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  Have you ever explained to worldly people that JWs are control freaks?

  by Iamallcool in

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  panhandlegirl

  I tell those I work with about the control the WTS has over it's members. I tell them about the shunning and that the majority of my familly shuns me and my brothers. One of my friends told me her son told her that the JWs were

  coming to his house for a visit. She told him what I had told her about the JWs and he said then he was not going to let them in his house. Others have told me that because of what I have told them, they will not ever have

  anything to do with them. I tell them that it is the organization in NYC that is evil but the people are just people who are misled but will disown their family if they dare leave it. I tell them it is like the Mafia, you cannot leave of

  your own free will. I have told them about 1975 and about them not approving of us getting a University degree and anything else I can tell them. I am not going to let them get away with ensnaring anyone I know or anyone they

  know into this organization. I also tell them my mother bled to death because of the JW belief against blood transfusions. They believe what I tell them, and if they doubt it, I present them with the proof. I am a advocate

  against the WTS.
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  Human Rights vs Watchtower Rights

  by undercover in

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  whenever the wts/jws face being banned or limited in activity the wts is quick to turn to the courts for support for their right to worship as protected under various human right organizations.

  when the wts either wins a court case, or looks to curry favor from the courts, such as in greece or georgia, they champion their victory as a win for human rights and religious freedom rights or they cry out for justice under religious freedom rights and human rights.. http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980108/article_01.htm.

  http://www.watchtower.org/e/19970322/article_01.htm.

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  I am tempted to print this in the local paper. Most people are not aware of the shunning endured by those who chose to leave the organization. It might keep others from becomeing members of the WTS.
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  Would this offend you?

  by Disillusioned Lost-Lamb in

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  i am remaining "in" for the time being, for my family, so with that said.... i fear my niece (9) and nephew (6) will be assimilated into the borganization therefore i try to covertly undermine their indoctrination hoping that if they choose to be a witless it will be just that, their choice.

  regardless of their path, i know my sister and bil will not plan anything for their children's futures, i don't want them to needlessly struggle because they never got the opportunities a normal child wouldve and i believe that, in or out, a higher education at least gives them a chance, i was thinking of secretly starting a small college fund for each of them.. what do you think?

  would any of you parents be offended by this?

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  I think that's a wonderful idea and very good of you to do this for them. I think it's a good idea for you to control what the money will be used for and by the time they are college age, they will be able to make their own decisons about accepting the money or not. I wish I had had an uncle like you.
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  The Congregation just paid flowers and other expensive for the PO COBE who died two weeks ago?

  by life is to short in

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  i have never in my whole life heard of this being done but at my husband's hall they just asked the congregation to pay about $250.00 to help with the cost of the dinner after the memorial and for flowers.. i was a jw for over 45 years and i have never heard of this.

  when my parents died who had been jw's for years i felt lucky fortunate to even be able to use the kingdom hall for their memorial.

  i am just speechless at them giving money.

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  LongHairGal, I think I would tell them to go the HELL to their face and get df'd all over again!

  LITS, I am so sorry you were treated so badly. I know they can be real jerks and so can their wives. I would have sat down an cried. I cried when my boss yelled an me and he felt so bad. I am not the nice girl I once was, or

  maybe the pushover I once was. I have found that if you push back, they back off. I hate it that it is that way but it is what it is. When my father was dying from lung ca I thought that all of us in the family could have a meal

  together with him and my mother. My older sister told me "we cannot sit at meal with you and our brother because you are df'd. What would people say?" I answered "What people, we are all family here." She opened the door of

  the room where we had been talking privatly and said "Homer (her husband) explain to her why we can't eat with her." I said "I don"t need for him to explain anything to me!" We all ate seperatly in the same house. A few weeks

  later when only our real family was there (our JW stepsister and her son and dil were not there) she wanted us to cook dinner for us all and eat together. I was angry because she was just trying to impress our step sister and her

  family. They just make me so angry at times; they surely do not act like Jesus would have behaved under the same circumstances. They are a poor excuse for Christans.
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  To all the JWN nurses happy Nurse Week

  by Found Sheep in

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  it's not an occupation for everyone.

  there are days i wish i chose a different road.

  i do have to give the education some of the credit for waking me up.

