sass_my_frass
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I need help finding my father
by Megachusen ini'm not even sure where to begin with this.. my father is considered an apostate and i haven't been allowed to talk to him for 14 years.
now i don't even have any connections to him.
i don't know anyone he knows and i don't even know basic things like where he lives.. any help on someplace where i could look him up would be appreciated..
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Family Worship VITAL FOR SURVIVAL - Oct 09 WT Study Edition
by Hopscotch ininspired by the other thread on the family worship arrangement and by a request for printed information here are scans from the latest wt about this arrangment.
the article starts off by using a favourite wts tactic - fear!.
hopscotch.
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When will they realise that the bus isn't coming?
by eyeslice ini was still a kid and living at home at the time, and so that must have been well over 30 years ago, that i heard ron drage (now a senior member of the uk bethel) say "if you are waiting at the bus stop it, is better to be 10 minutes early rather than miss it".
what he was referring to of course was the then then 1975 issue; in other words armageddon has arrived yet but it just round the corner and we are a little early for it.. i don't know what brought this to my mind the other day but i got to thinking, surely if you are waiting for a bus and you get there 10 minutes early and it doesn't then turn up, how long do you wait?
10 minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour, two hours?
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"He was really smart. Smart people leave all the time" <- Unwitting Witness Tells The Truth
by gubberningbody inhow many of you have heard this one, or words to that effect?.
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As a JW Did other Witnesses Annoy you by Condemning " Worldly Music" ?
by flipper ini know i got bothered by all the self righteous music police who would condemn me or others for our awesome record collections from early years as a teenager .
several experiences were really quite odd .
one brother came up to me saying i was wrong to listen to the moody blues " nights in white satin "!
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What really matters to the elders- Podcast 9 Judicial Hearing
by Hobo Ken inthis is the next part of the story, when the judicial hearings begin.
click on the link here to listen...deathorobedience.blogspot.com.
also free on itunes here.
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The movie 'Doubt'
by sass_my_frass inthis has probably come up before but i thought it was worth suggesting: this movie is quite intense but meryl streep and philip hoffman are just magnificent (as always), and it really portrays what members of an organisation do when confronted with abuse.
the leaders of the church handle it internally, but if it's the leaders who are the perpetrators, what can be done?
it doesn't even occur to the members of the organisation to go to the police on their own; they trust the system they know.
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Nobody should force them to wear skirts.
by OnTheWayOut inso the wife and i were watching wimbledon today.
we saw serena beat venus williams.
then we started watching the men's doubles.. the wife said how the men were wearing such nice preppie shirts and shorts and how the women were forced to wear skirts.. i couldn't resist.
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Were going to the DC's your only vacation?
by Quirky1 ini know many that have to save all year just to attend the dc and they can't afford to go anywhere else.
the children actually look forward to going to the dc because they get to go out on the town afterward.
this is their only freakin' vacation!!
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Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism
by whereami inhas anyone ever read this?.
most atheists come from a family where the father was missing, dead, weak or abusive.
paul c. vitz has written a very interesting book entitled faith of the fatherless: the psychology of atheism (spence, 1999).. .