it done to me.
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Your Most Embarrassing Injury!
by whyamihere ini want to know for a good laugh!.
onetime(in band camp) i was rushing to get to work and i was really late.
i got there and i forgot my hand bag in the car.
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Kaethra
I have two that I'm willing to share...my ass still bears the scar from my four-year-old self, playing hide-n-seek in my uncle's abandoned cabin. I'd shuffled down behind a piece of plywood and there was a broken bottle there waiting for my tender little butt. The most embarassing part of that was the extraction. All the aunts, cousins, and uncles wanted to be in on it for some reason, and I was a very modest little girl! The other injury is from the cat in my avatar. I really should have known better knowing his high-strung, siamese nature. He was curled up all cuddly and asleep beside me one night while I watched a movie. I looked down at his cute little self and couldn't resist planting a kiss on his head, as I had done (and still do!) many times before. He must have been in some sort of nightmare because he tore into my upper lip with such ferocity that I still hear the crunch. He opened up my upper lip almost completely through. I waited in the emergency room for almost six hours and then asked for some tape to put my lip back together, since I needed to go to work in two hours. (Thanks Health Canada, by the way!) I still have the scar, of course...I tell myself it's kinda cute. har! So many people have told me that they would have 'thrown the cat in the river'. The fact that that thought never entered my head makes me proud. I really am an animal lover. It was my fault, not his, after all. I think the people who have said they would throw 'the cat' in the river are mother fuckers...my personal opinion, of course.
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Please don't refer to your husband as...
by IronGland inhubby.
the term makes me nauseas.
carry on.
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Kaethra
LMAO!!! "Husbandly boner". I love it!
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Something funny about masturbation
by skyman inwe had a family in the congregation years ago that was over sensitive about sex.
everything about sex was bad.
i noticed one of their teenage boy?s going into the back room before every meeting for weeks.
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Kaethra
har @ neon! I thought the same thing at first too!
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Jehovah's Witness loses fight to reject blood transfusion (CANADA)
by ezekiel3 inhttp://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=481072005
jehovah's witness loses fight to reject blood transfusion
brad hunter .
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Kaethra
cybrez - I've never heard someone who wasn't a JW refer to "the society". What does your god say about lying exactly?
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Who Was Shocked By the Watchtower UN NGO Scandal?
by AlanF in.
i'd like to get comments from people about whether and how much they were shocked, surprised, or otherwise bothered by the watchtower society's becoming an associated non-governmental organization (ngo).. note that i'd like to see these comments because they might lead to some interesting publicity, so please comment accordingly.. alanf
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Kaethra
I'll tell you what I was shocked by - it was when I skimmed an Awake article in my mom's house that was all about what the U.N. was doing in Africa. I think it was probably circa 1999/2000 or so. I was going to ask my mom if the Society had changed its opinion on the UN being the image of the beast...but red wine was a better focus.
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VERY ANGRY at jw for treating someone special to me/other women so bad
by VH5150 ini think that the way jw treats women is absolutely terrible!!!!!
makes me want to confront them and give the powers that be a taste of the same medicine they dish out.
how can the be so cold and insensitive to treat another human being this way for any reason and try to justify with the words of the bible.
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Kaethra
Dune - you are very young, I think, so we'll tolerate you somewhat. ;) Hey - just a question regarding what you said - can you please tell me why the Watchtower has never published a similar comparison to rutting men? Or perhaps you don't find it insulting to have you and your complex sexuality equated to a cow in heat? If you think that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is not anti-woman, I and many others, (who by the way are not ugly, hairy she-male men-haters), will beg to differ. *and we'll have the proof to back up our assertions*
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Banned Food
by Nosferatu inthis was influenced by the toy thread, but what were some of the foods, drinks and candy that were banned by the jws (either in writing or hearsay)?.
black forrest ham (coating is made from blood).
red skittles (blood used to make the dye).
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Kaethra
Ha Aude_Sapere: " FIRST one to grab one was the CO, "Oh Good!! I just love these!!"
But did the CO add 'in bed' to the end of the fortune? *hee hee* You know, you will have much conflict today...in bed! -
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a question from a girl....for guys
by kittyeatzjdubs inso my b-day is this month on the 22nd...whoop!whoop!...anyway.
i've been trying to get clues as to what my hunny bunny may be getting me.
i think i may have a theory.
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Kaethra
good gawd...so many red flags... dear girl, you are much too young to think of marrying! I was a mature 19 year old not very long ago, and I cannot tell you how much I've changed in the few years hence...you will too. You're not just young in chronological years, you're young in real world years. You were raised in a cult, and that in itself makes it take so much longer to figure out the real YOU. Please take your time with this decision. You don't have to rush anything anymore remember? You are free!