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  Scared of Birds?

  by StillGroggy in

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  18 years ago

  anyone scared of birds now or while they were in the religion.

  i remember as a kid being scared of crows and other scary looking birds, and picturing them eating my skull after armageddon.

  anyone?

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  I had a crow's fly on top of my head and use it's claws to tear a large cut on the top of my head when I was walking around a lake in Minnesota, it felt like a razor blade did it. Probably protecting her young but I have kept my eye on crows ever since, although birds are basically safe like most living creatures they do protect their young.

  Those scary images the witnesses presented of the birds do give off an unfair image that creates fear which I did feel as a witness youth. What don't the witnesses wreck? The same thing that vampire movies do to the images of bats, whom I have found to be a fairly charming creature if you view their facial expressions close up.

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  Jesus? this is way too fun can you see him?

  by skyking in

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  18 years ago

  can you see jesus in this photo?

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  I believe this is where Charles Russel found Jesus, and the GB have been there ever since.

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  Russell believed he was chosen before he was born!! SCAN!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  18 years ago

  have been emptying my "russell" file for all who need the scans.

  here is another crazy idea of his!.

  sincerely,.

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  Does this prove that God has a sense of humor.

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  Active JWs, hows KN37 going?

  by StillGroggy in

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  2. beliefs

  18 years ago

  hey everybody, i had an interesting time pushing a tract that i don't believe in this weekend.

  i had to develop my own method of placing it without having to talk about it, since i fear if i was confronted by someone asking "do you people think you're the only true religion", i might break down and tell the person at the door "no, i don't".

  the witness at the door with me would scream in terror, and i would be insta-dfed.

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  I used to go out in service with an elder who dropped everybody off then he would disapper for a while and come back and pick everybody up. Sometimes he would go one door sometimes not. Sly dog.

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  The dubs that brought you into the WTS

  by greendawn in

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  18 years ago

  how do you perceive the jws that had brought you into the wts, do you like them, resent them, are they still dubs or did they get out before you?

  it would be nice if there are instances where those that brought people in later helped them leave.

  i don't particularly like the dubs that got me in because i later realised they were doing everything to impress their superiors and get promoted, something they achieved as they got good bethel positions abroad.

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  The dub that brought my dad in went to Gilead,South America and then came back with bad health, but now is an elder in a Spanish speaking congregation. I think he is was and will always be a JW because his family is in it and his whole life has beem spent on it. He wrecked my childhood, I don't know whether to hate or pity the fool.

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  Question: If you don't believe the wts as truth why still in FS?

  by hambeak in

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  18 years ago

  i am puzzled, i see a lot of new posts from supposedly active jw's passing out new tract and don't believe it.

  i can understand still attending meetings especially if family is still involved.

  why not just fade away?

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  There seems to be a huge variation on how they treat people that try to fade, they woudn't let be fade in the late seventies, they hounded me until I wrote a letter ds'ing myself, and then they may have disfellowshipped me anyways I was never told what they did about, me I have heard contradictory rumors.. How Nazi'esque is that.I think a fade is the best way but not if your CO is an SS.

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  Does it make you sick too??

  by mama1119 in

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  18 years ago

  i was watching some youtube stuff yestersday and came across all the 2006 convention videos, and just watching them and hearing the songs and the dramas and seeing all the people dresses like they have for the last 20 years made me feel sick to my stomach, and all panicky....does this happen to anyone else?

  when you see jw doing what you used to do, does it give you a little pts??

  (post traumatic syndrome).

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  Yes, especially since they didn't even trust the brothers to deliver their own lines in those dramas, they had the Bethel boys on tape doing the lines and the assembly actor doing lip sync. How hooky phonoky,

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  Let's all pat ourselves on the back

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  18 years ago

  in the spirit of the retiring government cattle inspector who said when receiving a meritorious service award "this is not the the first time i've had a pat on the back", i think all of us here deserve to give ourselves a big pat on the back!!!.

  we have survived being trapped in a high-control organisation, we've been brainwashed, sat through meetings, been hypnotized (almost), and we managed to escape relatively intact.

  most of us have almost full use of all our mental facilites.

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  I think I'll give my dog a pat on the back for having an ex-jw owner, what do ex jw's and poodles have in common- their both smarter than the average human.

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  Back from the cold north ...

  by Simon in

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  19 years ago

  ... well, it was cold at the top of the mountains!

  we just got back from a 3 week vacation in canada.

  we did the tourist thing travelling round the rockies - they were still there, right where we left them last time!

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  Did you see any JW draft dodgers still left over from the Viet Nam War.

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  The Hitler Files. The WT had relations with UN. Also with Hitler.

  by avengers in

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  21 years ago

  this is part of a letter that rutherford wrote to the german empire before ww 2. .

  in the declaration of facts, rutherford wrote: .

  the present government of germany has declared emphatically against big business oppressors and in opposition to the wrongful religious influence in the political affairs of the nation.

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  read good books 18 years ago

  Don't forget 'Mein Kamf'' came out in 1925 and 26. And I have read the Masons in Germany were aiding Hitler, we have read about the Watchtower Mason connections on this board before. So how could Rutherford write a letter kissing Hitlers a-s with that kind information out there. (Didn't he watch Charlie Chaplin's film 'The Great Dictator' which revealed Hitler's persecution of the jews?) I think "something is rotton in Denmark." and New York.

  Thanks Lady Lee for organizing this information so nicley.

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