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  Judge reprimands lawyer for failing to disclose connection to church

  by aposta-Z in

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  i saw this link on facebook (thank you watchtower uncensored):.

  http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/985/judge-reprimands-lawyer-for-failing-to-disclose-connection-to-church.html .

  a witness and a lawer.

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  Insidious, incredible behavior by Mr. Pole, it would be nice if he were disbarred!
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  How did the jews know if a man was damaged ?

  by mP in

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  deuteronomy 23:1he that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the lord.. .

  how exactly did they know if one "stone" was damaged ?

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  I always wondered how they knew if someone was circumcised or not. Did they go in pairs or groups to urinate? Did the standard introduction of strangers require that they all lift up their skirts?
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  Email from my grandmother yesterday.

  by elder-schmelder in

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  here is an email that my grandmother sent me yesterday.. .

  shawn, it's very difficult & sad to come to this decision, but because of your attitude towards the truth & us personally (thinking that we are stupid) we're going to treat you as a disfellowshipped person from now on.

  actually, you're worse than them because usually they know they have not kept their oath to jehovah & don't speak abusively of the organization and don't turn apostate.

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  elder-That was an interesting email. Threats of disinheriting you. If their estate is substantial, could you possibly force a court review, to check their state of mind. The state may be interested to see if they are being taken advantage of by JW's, the high control/cult thing.

  I'm sorry that they feel that way about you.
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  Do Jehovah's Witnesses feed the starving in third world countries

  by Gnosis in

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  or do they only help their own members ?.

  is there anything in their publications that seems to cast a negative view on feeding the poor ?.

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  At the DC last year, one of the speakers emphasized that to give to charitable institutions was a foolish thing to do, even to hospitals or such like, as they are all going to be destroyed. I leaned over to my hubby and said, "And yet they want the best of medical treatment possible."

  Wolfman85-I remember hearing the same things, even before Haiti, 'Do not specify what the donation is for, the WTBTS will deal with the donation responsibly."
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  Why did you become a Jehovah's Witness ?

  by Gnosis in

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  2. experiences

  why did you become a jehovah's witness ?.

  initially upon entering the religion what were the positive things you experienced ?.

  how did that particular way of thinking both benefit and harm you ?.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I grew up in a JW household. We moved from a very lovely congregation with lots of young families in South California to Minnesota. We had a nice life in California, a nice home, decent job (dad), decent clothing, nice suburban neighborhood and great weather. We moved to Minnesota to save my dad's family from armegeddon, which was to occur ing 1975. His family thought my parents were nuts, and were annoyed that they wouldn't stop preaching at them. Our move occured in October, which is the beginning of a very long, cold winter in Minnesota. Dad had no steady job, mom had to go to work in a sweat shop to support the family. I had to be home alone in a strange neighborhood, on the cold, cold afternoons after school, it would get dark very early, due to the latitude. We had only the cheapest clothes, because of the minimum wage job of my mom's and dad not finding steady work. I was teased unmercibly at school due to the cheapo and inadequate clothing and also for my California accent, to say nothing of the oddities of the JW mandates regarding flag salutes, holidays, birthdays and so forth at school. The cong. was full of people related to each other, they had no room for poor interlopers from the west coast. It was incredibly lonely.

  I was also constantly in fear of 1975. There were parts brought out of how the persecution was going to be so bad, and that there would be nothing to eat and so forth if we left the borg. The Borg came out with the 1975 or 74 yearbook about the severe persecution suffered by the German and other european witnesses at the hand of the Nazis. It was terrifying!

  In spite of our poverty, we went out in the ministry regularly, no matter how damned cold it was. I had cheapo plastic boots with little lining and my feet would be freezing and ache from the cold. When they started to warm up, the pain was severe. To my knowledge, in all the years we lived in Minnesota, my parents never brought anyone into the borg., no matter how many worthless hours were wasted driving thru the country side looking for 'right hearted ones'.

  I got baptized for only one reason: Dad said he wouldn't come to my wedding if I wasn't baptized and if the wedding wasn't in a KH.

  There you have it, I was blackmailed into baptism. Which is a stupid, stupid reason to get baptized. I was only 18, and didn't want to lose my family as I had lost everything else.
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  Topic of the day "if the stones can cry out" why go door to door?

  by dreamgolfer in

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  PaintedToeNail

  I've always wondered that too. Just think how effective that would be. Stones are everywhere, the streets are made of stones, we pass stones as we go for walks or drive in our cars. A talking stone would be far more interesting than a talking bald guy in a bad suit or a fat woman with long graying hair and a peasant skirt.
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  Add your favorite JW prayer cliche'

  by King Solomon in

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  you know what i'm talking about: the trite, often-repeated phrases that convey the person offering the prayer has drawn a mental blank, and utters these words while their brain desperately searches for the next cliche', so they can conclude the ritual with the required tag, "in jesus' name we pray".... (is that like the postage stamp?).

  ok, i'll kick this one off, and take the most obvious:.

  "forgive us where we fall short....".

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  PaintedToeNail

  'We humbly approach your lofty throne"

  Then the bro. prays for 5-7 minutes, which isn't very humble at all.
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  How many others, besides myself, that take AMBIEN? Done anything crazy while you were on it?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  PaintedToeNail

  FreeGirl-Ironically, I just got one reading your story on JWFacts, then to come back here and find you posted was great! You probably should be glad that you don't remember anything from that vacation, he sounds like an idiot. I find that I cannot recall huge chunks of my life, but not because of Ambien...stress from being raised a JW, and all the guilt and OCD problems that went with it.

  Thanks to all who have shared their experiences!
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  How many others, besides myself, that take AMBIEN? Done anything crazy while you were on it?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  Nomad-I don't think the man minded having anal sex, she was in a mind altered state. Ambien is considered a hypnotic drug, so the user doesn't know what they are doing, but they can still do things. There are warnings all over the prescription bottle about doing all kinds of things in a sleeping state.
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  Newbie

  by happy-n-alive in

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  hi, um..i've been looking at this site for a while and decided to join.

  i'm 20 and have been studying since i was 14 (not a publisher) but i honestly didnt really look into the witnesses or analyze what they said.

  all i wanted was to learn more of the bible lol, but recent events have made me notice how pushy they can be.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Welcome, and I'm glad you got back together with your boyfriend.