the rhetoric today is as strict as ever.
don't go to college and don't have kids.
pioneer as this system winds to an end.
Hey lamb
I agree. My kids still go to meetings with their mother but I can see them thinking their way through some of the doctrines that dont make sense. Cognitive dissonance works when they are surrounded by the bubble. When kids are encouraged by ANYONE to finish their thought process to completion it goes a long way towards making them immune to the jw model. Pop the bubble!
pbrow
it turns out that this isn't a common occurrence at these things.
don't get me wrong, i still had a good time.
but i was so looking forward to seeing my first decapitation..
keyser... at my kids first birthday party when she was 6 i was actually worried that there would be a car accident or some other freak thing and a person would get decapitated in front of the pizza joint we went to!
I am happy to report both my kids love birthdays now but I just know the first birthday they goto with a beheading ill be in trouble!
pbrow
i have an ad on craigslist, someone responded to my ad.
she knows the neighborhood pretty good and we already traded some pics, but i have the feeling that she is a scam artist.
she only send me half of her face(nice mouth and teeth but not her nose, eyes, hair) and a very nice body.
I am still waiting for the website that you are going to try and get us all to click on but then I see that you have 2500 posts, so im guessing you are legit. So my next thought is "you are actually serious about this?"
pbrow
on monday i'm going to register to vote since i'm able to do so when i renew my drivers license.
i'm actually kind of excited since i never did register because of they way i was brought up.. how many of you are registered to vote?.
yes I am, red or blue, excercise your new found personal freedom!!
remember local elections are far more important to your daily life than national elections!
congratulations!
pbrow
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/george-zimmerman-new-mugshot_n_1419402.html.
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he does look guilty to me.
Morbid , I think you hit the nail on the head! This is somehow turned into a political issue. Let this play out in local courts and be done with it. Zimmerman was clearly a volly cop buff but there is not a nation wide epidemic of volly neighborhood watchmen killing young black men. It should be handled locally and our opinions are worth about as much as a pound of miracle wheat. There is however a nationwide epidimic of poor blacks shooting poor blacks. Maybe the new black panthers could focus on shoring up the father figures in their community instead of putting a bounty on a man who has been convicted of NOTHING. Maybe its the 1%er's fault.... Speaking of 1%ers, maybe Sharpton and Jackson could focus on that instead but I dont think that gets them as much publicity.
pbrow
whenever i talk to a jw when i rarely see one i bri g up the laws in the ot, like raping of virgins in deut being ok and forced to marry the rapist.
it seems they just are not aware of these laws or any in depth the history or customs of the ancient jews.
is the wts ashamed of the ot and the truth about the jews ?.
JW's love the old testament!! That is how they are to worship because the new testament is not written to 99% of them. I think they chalk up those "few" odd stories up to "we cant think we know more than Jehovah!!"
pbrow
dear brothers and sisters,.
with the memorial of christ death so close.
many of us wonder about our own relationship with christ jesus.
ray.. i think you are right. more and more poeple are partaking privately in their home. my parent is one of them that is still in but partakes in the comfort of home, alone. If there was a way to organize a "coming out" party that was synchronized, it would have a profound effect on the good people in the organization. Even if the org came out w/ a national df'ing campaign at least the perhaps tens of thousands of people who would "come out" would know they are not alone.
ka boom indeed
pbrow
hi folks.
this is the first time i have celebrated easter since i was a tot.
i have some vague memories of getting an easter basket way back then.
How dare you worship sex crazed rabbits!!
Just kidding bro.. did easter with my kids for the first time last year. Facial expressions while searching for eggs were PRICELESS!
Congrats and I hope your time with your family is great.
pbrow
i may be misspelling this guys name, but while i was in patterson doing long-term temporary (before i got accepted longer and moved to brooklyn bethel), this guy was my table head.
he seemed to be really arrogant.
his attitude towards me was very condescending.
thanks lamacool
pbrow
i was brought up around the truth.
my dad was disfellowshiped when i was young, around 6-7. he was a elder and very devoted even going to jail when he was younger for the truth.
he had a stroke and started preaching things that the society was not teaching and he was disfellowshiped.
Welcome!! I cant tell you how good it makes me feel to see someone learning to trust themselves even though it is very difficult at first. The most important thing you can do in my opinion is never again accept someone elses answer to something if it doesnt make sense to you! It is a mantra I drive into my children all the time and it is very appropriate for all of us who are "growing up" out of the JW mentality.
good luck!
pbrow
