Sticks 'n stones...
I get em too the delete tag is a wonderful thing.If they defiantly trespass on my posted property they will also be deleted.
Danny Haszard the Watchtower Whistleblower
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Wacky Email to Quotes: why do they even bother
by Quotes inyes, that's right folks.
it is time for another peek inside the quotes mail bag.
i responded thusly:dear [name removed for privacy],.
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updated Berry Verdict WT LOSES PUBLIC OPINION
by DannyHaszard inthe first thread got scrambled i post again.
[they carried the same bold concord monitor management editorial.
] state's child abuse lawneeds improvement.
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"Witnesses have no official ministers and no churches in the traditional sense,"
Jehovah's Witnesses
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... the 2005 theme for the Jehovah's Witnesses convention ... and for handing out "The Watchtower," a journal ... Gruzdis, a Pass Christian businessman, Witness elder and ...Posted on Fri, Aug. 05, 2005
Jehovah's Witnesses
Thousands are coming to Biloxi
By KAT BERGERON
SUN HERALDGodly obedience is the 2005 theme for the Jehovah's Witnesses convention in Biloxi, and 11,200 are expected to attend from southeast Louisiana and South Mississippi during the next two weekends.
Witnesses are a proselytizing Christian denomination known for neighborhood visits and for handing out "The Watchtower," a journal with weekly Bible lessons that provide a unity of thought among the 6.4 million Witnesses worldwide, with about 9,000 in Mississippi.
Delegates meet once a year in convention and have met in Biloxi since the 1980s for biblical training. They will attend dressed in suits and dresses, carrying note pads and Bibles.
Half will attend the first session, which begins today and lasts through Sunday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, with the remainder attending Aug. 12-14.
"Our conventions focus on God's word, and this one is on obedience to God's word and underscores the importance of obeying God in all matters of life," said Al Gruzdis, a Pass Christian businessman, Witness elder and convention representative.
"This convention will give pertinent information on family life for husbands, wives and children."
Witnesses were organized in the late 19th century by Pennsylvanian Charles Russell, whose doctrine centers on the second coming of Christ, which they believe has already begun.
The conventions focus on what Witnesses believe are "sound and right" principles of conduct and include prayer, scripture lessons and costumed Biblical dramas. Non-Witnesses are invited.
"This allows people to see who we really are," Gruzdis said.
Witnesses have no official ministers and no churches in the traditional sense, instead meeting in buildings called Kingdom Halls. Mississippi has 22 congregations in the six southernmost counties and about 1,800 members.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that Witnesses believe only 100,000 will be saved on Judgment Day.
Gruzdis said he believes the misconception stems from their belief that "only 144,000 will go to Heaven and rule with Christ as spiritual sons of God." Others with redemption will live on an Earth that will revert to the paradise God intended before the original sin of Adam and Eve. For this, they cite Psalms 37, that the meek and righteous will inherit the Earth.
Their beliefs sometimes put them at odds with mainstream Christianity, though they can quickly cite biblical verses for each belief, among them a neutral politics.
What
Witnesses believe
Among beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses, each based on their interpretation of Bible scriptures:
• Bible is God's word and is truth.
• Bible is more reliable than tradition.
• Christians gladly give public testimony to Scriptural truth.
• God's name is Jehovah.
• Christ is God's son and is inferior to Him.
• Christ was first of God's creations.
• Christ's human life was paid as a ransom for obedient humans.
• We are now in the 'time of the end.'
• Wicked will be eternally destroyed.
• Baptism by complete immersion symbolizes dedication.
• Hell is mankind's common grave.
• Hope for dead is resurrection.
• A Christian ought to have no part in interfaith movements.
• Taking blood into body through mouth or veins violates God's laws.
• Man did not evolve but was created.
• Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.
If you go
What: 2005 "Godly Obedience" Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, with two three-day sessions repeated over two weekends.
