I agree whole heartedly with your observation BOR.
iamwhoiam
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If you think child abusers can simply repent and/or be rehabilitated....
by iamwhoiam in...then you need to educate yourself more.
here is a good place to start.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iet3-kuvl5y.
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Disrupting literature carts
by perfect1 ini am ready for a little guerilla warfare (no one gets hurt, of course).
but these literature carts in the city need to go.
everytime i walk by its all i can do to keep from knocking the thing over.. any ideas on how to destroy their little stash of paper.. so far my best idea is water, pouring water all over it.
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iamwhoiam
The reason the WT is getting more and more controlling and the GB are getting more involved is because they are losing power over thier current followers (not to mention money flow). Its a house of cards...just be patient; no need to commit a crime. They are not too big to fail as some might suggest.
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If you think child abusers can simply repent and/or be rehabilitated....
by iamwhoiam in...then you need to educate yourself more.
here is a good place to start.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iet3-kuvl5y.
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iamwhoiam
...then you need to educate yourself more. here is a good place to start...
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Just sent letter to my parents that I no longer want to be a JW
by ?evrything ini was a born in.
both parents are uber dubs and mother has been depressed lately.
so i m super nervous.
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iamwhoiam
my parents drove two states over to see me. in fact, they didn't even tell me they were coming till they were just outside my city. i can tell you...all the stuff i had built up in my mind, such as what i was going to say to them etc...didn't work out that way at all. one of the things they said to me was that "i am cutting them off now". that was a huge guilt trip. i told them "from a family stand point that was a horrible and hurtful thing to say and it feels un-natural to me, but regardless of how you guys choose to treat me, my door is always open to you because i choose to love you unconditionally." after that (which there is more to the story), they didn't talk to me that much at first...but after time went by and they realized it only boiled down to what thier friends think...they came around...i was just a faded memory to the org after 6 months. my parents still try to preach to me some...but i just say no. i respect thier choice in beliefs (and thats all it is)...but its just not for me. don't become thier enemy or make them label you something. remember...they are going to feel that they did something wrong that made you turn away regardless of what you tell them, they will feel like a failure in "Jehovah's" eyes. attacking thier beliefs makes them feel like your attacking them.
all that being said...everybody will give you tons of advice...but everyone's circumstances are different. nobody knows your parents like you do, so only you can know what they are capable of. i don't want to seem like a hypocrite being that i have never shared my full story on here...and still don't know if i will; but please keep us posted.
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Anyone else have essential tremors?
by Found Sheep ini've had them off and on since i was 8. i didn't put a label on them till last month.
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iamwhoiam
I felt a few tremors when I lived in California.
All joking aside. I'm pretty sure she doesn't experience them 24/7...they just flair up once in awhile out of the blue. Some people have them and some people don't. Sometimes the right tremors at the right time feel pretty good...essential or not. ;)
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Does anyone know where, or what happened to Fred and April Fredean? They where our old circuit overseers in Chicago in the sixties and I was friends when I was at bethel with them.
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iamwhoiam
not to resurrect an old thread...but its funny how tallulahB knows eldon and mary kay. they were also in my congregation when i was young. maybe we know each other. so if you see this..message me. or if anyone else knows how to get in touch with tallulahB...maybe you can steer him/her my way and PM me. jw world is such a small world.
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I am what I am
by joe134cd ini was just thinking today.
i heard the term been frazed as a "neutral witness".
i think that's what best describes me.
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iamwhoiam
nice post joe. i wonder why i relate to your words so much? ;)
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MIL letter to my wife
by AggieNostic inbackground: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .
our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.
my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!
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iamwhoiam
I think nugget had the best response. Kill them with kindness and keep the lines of communication open. If they decide to shut it down...you can go to bed knowing its their problem and not yours. They will be the ones wasting mental/emotional energy doing something unnatural (shunning their own children).
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Thoughts on the new AAWA video and other things!!
by iamwhoiam inso does this mean aawa is going to stop shunning?
are they themselves not guilty of shunning those who shun?
shunning can never be stopped no matter how bad you want it to.
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iamwhoiam
Originally "other things" covered the general subject of shunning. However, in hindsight, the term was a bit broad and turned into whatever you want to talk about (gripes or kudos) related to the AAWA, which is not a bad thing. People get a chance to speak their mind and get everything off ther chest on the subject..all in one thread.
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Paris Jackson Puts Her Foot Down! No More Going Door-To-Door As Jehovahs Witness
by iamwhoiam inhttp://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/05/paris-jackson-prince-michael-jackson-jehovas-witness/.
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