Posts by MorpheuzX

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Why does it have to be gay "marriage?"

by spiritwalker in

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i know this a hot topic, but i had some thinking on it i wanted to discuss.

to begin, i have nothing against a gay man or lesbian woman and consider many to be friends.

i would also like to express from the beginning in plain thought, "i think gay unions should be legal and do not see why it matters.".

MorpheuzX

Apparently where Yeru lives, a lot of people want to marry their first cousins....umm, okay. Dang I'm glad I'm not from there. x10

I work in the media, as a reporter/low-level editor. And this whole gay marriage issue just smacks of what we call a "timed release". Meaning when there is negative news a company or politician or political party doesn't want the public to focus on, they attempt to stir up some highly volatile issue that's sure to polarize people and divert them from the other more important issues -- like skyrocketing unemployment, a military stretched so thin it's ready to crack, social security failing, and a federal deficits approaching $2.5 trillion. And then instead of tackling these incredibly complex issues, Bush proposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Hmm, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

Does anybody remember the last time the Republicans tried this in 1992 with banning gays in the military? All that cost us was universal health care. I wonder what this round of gay bashing will cost America?

Sorry about getting political, but it's impossible to seperate this issue from politics.

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Anybody from NEPA?

by MorpheuzX in

this might be the wrong place to write this, sorry if it is.

but are there any here that associated with the hazleton or wilkes-barre congregations in pennslyvania?

i da'd in 1996 and was hoping maybe some of my old friends would be here.

MorpheuzX

Jeepers, I guess not. That kind of stinks.

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I haven't seen The Passion Of Christ moofie yet.

by smack in

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ivan reichhhmannn he's a geniuos.

steve

MorpheuzX

I'm conflicted about seeing this movie. On the one hand I'm curious to see what all the hype is about. A good friend of mine has all ready seen it and she pointed out several historical inaccuracies with the plot.

On the other hand, if I see it, I'm going to have to pay admission and I think that sends the wrong message to the fundys out there, namely that this time of product is viable and profitable.

I think curiosity will eventually win out. I just hope this doesn't lead to movies about David, Solomon, the apostles, particularly the apostle Paul and his rather insane comments in 1 Thess. 2:14-16.

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Can a pedolphile reform?

by Bonnie_Clyde in

i need help soon - i was molested by my brother when i was about 9 or 10 and he was about 15 or 16. it has been about 50 years now.

the only way i got him to stop was when i threatened to tell my parents.

since then, i was completely quiet about it.

MorpheuzX

No a pedophile can not be reformed. I was sexually abused when I was seven-years-old by an uncle of mine. He was an alcoholic who liked to beat his wife. So, my mom, his sister, offered him a place to stay for about a week after he'd been thrown out by his wife. Well one night he crept into my room and that was the end of my childhood, and sometimes I think my life.

At the time I was too scared to tell my JW parents what had happened. I never did, even to this day. Well a few years later, this same uncle's daughter came to live with us for a while. She was hiding out from her dad, who had started sexually molesting her when she was just a child, too. She reported him to the police and the police did nothing. The extended family pressured her to hush it all up and retract her claims. She caved in and did. I still feel guilty about not coming forward then. Maybe if two of us were saying it something would have been done. I was about 15 when she came forward and I just didn't want to have to go through it all again.

Anyway. I agree with one of the previous posters who suggested that the only way to cure a pedophile is to put a hollow point in their head.

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The God of Christians is Very Vague

by frankiespeakin in

i no longer consider myself a christian.. i feel that there may be a god, but if there is, he's not the god christians worship, for such a god makes no sense.. if as the bible says we need to have faith in jesus to get everlasting life,,, why would this god make it so misleading and leave so much room for ligitmate doubt,,, by having this information passed on to us by men and organizations that have not been totally honest????.

why would he use the bible to relate this information, when the bible is so full of errors????

the evidence is very clear that the bible has been tampered with over the centuries, so that a reasonable person can have legitimate doubts about the bible's origins.. also, why would god use men who are so prone to dishonesty, to convey this lifesaving information?.

