My mom is donating every freaking week, or every time she goes to program. All the time. She had to donate thousand dollars over these years. She used to donate more, but she told me last month that she put $5 equivalent now, but used to put $20 every month. Elderette at her KH told her that my mom is stingy that she could afford to donate more because my mom own her house and she does not pay rent or mortgage.! I wish she would stop donating, but I do not control her finances.
Posts by kaik
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4Awesome Way to Stop JW Family from Donating
by Stumpy inso mrs stumpy's mother is still in.
we feel it would not be in her best interest to wake her up at her late stage in life.
she has a good little circle of friends that look after each other and keep her busy and out of meddling in our lives too much.
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Are you angry for having been a JW?
by Half banana ini remember seeing the ex-jws parading around outside the assembly like lepers holding placards of hate.
we were the righteous and enlightened ones... and they were lost in outer darkness.
just dont look at them was the standard response to their unwelcome presence..
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It is hard to define anger versus being upset or fooled b WT. I am angry that WT destroyed my family, and this cannot be fixed as my biological father had died without having me around. I am angry that even with all the good intention my mom created for me, we really did not had happy childhood (no Xmas, gifts for BD, no sports events, hobbies). Otherwise, I consider it as long gone past, and I am not angry on spending time in KH, study Bible, or reading WT publications. -
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Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe
by Powermetal4ever inso i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.
so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?
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TheWonderofYou Generally, Western press especially German and Austrian provide untruthful accounts on Central Europe and their Slavic people all the time. Sometimes even blaming for bad weather like the heatwave in East Germany and low level of water on Elbe was caused by Czech (did not drought was widespread). Eastern Europe is doing what is required by treaty and they doing what they can. Merkel lifted the barriers, and bypassed all the regulation established by Dublin, and Germany is experiencing floodgate of the refugees. German press constantly accuse that Hungarians mistreat refugees, threaten them with expulsion of EU, blockade, sizing the state properties abroad and so on. But this mess was created by Merkel, and she will be ultimately responsible hosting 800,000 people on the taxpayer money.
Visegrad followed the rule, but it was Germany that broke them. There is no treaty nor regulation among EU where refugees will be settled by some quota. There is none. Every country in EU has own immigration procedure, and EU cannot dictate to who can settle there outside EU community. Every government in EU know that Germany would pick the best and will attempt to leave the undesirable migrants in Eastern Europe.
German media play key role in disinformation. They hide what is and what it not right. They only cite some foreigner news, or journalist does not ask correct question. The reports on refugees show heartbreaking scene and stories. Because West Germans did not experienced censorship; they take the news as objective view of the events. And government propaganda goes overdrive. Instead taking care of children and orphans that are truly affected by the war, the pompous welcome on the train stations are primarily fro economic immigrants. Germans respect the position, because they are persuaded that another approach is not possible nor tolerated.
Go to any Hungarian website, and you will see how these refugees were throwing food and water from the train, and vandalized the area. This people are heading to Germany. What they find will be another refugee camp and some allowance that would bring more relatives. In the long term it is not sustainable and one thing will have to cave. Either EU or mass exodus stopped by military mean.
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Revelation 8:8 Is a comet / asteroid heading here soon?
by FuzzyPaul ini have read a lot and watched some you-tube videos (some by marginally lunatic fringe christians - not necessarily invalidating) searching for asteroid september 2015 or comet september 2015.. there is some biblical evidence that, if one doesn't spiritualize / make literally invalid by symbolic exercise, that at the time of the end of the age there will be a uniquely severe, single great earthquake (isaiah 29:6, zecharia 4:7, haggia 2:6, revelation 6:12, revelation 16:18) and destructive objects described as hail, mountains falling from the sky, stars falling onto earth.
i note that ancients would not recognize the vastness of outer space and meteroids, asteroids, comets, planets being what we know them as.. there is also the exact symbol of "then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea.
one-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed.
