born into a strong jw family in the early 80s.
my father died when i was 4 and that left a huge emotional scar on my tender mind.
with my mother, i went to live with family members and was sexually abused between 4 and 10. he was an ms but when elders later found out, all that happened was he got his privileges removed.
Thanks for sharing your experience and you must realise now you were not responsible for the sexual abuse you suffered as a very small child. I am aware it's not always that easy so perhaps some counselling would help?
I can identify with people emotionally blackmailing you about seeing your father in the resurrection. Absolutely despicable.
Stick around, many here have been through similar abuse.
before, i was thinking, this whole thing with the character the writing department has must be a coincidence.
they must use other names?.
nope.
A mother is in labour ALONE with her 6 year old boy and she tells him to fill the basin with hot water in the bathroom...so the boy can help his mother have a wash??? (Then he's "monitoring the labour" ?!!)
Yeah Diog, plenty of hot water and towels. This writer's been watching too many Westerns.
i was wondering how many of us have switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet and why.
i'm not doing it but have friends who do.
lovely people and seem very healthy.
True LV101. Two weeks ago I was sitting in a little town in the Bavarian alps enjoying a big dressed salad with just a few excellent pieces of fried chicken on top and they were quite enough.
Unusual for the Bavarians because they're big meat eaters. There was German sausage on the BBQ all day which was very popular. Not my cup of tea.
i was wondering how many of us have switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet and why.
i'm not doing it but have friends who do.
lovely people and seem very healthy.
The last few I treated myself too were just a chore to eat. It's just too much meat
Pete I know what you mean, if I go out for a meal and have chicken they give me so much. All that chewing! So hard to get down.
housebound by weather.
been watching flash mobs.
what a wonderful thing they are..
Flash mops are good, clean floors without scratching.
i was wondering how many of us have switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet and why.
i'm not doing it but have friends who do.
lovely people and seem very healthy.
Stopped eating red meat about 12 years ago because it's contraindicated in arthritis and my family get really bad arthritis. My aunt had seven hip replacement operations, first one at 47.
So far hardly a twinge and I'm 61. Not vegetarian, I eat fish and very occasionally chicken.
i am not sure if this has been discussed but last night mid week meeting about organisational accomplishments really got my goat as the example of the temple was used.
people contributed to the building of the jewish temple and now the museum and bethel in warwick.
this supposed .be evidence of god s guidance.
museum and Bethel in Warwick. This supposed .be evidence of God s guidance.
It's so easy to lie to ignorant people who've never been anywhere. WTS is always holding up beautiful buildings as evidence of God's blessings.
By these criteria the RC must be the true religion because of the Vatican. Or the Russian Orthodox church because of St Basil's Cathedral. Or Hinduism, they have amazing carved temples a thousand years old.
What a stupid assertion. How about we have the truth because all our members are happy, healthy, mentally well adjusted people who are making a difference in the world?
to me, breakfast can be served at any time of the day.
a local bar in my area serves breakfast all day long.
for 5 bucks you get 2 eggs any way you like, bacon sausage or ham with home fries and toast!!
Greek yogurt with honey, blueberries and raspberries. Followed by a slice of sourdough rye toast and butter.
friends?
some friends are like a holiday a favorite pair of shoes the scratching post for kitten fingers to caress some friends can really wear you out with their whinging and their blues yet more or less - not worse than all the rest.
some friends are chatty cherubim and others?
I like your poem Terry. I've learnt a lot about friends the last few years. One friend who latched onto me when I was in dire straits and was admittedly wonderfull.
After things got better I bought her thank you presents and invited her family out for a meal with me and my daughter for my birthday.
I thought we were going halves but she took so long looking at the bill I got fed up and paid the whole lot. I later realised she wanted me to do that for her for the rest of her life!
I make friends very slowly now and I'm not terrified of 'me time' but I get what you mean Terry so many loved one have gone and I literally don't have anyone to reminisce with, no one to say do you remember when. Like you I miss that.
watchtower's ignorance around the historical background to many biblical directives has had a very negative effect on the lives of witnesses.. for instance paul said women should cover their heads because in corinth prostitutes walked the streets plying for business with their heads uncovered.
hence head coverings were never a symbol of headship but a directive very specific to that period, as was the blood directive!!.
watchtower leaders have been lawyers, businessmen, civil servants and door-to-door book salesmen, never, ever historians or biblical scholars.
When I was in India I was interested to see that women wearing saris would use the veil to protect their heads when it got really hot.
I realised that Hindu women have used the veil either with the sari or chemise and trousers for protection from the hot Indian sun centuries before Islam arrived on the scene and made it mandatory for women to cover their heads.
Perhaps it was like this in the middle East and Asia minor too. Why then did it become a rule?
