My husband has lost his son thanks to a vindictive ex-wife who accused him of physical abuse, which never happened, and even the judge didn't buy into it (she made stories up right in front of the judge and within half an hour she added so much BS to it that he said something like "sorry m'am, but don't you find that hard to believe yourself? Your stories get extremer by the minute"). But even though the court was on the side of my husband, he never got to see his son again for nearly nine years now. His ex did the exact same thing with the daughters from her previous marriage. Took them away from their father for eight years and made one of them accuse her father for sexual abuse. Which of course also never happened and she knew it. Some women just get plain evil when they are jealous or angry with an ex-husband... especially when the ex-husband moves on with another woman.
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Are Men's Rights Laughable?
by Paralipomenon inreading over the woody allen thread i noticed a couple things but didn't want to side track the "discussion".
1) woody allen is creepy.
2) nobody really seemed to care that his ex-wife was abusive towards her children.. an example i think is perfect was the release of twilight where you would see lineups of 30-40 year old women making very inappropriate comments about a 16 year old boy.
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The Judicial Committee videos in english
by confusedandalone innot sure if this has been posted but the jwsurvey site received the videos in english from someone.. this crap is pathetic to watch.
how to counsel someone who is suicidal... really.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/doubts-over-organizational-solidarity-as-disturbing-video-on-handling-suicide-is-leaked.
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I need to help to counter JW misinformation!
by Island Man inin this yahoo answers quesiton jw apologists are trying to give the impression that the watchtower never published any information about parents fondling the genitals of their infants leading to masturbation later on.
the jw apologists claims vary from saying it's not true to accusing the questioner and one ex-jw answerer of not having proof and being untrustworthy with the truth.. i want to provide proof to the contrary but the online library doesn't go have magaizes as far back as 1973 when the article was published.
i think that the best proof would be a screenshot of the watchtower library open to the article with the statement highlighted.
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Ok, couldn't resist, so I've been searching on the internet for info and came up with this:
Apparantly there are cultures where this kind of behaviour happened. I don't think it's normal, but who knows if I was born in Japan? *scratching my head right now... how normal am I????*
Add: a forum where they discuss the subject... for whomever is interested => http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=82113
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This made my day...
by LivingTheDream ini have been collecting and reading ex-jw books these last few years.
i love 'em all, just out of pure solidarity.. i went to order the fourth edition updated version of crisis of consciense for my collection (best book ever!
) and when amazon.com listed the best sellers of jehovah's witness books, this is what came up (see below).. needless to say, it tickled me pink.... brock talon .
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Haha, my husband thinks I was a looker at that time (he was my boyfriend in 1985, but as a non-JW he got his butt kicked by my dad)... I even received a postcard from that Bethelite not long after he returned to Brooklyn, he was really serious in trying to get me over, but shortly after that I met my first husband (son of an elder in a congregation nearby)... so, well, before I new it I was married (within a year) and shortly after pregnant. Yeah yeah, so much for the life of a JW-girl... destined to be a mother, wife and preferably auxiliary pioneer... pffff
Soooo glad I'm out and back with my first and true love!
When you write a second book I'll be sure to buy that one too, you've got a great style of story telling!
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Jehovah Witness Yahoo answers Nazi's at it again
by Watchtower-Free ini just had the question below reported by jws and removed for "misuse of question format" .. .
it received a bunch of outraged reponses from people critical of the jws and i'm sure shocked.
a few jws also .. .
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Shows again how sick they are, because IMHO someone that is stroking the genitals of a baby, with any other purpose than to clean before putting on a new diaper, is a pedophile... I have never EVER heard of this ridiculous way to calm or quiet a baby!!! Completely insane!
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This made my day...
by LivingTheDream ini have been collecting and reading ex-jw books these last few years.
i love 'em all, just out of pure solidarity.. i went to order the fourth edition updated version of crisis of consciense for my collection (best book ever!
) and when amazon.com listed the best sellers of jehovah's witness books, this is what came up (see below).. needless to say, it tickled me pink.... brock talon .
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Brock, I've been reading ALL your Bethel-stories today here on JWN... It's such an eye opener. Thanks to Ray Franz I already knew that the whole 'Bethel'-thing is a fairytale and nothing like what most JW's think it is, but all the things you've shared here...wow! Thank you for all the effort you've put into writing it down and I'm definitely going to buy your book!
Your stories reminded me of a brother who also lived at Bethel Brooklyn. He came on holiday to the Netherlands once, in april 1986. I can recall the exact month, since I was just baptized that year in february and auxiliary pioneering for the first time... and I had a boyfriend in our congregation who was so terribly jealous, because I had a nice chat with that brother from America... He invited me to visit Bethel Brooklyn and I really wanted to and the boyfriend nearly freaked out only by the thought of me going to America!
