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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised
by therevealer in12 the watchtower ?
5 what good results there can be when.
children are trained to keep a simple eye!.
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Heeeers Johnny ! ...Johnny The mystery Bethelite returns and answers many questions. .
by koolaid-man inclick link to original thread..... then click page 34 http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/204106/1/active-bethelite-calls-into-six-screens-conference-call-and-exposes-the-evils-of-the-watchtower.
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Tawana BrawleyRick: Please read the story of Tawana Brawley and how Reverend Sharpton came to her aid and was fooled until the story spun out. This might happen to your Johnny!
On November 28, 1987 Joyce Lloray happened to look out of her apartment's sliding glass door in time to see a black girl climb into a big green plastic garbage bag and then lay still on the cold, muddy ground. Mrs. Lloray called the Duchess County Sheriff's Department, setting into motion a chain of bizarre and tragic events that made the quiet little town of Wappingers Falls, New York -- population 5,000 -- the focus of national attention.
The girl in the trash bag on the grounds of the Pavillion Condominiums was 15-year-old Tawana Brawley. Four days earlier she had played hooky from school in order to visit a former boyfriend, Todd Buxton, who was incarcerated at the Orange County Jail in nearby Newburgh. That evening Tawana took a bus to the town of Wappingers, where she had lived with her mother in Apartment 19A at the Pavillion Condominiums prior to their moving to Wappingers Falls. According to Tawana, she was abducted by several white men shortly after she got off the bus; the men, one of whom wore a badge, took her to a wooded area and sexually abused her over a period of several days. When police and paramedics arrived at the Pavillion Condominiums in response to Joyce Lloray's call, they found Tawana's clothes torn, cut and partially burned. Her body and clothing were smeared with feces, and on her chest and torso the words "KKK," "NIGGER" and "BITCH" had been written with what appeared to be charcoal. Since it seemed that Tawana's civil rights had been violated, the FBI was called in. A rape kit was administered at St. Francis Hospital and sent under seal to an FBI lab for analysis. Interviewed at the hospital by a black officer from the Poughkeepsie Police Department, Tawana claimed she had been repeatedly raped by a group of white men but could provide no names or descriptions of her assailants. She later told others that there had been no rape, only other kinds of sexual abuse. Forensic tests found no evidence that a sexual assault of any kind had occurred. Nor was there any evidence of exposure to elements, which would be expected in a victim held for several days in the woods at a time when the temperature dropped below freezing at night. There were other discrepancies in Tawana's story. She was seen entering the empty apartment at Pavillion where she had once lived on the morning after the alleged abduction. Other witnesses claimed to have seen her at parties in a nearby town during the period when she was "missing." She had no bruises, contusions, scratches or other injuries except for a small bruise behind the left ear, which was determined to be several days old. Her mother, Glenda Brawley, was spotted at the apartment complex shortly before Tawana was seen getting into the garbage bag; the mother waited until that same afternoon to report Tawana's "disappearance" to the police. The investigation turned up evidence to indicate that the damage done to Tawana's clothing had occurred in the apartment. According to the grand jury report, all of "the items and instrumentalities necessary to create the condition in which Tawana Brawley appeared on Saturday, November 28, were present inside of or in the immediate vicinity of Apartment 19A." The feces had come from a neighbor's dog. The Tawana Brawley case was quickly seized upon by a trio of black activists who viewed it as a means by which to demonstrate that the police and judicial system were racist and corrupt. Attorney Alton H. Maddox had been beaten by a white mob as a teenager in Newnan, Georgia; confrontational and virulently anti-white, Maddox seemed at times less interested in justice than in the potential for conflict that high profile cases like Tawana Brawley's provided. C. Vernon Mason, another New York attorney, also used cases to drum up publicity and address wider issues. Al Sharpton was a flamboyant Pentecostal preacher who spent $2,000 a year for hair care at Brooklyn's Prima Donna Beauty Salon; his hunger for celebrity caused some to question both his motives and methods. Maddox, Mason and Sharpton had joined forces before, in the Howard Beach case a year earlier. Several black men had been accosted by a white mob and one of them, Michael Griffith, was chased out onto a highway where he was struck by a vehicle and killed. In previous cases, Maddox and Mason had used the tactic of non-cooperation, refusing to let their clients testify in an effort to facilitate a "miscarriage of justice" in which the perpetrator(s) would get off. In this way they could heighten the outrage of the black community and claim the result proved that the judicial system discriminated against blacks. The trio muzzled