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  Single Sisters Over A Certain Age Group Getting A Bad Rap

  by HiddlesWife in

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  2. relationships

  i'm new here; one of my relatives was a member on this forum a few years ago and told me about it.

  anyways, as a sister who has been in the org since childhood and now in her late 40's (plus as a woman of color), i have noticed that a number of brothers have an ageist attitude.

  they are very accepting of young women under 26 and rejecting women over that age, particularly those in their 30's and over.. is this an unspoken mindset from wthq (specifically from bethel), or is it that quite a number of males (sorry, i'm not sexist here) have this type of mentality?

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  Women are looked down when they marry a man even 2 years older than they.

  Blondi, not by men they are not, must be by a jealous "sister" .--I know a mister who is ~35 years older than his wife and has a daughter in pre school, in his late 80s.

  here is the rub for ladies, men can have children aged past 100, ladies half that. The BBC had an article blaming/linking the longevity of the human race on these old geezers passing on their selfish genes through young ladies.

  My biggest mistake as a long past elder?: -- I did not discern and help a single sister with child to repel a really pathetic jw suitor.

  marriage is falling out of favour with in the general population, and wt's insistence is actually a plus in couples coupling. permanently.
  
  
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  When did the Iron Age start according to the Bible? You'll be surprised!

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  read this over at reddit so the credit goes to the person over there but in genesis 4:22 it's say one of the offspring of adam knew how to work with iron roughly 130 years after the creation of man.

  now historians and scientists say man didn't figure out how to use iron until about 1100 bc, man we're we wrong!

  it's also interesting that cain is building a city when there like 10 people on the planet and nimrod goes on to build the tower of babel only about 100 year after the flood.

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  that late iron/ steel use is a question for the Pyramid builders too. which was done during the time of the deluge bsw.

  researchers tried with stone masons using copper, bronze tools to shape such blocks, and it took more time to keep the chisels sharp than to hammer away.

  The pyramids were just stacks, there is no way to build a wooden, stressed structure with fasteners only, even if you have first growth timber hundert meters long. build with dulling , saws, axes, planes, chisels by a crew of 4.

  Wooden dowels, copper rivets might just hold for 9 month, even show less rust than iron.

  P.S.May be Noah used the daughters of men to distract the angels, soon to be demons, that handled the twirling swords at the entrance to Eden to let them analyze the new metal alloy, and speed the assembly of the ark?

  Notice that both Noah and Jesus were woodworkers. tall tales of tall ships.
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  Castro v Bushman

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  belen castro sued the toppenish congregation along with watchtower bible and tract society of new york and watchtower bible and tract society, because she was molested when she was 11 and 12 years old.

  he had sued virgil bushman, the perpetrator, but that was settled prior.

  watchtower along with the congregation won the motion for summary judgment and belen then appealed the decision.

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  because "sound" is the first testing ground in advancement, he made it never past that stage because he concentrated on grooming Castro there instead of working the controls? . The question is, what was the girl and her mother doing, both, behind the sound booth?

  not specific to this case, but could there be a parallel between the RC priest scandal and this wt weakness? Perhaps the strict wt control of sexual activity at all levels leads some to use these unconventional outlets, ( groping behind the soundbooth).

  Should not wt have spelled out groping as a disfellowshipping offence to make the deterrent list complete?
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  Single Sisters Over A Certain Age Group Getting A Bad Rap

  by HiddlesWife in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm new here; one of my relatives was a member on this forum a few years ago and told me about it.

  anyways, as a sister who has been in the org since childhood and now in her late 40's (plus as a woman of color), i have noticed that a number of brothers have an ageist attitude.

  they are very accepting of young women under 26 and rejecting women over that age, particularly those in their 30's and over.. is this an unspoken mindset from wthq (specifically from bethel), or is it that quite a number of males (sorry, i'm not sexist here) have this type of mentality?

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  Interesting how mature single sisters (single for different reasons) cope with not having achieved power status in the congregation via marriage, and a husband to dominate or manipulate (whatever is worse).
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  Disfellowshipped people are dead people?

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  skimming though my iphone earlier today i came across a fb post - which i now can't find!.

  basically it was a claim that a gb member had stated that associating with a disfellowshipped person was akin to sleeping next to a corpse.. so obviously i'm curious as to whether anyone else has come across this..

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  walkin but not talkin, I see the disfellowshipped walk out of the hall with the last note of the closing song, or word of closing prayer. but jws can talk about them, like McEwan about that ex jw in Calgary. If successful, will that start an ex-calgary stampede?
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  Potential New Article for JWFacts: Iglesia Ni Cristo

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  paul has allowed me to write up two articles for jwfacts: iglesia ni cristo, and why russell was not a mason.here is my iglesia ni cristo article.

  “we believe that there is only one true god, the father, and no one else besides him”.

  thus, faith alone is not enough.. about baptism.

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  tithing. reportedly strictly enforced.
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  Attending the 2017 Memorial

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after contemplating whether or not to attend the memorial this year i finally went.

  this time last year i had been reinstated and within weeks the elders summoned me to the kh to interrogate me about my past and place of residence.

  i was angry with them and lost my temper and stood up to them.

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  Each Congregation has a constant battle going on for dominance. You are not local, so they are all fawning over you, potentially as part of their personal power base. Once you would settle there, and not fully support their rule, you will get the "bottom of the sole of your shoes " treatment/look , (that stepped into something) there too.

  Do not take it personally, that is how wt operates on local level.
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  Can you believe the opening song at the memorial tonight?!

  by Indian Larry in

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  2. beliefs

  did anybody (who went to the memorial) notice the opening song?.

  keep in mind that this is the most important night of the year for the witnesses.

  it is supposed to be all about jesus christ.

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  Dear Drearyeather: The New Covenant is for forgiveness of sins. potentially for all sinners. It is not the kingdom covenant for just a few.

  The Old law Covenant was with all. They all partook of the passover "emblems". The priests, kings had their separate covenants.

  Unless you eat and drink, you will have no eternal life. (Jesus in John six)

  That song is an idolatrous self praise that the R&F is conned to participate in. stand upright, read and sing.
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  Memorial

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  what i noticed during the memorial is the over organised ritual aspect.

  for a non jw is must be hard to follow.. for me, i noticed that during the memorial there is no attention for the historical jesus and the historical events.

  it's all about the kingdom arrangement with it's central point, the governing body of jw.. do you noticed this also?.

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  I always dislked this event. It just came across as you mentioned as a ritual. If I was ever going to invite someone to a meeting, the memorial would definetly NOT be it.

  FTB, I know an old dedicated missionary that would never invite an interested "study" to the memorial as the first meeting, it would disillusion them. It is not proper worship. It could even spoil the polish springtime.

  Even more so if the talk is delivered by a pompous, peacock type personality.
  
  
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  Was it just me or was something different about the memorial last night?

  by kpop in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was the first memorial that i declined to do any work for the memorial.

  i was assigned as a parking attendant after getting downgraded from doing the sound and had no intention of doing either task but i had to attend for my family and continuation of my fade.

  i sat there last night listening to the talk and couldn't help but shake my head as my brain attempted to process the bs.

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  Like the illustrations on the screens, from the invitation? casually dressed people going down into paradise, it was down, all the way. not up, not into the new Jerusalem,