Posts by Pubsinger

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I was shunned today in the post office.

by outoftheorg in

well this poor jw walked to the table to sort out the throw aways just as i headed there also.. i saw him and smiled, then he dropped his head to not look at me.

we both sorted out the things for the trash bin and were only about 20 or so inches apart.. i remember him coming to my house when my daughters were young girls and he wanted to get aquainted.. maybe i should have spoken to him but i just looked at him and he refused to even look back.. how sad.

he always has this really sad disappointed look on his face.

Pubsinger

Honesty, If the company know that they say that to you, shouldn't they be disciplined because they are being "religiously abusive" to you.

I'm a school governor and if a child did this to another they would be disciplined and the incident reported to their parents. It would be treated on a par with racial abuse and could lead to exclusion.

I complained when a 7 year old in my daughters class said to her face infront of the whole class "I hate Christians". I was pleased to be informed that the incident had already been dealt with in the manner above. I don't see how your situation is any different.

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I was shunned today in the post office.

by outoftheorg in

well this poor jw walked to the table to sort out the throw aways just as i headed there also.. i saw him and smiled, then he dropped his head to not look at me.

we both sorted out the things for the trash bin and were only about 20 or so inches apart.. i remember him coming to my house when my daughters were young girls and he wanted to get aquainted.. maybe i should have spoken to him but i just looked at him and he refused to even look back.. how sad.

he always has this really sad disappointed look on his face.

Pubsinger

I know. It's really hard to get decent service in the post office these days.

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JWs and the British Museum

by M.J. in

anyone been to the british museum?

i know of some jws who are planning to visit.. i wonder just how incriminating could a visit be to a jw interested in looking at babylonian artifacts?

i imagine that nothing really jumps out at you relating to jw chronology.

Pubsinger

Hope they didn't miss this

http://www.banksy.co.uk/cuttings/index.html

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JWs and the British Museum

by M.J. in

anyone been to the british museum?

i know of some jws who are planning to visit.. i wonder just how incriminating could a visit be to a jw interested in looking at babylonian artifacts?

i imagine that nothing really jumps out at you relating to jw chronology.

Pubsinger

If those figures are genuine surely thats the first time they've ever contributed to something of cultural interest!

Did they get a doing off the elders for not donating it to the kingdom work?

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Cool Game!

by Billygoat in

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best i've done (in about two minutes time) is 19.something seconds.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html.

Pubsinger

24.716

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Cool Game!

by Billygoat in

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friends

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best i've done (in about two minutes time) is 19.something seconds.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html.

Pubsinger

23.64 secs

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Advice is to Beat the kids......still!

by Gill in

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this is the watchtower for april 1, 2006, page 9.. 'parents be a fine example for your children.'.

'....of course, children are children, and some are prone to be contrary, even wayward.

(genesis 8:21) what can parents do?

Pubsinger

I've wondered about this.

We left in '99 when our daughter was just under 2. In the 6 years since it is fair to say that a new generation of parents have emerged in a world where smacking has been addressed and is becoming more and more culturally unacceptable and punishable although not totally eradicated.

We've all heard reports of a parent who smacks a child in public (doctors surgery, supermarket etc) being reported to the police, who are then forced to take action, with the ensuing court cases and debates on daytime TV and radio.

I was brought up as a JW and had my fairshare of smacks. I dont consider myself damaged or abused. It was just a different time. Things change and I would never dream of smacking my own kids.

No-one seems to be saying if they canfirm that smacking goes on now at KHs as a matter of course.

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Is getting married in Church a DA'able offense? Ping anyone with BOE manual

by Abaddon in

having been fairly proud of my jw parent's behaviour (and to be honest, my handling of them) in the 13 years or so since i walked away i now find myself in a quandry.

i basically arranged my departure from the cult in such a manner that i would neither be da'd or df'd, to avoid a situation where their family loyalty might be streached by their adherence to organsiational law.

why should i play by their rules and write a letter leaving an imaginary religion?

Pubsinger

The rules are "there are no rules"

Contradictions and inconsistencies everywhere.

Beards, suits or jackets, pubs, concerts, skirts shallots(?) or trousers for women, hemlines, haircuts, white or coloured shirts, marrying unbelievers or non baptised, age for elder or mini servs, disfellowshipped relatives in bridal parties . . . . . ./

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Noah's Ark.- Kangaroos

by Stewart75 in

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f(l)ood for thought,.

if god had organised for each pair of species into noah's ark prior the flooding which destroyed many in wildlife.

i wonder if any of australian animal species like kangaroos, wombats and emus were also included?

Pubsinger

Noah dropped them off there before his navigational skills let him down and he got stuck on a hill.

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To Those Who Still Go To Meetings, Do You Sense Anything Different?

by minimus in

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are people excited by anything in the organization?

are they tired?

mostly missing?

Pubsinger

Earlier in the thread someone said that 1 in 4 JW's in the US are in a spanish speaking cong.

Is this statistic verifiable?

Forgive my ignorance, but is that figure representative of the US population?