You are his father, and at the end of the day... you advise, teachings and day to day examples will shade out anything your mother-in-law is teaching him.
lola-rabbit
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Shocked at what my 3 year old just asked me
by jwfacts inme - jehovah?
who is jehovah?.
me - oh.. zac - are you happy with me dad for remembering jehovah.
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I'll Be Leaving Here
by minimus inin case you don't see me here, i thought you should know that i am done here!
why??
because i'm going on a cruise to bermuda tomorrow for a week and i will be fondly thinking of each and every one of you while i bask on the beaches and enjoy the weather.. bye..
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lola-rabbit
ooooo, just got back from a cruise... bad thing about a cruise is you eat way to much, then when you get back home you want to continue eating like you did on the cruise... you're stomach and metabolism goes thru an eating relapse.. lol! Have a great time!
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lola-rabbit
I want to meet some of you too... I'm stuck in South Florida!
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Punk of Nice! Are you in a creative mood???
by TimothyT ini have just been looking through your paint jobbed watchtower covers!
im in tears laughing!
if i send you some covers from the latest mags, can you have a play around and post them with funny captions?.
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lola-rabbit
Ohhhh, do share. Would love to have a good laugh.
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HOW DO YOU CONTINUE?
by angel.face inlately i've been finding it more and more difficult to keep up a front.. .
before i learned the tatt i was the mover and shaker of our family.
i would study with the kids.
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lola-rabbit
I completely know how you feel... that's why I stopped preaching... I went form preaching 1 hour, to not preaching but tuning in fake time, to nothing at all. I too have kids and I think when you take things slow, you have better results. My advise to you and what is working for me so far is...
- STOP PREACHING, you will feel sooooo much better and free. Start increasing your absence, small steps.
- START GETTING HEADACHES, this is only for preaching and meetings.. not hubby time!
- STOP GOING TO MEETINGS, because of all those headaches you are going to start getting! Start increasing your absence.
- MAKE WORLDLY FRIENDS! This is CRUCIAL and a MUST for your mental survival and sanity. You'll see how much nicer people are OUTSIDE the congregation.
- HELP YOUR KIDS TO MAKE WORLDLY FRIENDS! Maybe school, encourage the friendships they currently have in their classrooms.
- HAVE PATIENCE WITH YOUR HUSBAND, men in the organization have to put up a bigger front then us woman, give him time to wake up.
MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
7. GET TO KNOW THIS WONDERFUL WORLD WE LIVE IN, AND EVERYTHING IT HAS TO OFFER. When you step outside the bubble, it's an amazing place.
Please keep us posted, and remember you are not alone.
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My teen daughter is being pressured to get baptized :(
by lola-rabbit inmy oldest teenage daughter (15) is a publisher and goes to all meetings with her father (we divorced, he picks her up).
i try to get her more involved in school and to spend more time with friends outside the congregation.
i'm to the point where i'm going to simply forbid it and send her off to collage early!
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What exactly are men at the back of the hall taking care of?
by howdidtihappen inonce people have come in, and the doorman and the mic men are in place, why are there a few other suits scattered about at the back?
i saw a guy get up, sit down, get up, sit down, get up and when i looked what he was up to he was reading the noticeboard and looking around, waiting for a bus.
i figured he wasn't doing much at that point, but anything to not stay seated.
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lola-rabbit
They are looking for terrorist! And ex-jw gone crazy with their chest strapped with bombs!!
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My teen daughter is being pressured to get baptized :(
by lola-rabbit inmy oldest teenage daughter (15) is a publisher and goes to all meetings with her father (we divorced, he picks her up).
i try to get her more involved in school and to spend more time with friends outside the congregation.
i'm to the point where i'm going to simply forbid it and send her off to collage early!
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lola-rabbit
I was censored 6 years ago, and out of anger stopped preaching completely. My entire family is JW, and all thou I do not preach and I've been inactive all these years... I do attend some meeting to make my parents happy. The elders have spoken to me and have offered to remove my censorship and welcome me back to full "previous", and I have rejected them, and stated that I am fine and happy the way I am. Since, I keep this front with my family, (sitting on the wall, just waiting to leap)... I don't think my daughters will be taken away from me if I completely stop attending. The father will just continue to take them to meetings and preaching.
My older brother was never baptized, and when he was 18 he was "disfellowhipped".... I was 10 and I remember the day they made the announcement on stage, it was as if a family member had passed away.... it turned my family's life upside down... one year later the GB stated that if a person was never baptized they could never be dis-fellowshipped since they never truly committed to God. Incredible, all the suffering they cause our family, to then later just take their words back.
True Jesus did not get baptized until 30, and she would never get married at 14... so then why make such a huge commitment at such a young age. I was baptized at 16, and I never attended a collage because Armageddon was around the corner... I don't want my kids making the same mistakes I made.
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My teen daughter is being pressured to get baptized :(
by lola-rabbit inmy oldest teenage daughter (15) is a publisher and goes to all meetings with her father (we divorced, he picks her up).
i try to get her more involved in school and to spend more time with friends outside the congregation.
i'm to the point where i'm going to simply forbid it and send her off to collage early!
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lola-rabbit
My oldest teenage daughter (15) is a publisher and goes to all meetings with her father (we divorced, he picks her up). I try to get her more involved in school and to spend more time with friends outside the congregation. I'm to the point where I'm going to simply forbid it and send her off to collage early! I keep telling her that until she is 18, she is not an adult and can not make a smart decision concerning something so important that is going to control every aspect of her life. But I'm scared she will be convinced to do it. Please give me advise, and send me some "SMART WORDS" that could impact her.
I haven't preached in over 6 years and I'm slowly dimming myself out. I have many conversations with her on some of my points of view on the org. and she listens,... but her father has a convincing tongue and I don't want her to be pushed.
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WTBTS impact on the environment nubmers, repost from another jw site
by i_drank_the_wine intaken from: http://www.thebroadroad.com/forum/#topic/bring-to-ruin-those-ruining-the-earth-trees-wtbts.htm.
i never found statistics on the amount of paper the wtbts wastes, but i think they're might be a little hypocritical by parading the "he will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" verse that they always quote.
it got me curious and i decided to crunch some numbers.... they print 42 million washtowels a month, more than any other magazine in the world (http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/wp_e_20110501.pdf).
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lola-rabbit
HollyMolly... that's alot of trees! What happened to "GO GREEN"