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  Bisexuality Quiz

  by JH in

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  http://www.golivewire.com/forums/viewquiz.cgi?action=624

  you are 90% straight and 10% bisexual.. .

  out of the 1646 people who have taken this quiz, the average person is 40% bisexual.

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  dorayakii

  You are 40% Straight and 60% Bisexual.

  Umm... i don't thin this quiz was designed for 100% Gay people...
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  Whats the dumbest reason youve been counseled?

  by avishai in

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  my friend was counseled for having a bad attitude because he wore white socks w/ his suit.

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  dorayakii

  For having like, 2 hairs on my chin when i was about 16... "You sould shave, its not appropriate to wear a beard in the Kingdom Hall"

  For referring to the WTS as "The Society". A few years ago there was something going around that we couldn't say "The Society", anymore, we had to say "The Faithful Slave" or "The Governing Body"

  For wearing a hat into the foyer of the Kingdom Hall... I wasn't even baptised yet then, but i was told, "Brothers should take off hats before they enter, only sisters are alowed to wear a hat inside because it shows their submission towards the brothers"

  For wearing a different coloured jacket and trousers (pants)on the platform while giving a bible reading. (The jacket was tweed and the trousers were grey)

  For wearing concealed silver wrist and neck chains

  For going to a public secondary school (umm... aka. "private high-school" for you Americans)

  For going to university

  For going shopping alone with a sister (A rumour went around that we were courting. I tried all kinds of ways to get out of that one, but i really just wanted to admit it and cry out "I'm gay for Vishnu's sake, why is this a problem" but i obviously couldn't)

  For watching The Matrix and LotR and enjoying them.

  For having a Windsor-knot on my tie instead of the normal (imho) trashy Four-in-Hand knot. (After the Awake! article "Neckties Then and Now" came out, i reprised my old Windsor knot.)

  For saying in my talks that we have the "fantastic privilege of prayer". (apprently the privilege of prayer is not fantastic, it is quite real. I retorted that it was just a figure of speech and that when you say that something is brilliant, it doesnt necessarily mean it it literally shining.)

  I also got councilled for saying that the Bible Students showed an"unbelievable level of faith".... (It was believable)

  For giving too perfect of an experience on the platform at the Circuit Assembly. (I should have seemed less faithful, so that other kids in the audience could relate to me... The experience was a pig's-trough load of embellished bull$#!+ anyway, lol)

  For describing God's "purpose" as a plan in a prayer at the book study.

  Yep, i had this one as well... Jehovah doesnt need to plan, he has everything worked out already.

  So i asked, "then why is there a book called the Divine Plan of the Ages?"...

  The elder said, "how did you know about that book?"...

  i said, "umm.. its mentionned in the Proclaimers book"...

  he said, "oh, ok, anyway, that term was changed when the Faithful Slave came to a scriptural realisation that Jehovah does not plan anything, he merely purposes. You shouldn't really say that Jehovah 'plans'"...

  That got me right confused, lol, i'd never heard the word "purpose" used as a verb... (I purpose to go on holiday this year)

  yummby Jehovahs people are the happiest people on earth, you are not reflecting that quality"

  Sparks: 11:Telling a householder the Awake! magazines are simular to Readers Digest

  LOOOOOOL
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  Rename That Magazine!

  by RichieRich in

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  attention apostates!

  i'm sick, and i'm bored!!!

  that means fun for all of us!.

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  dorayakii

  For the angels one:

  "Overcrowding in Heaven -- Is There a Solution?"

  Dave

  I dunno why this one made me laugh so much, i decided to make a proper version of it...

  
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  Pictures- Just for fun

  by RichieRich in

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  i was just browsing through my files, and came across a few cool / neat / weird photos i thought i'd share.

  these are from my trip to bethel in mid-april of last year.. .

  there i was, right outside hq.

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  dorayakii

  I never knew that "Read Watchtower and Awake!" occupied a higher position than "Read God's Word the Holy Bible Daily"!

  Just shows what they put as most important.
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  Do Black people have a monopoly on rhythm?

  by LDH in

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  ok i will admit to creating a horrible thread title just to get you to look!

  of course black people don't have a monopoly on rhythm.

  i just wanted to brag (a little late but still) that my daughter's high school won the percussion high honors trophy at western band championships in november in long beach.

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  dorayakii

  Congrats to your daughter, I agree she's in heaven, those are some good looking boys she's with there

  As for whether black people have the monopoly on rhythm, I can sing really well but i can't dance to save my life... Rhythm in one but not in the other, how strange... far from a monopoly i'd say
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  Are kilts considered proper meeting or assembly attire in the UK?

  by avishai in

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  dorayakii

  I think i'd look rather fetching in my families tartan.

  

  (My paternal great-great grandfather was a caucasian from Scotland, just in case you were wondering)

  Would be interesting to find out about some of the traditional dress of some of my other ancestors...
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  What was your first Apostasy?

  by Dune in

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  i'm re-reading 1984 and the similarities between the wtbs and the "party" astound me, but anyway, it made me think of the time when i started to get doubts (thoughtcrime).. i remember once at this book study a sister commented about the 1914 and was reciting it's historical accuracy.

  anyway, she went on to mention that the demons were probably learning everything about biblical prophecies from the wtbs.

  i was 13 at the time but the comment made me cringe, i was thinking "why would superior beings need humans to interpret the bible for them?

