Posts by bboyneko

I personally think it should be that awake cover where the children are praised for dying for god over blood issue, and underneath put child sacrifice still practiced today by Jehovahs Witnesses, or something sensationlist like that.

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Been outta a hell of a long time and still bummed

by Mindchild in

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sometimes i do a lot of thinking.. yeah, i know that is dangerous.

regardless, at times it seems that even though ive been out of the borg for a little over two decades now, gone through expensive therapy, had a long term relationship once with another ex-dub and spent 8 years in college, i still find my personal thinking effected in some negative ways by my being raised a jw.. for instance, i have a really difficult, if not impossible time, ever finding a community where i feel i belong.

ive lived everywhere from san francisco to cocoa beach on the opposite coast and no matter where i live, i feel like im an alien from another culture.

bboyneko

Having been in a cult like this one, we all experienced 'love bombing.' We had instant friends, instant things to do every weekend, a ready made social life. Thats not how it is in the real world.

Making friends and finding things to do is actually difficult and the lack of exteme ease we once had in getting an instant community and social life can be depressing and leads you to feel disembodied from society as you said.

Best idea..start with people who have something in common with you. Join a local club or society that engages in your activity. Maybe its photography, maybe its archery, maybe its puppy kicking. Whatever floats your boat.

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100 Good Samaritans needed

by Trilobite in

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two of this board's, and h2o's before it,long time and well known participants have fallen on desperately hard times.

if they could set up pay pal accounts and enough of us could contribute say $20 - $50 per month it would help them though their hardship.. these two people have helped many escape from the wts and i know for sure have given money and other material help to those in need, even when they could not afford it.. if you can help, send an email to: [email protected].

you need not include any particulars of who you are etc, just an indication that you could support this and how much you could send.

bboyneko

.. http://www.rapidchek.com

I always reccomend this easy job for those that need extra cash in their spare time. It's called Theatre Open Checking. You do it every weekend. It pays $10 a showing. What is it exactly? It's you working as an 'Independent Contractor' for a company called Theatrical Entertainment Services. In said compoany, they get hired/contracted by the movie studios like Warner brothers, New Line, Buena Vista, etc. to check movie theatres as a sort of spy. You are that spy. It's called an open check because the manager will know you are there. Sometimes they send you undercover. Bottomline is you present a letter signed by an executive at the movie studio, the theatre lets you in free and you go to your assigned movie and check for things the studios are interested in. They wanna know the seating capacity, the trailors that are being shown,, commercials, also the amount of people. ALll this takes you about 15 minutes a showing to do, and they pay you $10 a showing. SO if you get assigned the movie 'Bboy Nekos II: Blood Vengeance' and that movie is showing in 2 screens at your assigned theatre, and each screen has 5 showing a day, thats $100 for the day. And usually it is a weekend assignment, you get $200 extra bucks for the week for doing next to nothing. If you can juggle mutiple theatres you can gets tons of money. This past weekend I made $600, and the weekend before that $350. The bad thing is you gotta take the taxes out yourself, since you are an indepoendent contractor..TES will not take any money out of your pay for you. The other bad thing is you gotta wait 3-4 weeks for your paycheck to arrive from your assignments.

It is all done remotely. I have nenver personally met anyone in the company. It is all done by phone and email. They call me, say hey dan wanna do this assignment? I say sure and they put it on the internet for me, I just print it out and do my work. The other bad thing is its a LOT of paperwork. Every screen per day required 2 detailed sheets to be filled out.

But you get to see all the free movies you want, and get paid for it. I havent paid for a movie in 2 years. Last year I earned an extra $6,000 from TES work. So again, I reccomend it. You gotta have your own car and be prepared to drive to far-away theatres. Its a very odd job, very few know it exsists. But guard your area..once you are TES representative for a city, you will suffice. If more people join up in your area, your available work will shrink and you will get les money. So dont go blabbering about this job to everyone you meet in your area. This is a United tates job but im sure other countries have similair work. Hope this helps those who need an extra hundred bucks a week. bye!
-Dan

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Email to my Dad on the UN / Prison Stories

by msil in

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ok......it has taken me lots of soul searching to put this post up (it contains some facts i dont really feel all that comfortable putting up).

but i will try and leave out here for as long as i can.. it is an email i have sent to my dad.

it is a followup - he has some of the info on the un already.

bboyneko

Naeblis
Thanks for the expressions. I am unqualified to write a book - I am missing an education (I never even finished my junior year of high school). I have never regarded writing as one of my talents.
But thanks, Naeb.

Msil,

Few autogiographies are actually written by the person who it is about. If you could, with the help of those here with connections, get a publisher interested in your story you could easily simply record your experiences on tape and have one of the publishers ghost writers transcribe it for you. It's not about making money, it's about telling others what happeneds, as a warning and message. Im an ex-jw and heard alot about brothers being sent to jail but I never once heard a personal story about what went on in there. This might serve as a 'Crisis of Conscience' that would help open many more eyes. Naeblis could easily transcribe it for you he is a regular mark twain with the written language :)

I was touched by your experiences, reminds me of a book I read called 4,000 days, about a man sentenced to many years of jail time for smuggling pot into Thailand. In that book he tells of how he adopted a kitten and cared for it alot, and then one day a fellow prisoner ate his kitten..it was very sad. Lots of very disturbing things in there...make me appreciate my freedom more.

.. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312182961/qid=1003776707/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1_1/102-4644668-4160149

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JW's mentioned on Law and Order last Friday

by Mulan in

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did anyone see law and order svu, friday night?

(if someone else posted this already, let me know.......i've been off the board a few days).

there was a serial rapist whose dna they wanted, to compare with the victims.

bboyneko

Before the turn of the century, the papers were called Tabloids, Chronicles, Gazettes, etc. Most had local stories and far away stories were quite old as it took awhile for stories to travel ( and of course they were subject to changes from hand to hand. With the event of the teletype, stories could be broadcast all over at unheard of speed. Several of the papers started carrying a section with stories from all over - North, East, West, & South and that's why they are called Newspapers.

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Woman to Face Death by Stoning for Adultery

by closer2fine in

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http://news.excite.com/news/r/011019/08/odd-sharia-dc.

lagos (reuters) - a nigerian muslim sharia court has sentenced a nursing mother to death by stoning after she was convicted of adultery, a nigerian newspaper reported on friday.. the court in sokoto state in northern nigeria convicted safiya hussaini for adultery and ordered she be stoned to death once she has finished weaning her baby, state-owned daily times newspaper said.. the court acquitted yakubu abubakar whom hussaini said made her pregnant.

she has 30 days to appeal the sentence.. sokoto government officials were not immediately available for comment.

bboyneko

There was a cool episode of star trek the next generation where wesley crusher (always gettin into trouble) steps on the grass in another planet, and theres a sign saying DONT STEP ON THE GRASS..well the punishment for that in their planet is DEATH...

kinda deep huh? What happened at the end of the episode? I forgot..i hope wesley died

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First post..kinda long.. sorree

by Parliament in

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hey all.

this is my first post to this group.

ive been lurking for quite awhile and to say the least, this board makes me late for work as i oversleep from a late night of reading and wondering.

bboyneko

Hey Parliament, thanks for the story. I want to tell you that the Easter Bunny loves you, and that the Great Squirell God died for you, and then came right back to life 3 days later. Why this is a sacrifice of any sort I do not know. But anyway... What you experienced in the WT is what happens when men get together and distort the Word of Santa Claus to their own destruction. Can you imagine Peter Pan whispering and backbiting like they do in the Org? Of course not. The Easter Bunny said you would know His true followers by their love for one another, not by their obedience to doctrine or not by the way they jump when an organization tells them to. The more I read stories of people spying on each other and waiting outside of their 'friends' house to see if they are doing bad things makes me cringe. I know the evil dark Hamster lord loves religion and He especially loves the WT I am sure.

I do not know where you are spiritually my friend, but know that there is no way to earn the Easter Bunny's love and there is no way to be 'good' enough to tow the line. The Pharisees couldn't do it and neither can you or elders or whoever. Trust in Santa Claus and read the Koran and get to know his reindeer. He and them will never let you down, especially the one with the red nose.

My point: Now that you have discovered that the Watchower Society was a big lie and farce, do not stop there. Don't forget to critically examine other things you have been raised to beleive as true, such as the idea that the bible is 'the truth' or that jesus is 'the truth' or ideas about heaven and hell and all that. The greatest lesson you learn from leaving a cult organization is to THINK CRITICALLY and never accept things on 'faith' ever again. Proof is important if you are going to commit your life to what is little more than a fairy tale. At least without proof. Take care, good luck with your search.

-Dan

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Single Witness club on Yahoo clubs

by slipnslidemaster in

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http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/singlewitnesses.

let the hilarity ensue... i've already started over there, i think you should too.. slipnslidemaster:"and now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring, enchanting all that you put in.".

- william shakespeare, macbeth

bboyneko

so did anyone post my alligator estonia thing there yet?

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Article on Shattered Faith by therapist

by JAVA in

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i sent the article below to larc several months ago, and he suggested posting it to this forum.

it's written by james c. moyers, a psychotherapist practicing in berkeley and hayward, california.

moyers works with individuals and couples.

bboyneko

Fundamentalists typically know little about other religions, the humanities, or modern critical thought. Education in schools operated by many such groups, where all ideas are filtered through a closed-in belief system, further increases social and cultural isolation. Thus the former member may be totally unaware of alternative approaches to spiritual and existential questions.

This explains why so many ex-JW continue with christianity instead of exploring other ideas. I think it's so naive to say 'wow, this group that I thought to hold all the answers of life and the universe turned out to be lying to me! well..i better go find another christian religion'

They don't even bother to continue with the next logical step...if they were lying to you, coudlnt other beleifs you've been taught to be true also be lies? Such as the entire christian beleif of imperfect man, salvation through a dead man who claimed to be gods son, forgiveness of sins only coming through blood, adam and eve noah etc etc?

It's ironic that so many who feel free of the grips of the JW end up being enslaved by another beleif system...

Just like women who leave an abusive husband or boyfriend will likley end up with another abusive boyfriend or husband..we are comfortable with what we are used to..even if it is bad for us.

-Dan