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  Is the Watchtower Society the only one to blame?

  by The wanderer in

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  having spent time on this discussion board.

  there has been quite a number of negative .

  amount of damage in various ways, but are .

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  monkeyshine

  We are only guilty of following a well thought out plan of indoctrination honed to an art over the last 100 years.

  They are guilty of devising the plan and lying to maintain it. That plan involved speaking for God and therefore lying for God.

  We did what we thought God wanted us to. Our primal instinct of survival was attacked. It is not a "gun to your head" but it is a gun to your eternity's head. That is more powerful than most reasoning.

  There are those of us who were born to this and had no choice. (literally)

  What was that scripture? You can't put a sponge in vinegar and expect to get water or something like that?
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  2006 DC Pics see you again if not, then surely in paradise, ...

  by moomanchu in

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  it was a place, where paradise already existed.... is it just me or are jw,s getting crazier?.

  check out this site.

  http://www.raphaelbick.de/bilder/temp/frankfurt2006/.

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  I think those pics should be kept within the org. because they are pretty strange looking propaganda pics.

  I never realized how strange these kind of things looked when I was "in". I hope there is no pics of ME like those!!!
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  Kittens of Darkness

  by cyd0099 in

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  a friend on livejournal made a link to the site and i found this.

  i personally found it funny.

  especially because those still in think we are passed out in the gutter somewhere

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  The soltary life?

  How many people are on this site?

  Anyway that cat looks peaceful. I think walking down the street with a breifcase day in and day out without getting paid is a little more silly.
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  Who knows me?

  by agapa37 in

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  anybody?

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  monkeyshine

  I'm sorry to add to this but my skin is crawling...

  It is not that difficult to get a new username. Why does that feel cool? I've only been here a short time but whenever I see a post like that first, it brings images of goofy giggling and corny high fiving after doing something that would ONLY be considered cool to a Jehovah's Witness.

  Things are so sheltered that this person is probably saying "All man, I got em going now! They're probably shaking in there boots. This is SO cool. They will never know who I am. They wont be able to sleep tonight."

  Nobody is worried who you are no more than anyone is worried about who I am. This site is important. There are serious issues and CHILDRENS futures at stake here! You could always tear the tag off of your pillow if you feel like being dangerous. Again, sorry for adding to this.

  Anyone know what color socks I have on? Hah Hah Hah I'm so cool...
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  How Many JW's Does It Take To 'Change A Lightbulb'?

  by Outaservice in

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  monkeyshine

  THREE
  

  One to change it incorrectly...

  one to offer an excuse as to why it was done incorrectly...

  and one to be the invisible "scholar" that provided the divine excuse.
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  SITTING ON THE BACK ROW..............NO, NOT AT THE MOVIES, AT THE KH

  by vitty in

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  i know we've heard a lot of horror stories about jcs and getting disfellowshipped.........................but what is your experiences of continuing going to the meetings to be reinstated.............what did it really feel like?.

  did you mind being ignored or did you understand it and take it on the chin?.................................what were your familys treatment of you during the period of having to sit on the back row????.

  when i saw ppl comming in late and leaving early .....................i just knew it was wrong, wrong , wrong to treat ppl that way.. in fact i got told off for smiling at a sister who i knew genuinly wanted to come back,( the pos wife told me ) i did it out of human feelings and was then blasted.. after she got reinstated, i was the first person she came upto and introduced herself.

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  Brenda, YOU shouldn't have to leave. I would make it a point to get there real early and sit wherever you want.

  If they say something tell em how it's going to be. Just my opinion Please let us know how it goes.
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  When I Say----"JEHOVAH'S WITNESS"----What Do You Think Of???

  by minimus in

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  what do you associate that name with??

  what's the first thing that pops in your head?

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  Big headed kids with navy blue polyester pants that are just a bit too short.

  The echo of the microphone at the "big assembly". (ours was at Veterans Stadium in Philly)

  People sleeping in the corridors where it is cool at the "big assembly".

  Pioneers with those plastic things for there tracts.

  Choosing a car based on if it would be a "good service car".

  Metal folding chairs.

  And most of all, neutrality. EVERYTHING was neutral and kind of tan. White people, black people, etc. fusing into one group. Every aspect of behavior, down to the finest detail, is the same from one side of the country to the other. All the clothing was always the same for everyone. I didn't fully appreciate what that looked like until I could see it from the outside. Now that is all I see. It's like one of those Magic Art pictures at the mall. Once you see it you can't stop seeing it.
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  Requesting Experiences...

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  i just thought it would be nice to have a documented case of someone other than a jw having been 'protected' from rape, carjacking, murder or mugging in an unusual way (ie.

  praying, preaching or screaming 'o my god' and the guy stops and apologizes.).

  the idea is that i can the relate the experience to a witness, .

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  they would just say it was demons trying to trick you

  I know I would get talked to about this at the hall but, same thought.
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  When I Say----"JEHOVAH'S WITNESS"----What Do You Think Of???

  by minimus in

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  what do you associate that name with??

  what's the first thing that pops in your head?

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  Short sleeve dress shirts.
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  Disco Banned?

  by Wordly Andre in

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  i am a bit too young to remember this but, was disco really banned by the jw's??

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  monkeyshine

  Something funny I just thought of about the "creature worship" thing...

  When I was a kid I wanted a Michael Jackson button (don't laugh) and my dad told me I couldn't have it because it was creature worship.

  Not fully understanding what that meant, I would say "He's not a creature."

  But now 20 years later, seeing Michael now, I think my dad may have been right after all!