Xanthippe

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  Half Your Children Are Dead And Your Still Happy?

  by The Bethelite in

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  half your children are dead and your still happy?

  i have/had a jw friend who has five daughters.. she was a born in as her daughters were also.

  two of the daughters are out and have waken up.

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  So tell me the part again about how happy you are living in this paradise picking up the bones if not yours other people's dead children?

  Honestly some parents are so controlling they would rather see their kids dead than choose a life different to their own. Whether it's a different belief system, political ideology, sexual orientation, moral code or whatever. It's do exactly as I say or you're dead to me.

  Of course people like that are attracted to controlling cults but they would make their kid's lives hell whatever their choices if they weren't identical to their own.
  
  
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  If You Could Pick Just One Title Of A Song That Would Describe Your Life

  by The Bethelite in

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  2. friends

  what would it be?.

  mine would be "rocket man" by elton john.

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  'It's been a long long road getting from there to here.'

  Someone's going to tell me that's not the title, but 'Faith of the Heart' is a bit naff. That first line better describes my life. Great song (Star Trek Enterprise theme).
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  Bump old threads

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have tried a couple times to revive an old thread by posting a new comment.

  for a short time is appears in the "latest" section but soon disappears again.

  why, what i am doing incorrectly?.

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  Pete it will disappear if no one else posts on it because other threads that people are posting on will move up the line to latest.
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  My old avtar is somehow starting to crop up when I post ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  hi simon i have just noticed my old avtar is starting to appear when i now post sometimes ?.

  my newer one marvin the martian is the one i`m supposed to be using now .

  smiddy 3.

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  Someday I'll figure out how to upload one that I choose.

  Stillin, so funny. I like your posts. You're obviously intelligent. Are you a technophobe? Blondie has set it all out for you.

  
  
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  Why are they still so obsessed with Dr Spock?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  comment in today's wt, was about dr spock, and his book "that every parent in the world read" apparently (!).

  if it wasn't for the wt's obsessions with the guy i would have no idea who he was, neither i suspect would the vast majority of the congregation.

  there has been a mass of parenting books written since and yet they keep harking back to this one.. do they have no idea how out of touch this makes them seem?.

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  Wasn't it Spock who said babies mustn't be picked up if they cry? They must be fed every four hours like clockwork and not picked up in between because that will spoil them.

  Figures if it is, cold, heartless, out of date. WTS all over.
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  Are You Happy With The Country You Live In?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i live in the usa.

  is it perfect!

  nope.

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  I love England, free healthcare, some of the oldest universities in the world although government investment in science could be a lot better.

  The lake district, beaches and castles. Hundreds of beautiful old buildings most of which were given up by aristos who couldn't afford the death duties. I love the national trust.

  People here complain about the weather but if you've been in New York when it rains you'd know about it! Rivers of water running down he streets! We have a gentle climate, mild winters, lovely varied summers and no mosquitos.
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  My own mother would rather see my death

  by GetMeOutofHere in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  apparently, according to my mother, the worst thing that could happen to me is not dying in a car crash or getting cancer but instead would be me leaving jehovah and his organization.

  i of course realize this is the position of jws but to hear my own mother verbalize it on a gentle walk in the woods was painful to say the least.

  needless to say, i cannot tell her i am mentally out..

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  When your own mother says things like that you know you're in a cult. I'm so sorry, I know it hurts. When I wanted to get pregnant I phoned my mother to see if I'd had the Rubella jab and asked her if she was happy about the prospect. She said she wouldn't get close to any child of mine because it didn't have any future.
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  Dress and Grooming: Sisters In Stilettos?

  by Deltron3030 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i attended several meetings, and i was shocked at how some of the jw's dress.

  is it just my area (tennessee), or is it a widespread problem?

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  hose at all times even in hot weather and especially with sandals, etc. - Blondie
  

  Just had a vision for a second of women standing in their sandals beings hosed down.

  We call them tights.😂
  
  
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  NEW SENTENCE IN NORWAY

  by Eliseo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a new sentence in norway.

  the court has invalidated a disfellowshipping!.

  https://testimonidigeovaconsapevoli.blogspot.com/2019/07/norvegia-nuova-condanna.html.

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  Brilliant! This is the first time a lawyer has won a case against JWs for disfellowshipping someone I believe. They were ordered to pay her the equivalent of £10,000 plus court fees.

  Of course WTS will appeal but it's very interesting. Thanks Eliseo. Watch this space.
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  Why is it so important to them to let child molesters go out in the field ministry?

  by Eustace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what's up with the watchtower society still letting those they know to have sexually abused children go out in the field service despite that being crucial to the ruling against them in the conti suit?

  they don't let men with beards go out in the field service in america with the justification that "beards are not the custom" and that therefore they "are not considered acceptable for christian ministers," but having sexually abused a child is somehow acceptable for a christian minister?.

  last i checked molesting children isn't considered socially acceptable according to the customs of the united states and certainly finding out that child molesters are allowed to be jehovah's witness publishers is a whole lot more alienating to potential converts than them seeing jehovah's witness publishers with beards.

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  First they would have to admit to themselves that they have paedophiles in their midst rather than it being a one time sin that they've forgiven.

  If they admit that then they know they should have reported him as a criminal, rather than contacting the branch.

  If they admit that then the branch's advice is wrong and the dominoes start to fall.