in the crowded corridors at the district convention, there was a purse snatcher.
i was in the right place at the right time to catch it all.. this guy grabbed this sister's purse and made off with it.
she screamed and several brothers were in purseuit.
He was halfway down the stairs when he fell over another contribution box and, oh that's gotta hurt, he tumbled all the way down the rest of his fall.
There was a contribution box sitting halfway down a stairway? And twelve of them blocking the bottom of the stairs?
Contribution boxes pop up out of nowhere at this assembly like little monsters in the movie "Gremlins."
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newbies and others are often saying, "move on", in other words, get a life, remove yourselves from the influence of wtism completely.
there are many good answers to this, but i think there is one answer, which has not been much considered.
the international 'apostate' world, to which we contribute, has mushroomed in the last 10 years in: numbers, public profile, influence on the wts policies (and in jws awareness), and in all areas of knowledge about the wt.
a torch-carrying. pitchfork-weilding. Frankenstein mob storming the Watchtower castle.
You have misunderstood. Those aren't pitchforks. They're shovels. And that isn't a castle. It's a huge pile of shit.
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last night in chat, just as i was about to log off and go to bed, a person unknown to me came in.
i did not recognize the name, so i introduced myself.
with me in chat was another new person, who identified him/her-self as a 19 yr old da'd person on the east coast (us).. after the initial introductions, the new person stated he/she was a therapist working with a troubled 15 yr old witness girl who wanted to quit the religion over the objections of her mother.
How does a 15 year old Jehovah's Witness girl get funding to visit a therapist?
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i recently ordered another copy of "in search of christian freedom" as i got rid of my first one (long story) and since it had been a couple of years since i read it, i decided to get another one.. since i live in a fairly small town, i decided to give a fake name, in case someone worked at the book store that might be a jw.
it was saturday morning (a time when all good little jw's should be in field service) so i felt it safe to go pick up my book.
i walk into the store and headed for the counter but was stopped in my tracks by an elder and his family.
Why not just order it online? Go to Amazon.com, or your favorite online bookstore, and search for "Crisis of Conscience" or for "Raymond Franz". Easier than going to the bookstore, and it comes right to your door in an unmarked brown package.
Here's an example: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9991737243/o/qid=992574911/sr=2-2/ref=aps_sr_b_1_2/103-7943856-4445415
"i'm just a son of a son, son of a son .
son of a son of a sailor .
the sea's in my veins, my tradition remains .
Looks like great fun! Uh, Ed... is that a propeller on your cap? :)
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a very close acupuncturist friend of mine told me that there is an instant cure for anyone who catches that nasy summer fungal infection known as "athletes foot".. basically, when you take your shower, you pee on your infected feet and the cure is almost instant.. i, however, now intend to get some antiseptic cream from the chemist, just as soon as i have finished screaming.. englishman.. ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
It's no secret, Englishbum, that you have a tendency to believe most anything that you hear.
How much wiser to be like Yadirf, who only believes anything he hears if it comes from the Watchtower Society.
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first email........ yes, don't be a silentlamb.
speak out when people are doing the.
molesting, not years later.. that is ridiculous for an adult to say that when they were a child, someone molested her/him.
Sounds like our old friend, ABK. The irrefutable logic, the smooth, lyrical style, the continuity throughout...
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* http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/invictus.html
Yea, verily I say unto thee: it shall be read.
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* http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/invictus.html
Struggling inside a little bit these days, Tom? That's okay. Rant on, dude, it's good for the soul.
COMF
my flyers merely said: if as a jehovahs witness, a member of your family has been molested information is available for further information see: www.silentlambs.org or call 1-877-wtabuse.. nothing overtly inflammatory, actually more like a public service announcement.. i guess thats what most of the local organizers and friends thought in my neck of the, woods for the first two days of the district convention!
but once the 'friends' realized that the website i was promoting with my flyers and moving car billboard was not an approved wt site, the powers that be got ... well ... pissed is the word!.
nobody bothered me on friday as i went smiling about my posting flyers on the light and utility poles on the routes to/from the convention site.
Outnfree, I am soooooooooooooooo impressed with you! Wow, talk about a kick-butt kind of woman! Woohoo!
Next year, get permission to post. If there's a fee, I'll kick in for it. Just let me know.
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