My experiences have been uneventful, but I recognised a racial experience for the first time when I invoted my highschool classmate over to work on a report togther . At first she said ok, then she was told where I lived ( a highly racially divided area we had just moved to) and she laughed and said " no way!" I was confused at the time. I had no racial judgments in my own personality, and I was not aware of the comunity's racial divide. ( this was mid 70's) Since then I have learned. Yes, it is still there, for all races that I have seen. But to the extent it once was, no.
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Black or white what Racial Discrimination have you experienced?
by usualusername ini could give you hundreds of experiences but let me kick off with the following.
i boarded a train at 4am heading to an airport a few weeks ago.
in my carriage there were at least 100 people.. .
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Anybody on Facebook?
by MsD inpm me ... always looking for new friends.
if not...your bad .
i'm pretty cool.. .
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nonjwspouse
Wait, hold one... JWLeaks was on JW.org? Was that a joke? Did you seriously get onto their site? wow...
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Kafka would appreciate this --getting off the grid.
by Glander inin arizona there is a utility district that is proposing to raise nightime elec.
rates on customers who have installed solar systems!.
gonna getcha one way or the other..
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In my city, there is a company that developed a great way to capture grey water from parking lots run off ect, and use it incommercial buildings forthings like flushing the toilets and other industrial uses cutting water bills by at least half. The Mayor at first wanted to tour the company, excited of this green idea, then turned white, and other shades when recogniseing this water was being put into the sewer system without paying for it on the front end. After that he would have nothing to do with it and disallowed it to be used here ( the company is doing huge business overseas right now)
Now the company developed a way to treat the wastewater created so there is no need to use the sewer system, but the government is still not too keen on it.
It's all about that bottom $$$ tax or otherwise, that the government feels entitled to.
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What evidence is there for the miracles of the Bible OUTSIDE of the Bible?
by punkofnice inok. this is something i've wondered about.. people of certain religions tend to use their own holy book as evidence for things in itself.
this seems very circular to me.
using the book to prove the book in my view is pointless.. i am not aware of any of the 'miracles' of the bible or the quran as having any substantial evidence outside of themselves to give credibility to the books themselves.. has anyone come across such evidence?.
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nonjwspouse
It is interesting how many things we do, have, can achieve, today would be considered a miracle in the first century. The fact is we can't really know, we have to rely on recouts of history, or our own common sense. Faith is believeing in something that is not provable or seen.
I find it bothersome the JW attempt to claim they can prove everything. That in itself is a huge warning sign that they are false.
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There is something pointed out here that I have noticed myself. Most people NEED consistancy and routine. To those who crave it but can't create it for themselves, they welcome the forced consistancy of the WT routine. If they didn't have that routine they would feel lost. The routine part, not as much the faith part. They believe they are one in the same, connected. Since many JW must have their own business to enable them to take off the time they are required to take, this causes those who have trouble creating routine a problem. The JW attendance participation requirements and sameness satisfy that need.
I am hoping to help create more of a routine in my household partly to help satify my husbands craving for routine. It is good for all of us to have some routine in our lives. For many years in our famly's life there has been little no almost no routine, which causes a chaotic feeling. I believe that has something to do with his need on the past few years to study with the JW.
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My first talk with JWs at the door while on vacation
by troubled mind inthis was the first time in almost eight years i have had a conversation with a jw .
we were on vacation last week at my son and daughter in laws home .
one morning the doorbell rang and as i went to answer it my daughter in law said she thought it was witnesses .
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I believe it is a goal for the WT to make SURE members stay confused. They stay busy busy busy, and still can't keep up so they must NEVER slow doen....right? It just pushes the point the WT wants to make with the JWs, the GB holds the only truth and the JW can NOT understand it , ever, without the GB/WT, and even then they are NEVER quite sure....must keep on their toes!
