Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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Today was very sad for me ....

by troubled mind in

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i had to say good-bye to my 14 yr old cat ,rocky .......

SnakesInTheTower

troubled mind...

woke up and seen your post...very sad. I also posted on sunny's thread a few days ago that vinny mentioned and what I wrote there applies here. Your Rocky was a beautiful cat.

I had a cat named Zac that was also about 14 when he died pretty suddenly. It took me a couple of years before my heart was ready for another. I also went to a shelter where I met my cat Max (as in Maxine..lady at the shelter named her that). Max is not a lap cat....but most mornings she wants to lie on my chest and just be there for a little bit...just as she did this morning... best thing I ever did getting her a year ago.

No cat will replace your Rocky...but as soon as your heart allows...go to a shelter and get another cat....that will find another place in your heart...

Peace to you and to your dear Rocky....

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Local JWs plan on setting up booth at mall and college

by SnakesInTheTower in

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one of the local elders in my town, a real go-getter when it comes to all things dub, is apparently the new service overseer.

until recently (when i stopped drinking the kool-aid), we were also close friends.

he still calls me a couple of times a month.

SnakesInTheTower

I was out at the college yesterday to take care of other business and as I passed his office, noticed the elder was in.. so I knocked and we talked for a bit... He is currently an associate professor.... and he has a BA in his field...he is pursuing a Masters. I say good for him...but I havent figured out how this is flying in the congo...except that the congo PO allowed his daughter to go to college. Not much they can say when that is the case.

I am not real worried about the dubs setting up a table....esp at the colleg.... if they arent giving away food or something useful, pretty unlikely they will get much traffic. Free country.

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COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HEAR AT THE WT STUDY: Help Them Return Without Delay!

by Mary in

how do you read?

q 7. what can we encourage those who have strayed from the flock to do?.

106:13) it may be helpful to remind an inactive one that "the faithful and discreet slave" is dispensing excellent spiritual food.

SnakesInTheTower

thank you Mary...you and Blondie do the best comments... glad there are 2 to share the load...it is a lot of work to put that together....better thought out than the drivel the Writing Department tries to pawn off as "spiritual food."

As to the article...para 16-18 about the "inactive brother" (surely a composite of a bunch of situations or just plain made up)...funny I am now that "inactive brother"....except I am never returning to the WT VOMIT...

Here is how my "drifting takes took place gradually":

I did not do a slow fade. But I did plan it very very carefully. I went from being an elder in good standing in Dec 06 to no meetings by September 2007 (and officially "inactive" by the end of February 2008). I gave the Borg my entire childhood and adult life to age 40. I was raised in it from age 4, so I have no real memories of xmas or birthdays... always persecuted at school because of not celebrating anything...you know how kids are..if you are just a bit different, they can be cruel. Its like that in the Organization...if you are not beating to the drum of the Society, you are looked at as "different" and with suspicion.

I reached out and regular pioneered, MS...got accused of lying by jealous types...deleted....changed congos....crawled my way back on the pioneer list, MS...then elder...MTS school.. went to an assignment briefly...changed congos twice.... along the way many attempts were made to derail me...and for a year even succeeded from keeping me reappointed as an elder for a year. (I still have a copy of the letter one elder sent to the Society about me...they dont know I have a copy)...but kept at it..doggedly pursuing the Organization's "carrot."

Once I was deleted as an elder in 06...I knew exactlyhow to fade and what I had to do to be (mostly) left alone...

(1) I switched congos....although only 20 min away..it is in a different congo, different KH, different circuit, even different state. Once the BOE there knew they couldnt reappoint me as an elder for 3 years, they forgot about me. which is exactly what I wanted.

(2) I quit going in FS as soon as I go there (but turned in phantom time for 8 months)...

(3) slowly quit going to all meetings.... never went to the CBS....then less and less to the TMS/SM....then not at all...then started leaving after the talk on Sunday....and then disappeared..

I am now in no-man's land with the Borg..they have nothing on me... I live in one congo's territory, card in another congo..and most importantly...my card is in a different circuit than I live... so I dont have a CO noticing my absence in one congo because I dont live there and the CO where I live doesnt even know I exist....lol

It is true that I will not enjoy complete peace from the rare "shepherding" attempts until I move away from the region (I am too well known in about 150 congos in this "market" because of past responsibilities I have held in the Borg)...but the few phone calls I do get asking how I am are only met by me with "work and school...keeps me busy." And not in a way that encourages further discussion.

I feel bad for those here who have family in and either have to keep attending to keep peace or who dont go and have to deal with the consequences. My JW mom doesnt live close by so she doesnt get pressured to distance herself from me. Thank goodness for small favors.

