Posts by DireStraitJacket

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WATCHTOWER - AND THE CREDIT - DEBIT CARDS !!!!!!!!

by Aikon in

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hi guys.. in britain this year for the district assembly, the w/t are making collection by credit and debit cards.. now, the question is are they doing this elsewhere??

usa, canada, france, australia, ect, ect.. please feel free to enter the country of this imoral practise.. are they encouraging the jw to get in debt?????

what a hipocracy... is this what jesus christ condemned??.

DireStraitJacket

>That Jesus has come to Earth and is beating ATM machines with whips made of ropes!
>Why didn't anyone tell me, I could have gotten a Jesus autograph and picture and sold it on EBAY!

LOL!!
we got two guys at varsity that look like your average picture of Jesus, with the long hair etc. they sign autographs as jesus if buy them vodka, i'm sure they to would be interested in using credit card machines to further their drinking interests

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Startin' Up da JWD Soul Train w/50 Ways to Leave Watchtower...heh

by Frannie Banannie in

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i'm startin' off this jwd soul train thread with something that's not very "soul-ish", but very appropo.....50 ways to leave your lover....with a few of the words changed to fit in with our "pause to see".....can anyone help this thread with a "lift-off" by changing some of the words in aretha's "think" and "r.e.s.p.e.c.t."???.

50 ways to leave watchtower.

the problem is all inside your head.

DireStraitJacket

Metallica have a great way of putting things, i've changed 2 words in this (not quite soul either..)

Dear elder

Dear overseer

What is this hell you have put me through

Believer

Deceiver

Day in day out live my life through you

Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right

Hidden from this thing that they call life

Dear brother

Dear overseer

Every thought I’d think you’d disapprove

Curator

Dictator

Always cencoring my every move

Children are seen but are not heard

Tear out everything inspired

Innocence

Torn from me without your shelter

Barred reality

I’m living blindly

Dear mother

Dear father

Time has frozen still what’s left to be

Hear nothing

Say nothing

Cannot face the fact I think for me

No guarantee,it’s life as is

But damn you for not giving me my chance

Dear brother

Dear overseer

You’ve clipped my wings before I learnt to fly

Unspoiled

Unspoken

I’ve outgrown that fucking lullaby

Same thing I’ve always heard from you

Do as I say not as I do

Innocense

Torn from me without your shelter

Barred reality

I’m living blindly

I’m in hell without you

Cannot cope without you two

Shocked at the world that I see

Innocent victim please rescue me

Dear brother

Dear oversear

Hidden in your world you’ve made for me

I’m seething

I’m bleeding

Ripping wounds in me that never heal

Undying spite I feel for you

Living out this hell you always knew

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What Are You READING?

by patio34 in

okay, it seems it's high time we had another thread like this!.

for serious reading, i have exceptions to the rulers by amy goodman (goes great with fahrenheit 911!

)the curse of adam by bryan skyles (i think) (it predicts the extinction of males.

DireStraitJacket

I just finished catch-22 Joseph Heller, so funny yet sad, how men try use war and bad situations to their own advantage. seems its still happening
hopefully the library will have some of the books mentioned here, there some pretty good suggestions, maybe I'll reread the dune series..

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Did Being a JW Make You a Bully VICTIM in SCHOOL?

by Smoldering Wick in

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i read this article in the montreal gazette that talked about a young witness kid being bullied in school.

it made me think back to all the times i was treated differently in school for being a jehovah's witness.

i grew up in a predominately mexican community and went to public school there from 1st-12th grade as a jw.

DireStraitJacket

>Listening to my damn parents talk about God 24/7 listening to those damn stupid kingdom songs always saying >how they are right and everybody else is wrong and having them spit out their self-righteous bullshit

its hard dealing with this.. my mother wants us to have one meal together as a family, so I try but then we sit in silence because any topic I bring up always ends up with it being a sign of the great tribulation, the last days, what someone gave a talk about at the meeting.. I've given up trying to argue, she just ignores the fact that I'm totally disinterested in jw conversation with her, but she is forever telling me that people miss me at meetings and would love to see me come back, people I never liked or talked to in the first place..
I jsut want to leave, but circumstances are preventing that..

