Lonestar13
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JW Women
by Sassy inpurple had a thread about sisters and feeling left out or forgotten and while i do totally relate to what she posted about and agree with it from personal experience, what i experienced as a married jw wife i found more intollerable and it was one of the reasons that i ceased to be a jw.
it is one thing to be a woman and single and feel like you miss out on some social activities because you aren't a "couple' or a "couple where both are jws" and that does stink..
but be a woman who is married and your husband is a 'so called jw'.. you have no rights.. you can not even talk to the elders without your husband in their presense.
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Being Theocratic Before Meetings
by Nosferatu inone thing that my mother was trying to instill in me was to be "theocratic" before the meetings.
many times i would drive me and my mother to the meetings while listening to "wreckx-n-effect" or "ac/dc".
she would usually give me hell for this and told me i should listen to kingdom melodies to get my mind prepared for the meeting.. another "problem" was the conversations that went on before meetings (or even on field service) where me and someone else my age would be talking about something completely unrelated to the "truth".
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Single in the troof
by Purple inhere's something i am wondering.
i was alone in the troof (married but partner not in troof) female without children.
the ignorance and arrogance of so called sisters was outstounding.
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A question for all women that were raised in the "truth"
by codeblue in.
do you feel like you have low self esteem because of being raised as a jw?.
codeblue
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What Regrets Did You Have Because You Were A Witness?
by minimus inone of the biggest regrets a person might have is that they let their children become involved in the whole jw "thing".
you know---everything from the elders always cornering them to "investigate" something or even having the parents "turn in" their own kids......is there anything that you especially regret?
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Was Paul really a woman hater?
by peacefulpete infor the discussin i will set aside questions about whether paul was was infact a literary creation of the gnostic xtians.
"paul's" famous words at !
tim 2:12-15 and i cor 14:34,35 that insist women be silent in the congretgations have spawned hundreds of years of female repression.
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JW's and Pubs/Bars
by Heatmiser ini have noticed on past threads from posters from other countries than the usa that they would be hanging out in pubs and such while still jw's.
in the us i believe that going to bars would pretty much be a df/da offense.
in other countries is the policy different?
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What do you disagree with the Disfellowshipping policy?
by ClassAvenger inwhat do you disagree with the disfellowshipping policy?
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heard from the platform: "not all rap music is bad"
by Lonestar13 injust last night i was thinking about the numerous talks, assembly parts and wt articles that repeatedly denounced such "debasing music" such as "rap" and "heavy metal".
remember those?
seems like every week during the 80's that phrase made its way into a public talk or wt study.
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The "deeper things"...
by Lonestar13 inas much emphasis is placed on study and research has anyone noticed that you if you engage a dub in a conversation about the deeper things of the bible (not the wt), that you will end up doing most of the talking?
i made a personal decision to read more books, magazines etc, (of a secular, historical nature) becuase i do not wish to be that way.
unfortunately i found that within the dubs i had no one to talk to.