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Asteroid/comet impacts are going to happen. They will be bad for survival of species. Ozone layer will be blown off, tsunami will sweep continents, and post-impact winter will decimate food supplies. Species will be affected by UV radiation and new generation of mutated flowers and animals will appear. Small size impact happens once every couple thousand years. If we counting mysterious tungsten explosion; were rather lucky, because medium-size impact do happens at least once during life of Humans. Asteroids like the one from 35 millions years ago in Chesapeake bay changed the climate and blown off a ozone layer which affected the spices survival success. -
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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Fisherman, you are trolling. The law is very clear why she ended in jail. She went there for contempt of court. At that point it was irrelevant that she refused to issue license to four couples from which two were gay/lesbian. She was ordered by federal judge to do so, and she refused. She willingly disobeyed federal judge. There is little else explaining to do. -
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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Viviene, there is definitely some deficiency inside fisherman's cranium. The issue is very clear, she is in jail for contempt of court, and disobeying its order at her will. Why she is in contempt is at this point irrelevant. The law is clear, and she find the consequence of her actions at the present of the federal judge. -
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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She is breaking the law, by refusing to issue license to two people after court told her to do so. The law she is breaking is a contempt of court. People go to jail for that as Mrs. Kim Davis had find out.
Again, rest is red herring.
You side tracking, because you lack reasoning skills due your own homophobic biases. First red herring were illegal aliens. Second red herring is "She has not been charged with violating that oath and she has not been found guilty of that." Because we do not talk about her oath as elected official; but Davis is disobeying court order which is criminal. Court did not sent her in jail because of her oath, nor the court has not make her guilty of anything else.
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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kaik
What laws are gay people breaking? Anti-sodomy laws were overturned decade ago. States like Maine gave SSM based on popular vote. District courts stroke anti-discrimination laws over these years for some time. DOMA was declared unconstitutional two years ago. SCOTUS did not create any laws when it comes to gay marriage. It only declared that banning gay marriage in 14 states in USA was not constitutional.
On the other hand, Davis is elected official and it is her duty to uphold constitution of the country and the state. If she cannot do that, she needs to resign and her stance is what is it, criminal by contempt of court. She is in jail where she belong. Nobody is taking her religious conviction away, but her religious beliefs cannot interfere with the duties of elected officials.
everything else you had said is just red herring.
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Hysterically tragic - the west stuffs up in Syria
by fulltimestudent ina former lebanese (christian) terrorist once told me a story (meant to be funny) about west asian politics.. a turtle was swimming past the shoreline of the red sea.
on the shore a scorpion calls out,"hey!
give me a lift over to the other side.
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Islamic terrorists are operating in Europe for at least decade. They predate Arab Spring and been active while European press is refusing to even talk about it. When Madrid train attack happened, Spanish government attempted to blame Basque terror group even when it was known that it was Islamic terror attack. France does not have enough resources to deal with them; while European masses are brainwashed by left-wing media, that everything is ok. Anyone who disagree with them is labeled as xenophobe, racist, nationalists, etc. Entire Eastern block is demonized by German, French, and Austrian press, just because these countries want to choose who will can be admitted according local laws and Dublin II treaty.
Last week several NATO generals from Eastern block said it clearly that there is coordinated push of refugees from powerhouses to destabilize European Union. Only 36% of immigrants rioting in Hungary were true Syrians. I will see it that Schengen will collapse by winter or spring. Germany does not have enough prestige, money, and power to bully rest of Europe to submission. The big showdown I will see will happen will be with Poland as it is the least committed country on continent to accept any refugee quotas. Poland made it clear that it will not get barked by Merkel and any interference into its internal affairs from German side would mean a war. With the collapse of "free movement" in EU (Romanians, Croats, and Bulgarians are out of lack, Germany does not allow them to work in Germany), the EU project will be finished. There are two countries that would benefit from the collapse of EU, Russia and USA...
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A poll of sorts: How long have you been a "fader" for?
by SecretSlaveClass ini'm curious about the following:.
1) how long have you been a fader for?.
2) how often do you still get pressure from congregation members and/or family to return as an active witness?.
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kaik
I faded 21, almost 22 years ago. My family pressured me for first two years, I was very firm that JW religion is BS and they kinda stopped pushing the faith on me. My siblings did not talk to me for over decade, and my mom for about 3 years. Since I moved thousands of miles away, I do not meet anyone in my old KH. I am not interested to meet anyone and I do not care to meet anyone. I do not feel that WT has whatsoever power over my life, nor I consider them as authority for anything. Life goes on. I moved, have successful marriage and career, and past cannot be taken or erased. However, my future is what I am making of it, and WT does not have anything to do with it. I wish my family would break the bond with WT, but it is hard when my mom, my siblings are in the cult, and now my niece is studying to become one. I have bunch of cousins in WT, two of them are elders, uncle, aunt, so there is not escape for my mom from the indoctrination.