pratt1
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If you suffered a major personal setback.......
by pratt1 inwould you reestablish ties with jehovah' s witnesses?.
diagnosis of a potentially fatal illness?.
death of a loved one?.
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JW's on Family Guy last night - Very Funny
by pratt1 ini am a big fan of the show t"the family guy".
stewie really cracks me up!.
last night the dad tells chris to go to his closet, chris resists by saying that the "angry monkey" lives in his closet and he will get him.
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Would you do it for the sake of the kids?
by pratt1 ini have a very close friend, who is still an active dub.
we have known each other since we were kids and we have been able to maintain a strong friendship - we are actually more like brothers than friends.. we have reached a truce - i don't try to talk him out of being a dub and he doesn't try to talk me out of being an apostate.. we have both worked hard to honor this rule.. my problem is, i am the "godfather" of his son.
meaning if something should happen to him and his wife, i would raise his son.. i have a very close relationship with the boy, he is 7 and smart as a whip.
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Would you rat out an Elder
by pratt1 inthis weekend i accompanied a few friends to a strip club in manhattan.
my wife doesn't like it too much, but since i promised her that a lap dance is asfar as i will go with a stripper, she tolorates it.. imagine my surprise when i noticed that an elder from my old congo was there along with several of his co-workers.. he tried to ignore me but before we left i stopped by his table and said hello.. he actually had the nerve to ask me if it was okay for us to speak.
i said since we were both in a strip club, it didn't matter.. my question - should i mention this to dubs i still maintain relationships with, who incidently worship the ground this elder walks on?.
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To Catch a Predator
by pratt1 ini am sure that everyone has heard of the dateline eposides of "to catch a predator".. it's pretty disturbing to see so many men who appear to be normal, are caught trying to solicit a sexual relationship with a minor.. i have 2 questions for you posters.. 1. do you consider the tactics of the dateline show entrapment?.
2. since several caught are from cultures that allow and often encourage adult men to marry much younger teenaged girls, should these men be charged with lesser charges?.
3. in you go back 50 years in you own family's history, where there marriage unions between an adult male and a teen aged girl?.
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Maybe I don't want to live in Paradise
by pratt1 inwhen i was a teenager, and really trying hard to be a "super witness" i remember thinking that if all the wicked people were destroyed, how would this change our everyday life.. what happends to the people that supply electricity, water, garbage collection, gas, fuel for cars, mechanics, farmers, cattle herders, etc.... how would we survive?
if armafoggeten happened in the winter would those in colder climates die?.
i you were on some sort of medical equipment that required electricity, would you die if there is no one a run to work in the electrical plant?.
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"Funerals" The new Witless Gatherings
by pratt1 inover the last 12 months i have been invited to 3 funerals for dubs that was held more that a week after the person died so that more people could attend.. each of the funerals were held on a saturday and there was a community center or hall rented out where food and drinks were served.
all 3 had over 300 people attending and each lasted several hours.. i think the dubs are so straved for get togethers, that they use a funeral as a means to get together.. .
has anyone else noticed this trend in your area?.
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Paternity Question
by pratt1 inone of my clients who also happens to be close friend went mia for most of last week.
i called him a few times with out a response from him, so i assumed he was sick and would get back to me when he felt better.. i spoke with him this morning and he was very depressed, apparently his wife of 9 years admitted to him last week that their 6 year old son may not be his.. apparently she had an affair with a man about 7 years ago for 2 months.
he was traveling to the west coast every other week for business at the time, but he never had a clue.. he is upset and fuming mad.
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Sharing Your new light with your Parents
by pratt1 inevery so often i get to share some of my thooughts about the borg and my new found beliefs with my mom , who is a die hard pioneer for over 20 years.. we actually have had decent conversations about doctrines and interpertations of the scriptures, and she has admitted that at times the borg may have misapplied certain scriptures over the years.. her excuse is that imperfect men sometimes make mistakes and jehovah makes allowances for this.. but what really gets her upset is when i bring up certain aspects of my childhood, that because of her belief in the borg, she made some unwise decisions for not only me be her family.. me getting baptized at 13, her not being fully supportive of higher education, cutting off family members, pushing me into an early marriage when i was clearly not ready, teaching me that all "worldly people', including my father woiuld die at armageddon, these are just a few examples that when we discuss them, she becomes extremely angry and then accuses me of making her out to be a bad mother.. i got me thinking, do you think that many dubs refuse to acknowledge the problems with their religion because it would mean that they made some really bad decsions in their and their families lives.. are they afraid to accept the responsiblity for this because of the guilt they would suffer?.
what are your thoughts?
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