Posts by Dark Knight

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How To Understand the MiddleEast - in 30 seconds

by metatron in

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a poor arab man stood scratching at the ground, hoping that he could get something.

to grow.

suddenly, the angel gabriel appeared before him.. "allah has seen your oppression and heard your many prayers, hassan.

Dark Knight

Hmmmmm. Understand the middle-east huh?

Try again.

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Hello from Australia...

by Riverview in

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just wanted to say hi.... its my 1st time on here...it looks good.. are there many here from aus??.

i am 37 - male - was a jw all my life until 2 years ago.

used to pioneer regularly and was a ms. thankfully i questioned everything in the end and found out who god really is and the history of the jw's....my wife and i were shocked after reading coc and c/freedom.

Dark Knight

G'Day Mate!

Great to see you've joined us here on JWD. I always meet alot of Hillsong people here in sydney. A friend of mine is a famous singer and goes there regularly. Those guys are music crazy. Well so am I :P but in a different way =D

Hope you like hanging around the forums and if you ever head over to the East side make sure you let us know.

Cheers
DK

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Chronicles - Don't Touch His Ear Lobe!

by misspeaches in

so here i was a ridiculously naive girl of around 25 years.

i was living interstate attending meetings, witnessing and making new friends in the congregation.

i got on great with a brother 'g'.

Dark Knight

Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril...
"Thou shalt not rub thy neighbours ear lobes. If thoust members cometh into accidental contact with an ear lobe not belnging to thine own self, thou shall be unclean 30 days including public holidays or RDOs occuring in said period. Do not pass go, Do not collect 200 shekels." (Cyr 12:24)

So no, sister Peaches, you can't take me ear lobe virginity, like you did to that poor innocent brother.

DK ;)

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Chronicles - Don't Touch His Ear Lobe!

by misspeaches in

so here i was a ridiculously naive girl of around 25 years.

i was living interstate attending meetings, witnessing and making new friends in the congregation.

i got on great with a brother 'g'.

Dark Knight

Peaches, I doubt Bliss is an Earlobe virgin :P She's too wild for that... all that latin dancing and all ; )

Yes Bliss I still am unfortunately. Experienceing alot of peer pressure to "give it up", but out of loyalty to jehovaaah, i'm intent on holding onto my ear virginity until after marriage. hehehe

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1st post from a former S.O!

by onesong in

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i'm 36 yrs.

old and was a jw for 35.i did everything from pioneer to bethel to ms to elder, school overseer ect.

, ect.

Dark Knight

Hey Onesong!

Great to read a post like yours. I'm really excited for you as i went through the same thing about 4 years ago. Becoming spiritually awake all of sudden like that is such an amazing experience. Hope things go great for you from here on!

Cheers
DK

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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies

by CountryGuy in

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just saw this on the news:.

detroit (reuters) - rosa parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give her seat on a montgomery, alabama, bus to a white man sparked a revolution in american race relations, died on monday at age 92. .

shirley kaigler, parks' lawyer, said she died while taking a nap early on monday evening surrounded by a small group of friends and family members.. "she just fell asleep and didn't wake up," kaigler said.. the cause of death was not immediately known.

Dark Knight

Being an aussie, I'd never really heard of Rosa Parks. So i just did some self education. Pretty interesting stuff. But then again american history is fascinating stuff.

It's amazing when you think about it, that only 50 years ago a black woman was supposed to give up her seat for a white man on public transport. We've come a long way in such a short time. So much for when the witnesses say things are getting worse!

DK

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Chronicles - Don't Touch His Ear Lobe!

by misspeaches in

so here i was a ridiculously naive girl of around 25 years.

i was living interstate attending meetings, witnessing and making new friends in the congregation.

i got on great with a brother 'g'.

Dark Knight

Yeah some witnesses are really screwed up when it comes to forms of physical contact. For alot of them anything other than a handshake could be seen as having sexual overtones and as a form of flirting. And all forms of affection between members of the opposite gender lead to sex. They're all so sexually stifled that they've become obsessed with it. DK *still an ear-lobe virgin* :D

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Is it proper for a Christian to carry mace?

by gringojj in

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my wifes dillusional mother has decided to carry mace for protection against her alleged stalker.

i wont even get into that craziness but i was just wondering if the wts has ever said anything against mace.

i realize its not deadly but neither are stun guns and i doubt they are ok. any thoughts?

Dark Knight

There's a whole stack of issues that the witnesses have an answer for, but their given answer doesn't make much sense when you think about it. This is one of those things. I remember being told when i was young that they only carried swords to fight off wild beasts. Does anyone really believe that?? Like you drahcir i'm gobsmacked by the ridiculously dim-witted application of Romans 12:18 by the witnesses. Simply this scripture has nothing to do with self-defence. One thing i don't really understand is why jesus said what he did. Was he trying to tell his apostles they should never fight, not even to defend themselves? Yet the bible is full of divinely sanctioned forms of violence. I have a feeling that jesus was just stating the obvious, since if you commonly engage in violent actions there is a good chance that you could die by violent means, and jesus was just telling peter something like, "Put that sort away cause you're just gonna end up getting yourself killed." I wouldn't mind hearing some opinions from christians on what jesus was trying to say when he said what he did about those you take by the sword, will die by the sword. DK

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