Incognito: Exactly! Good catch!
Peace@50+
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A new lesson from Caleb's mom...
by cedars in...totally freak out and drop something if your child fails to say "please.".
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/please-thank-you/.
the woman is clearly a nervous wreck, and very easily offended.. if this is her reaction to caleb forgetting his manners, i shudder to think how she will cope if she ever finds him doing drugs.. .
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Have The Witnesses Changed All That Much In The Last Few Years?
by minimus inwhen i was in it, especially as a young person, it was rules oriented but not like it is now.
to me, the religion is a lot more fanatical than ever before....what do you think?
is it the same religion even as it was 20 years ago?.
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Yes. Before it was about faith in Jehovah and working together. Now its paranoia, control and obeying the lawyers.
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Comment on Imitate Their Faith Book
by Peace@50+ ini perused the book last night.
its geared toward the younger generation of witnesses.
the theme was to stay strong despite the wrong doing or actions of others... (dare i say hypocrisy?
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I perused the book last night. It’s geared toward the younger generation of witnesses. The theme was to stay strong despite the wrong doing or actions of others… (Dare I say hypocrisy?) It shows the organization is acknowledging the wrongs and continues to blame the victims. Yes, cultivating another generation of ‘company men’.
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A new lesson from Caleb's mom...
by cedars in...totally freak out and drop something if your child fails to say "please.".
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/please-thank-you/.
the woman is clearly a nervous wreck, and very easily offended.. if this is her reaction to caleb forgetting his manners, i shudder to think how she will cope if she ever finds him doing drugs.. .
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Peace@50+
Did you see Calab's hands when he said please? He was begging....Woof! Good dog!
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Prodigal Son DVD, Seen it? Totally Unrealistic to me. You?
by Wasanelder Once inhere's the basic rundown:.
ok so little jw (21 going on 15) decides to get a job with a computer firm.
leaves family construction company to do so.
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Peace@50+
The positive is that the video is very well done, especially considering the Sparlock fiasco of last year. Yes, the video does pull at the heartstrings; however there are some issues that are not addressed. The boy wanted to be a white collar worker instead of manual labor, as his father.
Why weren’t the parents supportive of HIS desires and support HIM by getting a higher education to achieve HIS goals for his life? Also, just because someone moves out from a ‘Christian’ home it does not mean that automatically they will get in with the wrong crowd. Where was the parental training to teach him to discern people’s motives and actions? Yes, everyone has to deal with ‘the world’ in some aspect, but, where was communication and the training?
What about financial literacy? Where was THAT training?
The parents berated themselves over what they had done wrong spiritually. But what about the practical aspects of higher education and socialization? Oh I forgot….if they did that, they would have fostered a well-balanced, independent individual…and what they really wanted was a son to do what THEY wanted him to, not what HE wanted.
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14 months after printing the "Steve and Selma" article, guess what the Society's latest Awake is about...
by cedars inyou guessed it.... .
http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=201304&output=html&pub=g&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.
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· Cedars: Thank you for starting this thread!
I happened to see this magazine in a Laundromat. (I guess people really do read them while doing laundry!) I’ve stopped attending meetings for well over a year, when I finally had enough of the double talk about abuse issues. Well, I decided to take a look to see what the flavor-of-the-week was in reference to spousal abuse. I was very disturbed by page #9 and the bullet points. Usually bullet points are a checklist of some sort, attempting to prove a point.
Then I read the part about the ‘neighborhood shunning’, I had a moment of cognitive dissonance. “Neighborhood shunning? No. the only shunning I had was from those WITHIN the “loving”, organization. When I snapped out of it, I realized that it was more double-speak and hidden messages about leaving. Also that it WAS a checklist for abused Witnesses to use for reasons to remain in the abusive situation!
As with many of us raised in ‘the truth’ there are times when we wonder about our own reasoning on matters. It was a comfort to read this thread, because it was exactly what I was thinking. Thank you all for posting! It validated my reasoning.
It also appeared to me from the article, that again they are flip-flopping over the 3 reasons that one can obtain an unscriptural divorce and the other articles that have been outlined in this thread. How many people will take a hard line against leaving and stay in a terrible situation. What they don’t tell you is that even though you have valid reasons for getting an unscriptural divorce, you WILL be shunned!
· Lois: I agree. I’ve faded and am finally happy and at peace. My ex is still behind the literature counter and aux. pioneering. But who cares? They could make him part of the Governing Body and I could care less! Now is time to begin again!
· Joyfulfader. Ironically, you wrote about my situation. Funny, but besides escaping with my health and sanity, I never thought about protecting other women by an unscriptural divorce. I guess there are more positives than I realized.