JustTickledPink
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Naming your children Biblical names
by JustTickledPink inthe thread about jael got me to thinking about all the biblical names i heard from witness children.. jael, barak, elisha, elijah, noah, matthew,.
anyone else remember new babies coming into the world and being given "biblical" names?
i thought it was hilarious when there was baby noah.
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Has anyone sucessfully talked a JW into quiting?
by JustTickledPink inmy mother doesn't speak to me although she will exchange emails with me.
we actually don't communicate much, but recently i sent her a few emails detailing things are wrong with the watchtower society.
her responses are laughable... but i am still printing out articles and mailing them to her about the un scandle, she of course doesn't believe it.. but has anyone sucessfully made any headway talking to a dyed in the wool jw and made any progress?
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Do you believe Mary was a virgin?
by JustTickledPink inmy catholic friend and i were talking the other night about the virgin mary.
she doesn't even believe that she was a virgin and she doesn't believe in the immaculate conception.
if you think about it logically today, if you had a fiance that went to visit relatives for a few months and then came back pregnant and told you it was god's child, would you believe it?
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Encouraged NOT to have kids
by JustTickledPink ini was just thinking about the publisher stats and the birth rate, that was mentioned.. do you all remember in the 80's at the assemblies everyone was encouraged not to have children, to spend their time pioneering, because at armeggedon and in the time of the "tribulation" that it would be difficult with small kids.... to wait until the new system.. i remember a couple that pioneered and she really wanted kids, so her husband made her a deal that they had to pioneer for 5 more years and if the "end" hadn't come yet, they could have kids.
i think they were reaching 30. i do remember 5 years went by and they had a son, that was probably 15 years ago.
can you imagine the people that followed the advice and now are too old to have kids, but spent plenty of time pioneering?.
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Marriage material in JW
by JustTickledPink ini grew up jw and was your average blonde, blue eyed florida girl.
i of course being a normal girl had raging hormones and was always looking around at boys.
i was a pioneer though and homeschooled, so i only met jws and was always of the mindset that i had to marry a jw.
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Corporal punishment
by JustTickledPink inmy opinion is that jw's are into corporal punishment more than the general population.
maybe it's my imagination, maybe not.. do you remember being told "not to spare the rod" in disciplining children?
do you remember being that kid that got beat?.
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"New system" questions
by JustTickledPink indo you remember all the hype about the "paradise" and then the natural questions that followed that no one has answers to... like,.
"will we have cars in the new system?
" - uh, well jehovah will provide us with whatever we need.
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Choosing life vs death
by JustTickledPink ini watched "the hours" last night on tv and there is julianna moore talking about how depressed she was in her loveless marriage that she thought about suicide.
then she decided that her life in that marriage was death.
she changes her mind about suicide and choose to live, she chooses life.. she walked away from her husband and her 2 kids and abandoned them... it's really so sad in the movie... but her line really got to me that "that life was death, i chose life, i left" .
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Question ref baptism annulment
by JustTickledPink inmy sister and i are both df'd.. but difference is she is from canada, i am in florida.
she grew up and was kinda abandoned and abused and drifted between family members who would care for her and she ended up being baptized at 16 yoa by some local elders.
she's now 40 yoa and has been df'd most of her adult life.
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Another newbie - groan
by JustTickledPink innew to this site, not new to the internet or message boards, so i hope i get the hang of this site soon and "get" what's going on.. i'm 30 yoa, live in fl, happily married, living a very normal traditional lifestyle in my new house with our cute poodle.
i am df'd and proud of it.
was raised as a jw and spent the first 20 years of my life under the influence, the last 10 years happily living life!.