Tawana Brawley and claimed everyone from the local police to New York Governor Mario Cuomo was engaged in a cover-up. The Brawley camp eventually accused Harry Crist, Jr., a part-time police officer, after Crist committed suicide on December 2, and Steven A. Pagones, a Duchess County district attorney, of participating in the alleged abduction and rape. Further investigation revealed that Crist had killed himself for reasons unconnected with the Brawley case, while Pagones' testimony convinced the Poughkeepsie grand jury that he was not involved in any wrongdoing. Undeterred, Maddox, Mason and Sharpton staged numerous media events, from news conferences and rallies to appearances on television shows like Phil Donahue and The Morton Downey, Jr. Show to keep national attention focused on the case. As time went on, the public grew increasingly skeptical of Tawana Brawley's charges and the ill-advised tactics of her handlers. When Tawana's mother was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury and failed to do so, a warrant for her arrest was issued; Maddox, Mason and Sharpton took her to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in New York City and organized a rally, hoping (in vain) that the authorities would force their way into the church and seize her. Two of Sharpton's associates quit, claiming the reverend had known all along that the case was a hoax. Other black leaders criticized Brawley's advisers -- Ray Innes of the Congress of Racial Equality and attorney Conrad Lynn among them. They feared the hoax and the antics of publicity hounds like Sharpton would prove detrimental to the cause of racial equality. After seven months of examining police and medical records and listening to the testimony of over one hundred witnesses, the grand jury determined that Tawana's charges were false and that her condition when found had been self-inflicted. The question remained: Why had she lied? One hypothesis was that since Tawana had already been grounded on the day she skipped school to visit her ex-boyfriend, she had made up the story of her abduction in order to avoid further punishment.The Aftermath
The Brawley case resurfaced a decade later when Steven Pagones filed a defamation suit against Maddox, Mason and Sharpton; he had already won a default judgment against Tawana in 1991. By 1997, Tawana had moved to Washington and changed her name to Maryam Muhammad. She returned to New York to speak before a rally at Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church in support of her advisers, insisting that she had told the truth about the abduction. The court found otherwise. Her advisers were ordered to pay Pagones $345,000 while Tawana had to pay $185,000. "Tawana Brawley appears caught up in her own fiction," said New York State Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman. Unfortunately, the rest of the country had to be caught up in it, too. -
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Does God Keep Time or is Time a Human Construct?
by Band on the Run ini was watching oz re-runs on hbo.
everyone is prepping for a major prison riot.
apocalyptic scenes are shown.
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Band on the run
Don't worry too much about Farkel. He's a curmudgeon: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
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Jan. 15th WT- Go to Meetings to Fight the Blues- Eliminate other Activities
by flipper inour jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.
starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".
it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?
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Translation : If you are young or old and suffered life threatening strokes, heart attacks, or other physical ailments - it's MORE important to use your energy for meetings and field service - NOT say physical rehabilitation, therapy , medical attention for healing. If the experience of Stephanie doesn't show how uncaring, unfeeling and self serving the WT society and JW cult is towards it's members - then I don't know what else does.
Flipper....Great thread as usual!
The whole objective of the WTS is to make you feel like you're never doing enough,blame you for your own spiritual weakness,blame you for ''reading into things'', ''running ahead'',and having ''bad associations''.
My uncle is around 90 years old.He can't hardly walk,suffers from heart disease and has bad circulation in both legs. He never goes out to any family functions but makes it to every meeting and auxilary pioneers.
My mom is in a wheel chair and makes it to every meeting and does phone service every Saturday just so she can get in her hours. Every time I take her to the Doctor she always leaves 2 magazines around so she can claim magazine placements.
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What is happening to JWN ?...So many topics not relating to Jehovah's Witnesses!
by koolaid-man innote the home page..wow how it has changed.. jehovah's witness discussion forumthe place to discuss anything relating to jehovah's witnesses and the watchtower bible and tract society... or just make new friends!.
many of the posts have nothing to do with with jehovah's witnesses and new ones coming on this board would be turned off by the content of many of these off color posts.
foul inappropriate language which is not proper or suitable for exiting witnesses to visibly inspect.