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  WOW! That's crazy. Is nurse's week a pagan holiday or does the Bible say that someone died during nurse's week back in th day? Who would have thought.
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  The Congregation just paid flowers and other expensive for the PO COBE who died two weeks ago?

  by life is to short in

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  i have never in my whole life heard of this being done but at my husband's hall they just asked the congregation to pay about $250.00 to help with the cost of the dinner after the memorial and for flowers.. i was a jw for over 45 years and i have never heard of this.

  when my parents died who had been jw's for years i felt lucky fortunate to even be able to use the kingdom hall for their memorial.

  i am just speechless at them giving money.

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  LITS, "I"m sorry they were so inconsiderant of you and your husband. I don't blame you for being bitter. As talesin said "let it out and vent!!!"
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  The Congregation just paid flowers and other expensive for the PO COBE who died two weeks ago?

  by life is to short in

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  i have never in my whole life heard of this being done but at my husband's hall they just asked the congregation to pay about $250.00 to help with the cost of the dinner after the memorial and for flowers.. i was a jw for over 45 years and i have never heard of this.

  when my parents died who had been jw's for years i felt lucky fortunate to even be able to use the kingdom hall for their memorial.

  i am just speechless at them giving money.

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  Kingdom Halls are being asked to take on debt to build Circuit Overseer's Retirement homes! It does not seem right to pay for flowers, I don't recall ever seeing this take place either. Was he part of the "in crowd", who lead a brilliantly exemplary life? The Society is creating more bitterness, by having the elders beg for money for "Traveling Brother's Rest home Kingdom Hall Homes.

  The Traveling Brothers deserve the same retiremment plan they insisted the life-time pioneers brothers and sisters to accept. Why burden the congregation any further, I would rather have helped missonaries who served in a foriegn field, not little princes whose meals, expenses, cars, lodging and cash was assured. Let them return to Bethel, have Bethel use their funds to pay for their own middle managers!

  Apotheosis, I agree with you, usually those who have money or are in the "in crowd" are favored over those not "in" or don't have money. Dealing with this economic downturn is hard enough for most people, they

  should not be asked to support the retirement of anyone else but themselves.
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  Happy Nurses Week!

  by serenitynow! in

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  happy nurses week to my fellow jwn nurses!

  does anyone work for a good employer who does anything special for you for the week?

  my company doesn't..

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  Good Luck sooner7nc. I graduated from OSU.
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  To all the JWN nurses happy Nurse Week

  by Found Sheep in

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  it's not an occupation for everyone.

  there are days i wish i chose a different road.

  i do have to give the education some of the credit for waking me up.

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  ABibleStudent, Yes, send your sister a card, she would appreciate it. Happy Nurses week to you, Found Sheep. As you said, it's not for everyone. Sometimes I think to myself "what a crazy way to earn a living" but

  then I think of the patients who depend on us for their care. I am an Oncology nurse and we tend to see our patients come to the hospital over and over. We usually see them through their initial diagnosis and, if the

  treatments don't get rid of the cancer, we see them to the end of their life. We hope and cry with them and their families. It is a stressful job as we tire of seeing people die, especially the young ones. Then, there's the

  JWs who refuse the blood transfusions needed after chemotherapy. It's a shame and it has a great affect, detrimental, on those whose job it is to help keep them alive. Anyway, Happy Nurses week to all nurses.
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  Would you sacrifice yourself to save other people?

  by Lore in

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  hypothetically: .

  you are in a room with two other people.

  you barely know them, but they are kind of nice people.

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  panhandlegirl

  I gladly would die a heros death, because it beats being old, and dying a slow death in a hospital with a kbag.

  My sentiments exactly. I have told my children that I never want a feeding tube. If I can't drink my wine everyday through my mouth, I just won't have anything. There is a time to die and a time to live. I don't want a

  slow death either.