Posts by rebelfighter

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Are you related to me?

by Coded Logic in

the chances that anyone on this forum is my biological brother or sister, purely from a statistical point of view, is rather low.

but how many generations back would we have to go to have a fair chance that one of my ancestors married one of your ancestors (or procreated anyway)?.

i was born in 1985. less than 20 years before my birth my two parents were being conceived by a combined 4 parents of their own.. and if we go back even further, to 40 years before my birth, then i'll find an additional 8 ancestors.. around the 60 year mark i have another 16 ancestors.

rebelfighter

And at 63 I found a brother I never knew I had. He is wonderful and we get along great. We grew up just miles from one another.

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Are you related to me?

by Coded Logic in

the chances that anyone on this forum is my biological brother or sister, purely from a statistical point of view, is rather low.

but how many generations back would we have to go to have a fair chance that one of my ancestors married one of your ancestors (or procreated anyway)?.

i was born in 1985. less than 20 years before my birth my two parents were being conceived by a combined 4 parents of their own.. and if we go back even further, to 40 years before my birth, then i'll find an additional 8 ancestors.. around the 60 year mark i have another 16 ancestors.

rebelfighter

I was 62 when I found out from the clerk of the court that my mother had lied to me my entire life and my "dad" was not my father. So I sent my DNA in to Ancestry. None of us were every JWS but obviously both my mother's and my father's sides of the family believed in what you might call very large families. Now, my mother was never a family person so we really did not meet much of her family so a lot of this came as a shock. So currently I have alive waiting for me to make contact with over 200 first and second cousins LOL. When you go down the report into third through sixth generation it just gets crazy there are 5,000 cousins. I grew up thinking there were only like a handful of us.

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New WT pdf tells children to report. Irony?

by wifibandit in

pdf.

why won't watchtower tell abusers "i'm going to tell on you!

" and follow through with the proper authorities?

rebelfighter

I am a Certified Adult Volunteer in our organization both the adults and the youth are given the same instructions if you see signs of emotional, physical or sexual abuse. The instructions are real easy for every one to remember call the State Police they will investigate or have the proper agency investigate. We are not trained to investigate. Real simple.

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The Hermit's story PART 3

by The Hermit in

you know what, i think that i really enjoy telling my story to you guys after all.

yesterday while i was going through the events of part 2 tears were rolling down my face at some point but tonight i'm just smiling.

thank you all for your support, i appreciate it.

rebelfighter

Yes, we do buy some very fun equipment so the children will forget why they are in the hospital. The year I was Worthy Matron of our Eastern Star Chapter our state participated in a large fund raiser for the Shriner's Hospital in Greenville and we purchased a neat race car all equipped with all kinds of video type games so when a kid was getting chemo they would be totally distracted.

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The Hermit's story PART 3

by The Hermit in

you know what, i think that i really enjoy telling my story to you guys after all.

yesterday while i was going through the events of part 2 tears were rolling down my face at some point but tonight i'm just smiling.

thank you all for your support, i appreciate it.

rebelfighter

Shriner's Hospitals for Children are wonderful and the best part your parents never received a bill from the doctor or the hospital.

What wonderful work the Masonic community does for children.

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At the doors.

by Sabin in

what were some of the derogatory things you heard or said about house holders?

.

i was taught that if they didn't answer the door & you knew they were in it was always that they had a guilty conscience..

rebelfighter

Never a JW but I did have a sign posted Absolutely No Soliciting because I worked from home, they knocked anyway. Look it was tax deadline time and everything was breaking down in my house at the same time, the teenage kids thought I should be able to split my time 10 ways too. So the JWS said something or other to me and I just said like I don't have time for you all read the sign I am just to busy. One said something like can we help in someway. I said sure I could use about 6 husbands right about now.

I would have loved to heard those comments as they immediately left.

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My door intercom......

by stan livedeath in

a few minutes ago...my door intercom went...i picked up the phone...wasn't expecting anyone.. young child's voice... "were just here with this watchtower why be honest".

no thanks...byee.. what sort of message is this sending out ?

?.

rebelfighter

Wait, if I am not mistaken even the Girl Scouts in the US has stopped D2D selling because of the pedophiles at the door you are knocking at! So if the JWS are protecting their young ones why are they sending them D2D, who knows what lurks behind closed doors of strangers?

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Who thinks Wt is going to throw Vincent Tool under the bus if he loses his law registration.

by joe134cd in

just read speculation about this on another thread.

who thinks vincent tool, if looses his law license and becomes less useful to wt that he will then be reassigned to the field.

or is he just to big of a player to lose even with out a practicing law license.

rebelfighter

Sir82 is correct there is always someway around these agreements. I once had to sign one when my employer wanted to stop me from continuing with a discrimination lawsuit before signing it I told them they had to add the line "this document maybe reviewed by her attorney and tax accountant ". Oops, they forgot to ask and I forgot to mention who those two people were and both agreed with the contract and said sign it and move on. Once I had my money (1 year of pay) I heard the next Board of Trustees meeting was over the top explosive. The oops was both Board members! And they were not happy about the discrimination charges to say the least the buy out.

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any JW construction going on other than Warwick?

by Magnum in

is anybody aware of any kingdom hall builds going on or any kind of ldc activity?

i've been wanting to ask this, and committeechairman's question at the end of this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/289353/ldc-semininar?page=4&size=20, moved me to go ahead and ask.. i've kind of wondered whether the org leaders got rid of rbcs and instituted the ldc arrangement because they wanted to be able to stop or slow down construction without it being obvious.

if the rbcs were still in existence, it would be obvious that there's nothing (or almost nothing) going on (if that really is the way it is) because rbc personnel would be idle when they were used to being busy.

rebelfighter

There was big one built in Riverview, Florida two years ago.

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C T Russell's involvement with the Freemasons re-evaluated

by Finkelstein in

here is video someone put out that goes deep into c t russell's associated involvement with the freemasons.. there is no question that he drew out a good portion from this organization in creating some of his theological ideas.. being that it was j rutherford that helped to place a pyramid monument at his grave site indicates he could have been associated with the freemasons himself to a certain extent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqfxdvo-54.

a cross and crown laid upon a cross pattee inscribed with "in hoc signo vinces" resting upon downward pointing swords in saltire is often used to represent the knights templar.

rebelfighter

A lot of people mistake the Masonic community as a religion when in fact it is not a religion. Each one of the organizations is set up as a charity.

I can most definitely see why the WT would oppose a JW from being a member for two very big reasons if you are really into the Masonic community as I am you spend many hours a month and large sums of money doing charity work. I am sure WT wants both of those, your money is surely better spent sending it to those greedy, lying GB.