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  October Surprise?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why the anticipation?.

  "no one knows the day or hour", i thought?.

  i knew this very mentally unstable jw woman years ago.

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  GrreatTeacher

  November 1 they will probably switch over to the "no one knows the day nor hour" refrain.

  It's a nice circular and sealed belief system.
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  Found Nephew. Sisters incredible reaction.

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i won't make this long.

  i went out again and found him.

  got in through the back door, pushed him to wake up, got him out, fed him, watered him and said he was family and i have a plan.. we talked all day, i let him do what he does, in order not to scare him about the future change that could happen for him.

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  He's suffering from a mental health condition and she's worried about his smoking?

  Really they would prefer everyone to be "whitewashed graves." They look good on the outside, but are filled with decay.

  He can be desperately mentally ill, but as long as his clothes smell good all is well.

  Crazy people. I mean cray-cray.
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  Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse

  by Dissonant15 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all states in the us mandate health care workers and teachers to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement.

  this year our commonwealth expanded the law to include clergy, and to include a mandatory two hour training on what to look for and how to report, required for all mandatory reporters.. my coworker at the hospital said she and her husband did the training together, because her husband volunteers in the sunday school at the church, they required him to take it too.

  i asked several witnesses when this law came into effect if all the elders and ms are going to be taking the training and everyone looked at me like i was an alien and they had no idea what the heck i was talking about.

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  I can tell you that working in the schools in the state of Maryland, we not only have to report abuse, but SUSPECTED abuse. The state makes it clear that it is NOT our job to determine if abuse actually occurred. That is the state's job to determine.

  And I need to personally report it to the state. I cannot just report it to the school system. So, there can be no intermediary. If it were to be found out that I knew of or suspected abuse, but did not report, then I lose my job.

  For example, if a child repeatedly shows up at school with bruises, I would have to report.

  If I overheard students talking about abuse, I would have to report.

  I think this is what makes me the angriest about the Witnesses. They think they can decide whether or not there was abuse.

  That's not their job.

  I know teachers and healthcare providers have to report by law in Maryland, but, unfortunately, I don't think clergy are mandatory reporters.

  This needs to change.
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  "The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed"

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  presidential hopeful ben carson of course.

  this isn't another gun control debate, i just thought it might be fun to have a topic where we can dump all the hysterical quotes from the candidates.. it's a deep and plentiful mine folks!

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  GrreatTeacher

  Boehner said, "I quit!"

  I thought that was pretty funny.
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  heartbroken and not sure what to do...

  by Khaleesi in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i don't know what to do.... i married last year and things have been very rocky.

  we dated for 4 years and did have normal issues but always had a lingering doubt something was just not right in our relationship-behavior to be more specific, he is not a jw, but i am.

  yes i know i married outside the "lord" but after my first marriage to a jw ended in divorce for physical abuse, i was glad i didn't married another jw.

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  Sounds like you are going to have to make major concessions if you want to stay in this marriage.

  Your sex drives are so mismatched. Even if you get him to be intimate a little more often, you are likely never going to get sex from him 5 times a week.

  If you can't live with that, it's good you found out early in the marriage so you can cut your losses.
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  What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

  in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

  we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

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  I would imagine that some of that has to do with the local culture. Some areas have more of this than others. I believe they might see someone else do it and get away with it and then follow suit.

  It can all be justified by saying they will volunteer their skills to bethel.
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  Kick Back and Relax to Some Music

  by Finkelstein in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  that's right folks time to kick back , pour a cold one and in take in some tunes.. what are you listening to right now ?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu87294pvx8.

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  GrreatTeacher

  That's funny. I used to have a cat who liked country music. Not my thing, but we would play it for her in the car on the way to the vet to keep her calm.
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  Cult or Religion

  by Richard C B in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is a cult and what is a religion?

  its open to debate.

  who has the authority to say for certain what is a cult and what is a religion?

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  GrreatTeacher

  Richard is either 14 or he sounds like he is because he's been denied an adequate education.

  Richard, hon, learn the rules of debate if you want to engage in one.
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  No-See-ums bug bites, have you experienced these little pest?

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the wife and i here lately have received little unknown bug bites, on our legs and arms.. so today in my senior class the instructor ask if anyone received any unknown bug bite.. there were 75% that raised there hand and everyone ask, what the hell is it.. these insects are ferocious biters.

  they don't spread any diseases, but they will keep you indoors.. they are called valley blacks gnats, they feed on blood.

  in my research i found they are active in.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Yeah, we have them in Maryland, too. Any old regular bug repellent will ward them off.
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  JW Sister: raped, pregnant what does she do?, abortion or adoption?

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question came out frequently from a situation known to some of us who knew of 2 cases.... if a single or married sister gets rapped by stranger or incest, a pregnancy results, she is not allowed to have an abortion but neither is she allowed to give it up for adoption?...i always question why not up for adoption?...

  no you will be blood guilty because the child won't be raised in the "truth"... hmmmmm does anyone heard of that?

  is it a matter of consciousness?

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  GrreatTeacher

  Somehow I think TTWSYF just made that 1% of 1% statistic up.

  I've known 2 people personally that had fetuses with such severe deformities that they were incompatible with life. They would have had babies who would have died shortly after birth because they could not survive independently.

  One of them suffered from anencephaly which means the fetus had no brain. No chance at life.

  Both mothers decided to terminate the pregnancies as soon as they found out rather than allow the suffering and immediate death of a full- term delivery. These pregnancies were slightly less than halfway through and the abnormalities were found at the regular midterm ultrasound.

  It is these sad pregnancies that I think about when I vote to keep abortion legal. There is no way that I believe it would ever be better to force a full-term pregnancy in cases like these. And, if abortion were illegal, then they would have no ability to reduce suffering by terminating early.