Your parents are a classic case of the saying that "Truth is stranger than fiction!" I wonder if it would be Satanic to rent out a room in their house to bring in some income without working. I'm actually sitting here getting tense over their total disregard for reality and the consequences of their bizarre "thinking."
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75My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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Elders are going to the CO on me
by cognac ini celebrated halloween and my birthday and the elders have been told.
husband told the elders i've called the religion a cult.
they said i'm "heading down a road to be an apostate.
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Mum
If they want to use your children as witnesses against you, I recommend getting an attorney and try to stop it. A spouse is not required to testify against their marriage partner in court. Likewise, a child should never be put in a position of having to be adversarial with a parent.
You've got them on the run, so keep up the good work!
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Girls names
by FeelingFree inok so i know its not really anything to do with jwness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like.
its getting a bit desperate as i'm due in about 8 weeks .. i'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).. **cash prize for the one we choose!
** ....... no not really lol.. .
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Mum
Currently, my favorite name is Beatrice, meaning "blessed." I consider it a classical name, not a fad name. I also like Jade or Jada. I read through all of the pages of this post and made sure these had not been mentioned already before suggesting them.
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Mormon child indoctrination and Witness child indoctrination....
by stuckinarut2 ina great thread has already been started called "caleb and sofia have mormon cousins.. it shows how mormons also have cartoon characters to indoctrinate their kids.
here is the link to their website section for kids and it shows all the topics they cover!.
https://www.lds.org/friend/online-activities/videos/little-friends?lang=eng.
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Mum
The JW's probably copycatted the idea of kids' cartoon characters from the Mormons. I can't imagine their ever having an original idea!
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Human kindness
by stillin ini hold kindness in high regard; it separates us from the drudgery of life and elevates those who practice it as well as those who receive it.
my family has been going through a big crisis for several weeks now and i've noticed a few things.
several of the elders have expressed their concern for us, shared a scripture and then back out to field service or whatever.
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Mum
I'm sorry for whatever you're going through. I'm glad there are supportive people in your life.
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Honey who-who???
by sparrowdown ini do apologize for my extreme ignorance, but i am curious.. who the hell are honey boo boo, sugar bear and mama june??.
and more to the point.. why the hell are some americans so obsessed with them?.
i just don't get it.. .
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Mum
Thanks for the apology, Gregor.
FHN: I did not mean to imply that all Appalachians are on food stamps and/or welfare. However, most of my family is at this point. In the '50's, we were able to own our own land and grow our own food. That's a dream now more than a reality. Many Appalachians have gotten educated and own businesses. The lucky ones have become country music stars (e.g., Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton) and movie stars (e.g., Patricia Neal and Polly Bergen) or media stars (e.g., Diane Sawyer).
I do realize, too, that there are ignorant, uneducated people everywhere, even in the wealthiest suburbs. As a child, I was stigmatized after we moved to another state, so we had the image of being backward (probably largely because of our dialect) no matter how we really were.
I've never watched the show, so I wasn't sure where it took place. The descriptions I've heard made me believe it probably was Appalachia.
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Honey who-who???
by sparrowdown ini do apologize for my extreme ignorance, but i am curious.. who the hell are honey boo boo, sugar bear and mama june??.
and more to the point.. why the hell are some americans so obsessed with them?.
i just don't get it.. .
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Mum
Honey BooBoo is a child living in Appalachia, traditionally a place that lagged behind the rest of the U.S. in education and economic development. Appalachian Americans have commonly been called "hillbillies," and other derogatory terms, such as "briars" or "briarhoppers." Mama June apparently is Honey BooBoo's mom. Traditional Appalachians tended to be fundamentalist Christians, but the social upheaval begun in the 1960's has affected them, too. I don't know if Honey Boo Boo was born out of wedlock or not. There has been a lot of talk lateley because, apparently, Mama June currently is dating a child molestor. I have never watched the TV program entitled "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" or something similar, but I have heard others speak of it.
I do think Appalachian Americans (of whom I number myself and my family), because of our poverty and backwardness, apparent lack of ambition or education, give other Americans someone to look down upon and laugh at.
If you would like to see a realistic depiction of Appalachian life in the 20th century, I recommend the film Coal Miner's Daughter starring Sissy Spacek as the country singer Loretta Lynn growing up in Butcher Hollow ("Holler") Kentucky in the 1940's and being pushed into fame and fortune as a country singer/songwriter by her abusive husband.
I grew up in East Tennessee and Eastern Kentucky in the 1950's, and am grateful for the experience of having lived in Appalachia before the days of welfare and food stamps. We had a culture then. We had pride then. We could hold our head up and know we were surviving and sometimes thriving despite our lack of education or mainstream culture.
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Current thread on Yahoo: Would it be a good idea to dress up as a Jehovah's Witness for Haloween?" lol
by Balaamsass2 inhttps://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20141028081614aakrumy&act=aq.
this popped up on my google alerts at work today and i thought some members might want to help answer( and spread a little seo "truth" !
lol :.
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Mum
It would be fun to get with some friends with kids at similar ages to yours. One set of kids could be witnesses, and the other set of kids could be Mormons. At the end of the evening, see which "religion" got the most candy. That religion would be deemed "the Truth."
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A SPECIAL OCCASION.....
by NAVYTOWN ini came across a saying that i especially like: 'don't ever save anything for a special occasion.
every day you are alive is a special occasion.
compare that to the jw mindset that says this world is a terrible place and that jws will only be truly happy 'someday' when they get to 'paradise'.
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Mum
Once I heard a poetry reading on PBS. One of the poems illustrates what you're saying. It's about a woman who's saving everything nice that she has, as the poem says, for "a day that will never come in her life."
My grandmother was one of the people who was saving everything. I think it's partly because of her experiences during the Great Depression and partly because she was simply a very frugal person. There will always be such people, so, instead of buying them a gift, I like to take them out and show them a good time.
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A QUESTION FOR JW'S who say, "The brothers were overly zealous" about 1975
by Terry in"what was the actual significance of that year, then?".
if jw's were overly zealous, what was the exact amount of zeal encouraged by the wts for a non-event which took up.
over 7 years of every jw's time?.
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Mum
I remember the book that first "suggested" the 1975 date. It was entitled something like Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God. (Perhaps daughters of God do not have freedom?) I used to recall the page number, but have forgotten it. I also recall a Watchtower article entitled "Are You Looking Forward to 1975?" It was all the talk. People were postponing health care and dental work. People were quitting good jobs and becoming handymen to have more time for the preaching work. The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life (the "Truth book") was published about 1968, and we were instructed to study with people only 6 months and press them to make a decision within that time frame because the end was SO CLOSE!
They can't fool anyone who participated in that collective madness, particularly if we still have a working memory.
I posted this information for those who were not there in the pre-1975 hysteria so they could have a frame of reference if anything ever came up about this issue.
Letting go of our delusions is one of the most painful human experiences, but so worth it!