my disfellowshipped hubby dosnt come on here but has been amused by some of the funny threads !
he wants to know why smurfs and avatar are big no nos in dub land ?.
My mother was super hardcore. Here is a list of the things we were not allowed to watch:
- Scooby Doo (ghosts)
- The Count or Amazing Mumford (on Sesame Street)
- The Simpsons
- Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Pinnochio, Alladin
- The Neverending Story
- Superman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman etc.
- Care Bears, Smurfs
- We were also only allowed to watch half of Sesame Street per day because it was 'too worldly'
I could go on...
my disfellowshipped hubby dosnt come on here but has been amused by some of the funny threads !
he wants to know why smurfs and avatar are big no nos in dub land ?.
I remember from when I was a kid that people said 'smurf' was German for 'little blue demon'... I always thought that was the reason it was 'bad'.
I never heard about Avatar though.
recently...my nephew confided that he doesn't want to go to the meetings anymore.
he told his parents.
reply from dad - typical party line - "live in our house - attend the meetings - or leave".
I agree with you. It's horrible.
There's a family in my hall in the same situation. The boy stood up... now he has been out on his own for over a year.
It's unnatural and wrong.
as you may have heard if you attended recently, social networking is of the devil and many have been 'lead astray' by website supposedly set up for jw.
whatever, you heard it before about rock, hard rock, hip hop, rap, gangsta rap, tv, werewolves .... anyway you may have heard of the recent elder school where basically there were the proverbial tongue lashings about not having social networking sites.
here is the skinny on recent developments:.
It's not hard to make your profile private or just use a different name.
my ex husband who is a jw just sent me this:.
"the world is on the precipice of a major multifaceted crisis.
the great tribulation may have just started.. .
My ex husband who is a JW just sent me this:
"The world is on the precipice of a major multifaceted crisis. The Great Tribulation may have just started.
April is going to be a HUGE preaching month. Think Revelation and the locust cloud of Witnesses."
i have always been very hardcore about my aversion to blood and have never even considered the possibility that this was merely a dietary restriction.
i always bought into the analogy of a doctor telling a patient to abstain from alcohol... it wouldn't matter whether this individual drank the alcohol or took it intravenously... it would all be in direct contradiction to the doctor's orders to 'abstain' from alcohol.. or the other analogy is to an apple pie... if you weren't to eat the pie, it would not be okay to separate it out into the main parts (or 'components)... ie.
the flour, the apples, the sugar or the cinnamon... if they were taken from that pie, you were eating the pie.. so maybe you can see where the questions popped up for me.
I appreciated Cofty's link about the Israelites only remaining unclean 'til evening if they ate a dead animal that died of natural causes and was therefore unbled and I thought about it all day... then I found this: http://onlytruegod.org/jwstrs/MCB-w830415.htm
Thoughts?
i have always been very hardcore about my aversion to blood and have never even considered the possibility that this was merely a dietary restriction.
i always bought into the analogy of a doctor telling a patient to abstain from alcohol... it wouldn't matter whether this individual drank the alcohol or took it intravenously... it would all be in direct contradiction to the doctor's orders to 'abstain' from alcohol.. or the other analogy is to an apple pie... if you weren't to eat the pie, it would not be okay to separate it out into the main parts (or 'components)... ie.
the flour, the apples, the sugar or the cinnamon... if they were taken from that pie, you were eating the pie.. so maybe you can see where the questions popped up for me.
To HotChocolate... that was really helpful how you explained things. I am going to give it some serious thought.
To Mad Sweeney... my husband is reading everything I'm reading. I guess you would call him a 'lurker'. He is pretty much where I am in all of this... rethinking everything. He said he is just very confused and doesn't know what he thinks or believes right now. His biggest worry is our children. As I mentioned before the older two boys are both in their teens and once they are baptized we don't know what they will decide to do. They both live with our ex spouses so it's a difficult situation.
i don't post a ton here because i'm kinda shy.
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i have always been very hardcore about my aversion to blood and have never even considered the possibility that this was merely a dietary restriction.
i always bought into the analogy of a doctor telling a patient to abstain from alcohol... it wouldn't matter whether this individual drank the alcohol or took it intravenously... it would all be in direct contradiction to the doctor's orders to 'abstain' from alcohol.. or the other analogy is to an apple pie... if you weren't to eat the pie, it would not be okay to separate it out into the main parts (or 'components)... ie.
the flour, the apples, the sugar or the cinnamon... if they were taken from that pie, you were eating the pie.. so maybe you can see where the questions popped up for me.
I am just sick about all of it.
What's even going to happen?
I don't even know which way is up anymore.
My husband doesn't know either. He is more complacent. He could just give up and fade away.
I want more definite answers. I want to know the Truth. I want to know what to believe. I still want to be 'hardcore' about SOMETHING. About ANYTHING.
Do we just start swearin' and smokin' and drinkin' and carryin' on at this point? I don't want to celebrate Christmas. I don't want to be 'bad'. I don't even know what 'bad' is. I am so confused and angry now.
And what do we do about our kids? They are in their teens on on the verge of baptism. So what? They get baptized and cut us off? WE taught them that way. Now what?
Excuse me now. I need to say a swear and it starts with F!
i have always been very hardcore about my aversion to blood and have never even considered the possibility that this was merely a dietary restriction.
i always bought into the analogy of a doctor telling a patient to abstain from alcohol... it wouldn't matter whether this individual drank the alcohol or took it intravenously... it would all be in direct contradiction to the doctor's orders to 'abstain' from alcohol.. or the other analogy is to an apple pie... if you weren't to eat the pie, it would not be okay to separate it out into the main parts (or 'components)... ie.
the flour, the apples, the sugar or the cinnamon... if they were taken from that pie, you were eating the pie.. so maybe you can see where the questions popped up for me.
Thank you to Sabastious and Cofty.... my jaw has dropped. I suffered terrible OCD during my teen years and a lot of my issues were over blood. I am really in shock over how you have presented things. I always thought I was a little bit intelligent and now I see that I have been terribly, terribly manipulated, mislead and duped.
To Heaven... Not only was I breastfed and I know what you're getting at... I am also breastfeeding my son.
I just feel really stupid right now. I have been reading memoirs about other peoples' escapes from their 'crazy' religions... what about me?
Some of you know a little bit of my story. Or you can look back on my past threads. I am thinking about writing a book like Brianna and Kyria. My mother and another sister in the hall beat me so bad that had to soak me in ice. My mother tried to break my toes and threw my sister down the stairs the day before her baptism... I was accused of it being too much 'drama'. But every word is the truth and there is a lot more. I am just scared of the backlash.
