When Jesus talked about remarriage after divorce, he didn't need to mention murderers or attempted murderers. Those that were these types of criminals were killed by the Romans, so one dead spouse could be easily replaced.
PaintedToeNail
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Scriptural Grounds for divorce.....
by stuckinamovement ini was watching a dumb show with my dear wife.
in the program a wife tried unsuccessfully to kill her husband.
i remarked to my wife "if you ever did that i would divorce you!
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Connect the Dots in the Awake!?
by euripides inrecently, i saw an issue of despertad!
sitting around in a public place and leafed through it idly.
at the back of it, on the inside page opposite back page, was something like 'family fun' and a connect-the-dots game of joshua, or something like that.
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PaintedToeNail
Billy-How funny, I always did that too! It irritated my parents, but I did it anyway. My kids do it now. Sometimes, it makes for a real improvement.
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Yet another child a victim of sexual abuse in my JW family
by Lady Lee inmy father sexually abused me.
there were other children in her home over the years.
if you were sexually abused by someone never leave a child alone with them or in the home where they are.
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PaintedToeNail
So, so sorry for your traumatic experiences and lasting pain. Hugs.
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The gun is the SHUN: the JW's who no longer believe but cannot leave!
by Terry inthe insidious bind the watchtower religion places on their members is unconscionable.. holding family and friends "hostage" as an extortion strategy may be their most potent weapon of enforced conformity.. .
in effect, like an armed criminal who points a gun at you and threatens "your money or your life", the watchtower leadership.
holds the power to separate dissenting members from those whom they most cherish.
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Terry-Wow, this is really insightful, compelling and true for so many of us here.
tornapart-I'm with you 100%, in know exactly what you are saying.
Excellent comments, everyone!
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 02-19-2012 WT Study (OLD FAITHFUL)
by blondie inoholiab were guided by gods spirit?
oholiab were guided by gods spirit is the.
gods spirit.
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PaintedToeNail
Bezalel didn't have to sign his name to anything to prove he made what he made...we are still being told over 2000 years later that he was the maker of those things...so why would he need a signature.
Moses writes about himself that he is the meekest man alive in all the earth...is that very meek and humble? Was he tooting his own horn?
Thank you blondie for your comments. I endured last week's study and will have to again this week. YIKES!
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Spanking JW children can lead to Problems
by is there help out there inwe all know jw children must sit quitly in there seats or they are taken to the back and given a spanking.
here is what can happen to then.. .
toronto (reuters) - spanking children can cause long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child's iq, according to a new canadian analysis that seeks to shift the ethical debate over corporal punishment into the medical sphere.. the study, published this week in the canadian medical association journal, reached its conclusion after examining 20 years of published research on the issue.
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PaintedToeNail
jwfacts-wikipedia isn't an infallible source of information in all things. Years ago, I worked at a police department, we often dealt with Childrens' Services, it was a chargable offense to hit a child with an instrument, but not with a hand. I know there are some societies where caning people is accepted, as is stoning people to death.
Americans seem to have a very high rate of child physical assault, to the point of killing children, than do other countries. How much of this is related to the lack of social services from child care to medical care to birth control, I do not know. One child being abused is far, far too many. Smacking your kid because she just put some strangers used gum she found stuck on a shelf, in her mouth is another.
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Why is the Memorial so important to JWs?
by Ding inseriously.... there's a meeting where wt dogma is taught... nothing unusual there.... they pass around bread and wine and in the vast majority of khs no one at all partakes.. if anything, it is a pantomime of wt teaching that the "great crowd" of "other sheep" have no part in the blood and body of christ.. hardly something to celebrate....
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The Borg like to hype up the memoria fervor to get the most possible attendees, that it is around Easter is beneficial. They will then issue a Watchtower stating that they had a billion people in attendance, which means these ones have a righteous heart inclination and may possibly, one da,y become our brothers. So get out there and cultivate that interest.
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Latest May 2012 Watchtower: "JW wives must be more lovable"
by cedars inyes, the latest watchtower is upon us.
it opens with a typically outlandish article on marriage.
here are a few of the headlines:.
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Why doesn't the husband have to be more lovable? Just the biblical command 'wives should love their husbands'," why gee, okay, if you tell me to." These articles are becoming more and more ridiculous. But, at the same time, make me think that more 'Christian wives' are beginning to think twice about the submissive crap, otherwise, why would they be printing this stuff?
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Spanking JW children can lead to Problems
by is there help out there inwe all know jw children must sit quitly in there seats or they are taken to the back and given a spanking.
here is what can happen to then.. .
toronto (reuters) - spanking children can cause long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child's iq, according to a new canadian analysis that seeks to shift the ethical debate over corporal punishment into the medical sphere.. the study, published this week in the canadian medical association journal, reached its conclusion after examining 20 years of published research on the issue.
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PaintedToeNail
jwfacts-Spanking does not include hitting a child in the face or use of instruments or weapons, to inflict punishment. Spanking, on the butt, with a hand-to be able to judge the force of the swat,is a far cry from smashing someone in the face, beating someone with a rod, or using a spoon. When using the hand, one does not continue to spank without restraint or repeatedly.
I usually end up sending my kids to their respective rooms or take away a priviledge, or make them to something they don't want to do, i.e., clean up the dog poop in the yard.
I was spanked as a child, not abused, not beaten with a spoon or a rod. I feel very sorry for those people who have been victimized by their parents by being beaten.
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Read a story of child neglect and abuse among JWs in S. Africa that was sent to me.
by AndersonsInfo ini regard the information below as true until proven false because of corresponding with a young man in s. africa for a few years whose story i posted on my website: http://www.watchtowerdocuments.com/stories/caleb.html, "freedom from an unsafe haven, by caleb.
" although some of the accounts of abuse of children in s. africa in the story below are older, calab wrote me details of abusive treatment meted out to young people in his area that he chose not to put in his story for fear he could be identified.
calab in now in university in another part of africa and very happy after breaking the chains that engulfed his mind.. barbara.
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