I never visited Bethel, not in Holland, not in Amerika. And reading your stories and the experiences of others here on JWN I'm actually glad I never did.
Thanks again for sharing your experiences.
add: before you ask: I got rid of the boyfriend within two weeks after that...
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A Purpose
by DeWandelaar in"everything in life has a purpose" is something a lot of (religious) people tend to say.
i used to believe that too... but i have always been wandering about animals, bacteria and everthing around us.
what purpose is there?
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Ever thought of the purpose of mosquitoes, other than bird food??? Here we have them the size of bees (ok, a little smaller, but they're a lot bigger than in Holland) and they always seem to be after me.... I don't see no purpose, they're just plain annoying!
So to answer your question: I've got no idea. With black flies I can imagine their use, since they clean up e.g. dead animals, they're good for composting, but day flies? And were the flies created? I'm not so sure anymore how everything on this planet came to existence. God? Aliens? Evolution? I've stopped thinking about it, just accepted all as 'it exists, we're here, so let's make the most of it while we're here'.
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Fifty Years Ago-The Beatles Enter My Life
by Band on the Run inthe beatles were on ed sullivan for the first time fifty years ago.
it blows my mind.
i gave them three months and i was a fan before they appeared.
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When I was about six I discovered the Beatles... must have been somewhere in 1974/1975. My dad had the 'Beatles for sale' and the red and blue double albums and I just loved them! I wanted to understand what they were singing, so my dad translated a lot of songs for me (that's actually when and why I started learning English! I've learned it initially from the Beatles lyrics). I can remember very well when my dad told me what 'Norwegian wood' was about, and I thought it was the funniest song I had ever heard
Later when I was thirteen my parents went to London for a weekend and when they returned they brought me the Complete Beatles-book with all their (over 212 official) songs for piano/guitar. After that I've been playing so many Beatles' songs... for hours on end I would be playing my guitar and singing their songs. I still do every now and then, those are my 'Beatles days' (when hubby knows I'm not available for anything... just playing til my fingers bleed, so to speak, haha).
I only learned who the individual Beatles were when I was nine, in 1978, when Wings had a huge hit with 'Mull of Kintyre'. I recorded it and played it over and over again and one time the videoclip was on Toppop (a famous Top40 show in Holland, long gone but everybody watched it back in those days, even my JW parents, although my dad used to complain about hair and the way the artists dressed. By the time KISS had a hit with 'I was made for loving you' it was a forbidding program for us kids), and my dad said it was such a pity the Beatles had split up... and I didn't understand why he said that. So I asked him and he told me: "don't you know? That man on the screen is Paul McCartney, he was one of the Beatles"... I didn't now up until then, but from that moment I was a huge Paul McCartney fan hahaha. My dad also told me the names of the other Beatles, but they weren't half as interesting to me as Paul McCartney.
In 2003 I've finally had the chance to see Sir Paul live in Arnhem, Holland, and in 2009 when he came back to Arnhem I was there too. When the cd-boxes with all the cd's of the Beatles were released in 2009 I bought both the stereo and the mono set. Now I'm saving to buy the vinyl box as well... (I feel soooo stupid that I've thrown everything away when I was seventeen!!! I had scrapbooks, records, singles, cassettes, a special double album with all the recordings that were available at that time from their Hamburg-days... such a loss The only thing I've kept was a book called 'Beatles dagboek' (means: Beatles diary), written by the founder of the first official Dutch Beatles fanclub, Har van Fulpen. I still have it and it shows on what date they did what, or which song was recorded, where did they play or give an interview, things like that... a lovely book to go through and read about my all time favorite band)
For me, growing up as a JW child, the Beatles helped me get through the hardest parts of my life. Their songs were sometimes spot on in relation to the things I was going through and they've been a great influence and inspiration for me on a musical level.
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Watching Amish Shunned on PBS...very deja vu if you are/were a JW!
by tenyearsafter inthis is a very interesting documentary...the similarities are so close, you could substitute jw for amish!
anyone else watching this?.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/shunned-introduction/.
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Last year I've seen the movie 'The Shunning', based on a novel about the Amish, written by Beverly Lewis. A very touching story that shows a lot of similarities to the JW's.
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Anyone else having a bad few weeks??
by quellycatface ini seem to have a really crap couple of months with stuff going wrong.
people being nasty to me.
i saw a neighbour of mine today (who i fell out with 18 months ago), to whom i've since apologised for losing my temper with, but today, when i smiled at her, she looked at me daggers!!!
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DoC, this reminds me of the Sick note by the Dubliners. Hopefully it will give all of you a good laugh...