the elders and the governing body are cracking down on jw myspace groups.
here is the latest from the owner of one that i'm subbed to.. im sorry to all who just recently joined myspace but im deleting my account and if ne one wants to keep the group goin thats up to them... i dont know whats goin to happen if i delete my mysapce i dont know if the group will automatically get deleted.... .
now for the reason im leaving is that my elders are saying that the po's met last week and the major issue with society now is the internet and myspace came up as one of the topics and for the elders to talk about this with the young adults and kids in the hall... the pretty much told us if u dont take urself off we will have to have a meeting with u about it... this is advice from not us the elders but from the governing body... sooo im not one to go agaisnt my elders even though i dont want to leave becasue i met some wonderful people and im soo greatful for that... if ne one wants to keep in touch with me here is my phone number... .
In the last assemblies and in several of the talks I've heard over the last little while that I was faking it the internet was brough up so many times, though I think I liked it better when they would quote song lyrics from "bad" songs announcing "Brothers and sisters are you aware of what our children are listening to today?".
-Riot
anyways if anyone has posted a link to this story before i apologize for the duplicate but i hadn't seen this and it made me laugh beyond anything, previously when seeing the information on this story my first guess was it has to be a witness.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169193,00.htmllong after their mortal forms left this earth, the ghosts of dead prostitutes may be dragged into a florida court.. the owners of church street station (search), an entertainment complex in downtown orlando, are suing a sushi restaurant that broke its lease after claiming its space was haunted.. "it's very serious," lynn franklin, attorney for christopher and yoko chung, owners of amura japanese restaurant (search), told the associated press.
"a lot of people are corroborating having seen incidents in this location.".
Anyways if anyone has posted a link to this story before I apologize for the duplicate but I hadn't seen this and it made me laugh beyond anything, previously when seeing the information on this story my first guess was it HAS to be a witness.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169193,00.html
Long after their mortal forms left this Earth, the ghosts of dead prostitutes may be dragged into a Florida court.The owners of Church Street Station ( search ), an entertainment complex in downtown Orlando, are suing a sushi restaurant that broke its lease after claiming its space was haunted.
"It's very serious," Lynn Franklin, attorney for Christopher and Yoko Chung, owners of Amura Japanese Restaurant ( search ), told The Associated Press. "A lot of people are corroborating having seen incidents in this location."
Church Street Station owners, who include boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman ( search ), offered to perform an exorcism before the restaurant moved in, but were rebuffed.
"As a Jehovah's Witness, Mr. Chung has deeply held beliefs regarding spirits and demons," wrote Franklin in a letter to building owners, according to the Orlando Sentinel. "These beliefs require him to avoid encountering or having any association with spirits or demons" — or with exorcism rites, Franklin later explained to the AP.
Church Street Station says it doesn't really matter if the building is haunted or not.
"I asked them if these were good ghosts or bad ghosts, and if they were good ghosts, why it was a problem," said David Simmons, a lawyer and state lawmaker who represents the company.
Emilio San Martin, who runs Orlando Ghost Tours ( search ), said the building at 125 Church St. once housed the Strand Hotel, which was in fact a brothel.
"The ladies there entertained many a gentleman of wealth," San Martin explained, adding that he himself had in the past heard the crying of the prostitutes' murdered illegitimate children.
Workmen conducting renovations last fall saw a bartender and two dancing girls reflected in a mirror, a subcontractor recently told the Sentinel. San Martin said a slender man playing a piano could often be seen and heard when the space housed Lili Marleen's Aviator Pub & Restaurant, which closed a few years ago.
Church Street Station wants $2.6 million from the Chungs to make up for 10 years of rent and theoretical damages. It also wants a judgment on whether there really are ghosts in the building, and if so, whether they would interfere with the operation of a restaurant.
"There is no evidence," says the lawsuit, "that there are ghosts or apparitions in the premises or, if there are, that the ghosts or apparitions interfere with the defendants' quiet enjoyment and use of the premises."
To be fair, both sides may be being a bit disingenuous in claiming prior ignorance of the spectral situation.
San Martin told the Sentinel that until the property changed hands in 2001, he regularly took tour groups through the building. He still begins each day's Orlando Ghost Tour on the sidewalk out in front — in plain view of the Chungs' current restaurant, which sits across the street.
— Thanks to Out There readers Shannon O. and Robert J.Quoted from Foxnews.com
I wonder if the local congregation ever went there to pray?
-Riot
my apologies in advance for the long post.
this is the story i thought i'd be taking to my grave so just to have the chance to put it out there feels so freeing.
thanks for listening.
Welcome and you will find that this board is an incredible help, the support to be had is amazing.
-Riot
subtitled, "was the 'original jesus' a pagan god?
" by timothy freke and peter gandy.
from amazon's editorial review: .
First thought when seeing this thread was "Jesus Christ the Vampire Hunter" beyond b movie considered a C movie.
But never heard of the mysteries before and may be worth looking into.
let's give some good reasons why meetings suck.
Putting up with superficial acts of caring, like say the PO coming up to me asking how my marriage was doing and wanting to meet with me to uplift me spiritually AFTER the divorce had been finalized for months. I still laugh at his look of shock when I informed him that I was divorced.
i just did a search on google for pro-jw forums, there doesn't seem to be any.. i remember the old days, back in the 90's.... you had:.
www.witnesses.net - closed around 2000. www.jwzone.org - closed around 2001 - are they still active but under a different name?.
anyone remember any others?.
For a while locally in minnesota there was a site called www.nucleargopher.com that site doesn't really seem to be there anymore it was a "production" company for a number of witnesses locally that were into music etc. They had a forum and site that many witnesses posted on. They also spilled over into many witness blogs on livejournal.com.
I know to at one point there were several witnesses that would chat together on ICQ, though I doubt many of them still do that anymore.
-Riot
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i found this article while reading the news online today, there is mention that jehovah's witnesses were one of the groups that had devised this system.
darn, they may have to deal with courts again.. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169959,00.html.
I found this article while reading the news online today, there is mention that Jehovah's Witnesses were one of the groups that had devised this system. Darn, they may have to deal with courts again.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169959,00.html
-Riot
i mean - when we were witnesses we always thought that is what one who 'leaves jehovah' does - goes right out and becomes evil incarnate.
or do you live a life similar to what you did as a witness?
on a scale of 1-10, how wicked would you be considered if the witnesses were making the call on your current lifestyle ?
Well the last conversation I had with my dad he said I sounded like an apostate.
I know I'm a 10 in thier books, I can't say I have a particular faith but I do enjoy researching all manners of theology, and I do go drink occasionally etc.
Oh and I have a non jw sig other OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
i was a teenager i bought a ouigja board and my sisters and i played with it.
it scared us so much we threw it away!
but, i was forwarned about it, so i guess i could have driven myself to madness with my own mind!
Very interesting article indeed but I don't feel it went into enough explanation onto the study of how it explains what happens when a minimum of three are on the board.
I have used ouija boards a few times, most have been homemade.
My sig other who is from England has commented that he finds it odd and slightly disturbing that its a board game in the US.
I am not entirely sure what causes them to work or not work, but at this point I can't rule things out because they have always worked when i have been around, and with my boy and another friend on them as well. In addition there have been a few incidents that have tied to what was told on them to completely rule out the legitimacy of them for me at least.
for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?
i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.
i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.
They don't believe that my right to choose is just as valid as theirs, and that is what I resent.
I agree with that statement the most, that reflects my feelings very much so.
-Riot
