SheilaM
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What Double Standards Do JW's Practice?
by minimus inone double standard that always got to me was how a body of elders would talk about how a brother needed to "qualify" for some privilege by being a good example for weekend service and yet a number of elders would hardly ever go out in field service at all!
or how they would use 2 hours to literally gossip about everyone in the congregation, and then give a local needs talk on the need of not talking about the brothers and minding our own business.........what double standards got to you?
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Did U hurt someone because of JW rules?
by LyinEyes ini know we all make mistakes but did you ever really hurt someone while you were a jw, because of sticking to their darn rules?
did you ever, even as it was happening, feel selfrighteous?.
it is something that i have been thru over and over in my head and i have forgiven myself for it, but i can never make it right with the person i hurt.. my dad was an elder , very self righteous, he taught me well, i did what ever he said and acted the way he told me too.
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Saving for the future - The results
by hippikon inan old jw freind from way back contacted me and asked to borrow a sizable amount of money to get out of deb.
he realy sounded desperate and i offerd him an oppertunity to earn some money wich he gladly accepted.
but what realy pisses me off is that as a jw's they don't save ( or study) for the future.
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New to JW and looking for the right associations.
by sunflwergirl420 ini have been studying to become a witness for about 1yr now and am doing what i can to become clean to be baptised.
unfortunately almost all of my friends were bad associations and i don't deal with them anymore.
i am looking for people to chat with who have the same goals in mind that i do.
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Is Warning re Possible Lawsuit Required?
by Scully inthis is just a general question for anyone who might have some legal background on the matter.. if (and i expect there will be) an announcement is made to our former congregation that we are "disassociated", can i just go ahead and sue them (individual elders in the congregation) for slander and defamation of character?
the decision to make the announcement is one that has to go through the body of elders, right??.
is it necessary, when the elders come calling, to say "i will sue the shirt off your back and the bloomers off your @$$ if you make any announcement that slanders my name or defames my character to anyone"??
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The Brits do IT more!
by BadJerry in.
ran across this tidbit of info...that's like three times a week...oh my!.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=573&e=10&u=/nm/20021125/od_nm/life_britain_sex_dc
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What to do with those who abuse kids??
by JT ini'm sitting here in the serverroom freezing my buns off and the issue of the child abuser and what to do with him or her was being kicked around.
we got the standard shot the bastards in the head etc,.
should they get any treatment at all or should they just be shot?.
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Reflections (I must be tired or shumpthink)
by Brummie inlast week i visited brummie land and it gave me a lot to think about, in particular my jw grandmother and here is why.
she was born in 1914 and was of the generation that was waiting for the new system to usher in paradise....she waited and waited .
she would have been around when all the bible students were waiting for 1925 to usher in the new system.
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Why do Some Ex-JWs go Wacko?
by rebel ini don't intend to offend anybody with this post, so please excuse me if i do.
i have often wondered why some people that leave the wt organisation go really weird.
there is a couple near me who left a couple of years ago.
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XMas illuminations on your house
by Simon ini guess this is more of a usa thing, but in the spirit of international friendship we have decided to put some effort into things this year.
he he ... this house is round the corner from angharad's parents and he raises money for charity.
the picture doesn't really do justice to just how bright it is (you can see the glow before you get there).