JustTickledPink
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For those of us with active JW parents
by JustTickledPink inthere seem to a commonality around here about active jw parents shunning us.. my question is: if your parents weren't a jw, do you think they would be normal, act kindly, be a real parent to you?
or would they still be cold and callused towards you, controlling, etc.
my thought is this, so many times i used to think i wish my mom wasn't a jw because then i thought she would be this wonderful caring mother that i could go to lunch with, share shopping days with, recipes, and we'd be close.
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What happens when the faithful and discreet slave die off?
by JustTickledPink ini am a bit fuzzy, but i always remembered that the "faithful and discreet slave" were the annointed members of the governing body and that they were led by jehovah god.... of course according to the wts.. now, as they get older and other wts corporations have been formed and the president of the wts himself isn't of the "annointed" then what happens when the "annointed" governing body members who represent the "faithful and discreet slave" die off?.
where is the intermediatary between the regular jw's and jehovah?
what will happen to the light that kept getting brighter?
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Middle eastern males - founders of bible
by JustTickledPink ini am not any history major, but i had a thought last night about the bible and christianity.. the bible was written by 40 different men from the middle east region of the world.
jesus christ himself was a middle eastern man.. currently the us and countries are battling certain parts of the middle east.
women are becoming more and more informed about the brutality committed against women in those parts of the world, and the social control the man have against the women and children.
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Get rich quick scheme mentality
by JustTickledPink ini was thinking about how many jws were into the "get rich quick" schemes.
there were many brothers and sisters who went into the pyramid type schemes involving everything from "magnet therapy" to "mallaluca" to "amway" then there was some perfume knockoff home sales, home gym sales, etc.
the lists go on and on.. i am not criticizing anyone that ends up being succesful in any home based business but merely pointing out how many jws i knew that were involved in them.
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Fighters against God ??
by JustTickledPink inif you don't want to share in the preaching work, don't become an opposer of it.
why should you try to hinder those who are doing so?
no one of us is interfering with what you're doing.
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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.