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Joanne's Anagrams for the Watchtower
by Dogpatch injoanne's amazing anagrams!
one of the things that helped joanne cope with being brought up in a religious cult, was her fantastic sense of humour and her love of reading.
joanne told me that she and a friend used to be so board during the meetings, they would play word games just to pass the time.
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Joanne's Anagrams for the Watchtower
by Dogpatch injoanne's amazing anagrams!
one of the things that helped joanne cope with being brought up in a religious cult, was her fantastic sense of humour and her love of reading.
joanne told me that she and a friend used to be so board during the meetings, they would play word games just to pass the time.
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Joanne's amazing Anagrams!
One of the things that helped Joanne cope with being brought up in a religious cult, was her fantastic sense of humour and her love of reading. Joanne told me that she and a friend used to be so board during the meetings, they would play word games just to pass the time. One of the things they would do was to guess or estimate the number of words in a pararaph or on the page they were studying, then count everyone and see who was the closest!
28 years later, she gave up counting! ;-)
One day, her attention was drawn to "Anagrams" and she decided to turn her hand to it. She said to me, "The Watchtower are experts at playing with words, lets see what comes from their own words!"
She set to work and showed me a couple she had done, I was really amazed.
So I looked on the internet to see if I could find any more Watchtower, Jehovah's witness related anagrams. Someone must have done some I thought, so I searched and searched but I found only the one !
This was an anagram of their name / title, Jehovah's witness , and re-arranging these letters, using them all, and keeping it in contex, ( something the Watchtower find very difficult to do! ), you get...
The Jewish Son saves!
Amazing eh!
If it wasn't so ironic, you could almost believe that God had hidden the truth in their own name , a truth they are so desperate to hide from people!
But if that was the case, ;-) ...then check out the following:
Joanne put pen to paper and came up with these original amazing anagrams!
1. Governing body By God or vending! 2. Paradise Earth Air reaps death! 3. Revelation book Rate book on evil! 4. Watchtower Crew to where? 5. Public talk Pull it back! 6. Harp of God O, hard goof! 7. Circuit assembly Lies, but I cry scam! 8. Evil slave Lies valve! 9. Ministerial servant It strains servile man! 10. Beth Sarim Sham tribe! 11. Judicial meetings Lame justice, dig in! 12. The New World Translations A wanton retell, thins words! 13. Pioneer I peer on! 14. Pioneer Ripe one! 15. Field service Vice is freed! 16. Field service Devils fierce 17. Disfellowshipping Spells: if in God, whip! 18. District overseer Ever do is restrict! 19. Theocratic Hectic rota 20. Theocratic O, cry cheat! 21. Armageddon An armed God! 22. Armageddon God damn era! 23. Sing praises to Jehovah Oh no! vast Pharisee jigs! 24. Insight on the Scripture Gist! - puts no Christ in here! 25. Knowledge that leads to everlasting life Legends revealed! Know that it fails, let go! 26. Life- How did it get here! By evolution or creation? Weave fiction- no biology truth here, editor lied! 27. The truth that leads to everlasting life EG: An evil faith- the latest truths retold! 28. The finished mystery RE: Hefty myths inside! 29. Gods stone witness No sense, twists God! 30. Studies in the scriptures Us print the diciest ruses! 31. The secret of family happiness Sect not happy- free life is sham! 32. Your youth- Getting the best out of it Oy! It tethers you. But fight on, get out! 33. All scripture is inspired of God and beneficial Crisis! IE: Our one is clipped, altered and baffling! On our day out, Joanne just felt she had more revelations to offer, revealing the inner meanings of Watchtower book titles and Jehovah's witness wording. Joanne came out with 2 more, the last of which, is for me, just the best !
Forget the "Bible code" just check these out for hidden truths! ;-)
34. Reasoning from the Scriptures RE: Crap- outright nonsense! 35. You can live forever in paradise on earth A liars prediction - never a heaven for you! It is worth remembering that to do these 35 anagrams,Joanne only used a pen a paper and NOT a computer with special software! Joanne has asked for any ideas, book titles, phrases to make more anagrams out of! She is suffering with extremely painful sciatica and doing these anagrams takes her mind of the pain.
As with the rest of the web site, please feel free to use these or share with a friend but we ask you not to alter them in any way. Thanks and have some fun!
Any feedback or comments for Joanne, please e-mail them to [email protected]
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Margaret Singer - cult expert - passed away
by Dogpatch inthis is a sad note.
i met margaret years ago at a conference on satanism, deception and discernment.
what a fightin' gal!
