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MorpheuzX
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MorpheuzX
If I were her, after I'd exhuasted the appeals process -- which will take years, I'd start transferring large sums of money into untraceable Swiss bank accounts; get on my private jet, with a few plastic surgeons, and head for Tahiti or Florence -- sounds better than doing 20 years in a federal pen.
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NIT-PICK
by Hunyadi ini am riding on the same bus carrying a butt-load of x-jw's who take exception to the lies and mind-f@#%ing of the org.
i was blasted by some for asserting that there are hidden and subliminal images in the illustrations used in the wt publications, and that is fine.
i also understand that there are more important issues than hidden images in the wt publications.
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MorpheuzX
I think I agree with Insomniac. Although in all fairness Hunyadi , I may have misunderstood your point. I often do.
As for threads being posted here that seem trivial, well isn't that one of the main reasons this exists? So that when we've left the borg we can stop being the automatons that we were so fastidiously programmed to be. Personally I usually enjoy both the frivolous and serious threads -- but that's just me.
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Is it wrong to get drunk on purpose????????????? Just a poll , to see.....
by LyinEyes inwell is it wrong to go out and plan on getting drunk,,,,,,tipsy,,,,,,,,,,,mellow,,,,,,,,,or "merry in heart" as the bible puts it??????
i know that some people have addiction problems with alcohol and i dont mean to offend anyone,,,,,but there are alot of folks who on a weekend here and there, drink and just let loose.
i , for one know that if you have a problem with alcohol this is a totally different subject .
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MorpheuzX
When I was in college, by that time already an ex-JW, I shared a house with five guys and three girls. We lived in a small town and there wasn't much to do. I can recall quite a few occasions when somebody would say, "I'm bored. Let's get wasted." So we would, the fridge was always stocked with more alcohol than most bars had in inventory. This wasn't just a weekend thing. At times it was an every night thing -- like someone would say, "hey, it's Tuesday let's drink ourselves unconscious."
After about a semester or two of that I concluded that it wasn't in fact conducive to good health so I stopped. But I really don't see anything ethically, morally, legally or physically wrong with having one too many drinks on the odd occasion.
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Did you ever catch an Elder doing something "Un-theocratic"?
by tazmaniac ini remember finding 2 week old lottery tickets in a elders car i was working on.
he said they must have been from the previous owner.
he owned the car for over a year and a half and the lottery tickets were just a little over two weeks old.
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MorpheuzX
Well this probably doesn't qualify, but I was once out in service with a circuit overseer, an elder and the elder's pioneer wife. It was a rainy day so we were doing return calls, instead of working territory and getting completely soaked.
Well if you've been in a situation like that you know that you're in a cramped car for most of three hours so you start talking. Well as the conversation progressed, the CO explained that it's okay to lie! But that the lie had to be told to "advance kingdom interest." This sparked an argument in the car-group, as the other elder didn't buy it. Well after field service we got back to the KH, went down to the library and the CO pulled out an old Watchtower that confirmed what he said. I was shocked. That was my first introduction to "theocratic warfare".
So is that theocratic or un-theocratic, I'm confused?
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Is it wrong to get drunk on purpose????????????? Just a poll , to see.....
by LyinEyes inwell is it wrong to go out and plan on getting drunk,,,,,,tipsy,,,,,,,,,,,mellow,,,,,,,,,or "merry in heart" as the bible puts it??????
i know that some people have addiction problems with alcohol and i dont mean to offend anyone,,,,,but there are alot of folks who on a weekend here and there, drink and just let loose.
i , for one know that if you have a problem with alcohol this is a totally different subject .
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MorpheuzX
One of the best parts of getting plastered is finding out what you did the next day.
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That Elder Mentality
by Englishman inexactly what does it mean to have "an elder mentality"?
i'm curious.
elders didn't exist when i left the jw's.
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MorpheuzX
LMAO at Saint Satan, have you heard of "binary-thinkers". I think being one of those is a requirement of being an elder.
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Why are there kitchens in KHs?
by meat pie inis it some sort of charitable status requirement?
ours was only used when the co visited and there was a coffee break at the hall part way through field service.. any one know?.
shirley.
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MorpheuzX
There was a kitchen and a downstairs two-room apartment in my KH. At first it was occupied by the PO, and then after him a elder who was pioneering, and then after him two sister pioneers.
We'd go down there almost everyday between morning and afternoon field service and have lunch, hang out. It was fun now that I think of it.
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That Elder Mentality
by Englishman inexactly what does it mean to have "an elder mentality"?
i'm curious.
elders didn't exist when i left the jw's.
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MorpheuzX
This was suppose to be with my first post on this subject, but didn't work for some reason, so here it is continued.
When I was a JW at my last congregation, I was very close friends with two elders, one was the PO, and the other was a full-time pioneer. They were the only two elders, out of 12, that I could stand. The rest of them were all on power trips. Now the following story isn't a "horror story" it just illustrates my point. When I was 17 I was an auxiliary pioneer (back before the hours were reduced.) One day I had just finished giving a talk and an elder came up to me and told me that if I didn't get a hair cut I'd not be considered in good standing!!!! My hair was freaking short already. He just wanted to boss me around. And I think he was annoyed because I was consistently turning in more hours, conducting more studies, giving more and better talks than any of the elders' sons were. That was just their little way of keeping me in check.
Stupid me at the time, I just went and did what he said. Today I would have taken out my bible and said show me where Jesus said that. But, I was pretty well brain-washed back then.
Anyway, if I can digress from my digression, the elder mentality is a pure power trip.
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That Elder Mentality
by Englishman inexactly what does it mean to have "an elder mentality"?
i'm curious.
elders didn't exist when i left the jw's.
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MorpheuzX
The elder mentality is simply this, "I'm better than you." I guess I was in four different congregations through out my JW life and almost without deviation the "elders" were uneducated, middle-aged men, working menial jobs or employed as unskilled laborers. It was also common for the elders to be interrelated -- siblings, brothers in law, and fathers in law. It was very much a clique. In fact, in my last congregation virtually the only way to become an elder was to be the son of an elder or to marry the daughter of an elder.
I can't generalize and say all elders were haughty and moronic. They were not all that way. But most of them were. Can you say power-trip? To me this is a recipe for disaster: take five to ten uneducated men who've generally accomplished nothing in their lives, place them in an elevated position of authority and watch the chaos ensue.