When: Today through Sunday and repeated on Aug. 12-14. Morning sessions begin 9:30 a.m.; Friday and Saturday afternoon sessions begin 2 p.m.; Sunday afternoon session begins 1:40 p.m.
Where: Mississippi Coast Coliseum, U.S. 90, Biloxi
Who: Presented by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, it is open to the interested public at no fee.
Details: (228) 380-0813.
Excerpted from "Jehovah's Witnesses: Who Are they? What Do They Believe?" from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society -
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Berry verdict and what YOU can do
by rebel8 in.
it is really sad and shocking that the court did not rule in the girls favor.
elsewhere posted the link to the court documents in another thread, but here it is again: http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/opinions/2005/berry081.htm .
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DannyHaszard
"Witnesses have no official ministers and no churches in the traditional sense,"
Jehovah's Witnesses
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... the 2005 theme for the Jehovah's Witnesses convention ... and for handing out "The Watchtower," a journal ... Gruzdis, a Pass Christian businessman, Witness elder and ...Posted on Fri, Aug. 05, 2005
Jehovah's Witnesses
Thousands are coming to Biloxi
By KAT BERGERON
SUN HERALDGodly obedience is the 2005 theme for the Jehovah's Witnesses convention in Biloxi, and 11,200 are expected to attend from southeast Louisiana and South Mississippi during the next two weekends.
Witnesses are a proselytizing Christian denomination known for neighborhood visits and for handing out "The Watchtower," a journal with weekly Bible lessons that provide a unity of thought among the 6.4 million Witnesses worldwide, with about 9,000 in Mississippi.
Delegates meet once a year in convention and have met in Biloxi since the 1980s for biblical training. They will attend dressed in suits and dresses, carrying note pads and Bibles.
Half will attend the first session, which begins today and lasts through Sunday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, with the remainder attending Aug. 12-14.
"Our conventions focus on God's word, and this one is on obedience to God's word and underscores the importance of obeying God in all matters of life," said Al Gruzdis, a Pass Christian businessman, Witness elder and convention representative.
"This convention will give pertinent information on family life for husbands, wives and children."
Witnesses were organized in the late 19th century by Pennsylvanian Charles Russell, whose doctrine centers on the second coming of Christ, which they believe has already begun.
The conventions focus on what Witnesses believe are "sound and right" principles of conduct and include prayer, scripture lessons and costumed Biblical dramas. Non-Witnesses are invited.
"This allows people to see who we really are," Gruzdis said.
Witnesses have no official ministers and no churches in the traditional sense, instead meeting in buildings called Kingdom Halls. Mississippi has 22 congregations in the six southernmost counties and about 1,800 members.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that Witnesses believe only 100,000 will be saved on Judgment Day.
Gruzdis said he believes the misconception stems from their belief that "only 144,000 will go to Heaven and rule with Christ as spiritual sons of God." Others with redemption will live on an Earth that will revert to the paradise God intended before the original sin of Adam and Eve. For this, they cite Psalms 37, that the meek and righteous will inherit the Earth.
Their beliefs sometimes put them at odds with mainstream Christianity, though they can quickly cite biblical verses for each belief, among them a neutral politics.
What
Witnesses believe
Among beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses, each based on their interpretation of Bible scriptures:
• Bible is God's word and is truth.
• Bible is more reliable than tradition.
• Christians gladly give public testimony to Scriptural truth.
• God's name is Jehovah.
• Christ is God's son and is inferior to Him.
• Christ was first of God's creations.
• Christ's human life was paid as a ransom for obedient humans.
• We are now in the 'time of the end.'
• Wicked will be eternally destroyed.
• Baptism by complete immersion symbolizes dedication.
• Hell is mankind's common grave.
• Hope for dead is resurrection.
• A Christian ought to have no part in interfaith movements.
• Taking blood into body through mouth or veins violates God's laws.
• Man did not evolve but was created.
• Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.
If you go
What: 2005 "Godly Obedience" Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, with two three-day sessions repeated over two weekends.