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This is a sad note. I met Margaret years ago at a conference on Satanism, Deception and Discernment. What a fightin' gal! I will miss her. - Randy Margaret Singer -- expert on brainwashing San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, November 25, 2003, Page A-19 By Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Margaret Singer, the soft-spoken but hard-edged Berkeley psychologist and expert on brainwashing who studied and helped authorities and victims better understand the Peoples Temple, Branch Davidian, Unification Church and Symbionese Liberation Army cults, has died.
Professor Singer, 82, died Sunday after a long illness at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley.
"She's one of a kind, the foremost authority on brainwashing in the entire world,'' said lawyer Paul Morantz in an interview last year. Morantz led the effort against the Synanon cult in the 1970s. "She is a national treasure.''
She testified in the 1976 bank robbery trial of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and at the 1977 hearing for five young members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church whose parents sought to have them "deprogrammed.''
On the witness stand or in the kitchen of her Berkeley hills home, where Professor Singer did much of her work, she was calm, authoritative, smart, unshakable, funny and unfailingly polite.
She interviewed more than 3,000 cult members, assisted in more than 200 court cases and also was a leading authority on schizophrenia and family therapy.
"I might look like a little old grandma, but I'm no pushover,'' she told a reporter last year, just before tossing back another shot of Bushmills Irish whiskey, her libation of choice.
"My mom spent her whole life assisting other people -- victims, parents or lawyers -- and often for free,'' said Sam Singer, a San Francisco publicist. "Nothing gave her greater joy than helping to get someone unscrewed up.''
She was occasionally threatened by cult leaders and their followers, and she never backed down. Professor Singer liked to tell how, at the age of 80, she frightened off a stalker who had been leaving menacing notes in her mailbox.
"I've got a 12-gauge shotgun up here, sonny, and you'd better get off my porch, or you'll be sorry!'' she hollered out the window. "And tell your handlers not to send you back!''
She was born in Denver, where her father was the chief engineer at the U. S. Mint. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Denver.
She began to study brainwashing in the 1950s at Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington, D. C., where she interviewed U.S. soldiers who had been taken prisoner during the Korean War. She came to Berkeley in 1958 and found herself in a prime spot to study the cult scene of the 1960s and 1970s.
"I started hearing from families who had missing members, many of them young kids on our campus, and they all would describe the same sorts of things, '' she said. "A sudden change of personality, a new way of talking . . . and then they would disappear. And bingo, it was the same sort of thing as with the Korean War prisoners, the same sort of thought-reform and social controls. ''
"You find it again and again, any time people feel vulnerable,'' she said.
"There are always sharpies around who want to hornswoggle people.''
She dispensed much of her advice over the phone, which always seemed to be ringing with anxious parents, victims or lawyers from around the world, all seeking advice. For decades, she also held court at a large table near the front door of Brennan's bar and restaurant in West Berkeley, where she and her husband, Jerome, were Tuesday night regulars and where she would treat friends and admirers to corned beef, cabbage and multiple rounds of Irish coffee.
She was the author of "Cults in Our Midst,'' the authoritative 1995 study on cults that she revised earlier this year with analysis of the connection between cults and terrorism. She was the winner of the Hofheimer Prize and the Dean Award from the American College of Psychiatrists and of achievement awards from the Mental Health Association of the United States and the American Family Therapy Association. She was a past president of the American Psychosomatic Society and a board member of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Review Board and the American Family Foundation.
She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Jerome, and by two children, Sam and Martha, all of Berkeley.
A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday at the McNary-Morgan, Engle and Jackson funeral home, 3630 Telegraph Ave, Oakland. Memorial donations may be sent to the American Family Foundation, P.O. Box 413005, Suite 313, Naples FL 34101-3005.
Chronicle staff writer Kevin Fagan contributed to this report.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/25/BAGAG3A5A11.DTL
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Crisis of Conscience availabitity
by Frantic inyes a newbie!
probably been asked one to many times, nonetheless, whats the crisis of conscience availibility?.
can most of u borrow it from the public library?
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You can order through Free Minds at:
http://www.freeminds.org/sales/books.htm
and if you mention Simon's site you get book plus priority postage (2-3 days) in US all for $19.
Randy Watters
Net Soup!
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When is it copyright infringement?
by Dogpatch indate of work
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3 under the 1909 act, works published without notice went into the public domain upon publication.
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Banned and Censored on Princes' web-site ( NPG Music Club )
by mah319 inhello people, first a little background on myself.
i was born and raised a catholic.
one of the other members posted a subject about the watchtower being a cult.
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By the way, this is ...
"the independent and unofficial
prince fan community site"http://www.prince.org/msg/thread.html?fid=105&tid=52122
Even still they shut the thread down!
