Posts by Dagney

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ALERT: NEW LAWSUIT settlement - $13 MILLION

by Watchtower-Free in

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.

(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).

thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.

Dagney

Thank you Barbara for those details.

At first I was thinking, why the heck did WT counsel respond this way to the court? They should get a new legal team.

Then I caught myself self and realized they are a perfect team.

Goes to show they have no respect for anybody or anything. Nobody is running to become a JW as it is, but this would be the icing on the cake for those involved with this case I would think. The next time a JW comes to their door...I think the householder may have a few things to say and it wouldn't be good.

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Seen on Etsy - wtf!

by poopsiecakes in

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Dagney

That is funny.

I think the marketing firm convinced WBTS any publicity is good publicity if you want to get your name out there.

In the past, the WBTS corporation put a kabash on certain materials third parties were selling with their name and logo. Now it is the opposite. Nobody really cares about jw.org except those currently worshipping it. I think with today's techological tools available, this may explode and flood the miniscule JW market with...oven mitts, mousepads, clothing, bottle openers...so far there are no limits. I wonder how long before a BOE letter comes down putting an end to it and the necklace will be a collector's item.

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Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady

by Terry in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.

she is magnificent!

katie kitten.

Dagney

She's wonderful. So much fun to see her take on things.

The article title we love to make fun of is "Your Servant the Pencil."

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$13.5 million to a San Diego man

by truthseekeriam in

jw
friends

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html#.

the national organization for jehovah's witnesses was ordered to pay $13.5 million to a san diego man who says he was abused as a child by his bible teacher.

nbc 7's rory devine reports on oct. 30, 2014.

Dagney

Wow. Bravo.

WBTS has been working diligently to turn their image around in the world and to keep the faithful in awe with their slick marketing. Lipstick - pig.

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Is It Just Me??

by What Now? in

we're 2 years in to our exit from the witnesses.

we're not disfellowshipped or disassociated ... just inactive.

none of our friends speak to us anymore.

Dagney

No, What Now?, it's not just you. I identify strongly with everything you have said in your OP.

I FORGET that there are people whom you know very well that look at you like you are invisible when they see you.

I FORGET that there are people who lack common human courtesy to say a quick greeting when encountering another human being.

It still boggles my mind. It still creates a "down the rabbit hole" range of emotions in me even though nothing in me wants or misses anything regarding the religion.

The Society has tossed the flock a giant, flavorless bone with this new WBTS/jw.org. It's given them something to knaw on to keep them close as the years tick by.

Take one day at a time. We have our "bitter apostate days", and then we have our "grateful apostate days." The best choice you could ever make is to give your children a life where they can grow to be whomever they need to be. Think how grateful they will be in the future when they realize what it took.

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Rutherford's last book "Children" 1941- Advice DONT HAVE KIDS...Where it all started!

by Witness 007 in

watchtower 1941 sept. 15 p.283, 288 "in front of the convention platform the children recieving there free gift (copy) not as a play thing but as the lords instrument for the work in the remaining months before armagedon..." so what lovely message did the kids get from judge rutherford?

children 1941page 281 "no children were taken onto noah's ark...it is proper to wait until after armagedon to have children...its only afew more years till armagedon..." the book concluded.

"(john and his girlfriend talk) ...armagedon is surely near our hope is within afew years our marriage will be consumated and we will have sweet children...we will defer marriage and pioneer ...we will not see each other for a time.." thats why i dont have kids it all started with this fools book!.

Dagney

Yet, it is noteworthy that he pronounced "woe" on pregnant women or those nursing a baby when tribulation came on Jerusalem in 66-70 C.E. That time would be especially difficult for them, given their situation.

I remember a DC when these words echoed through the stadium...probably in the 80's. I felt so sorry for those poor pregnant sisters or those trying to manage fussy children in 100+ degree stifling heat. It seemed like the crowd looked at them like they were wearing a giant scarlet letter.

Now Jehober has provided cartoons for the children he loves so much. Hopefully they enjoy the cartoons because if they don't, they will not be Jehober's friend and they are going to fall with their bikes and puppies into a giant canyon during the "great day of armageddon."

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Rutherford's last book "Children" 1941- Advice DONT HAVE KIDS...Where it all started!

by Witness 007 in

watchtower 1941 sept. 15 p.283, 288 "in front of the convention platform the children recieving there free gift (copy) not as a play thing but as the lords instrument for the work in the remaining months before armagedon..." so what lovely message did the kids get from judge rutherford?

children 1941page 281 "no children were taken onto noah's ark...it is proper to wait until after armagedon to have children...its only afew more years till armagedon..." the book concluded.

"(john and his girlfriend talk) ...armagedon is surely near our hope is within afew years our marriage will be consumated and we will have sweet children...we will defer marriage and pioneer ...we will not see each other for a time.." thats why i dont have kids it all started with this fools book!.

Dagney

Yep, 3rdgen. (waves ) My sister was 3 I think, and she was with the crowd of kids getting her book. She has no good JW childhood memories. Long days in FS, even going alone from door to door very very young.

It was a dark time. It was so frowned upon to get pregnant. My mom just barely told me before she died that my father wanted her to get an abortion but she couldn't do it. Such a cruel phoney religion. Like they really care about kids now because they have cartoons. The same hateful message to them but in a modern format.

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Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

by 3rdgen in

a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

Dagney

Tal None such things happened to me. My dad was an angry alcoholic with a trigger temper, but I got his better years. My other sibs did not. And I was a late in life baby raised almost like an only child, so not hard to manage. My heart goes out to the kids from families that forced an abnormal military lifestyle demanding perfection. We don't forget our childhoods.

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Finally Free!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

my wife and i are finally free of this horrible cult we will be leaving the south east for the north western part of the us to start anew!!!

our friends and family have no idea of our new beliefs and feelings on the cult so it should be a nice clean break!

hope to connect with some in that area pm me if you'd like.. .

Dagney

Congratulations! How nice to be able to start fresh in a new place. Welcome to the rest of your life.

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Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

by 3rdgen in

a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

Dagney

People never mattered to the WBTS, and especially children. Now I quite like the idea of "Sunday School" for kids where there is freedom in learning. I have a friend with two autistic children and I shudder to think what their life would be like taking their kids to meeting at the KH. Now the kids look forward to the routine in the Sunday School area and the parents have a break. My mother told me when I was a kid I used to "play meeting" and line up the dolls and proceed to beat the crap out of them. She told me she cringed knowing that was my take-away of "going to the meeting" at 4-5 yrs.

Magwitch, 3rdgen, Talesin, .