Posts by cobaltcupcake

i know witnesses believe that miracles were done away with other "gifts" after the apostles died but every so often they suggest god produced a miracle.. did you believe that jehovah god saved you out of a bad situation?

did you accept that god's angel help you out?.

cobaltcupcake

The tipping point in my gradual awakening was realizing that Jehovah either doesn't exist or doesn't help us one damn bit.

As a 17-year-old girl I was starting to get some male attention, so I prayed fervently (on my knees, in tears) that Jehovah help me to find the right marriage mate.

A man I knew returned from Bethel a couple of months later and started hanging around with my family. I didn't really pay any attention to him until one day, to my absolute shock, he proposed. Thinking this was Jehovah's direction I accepted.

Flash forward 27 years. I'm miserable. The man is a sexual fiend who has raped me frequently over the course of our marriage and generally made my life miserable in a zillion different ways. I stayed with him because I believed it was Jehovah's will for us to be together and it would work out well in the end.

One day I had an epiphany. In my childish faith I had asked Jehovah for the proverbial egg and had been handed a scorpion instead. Malicious sadist.

If Jehovah existed but would not intervene in the way I expected why didn't he lovingly let me know? Why would he spit on my faith in him by allowing me to marry a monster and suffer for decades? If he didn't exist then why the heck was I wasting my time in a bad marriage and a stupid religion?

No matter what the answer was to those questions I was in a lose-lose situation and needed to cut my losses. My husband picked up on my changing attitude and in short order I realized I was in danger and escaped.

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Who would you date?

by MsD in

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i was just wondering i have a friend who is getting divorced.

she is 32yrs old and has 4 children ranging from 10 yrs old to 18 mths old and i wonder if she can ever really date again?

she's a really pretty woman but still i wonder.

cobaltcupcake

For what it's worth, I'm 54, single and have no kids. JW mom and brother live 5000 miles away. Ex lives 1000 miles away. I live in Charlotte, NC. Jus' sayin'. smile

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Women are better off without bras - New Study!

by fedup in

great news!.

women please read.. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/style/study-reveals-women-are-better-off-without-bras.html.

drop those bras!!

cobaltcupcake

As much as I hate wearing a tight elastic band around my rib cage, it beats having them bouncing around (which hurts like heck).

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Watchtower says:You can be Disfellowshiped for being FAT!!!!!

by Witness 007 in

watch 1974 p.167 "by disobediently overindulging in food and making a glutton of himself, he fails to show love for jehovah...is food a big thing in his life?

in the presence of others does he selfishly ignore their needs and take far more than his fair share?

is he grossly overweight?

cobaltcupcake

That 1974 article was titled "Is It Gluttony?" There was a joke running around the congregation about setting the table with clear glass plates and placing a copy of that magazine under each plate.

Even back then, being overweight or even obese was not incontrovertible evidence of gluttony. It was more about greedily sucking down more than your share while depriving others of their portions. Seriously, when does that ever happen in western countries?

A case could have been made against my father. My brother and his wife and my ex and I were visiting the folks one time, and we bought all the makings for pizza, which we planned to prepare the next day. When the time came to make the pizza we found about one inch of the pepperoni stick remaining in the fridge. We were all looking at each other when my father innocently piped up, "Oh, were you planning to use that?" He had eaten almost the whole foot-long stick of pepperoni during the night. I can't even imagine the spirited rebellion my stomach would have put up after an assault like that in the wee hours.

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Jonathan Winters passed away

by glenster in

jonathan left us at 87.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jonathan_winters.

remembering jonathan:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrhnmuhkzi.

cobaltcupcake

I loved him when I was a kid! Him and Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason. Oh, and Laugh In.

God, am I old.

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Jehovah's Witnesses in Southern Russia Face New Charges

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130408/180515407.htm.

rostov-on-don, april 8 (ria novosti) prosecutors in the southern russian city of taganrog have charged 16 jehovah's witnesses with taking part in the activities of an extremist organization after they allegedly resurrected the banned local branch of the international religious organization.. according to investigators, the religious groups followers continued to hold regular meetings after their local branch was banned in the city in 2009. at the meetings, they allegedly incited hatred against other religions, circulated extremist literature and called for military draft dodging.. the suspects also attempted to involve children in their activities and collected money for the organization, the prosecutors said in a statement.. the case materials will be sent to the taganrog city court after the suspects are informed of the charges, the statement said.. the jehovah's witnesses organization, which has more than seven million followers worldwide, including over 130,000 in russia, has been banned in a number of russian regions and in some former soviet republics over its religious beliefs.. the jehovah's witnesses branch in the russian capital was dissolved by a district court ruling in 2004, but the european court of human rights declared the decision illegal in 2010.. .

cobaltcupcake

I study them and they do exactly what is in the Bible. Nothing less or more

Good grief. Show me where the early Christians had branch offices.

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Why isn't anyone on JWN invited to the Facebook discussion by AAWA tonight?

by wha happened? in

i guess we're persona non grata now.

take a look at what i found on facebook:.

we're firing up the grill again!

cobaltcupcake

Are you people kidding me?

We have a schism in what is probably the loosest confederation in history - JW apostates? How is that even possible?

One important life lesson that I learned while working in food service at a circuit assembly is that there's more than one way to core a head of lettuce.

JWN is one way to help disaffected JWs to find their path out, and AAWA is another.

Why not just pull the bunched-up panties out of your butts and live and let live, for pity's sake?

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Special Assembly Day??

by DATA-DOG in

has anyone attended yet?

i am going to take careful notes.

i think i can make it through.

cobaltcupcake

This cult has to many meetings.

Damn skippy they do! At my first meeting (age 12) I remember looking around at the audience and marveling that these people attend all of these meetings (and they were longer back then) week after week, year after year. The tedium seemed almost intolerable. However, when I told my father I didn't want to join he said, "Well, you'll have to anyway." [cue music from The Pit of Despair]