Sea Breeze: Not really the same, and comparison with the org wasn't the point of the post. If you prefer, and if it would glean a helpful response, think of it as two parents of whatever terms you'd like.
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Parents of Different Spiritual Persuasions
by Thehermit05 ini escaped the cult many years ago.
as a result, i have an eye for cultlike thinking, whether in terms of religion, politics, centrist thinking, etc.. last december my fiance and i had a baby.
she is black and i'm white.
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Parents of Different Spiritual Persuasions
by Thehermit05 ini escaped the cult many years ago.
as a result, i have an eye for cultlike thinking, whether in terms of religion, politics, centrist thinking, etc.. last december my fiance and i had a baby.
she is black and i'm white.
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Road to Nowhere, I tend to agree. I don't agree that only white supremacy poses a threat or that only whites can exhibit racism, and I see her thinking going in that direction, which I find unsettling. Part of why I want to prepare now and work on the longterm on this.
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Allegheny Pyramid Desecrated
by RolRod insometime within the last 2 weeks, someone took a sledgehammer to the pyramid monument in allegheny.
they stole the topstone, smashed the cross and crown emblem and removed the seal.. personally i'm surprised it lasted this long untouched.
although through the years russell's grave has been vandalized, it was always repaired by the bible students..
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As much as I disagree with his teachings and what his organization became, I don't see any reason to do things like this.
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Parents of Different Spiritual Persuasions
by Thehermit05 ini escaped the cult many years ago.
as a result, i have an eye for cultlike thinking, whether in terms of religion, politics, centrist thinking, etc.. last december my fiance and i had a baby.
she is black and i'm white.
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Hello,
I escaped the cult many years ago. As a result, I have an eye for cultlike thinking, whether in terms of religion, politics, centrist thinking, etc.
Last December my fiance and I had a baby. She is black and I'm white. We've never really had any issues with each others' spiritual ideas, perhaps because they aligned fairly well, focused on self-development and transformation by way of occult and magical techniques. In the last few months, she has gotten into looking at African spirituality, which I have nothing against and have helped to encourage, but I'm beginning to notice what feels like thinking and behavior familiar to me because of my JW past. Lots of "us vs. everyone else" kind of thinking, "we did it, had it, thought of it first" statements, "African spirituality is like oil and water with any other forms of spirituality" talk, and other things that, if nothing else, have me worried about how I am going to handle making sure that our daughter, in the coming years, will get to know about other things also, which have been particularly useful and helpful to me. I would feel equally concerned if she were making such statements in terms of Catholicism, Native American spiritual practices, Trancendental Meditation, or Pastafarianism.
So, taking it from an angle I'm familiar with, how did/do non-JW parents who have a JW spouse, make sure that their kids get exposure to more than just one form of "spiritual food," while keeping things peaceful?