When: Today through Sunday and repeated on Aug. 12-14. Morning sessions begin 9:30 a.m.; Friday and Saturday afternoon sessions begin 2 p.m.; Sunday afternoon session begins 1:40 p.m.
Where: Mississippi Coast Coliseum, U.S. 90, Biloxi
Who: Presented by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, it is open to the interested public at no fee.
Details: (228) 380-0813.
Excerpted from "Jehovah's Witnesses: Who Are they? What Do They Believe?" from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society -
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3 hour tour - my sd interrogation.
by wordlywife inmy poor step-daughter went through what is called a jc meeting, 3 hours worth.
they have given her a week to decide before they df her.
she is only 18. gads.
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Danny's Blog MY Kangaroo court.
If the flunky elders from the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Rockland Massachusetts had any notion what/where/who i would be today they would never had booted me.
Only one thing matters to them:POLITICS and saving face
If you 'appeal' this is a scam only 1% of JC decisions are overturned and only for reason:potential LAW$UIT
The Watchtower and their agents,operatives,thugs are all rotten to the core.
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How many mistakes does an organization have to make, to be a false prophet?
by run dont walk in.
1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1,000,000 .
how would a jw answer ????
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I recon that the Revelation Climax book alone must be 95% lies,it would have to be because zero hour for everything in it is the adventist bogus 1914 date. The Watchtower had the gall to revise it. It totally blows my mind that 3 gens of my family and myself believed that Jesus Christ had his second coming invisibly in 1914! Danny Haszard sez;"Im wrong all the time that's how i get to right"... but I ADMIT IT.
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Cult survivors experiences (Non-JW)
by DannyHaszard incult survivors share their experiences
corvallis gazette times - corvallis,or,usa .
... what they found instead was that they were immersed in cults, and once in ... i sent them letters filled with scripture and they said omigod, she's in a cult.
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Danny sez: Make comparisons with the other destructive cults and see if the client can make the connections. Example:Watchtower calls their protocol of lying,"Theocratic warfare". Moonies call their protocol of lying,"Heavenly deception". How this rings and resonates..... Ex-members say Freemans created group identity'
The Whitworthian - USA
... member said that based on their practices, the Freemans are a,"classic cult.". ... I was enthralled with the typical 'love-buzz' (Love bombing) used by all cults to snare ...
http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?tab=weblogs&user=DannyHaszard&uid=209699381 Read here
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Boston-Push to end statute of limitations
by DannyHaszard inlawmaker pushes to end statute of limitations in sex abuse of ...
boston globe - united states .
... catholic church in 2002 demonstrated that current laws, which limit the time victims have to file criminal charges and civil claims, often allow pedophiles to ...
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Lawmaker pushes to end statute of limitations in sex abuse of ...
Boston Globe - United States
... Catholic Church in 2002 demonstrated that current laws, which limit the time victims have to file criminal charges and civil claims, often allow pedophiles to ...Lawmaker pushes to end statute of limitations in sex abuse of minors
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff | August 4, 2005
Frustrated that the Legislature has yet to act in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse scandal, state Senator Steven A. Baddour and 10 Merrimac Valley residents launched an effort yesterday for a 2006 ballot referendum that would abolish the statute of limitations in criminal and civil cases involving sexual abuse of minors.
Baddour, a Methuen Democrat, said the abuse allegations that rocked the Catholic Church in 2002 demonstrated that current laws, which limit the time victims have to file criminal charges and civil claims, often allow pedophiles to escape accountability.
''They shouldn't be able to hide behind the statute of limitations," Baddour said. ''In the Catholic Church scandal, they scared these kids for decades."
State Representative Ronald Mariano, a Quincy Democrat, filed a similar bill in December 2003, but it went nowhere. It was filed again in December 2004 but has yet to get a hearing.
