THANKYOU so much for sharing the pics...and THANKYOU to all who took part in the march. I am sure this will have a positive impact, with the media attention, and with all those littledubs peeking out the windows at headquarter..I am sure there will be some losing the faith very soon!
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More Pics (2) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Larry incaptions provided by outnfree - much thanks - ll :) bill bowen awarding the first (uh-oh!
what is the official name?
) silentlambs courage award to corrie pandelo in front of 25 columbia heights awards will be given out quarterly to honor those who come forward as survivors or who advocate the protection of children from molestation.
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Depression and Dubs
by pincushion insince i have found this forum i have been doing a lot of online looking, particularily spying on what the dubs have to say about all the negative attention they have been getting in the news of late and through the internet in forums such as this.
i did a quick search on msn communites and came across over 70 online jw communities.
one particular posting on one community (#1 rated jw community on msn if anyone desires to look it up) i read a message thread on depression.
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pincushion
Swan...Mr Tim emailed me also after my initial post. After his very persistant attitude got to me, and me wondering why he is emailing me privately and not responding on the theread, asking if I was a JW, and me not giving him a direct response I was called an idiot yada yada. Many presumptions were made on Tiny Timbo's part (I am quite sure his genitale is as small as his brain).
My challenge to you Timbo is to post directly to this thread with your thoughts. You seem to be good at running us down for our opinions but you are not willing to share yours to extent. Also if you choose to email me, your emails will go unopened to trash.
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I'm not a JW, but i've got some questions.
by iamtaylormh ini'm not a jehovahs witness...i dont know what i am.
when i was younger and my parents were divorced, i celibrated different religions with each family, attending many differnet churches, from methodist, to catholic, to christian and so on.
as a result, i was unable to seperate the beliefs of each religion and not really understand what i believed in and where i belonged.
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This is an Anti-Jw site so you won't find many here still in that faith...browse through the message on this forum..read all the messages you can...it will open your eyes at what a farce the JW beliefs are. They appear nice when you first meet them..but in the end they are a bunch of backstabbing hurtlful idiots. Not to mention the abuse and molestation that goes on, but is never mentioned or reported.
IMHO
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Totally happy in your marriage?
by Lost Diamond inhow many of you are totally, incredibly happy in your marriage?
how many of you feel that your spouse is your absolute soul mate and you couldn't even imagine your being married somebody else?
talking with the women at work, i'm surprised at how many are not totally happy.
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Absolutely happy in my marriage...I KNOW I have found my soulmate. Sex gets better all the time. However I think if we seek the perfect partnet be it in our spouse or in a person of interest, we will never find them, as no one is perfect...and a person is just setting themself up for disappointment. Relationships are built not only from love and sexual attraction. They also are built from compatibility, which does not necessarily mean sameness.
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My Proposal to Katie
by onacruse inyeah, yeah, i'm 50, i should know all about this, right?
lol.
so what worked for you?.
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pincushion
CONGRATULATIONS!!
1. Get a hold of a fortune cookie (either buy a box or save one from a chinese food restaurant)
2. Open the cookie wrapper and reach into the cookie with a pair of tweezers to pull out the fortune.
3. On a piece of paper cut to the size of the fortune, write the following message:
"Confuscious say: Man you are with is madly in love with you - He would be good husband! Katie, will you marry me?"
4. Fold the paper in half lengthwise and re-insert it into the cookie as best you can.
5. Take your sweetheart out for dinner to an oriental restaurant.
6. During or towards the end of your meal, tell her that you have to use the restroom.
7. Secretly find the waiter and tell him/her to put two fortune cookies on the table (one which is your "special one" and the other a "generic").
8. Come back to the table and quickly choose and unwrap the generic cookie.
9. When she opens her cookie, she will be confused and certainly suprised.
10. Immediately, get down on one knee, present her with an engagment ring, and say "Will you marry me?"
Edited by - pincushion on 26 September 2002 13:8:0
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Yet another stupid email I have received
by Quotes inmy website has prompted yet another interesting email message.
edited to add: in response to my collection of wt pictures (which are mostly scenes of death and destruction) published at http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/pictures.htm an impressionable young mind has sent me the following: these pictures above show the twin towers and a plane.
i'm confused.
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My feeling is it is just coincidence....in their attempt to explain what modern tech means to them, the emphasised the largerst and tallest building, large aircraft, and missels. Would a person think Time Magazine foresaw 9-11 if these pictures (without the biblical phrases) were put on the front cover of their magazine 20 or 30 years ago...I don't think so. Unfortuanely the watchtower used them and I am sure the dubs will use it to 'enforce' the are the truth...totally contradicting what the original article was in the first place.
IMHO PC
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pincushion
My husband calls the dubs a slimy sack of slitherine snake shit
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why did you leave?
by showme ini am not a jw so i don't have any stories about the organization.
but i would love to hear about your reasons for leaving.