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Finally!!! Run in with JWs...

by Tashawaa in

i've lived here for about 1 1/2 years and haven't seen a single jw.

i read all the posts where there have been run-ins, people called on, elders talked to, etc.

and couldn't hardly wait for my turn.

DireStraitJacket

I've bumped into a couple on the street doing field service, always saying that I'm not interested, and brushing them off when they ask why.
What got to me was when this guy from some student church group came up to me and asked if I was religious at all, and I replied no, I've had bad experience with religion and now I avoid all of them, he asked what religion I was involved with. When I told him he said he had never heard of them, but his religion was really accepting of people and I should try attend a meeting on the sunday morning, all the people are really friendly and they don't ask for money. It sounded way to much like the jw's, he even followed me half a block before he seemed to notice I was ignoring him and gave up..
They always seem to appear when you least expect them or want them to appear, when you feel like having an argument theres non in sight.

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Very sad

by DireStraitJacket in

this guy isn't linked to jw or anything, it's just sad that tragedies like these are happening .

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1087220700373b263&set_id=1

DireStraitJacket

this guy isn't linked to jw or anything, it's just sad that tragedies like these are happening

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1087220700373B263&set_id=1

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More exposure for my music!

by Nosferatu in

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yeah, another shameless plug for my music.

i found a great website that will allow me 50 megs of storage for music!

this means better bandwidth for my tunes (rather than using the free sites).

DireStraitJacket

lol, who does the description? do you have to fill out a questionnaire, or does someone interview you, or did you write the whole thing yourself..?

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Correcting Falsehoods About Ray Franz's Beliefs (Holy Spirit, Trinity)

by allpoweredup in

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see what he himself says at http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-holyspirit.html i was told many falsehoods by watchtower diehards such as he is now "a rabid trinitarian," "a nondenominalist or pentecostal.

" also he's transdenominalist (associates with christians and others) not just those of one belief system.

i'm sure many of you also heard a lot of falsehoods put out about him.

DireStraitJacket

to me it just points out the fact that no-one really knows what god (or whatever greater power one believes in) is/was. The holy spirit seems like a random force that is used as cover for all the random unexplainable events that may or may not have occured in history and were attributed to god in the bible. i'm not really sure what point i'm trying to make here, except that i guess i'm at a loss as to what to believe. The jw upbringing has resulted in me pretty much rejecting the bible completely, so I'm trying to find some other explanation for how we came to be on earth.
i guess this is off topic, but i've been reading some 'conspiracy' theories lately, a couple by David Icke, it makes for interesting reading, problem is that at almost any point in his books you can close them and say what utter garbage it all is, and end up being more confused than when you started. which is where i am..

aah well

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cocktails/mixing drinks

by baysixforme in

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i went to a bbq the other night and had a couple of glasses of white wine before being offered a white rum with black pepper.

i knocked back two of those...not particularly large ones either and that was it...i was somewhere else!.

the good part about it was that i was with some good friends who were able to take care of me....the bad part was that i could hardly remember anything the next day.

DireStraitJacket

i find that drinking smirnoff for a couple of hours and then switching to romanov or russian bear for the next couple of hours (due to wallet pressure) has that kind of effect on me as well. Don't drink much rum after that one night.., varsity party, woke up lying on a cardboard box on some stairs in small building on campus the next day..
Mixing beer with spirits generally has the worst effect though..

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Another Gaming Thread

by Stefanie in

crap.

i pressed enter.. what video games is everyone into.

currently i am into mortal kombat on xbox.

DireStraitJacket

I still put in a hour or so a day on the original Unreal Tournament, other then that Need4Speed Underground and Hot Pursuit 2, Call of Duty (fps, EXCELLENT!!), Far Cry, Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire, and yeah I still play plenty freecell..
oh, forgot to add Max Payne 2