For the measure to appear on the ballot, backers must gather roughly 66,000 signatures this fall. If the Legislature doesn't approve it by May 2006, supporters would have to gather about 11,000 additional signatures for it to appear on the ballot that November.
Homicide is currently the only crime without a statute of limitations in Massachusetts. For most crimes, it is six years.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle expressed support yesterday for eliminating the statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases involving minors.
Eric Fehrnstrom, communications director for Governor Mitt Romney, said the governor supports lifting the statute of limitations. Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, said such a move is warranted, even if it is largely symbolic.
''I think the Catholic Church was an aberration in that it was a perfect storm of multiple victims and people being precluded from bringing cases," Coakley said.
Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly refused to comment yesterday because his office has to certify the ballot initiative in the coming weeks. According to a 2003 report produced by his office, at least 237 priests and 13 other church employees were accused of molesting at least 789 minors in Massachusetts, going back six decades.
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Where you can send your thoughts:
SENATOR STEVEN A. BADDOUR. State House Room 513 Boston, MA 02133 Telephone: (617)722-1604. [email protected]
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Cult survivors experiences (Non-JW)
by DannyHaszard incult survivors share their experiences
corvallis gazette times - corvallis,or,usa .
... what they found instead was that they were immersed in cults, and once in ... i sent them letters filled with scripture and they said omigod, she's in a cult.
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Cult survivors share their experiences
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
... What they found instead was that they were immersed in cults, and once in ... I sent them letters filled with Scripture and they said Omigod, she's in a cult.' ". ... Cult survivors share their experiences
Gazette-Times reporterMore than three decades ago, two women from different backgrounds found themselves searching for a sense of belonging, and both, for a while, thought they'd found it in communal living. What they found instead was that they were immersed in cults, and once in, it was very difficult to leave.
The two women have written memoirs about their lives in communes in the early 1970s as a way to work through their experiences and share them with others. Although they lived in very different communal groups with different principles, they discovered that both had one fundamental similarity — the subordination of women. They'll discuss their memoirs Friday at Grass Roots Books & Music.D'arcy Fallon was an Army brat, born in Monterrey, Calif., and raised "all over." She was baptized Catholic and attended parochial school for a few years, but her parents weren't strictly religious. Fallon found herself, at 18, traveling and living on the land, celebrating the experimental lifestyle of the 1960s.
"I just really didn't know what I wanted to do with my life," Fallon said.
She was hitchhiking near Eureka, Calif., when she was picked up by a member of the Lighthouse Ranch, just outside the city on the beach. She was invited to have dinner at the ranch, which she described as a stunningly beautiful spot on the coast.
Fallon was taken in by the warmth of the members of Lighthouse Ranch, a fundamentalist Christian commune. There, she felt welcomed, and part of something larger. Through the persuasion of commune members, she became "saved," and accepted Jesus Christ as her savior, a necessity for life at the ranch.
"My parents were really appalled," she said. "I sent them letters filled with Scripture and they said ‘Omigod, she's in a cult.' "
Fallon tried to assuage their fears, telling them she was there of her own free will, which she was, and that she was happy, which she wasn't.
Life at the ranch was extremely structured. Women and men were kept separated, and sex was allowed only between married couples. Women were expected to marry within the group and be good wives, submissive and supportive to their husbands. Life was divided between work and worship.
"It was very dramatic," she said. "Picture yourself living at the edge of the world and you have been called. … It gives your life this aura of drama."
But after Fallon married another member of the group, she began to have strong doubts. She wanted a "normal" marriage and relationship, but her husband was more interested in belonging to the group than in sharing life with her.
Finally, she and her husband were sent to Brooklyn, N.Y., to do evangelical work, and it was there she finally convinced her husband to leave the group. They fled to his home in Montreal, Canada, and a year later, divorced and went their separate ways.
Now, Fallon describes herself as an agnostic, and finds the support and community she needs from her new husband, son and friends. She has learned in the meantime that she didn't have to change to be accepted.
