my experience in the kingdom hall was that racial discrimination and profiling was not typically practiced....that i know of.
i was in a diverse city with every type of skin color and nationality imaginable.. i’m wondering if the witnesses have changed due to the current affairs exposed by the media everyday.
are there discrimination issues in jw land??
The American Negroes . . .
LOL, again!
I saw racial discrimination from both sides during the 70's.
A young, hotshot, upstart Black elder made it his business to point out perceived slights and prejudices of White JW's.
An old White JW lady refused to attend any more meetings after they were integrated.
Such ones merely paid lip service to a united brotherhood.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
the woman has been deflecting the orange one's lies for quite sometime now as we all know, but after hearing her doing the same about the staff member who dissed mccain, i say she's an excellent candidate for the governing body, "nothing ever happened, we didn't say that, yes the number of 144,000 is growing every year and we accept that".
i mean, why look elsewhere, she would fit in perfectly.. btw, that's also what i say with all the drumpf supporters that show up at his rallies he holds whenever his sensitive, deflated ego needs a boost.
they cheer and rave just like the blind followers do at the circuit assemblies, they would make excellent jws, they have no problem buying into bullshit without putting any thought into anything that's being said..
Et tu Brute?
LOL!
An even better one, Gio.
i joined this forum on 1may2007 with a promise that i would tell more about myself as time went on.
well, here goes.. i was born and raised in the black belt of alabama in wilcox county.
it is supposedly called the black belt due to the color of the soil, but i have a strong suspicion it is also due to the fact that there is such a heavy concentration of black people in the dozen or more counties that make up the black belt.. my parents were sharecroppers which was simply a form of whitewashed slavery.
Dearest Maeve,
My little last daughter is still a JW, even after graduating summa-cum-laude from University.
Oh, yeah, tenant farming broke my daddy and lots of other men in our community which is catty-cornered across the Alabama River from Gee's Bend.
Yet, like Nate Shaw, some stood strong and unbowed. The Elaine, Arkansas Massacre of, I believe 1919, is a powerful testament to their courage and fortitude.
LOL about the number of children! I knew of a family of 24! Mama, Daddy, and 22 younguns.
We were stacked upon each other like cords of firewood, but learned a lot about the importance of cleanliness, loving, sharing, and just making a way out of nothing. This has stood us in good stead.
I have always been spiritual, and the Bible was one of the first books I read. I am now researching extra-Biblical literature to find answers to questions that have long intrigued me:-- How old was Eve at her death? Why so long before Seth's birth? Why was Elam listed first instead of Arpachschad? How did Abraham acquire such great faith? Were Noah and Abraham contemporaries?
I could go on, but you get it, I know.
Thanks for your interest.
You, too, are a person I hold dear to my heart.
during the great depression in the 1930's people lost their jobs.banks closed, and long lines formed in the streets called "bread lines".people got up early and had to stand in line all day to get a free loaf of bread to feed their family!caution: do not read this story if you have empathy or compassion________ "when things get really bad".
in a cabin in the appalachian mountains, there was a family of four: two children (a boy and a girl), a mom and a dad (who had lost his job at the local sawmill).. things looked really bleak.
the children were afraid they'd starve to death.. "mommy," said the little boy, "are we going to die?".
Powerful, just powerful.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. racially a very mixed family.
we just looked like average white, working class brits.
dad was in the marine commandos in ww2.
Such touching stories . . .
tell us a little about yourself and your family.
my mother introduced me to her jw world when i was 12. i had to attend the weekly book study....boring!!!!
plus the disney tv show was on tuesday eve 8 to 9 and once a month they did a space show......no matter how hard i tried couldn’t get out of that bk study.
Thank you for sharing your story.
me too, i had to have a study with a jw.
then, a month or two later, another one of my ‘worldly’ mates (dan) asked me “are you going out with emma?” i told him no.
dan had also asked rob himself and rob had said that he wasn’t involved with emma.
Thank you.
Love your languages posts, also.
father was raised catholic and converted to the jws in the late '60s.
my dad's side of the family are still catholics and are very nice to me.
my mum's side are all jws and they shun me (boo hoo).. were you a born in or a convert?.
Thank you.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born in the mid-1970s in the midwest part of the u.s. my parents were about to enter gilead when i arrived.
my father converted to jw in his late 20s/early 30s.
he was raised a catholic, but became an atheist/agnostic.
Thank you.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born and raised in southern california, with a brief stint with parents as need-greaters in central america.
my parents accepted a study in the d2d work, i believe my father was interested in the revolutionary aspect of the religion, and my mom said she wanted to learn the bible.
they were baptized in 1937 i think, and attended the one and only los angeles kh at the time.
Thanks, Dagney.
