i was working one day, had a couple of male customers to serve when this lady walks in & offers me a track on her religion, my answer without thinking " i already know what the bible say's, i'm one of jw's".
she just threw me a dirty look & the two guy's just looked down & said nothing.
i just carried on, served them as nothing had happened.
I find it a bit shocking. I was a JW in the 70s, and that was not practiced in this region. unless it came in the 80s.
That would be socially unacceptable here in the boonies, and I can't imagine what kind of reception they would get. Probably something akin to, "Are you out of your fookin' mind?!"
: D
tal
isis or isil believe they are the key agent of the coming apocalypse.. jw's , we are warning folks of the coming day of jehovah.. isis, their purpose to spread a totalitarian caliphate throughout the world.. jw's "if you are not with us you are against us".. isis, polarize muslims against one another, to incite internal divisions.. jw's shunning..
We also concluded that those still in have NO INTEGRITY, they do not have any regard for that which is True.
Indeed, Phizzy.
t
this is not meant to be a controversial discussion, but just mentioning what has happened to my daughter.. i personally started my fade early this year 2015, it has resulted in my losing all my so called jw friends and the brake-up of my marriage.
when i split up with my wife, she asked our daughter who she would like to live with, my daughter decided to live with me, and also abandoned the cult.. recently my daughter told me that she is very disappointed with the congregation of jehovah's witnesses because she thought she had friends there, but now she has realized that it was all conditional, not a single one of them has even remotely tried to keep contact with my daughter, she is 15, not baptized and never a publisher.. now yesterday she met up with a jehovah's witness friend who is in another congregation.
this friend is also 15, baptized since she was 14, a very dominant elder father, and has virtually no association outside jw circles, and also internet access is banned at home.
What Nic said ^^^
And don't feel ashamed - you got out, and got your daughter out before she got hitched and kids, etc. and stuck "in" herself.
; )
tal
EDIT: She is 14, and I just had a thought. "Mean girls" are for real, and she should be prepared for high school. Watch "Clueless" together, which is a great adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma", and maybe a conversation about the vagaries of high school. Just a thought.
was sipping my coffee, browsing here and there, and then focussed on reading here regarding arc, picked up some world news on same subject - and wondered if jw org would publish any information on their news site.. then, i flicked to jw talk - anything in their public news forum?
a newish headline 'australia and jehovah's witnesses' or something like that - i entered link - web page error, not found.
nope.
every answer given is in favor of the Submissions of the Society laywers, and I think that members now, are scared to receive warning points, and to get kicked out by the moderators.
We must keep reporting the facts here, so that JWS who want to know the reality of what is happening will be able to read transcripts, etc.
and you can't experct that they will accept other opinions with open arms...on their forum.
That is correct. Any lies they choose to tell in order to cover up the facts, will be considered Theocratic Warfare (TM).
** pukes **
tal
my room mate just introduced me to the darkmatter2525 channel on youtube.
hilarity ensued.
enjoy .
My room mate just introduced me to the DarkMatter2525 channel on youtube. Hilarity ensued.
ENJOY
WARNING: Utterly irreverent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgZqnsytJI
t :
the dead generation.
gbm: "no it isn't".
jw: "yes it is, look at it!
I'd love to see a JW parody of "Every Sperm is Sacred" ....... any lyricists on board? :D
the above is a quote from a jw female relative.
this was in response to a discussion about the suffragette movement ( and the movie about it that's currently in cinemas).
she seemed to think that it would be so much better if women were just daughters/ wives/ mothers and didn't go out to work and have career's?
TD
Exactly. But that was THEN, and this is NOW. The patriarchy evolved naturally, but we have had the industrial revolution, 2 world wars, and major technological advances that have freed women to pursue interests other than raising children and washing clothes (yes, the washing machine is one of the most important inventions in terms of how it affected western culture).
: )
it was just a matter of time.. the main issue is seniority, and job security.
Well, that figures. Rudolph's nose should be brown, the way he's always sucking up to Santa. How do you think he got that lead position with the sleigh, what with his drinking and carrying on? He'll be bending over for management.
I suppose, though, that the helpers deserve a slice of the pie. After all, why should Santa and the GB get all the glory?
it was just a matter of time.. the main issue is seniority, and job security.
I think a strike may be in the works! : D
the above is a quote from a jw female relative.
this was in response to a discussion about the suffragette movement ( and the movie about it that's currently in cinemas).
she seemed to think that it would be so much better if women were just daughters/ wives/ mothers and didn't go out to work and have career's?
Sorry, I had to look up Maureen Dowd. I had never heard of her, and she doesn't appear to be particularly involved in feminism. I guess I see feminist leaders such as Bella Abzug, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, and those who lead the movement.
If you don't accept that men (for the most part) have made the rules and women have been subjugated as a result (for natural reasons, societies developed that way, of course, as women were the child-bearers), then I guess there is no point to any further discussion.
I'm not really up to a strong debate. You are probably right. I respect your opinions, and will leave it at that.
take care, and thanks.
tal :sunglasses:
