Think ours is still young, but I think the way we are teaching him to respect himself and others, and to think how his actions affect everything around him, how others feel, to how he will be disappointed with himself,,are better than the idea of Jah looking in on everything he does.
used2beme
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Former Long Time Elder: Why I am still in
by James Jackson ina customer on my route with whom i have had some lively debates was his number 1 complaint is that "the witnesses have so many rules".
last month i agreed with on this issue.
he asked why the change, i told him that i have been doing some soul searching.
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Future Baby-Mama in a Rage!
by SophieG insosoconfused mentioned this vaguely in his thread and it upset me... i asked him to post where i could find the information, trust me i went looking!
now lets read this:.
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20121215/view-of-in-vitro-fertilization/.
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I must agree with your feelings, I said the same thing when I saw that article. I thought it was quite heartless, and was very surprised to see it in print, even though I've been inactive for years and now consider myself non-religious, I thought many of the principles of this organization I was raised in were good and the best of many other religious choices. I did like someone’s comment when this was being discussed before, " only the bOrg can blame someone for immorality when nothing physically touched."
Growing up my cousin and I always dreamed of having big families, we promised each other as girls that if we couldn't carry a baby the other would be a surrogate, who would have thought we were setting ourselves up for disfellowshipping…
Best wishes to you in the future…I had my child later In life and he has been the joy of our lives.
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New YouTube vide - Anthony Morris III reminds us of our privilege to donate to the Worldwide Work
by cedars inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69-u0of6xs.
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used2beme
Why is this video not available on mobile?
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Christmas traditions
by tec ini thought it would be nice to start a thread with some of your favorite christmas traditions... especially for those who are just beginning to celebrate christmas.
we open a gift on christmas eve.
when i was a kid, it was always a new pair of pajamas.
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used2beme
This will be our first year at new traditions. We didn’t opt for the tree but hung lighted garland with ornaments under the mantle with a few snow village houses on top. Hubby and I wrapped presents while the baby was spending the night at grandmas, it took us 2 movies to get them all done but I loved it. We have stockings (are you supposed to wrap all the goodies in them?) hanging over the stack of presents. We are reading stories from different cultures about this time of year, and have already recorded a few movies for the weekend. I really am looking forward to seeing the baby open his gifts, and spending time together. I hope we can get together with some of the family that is also ‘out’, a big dinner sounds great.
Happy Holidays to all the new friends here, you have made the last year easier.
U2B
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"Flawed Faith vs. Loss of Faith"
by leavingwt inbelow is a quote from a recent thread at the channel c forum that caught my attention.
it llustrates how the exit strategy for some awakened jws must include a religious alternative.
this particular individual is particularly concerned that jw children will become godless, upon learning that wt is not the only true religion.
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used2beme
I would prefer my child learn to think and not be forced to recite.
@MM - great book you will love it
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Eight Year Old Giving Her First Talk in TMS
by Bangalore ineight year old giving her first talk in tms.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwu5c_xe9g.
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used2beme
not my first but when I was little I was assigned to give "how we arrive at 1914" talk 3...5 min.
the crazy thing was my dad was getting up a 45 min Sunday talk on the same subject...both parents worked to get that one up for me and scaled down to 5 min...setting was explaining it to a teacher and to get all the scriptures in, nothing was looked up and read from the bible...just quoted. And I read from the script like a good drone!!
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used2beme
We are in the same boat...my parents watch our child during the week. Dad is elder and they still think I’m just missing meetings. We have been able to explain away some of the things he says as 'imaginative' and including himself in the story like it was real...he does this with other things, so at least this year I’m not too worried. My parents are home bodies and never come to our house, but we live in JW hood grand central so I can't do outside lights just yet.
I never felt left out when I was little, we did other things with extended JW family and had big gift exchange. Now there are NO kids in the family but him...all waiting to have them in the paradise (another issue for another time). So I DO worry about him feeling left out.
Some on the other side of the fam are DF'd and we are going to spend turkey day with them...still deciding about Xmas day.
For decorations we decided against the tree and are going to add ornaments and lights to garland under the mantel, and put gifts on a shelf. Along with some candles for HumanLight.
I wish you the best
U2B
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I need a new phone......which one is better- I-phone or Droid?
by drewcoul ini'm in need of a new phone.
i've had the samsung omnia for quite a while.
its a piece of crap.
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used2beme
i've had the droid backflip for 2 years and it has always seemed slow to respond compared to hubby's iPhone. I do love the widgets, but he has shown me some of the newer items available on iPhone sftw. I'm taking the apple plunge in a month, and dragging mom and dad into the 21st century with us. I feel keeping the same tech they will have questions about is the best, and apple seemed a better fit for them.
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Happy Star Wars Day to all...
I have had the Imperial March as a ring tone for Mom...for a while now as it seems appropriate for her 'shepherding calls'
I will be adding "I am your father" that I just found on Android market for Daddy, at least for today!!
thanks to all for this thread it has made me smile
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Now my marriage vow is directly connected to remaining a witness...
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i recently informed my wife of 25 years (the love of my life) that i just cannot go on any longer with this facade.
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used2beme
My hubby started his fade a while back and didn't push me...he would make comments from time to time that would make me think even when they made me mad, and when I was leaving for the meetings he would be 'busy working and can't go tonight’ or something of the like. He focused on our family, just the 3 of us, especially when our parents were giving me a hard time about missing meetings...he made time to show how much he cared for us and we started doing family things to replace meetings. It was the best thing for me…I was still not going to ‘leave’ but I was not one to go with the kid and leave him at home, meeting stopped being enjoyable…I got tired of everyone asking where he was and how he was doing, and if there was anything that they could do to help (him) it got old, especially when I was the one there with a toddler by myself…what about how I was doing. It finally was the end for me when an older sister told me I still wasn’t doing enough. If you go a bit slower perhaps she will come to your side in time…I wish you the best.