little free libraries are turning into ground zero for religious proselytizing.. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/05/little-free-libraries-are-turning-into-ground-zero-for-religious-proselytizing/.
I have never heard of this concept before today do they have them here in Australia ?
it sounds like a bloody good idea but why not just put stickers on that say No religious material wanted and if they still persist write to the offending organization threatening to sue them
i converted at age 22, and left 15 years later (1988) so i don't really know what its like to be in high school as a jw.
for those of you who do know: do teenage jw's hang out with each other?
worldly kids?
It is one of the greatest`s regrets of my life that I brought my two boys up in this religion .I hate to think of what their brains were trying to analyze in their younger years going to school and being set apart from the rest of the kids.
In later years it may have been a bit more relaxed because we were in a community where their were a lot of JW kids in their school and as I have found out later they got up to a lot of mischief that their parents including me never knew about .
Thankfully as a family my wife and two boys are all out now and are living successful lives .
While I cant speak authoritatively for today`s kids going by past experience I would say the majority of today`s youth in the religion are still doing their own thing without their parents knowledge , in other words leading a double life.
Doing what they themselves want to do on the one hand
and pleasing their parents by doing what they expect them to do on the other hand . {Reluctantly }
ok, it's time.
we've had opportunity to observe the 8 gb members speaking ability.
now it's our turn to give our honest ratings...using their own form, of course!
Stephen lett has to be the biggest Joke /embarrassment on J.W.org surely .
But hey ! I`m glad he`s their as a spokesperson for the religion , because surely any sane person in their right mind not being a J.W. would view this and say WTF ? is this guy for real ? No way would I join up with this religion as him as an example
So keep him on J.W.org your doing us all a favour.
i have just finished watching the first series 10 episodes and at first i was just a little bit curious and not to sure about it however it certainly grew on me .. it deviates from the old tv series and has a slightly more darker side to it as well as being a bit more modern with life situations judy being coloured and adopted ,and john and maureen a couple with issues and the robot is just out of this world .lets not forget dr.smith as a female and more sinister than her counterpart of the tv series.. i would rate it 8.5 out of 10 .
and look forward to the next series and hope that their is one because i definitely think it has a future .. anybody else seen it ?
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I recommend you also try Good Girls, if you haven't already.
"When i`m good I`m very good and when I`m bad I`m better " Mae West
sorry I couldn`t resist it
in case you haven't read me, i am a spanish pimo who is preparing himself to become an english teacher.
well, i just wanted to share with you that i've been called to work in a high school and my first week of work has been amazing!
this job is not permanent, it will end in july, but finally i got rid of many doubts about my adequacy for this job: i love it!
Well done paradiseseeker a Spaniard teaching English I`m impressed
I got rid of many doubts about my adequacy for this job: I LOVE it! And I feel that my students see an excelent teacher in me.
That`s all the accolades you need ,congratulations .
so i'm cleaning out my jw mom's house since she's gone to assisted living.
she had tons of bound volumes of the wt and awake from the 80's and 90's and the cousins decided to recycle all of them since "everything is online now.
they even recycled old nwt bibles!!
Good point Betheliesalot
So many members have accumulated so many magazines that they were supposed to distribute, but instead stored them in basements and attics,
Amen to that .
I don`t know , but is their such a big difference between banning something and having a law against something ?
Do we ban murder or do we have a law against murder ?
do we ban crime or do we have a law against crime ?
When its all boiled down what`s the difference ?
n.t./ qld./ n.s.w./ vict.
/ commonwealth to provide redress scheme will offer psychological counselling a direct personal response from the responsible institution and a monetary payment.. n.s.w.
introduces referral legislation may 1 2018 in preparation for the commencement of the national redress scheme .. the national redress scheme will start on 01 july 2018 subject to passage of legislation..
N.T./ Qld./ N.S.W./ Vict. / A.C.T. / Commonwealth to provide Redress Scheme will offer psychological counselling a direct personal response from the responsible Institution and a monetary payment.
N.S.W. introduces Referral Legislation May 1 2018 in preparation for the commencement of the National Redress Scheme .
The National redress Scheme will start on 01 July 2018 subject to passage of Legislation.
cardinal george pell will return to court in a fortnight ,he has been committed to stand trial relating to multiple complainants .. magistrate belinda wallington struck out about half the charges including the most serious of them .. cardinall george pell denies all charges against him.. the world media is watching the outcome of this trial he is the most senior member of the vatican to be charged with such an offence and by, all people , australians who have conducted their own arc into institutionalized child sexual abuse of children .. we wait with baited breath ( for a just outcome ) in all of these investigations ..
My limited understanding of the charges against Cardinal George Pell is that he knew of offences committed by other priests in his charge one in particular and covered them up and moved offending priests around to different parishes .
Over a period of many years and was instrumental in keeping a lid on the abuse to the detriment of the victims.
All the time protecting the image of the Church from any wrongdoing.
I don`t know that their have been any specific charges of sexual abuse to anyone by Cardinal Pell himself .
news room > legal developments > legal resources.
jehovah's witnesses scripturally based position on child protection.
i am having trouble understanding paragraph 5. it says: .
What the G.B.of J.W.`s put in print for the rank &file can differ widely from what the G.B.of J.W`s put in print for the non "witness" public in general .
What Jehovah`s Witnesses say they do for the public consumption and what they actually do in practice are two totally different things .
The G.B. / WTB&TS /Jehovah`s Witnesses are masters of speaking out of both sides of their mouth at the same time.
Another classic example is of how they claim to be champions of the family unit and marriage. In their magazines , JW.org broadcast etc ,
Yet in practice they destroy marriages and the family unit ,the internet is full of examples of how they have destroyed family`s and that what is published on the internet is only a fraction of what is happening and not being reported on the internet .
