earlier today, i posted a picture on facebook of me reuniting with a couple of my childhood friends.
we all grew up together in the kh.
i, unfortunely, was the only one stupid enough to get baptised.
I think it's strange from the point of view that JWs believe that they are the only belief system that practices Christianity™ properly, and yet your mom is using material from what she would consider to be a False Religion™ to support her own faith.
Since when does Truth™ need a lie to back it up?
i know exactly what happened... he thinks i'm going to die at the big a and wants to be with someone he can live forever with.... we have two girls, ages 3 and 1... i really thought we'd make it despite the religion, now i really don't think so... not sure what to do... .
Wouldn't it be ironic if he dumped you for MsThang and she ended up dying (not that I would wish that for her) on him? While in the meantime, Armageddon™ keeps postponing and you keep right on living your life to the fullest?
It's pretty sad rationalizing that you should dump someone because they're going to die some day and there are "other fish in the sea". How would he feel if you did that to him?
I would capitalize on the fact that what he's doing - sneaking around behind your back, becoming emotionally involved with someone else, is something the WTS describes as "dealing treacherously with the wife of your youth" (I forget what scripture that is) and is extremely disrespectful of you, of your daughters and most of all toward the Creator in front of whom he vowed to "love, honour and cherish, till death do us part" (whatever the WTS rendition of that is) and the Congregation™/Organization™.
I wonder if he has any Privileges™ that he wants to keep?
would you fear that there might be "consequences"??
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I find that if I parse my "negative point of view" in the form of a question, there's less chance of offending, and more opportunities for the other person to paint themselves into a corner.
"Can you explain why a Muslim woman is expected to cover herself? I don't understand this."
"I don't understand why Allah permits a man to have many wives, can you explain that?"
"I don't understand why someone like me is considered an infidel, just because I believe differently than you. How does that work, exactly?"
http://www.nouvellevie.com/.
New Life Church, based near Montreal.
Try using Google Chrome's translation option.
christopher hitchens.
i miss this man .... nobody did it better!.
the video is mostly about the 10 or so bible commandments,.
I wept when he died. I can't believe it's almost been a year.
i've had it a couple of times in the hospital.
it's amazing stuff, one second you're awake, the next second you're asleep.
they turn it off, and you immediately wake up.
I've had it too before each of my surgeries.
The first time, instead of counting backward like the anaesthesiologist requested, I asked: "Can I have some of this 'to go'? zzzzzzzzzz"
gerald t. slevin: why president obama must now act to end organized child abuse .
another extremely important essay by harvard-trained former wall street lawyer jerry slevin.
jerry argues that "it is the right time for president obama to act" to protect children from childhood sexual abuse, as the catholic hierarchy clearly remains intent on stonewalling, diverting, and covering up.
@NoStonecutters: Thanks, got it.
not long left... closes 20/02/2013 @ 08:01am.
vote now!.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29949 .
You need to be a British citizen to vote on these petitions. I tried. Sorry it didn't work.
"i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.
" -- paul.
okay, so this means that a sister has to speak to a householder when on the platform, so she isn't addressing us herself and teaching us something.
One of the very basic reasons why I could not, in good conscience, continue as a JW. The constant reminders that I was "just a Sister™" and therefore amounted to a worthless 'hank of hair and a bag of bones' just never sat right with me.
i'm not joking.
this is in the family/children section on jw.org - mary - joshua - daniel - ruth - and more!.
i'm lmao that these are so similar to hockey cards or baseball cards that my siblings and i used to get in trouble for collecting when we were kids.
Yes - what about Ja'el? She was another badass female Bible character.
It doesn't get more badass than drugging an enemy general and then hammering a tent spike through his head.
