Posts by mrs rocky2

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Anyone else watching Knocking right now on PBS?

by reneeisorym in

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i'm watching knocking.

its disturbing.

its making me want to puke.

LIVID at knocking documentary

by avishai in

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we give state funds for this sh*t?

phillip brumley's smug face on there?

well, here's how he twists words about child molesters......the person referred to in the story, the victim, is my brother.

The program is airing right now on PBS (Spokane, KCTS). I went to their website and found more information, one section myths and realities. Whoever produced this information has on rose colored glasses. The spin does not include how challenging Watchtower's policy on child molestors/pedophiles is considered apostasy. When is defending innocent children from harm a sin? It makes my blood boil!

Mrs R

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UPDATE!: THEY ALL ADMITTED EGGING US -Elders now know, heads are rolling!!

by Lady Liberty in

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oh.... how the saga goes on!!

i swear we could write a novel about our life exiting the watchtower!!

ok..many of you read what happened..our house was egged and so was my sisters car that was parked here, and "frosty" was attacked!!

mrs rocky2

(((Lady Liberty & The Black Pearl))) (((Frosty)))

We feel your pain. What did Frosty ever do to hurt anyone?

(PS Hope you took really good pics of the evidence as forensics often disappear when the sun comes out!)

Mr & Mrs Rocky

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IT HAS BEGUN "BIG" NEWS ON AP NEWS WIRE

by DannyHaszard in

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monterey county herald, ca - 2 minutes ago .

new york - jehovah's witnesses are renowned for teaching that jesus is not god and that the world as we know it will soon end.

mrs rocky2

It is my understanding that the HLC will only go to bat for active, regular publishers. This was told to me about 10 years ago by my half-brother who was HLC member. He said HLC would not help "low hour" publishers. (I think he was trying to encourage Rocky and I to increase our field service hours with the fear tactic.) It is my belief that HLC has no concrete directive to help all baptized JWs and can arbitrarily decide who they will assist. So for someone like my sister, who is technically "inactive" because she doesn't go door to door regularly, but attends all assemblies/conventions and only some of the meetings, she wouldn't normally have access to HLC assistance. But she has good connections - Dad is a prominent elder and lives in the same area. Someone like me and Rocky (when we were still associated), we were stellar in attending all meetings, assemblies, conventions, active in the Ministry School, but under 5 hours/month field service, my half-brother insisted HLC would not help us, our connections aren't so good in E. Washington (Dad lives in Seattle, half-brother in Tacoma). Half-brother also indicated he would not intervene on my behalf unless my hours were better.

but...

We sure would get DFd or DAd for exercising our conscience in the "personal decision" area. I know this would be true. Right before we stopped attending meetings there was an newly baptized sister who had moved to a remote part of the congregation territory to care for her elderly, non JW parents. Consequently, she was not able to attend meetings and there were no shepherding calls to her by the elders. I had minimal phone contact with her as her parents hated the JWs (they knew I was JW) and had financial control of her affairs, often threatening to cut her off if she kept associating with JW (they were elderly in body but still pretty sharp in mind). She had a medical emergency and was taken to the local hospital ER where she asked the nursing staff to call me. She was hemorhaging. She had consented to blood transfusion at her non JW sister's counsel. Before I could get to the hospital, another JW who worked as an aide had already called the elders. One of the elders was ready to DF her. Rocky and I called the PO and pointed out the confidentiality issue and how this sister receiving the blood transfusion had not had any spiritual contact with the elders for more than a year. Also, this sister was raised by her family to believe she was mentally retarded. I don't believe her IQ qualified...she may have had learning disabilities and was a slow learner, socially challenged, but she functioned quite well independently. We told the PO that if they DFd her, we would walk away from the KH and never look back. They didn't DF her. Can't you feel the love and spiritual light?

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Lifesavers story . . . Jehovah's Witness love and honesty . . . missing

by garybuss in

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never have i been more aware of the lengths that the watch tower society was willing to go to maintain their donations and their control of us witnesses than i was at the district assembly in bismarck nd in 1975. this is where i began to doubt my acceptance level of the doctrine called the doctrine called the "theocratic war strategy" (tws).

that is, the viewpoint that says it is all right to lie to jehovah's enemies.

(see aid and insight under lie).

mrs rocky2

The pressure placed on parents of small ones to have perfect behaving children was overwhelming. I hated going to visit my parents' congregation when my girls were little. My father was PO and would always have some snide remark about how embarrasing it was when the noisey, misbehaving child was his own grandchild.

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feng shui

by peacefulpete in

just a brief observation.

the whole feng shui thing is really going mainstream.

everywhere everyone is trying to order their world using priciples of the ancient philosophy.

mrs rocky2

Once again, united in true worship is a huge mis-statement. I know of a JW elder who was diagnosed with cancer and told he could improve his recovery by following a macrobiotic diet. Once he found out that macrobiotic diet had connections to Eastern philosphy of balancing chi, he dropped the diet. This illustrates the extremes in application of WT teachings...united in true worship...what a joke!

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Do you hug and kiss your pets?

by Dimples in

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i love my cats as if they were my own children.

i was there when they were born and even cut one of the umbilical cords.

they are part of my family and yes, i do pick them up, hug them and kiss them everyday.

mrs rocky2

Our cats tell us they are family by giving us nose kissess - nose to nose, not lip to lip. Our cats are very clean (two of them were hand raised, bottle fed, and bathed daily). As for ringworm, we have had cats for a very, very long time (> 14 years) and have never had ringworm. However, our oldest daughter's roommate just adopted a dog and everyone in their house has been battling ringworm (ringworm is not a worm but the same family of fungus that causes athlete's foot, tinea). And yes, wash your hands after handling any pet!

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Make Tea Not War...

by ballistic in

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make tea not war.... it's 2006 folks, all the best.. just remember, make tea... not... war

mrs rocky2

Morrocan mint with a bit o' honey, or spiced chai.

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Spokesman-Review article "Cut off by Faith"

by Mr Rocky in

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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?id=96267.

i posted this yesterday in friends but it never showed up in friends.

without a link it died a very fast death in active topics.

mrs rocky2

I hope we don't wear folks out with this topic. Our hope is that our story will encourage others in similar situations to contact the media and let their stories be heard. I used to think that the JW religion was benign and harmless. I no longer believe this. Any organization that chooses a policy that does not put the safety of children first is dangerous. It is sad that there are many rank and file JWs who are ignorant of this issue and blindly follow WT. So if the publicity helps even one person, what we have done is not in vain.

Linda

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Spokesman-Review article "Cut off by Faith"

by Mr Rocky in

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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?id=96267.

i posted this yesterday in friends but it never showed up in friends.

without a link it died a very fast death in active topics.

mrs rocky2

bttt