The artist who did my tattoo specializes in invisble tattoos that only show up under UV light. I can see JW kids doing *that*, because they're all about having the double life and flying under the radar.
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Atheists and Anger...
by new hope and happiness inare you an angry atheist?.
personally i wish i could say anger is to strong a word, but from my point of view :-.
a)i am angry that religion teaches children to hate " worldly people" at least that was my experience ad a j.w.
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Nobody likes to have a label slapped on them. When people find out that I'm atheist, the automatic assumption is that I'm "angry" and "bitter" toward religion. While it's true that I've had numerous personal experiences as a JW that angered me, at its roots, the anger and bitterness comes from having been denied basic human rights as a person by the JW belief system.
As a consequence, I'm highly sensitized to any trampling on others' human rights. I'm just as bothered when I hear about atrocities against Muslim women in Islamic countries, and supremely frustrated when I see Muslim women in my community accepting their belief system's maltreatment of them - wearing the hijab, for instance, or Muslim women immigrating but being forbidden to learn English by their husbands, or not being permitted to drive or have jobs. It isn't limited to Islam and JWs either. I used to regularly see Mennonite and Orthodox Jewish people, compelled to dress in a certain manner in order to satisfy religious ideologies, not opening up to medical personnel and knowing they had been taught to regard outsiders with distrust.
It's very hard to see other people in the same kind of mental prison I was fortunate enough to escape from.
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Interesting, being a parent - pre- sonogram
by Gregor inmy wife and i teamed up and had 5 children between 1966 and 1978 (she did the hard part) we never knew the sex until the the little sweety was born.. now days, we know if we're having another grandson or grandaughter months before they're born.. big difference.. names = male or female?
better have one or the other ready for the birth cert.
info.. clothes are not that critical.
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I've had both experiences and it really doesn't change the experience - it's still a surprise whether you find out at 4 months or at 9 months. Finding out earlier makes planning a bit easier. But it doesn't help with everything that happens after they're born.
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Kid charged over $500 to a game
by skeeter1 inyesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.
over $500 to itunes.
questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.
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Hey Skeeter,
Several years ago, my then-13-year-old found a loophole to the long-distance block I'd placed on her cell phone. She racked up over $600 worth of charges in one month.
I called the cell phone company, livid with them that there was a loophole that circumvented my expressed limits on the account. The agent I spoke to about refunding the charges made some snarky remark attempting to put the blame on me. I lost my $h!t on the guy, and he finally apologized for criticizing my parenting. I had done my due diligence in adding restrictions to the service and it was up to the company to ensure that my expressed wishes were carried out.
As it turned out, the company was not aware that the loophole existed, and when they tested the sequence of steps my kid had used to work around the block, they realized there was the potential for a lot of people to abuse the loophole and circumvent an oversight in their programming. In the end, they were happier to refund one customer (me!) "before [my kid] announced to all her friends [and they to their friends] what the glitch was and all your parents have to do is complain to the cell phone company and get a refund."
That was one of the fastest fixes I've ever seen done by a cell phone provider.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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CoCo:
You can read an interview/article with the author here: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10/08/jennifer-lovegrove-on-jehovahs-witnesses-and-writing/
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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Well, a watcher, do let us know when your novel is nominated for a prestigious award, so we can critique the trailer for it.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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The top prize is $100,000 and the finalists will each receive $10,000.
The long list for the prize includes the following 12 titles:
The twelve books longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize are:
Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (ECW Press)
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada)
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins Canada)
Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada)
Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove (ECW Press)
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada)
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo (Doubleday Canada)
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada)
Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page (Biblioasis)
My October by Claire Holden Rothman (Penguin Canada)
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)
The shortlist will be announced on Monday, Oct. 6, and the winner will be revealed at a gala ceremony to honour the finalists on Monday, Nov. 9.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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http://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/
Can't wait to read this book, by a Canadian author.
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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users
by Londo111 infrom an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.
it seems that the wts legal dept.
has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.
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the WTS pushed the issue to stop apostate talk
I wonder when they'll figure out that they have no power over so-called Apostates™? Helllooooooo!!! They kicked us out! They aren't the boss of us anymore!!!!