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willyloman used that expression in a different thread.
what publications do you have in your "theocratic"----i mean, "apostate library"?
I'm new at this, so I only have a few:
JWs and the Problem of Mento' Illness -Jerry Bergman Ph.D. (I couldn't put it down!!)
JWs and the Hour of Darkness -that Barefoot guy
Blood on the Altar - David Reed
a couple of Freeminds tapes and CDs
Recently borrowed Apocalypse Delayed and Accidental Autobiography from library.
If i keep buying new books I won't be able to afford my drug drinking habit any more.
some here may have noticed that recently teejay and i got into it a little bit on a thread i started about the locking of threads.
about two years ago teejay and i got into it a few times in other threads.
as much as i thought teejay was an intelligent guy and i have always gotten a kick out of his sarcastic sense of humor i still thought he loved to stir things up and take a few unnecessary jabs at people simply for the sake of jabbing them and causing trouble.. teejay called me tonight.
you really need to write a book, Dave. you're seriously talented.
someone just reminded me of the written review, i had totally forgotten about them.
hate them?
at least there was'nt anyone up blabbering on the platform.
The first one I did, I wrote "I don't Know" next to nearly every answer. in later years, I passed notes and doodled. the hall did get very quiet, didn't it? it was kinda nice....
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but could foresee the future and saw that your body was thrown into the woods to rot, would it bother you?
i don't mind feedin' the wildlife as long as i'm dead. it has a cylic finality to it... you feed the next generation of carrion eaters, scavengers, insects, grubs, etc... and a part of you lives on in them.
the watchtower society tries to "demonize" the internet.
what damage do you think the internet has caused on the jehovah's witness religion??
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I worry about the thousands that will be baptized in the third world this year. How many years before witnesses in these countries find out they have been sold a myth?
Well said, jgnat. BTW, who's the babe in the photo? Is that you?
one congregation in the 70's allowed only white shirts to be worn on the platform.
if an out of town speaker didn't know the "rule", it was ok. the brothers kept a variety of white shirts in different sizes in case that happened.
LOL @ SFJim & Gigamesh
be honest
I'd like to stick a few pins in the North Korean Dictator, Kim Jong Il. what a @#$%, letting his people starve while he builds up the military and commissions statues in his honor. If there is a hell, he deserves to roast there for all eternity.
one congregation in the 70's allowed only white shirts to be worn on the platform.
if an out of town speaker didn't know the "rule", it was ok. the brothers kept a variety of white shirts in different sizes in case that happened.
I went to a cong. in Honolulu where everyone was required to take off their shoes, Japanese style. The MS would nag visitors who had the audacity to keep their footwear on. Once, a man w. an artificial leg got offended by this and left, and never came back.
first time i have ever posted a message so my apologies if i am not as succinct in my use of language as some of the other contributors appear to be.
my cousin, who was in his late 20's at the time, announced that he was one of the 144,000 in the mid eighties.
his poor mother, who was scitzophrenic, was hospitalised as the shock sent her into an attack.
I always heard the old "...the bible is like a letter to you.." story. I remember in the WT once, there was mention of a woman who claimed to be one of the Annointed after being a JW for only a short time, and had to be disfellowshiped.
I never quite got it myself. I worked in FS with an annointed sister once. She seemed a bit thick.
The householder was making fun of her, (being very rude to this frail elderly lady)and she completely misunderstood and wrote the house number down as a possible back call.
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i'm in the middle of decorating my new house, and was a bit stuck as to what to use to mask off the furniture/carpets etc until i spotted an oldv pile of watchtowers that i'd been meaning to throw out.
i now have paint spattered watchtowers all over my living room.. anybody else got any good things to use old liturature for?
I'd like a "Paradise Lost" book, if anyone has one. Will pay, plus shipping.