"People will accept you the way you are," she said. "You don't have to be spiritual."
Molly Hollenbach also spent much of her youth moving back and forth between Southern California and Michigan. She said moving so frequently made her something of a nomad, and during graduate school she decided to drop out and have "adventures."
"I was exploring the wide world of the '60s," she said.
Fascinated by ideas of personal freedom and political change, she found herself drawn to the World Affairs Conference in Boulder, Colo., where she heard members of a New Mexican commune speaking about their life in Taos.
"They described this wonderful community they called The Family," Hollenbach said. "It was based on Gestalt therapy."
Hollenbach was enthralled, and begged members to take her with them when they returned to New Mexico. A short time later, she found herself living in a five-room adobe house with 55 other people.
The tenets of the group forbid drugs, and encouraged face-to-face communication through conflict and group marriage. Members were expected to give up their personal possessions and their names, and revolutionize the world by revolutionizing themselves.To her surprise, Hollenbach found the group operated on principles that went directly against what she'd learned in the feminist movement. The group leader was an older man named Lord Byron, who demanded sexual access to all female members of the group. Although theoretically all members were equal, Lord Byron was "more equal" than others."The first or second day I said, ‘This is really sexist. Women wore skirts and worked in the kitchen.' "
But her complaints and criticisms were swiftly silenced by group members, who told her she needed to live the lifestyle before she criticized it.
"They put me down and said, ‘You've thought about it, we've lived it,' " she recalled.
She became more involved in the group, and more confused because the things she felt were wrong were called right by her fellow members. She finally became disillusioned both by the way in which Lord Byron held sway, believing himself the Messiah, and the way she simply didn't feel right about the way things were going.
"I thought I was crazy," she said.
Finally, she fled, going to a psychiatrist to find out whether she was sane. Reassured, she moved on with her life, using her experiences within the commune for her master's thesis. She earned a doctorate degree, taught and then eventually became a journalist.
She didn't talk about her experiences with The Family for years, but one day, during a writing conference at Fishtrap in Joseph, she began putting her memories onto paper.
"I realized I needed to," she said.
The most important lesson Hollenbach said she learned from her time with The Family was to become her own person.
"It is very hard for women to assert themselves and say ‘No, this isn't right for me,'" she said. "It forced me to define myself."
At a glance
Margaret Hollenbach and D'Arcy Fallon will discuss their experiences in communes in the 1970s at Grass Roots Books & Music at 4 p.m. Friday.
"Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune" by Hollenbach and "So Late, So Soon, A Memoir" by Fallon are both available at the store.
For more information on the authors, see www.mhollenbach.com or www.darcyfallon.com[Note;from Danny Haszard some things we can identify with here.]
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Why 1914 is utterly true (and so is 607 B.C.E.)
by Terry in1914 is a very significant date for true believers.
faithful and eager students of the scriptures figured out (and "proved") jesus would return to kill the wicked and reward the meek in 1874. the signs were obvious.
but, it didn't happen.
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... Jehovah's Witnesses Significance of 1914 and other Dates How close is the end ... ArriveNet Date : Tuesday - August 02, 2005 JEHOVAH WITNESS FAQ (ArriveNet - Aug 02, 2005) -- How ...- ArriveNet
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Why 1914 is utterly true (and so is 607 B.C.E.)
by Terry in1914 is a very significant date for true believers.
faithful and eager students of the scriptures figured out (and "proved") jesus would return to kill the wicked and reward the meek in 1874. the signs were obvious.
but, it didn't happen.
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Matthew 23:13-15 (New International Version)
13 "Woe to you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
15 "Woe to you, You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.Jehovah Witnesses Watchtower Whitewash -The Elephant in the Room
Pressbox.co.uk (press release), UK - Jul 22, 2005
Fraud in the name of God Jehovah's Witnesses Psychopaths,Pedophiles and Tax Cheats.When the devil comes calling he won't have the dark goth look,they will be ...