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How to act crazy enough not to have to go in FS or to meetings but not crazy enough to get committed to a mental health facility
by hoser ini was thinking if i acted a little off but not too far off the elders would tell me i'm not welcome in the door to door work.
i wonder if this would work.
there is a watchtower or awake article somewhere saying that a mentally ill person may be excused from the meetings and field service if his illness affected others.
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pure genious nathan
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A picture so outrageous, it deserves its own thread...
by cedars ini mean no disrespect to sd-7 or his fine thread on which this picture has already featured, but i think it is just so ridiculous that it deserves a thread all of its own.. lurkers and apologists, this is how your precious organization views itself.... behold the madness.... .
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Oh my Ceders, This quotegot me
This fading of Christian watchfulness prompted apostate Christians to organize themselves into a well-structured church whose eyes were no longer fixed on the coming parousia, or presence, of Christ but, rather, on dominating its members and, if possible, the world. The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “The [apparent] delay of the Parousia resulted in a weakening of the imminent expectation in the early church. In this process of ‘de-eschatologizing,’ [weakening of the teaching on the “Last Things”] the institutional church increasingly replaced the expected Kingdom of God. The formation of the Catholic ChurchWatch Tower as a hierarchical institution is directly connected with the declining of the imminent expectation.” (w84 12/1 p6)
If my husband fgoes back to studying, I don't know how I will stand it! I find comfort that at least he likes wearing a beard now.
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Feeling numb and alone
by DeWandelaar insince some time i post here on this forum... i am always willing to help people or to express my opinion if it helps someone.... i have already posted something about myself but i haven't told much about my history.. i am married with a nice wife and i have three kids (two of my own and a stephdaughter).
since a year i do not go to meetings and i unofficially stopped with the "truth".
i had a meeting with some elders expressing my concerns with the teachings and with the slave.
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nonjwspouse
In case this helps you in any way. Those extremely energetic kids ( which by the way are commonly disobdient by nature) are usually thirsting for all sorts of learning. Teach them and learn with them about all kinds of things. Learn history, science, art, music, growing a garden, ANYthing that takes energy, and show them how to channel it. The most challanging kids are many times the brightest, which is the reason they are challanging.
Take on that chalange, fill your emptiness with fun tiimes with your kids learning, creating and doing. hether you decide a class is appropriate, or just going off on your own, camping, visiting museums, going to outdoor concerts to watch the musicians play..... find out what they have interest in and go with it.
I am learning by reading the many postings here that energetic kids in the KH are generraly labeled as bad because they are way to bored to sit still for so long. They develop poor self esteem, thinking they must BE bad. You can channel their energys and watch them grow, and gain cvofidence in thier abilities. But if your wife is still in the JW mindset, it will be up to you to bring that mental, emotional and physical development into your boys lives.
You can do it!
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Breastfeeding in Bathrooms...
by cognac inthe natick, ma assemble hall used to have it's own room for breastfeeding mothers.
they changed this room to the accounting room or something like that and now have seats available for breastfeeding inside the bathroom.. there is one other small room available for breastfeeding but they close that off when the baptism is going on.
needless to say, i used to get so pissed off that they actually wanted me to breastfeed in the bathroom that i would threaten to a brother that i would take my boob out in front of everybody and that is there problem because breastfeeding in a bathroom is unsanitary.. one year they put me in some backroom.
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I hadn't really thought much about it until now. I didn't look at faces of the people around me so I don't know how it was taken, but when my child was young, and at one of the few Memorials I attended with my husband ( for the sake of his Mother he said then) I nursed her in my seat. She was also over a year old, which is also not so well accepted by unlearned people in the US. I am pretty discreat about it so unless you were staring at me you wouldn't know.I wonder if anyone complained? If so I never knew about it. Good thing, because I'm rather vocal about defending the rights of a nursing Mom.
I absolutly REFUSE to go into a bathroom to nurse my child. If someone suggested it I would tell them to go eat thier lunch in there.