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Rick
Do you remember when we were told by the local elders that the Kingdom Hall was to be used only for spiritual matters? And,that any talk about business,work,vacations or any other matter would have to wait until you walked out of the Kingdom Hall. Do you remember that you couldn't show any pictures of your vacation,family or of any other kind? Remember that you couldn't pass out any business cards at the meetings?
Is that what you want here? Do you want all the rules that the WTS made us follow to be placed on this wonderful site? Do we need more rules and regulations which were a burden on all of us? Did we have any freedom to say what was on our minds at the Kingdom Hall like we have on this site? Isn't freedom of speech wonderful?
This forum has so many topics to choose from. Take your pick because in a matter of minutes a new one will come along.
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Anyone from Canada remember District Overseer Stefano Giacobbe?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inanyone remember stefano giacobbe from ontario,canada?
last i heard was that he was very sick .
he was married with a son named john luke.. he was well liked at our congregation and hope he is doing well..
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Anyone remember Stefano Giacobbe from Ontario,Canada? Last I heard was that he was very sick . He was married with a son named John Luke.
He was well liked at our congregation and hope he is doing well.
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Made up field service experience at yesterday's Public Talk
by RULES & REGULATIONS inremember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?
they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!
here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.
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Bangalore
Thank you the article!
How did you search it on the c.d.? Or,did you remember this made up experience?
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Video and pictures just coming in from the world wide protest!
by koolaid-man init was thrilling to participate in the world wide protest, jan, 21-23 2011 exposing the watchtower organization for their policies on deliberately breaking up up families.
we thank all those involved this past weekend for their passion and commitment to help free those trapped in falsehood.
i am aware that many on this forum do not believe in protesting against the watchtower society,and i respect their position.
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Rick
Keep up the good work on youtube and your protests! At least you put yourself on the frontlines. The rest of us (myself included ) will hide behind our computers and cry like a bunch of babies how the WTS should just go away! We will all wait for others to do the dirty work. One person can't defeat the WTS but doing nothing won't bring it down either.
Remember the easiest way a boxer wins a fight is by small body blows and not by knockout! The WTS will never fall but they can get hurt and retreat to their corner.
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Made up field service experience at yesterday's Public Talk
by RULES & REGULATIONS inremember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?
they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!
here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.
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Remember the made up stories of Witnesses in Djibouti,Africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings? They made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.
Talk about made up stories! Here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's Public Talk which would fall into the made up stories!
A man in Italy was called on a monthly basis by Jehovah's Witnesses. He repeated to them that he had no interest in their religion since he had his own and was quite happy being Catholic. They came no matter what. They left magazines at his door and he would throw them out without ever reading the material.
One day his company transfers him to Singapore,South Asia because of work. Now he can finally get away from the Witnesses.
One morning there is a knock on the door and it's the Jehovah's Witnesses . He just can't get away from them. So,he decides to buy 2 dogs. Now that should stop the Witnesses from entering his yard.
Two sisters show up one day and enter the yard. The two dogs chase the 2 sisters. One sister makes it out of the yard but the other sister is cornered by one of the dogs. She takes the Watchtower magazine and Awake magazine and it puts it by the dogs mouth to protect herself.The dog walks away with the magazines in his mouth.(Did Jehovah's angel protect the sister?)The dog walks back in the house where the owner is standing. He decides to read them,has a Bible study and 6 months later he is baptized member.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-16-11 WT Study (BAPTISM)
by blondie in1, 2. for you to be successful as you grow toward.
trail, you might want to take along a. map and a compass.
a reliable map and a compass.
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BluesBrother said:
Now he has grown up..He has no part of J W's. Lets hope he has a regular life, but of course his mother still has nothing to do with him. She has lost her son and why?.............Because he was baptized as a boy when things meant little and he was too immature to think of the long term. If he had never been baptized at least his mother might still have a son!
There have been over 10 baptized teens in our congregation who have been disfellowshipped due to drinking,smoking,and sexual matters. Today,they are nowhere to be seen. Almost all the parents have disowned them.
The WTS want young kids and teens to get baptized so they can control them. Instead of parents being in control,the WTS can eliminate all teen problems in the home and congregation by disfellowshipping them. Then, the parents will agree with the WTS that they had good reason to disfellowship their kids because they were all baptized and should of known better.
SHAME ON ALL THE PARENTS WHO LET THE WTS DICTATE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR CHILDREN!
