When I was a kid in the 70's I got mixed up in the tow truck wars in South Brisbane. Corrupt cops, prostitution, drugs and PLENTY of guns and shootings. Weapon of choice was the sawn off double barrelled shotgun. It seems there is more media coverage now...
doofdaddy
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Drive by shootings the new Aussie craze in Sydney!!!!
by Witness 007 inlived there for 10 years till 2005 nothing....now every night a drive by shooting up a house.
what happened sydney!
we feel like te us now..
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Literature Display Stands... Turning JWs into stationary targets...
by Calebs Airplane inbecause of the membership retention issues that seem to continue getting worse, the watchtower corporation appears to be running out of ideas.
in the past, when the numbers have dropped (membership, fs hours, rag placements, money, etc.
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doofdaddy
The local jws have set up a stall outside a bank (on weekends) near my favourite coffee shop. I have seen them many times and all they do is chat amongst themselves, never have I seen an interaction outside of their group. All have that steely smile but their eyes show real discomfort (maybe recognising me as an apostate). It's really very sad as that zeal that drove the witnesses pror to the generation debacle is long gone and they know they are flogging a very dead armageddon/end is near belief.
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Since leaving watchtower what has been your biggest act of rebellion?
by 3rdgen ini'm in a pissy mood and would love to hear your stories.
personally, i'm thinking of getting a tatoo on my rear end saying wbt$ kiss this!.
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doofdaddy
Once I cleared the jw mind control I never saw any behaviour as rebellious, rather just catching up on normal experiences that men go through in their lives. On the other hand I am writing my experiences down for my children and they have read the drafts. My son just laughs and my daughter who is very open minded said her kids aren't reading it until they are eighteen!
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Viv Moritz returning to Australia
by FadeToBlack injust heard it today from his own mouth at english speaking dc in poland.
in concluding talk, he mentioned that he had been here for 2 years (doing what, i don't know) and that he would soon be in the ukraine for 6 months before returning home.
we were so blessed (not) with his presence..
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doofdaddy
That guy is so disliked where ever he goes.
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Change of 144000 doctrine?
by Julia Orwell ina friend of mine just got given a recording of the last ca which was held here a couple of weeks ago and she said there's been a change to the 144k teaching.
she didn't understand what the hell they were rabbiting on about.
she's really waking up as a result of all these changes, and so are some others she knows.. anyone know of any change to the 144k doctrine?
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doofdaddy
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
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North American Natives, a 20,000 year legacy
by designs ina team have been testing the mitochondrial dna, maternal side, of three native tribes from the bristish columbia region against bodies from 6,000-2,500 years ago and have found matches to living persons from the nisga, tsimshian, and haida tribes.
the skeletons came from dodge island.
one of the 6000 year old skeletons matched dna from a 10,000 year old skeleton from the same region.
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doofdaddy
Hey Satanus I think that definition is for flora and fauna. Try googling indigenous people.
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North American Natives, a 20,000 year legacy
by designs ina team have been testing the mitochondrial dna, maternal side, of three native tribes from the bristish columbia region against bodies from 6,000-2,500 years ago and have found matches to living persons from the nisga, tsimshian, and haida tribes.
the skeletons came from dodge island.
one of the 6000 year old skeletons matched dna from a 10,000 year old skeleton from the same region.
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doofdaddy
It's pretty well excepted that Australian aboriginal people walked from Africa, around the south of what is now India, through S.E. Asia and across now long sunk land bridges 50,000 years ago. I cringe now to think that I knocked on people's doors for decades saying humans had been on the earth 6,000 years. Well I must admit that I even then, avoided the subject.
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my buddhist encounter
by Hortensia inso, we have a buddhist abbey in the woods near here.
lots of americans with shaved heads,wearing tibetan buddhist costumes.
they do a walk around town once a month with begging bowls, pretending they are sadhus.
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doofdaddy
I agree Hortensia. The "Tibetan" buddhists in my town walking around with their loud robes and noses in the air always give me a giggle. The same with the sad looking monks they bring out from India to chant like side show acts for the Westerners. Why can't us Westerners just let religion go and strive to be moral individuals without all the ridiculous trappings? I could guess and say no ego petting in that.
From my travels in buddhist countries I have seen women treated as very second class, including the buddhists nuns who eat when the men are finished (Thailand) and who hold no positions of power. I didn't see too many women in the Dalai Lama's temple in Daramsala either (like none in the ceremony), so do these maroon robed women (Tibetan and as I recall the women wear white not orange like the men in Thailand) realise they have joined the Eastern equivalent of the catholic church?
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Gawd, I wish I'd have gotten my teeth fixed.... :(
by Muddy Waters inhere i am, getting old and having my teeth and fillings (literally!
) falling apart now, and barely any dental coverage.
i just feel so sad and pissed off that i didn't do more when i was a jw and actually had coverage at the time.... .
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doofdaddy
One of the first things I did post jws was get my teeth fixed. All done in S.E. Asia, mostly Bali but I got three gold teeth in Thailand (before gold prices went crazy). The Orthodontist wanted to perfectly match my other teeth with porcelain but I said if I'm spending this kind of money I want people to know! LOL! I didn't smile a lot when I travelled alone in the boondocks of places like Cambodia. The poverty was so bad they would easily kill for that gold.
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Question for the married guys
by TweetieBird inis it possible to be friends with a woman, text her, call her, etc and not be physically attracted to her?.
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doofdaddy
So the guy is married and you are single? If so it should be fine so long as the wife is fully informed and aware of this relationship (which it is). If the wife doesn't know or if you feel uncomfortable communicating if the wife contacts.......