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  The Boyfriend Pillow! - The Governing Body's worst nightmare!!??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  https://www.boyfriendpillow.com.au/.

  with all the focus on the new anti-masturbation vide telling all bethelites not to sleep inappropriately with a pillow, surely this has to be the very item that will send the gb into fits of despair?

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  amicabl

  Yeah......especially if it was a same sex pillow.
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  I've just won the lottery

  by Half banana in

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  i’ve just won the lottery!.

  this will really make all of you jealous!

  no truly, i won’t have to work again, enough money for all my needs and more, a lot more!

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  amicabl

  That was clever and funny. I was going to congratulate you too.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - San Diego Reader (California, US), Friday, January 12, 2018

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  jehovah's witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - san diego reader (california, us), friday, january 12, 2018.

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  amicabl

  Welcome to the forum Bobby2446. It's good to read about your views on this ultra important matter. Feel free to introduce yourself if and when you wish.
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  Will #metoo have an affect on forcing changing attitudes at Watchtower?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  despite decades of the feminist movement, watchtower's attitude of woman being inferior has changed little, with pauline sexism justified as inspired, on the basis that women are lesser emotionally, intellectually and physically.

  jehovah's witnesses seem to accept this with little resistance.

  is there anything about the #metoo movement that may wake followers up?

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  amicabl

  The MeToo campaign is only just gathering momentum. Tonight a prominent actor in Aus was blasted on national tv for half an hour by three actresses who worked with him in 2014 on a stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They claimed inappropriate sexual behaviour during performances.

  All of the offences that were alleged to have been committed are already covered under criminal law. There was no mention of complaints to police or police involvement of any kind.

  I realise that this sort of behaviour does occur and probably always has and is not going to change. Certain people need to accept that there are men who will seek to take advantage of women in vulnerable positions and that the only remedy is prosecution in a court of law.

  Possibly ruining a person's career by indulging in trial by media is not acceptable, and using the excuse that they did not want to affect their careers is also not acceptable. Sometimes we have to bite the bullet.
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  Will #metoo have an affect on forcing changing attitudes at Watchtower?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  despite decades of the feminist movement, watchtower's attitude of woman being inferior has changed little, with pauline sexism justified as inspired, on the basis that women are lesser emotionally, intellectually and physically.

  jehovah's witnesses seem to accept this with little resistance.

  is there anything about the #metoo movement that may wake followers up?

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  amicabl

  What is it with this latest wave of "feminism"?

  My eldest daughter of forty one is a libertarian, a lawyer and refers to them as Marxists.

  My female doctor who I have known for over thirty years has no time for losers who don't make an effort in life.

  We have had equal pay for equal work in Australia since the seventies.

  I have seen less women who were browbeaten in JW Congs than in general society, the biggest problem seems to be lack of men - real men that is.

  I have known my still in wife for almost fifty years since she was 16, we have been married for more than 46 years. Plenty of fights but still very much together.

  I could go on and on but that's enough! I don't get this latest "feminism" thing. There are much more serious problems in life.
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  Creepy, creepy movie "Wanda Nevada"

  by James Mixon in

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  2. friends

  wanda nevada (brooke shields) a 13 year old girl and a man 30 some years old (peter fonda) not only expressing their love for each other, but forming a relationship and end up running away together, yes a little creepy.

  couldn't sleep last night so around 4 o'clock it was on....the movie made in 1979 what the hell was hollywood thinking when making this movie, a love story romance/westerns......

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  amicabl

  I was under the impression that paedophilia refers to sexual attraction to pre pubescent children not necessarily those under the age of consent. I looked up the Wikipedia definition and it states much the same. I wish I could cut and paste on my iPad. One day I will make the effort to learn how.
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  JWs and medical marijuana

  by dogon in

  1. watchtower
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  where do jws stand on the new medical marijuana?

  i know they would df for use of it for recreation but if a dr in california gave it as a perscript, and it was legal to buy and use for medical use, has anyone ran into this yet?.

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  What are you on Kodis? You sound somewhat delusional!
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  This Message Board Is Boring

  by ctrwtf in

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  any chance simon can make arrangements to have the gorilla channel run on this site?.

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  amicabl

  It is the holiday season. I am sure things will liven up soon. I personally haven't been bored reading the posts, there just isn't much happening.
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  Factual, false, or phenomenon?

  by stillin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this strikes me as strange.

  in the last few years i have met four newly associated, and in a couple of cases baptized, brothers in the congregations who say that they did long stints in secret branches of the military and that they were behind the lines, "wet work" operatives.

  i might have considered it exceptional that one person who served in such a capacity would even go to church, let alone join up with the likes of jehovah's witnesses.

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  I found this thread interesting. Living near us in this semi rural area in Aus is a "brother " who served with the American special forces with the Hmong people in the Vietnam war. He has a badly smashed up hip and according to his wife had a really bad time in the war. So these people do become JWs. I thought this was of note because of some of the previous comments.
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  How do I handle this?

  by Phoebe in

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  2. friends

  a little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.

  we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.

  i can handle them.

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  amicabl

  I have been out for less than a year and I only have a small number of family still in. My wife accepts that I am never going back and I anti witness to anyone that calls to speak to me. I agree with snare&racket's comments completely in my case. They are delusional and thay have no control over us. If I can help someone else I will and willingly.