I wonder if Prince has seen it? Does he read the net? :-))
Randy
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Banned and Censored on Princes' web-site ( NPG Music Club )
by mah319 inhello people, first a little background on myself.
i was born and raised a catholic.
one of the other members posted a subject about the watchtower being a cult.
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But this is still on a Prince fan site!!
"Are Jehovah's Witness Cult Leaders Psychopaths?"
pretty good article, no? :-))
http://www.prince.org/msg/thread.html?fid=105&tid=52122
Randy
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THE GOOD FAITH - Story of Richard Rawe in a play
by Dogpatch inmany of you know richard rawe from soap lake, wa and all the hard work he has done with brci and others, including franz, penton, et al in the last few decades to expose the watchtower.
well, now there is a play on his life!.
should be good!.
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Watchtower to build residential towers in DUMBO area of Brooklyn
by Dogpatch innew york daily news - http://www.nydailynews.com
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/135859p-120938c.html
to watch towers rise .
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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/135859p-120938c.html To watch towers rise
By HUGH SON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
Evelyn Carr was happy, and why not? She had just put a down payment on a $375,000 loft apartment - with views of the waterfront - on Bridge St. in Brooklyn's trendy DUMBO neighborhood.Then she heard the news: Those waterfront vistas will be blocked by four residential towers - the shortest, 14 stories; the tallest, 20 - proposed for the vacant 3-acre lot across the street.
"My heart sank," said the 32-year-old marketing assistant. "Right now, I have really great views of the Manhattan Bridge and this great expanse of sky, and all of that will be completely blocked.
"It makes me really sad, not just for me and others in this building, but because [the towers] would dramatically change the tone of the neighborhood."
Carr is not alone in her criticism of the plan by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society - the legal entity of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group - to develop a 1,000-unit apartment complex on the lot at 85 Jay St.
Nancy Webster, president of the DUMBO Neighborhood Association, says the proposed towers are too tall and would be "out of context and incompatible with existing buildings in DUMBO and Vinegar Hill."
While the tallest buildings in DUMBO are 12 stories high, Jehovah's Witnesses spokesman Richard Devine said that other, taller residential buildings also are being planned.
The towers "won't be the tallest buildings in the immediate area, by any means," he said.
The Jehovah's Witnesses originally intended to build a printing plant on the Jay St. site when they began buying parcels of land there in the 1980s, Devine said. But as the neighborhood experienced a rebirth as an enclave of trendy restaurants and lofts with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, the religious group shifted its focus, he said.
Now, Devine explained, plans call for the development of a large residential complex that could house up to 1,800 Jehovah's Witnesses, many of whom now live in smaller buildings scattered about Brooklyn Heights.
The complex, which Watchtower Society officials hope is completed by 2006, would consist of four towers - rising 14, 16, 18 and 20 stories, respectively - and a 700-car underground parking garage.
The religious group submitted an environmental assessment statement last week, said Regina Myer, director of the Brooklyn City Planning Department.
The statement is the first step in a months-long land use review process that will ultimately decide whether 85 Jay St. - now a light-manufacturing area - will be rezoned for residential use.
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THE GOOD FAITH - Story of Richard Rawe in a play
by Dogpatch inmany of you know richard rawe from soap lake, wa and all the hard work he has done with brci and others, including franz, penton, et al in the last few decades to expose the watchtower.
well, now there is a play on his life!.
should be good!.
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Many of you know Richard Rawe from Soap Lake, WA and all the hard work he has done with BRCI and others, including Franz, Penton, et al in the last few decades to expose the Watchtower. Well, now there is a play on his life!
Should be good!
Randy Watters
Net Soup!
THE GOOD FAITH, 1940-1990November 20 - December 7, 2003
Thursday - Sunday 8:00pm
Sunday Matinee 2:30pm
The First Floor Theatre
$15.00 Opening Night Benefit! $35.00
7:30 Show Time
call box office for reservations purchase tickets onlinewritten, composed and directed by Harold Dean Jamesm usical director Christa Victoria choreographed by Guillermo (D. D.) Resto featuring: Paul Albe, Jamie Leigh Allen, Jason Blaine, Daniel Clymer, Erika Dionisio, Linus Gelber, Grant Machan, Joe Matheson, Gheree O'Bannon, Rachel Ponce, Christiane Szabo, Christa Victoria, and Cezar Williams T HE GOOD FAITH, 1940-1990 written, composed and directed by Harold Dean James, is a musical drama of good intentions, betrayal and misplaced devotion among Jehovah's Witnesses.
