my boyfriend, who is a disfellowshipped jehova's witness, asks me to study the bible for 3 months or he won't marry me (i'm a muslim woman).
he loves me and really wants to marry me but he is doing a passive blackmailing: if i don't study for 3 months, 1 time per week, in my home country, and without him, there will be no marriage... as a muslim, i believe the bible is god's word so i look at the bible from time to time and would be happy to study with him.
but the fact that he is kind of saying "study the bible or bye bye no marriage" is really hurtful.
This guy is not a good match for you or likely anyone right now. He is manipulating and mean. Your family might well accept your choice of husband-but his will not accept you if you show interest and then reject their faith.
Do you have family? With a good education, I encourage you to stay in a community that you are familiar with. You will get more respect in a respectable Muslim family that JW family. JWs would discourage your children from education.
Where are you from?
my material on the history of judaeo-christian salvations became unwieldy, so i divided it into 3 parts.. i have completely rewritten part 1, dealing with the israelites and judahites.
http://www.jwstudies.com/revolutions_part_1__israelite_judahite_salvations.pdf .
the url links to parts 2 and 3 are provided on its page 3.. i provide the complete bibliography at the end of part 3.. doug.
The invocation of a famous defence lawyer is interesting, as we know that defence lawyers are not there to provide evidence of truth, but they are there to discredit any facts brought by the prosecution. The LACK of evidence is what both sides face in this debate, 2000+ years after the putative facts happened, or didn't happen.
i have an uneasy feeling inside that something is coming this year or the next.
perhaps a new big announcement that turns jwdom on it's head.. we've seen the statement in the watchtower november 15th, 2013 which said:.
watchtower november 15th, 2013 - page 20, paragraph 17.. .
The last generation really invested in 1914 is aging fast. The 70 year olds remembered it viscerally since they went through it as adults. Their children remember it in a less specific (but often vivid way from childhood). Their younger siblings and children have nothing to "get over" and aren't invested in it at all.
curious what the canadian take is on all this .
i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?
that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.
I am not sure the degree of terrorism going on in Canada that's ISIS or even vaguely Muslim related. Canada seems pretty open, generally.
Shoot of asking people if they are ISIS or extremist (and I think an infiltrator would lie, anyway) how does one prevent criminals from entering the country when refugees by the nature of their experience often have no or few papers? We let a Catholic doctor in and he molested hundreds of girls. So religion isn't a great litmus test of good character as we all know in this forum.
OTOH, letting known ISIS supporters in would be kind of nuts. Even disenchanted ones still had a mindset that allowed them to believe they could support it. If they are citizens, then I'd think supporting such a group as ISIS would result in prison and a lot of counseling before they could be allowed out.
i know that some here detested him while others may have simply accepted the reality of who is president.. do you think he is better than you might have thought as a president?.
Seriously? You have interesting theories about what happens with racism and sexism.
Does something being systemic make it not problematic or does it make sexists and racists a problem to be dealt with or should everyone shut up and accept their place?
just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?
(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).
with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.
I'd go, but if he embarrassed if anyone I know NOW saw me going in. It's been decades, so I am curious.I have no interest in booking up with the cult again and consider the excuse i would give someone were i to show up. I don't want to be pursued.
i know that some here detested him while others may have simply accepted the reality of who is president.. do you think he is better than you might have thought as a president?.
If a woman walks into a room of men and they start making catcalls, lewd gestures and inappropriate touches, did she cause them to be pigs, or were they already pigs and her presence simply illustrated it clearly?
If she calls out their piggery and sexism, did she cause it or direct our attention to a reality?
Obama "caused" racism like the pretty woman causes sexism.
Trump took what existed and fed it and nurtured it and called it good.
i know that some here detested him while others may have simply accepted the reality of who is president.. do you think he is better than you might have thought as a president?.
No. I thought or hoped he'd shed his persona and act like a president. He has had a couple of highlights but they really served to underscore his unsuitability for this position in 2018, or indeed, this millenia.
Melania has acted like a lady. I still think she made a deal with the devil in marrying him, but it's not like I've made great choices, so. . .she's protecting her son and that's her job right now, imo.
I wish no ill will to the president, I just think he should go back to his local Mmcdonalds near his home base and play his games in trump tower. Not the seat of government.
the nunes memo has been released!!!!.
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https://www.axios.com/read-nunes-memo-fbi-doj-fisa-mueller-7fb8bcb7-1f18-4294-aa95-628d2f67bcdf.html.
Bless their hearts. They are all 😞 disappointed.
some time ago a super-dub stopped by to try to encourage me to return to jw land.
my demeanor during our conversation was extremely serious.
i was polite, but dignified.
I kind of think giving that response and watching their jaw drop and their instant recognition that there is NO WAY would help them to see how dumb of a comment that it was. Of course, that would open up a can of worms and none of us needs any open wormy cans in our life!