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I studied into the organization and couldn't beleive how wonderful and loving these people were. After I was baptized..I began to see the real truth, the backstabbing, the shunning and the handcuffs they had on their 'people'. I am not one who likes rules shoved down my throat..and everytime I tried being myself another rule was shoved at me. When I was sick and needed friendships the most, they had nothing to do with me. With friends like this who needed enemies. I too began to study a proper bible in depth and found a lot of contradictions..so it was so long cult..hello world.
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Court urged to settle confusion over JW Case
by pincushion inhttp://www2.alberta.com/news/ab/fs.cfm?source_id=cp&id=1188048
my apologize if this has already been posted... .
sep 24, 2002alberta newssunday , sep 22, 2002'clarity' encouraged .
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pincushion
http://www2.alberta.com/news/ab/fs.cfm?source_id=CP&id=1188048
My apologize if this has already been posted..
Sep 24, 2002 alberta news Sunday , Sep 22, 2002 'Clarity' encouraged
Court urged to settle confusion over Jehovah's Witness caseCALGARY (CP) - Several medical ethicists are urging Canada's top court to reconsider the case of a Calgary teenager who was forced to undergo blood transfusions even though she was deemed mature enough to make her own medical decisions.
If the Supreme Court refuses, doctors fear it will create confusion in physicians and anguish in their young patients, especially when they deal with sensitive issues such as contraception and abortion.
"This will likely result in uncertainty, confusion and inconsistent practice in Canada for health-care practitioners and educators," said Dr. Christine Harrison, director of bioethics at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
"Health-care practitioners in Canada would benefit greatly if we got some clarity from the Supreme Court," said Harrison, who also chairs the bioethics committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society.
Bethany Hughes died of leukemia last month at 17. But before she did, she asked her lawyers to continue her legal battle for the rights of teenagers to determine their own treatment.
"She held a very strong conviction that she did not want another young person capable of making their own health-care choices to experience what she had experienced," lawyer David Day said from St. John's.
Her lawyers have now filed a motion asking the Supreme Court a second time to hear an appeal of the Alberta court decisions that ruled Bethany was mature but didn't have an informed opinion because she was greatly influenced by her fellow Jehovah's Witnesses. The Witnesses oppose transfusions on religious grounds.
Bethany became a ward of the province and eventually received 38 blood transfusions as part of her treatment.
That was despite the fact that five doctors at the Alberta Children's Hospital - pediatricians and psychiatrists - interviewed her and found her to be mature enough to decide her own medical treatment.
Last month, the Supreme Court refused to hear the Hughes case and as usual gave no reasons. But medical ethicists want the top court to reconsider.
Dr. Paul Byrne, who teaches pediatrics and ethics at the University of Alberta's faculty of medicine in Edmonton, filed an affidavit urging the Supreme Court to hear the case because of its potentially widespread ramifications.
"In my experience, the recent refusal by this honourable court to hear the appeal in the above case introduces uncertainty into the relationship between a doctor and a competent patient under the age of majority," Byrne wrote.
"I am personally aware that the decision of this honourable court has generated widespread confusion among our profession."
Dr. Austin Cooper, chairman of pediatrics in the faculty of medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland, agrees.
"This rejection could have profound ramifications for health-care professionals, hospitals and families of mature minors," he said.
"This, in my opinion, will change the way we practise medicine."
Over the last few decades, physicians have switched from a paternalistic model of care for teenagers to one that allows them to have a greater say in their medical treatment.
Common practice now is that if a doctor decides a young patient is a mature minor who understands the medical procedure and its ramifications, then the patient can refuse or accept the suggested medical treatment. Most times the teenager's parents are not consulted.
Doctors say it's important that teenagers trust their physicians to keep their confidences, particularly in matters such as abortion, birth control, impotence and pregnancy.
"Mature minors in our country have the freedom to seek medical advice and treatment from a physician that may cause considerable distress and hostility in the family," said Cooper, a pediatrician for more than 30 years.
"A decision by a Canadian court that no longer recognizes the right of a mature minor to refuse therapy on religious grounds may be interpreted by the public, the medical and legal profession as the beginning of a process to reverse our current thinking."
Dr. Ian Mitchell, a pediatrician who teaches bioethics at the University of Calgary, called the Hughes court decisions baffling.
"Those of us who are teaching ethics to doctors are now confused as to what we should be teaching."
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worldly people don't count?
by Realist ini found a very interesting / sad thread on a true jw chat site that talked about what to do after armageddon occured.. of the 16 posters only 1 stated concern about the 6 billion people that will die that day.
how sad and selfish is that?
if god exists i would love to know what he thinks about this attidude.. http://groups.msn.com/jehovahswitnessesontheweb/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&id_message=9100&lastmodified=4675382197663880489.
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What a bunch of cold hearted devils. OOOOOOOOOh Yes billions of people have died, lets have a party and go to Hawaii! I can't believe their attitude. Tried to join that site a few days ago and have not been accepted yet.
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PS: If Armegeddon comes as they say and they are suddenly in paradise....why would they want to go to Hawaii???