MorpheuzX

I'm an ex-JW, DA'd, and I too no longer consider myself a Christian, although I like a lot of what Jesus had to say and do.

The part that always confused me about christianity in general was the ransom. A perfect man, Adam, sins and so all his offspring are sinners and ergo must die. Then god decides to send his/her perfect son to live a perfect life and die for mankind to redeem humanity. Why? God made the rules. Couldn't god have just tweaked them? Adam and Eve, if they ever existed, were clearly sorry for what they did. God was their parent. Couldn't god have just said, I forgive you? Thereby avoiding thousands of years of indescribable human misery.

I know when a person I love hurts me, I can pretty easily say I forgive you. Why couldn't the god of christianity? I personally hope I one day get to meet the real god. I've got a couple questions to ask her.

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The Governator and civil disobedience

by Phantom Stranger in

i guess we can't break the law unless a good smoke is at stake...

http://slate.msn.com/id/2096338/

in a feb. 13 new york times piece, charlie leduff

MorpheuzX

I know I should be over this by now, as it's old news. But I have to say that I'm still in "shock and awe" everytime I hear or see Governor Schwarzenegger! I still can't get over the breath-taking display of stupidity manifested by the Caliornia recall voters who installed the star of 'The Last Action Hero' in the state's highest public office.

As for Arnold's new found sense of "morality", I suggest anyone who buys into the crock of you know what to examine the August 1977 edition of QUI magazine -- it presents a much more accurate insight into the mind of a man who is clearly not what he presently claims to be.

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Aug 15, 1996 - A cause for celebration?

by Nosferatu in

i was doing some work on my autobiography last night and i wanted to look something up.

august 15, 1996 was a very special day for me (although i didn't realize it at the time).

it was the last jw meeting i ever attended.

MorpheuzX

Hey Nosferatu, sounds like we both quit the borg at almost exactly the same time. I was a baptized auxiliary pioneer. Unlike you, I have no clue what the date of my last meet was. I do know, however, I attended it in street clothes, sang the kingdom melodies loud enough for even the deaf brothers sitting in the front row to hear, fidgeted through a Thursday night meeting listening to the usual nonsense -- but this time with an open mind, and walked out the door of that kingdom hall a free man. That was back in 1996 and I've never been back. A couple of day later I wrote a DA'd letter and that was that.

We both must have been about 18 when we left. What a way to waste your teens, wasn't it?

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Remember Dateline??

by Joyzabel in

i'm trying to get some comments that active jehovah's witnesses may have heard after dateline aired back on may 28, 2002.

do you remember any comments made about the dateline program either made from the platform at the kingdom hall, or in private conversations with other jw's?

how were the people who where on dateline viewed in your area, especially at the kingdom hall or by other jws?

MorpheuzX

Silly question perhaps and sorry if it was already answered but is there anywhere online to get a copy of that particular Dateline episode? I've heard a lot about it and the subject touches close to home for me.

By the time that Dateline episode aired I had already been out of the borg for around half a decade. But all my immediate family are still in. Anybody know where I can find a copy?

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Jesus demands creative control over next movie

by Winston Smith :>D in

MorpheuzX

I preferred when he convereted to Islam.

http://www.theonion.com/onion3513/christ_islam.html

Isn't The Onion great?

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Most Popular JW Jobs???

by Funchback in

what are some of the more popular jobs jws seem to flock to in your opinion?

personally, the latest trend in my area is school bus driver as well as school bus monitor.

i can think of six jws who drive school buses and two who are monitors.

MorpheuzX

Quite a few of the witnesses in my old congregation operated small businesses -- office cleaning, rug cleaning. Most the of the men worked as unskilled laborers in factories. Of the woman that did work, generally single sisters, temp agencies seemed to be the only places willing to hire them.

I did know one particularly bright fellow who was a licensed psychologist. But, he didn't practice.

I'd say on average my old congregation had roughly 120 regular publishers and I think maybe between 2 to 5 of those people actually had a college degree to their name -- compare that to the general public.

To this day I'm still astounded that I was bamboozled by a bunch of menial-job having nincompoops. Of course in my defense, I was only a child at the time.