Posts by badwillie

Always tense around girls when things were about to get intimate. I was like the the guy in Animal House with the Angel on one shoulder and the Devil on the other whispering in my ears.

I broke up with my first real witness girlfriend at 19 because everyone told us we were too young to be together (which of course was absolutlely correct - when you're talking about marriage).

Then when the guilt and tension got too hard (no pun intended) I would go on a sex "binge" - prowling malls (popular teen meat market in the 80's) or clubs collecting phone numbers. Funch can testify to the fact that neither one of us had any problem "pulling da honeys" back in our heyday. On more than one occassion while on a date with a girl and in the heat of the moment, Jehovah's spirit would tell me to run and repent. Of course she would be very embarassed and surprised - but I just KNEW I was doing the right thing. What strange behavior we witness youths had huh?

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BUSH MOST ADMIRED MAN IN THE US

by Yerusalyim in

hmmm, interesting.

bush is the most admired man in the us with 29% saying he's tops.. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/7595879.htmposted on tue, dec. 30, 2003bush, sen. clinton most admired.

washington george w. bush and hillary rodham clinton are finally on the same ticket the most admired man and woman in america, according to a poll released monday.. the republican president and the democratic senator from new york and former first lady wont be found on the same sides of many political issues.

badwillie

Bush...most admired? I think NOT.

Here's what the average American will be talking about in 2004:

http://www.ourfuture.org/docUploads/12-24-03_kitchen-table.pdf

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THE END OF THE ROAD - but just the beginning - Brian's Conclusion

by Funchback in

part i: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/58849/1.ashx .

part ii: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/58890/1.ashx .

part iii: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/58975/1.ashx .

badwillie

Yo Funch...nice to see I had a couple of cameo appearances in your story.

I just read through all 5 or 6 parts..very entertaining. Takes me right back to the 80's

You showed what it takes for anyone to break free.. COURAGE.

Come on you lurkers, you can do it too!!!

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a re-introduction

by flower in

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its been quite a while since i was a regular poster here and there are a ton of new people that i dont know so i thought i'd re introduce myself since i've been hanging around a little more regular lately.

hi, i'm flower and i'm an apostate .

i am currently almost 2 years an exjw and talk about a roller coaster ride.

badwillie

HI Flower!!! We miss you too!

I loved reading your little summary of the past 2 years. Our journey out of the cult has been going at a similar pace. I was touched also by your words about your family.

I also hate the WTS for taking my family. On a postive note, I have become a lot closer to my brother who wasn't in the borg, and my wife has come a long way in the past year and a half since she left too. My stepson is doing great in adjusting - he said the other day that it was hard for him to even remember the lifestyle and routine we had as JW's. And little badwillie just turned 3 last month and is getting ready to go out as "the red power ranger" for halloween- oh boy! So things are good for us.

We all need to have a reunion soon... we miss you and Jaden too. Let's get Funch in on it too. A little Fall Phillyphest?

- BW.

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Should Foster Children Be Forced to Attend the Meetings?

by Funchback in

http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=1494675

billy johnson is a jehovah's witness .

who says he takes kids to meetings to supervise them.. .

badwillie

good topic Funch. I agree with others here who have said that the much larger issue is the whole idea of forced religious indoctrination of children.

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When Loved Ones Do Not Share Your Faith - 11/8/03 Awake!

by Funchback in

i picked and chose the more interesting quotes.

"how should christians treat loved ones who do not share their faith?

"no time limit is implied in the command at exodous 20:12 to 'honor your father and your mother.

badwillie

This is the shit that REALLY pisses me off!!!

I hate the F#@king Watchtower Sickciety!!! There... I'm better now.

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How Welfare Changed America......

by teenyuck in

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found this article in the latest us news and world report.

the issue is dealing with american milestones.

some of the articles include 100 documents that define our nation to the one i am going to post.

badwillie

Check out these comments from a former submarine officer:

"Many people don't understand that the military is basically a socialist enclave of the U. S. in the following senses.

The military is a top-down, centrally-planned society. The military tells you what job to do, where to live (die), and takes care of your needs for you, e.g., everyone gets health care, meals, housing, transportation, eyeglasses, dental care, prescriptions. The social safety net is really very wide, and it is all provided by the federal government. The military is owned by the "soldiers/workers" in the sense that the government of the U.S. is "of" the people, "by" the people, and "for" the people.

Because of this, even though the military is a "top-down" community, most people in the military are better taken care of by their employer than is a typical civilian doing a similar job. Corporate America is much more of a jungle than the military. More civilians workers than soldiers are injured or killed on the job! And I'll even go so far as to say that my submarine seemed more democratic than many of the civilian workplaces I've seen, in the sense that the submarine commanders I worked for listened to the other officers and to the crew, and made decisions that often reflected that input---not on everything, of course, but more often than in my current workplace (a university!!!). That's because a mistake in a submarine can cause everyone, including the captain, to die at the bottom of the ocean. So there's more of a sense of community, that everyone needs to do well for me to do well.

The strange thing, though, is that the Republican Party is seen as "owning" the military vote, even though many of the social programs that exist for soldier-workers are criticized vociferously by Republicans when proposed for civilian-workers.

It really makes no sense for military people to vote for Republicans. If the Republicans were consistent and honest, they would propose *privatizing* the military. By their arguments, the federal government can't do anything efficiently or well, so why trust the government with something as important as national security?

But the Republicans do not propose this. Therefore, they implicitly acknowledge that the government *can* do things well, which means that Democrats should argue that we should extend those social programs that work in the military to the rest of society because when workers are better taken care of, they can focus on doing better work for their employers.

The point I want to make with this essay is that someone needs to give "permission" to folks in the military to vote for Democrats. While I do not like the idea of retired generals becoming President (or Secretary of State), I do think that Wesley Clark will get a lot of military people thinking about voting for a Democrat for the first time ever.

This is good news for the Democratic Party.

Howard Dean should reach out to military people in other ways beside being against Bush's making a mess in Iraq. He should point out that military people have social programs that work. Why shouldn't civilian workers also have those same programs? And wouldn't soldiers like to leave the military and not lose their health care and other social benefits?

Dean should point out that the social contract between soldiers and the military is more consistent with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party. Don't let Clark be the only one saying these things!

The military really is more progressive socially and ahead of the rest of the country in a lot of ways. Vermont is like that also..."

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10/1/2003 WT: Does God Really Care? Well, DOES HE???

by Funchback in

some highlights...

' there are two photos: 1) a silhouette of a soldier laying flat on his stomach pointing an automatic weapon and 2) a colorless photo of at least 17 children pressed up against barbed-wire in (i assume) a nazi concentration camp.

this cover would lead a person to conclude that god really does not care.

badwillie

Hey Brian - great summary! so amazing that they can flip-flop like that over and over in the same article and nobody notices (or admits it!).

Truly amazing.... so glad we are free!