Enigma One

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  Bethel Getting Paranoid, Tightening Screws

  by AlanF in

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  i have it from solid sources that brooklyn and patterson are now recording all incoming telephone calls.. a word to the wise if you have friends there you talk to.. alanf

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  Enigma One

  I"m not advocating Scientology...LOL. Silly banana.
  
  But when I say JWD is a business I am quite correct. What is it's mission statement? To help struggling JW's exit the cult. Correct? While they are certainly not running this site as a "profit" center it still is a business. If you treat it as such in basing decisions....it helps. I'm not saying whether or not Simon & Ang do run it like a company or not. I'm just spewing my 2 cents on it here. That's the beauty of a DISCUSSION board. I'd love to see JWD triple in size. It would mean JWD has helped that many more people out of "the lie".
  
  As a business you must ask yourself every day, am I managing my resources correctly? Just as one needs to look at server load, or bandwidth, to run this site.....the overall content brought to the market by "us", (JWD posters) needs to be examined. Is the "content" of the JWD message better or worse with the addition or subtraction of any one or group of posters? Look at the numbers.
  
  I manage a creative team for work. Do I harness their ideas and bring the to market via the customer? What can I do better? Am I listening to what my team is telling me is right for the business vs. what the client says is right for their business? We implement our plan, then track the numbers. Were our suppositions correct? Or not?
  
  Just as McDonald's is NOT a food company. It's a marketing company. A marketing company that just so happens to market food.
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  Bethel Getting Paranoid, Tightening Screws

  by AlanF in

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  i have it from solid sources that brooklyn and patterson are now recording all incoming telephone calls.. a word to the wise if you have friends there you talk to.. alanf

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  Quite true Jnat. Very true indeed. Will you feel so happy-go-lucky when it's your time to leave? Time will tell, and I hope you aren't up for parole any time soon. LOL.
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  Wonders never cease!

  by ColdRedRain in

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  today when i was at school, i saw a former friend of my brother.

  she told me that mr. spiritual was a gangbanger in high school.

  this was the same guy that gave me hell because i listened to "unspiritual" goth music when i was in my teens.

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  I actually knew someone similar. They were one of the biggest sex hounds at school. Of course he lived a completely double life. He also had the nerve to shun his own brother for getting caught in his sexual picadilos. Hypocrites. Hypocrites have the 7th gate of hell to go to hopefully.
  
  D'oh......I'm not being a very good Buddhist today. Sorry. Just angry. But even Buddha punished evil. LOL.
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  Bethel Getting Paranoid, Tightening Screws

  by AlanF in

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  i have it from solid sources that brooklyn and patterson are now recording all incoming telephone calls.. a word to the wise if you have friends there you talk to.. alanf

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  Auld - you know what I'm talking about. When I said "ya'll" that meant all parties. AlanF as well. Frankly, I also get annoyed when others constantly harp, "If you don't like it leave", or "our way or the highway". Thanks but no thanks I've already been a part of that kind of organization.
  
  I'm in advertising. I deal with "crappy" commercials all day. However, when considering any business, yes JWD is a business, what is the net result of any advertising campaign, crappy or not. In this case you would look at 1.) new posters, 2.) total posts, 3.) number of inactive posters. When you look at all three of these things you will find what you are looking for. "Crappy" commercials can be quite effective, as a "crappy" poster could be as well. So is this board better off missing that group of posters or worse? Do the math. The numbers will not lie.
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  It's My Anniversary and My Husbands Birthday!

  by Legolas in

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  it's our 19th wedding anniversary

  and my husband's 37th birthday (we were married on his 18th birthday)

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  Guess who's going to jump out of your cake?
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  Bethel Getting Paranoid, Tightening Screws

  by AlanF in

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  i have it from solid sources that brooklyn and patterson are now recording all incoming telephone calls.. a word to the wise if you have friends there you talk to.. alanf

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  I don't think the WTBS is organized by the Devil anymore than any other Christian relgion is. Crazy, puritanical, control freaks, looking for salvation. Nothing new really.
  
  
  Ang - "if he chooses not to post that is HIS problem not ours." - and all of our loss. Too bad ya'll couldn't have worked it out. I miss AlanF. Oh, well life goes on.
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  Setting examples for the still JW

  by oldflame in

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  i read more threads than i post too.

  i had a thought ?

  what if i were still a jw and i came here to jwd and read many post that had hate god or abusive language etc in them would i continue to come back here ?

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  Yes, perhaps we shouldn't mention certain things either. We wouldn't want to look bad to the JW's. Or heaven forbid, what would the neighbor's think?
  
  This is the exact glad handing that happened to us as Dubs. Pedophila.....ssssh! Let's push that under the rug, it's something ugly we don't want to talk about. Doctrinal issues? Ssshh....wait on Joe Hoover.....just sit back and take our crap until then.
  
  OldFlame you talk about all the "potential" victims that "might" be helped out of the org. Guess what? Look around you right now. There are hundreds if not thousands of vicitims here RIGHT NOW. What about them? These victims are needing to heal and "move on" with life. What about them Old Flame? How do some of these people restart lives after 15, 25, 35 years in an abusive cult? When they have been cut off from everyone they know. Where do they go? Should you tell them, "Hey can you tone down your anger.....I know you were sexually abused as a child.....but all this anger isn't PC". I dealt with leaving the Dubs in my own way. Before the internet. I wouldn't dare tell someone else how they should feel, say, or do based on their recovery from the WTBS.
  
  The truth shall set you free.
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  My Accomplishments As A JW Of Which I'm Proud

  by Nate Merit in

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  i never even came close to making a convert.. .

  i never donated a dime to the wtbts.. .

  when i was involved, i was involved.

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  I guess by not masturbating for a long time due to JoeHoover's instructions to youths.....I did save lots of kittie cats, as everytime you masturbate God kills a kitten.
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  Virgin post

  by wombat in

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  i've never posted anything on the net before.

  just want to see if it works.

  i left the wts in '73 - just couldn't wait those extra two years.

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  Those damn rum demons....can't trust em.
  
  The Gin Genie is the worst for me personally.
  
  LOL
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  Are You Afraid To Die?

  by minimus in

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  do you every worry about dying?

  do you think that you probably won't have a very long life?

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  Enigma One

  Nope.
  
  Besides in my next life I coming back as Japanese Royalty. Exciting!