I'm looking for a friend who became an emancipated minor at 16 to escape her abusive mother. Went to go live with her paternal grandparents, who are now deceased.
I found her mother online this weekend... and sent an e-mail. Think of the mother in the movie "Carrie," only much, much worse. Not just crazy, but evil crazy. The Witnesses would call her "demonized."
~Sue
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What are you looking for?
by averyniceguy inwhat have you been looking for and cannot find it?
it can be anything, anybody, etc......
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Tomorrows World - Sister Religion to Jehovahs Witnesses?
by lostlantern inhttp://www.tomorrowsworld.org/welcome.shtml.
my husband and i watched a sermon today and it was eerily familiar, very weird.
go to this website and look at their magazines, twins i swear!
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cultdar?
LOL! Is that the apostate version of "perceptive power?"
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Parallels between Jonestown and WT org?
by skeptic1914 inhow many saw the recent "jonestown-paradise lost" on the history channel?
i realize the suicide/murder of over 900 in jonestown, guyana on novemebr 18, 1978 may be old news but i've always been interested in how cult leaders hold power over their believers.
i've been reluctant to classify jw as a cult but some obvious parallels struck me:.
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Both promise/d a communist paradise.
Both attract/ed and actively recruit/ed the poor and uneducated.
Both regard/ed the government with contempt.
Both result/ed in many tragic and needless deaths.
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For women: your view of strip clubs
by Paralipomenon ini have heard two vastly differing viewpoints on this subject over the years.
regarding your significant other, would you care if they went to a strip club or not?
some examples: .
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Strip clubs are fantasy-based businesses designed to separate people (typically men) from their potential real lives and earnings, just as the Watchtower Society does. One operates under the pretense of entertainment, the other salvation.
Both make big bucks off of superficial yearnings, surrounded by fake people and vampires.
Both operate on false hopes. Both attract and engender losers with a capital L.
That being said, I think they're great places for rejectable men and sorrowful women who have nothing to offer in this world. To each his own; even lowlifes need to make a living off each other and it's perfectly legal to do so.
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Arabella Mann & Mary J. Whitehouse on Russells Pyramid?
by betterdaze infollowing info is culled from: .
cemetery inscriptions from .
united cemeteries .
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Following info is culled from:
Cemetery Inscriptions from
United Cemeteries
226 Cemetery Lane
Pittsburgh, PA 15237-2722
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Enjm1/united2002.htm
RUSSELL, Charles T., Feb 16, 1852-Oct 31, 1916, "Pastor RUSSELL, The Laddicean Messenger"
RUSSELL, Charles T., no dates, age 64, "Dead With Christ" and I.B.S.A. at top of monument, same stone as Arabella MANN & Mary J. WHITEHOUSE
Okay, the first listing is definitely the headstone, the second has got to be the pyramid monument.
MANN, Arabella, no dates, age 86, I.B.S.A. at top of monument, same stone as Mary J. WHITEHOUSE & Charles T. RUSSELL
WHITEHOUSE, Mary J., no dates, age 61, I.B.S.A. at top on monument, same stone as Arabella MANN & Charles T. RUSSELL
Can anyone explain who these women were, and why their names are inscribed on the pyramid, yet they have no headstones? I've haven't noticed their names in any photos. Google isn't much help.
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useless CT russell trivia
by ninja indo you know one of his final sentences was..."make me a roman toga"... http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:kxoxho-l0icj:www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/bio%2520ctr.htm+make+me+a+roman+toga+taze&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk scroll 2/3rds of the way down and see for yourself.....hope i say something mental when i croak
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Yes, last Halloween was the 90th anniversary of his death: October 31, 1916.
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WTBS Sponsored Lobotomies!
by Cold Creek Swimmer ini just wanted to share with all of you on this forum my newfound joy.
thanks to a new understanding by the fds, they are able to provide to certain ones of us a lobotomie free of charge!
i was quite upset at first when my wife approached me with this news, but my tune soon changed.
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CCS, thanks for the laughs! This one's a keeper.
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WTBS Sponsored Lobotomies!
by Cold Creek Swimmer ini just wanted to share with all of you on this forum my newfound joy.
thanks to a new understanding by the fds, they are able to provide to certain ones of us a lobotomie free of charge!
i was quite upset at first when my wife approached me with this news, but my tune soon changed.
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***Literally, I haven't been able to feel my head for days. What a wonderful organization.***
SirNose, I thought you were going to follow with, "Praise Jah!"
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Baptist Church giving courses about JW's teachings and past history
by JH insince a few months now, my mom goes to a baptist church here in town, and everybody entering the church yesterday received this slip of paper below.
this is an invitation to anyone who would be interested receiving a "course" about jw's, given by a member of the baptist church.. they will talk about the following topics:.
- where does the jw's religion come from.
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Fore-warned is fore-armed.
It's good to see a mainstream church protecting its flock from the WT cult in an educational and proactive manner.
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First Post
by Rethinking infirst time posting, long time lurking.. came upon this site on accident a few years ago and dismissed it as a site for disgruntled people; however, in the past months i actively searched for it as it stuck in my mind.
believe it or not, i practically read all of the topics.
i felt, wow, i wasn't alone in my thinking and feelings about some things.. it all started years ago in my last year in high school and then into college.
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Welcome, Rethinking!
~Sue