by somebodylovesme 150 Replies latest watchtower scandals
If you want to post a thread here but avoid getting caught, you need to use an anonymizer service when browsing the WW site so they can't match you up with the JWD site.
Can a person copy and paste posts on notebook, then transfer them here and provide the link? Too much work?
PamelaDO gets my vote for Watchtower Drone of the year.
Can a person copy and paste posts on notebook, then transfer them here and provide the link? Too much work?
You can copy and paste text from a remote site without problem...it's just when there are embedded images (like emoticons, avatars, etc). When you paste those things here, the remote site can tell it's been pasted here because JWD would show up as the referrer.
If you provide a link to a remote site in your message, JWD again would show up as the referrer when you click on it. To avoid this you need to copy and paste the URL into your browser's address bar. This causes no referrer information to be sent.
Does that answer your question? Or did I not understand what you meant?
Another entry in the "Best Writing Of the Year" contest.
Thank you willyloman
This whole "cloak and dagger" thing is bizarre. I was thrown off one of Obed's first sites when I first began posting on the internet. I had no idea that "spies" would go and check all of the ex-JW boards.
I later joined Witnesses.net (Obed's next venture until he apostacized) just to read...and to occasionally comment. By that time he had become a little more open, and some open discussions went on there. I never said too much, though, and eventually I was invited to become a moderator....talk about absolute shock!!
Obed, who was on his way out, mentioned this board when it first started, and I joined here under another name...my current one. Even though I tried to be careful, there was one admin at Witnet who was sure that RedhorseWoman here and Coolwater there were one and the same, but she couldn't verify it. So...she started asking members of this board about me. Shortly thereafter, Obed announced that he had left the JWs, and the site was shut down.
Since then I've joined one or two JW boards, but they are so boring that I generally never post and barely ever read there. The one place that I've found is great for debating sensitive issues with JWs openly is on Beliefnet. There is a Debate board there (and several members from here have gone there on occasion) and it is run under the rules of the site owners, who have no JW ties. There are some pretty interesting--and heated--discussions that occur over there, and occasionally there is a JW who questions things...not much....but it does happen.
That's really interesting, Redhorse... I haven't been around too long (online in the Witness/ex-Witness world) - did there used to be more true Witness message board sites? I only know of 2 or 3 now. But I've heard a lot refered to in the past tense.
I wonder how long they will continue... or if the Society will eventually shut them down.
SLM
Ahh, I just checked out and beliefnet and found the debate board you mentioned, RedhorseWoman - I see you are a host! :) That's awesome. I'm going to go explore it a little. Thanks for mentioning it here.
SLM
did there used to be more true Witness message board sites?
There used to be a lot more than there are now. The biggest one was Witnesses.net, and then Witnessesonline that started up when Big Ray, who was a moderator on Witnet decided that the board was becoming too "open" for the true JWs. At that point in time, there were also a lot of smaller boards that were around, but most of those shut down fairly quickly because they would just go stagnant after a couple of months. There are a couple of JW boards on MSN, but they generally aren't too active. I think that there are probably some private boards out there that are kind of like prohibition speak-easies....knock three times, state who recommended you, and give the secret password. LOL
Those who post on those boards aren't particular amenable to any ideas that might cause them to think....they generally gravitate toward fluff. The ones that try to be less restrictive don't seem to last long.
There've been quite a few. Obed got his start at witnesses.about.com. Eventually (in '98, I think), he started up his own site, witnesses.net.
Somewhere along the line, a guy called Dwayne started a site called greatcrowd.com. One of the admins there eventually left and started a small site, I don't remember the name... everyone just called it "Aisne's site." (SpunkyOne was her username.)
In early 2000 (or possibly earlier), a bunch of mods and admins from witnesses.net split because they felt that Obed was becoming apostate; they started a site called WitnessesOnline (WOL), owned by Big Ray. A nutcase called Focus ran witneses.net for a little while, made a ton of enemies, and left (or got booted) and started a site called Online Friends.
Sometime around then, the managers of the witnesses.net chat room also decided to bolt; and they set up their own chatroom, JWChat.net.
The next crop of Witnesses.net admins eventually resigned en masse in the summer of '00... some of them went on to start their own sites. (I know of one called Bently & Friends.) SpunkyOne became admin of witnesses.net
Late in '00, a few people (myself included) from WOL and Witnesses.net created a small site called JWZone. Around the same time, Obed shut down witnesses.net, and came out publicly as an ex-Witness.
Sometime, I forget when (I think in '01), the admin of GreatCrowd, Viktoria, got tired of reporting to Dwayne. She started her own site at greatcrowd.net. Eventually, that site got shut down, and was succeeded by the private site foreverfriends.us.
Late in '01, Big Ray decided to shut down WOL. A group of WOLers (led by myself) started up a replacement site called PLN.
Around the middle of last year, a group of PLNers who were dissatisfied with the restrictive atmosphere there decided to start their own site. And that's how WitnessWorld was born.
Last October, when my decision to leave the org became public, the other admins shut down JWZone in a panic. It relocated to a new URL and is now called Deep Space Zone.
There was another board in the mix, called JehovahsWitnessesOnTheWeb. I'm not sure when it was started; the owner was named Ryan, I believe.
I know there've been other groups; there was The Virtual Gathering; t-tools and greektheology; and more. But those are the ones that I had some involvement with.
Does that answer your question?
Has anyone checked out:
http://www.touchstoneforum.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.pl?az=list&forum=DCForumID2&conf=DCConfID1
It seems to have active JW and others on it talking about issues...
-LisaBObeesa
