Posts by daniel-p

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What do you think about David Letterman now?

by asilentone in

i am sure all of you know about it by now..

i stumbled across this on you tube, and just want to say, this might be from the 60's, but this woman could damn well sing.. brittney spears shouldn't be allowed to clean her toilet.... well, maybe she should, but thats another thread.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ta6lqmp0ec.

daniel-p

Talent is talent, yes... but man, did she have a HUGE SHNOZZ!!!

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

dissed: ok, I will grant you that if the twitter page was created a week ago it would look ALOT more suspiscious. But something about this story smells fishy. And this person's twitter posts are extremely vague. I just think it smells, and not necessarily from the WTS side of it.
Someone comes on here with a screen name of "BetheliteElder" with 17 posts mind you (I know, I know, me=pot, kettle, black, etc) and everyone jumps up and down to read and eat up this convoluted story.
Thats all. And no, I am not a troll, just a lurker that is in and staying that way, thanks. Doesn't mean I have delusions about the nature of humans and that fact that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Alas, the congos in the book of Rev were messed up too. Look how much correction they needed. /end:hijack

No.

Your coming on here and posting this is just plain bizarre, and is WAY more fishy than this guy's Twitter page. (And for the record, all Twitter pages are lame.)

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

daniel-p
strange that someone just signs up to tell us all the guy is a fake

Yes, very interesting. The account was created 3 years ago... lies dormant, or he just looks around without contributing whatsoever, and then his first few posts, he starts dicrediting this guy's story. What kind of poster would do that?

I WONDER WHO IT IS.....

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

dp, ur too funni. No Im just highly critical.

Well, glad we have you around here to keep things real. As I can see by your post history, you've contributed a lot to the community and should be a noteworthy and dependable source of healthy criticism.

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

lame twitter page, I call fake.

How old are you, 13?

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

LOL

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Hoping for some opinions on a recent job interview...

by Tuesday in

jw
friends

i had to share this experience, i actually made it into a youtube video, so here you can see me talk about it.

what are your thoughts on the subject?.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nql-rramqhs.

daniel-p

Damn... if you hadn't brought up the JW thing at the beginning, you'd a have a SOLID discrimination case against her.

Does that really matter? I don't know of any clause that allows an interviewer to ask about religious affiliation just because the interviewee says he was raised in a particular way. Regardless, the interviewer is most likely very inexperienced and was out of line.

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Is Atheism a Form of Blind Faith?

by passwordprotected in

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friends

if god is outside of nature and therefore cannot be proved or disproved by science, is atheism a form of blind faith?

after all, it cannot be defended on the basis of pure reason.. steven jay gould said;.

"science simply cannot by its legitimate methods adjudicate the issue of god's possible superintendence of nature.

daniel-p

A lot about this debate can be summed up with one question: Who has the courage to exist in an uncertain reality?

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Breaking News: Big Trouble with the Watchtower

by Bethelite Elder in

jw
friends

a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.

i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.

evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.

daniel-p

OUTLAW, how about this??:

I have read enough of this type of quote from you that I'm very angry. Angel Eyes, answer this for me. Why did the governing body fail to protect me from an abusive jw husband? Why did they allow him to beat, kick and choke me for almost seven years? Why was it that "worldly" people had to come to my defense and save me from a dangerously mentally ill man? The elders knew what he was doing. He confessed several times but would cry, repent and continue to threaten and terrorize me. Tell me, why did the gb allow me to lose my family, friends, home and most material possessions simply because I couldn't stand being married to this man? Why did the gb instruct the elders to tell me that I would be df'd for refusing to stalk this lunatic long enough to prove adultery on his part? Why are there thousands of women who have reported the same thing?

And while you're at it, why not explain to me why the gb covered up for pedophiles for at least 40 years, allowing them to victimize children in new congregations? Why did the darling of the gb, Ted Jaracz, send CO's out to threaten the victims of child molestation with df'ing if they dared come forward about the crimes that were perpratrated on them?

Take some time and catch your breath and then explain to me why it was that until 1974 jws didn't have "scriptural" grounds for divorce if their spouses had a homosexual affair or performed sex acts with animals?

Explain to me why the gb allowed jws in Malawi to be raped and slaughtered by ordering them not to buy a 25 cent political party card, but yet jws in Mexico were permitted to bribe military officials to keep jw youth from mandatory service?

I could go on all day about the attrocities committed by the gb regarding circumstances surrounding the blood and neutraility issues, but I'll stop here. What are the answers to the questions I've listed above?

Please, do tell.