Posts by Scully

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New teaching! ...the end is NOT near by GB Steven Lett

by apocalypse in

have you watched some 'dub tv' yet?

it's very interesting.

steven lett of the gigglin brothers, put his foot right in watchtower's big mouth.

Scully

alanv,

I think you meant to say:

The tv broadcasts are just another way the society will keep JWs misinformed.

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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 in

are 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.

Scully

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 in

my 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.

Scully

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 in

yesterday, 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.

Scully

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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