Posts by ValiantBoy

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The strangest looking (and acting) nut jobs you have ever seen at the KH!

by new boy in

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there are so many after after 52 years in the "borg".. my top two would have to be at my last hall tigard oregon.. one lady slept in her pickup truck with 30 parakeets, sometimes in the kh parking lot.

people tried to help her with accommodations but she like the truck.

she really dressed up for the meetings......feather boa's, big hats, looked like may west from the 30's.

ValiantBoy

A guy named Bill. He was shizpphrenic and when he was on meds he was tolerable, when not he was impossible. It was difficult because you knew he had real problems, but sometimes he came up with the weirdest things. And he could actually be quite creepy ( he was never allowed to be alone with children as he confessed to our car group once that he sometimes had improper urges) Our Bookstudy conductor would call on him even when he was "off". So we heard some off the wall comments. He commented frequently on his struggle to battle masturbation, his attraction to elders wifes, etc.

my absolute favorite comment from him was "my dad said a hard penis has no conscience, so I told him my soft one does"

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GUESS WHOM I MISSED LAST THURSDAY!

by badboy in

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you have guessed it,everyone!.

they comed round about 1pm when my neighbour was in.. she told them she was anglican/coe and told them to p*** ***!.

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ValiantBoy

I have not had a visit in soo long...I did not even get the latest Kingdom News left in my door ...somebody's gonna be bloodguilty if I die at Armageddon :(

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Nemesis twins get "dissed" by Church

by Bumble Bee in

interesting interview on twin brothers disfellowshipping.. http://logo.blogs.com/new_now_next/2006/12/jacob_joshua_re.html.

http://logo.blogs.com/new_now_next/2006/12/nemesis_twins_g.html.

here's a bit of lame news late on this wintry thursday.... this pop-rocking twins of nemesis, jacob & joshua, who just wrapped up their reality series, jacob & joshua: nemesis rising on logo, have been officially "disfellowshipped" by their family's jehovah's witness organization.

ValiantBoy

I like Jacob and Joshua's statement. Very well put.

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2007 District Convention

by ValiantBoy in

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mom is assigned to ft worth, but she will prolly go to one in okc area.

wondering where anyone else is assigned?

or even where they are being held..

ValiantBoy

Mom is assigned to Ft Worth, but she will prolly go to one in OKC area. Wondering where anyone else is assigned? or even where they are being held.

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Witness's refusal of transfusion costs his life

by Dogpatch in

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witness's refusal of transfusion costs his life http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=e2a8aa3e-af52-4381-9d4c-c3fb7d0fe922&k=15147.

cp.

sunday, january 14, 2007. a young jehovah's witness's decision to refuse a blood transfusion - which eventually led to his death - has split his family along religious lines.. jean-claude lavoie, 26, died in late december after refusing a transfusion while being treated for an intestinal tumour, the tqs television network reported friday.. lavoie's brother, who is a former jehovah's witness, has since launched an internet petition calling on the federal government to make it illegal for a person to refuse treatment on religious grounds.. "the jehovah's witnesses refuse blood transfusions for religious reasons," jonathan lavoie writes on the petition's website.. "this creates enormous stress for the family.".

ValiantBoy

I am with you bluesbrother. I accept blood for myself, but I would not want any treatment forced upon me. And even though I think the blood ban is crazy, I would not force my mom to accept one...and I would not want anyone else to force it upon her either..which is ironic because she says she would try her best to prevent me from ever receiving a blood transfusion

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Death Count at the District Convention

by The wanderer in

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death count at the district conventionevery year it seemed as if someone died because of the extreme heat at the four and five day .

district conventions.

the reality of the matter was that it probably was more than one.. .

ValiantBoy

I never knew of anyone dying at the DC, but I recall a case in Fort Worth where a little girl (about 4 yrs old) went missing. Her parent lost site of her at the beginning of lunch intermission and she was not found until after the end of the days program. It turned out she was just with some family friends from a neighboring congregation, but it could have been much worse. Again, no announcement was made as the PA system was for convention news only. Also, the parents, who were quite worried, were basically told "well you should have kept a better eye on her"

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Witness's refusal of transfusion costs his life

by Dogpatch in

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witness's refusal of transfusion costs his life http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=e2a8aa3e-af52-4381-9d4c-c3fb7d0fe922&k=15147.

cp.

sunday, january 14, 2007. a young jehovah's witness's decision to refuse a blood transfusion - which eventually led to his death - has split his family along religious lines.. jean-claude lavoie, 26, died in late december after refusing a transfusion while being treated for an intestinal tumour, the tqs television network reported friday.. lavoie's brother, who is a former jehovah's witness, has since launched an internet petition calling on the federal government to make it illegal for a person to refuse treatment on religious grounds.. "the jehovah's witnesses refuse blood transfusions for religious reasons," jonathan lavoie writes on the petition's website.. "this creates enormous stress for the family.".

ValiantBoy

Great..we can encourage her to die, but canot give her a decent funeral...that's real love for ya..

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Where is this assembly hall in texas?

by purplesofa in

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thanks in advance.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chmnbf3fxk&mode=related&search=.

ValiantBoy

Rosenburg, it is in the Houston metro area

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NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE SEXTUPLETS.....WRITE THE CANADA MEDIA

by skeeter1 in

canada's first sextuplets were born to jehovah's witness parents.

they were born at 25 weeks (not 40 weeks as is common with full-term).

due to their prematurity, they will most likely need blood transfusions.

ValiantBoy

It was a seperate case that fortunately had better results. The girl lived and is now cancer free. Some other newspapers carried the full story. But, of course, the WTS is only going to mention it's one seeming success, rather than all it's failures...

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Disciplining babies?

by bernadette in

i'd appreciate advice.. i remember when i was pregnant the following exp was given at a district convention.

an elder said that he started discipling his child from 9 months.

he said whenever the 9 month old made a noise or cried at the meeting he would squeeze her.

ValiantBoy

unfortunately, in the congregations I was in, it was quite common to spank babies. Some restricted it to a mild swat, others went further. I recall one witness woman who carried a wooden spatula with her to spank her children. A lot of others in the cong were appalled and eventually another sister stole the spatula and broke it in half. BUT no one ever reported her for child abuse. Even as a child, however, I knew that's what it was.

Another instance I recall involved a toddler. The parents constantly smacked him, either open open slaps on the face or cracking the top of his head with their study books. Once, at a bookstudy in a private home, the mother took him into the kitchen and spanked him very roughly. The study conductor actually asked one of the sisters, in front of everyone, to go into the kitchen and tell the mother that "that is enough." But, again, no one ever reported her.

I say report them anonymously and let the state sort it out. A lot of attention has, thankfully, been put on the tolerance of sex abuse in the organization. It is time that physical abuse receive attention too.