jehovah's witness mother ends relationship with atheist son.source http://lefthemispheres.blogspot.ca/2012/06/letter-jehovahs-witness-mother-ends.htmlhttp://davetrash.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/the-letter/.
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bangalore.
Interesting that she says "
"I must live by the commands and statutes laid down in the Bible by Jehovah himself. One of these commands has been the cause of great stress and grief to me …" - [Emphasis added]
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Yet according to the bible that she claims to believe none of god's commandments are burdensome ...
Sorry you lost your family. I lost mine too. Cults suck.
jehovah's witness mother ends relationship with atheist son.source http://lefthemispheres.blogspot.ca/2012/06/letter-jehovahs-witness-mother-ends.htmlhttp://davetrash.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/the-letter/.
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bangalore.
Interesting that she says "
"I must live by the commands and statutes laid down in the Bible by Jehovah himself. One of these commands has been the cause of great stress and grief to me …" - [Emphasis added]
"
Yet according to the bible that she claims to believe none of god's commandments are burdensome ...
Sorry you lost your family. I lost mine too. Cults suck.
first of all i,m not against gays, i have made a 180 degree.
turn on my view on homosexual.
i thought my son was gay and.
@Jam -- no worries.. I didn't feel like you were being patronizing. It's definitely an issue that needs to be considered, not because they need to be concerned about inappropriate behovior, but because they need to find a way to handle it so that it's as normal a transition as possible.
for me .... 1).
last district convention after having 'read up' (took some family to it).. 2).
last 'meeting' to watch step-father-in-law finally get his and get disfellowshipped for molestation.. ...both were taking vodka shots in the bathroom.. i'm sure there's lots of good stories out there..
As a kid, my friends and I handled the sound (Carried the mics and what not .. before they set the limitation on that being "mature brothers" ) Our mothers were all sisters with unbelieving husbands and were all regular pioneering together .. so they would sometimes let us hang out in the KH in the afternoons while they went on RV's ... We found the wine that was used for the memorial in the sound closet and drank all of it ... It did NOT taste good.. LOL
first of all i,m not against gays, i have made a 180 degree.
turn on my view on homosexual.
i thought my son was gay and.
Well as a gay man .. I can give you my impression of this.
First of all, if you stick a straight guy in a barracks full of women, while he may find some of them attractive, and may even indicate such to them, unless there is a mutual attraction, nothing is going to happen.
The same is true of gays .. I can be a locker room full of naked men, and maybe I find some of them attractive, but unless I know they are gay, and are also interested in me .. there isn't anything really gonna happen there.
As far as kids go, I would dare say that there is a plethera of sexual experimentation that is going on in the scouts and any other environment where you put a bunch of young hormonal boys together ... nothing wrong with that, and it doesn't make them gay. I think every one of my friends growing up explored things sexually with each other and myself .. none of them are gay. I am not gay because of those encounters.
So honestly, from the perspective of the kids, I don't think anything is going to change, and they certainly shouldn't treat them any differently than they would have normally... if it not uncomfortable for the adults, it won't be uncomfortable for the kids.
On that note, my biggest concern with all this, is that there is a huge difference between "tolerance" and "acceptance" .. Currently the BSA is tolerating gay youth and allowing them to stick around .. that doesn't mean that they are going to teach the rest of the kids to be accepting of the gays in their ranks, and I see a major upsurge of "sponsored bullying" that will occur within the BSA toward the gay scouts that are open about their sexuality. That will make me sad.
i do know one agency (i will not give a clue what kind of agency is it, etc...) that was run by a straight married female and her staff did not have any gay people in it and she quit to move to another state with her husband.
the board of directors hired a gay male to head the staff, the staff slowly quit by one by one for some unknown reasons and he begin to hire gay people to work for him, i now do not see any single straight worker working for him, is that discrimination for not hiring straight people?.
Ugh .. first of all .. not all of us gays wander about in the latest fashion throwing designer pillows at people while singing show tunes ...
Let's try and not lump us all into a generalized stereotype.. It's rude and offensive. Thanks
really, the bible was written by nothin' but goat herders?
i don't post much but this does irk me.
yes a few may have been shepherds or fisherman, but a fair amount were far more educated and were professionals in their fields of occupation.
I think the biggest problem with this whole thread is that the assumption of the intelligence or lack of intelligence of ancient people is being judged based a small group of people who may or may not have existed..
I feel like 2000 years from now, if people judge our society by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort versus say Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins they are going to come to two VERY different viewpoints on the intelligence of our society.
ok im looking for a specific religion and culture that has no flood story.
someone claimed that every religion/culture has a flood story.
i disagree but i want to have a reference..
Oops.. sorry knowsnothing .. didn't see your post.
ok im looking for a specific religion and culture that has no flood story.
someone claimed that every religion/culture has a flood story.
i disagree but i want to have a reference..
There is a good reference on Talk Origins that lists the major flood myths and is tainted by WTBTS "truth" : http://talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
i was just thinking the other day how small our family is now that we aren't jw's.
we are thankful that we at least have our children!
my husband lost his mom and dad and only sister and her husband and all their children.
I lost both my Parents .. I thought I might be able to keep my dad, but he became a borg as I was leaving, and ended up being the one to put forth the family decree that I not be spoken too or of any further .
My younger sister, who lives at home with my parents, of course followed suit.
My older brother was a bit more "whatever" about the whole situation, until he went to visit the parents in South Dakota. When he came back, he blocked me on Facebook and discontinued all the projects we had going ( we live near each other and often collaborated on work projects since he does graphic design and I am web developer ) and then threatened to sue me for not paying him for the work he never finished. Hilarity ensued.
Any and all friends that I had made in the course of the 36 years of my life .. gone. Blocked via facebook, long good bye emails sent to me, phone calls telling me what a dispicable person I am, all within days of each other. So I guess the JW rumor mill is alive and kicking.
Best part of it all .. I am not disfellowshipped, have not been in front of a Judical committee, and am just an inactive member of a congregation. All of this came about cause I asked my mother if she thought it might be possible that the GB was intentionally misquoting scientists to further their own creationist agenda. BAM! I was labeled an apostate and within 2 weeks every JW in my life was gone. LOL
Good riddance to them all. My life is much happier out than it ever was in, and I don't need conditional love in my life.