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  My first doubts crept up during the family study. I first started to think in 1993 at the age of 10 when we were discussing the time when Jehovah killed Uzzah for merely touching the Ark of the Covenant. I said that it seemed unfair and that i didnt understand why Jehovah had done that, the answer that my Father gave me was insufficient, but i just used double-think to blot it out from my mind... from then on, i started noticing discrepancies between scriptures and injustices on the part of Jehovah but i became an expert user of double-think.

  Around about the same time (9/10), i began to notice that i was gay, but didnt know how to articulate my feelings at the time. When i realised that my feelings were what they were going on about all the time, i entered into a long period of guilt. The guilt never really went away until i was 18. After that, i finally realised that being gay was not something to be ashamed of, it was not something that i could control, and therefore its not worthy of guilt.

  In 1999, at the age of 15, when my school first got the internet, i tried to look for the Watchtower website, but typed it in wrong. I panicked when i saw the amount of "apostate" JW websites. However, i never was confident enough to look at them. Between 15 and 18 i felt terrible pangs of guilt and my double-think-o-meter went off the scale... My "faith" was really weak at that point, so in Dec 2001, having just turned 18, i decided to get baptised to "protect" myself...

  It was the biggest mistake of my life, because in early 2002 i built up the courage to access "apostate" material on the internet. It wasthe killing blow to wipe all traces of WT belief from me. I learned about the 1975 scandal, the false 607 doctrine and the UN-NGO scandal and they all became nails in the coffin. The beginning of 2002 was a turning point for me. Even though it wasn't until late 2003 that i ceased to believe in God and the Bible, i eliminated all thoughts of "what if the WatchTower really IS the Truth?". In September 2002 i started my University degree and by the end of the year i had entered my first "serious" relationship...
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  Email from Stephen Bates regarding Quotes website

  by IT Support in

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  i received this email from stephen bates, journalist on the guardian (london) newspaper, a few hours ago:

  dear ken,.

  a few months ago you emailed me about the watchtower suing a canadian website.

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  dorayakii

  I recieved a similar email from Steven Bates as well today. I was about to start a new thread, good thing i spotted this one first.

  Subject : Re: WatchTower sues [Quotes] for $100,000+
  
  Dear Stephen, A few months ago you kindly emailed me about the Watchtower's litigation against the Canadian website. I have followed the story from afar and an account will, I hope, be running on the Guardian's international website: www.newsunlimited.co.uk within the next day or two. Thank you for telling me about the original story.
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Steve Bates

  How kind of him to reply, after such a long while. He's a great guy and a brilliant reporter, he even went so far as to write me an individual email, with slightly different wording than IT's email...
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  why do elders always pass on your private info?

  by hamsterbait in

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  2. scandals

  just read in another thread how a youngster moved many many miles from his old congo, where he had 'fessed to "self-abuse" (how many of the gb were in the early boy-scouts, i ask?

  anyway, the new book study conductor took him to one side after the meeting and asked how successful was he in dealing with his "problem".

  this is what gets me so much about letting hlc see your records - they have no sense of tactful kindness or privacy.

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  hamsterbait: I knew someone who struggled with cross-dressing for many years.

  Swan: He must not be doing it right. Obviously he needs to stop wearing clothes too small for him.

  I mean, we women have to struggle too sometimes, especially after the holidays, but for years?

  
  

  
  BWAHAHAHAHA!! Thats a good one...

  Although i'm no longer a "Christian" i know that it's all supposed to be about forgiveness and blotting out of sins. The Watchtower Society don't believe in forgiveness, but instead want to keep records and information about individual publishers so that there is no risk of them "infecting" others with their sinfullness.

  Actually, REWIND ......i take that back, (I just thought of the case of paedophiles being allowed to continue to serve in the cong). They don't care about spreading the wrongdoing particularly, they just want to know the dirt so they can feel that they be in a position to control. My father always brags about different things he knows as an Elder. "But i wouldn't want to burden you with all that, that's why Jehovah has the Body of Elders to bear the burden". Yawwwwwn......

  I for one NEVER revealed any "problems" that i was "dealing with" while i was a Witness, not even to my Elder father. One, i was too ashamed to admit that i was gay, and two, i was afraid that it would become common knowledge and that i would be marked. I always feared eyes looking at me in a negative or critical way, and besides, I had too perfect of an image in my congregation...
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  Watchtower Quotes now on WatchtowerInformationService.org

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  i have added the section watchtower quotes to watchtower information service.

  these quotes were originally published on quotes.watchtower.ca; the website that has been shut down by the watchtower society.

  i have not mirrored the quotes-website, but integrated it into watchtower information service.

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  dorayakii

  HALLELURADO!!

  Thank you very very much, i needed Quotes' website during xmas but i was absolutely horrified to find it had been shut down. Is all the info that was on Quotes' site on here?