Posts by Kaput

Far as I know he's still around. As CYP brought out, he does have some medical problems, having suffered a moderate stroke about a year ago. His wife has heart problems, and hopefully she's doing O.K. now. Who knows...he may be reading this thread.

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Wow! I am free

by watch the tower in

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ever since i stopped going to the meetings, i feel so free and liberated!

i've been a witness my whole life up to this point and never could imagine how this could have felt!

no more guilt trips, verbal spankings and phony superficial relationships.. they try to scare you into thinking that if you dare leave jehovah's organization tm, your life will be a barren wasteland, be overcome by satan, turn into a drug addict and never find joy and meaning in your life again.

Kaput

and you can sleep in on saturdays!!!!

Sundays, too!!!!

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Wow! I am free

by watch the tower in

jw
friends

ever since i stopped going to the meetings, i feel so free and liberated!

i've been a witness my whole life up to this point and never could imagine how this could have felt!

no more guilt trips, verbal spankings and phony superficial relationships.. they try to scare you into thinking that if you dare leave jehovah's organization tm, your life will be a barren wasteland, be overcome by satan, turn into a drug addict and never find joy and meaning in your life again.

Kaput

Yeah, it's great! With the scheduling gone, I don't even know what day it is!

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The end is nigh

by IP_SEC in

do you guys think we are sufficiantly along in the month of october to be able to say that the end isnt coming in the fall of '05?.

when i was a dub i really thought the end was coming this month.. 1975+30= 2005. if adam was 30 when eve was created this would be the end of the 5000 years of since jahs last rest.. eve created, jah rest for 1000 years (1k years is as one day to jovah) he picks up work again 1000 years after eve is created.

now in 2005 that means he has just 1 more "day" until the next great 1k years sabbath.

Kaput

A mans helicopter resembles a tadpole.

Some help on this one EliJah?

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anyone ever wonder whether IT could be the TRUTH?

by Cordelia in

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i cant believe im posting this either!.

but ive got a huge decision to make wont go thru it all again its on my last thread, and i have decided that i am stopping going to the meetings completly (ive been dfed 7 months and because i didnt want to hurt my family even more i continued going to all the meetings and hid my boyfriend, wno was wonderful about it, put a letter of reinstatement in which they refused but relised by the way i paniked when i thought they might reinstate me that it is not what i want!).

i love my bf and want to be with him without any secrecy but i also want my family to accept him and still speak to me but i know that will not happen, so i have two choices either get reinstated and then leave (and risk losing mybf) or tell them now i dont want it and stop the meetings altogether before i go insane.. thing is to be free of the meetings and be with my bf, i will lose my family they are all so strong in the 'truth' they will not have any contact with me and my husband is divorcing me so ill lose finacially and my house and have to share time with my daughter, not to mention all my old friends who are wanting me back, and if i stop now all those months of trying to be reinstated will be wasted id be set right back,.

Kaput

did you ever wonder if there was a chance it was the 'truth'

There is no chance this is or ever was the 'truth'.

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anyone have a scan of 1945 yearbook, RE: WT Charter?

by M.J. in

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i'd like a full page scan of the 1945 yearbook, if anyone has it.

the relevant page is page 32. the title page would be a bonus!

Kaput

32 Yearbook

To act as the servant of and the legal world-wide governing agency for that body of Christian persons known as Jehovah's witnesses; to preach the gospel of God's kingdom under Christ Jesus unto all nations as a witness to the name, word and supremacy of Almighty God JEHOVAH; to print and distribute Bibles and to disseminate Bible truths in various languages by means of making and publishing literature containing information and comment explaining Bible truths and prophecy concerning establishment of Jehovah's kingdom under Christ Jesus; to authorize and appoint agents, servants, employees, teachers, instructors, evangelists, missionaries and ministers to go forth to all the world publicly and from house to house to preach and teach Bible truths to persons willing to listen by leaving with such persons said literature and by conducting Bible studies thereon ; to improve men, women and children mentally and morally by Christian missionary work and by charitable and benevolent instruction of the people on the Bible and incidental scientific, historical and literary subjects; to establish and maintain private Bible schools and classes for gratuitous instruction of men and women in the Bible, Bible literature and Bible history; to teach, train, prepare and equip men and women as ministers, missionaries, evangelists, preachers, teachers and lecturers; to provide and maintain homes, places and buildings for gratuitous housing of such students, lecturers, teachers and ministers; to furnish gratuitously to such students, lecturers, teachers, educators and ministers suitable meals and lodging, and to prepare, support, maintain and send out to various parts of the world Christian missionaries, teachers and instructors in the Bible and Bible literature, and for public Christian worship of Almighty God and Christ Jesus; to arrange for and hold local and world-wide assemblies for such worship ; to use or operate radio broadcasting stations for preaching this gospel of the Kingdom; and to do any and all other lawful things that its Board of Directors shall deem expedient for the purposes stated.

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NGO/WTS scandal info sought

by yaddayadda in

some questions for someone really clued up on the ngo scandal:

who was the pr when the society first applied to be an ngo in 1992....milton henschel?

when did don adams become the president of the wts?

Kaput

yaddayadda

http://www.randytv.com/secret/y2accform1.jpg

check with the freeminds site for more info or clarification

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Getting Deinstitutionalised

by Satanus in

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people cry about the general breakdown of society.

i think that what is really happening is that institutions are being broken down.

for examples: marriage, family, traditional family roles, churches, traditional 'morals'.

Kaput

Thanx, TS

It may APPEAR to be so, but I would be hard-pressed to accept that the masses, due to independent thought but collective action, are responsible for the breakdown of institutions. They may be CONTRIBUTING to it, but aren't the ones "pushing the buttons". My thoughts, anyway.

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Getting Deinstitutionalised

by Satanus in

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friends

people cry about the general breakdown of society.

i think that what is really happening is that institutions are being broken down.

for examples: marriage, family, traditional family roles, churches, traditional 'morals'.

Kaput

Institutions have existed for millennia and, IMO, were set up as a means to control/manage humankind. By who? Other humans? God(s)? In any event, conditions are the same as at man's beginning. There are the rich, the poor and everyone in between. People still rob, murder, steal, rape, torture. Sickness and death are still with us. So much for institutions as the "be all/end all". They have always existed as the tool of whoever is really "in charge" and are merely pacifiers for the hoi polloi. At this juncture in time, it simply appears as if humanity is entering another phase, and the breakdown of our institutions is happening as a result of either a change in the mindset of those who control the institutions (god[s], humans) or the arrival of the next scheduled event in the agenda of those doing the controlling. To assume that the agitated masses are responsible for this breakdown is a bit naive.