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  A time for reflection and compilation

  by sabastious in

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  it has been my one of my greatest honors to post here on this forum.

  i arrived almost 2 years ago looking desperately for some ears to listen.

  that is exactly what you gave me and more.

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  finally awake

  Good luck on your book!
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  JW Children in Meetings

  by blue_summmer20 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi my first post.. for the people that grew up in the religon, do you have any memory of being spanked for not sitting still in the meeting?

  i see kids acting like kids but the parents take them out and spank them for something like not sitting still.

  some of my worst memories are my father taking me out for a beating with a belt or his hand.

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  We were actually advised to make our kids practice sitting still and silent at home. The older two were just toddlers when we got that little nugget of wisdom. There is no way you can force a normal child under the age of 3 to sit perfectly still and silent for any length of time. With my kids, I don't think anything short of beating them unconcious would have done the trick.
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  WTBTS & Pedophiles: What the BSA can teach you!

  by 00DAD in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  ok, i guess i picked a poor title for this thread originally so i'm going try again with a different title!

  (seven hours and no hits ...).

  this fox news article made some interesting points.

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  I like the "no second chances" policy. There's really no way to 100% screen out all who would molest a child - after all there is always a first offense. But once such an offense is known, there is no reason to ever give that person another opportunity to hurt another kid.
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  Cut from the same cloth

  by Nickolas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  adherents know that they are right and those who believe otherwise are wrong.

  black and white.

  that there are many such books in existence is problematic insofar as they condemn one another either directly or by inference as heretical - or at best earlier, defective revelations.

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  finally awake

  Nice analysis!
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  Inequality like this is unsustainable

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  not to mention immoral.. .

  the 100 wealthiest americans have as much as the bottom 50%?.

  many of the bottom 50% own guns in america don't they?

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  The basic issues I have with the current economic situation are that different types of income are taxed at different rates and lack of access to quality education for all children. I don't see any valid reason for capital gains to be uniformly taxed at bargain rates. The tax code should exist solely to raise the revenue government needs to function - stop using the tax code for social engineering and economic manipulation. If the government decides to prop up certain groups, it can do so directly through a grant rather than favorable tax treatment. It would help if people could actually agree on what they expect the government to do, but I suppose that's asking too much.

  Second, until *every* kid has equal access to high quality education, then there isn't truly freedom of opportunity. I live in an area where there is only one public school for the entire county, and only one private school - so no meaningful choice in where to send my kids. The local schools are not great - merely passable - but there are a lot of kids whose schools are worse.
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  How to get around 2 John 9-11

  by WildeLover in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a query about this section of scripture that deals with shunning and dfing according to the washtowel, bile and trash society.. i tried to speak to a friend on this.

  and she came back at me with this and i was stumped.. if i commit a sin against god and am dfed, theni have grossly offended him.

  thus jws as friends of god would shun me as i have wronged god.

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  The failure in that analogy is the assumption that a person only gets disfellowshipped for offending God. I'm sure that plenty of people here can attest to the fact that people get disfellowshipped for things that couldn't possibly offend a rational God. I'm no fan of adultery, but I don't know that I would cut off all contact with my child if he turned out to be a cheating bastard, no matter how much I felt he had wronged my daughter in law.
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  JW Children in Meetings

  by blue_summmer20 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi my first post.. for the people that grew up in the religon, do you have any memory of being spanked for not sitting still in the meeting?

  i see kids acting like kids but the parents take them out and spank them for something like not sitting still.

  some of my worst memories are my father taking me out for a beating with a belt or his hand.

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  In my old hall, one little boy would scream "Please don't spank me Daddy" as his father would haul him outside. I have no idea whether that child was just being dramatic or if his father really beat him.
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  Bizarre statement in April 2012 Awake

  by dozy in

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  2. bible

  as books go, it is tiny, but it is immeasurably great in its essence.

  it can be carried in ones pocket,but if it were found in a library of 90,000 different books, it would probably turn out to be the most important one of them all.. wow a strong endorsement of the bible?

  er no this is the wtbts we are talking about here.

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  2tone, really? I usually just let stuff that offends me slide, but you really are out of line. Mexico is not a "junk" country and Mexicans are not some lesser group of people unworthy of respect. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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  Annointed apostacy!

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  how come jws/exjws find these two words particularly difficult to spell?

  i've done it myself.

  doh!.

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  finally awake

  If my name was stacy I'd use apo-stacy as my user name. Too bad I got stuck with a name that doesn't play into any puns.
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  Bizarre statement in April 2012 Awake

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as books go, it is tiny, but it is immeasurably great in its essence.

  it can be carried in ones pocket,but if it were found in a library of 90,000 different books, it would probably turn out to be the most important one of them all.. wow a strong endorsement of the bible?

  er no this is the wtbts we are talking about here.

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  finally awake

  so he's a 42 year old mexican author who writes novels? why would I care what he thinks