Yep - I was privleged to have recieved Dad's belt on several occasions, and even got the buckle on special days!!
And look how I turned out!
Posts by Prisca
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by Mommie Dark ini've been reading the thread about children and brooding over the whole issue of kids-n-cults for a couple of days now.
yesterday i had to outwait a group of immovable amish youth blocking the doorway out of the local grocery store(to many local amish, 'english' are generally invisible unless they want to sell us something.
), and they got mixed into the brain stew with the jw kids and the recent moral self-righteousness of certain jw posters here.
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Flower Power
by Carmel ini have a little confession to make!
it's one of those "good news, bad news" thingies!
two years ago i discovered two site on the net where exjw's gathered, h20 and pioneeroutreach.
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Prisca
Glad to be a part of your garden, carmel
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a phone call /event of sorts
by stephenw20 ini called our brooklyn tower of power....what a group.
i asked them about the name change....it seems he.
doesnt know what i am even talking about...just said.
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Prisca
v-e-r-y interesting....
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"Planned Giving to Benefit Kingdom Service...
by Gianluca indoes anyone know if there is a copy somwhere on the www of the society's english-language brochure entitled "planned giving to benefit kingdom service worldwide"?.
if not could someone tell me why the wts thought it was necessary to print such a brochure (by the title it does not seem to be "spiritual food").
gianluca
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Prisca
could someone tell me why the WTS thought it was necessary to print such a brochure (by the title it does not seem to be "spiritual food")
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I'm a newbie too
by Flowerpetal ini just registered just today.
i am not a dissenter from jws--still an active member but i have an open mind and willing to listen to all who post here.
there have been some questions bugging me lately that have caused me to wonder about certain scriptures pertaining to being "born again.
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Prisca
Flowerpetal,
Welcome! I was at the same stage as you are, two years ago. I could see that the way JWs practised Christianity was not the way Jesus told us to be. It lead me to really look into the religion that I had known all my life.
I hope you continue your journey in discovery. Feel free to email me if you like.
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What did you do?
by StiLLinTruth into all those who have in some way left the organization (be it disfellowshipping, disassociating, dis-whatever):.
come now, i know the amount of people who "realized that wt doctrine was in serious error" and politely handed in their letter of resignation has to be very small.
the level of bitterness and hostility towards the closest-to-what's-biblical organization has to develop some other way.. what did you do?
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Prisca
waiting,
He is from New Zealand!
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Too many new posters, mouse finger hurts, help!
by CornerStone inis it just me, or are there a mess load of first time posters to this board today?
hey, this is great, really great, but my mouse finger is starting to hurt with "clicking" rappidly.
good to hear from new people though.. .
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Prisca
I agree, there seems to be a busload come in every now and again.
So to all of our newbies, especially the ones I didn't get to reply to - WELCOME!
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Getting out!
by Auswop inmy husband and i would like to get our kids (my step kids) out of this religion and we don't know where to.
begin.
we hardly see them anymore, neither of them are baptisted and we don't know where to begin.
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Prisca
Don't make a big issue about it.
Give the kids all the love and support you can give them, but don't do anything they or their mother could call defaming the witnesses. Let the kids see how happy you are without the WTS in your lives, and that you live normal lives.
As teenagers, they have enough going on without their parents playing religious tug-o-war. In many ways, the strict morals the Society gives can benefit them, at least until they become adults. The JWs do give a support structure for avoiding drugs, pre-marital sex and drinking.
Let the kids grow up and when they are adults they can make up their own minds. Anyway, who knows if they decide to leave sometime in the future without your efforts?
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