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  GOING DOWN IN THE ONRUSHING FLOOD?

  by You Know in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  presently developing trends in the world are like a slowly rising mountainous tsunami that threatens to drown jehovahs organization.

  global warfare seems certain to erupt at the next spark of terrorism.

  the financial system is being rocked with increasing tremors of volatility in advance of the onrushing wall of water.

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  Eric

  You Know:

  Ever since I got online in 1997, you've been calling for the immediate end of the world.

  Don't you ever get tired of making idiot blunders and backing paranoid doomsday scenarios that never play out?

  Please tell us again why the railways were running a skeleton operation on January 01, 2000. It was so lame, such a perfect You Know moment. (You still owe me thirty articles of clothing, you serial welcher.)

  Let's renew the bet.

  If at this time next year, the internet is still up, Wall Street is still opening its marketplace and the Watchtower magazine is still being published then you owe your local Red Cross $5000.00 and a donation of blood.

  Do you believe your own rants enough to take this bet? I doubt it.

  Eric
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  Putin-powerful, but not his own power

  by proplog2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the points keep lining up.

  daniel 8:23 identifies three.

  characteristics of the "king" that will stand against the prince of.

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  proplog,

  After Putin is out of power, do us all a favour and choose a Daniel 8:23 successor who is not a ruskie.

  It would be very refreshing to have new fodder for jokes at your expense.

  Eric
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  My Committment to JWD

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i debated the wisdom of making this post.

  i have made every effort to make it as neutral as possible to avoid personally offending anyone.

  i may be losing my marbles here, but i feel that this needs to be said.

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  Eric

  I think I get it now:

  Amazing + written committment = Humour.

  Are we having fun yet?

  Eric
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  My Committment to JWD

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i debated the wisdom of making this post.

  i have made every effort to make it as neutral as possible to avoid personally offending anyone.

  i may be losing my marbles here, but i feel that this needs to be said.

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  First this:
  

  Some feel that they do not claim to be a judge of a state of mind, but then go ahead and judge other people's state of mind.

  Then this:
  

  I could be wrong, but I think you two are anal retentives starves(sic) for some serious attention from your husbands ...

  
  Since he is certainly not doing or saying anything out of normal for him, can I feel safe that I have properly understood what Amazing intended?

  Eric
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  young brothers expelled from B/bethel in early 70s

  by singsongboi in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am interested in the following incident(s)..... ........the witch-hunt at brooklyn bethel in the early seventies when dozens of bethel boys were disfellowshipped after learning of their midnight trysts in the sauna in brooklyn bethel...... if anyone can provide more detail i would be grateful!!!

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  Atreyu,

  I can remember that WTS some years back wrote in an article or book that "scratching someone's back may lead to homosexuality". May be the Bethel sauna incident was the reason for this odd warning?

  Perhaps you were remembering this?

  *** w83 6/1 26 Maintaining God's View of Sex ***
  At times homosexual acts have been precipitated by things that in themselves are not wrong, such as the giving or accepting of back rubbing or of back washing in the shower. Or sometimes persons will playfully wrestle and become aroused sexually. There is a need for caution. Be aware that such activity can lead to, and on occasion has led to, homosexual acts, even among Christians.

  Eric
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  young brothers expelled from B/bethel in early 70s

  by singsongboi in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am interested in the following incident(s)..... ........the witch-hunt at brooklyn bethel in the early seventies when dozens of bethel boys were disfellowshipped after learning of their midnight trysts in the sauna in brooklyn bethel...... if anyone can provide more detail i would be grateful!!!

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  I think that anyone who places their spelling mistake in brackets likely did it on purpose.

  As to what purpose, we would have to ask Nytelecom.

  Eric
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  Is this guy really happy?

  by Okidok in

  1. jw
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  i drew this image some years back.

  maybe you have some ideas what this guy is trying to say?.

  "it takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak, and another to.

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  Okidok,

  >It means The Governing Body

  Ahh, the true watchtower god. Perfect!

  Thanks again,
  Eric
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  Is this guy really happy?

  by Okidok in

  1. jw
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  i drew this image some years back.

  maybe you have some ideas what this guy is trying to say?.

  "it takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak, and another to.

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  Okidok,

  Excellent imagery, it must have been good to be able to get these feelings out and down on paper this way when you were dealing with the conflict.

  One question if you don't mind: I was able to understand the 'blod blod blod...' written on the hem of the watchtower god, but could you translate the 'etstyrew?' on his collar? (Or anyone?)

  Thanks again, Jan too, for posting these.

  Eric
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  10 years since My Exit - The Introduction

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my exit introduction .

  over the next few weeks or months, i will post an accounting of my exit process in a series of 15 short stories.

  it will be part of my permanent notes that may someday be incorporated in a book likely a private book for my children and grandchildren.

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  All:

  If you think that you can benefit by listening to how this man finally unstuffed his head after years and years and years of wondering if he should unstuff his head or whether he should keep it stuffed... then by all means - Enjoy!

  I just expected that most of us unstuffed our heads more quickly, and without such fanfare. Must be a Canadian thing.

  Eric
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  10 years since My Exit - The Introduction

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my exit introduction .

  over the next few weeks or months, i will post an accounting of my exit process in a series of 15 short stories.

  it will be part of my permanent notes that may someday be incorporated in a book likely a private book for my children and grandchildren.

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  larc,

  Well I'm taking quite the beating here aren't I?

  Yes, people write autobiographies all the time. Sometimes they are even useful as examples, sometimes useful as dire warnings. I have no axe to grind with Amazing other than he remains a pompous gas-bag, no matter how far he pitches himself from his watchtower nest.

  I look forward to his 15 part series, spanning the crucial three years of his angst and indecision, to say nothing of the previous three years of his indecisive dithering. May his talent in relating his endless oddessey not go unnoticed on this forum. May his words reach so deeply that we never forget that it took him half a decade to make up his mind.
  
  Hopefully, less for him to tell us about it.

  Eric