Posts by ICBehindtheCurtain

This just shows the desperation of someone pulling at straws to prove something unprovable, just because you find a name doesn't mean that was the person that the bible was talking about, duh!

IC

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JW Assembly Hall in Queens, NYC sans Egyptian motif

by Kaput in

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ICBehindtheCurtain

Hey wasn't Ashtoret the same as Asherah Yaweh's consort? and to think.........

IC

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WTS and the eBay effect

by IP_SEC in

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a few days ago a witness apologist tried to make a case that exjdubs on the internet lessened the effect of apostasy in the congregations.

if i understand the basic argument it is that we all get together here and commiserate about the bad ole society instead of the old days where we aired our differences with others in the congregation.

now its only the occasional careless/disgruntled witness who gets entrapped by our machinations.. bull corn, i know i would probably still be plugging away at 5 meetings a week, & service on saturday, sunday, monday, and wednesday were it not for the internet.

ICBehindtheCurtain

All hail the mighty INTERNET, yes it is a huge threat!

IC

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JW Assembly Hall in Queens, NYC sans Egyptian motif

by Kaput in

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ICBehindtheCurtain

Wow, that picture brought back memories, I had some great times there, I remember the Egyptian thing lasting for many years. I also used to wonder why they had left all that Egyptian stuff there, when I was pretty young and bored at the assemblies I used to know the exact number of leaf looking thingies all around the stage. It had this huge chandelier, sometimes my mind would drift during the talks and I would wonder what it would be like if that thing fell, yes I was really bored. In my teenage years, me and my freinds checked alot of cute brothers there, then the memories with the boyfreinds, memories light the corners of my mind, misty water colored memories of the way we werrrrrrrrrrrrre, ok, I snapped back to the present now.

IC

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Was CTR a Freemason? Compelling new evidence!!!!

by IP_SEC in

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psych!

ICBehindtheCurtain

OK, You got me, DAMN!

IC

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Unlearning

by Narkissos in

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the experience of unlearning, i guess, is part of any human life, but is something we particularly have in common as xjws.

once upon a time we knew it all -- the right and the wrong things to think or to do -- and then we had to unlearn somehow.

give up beliefs, ideas, prejudices, attitudes, etc.. the discussions on this board suggest that we all had -- and have -- different ways or strategies in unlearning.

ICBehindtheCurtain

Oh by the way, I forgot to share a poem I wrote on this subject,

Down the Rabbit Hole

At first there was contentment,

Answers to questions

For millenia asked

Acceptance of a way of life

Rules to follow, schedules to keep

all piled into a neat little heap

Order, organization

Eternal life, instead of eternal damnation

Then one day

The questions began again

Only now, there were no answers

To satisfy by brain

So began this journey

Down the proverbial Rabbit Hole

To find out who the "Truth" had stole

IC

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Unlearning

by Narkissos in

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the experience of unlearning, i guess, is part of any human life, but is something we particularly have in common as xjws.

once upon a time we knew it all -- the right and the wrong things to think or to do -- and then we had to unlearn somehow.

give up beliefs, ideas, prejudices, attitudes, etc.. the discussions on this board suggest that we all had -- and have -- different ways or strategies in unlearning.

ICBehindtheCurtain

For me it has been a gradual journey, like peeling away layer upon layer of ingrained beliefs and ideas, of course quite frightening and painful at times. But when I found out about the NGO coverup, that began opening my eyes, and made me wonder what else has been covered up, I didn't want to believe it could be possible that Jehovah's organization could do this, I first hoped it wasn't true, just something that apostates made up, but the truth of the matter became clear. That was over 6 mos. ago, now my sons both say they always had doubts about the religion, the younger one once asked when he was about 6 years old, how it is that we know for sure who wrote the bible, since it was supposedly written so long ago he said "How do you know someone didn't just make stuff up and put it there?" Ah, young minds, so uncluttered and unbrainwashed.

Today he says, you see I always knew there was something wrong with all of this, and yes he was absolutely right.

IC

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USA service report shows a decrease of 1442 publishers

by truthseeker in

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from september 2004 to july 2005, there has been no increase in the number of publishers reporting for the 2005 service year, which began last september.

september 2004 - 990,551 .

october 2004 - 993,476 .

ICBehindtheCurtain

My husband and I count the time we spend enlightening people in any way ie telling them the truths about the WTS, the Bible lies and contradictions, the Jesus myths, the Sumerians, the Three Minute Powerpause by John Haricharan, my time posting here, anything that can help people open their eyes and untie the yoke of Religion and falsehood, empower and enlighten them,that is our ministry and that is the time we report, hey they just want some hours right? Eventually, I know we will probably leave, but for now we just play the game.

IC

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Can You See ThatThere's No One Left To Do Anything Around The Kingdom Hall?

by minimus in

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do you realize that now elders are forced to "set the example" and do menial tasks like mow the lawn, clean the bathrooms and "handle the mikes".

there's no one left!

ICBehindtheCurtain

This is probably why, in this summers DC, there was a talk about the brothers reaching out, it sounded really desperate, my husband and smiled at each other, because we both see this happening more and more, when you have a job, a family to raise, who in their right mind see's holding a microphone in a meeting as a priviledge? oh, wait, there are brainwashed people who think this way, I forgot.

Yes the young ones are all leaving, and I will be there to envite them over when their parents shun them, maybe I can enlighten them about the cult, so they don't have to live with the guilt that they are disobeying God's organization.

IC (of the GB should hold the mic's class)