The musical is based on a true story of the life of Richard Rawe, a native of Soap Lake, WA, a city about 200 miles east of Seattle. Rawe was an elder of the Jehovah's Witness faith and with his wife, Frances, was "disfellowshipped" based on false allegations from a corrupt faction of rival ministers. Frances, however, secretly tape-recorded the deliberations of the usurpers, who were actually guilty of both embezzlement and sexual harassment of congregants. The Rawes were subsequently reinstated, then again disfellowshipped as the scandal shook the Spokane Valley during the last decade.
Playwright/composer/director Harold Dean James, who grew up as a Jehovah's Witness (his family is still in the faith), picked up the story on the Internet. Compelled by it, he traveled to Soap Lake and interviewed the Rawes for this play.
"The Good Faith" tells, in parable-like form, the story of Young Rawe enrolling in a religious congregation after being incited by a certain Brother Meek that the experience will help him "discover that light at the end of the tunnel everybody speaks about." Young Rawe is charged of sharing "that glorious good news" with every lost soul living in (the purposely symbolic-named) "Sheep City." But after experiencing success and fullness as a newly-wed congregation leader, Young Rawe has to cope with what seems to be Evil, embodied in Brothers Reap and Sow, both of whom were designated by their religious hierarchy to help him in organizing the community. Brother Reap declares he will take care of the women while Brother Sow proclaims himself in charge of the money. This inevitably brings them into conflict with Young Rawe's faithful devotion to the community.
The whole play revolves around the matter of religious commitment. On the one hand, serving God amounts to serving His people. This raises a fussy question: does faith remain good if it leads to insulation, suffering and deceit, or if it does not protect believers from those pains? This is certainly not a new dilemma, but Harold Dean James seems to bring a newly sensible viewpoint, making his fable a highly relevant and meaningful comment on the intricate notions of religious fate and faith.
It is James' first musical. Previously, his only stage compositions were songs for his own play, "What Happened to Me?" He claims the melodies come to him in dreams, and he wakes up and records them. The score of "The Good Faith, 1940-1990" is simple, melodic, highly rhythmic and written for the pop voice.
Musical director is Christa Victoria, whose work has recently specialized in choral works. Live accompaniment will be by a keyboardist and percussionist. Movement is choreographed by Guillermo (D. D.) Resto, a twenty-year veteran of the Mark Morris dance company. "The Good Faith" will be acted by Paul Albe, Jamie Leigh Allen, Jason Blaine, Daniel Clymer, Erika Dionisio, Linus Gelber, Grant Machan, Joe Matheson, Gheree O'Bannon, Rachel Ponce, Christiane Szabo, Christa Victoria, and Cezar Williams.
Harold Dean James was an actor for "umpteen years," appearing in Broadway's "Mastergate," Bill Irwin's "Largely New York" at City Center and in a multitude of Off-Broadway and Shakespeare productions. Also a videographer, he collaborated for 12 years with Dennis Diamond and employed video amply in his earliest theater productions. "First Kill" (La MaMa, 1999), written and performed by Frank Damico (1999), was his first production directing another writer's work. James was raised in Alameda, CA and studied theater at San Francesco State, but lists as his theatrical mentors Uta Hagen and Earle Hyman.
James' previous plays have been distinguished by his unusual use of technical effects to expand the concept of the stage space. His La MaMa productions include "X Train" (1994), "Dance Card" (1996), "Call Backs" (1998) and "What Happened to Me" (2000). "X Train" was a subway trip with special video effects that unraveled into a "Twilight Zone haze" (Hannaham, Village Voice). The realities and feelings of a middle-class Black man's dark past were juxtaposed with beatific video fantasies such as sudden friendship among the commuters, meeting a dream lover, being rescued by aliens and the train's "submarining" through the East River. In "Call Backs," a woman scorned at summer theater auditions wreaked a "Twilight Zone" revenge on the producers by gunning them down in revenge for their crudeness. Through stage effects, including innovative use of scrims, they spent the rest of the play gaping at their bodies from a netherworld while they were mocked in a series of outrageous monologues.
In James' "Dance Card," the surprise killing of her husband caused a woman painter to have an intriguing series of changes in her life and perceptions over a two-year period. The production contained surprising and eerie exchanges of identity as the killer entered and re-entered the artist's life in different forms, and the experience, manifest in her paintings, was illustrated in the production by Dali-esque and Picasso-esque paintings by a surrealist artist, Wayne Kral. With "What Happened To Me," James commented provocatively on fate and destiny by taking the life of a homeless "everyman" and making it interchangeable with a variety of other characters, including a successful businessman, scholars, cowboys and religious zealots. Video screens displayed testimonials on the man's life by people who were involved in it. current season
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