i honestly believe most jw males stay in the orgnisation because they are given control, i.e.
married males have ultimate control over their wives and children.
i know a woman who was married to an elder and who said that prior to becoming a jw she would never be submissive to her husband.
I guess a couple of you did not notice that SirNose586 was speaking in PAST TENSE. That is how it was, not how it is for him.
Anyhow, if a JW wife does go to the elders to complain about how she is being treated at home, either she is not believed or she is told she needs to be a better wife, more sevice time, more study, more prayer. No wonder the husband feels he can do what he wants, he can!
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just adopted a collie mix from the pound.
4 yrs.
old and has had about as many litters of puppies, from the looks of her.
I suggested Carlie Rose because I have a little lady Shih Tzu who I got from the humane society. She was owned by an elderly lady who passed away and her relatives were all out of state so the little dog was dumped at the pound. She was there for 30 days while they dealt with her one eye problem. She was so traumatized by time I got her. She came with the name Carlie Rose. She is the sweetest thing and our other dog, Rocky, adores her. She loves everyone and the tail wags constantly. There is nothing sweeter than a Carlie Rose.
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just adopted a collie mix from the pound.
4 yrs.
old and has had about as many litters of puppies, from the looks of her.
Merry
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just adopted a collie mix from the pound.
4 yrs.
old and has had about as many litters of puppies, from the looks of her.
We had a female dog named Blue and a cat named Blackwell, so we called them Black and Blue.
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just adopted a collie mix from the pound.
4 yrs.
old and has had about as many litters of puppies, from the looks of her.
LOL @ Lovelylil! "If its a girl..."
The dog has had several litters of pups. You do know how that works, don't you?
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just adopted a collie mix from the pound.
4 yrs.
old and has had about as many litters of puppies, from the looks of her.
Carlie Rose
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i remember at an assembly someone saying "oh yeh thats such and such, he's annointed...you can really tell" or something like that.. are those claiming, that they are annointed nutters?
did their alphabet spaghetti spell it out for them?
personally i think they are either very very confused, big headed or nutters
A friend of mine who came into the cult with me in 1972 became one of the annointed. She is around 60 now. A woman in her 40s in our last congregation says she is annointed. They are both very disfuntional and medicated. Their families are all screwed up too.
One in a neighboring congregation only attends the Memorial, no other meetings.
When I was first studying, there was an elderly man who was annointed and he was very nice and kind. that was 35 years ago so I imagine he is up there kicking back waiting for the action to begin.
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i need some serious advice.
i just found out my wife has been emailing some guy she met at her work.
she gave him her cell # and said she wanted to get together and connect.
Our marriage was in that situation. We had been married 16 years. We went for marriage counseling. We just had our 40th anniversary. Do not be in a big hurry to run to a lawyer. When you have counseling, you have someone who is neutral and you face issues you resisted before. Now, when I look at our three young grandchildren, I am so glad we stayed together, that we are still a family.
Be kind and loving and insist on counseling. Also, at the time, I was not sure that I wanted to stay with my husband. He was not only neglectful, but emotionally abusive. My self esteem was in the toilet. But when he saw that the marriage could end, he worked very hard at fixing it. The counselors told me I did not need to keep coming, but they kept him for quite awhile. Don't throw it away without giving repair a good try. What do you have to lose? It is easy for others to tell you to toss her out, they do not have to live with the results. You and the children do. So I say talk to her. You do not need more evidence. You know there is a problem and it needs fixing. You do not need details.
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i just have to ask this question.
was lot a righteous man?.
2 peter 2:7,8 says "and he delivered righteous lot, who was greatly distressed by the indulgence of the law-defying people in loose conduct- 8 for that righteous man by what he saw and heard while dwelling among them from day to day was tormenting his righeteous sould by reason of their lawless deeds.".
my small grandsons other grandmother, the JW one, read them that story when she had them visiting her and it really traumatized them. They worried that if they did something wrong, they would be turned into a salt pole. That was when my son and daughter-in-law put their foot down and forbid her to talk any religion to them.
These Bible stories are just like other fairy tales, meant to scare children.(and adults)
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so why didn't you think you were in a cult when you were a jdub?
my "worldly" husband always told me i was in a cult when we were dating..i didn't believe him.
but, to this day i still don't know why i didn't agree with him.
I remember a Sunday speaker saying that cults follow "a man" and we follow Jehovah. There was no man at the head of our religion. (The GB was our man)
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