I got spanked on occasion at the meetings as a child. Once, while sitting on the floor at the KH, I tied my mother's shoe together. Another time, I rifled through her purse, took out her make-up and smeared it on the sweater of the sister in front of us.
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JW Children in Meetings
by blue_summmer20 inhi my first post.. for the people that grew up in the religon, do you have any memory of being spanked for not sitting still in the meeting?
i see kids acting like kids but the parents take them out and spank them for something like not sitting still.
some of my worst memories are my father taking me out for a beating with a belt or his hand.
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Wedding gifts
by usualusername inwhat weird things have jws asked for as wedding gifts?.
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usualusername .
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PaintedToeNail
Well, if I was knocked up and establishing a household, I would have really appreciated the 'cheapo' appliances, bowls, mixers, glassware. We realized we need items were not given because they are less glamourous, things like spatulas, pancake flipper, soup ladel, wire whisk, potato masher, can opener.just the stuff need to run a kitchen. I would never presume that my taste in art or crystal ,silverplate, or sterling. I had one sister give me a purely decorative item, it was pretty, but completely not my taste. It hid in the drawer for a while, then returned to the light, not long after, the toddler destroyed it...problem solved
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Is there a new sense of urgency due to 2012 ?
by av8orntexas ini haven't attended the meetings on a regular basis,since about 2008. a meeting period in about 2 years.. .
probably 6 months ago i ran into a brother, whom was working at a local grocery store.
he was making a delivery as a vendor,somehow we got to talking,religion came up and he found out i am a jw, though i told hime i no longer attend.
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PaintedToeNail
WW3 could happen, but then again, it may not. It makes one wonder why Jehovah has waited until there are over 7 billion people on earth to do away with wicked mankind. Why not do away with them when WW2 was going on? It seems the time of WW2 would have been really critical, nuclear bombs invented, holocaust occuring in Europe perpetrated by the mad-man Hilter, Japan taking prisoners and working and torturing them to death, Japan being fire bombed by the USA, famines in Russia, the world at war. Concentration camps all over the war torn world...
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Phone witnessing??
by OneDayillBeFree inits just praised religous telemarketing!.
ive been doing it this whole morning and the only thing i've done to make it go quicker was to memorize a disconnected number.. its been working extremely well.... but did any of you that ever did it feel strange like you were selling something?!
like you were in a call center?.
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PaintedToeNail
Years ago, I was a bill collector. People would regularly hang up on me and/or curse me out...I got paid to be insulted and rudely treated. The thought of having people who are not interest and annoyed, that they are being bothered by people they have worked hard to ignore when they come to their door uninvited, swearing at me and hanging up, and me paying for it to happen, is untolerable!
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Letter to FB JWs after I found out I was DF'd
by Momma-Tossed-Me inso i said that i would post this letter that i sent out to fb jws who were still my friends on fb at the time.. a little background might be in order here.
i was called to meet with two elders in the hall because i had filed to run for political office.
i knew that sooner or later i would have to agree to do so.
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PaintedToeNail
Has anyone on FB responded to your letters, JW's, I mean?
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the cult is slowly taking my family apart
by Evidently Apostate inits been 3 years since i made my decision to fade and i am starting to think our marriage might not survive.
my wife is under pressure from her parents to push away from me.
the anniversay card they gave her(not me) was nothing more than jw propaganda, parts were actually highlighted.
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PaintedToeNail
Are her parents nearby? If they are, is it possible for you to move away, causing you both to rely more upon each other for support, rather than her family and the cong. Just a thought.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-15-2012 WT Study (TEMPORARY)
by blondie inthey were strangers and temporary residents.
from the world, satans wicked system.
as temporary residents in this wicked.
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PaintedToeNail
Thanks blondie, well done, as usual!
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Why do the JW's ignore north korea?
by highdose inthey watch the arabs like hawks, constantly analzying the us and uk for signs of armargeddon but what about the counrty that everyone else worrys about?
nothing.
its not mentioned in the mags or at the conventions, you don't hear about "experiances"tm in that country.. before i left i wasn't hardly aware that it exisisted not to mention what a terrible place it was.. theorys please?.
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PaintedToeNail
If anyone could figure out how to get JWs into that country and not they be immediately arrested, they probably would have experiences mentioned.
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if god hates wars...why does he use a war to end them???
by highdose inthis question occurred to me the other day.
the classic jw presentation is all about how religon starts wars in gods name, how awful they are blablabla, and how soon god will end all these wars.... with a war!
wtf?.
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PaintedToeNail
Interesting. I never thought about it before.
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Funny Watchtower Article on Homosexuality
by garbonzo intranssexualism is a word appearing with growing frequency in the news.
a transsexual is not merely a transvestite (one who dresses in clothes of the opposite sex), nor necessarily a homosexual (though that may be the case).
a transsexual is a person who rejects the sex with which he or she was born and takes up the life of the other sex.
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PaintedToeNail
steve2-I understand the hermaphrodite conundrum, there is a physical problem going on. I have even heard of cases of circumcision gone horribly awry, and the victim being assigned to be a female for life. I'm glad there are strigent protocols involved to help people who truly feel they are the wrong sex, trapped in the wrong body. Still, the permanance! I'm afraid to any kind of aestetic surgeries because of the risk involved, much less having a remodeling of my genitals!