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  WILL WOMEN EVER SERVE ON THE GOVERNING BODY?

  by badboy in

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  could they be new light on that?

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  Did the second-class status of JW women ever bother you? Does it now?

  by True North in

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  if the jw organization were considered a normal business operating without the protections of being a religion, it obviously would have to make some big changes in order to avoid being sued out of existence for sex discrimination.

  i wasn't raised to think that women should be relegated to second class status or that they should have less opportunities than men or be relegated to a limited set of life roles.

  however, when i became a jw, i freely accepted all the sexist nonsense that came with the territory without ever being bothered by it.

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  Fibromyalgia..........................

  by morty in

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  so do any of you have it or any info on it????.

  just to add to my regular cronic back pain that i live with, i now have been diagnosed with full blown fibromyalgia.

  i am looking for all the info i can get, as the doctors answers are more pills....i am sick to death with pills now!!!!!!!!!!!

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  If An "Anointed" Is An Alcoholic, How Could He Partake Of The Emblems?

  by minimus in

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  what do you think?

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  when you go out to eat or for a walk do active jw's shout insults or attack

  by topanga in

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  this is a regular thing now, whenever i go into an upscale restaurant a bunch of jw's start shouting insults and bring up things about my past.. recently i went in to a restaurant i've been dying to try on 14th street and someone on the restaurant staff was telling the other staff members all of my business from the brroklyn heights congregation.. he obviously thought i would give a damn about anything they said.

  i just relaxed and ignored them.. when i got up to use the ladies room a bunch of the sisters followed me in fortunately the bathroom was way too small for even two people.

  they are some sorry souls, i guess it was like i thought we killed her whats she doing in here?

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  "Dogma" by Kevin Smith

  by dustyb in

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  who's seen the movie dogma?

  there was a little debacle a few days ago about jehovah is a dickhead and starts shit for nothing and kills his people.

  but there's a movie that was written and directed by kevin smith named dogma.

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  Did You Ever REALLY Think That You Would Never Die?

  by minimus in

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  i did.

  what about you?

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  Is this how Prince proselytizes?

  by TresHappy in

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  Did You Ever Tell An Elder Something Confidential Only To Hear It Blabbed??

  by minimus in

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  elders are supposed to maintain confidentiality.

  if they don't, they can be deleted as elders.

  still, one of the biggest complaints that i can recall from some in the congregation, was that elder so-and-so told his wife or another ms that someone had a problem or had to be counseled.....did it ever happen to you?

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  The Spiritual Raping of a Witness

  by Blueblades in

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  from diane wilson's, "awakening of a jehovah's witness", page 265.. the society says:"rape flourishes in societies that tolerate violence and sexual manipulation.

  " ( aw 3--8--93, p.4 ) what a striking parallel to "spiritual rape", which flourishes in a society that tolerates spiritual abuse and mind manipulation!.

  the spiritual raping of a witness.. an organization.promises:problems are things of the past!

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