Posts by BrentR

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Censorship, when to apply it?

by Blueblades in

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kathy griffin won an emmy award for her reality show " my life on the d list.

" in her speech, griffin said that a lot of people come up here and thank jesus for this award.

i want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than jesus.. she went on to hold up her emmy, make an off-color remark about christ and proclaim,"this award is my god now!".

Any private non-government entity can censor whatever they want to. The US laws only forbid government censorship and even that has a few limitations. You can't threaten the president, yell fire in a movie theater, lie to the cops or make phony 911 calls.

But we also get so uptight about our rights that most of us forget our obligations to our fellow humans. Words can cause problems and incite hatred and fear with people. You can say what you want but most people are not very good at taking the heat for doing so.

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Hope it works for you

by mouthy in

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk).

BrentR

I don't know if it was working or not but she was talking very dirty to me in French.

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Our PO just confess to one of us: He doesn't believe anymore

by outofthebox in

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maybe we are the crazy ones!

but, after a chat with the po of our congo, we felt a little better with the knowledge that we are not alone on the inside.

let us explain .... today we went to the ministry as every saturday :(.

BrentR

I Give OTB the benefit of the doubt

If would be nice if a few more here would do the same. The worst thing you can do to a troll is just ignore thier post. And the worst thing you can do to a new member is call them a liar or troll.

It will be very revealing to see who actually apologizes. We do have moderators here don't we? I have heard rumors of such.

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The Good, The Bad and The Troll

by outofthebox in

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the good.

thanks everybody for your warm welcome days ago (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/141779/1.ashx).

we really enjoyed all your comments.

BrentR

Welcome to JWD outofthebox! This is great place for anyone who has doubts and is grappling with the doctrines of JW's. Unfortunately you did not get a very warm welcome and I am surprised you came back. I was extremely embarrased by most of the replies you got on your first posting. The fact that it went on for multiple pages without a moderator stepping in and "calling off the dogs" was disturbing and made me really start to wonder if I wanted to even stay here.

But that aside, most of us here are in different stages of our journey out of cult and as a whole there is some great insight to be found here. You will probably find several people with your same or similar circumstances here and experience some commonality.

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Our PO just confess to one of us: He doesn't believe anymore

by outofthebox in

jw
friends

maybe we are the crazy ones!

but, after a chat with the po of our congo, we felt a little better with the knowledge that we are not alone on the inside.

let us explain .... today we went to the ministry as every saturday :(.

BrentR

The last cong I was with always referred to either "field service or service" and the older ones would say "ministry". After all is that not the purpose of the kingdom ministry school?

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any pagans on board?

by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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call in thread for pagans etc.. .

BrentR

I am not part of any type of religion or belief now. But after leaving the borg I made a concerted effort to learn as much as I can about all the religions and wicca was the first one I started with. After finding out what is was all about I was able to completely erase all the crap that was put into my head by the JW's and christians in general. As a result I have a couple friends that are wiccans because they know that I don't judge them as evil and they are comfortable with me.

So even though I am not I don't have any problem with JWD members that are. I am not here to judge and it's amazing how many friends in the real world you will get just by being tolerant and open minded.

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Where were you when the planes hit?

by coolhandluke in

it f*cks me off that this happened only a few years ago but no one in my office has yet to even mention it.

it was such a pivotal event:.

i was driving from fontana to chino in california dressed in service clothes.

BrentR

Since I am on the west coast my clock radio clicked on with the report of the first plane that hit. I got out of bed and turned on CNN and within seconds I saw the second plane hit live. I will never forget seeing that second plane hit and the long silence from the reporter not real sure what just happened.

My sister was in labor with my niece. It won't be hard to remember her birthday even though they are JW's.

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You know you're going to get old - do you take better care of yourself?

by truthseeker in

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the wt has pulled the carpet from under the dubs feet again and again concerning the nearness of armageddon.

now that you know you're getting older, do you look after your health more?

do you try to stay looking young?

BrentR

Working out can be a double edged sword. You increase the oxidative damage by increasing your metabolism so it is imperative to take anti-oxidants. You tear up bone cartilage so you also have to increase your amino acid intake so your body has the raw materials to rapidly rebuild the tissue.

I work on people almost every day that were hardcore weight trainers and by thier 50's they have nearly destroyed thier joints. We have to look at our bodies as checking accounts and not write checks that our bodies can't cash.

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In the news -- mortgage business downturn leads to

by MadTiger in

starting a brothel

BrentR

I guess if you are going to screw someone it's better to at least have thier permission.

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A debate on childrens haircuts

by tinker in

without giving my personal opinion i would like to ask the board, 'what is your view of children with mowhawk haircuts'.

our family has an ongoing debate as to what is considered an acceptable hairstyle for boys age 5-8. please be unbiased reguards what you may think is my personal feeling.

your input would be greatly appriciated.

BrentR

Two boys that go to my daughter's school have mohawks and I think it looks very white trashy. I felt like enough of a freak just being a JW kid that I could not imagine having to wear a mohawk. Teachers are only human to and why would anyone want their kid stigmatized by them? They are not supposed to but we all know they do.