Posts by mkr32208

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Any witnesses celebrating a birthday?

by evergreen in

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my childs bithday is coming up in october and this year im going for it.i have her present bought and everything is in place to give her fantastic day to remember.for to long i have doubted this unfair policy of the borg and push has finally come to shove!.

anyone else doing the same either priavately or openly

mkr32208

I have two children oldest is almost 3 (jan) youngest is almost 1 (nov) I recently announced to my wife i was having a party resulted in two weeks of almost constant fighting but thats just TS for her were having the parties!

I've also told her when the kids get older if they want to celebrate the holidays we will and too bad so sad glad yer mad for her foolish beliefs! she won't attempt to argue anymore as i've blown about 75% or her beliefs out of the water already!!!

just fyi where i fianally won this fight was when i stated I would discuss any of her beliefs out of the bible only we would set down and pick a belief and use the bible just like we used to have a family study but no watchtower reference material and no internet for me we take about half an hour to prepare then set down at the table with only our bibles and one page of scriptures only!!! seems to work well!

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If you had to change one thing you did while being a JW, what would it be?

by MelbaToast in

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i have seen so many stories here that invoke guilt and shame on innocents, what one important momyumental thing would you have changed if you had it to do over?.

mine would be not getting baptized.

mkr32208

Thats a difficult thing to change your past because it would have such huge repercusions on where you are now (seen butterfly effect?) it's kind of the would you kill hitler question!

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Got this email out of the blue the other day

by mkr32208 in

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mark,.

at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

mkr32208

more friday as events warrant!

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Got this email out of the blue the other day

by mkr32208 in

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mark,.

at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

mkr32208

I added on the last email "if you think someone with "legitimate questions" who cant' find answers and refuses to just "let it go" won't be classified as an apostate your crazy!"

somehow I suspect this won't end well! oh well I've managed to avoid this conversation for almost two years that about the longest you can hope for right!

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Got this email out of the blue the other day

by mkr32208 in

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mark,.

at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

mkr32208

This just keeps going doesn't it!

Well Apostate is against the Witnesses its not just atheism or

something, or folks with legitimate questions. Its like the other party

in a divorce, just trying to make trouble.

and my reply again

There is a HUGE difference between an apostate and someone who is trying to make trouble...

Main Entry: apos·ta·sy

Pronunciation: &-'päs-t&-sE

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural -sies

Etymology: Middle English apostasie, from Late Latin apostasia, from Greek, literally, revolt, from aphistasthai to revolt, from apo- + histasthai to stand -- more at STAND

1 : renunciation of a religious faith

2 : abandonment of a previous loyalty

so some wack job that you meet in service who says "I have a tape for you" isn't an apostate they had to be part of the religion first!

What makes you think that "true apostates" care what you think? The "apostates" who approach you around assembly halls and try to contact JW's out of the phone book and stuff THEY ARE WACK JOBS they want you to come join their "church of the almighty potato" they couldn't sway anyone with a brains faith it's idiotic!

The majority of the people who have brains (I'd like to think that includes me) can REASON their way out of the WBTS all by themselves all you have to do is pick up a bible and look at what it says for about five minutes and you realize it's nonsense!!!! They are the one's the organization is scared of because it's easy to see the holes in JW beliefs, but the REALITY is that these people (the one's with brains) aren't (for the most part) trying to drag people out!

I want you to be happy in your beliefs! That?s why I don't try to change them! I don't try to change ANYONE'S beliefs! I just want you to ACCEPT that I don't belief what you do and offer me the same level of respect I offer you and leave me alone about it!!! If you insist on talking about religion you will FORCE me to take a stand that I DON'T WANT TO TAKE!!!! Why can't you just leave me alone about it!

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Were there any colourful characters in your congregation?

by badboy in

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?

mkr32208

When you are surrounded by mentaly unstable cultist who have a massive superiority complex and work part time scrubbing toilets so they can have gods blessing how could you not have "colorful wack jobs"

lets see-

Jack Procha (sp) watkins glen ny- Neurotic in the extreme if you ever disagreed with him (he was an elder) he would get up and harang you DURING HIS NEXT PRAYER never mentioned names but would be very specific made everyone laugh "dear jehover please forgive the bighead young person in this hall who thinks we should mow the grass saterday morning dispite the fact that he KNOWS that it's a divine command in the bible to go out in service on saterday morning" He was so loopy! He once got so worked up during a sunday talk that he was swearing from the stage awesome!! I could go on for pages about jack what a freak!

or Jerry Murihead he was so unbelievable cocky he thought he wrote the bible more than just read it

most of the other elders were alright in that cong but there were plenty of weird pubs

ted brisbois was certifiable he would change literaly from year to year as to being anointed one year he was the wasnt' then was then wasn't he would miss every single meeting for a year then come in and sign up to reg pioneer weird weird stuff

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Got this email out of the blue the other day

by mkr32208 in

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mark,.

at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

mkr32208

WTF! Mom's response to above;

I tried to reply to your email poem and it won't go through. The tapes

I listen to were some a person had when I was out in service. I did not

listen to the whole thing. I took notes and went home and checked to

see if what they said the magazines said actually said that. they did

but they didn't it was a classic case of taking words out of context and

twisting them. This was strictly apostate in that their only purpose

was to run down the witnesses.

my response again... I'm getting a little tired of this bs can you tell!

Well that?s just dumb that?s not apostate it's just asinine

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Very strange story of a rape case filed against Bush...

by Country Girl in

this woman was later found dead, and it was deemed a suicide after she shot herself in the head.

from the moderate independant (http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i15death.htm).

november 18, 2003 ?

mkr32208

Well Juanita Broddrick was really looking to be in the spotlight and that was about it. Her story didn't add up and she was dropped fairly quickly from the "real" news. I don't think she was crazy though just attention hungry, thats the difference! This woman won't get anywhere because she's NUTS!... and she's dead too, that won't help her case any!

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Got this email out of the blue the other day

by mkr32208 in

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friends

mark,.

at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

mkr32208

follow-up; sent this email 10 min ago!

Regarding the e-mail you sent me the other day exactly what "apostate" info did you see? What reference materials did you look at to find out if it was the truth or not?

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2am visit from elders. Car chase!

by kwintestal in

to get a break from my jw parents when i was 17 (i'm 25 now) i took an apartment of my own.

i was working full time and going to school.

a busy schedule that allowed me to miss meetings without them constantly hounding me.

mkr32208

"the lost gospel" was awesome! laughed my self sick!