I hope this article doesnt precipitate a sudden "interest" in Brother Snakes.

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The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

by Elsewhere in

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yes... this is what life in the it field is like.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcq7rkybobc.

SnakesInTheTower

I think this is why I did not go into IT/help desk way back in the mid 80s...I would have probably had to kill someone.

But that was hilarious.

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Attending college as an active JW

by CHILD in

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has anyone on this board attended college or knows anyone who attends as an active jw?

how many remain in the organization after graduation?

i was baptized in 1988 and was encouraged to stop college after 2 years.

SnakesInTheTower

I pursured my first associates degree while still an elder. My first class in that degree was ethics and it opened my eyes to a lot of things. That was in 2004. I was finally deleted as an elder (for multiple bogus reasons..mostly for being "unreasonable" {aka, I wouldnt quit college and do what I was told by the BOE..but thats not what they told the CO}) in December 2006. I changed congos and faded until Sept 07 and then quit altogether. Right about the time I took a Psychology class that really opened my eyes to the control factor.

I should finish with the second associates degrees (AS), as the first one was a career degree not a transfer degree. I want to pursue a BA/BS in a business degree, but have to see what the money, grants, etc look like...

Dubs dont like you pursuing college, esp 4 year degrees. It really depends on the congo BOE mindset.

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Spiritual Ponzi--Maddoff has nothing on GB for destroying lives

by Alpaca in

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over the past couple of weeks as the bernard maddoff scandal has been unfolding i couldn't help but see the parallels between his ponzi scheme and the wt society's behavior over its history.

the wt society and the governing body have perpetrated a scandalous spiritaul ponzi scheme on some of the most vulnerable members of our society and others who were just good hearted, idealistic people wishing to see a better world.. .

just like maddoff, the wt society (and by extension the governing body):.

SnakesInTheTower

cl:

The jws should have to have charitible services for the poor to maintain their tax exempt status. NOT field circus and occassional help in disasters.

I have said this before here. If the JWs want to do a social service that the government would otherwise provide (housing the homeless, feed the needy, food pantries, soup kitchens, real literacy services {vs the fake literacy class brain washing to read the lit offered}, then the dubs should get tax exempt status for those activities only...NOT the KH, WTBTS buildings etc that are not part of such social efforts.

Just another reason I am glad to be out of that scheme.

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Thanks for the font change!

by seek2find in

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messages are much easier in firefox now.

seek2find.

SnakesInTheTower

i had the light fonts too and I am on a PC.... glad for the change...

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Big News! 2009 District Conventions moved OUT OF STATE!

by sacolton in

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my jw wife told me today that the 2009 oklahoma district conventions will not be held in our state.

the tulsa area will have to go to fort smith, arkansas and the central oklahoma area will have to go to witchia, kansas!

wow!

SnakesInTheTower

I dont ever see the Society ever going to broadcasting the DC programs to KHs. The larger gatherings are the rare times that JWs from other congregations can get together. If it wasn't for the conventions there would be no marriages. It is the only opportunity for JWs to interact and meet those other single "spiritual" brothers and sisters...that and QBs...and the QBs are getting rarer and rarer in my part of the country. (and if you dont land a sister before she hits 20, you wont land one at all).

What I do see is a possibility of cutting DC to 2 days and holding 2 SADs a year (eliminating the 2 day CA). Its getting harder for the average R&F JW to get Friday off from their employer (or for that matter, who wants to give up a vacation day to sit at another borefest). This would also serve the purpose of eliminating hotels all together for the one day programs. Just get up at the a$$ crack of dawn, drive to the SAD, sleep through the session, drive home...claim to be "spiritually refreshed."

I have commented elsewhere on this site regarding how the whole negotiation thing works..though I never found out the "formula"

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JWN is 59% evil!

by Leolaia in

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in honor of this being my 12345th post, i thought i'd pass on a bit of gematria:.

according to: http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/.

unfortunately, watchtower.org is only 50% evil, with 50% good.

SnakesInTheTower

my real legal name is 16% evil/84% good; a variation of my first name with last name is 50/50, the variation of my first name (that i hate) is 20/80.

SnakesInTheTower is 1% evil/99% good LOL just plain snakes is 50/50 (and for you smarties with a memory...replacing snakes with "sankes" resulted in the same ratios..

Snakes (of the "1% evil" Sheep Class)

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Posters - a request

by Gregor in

the new net site is working well, but i have noticed that when posting some typeface comes out looking like the fine print on the back of a credit card statement.

please enlarge the font size.

this is 12.-- bold is even easier to read.

SnakesInTheTower

testing... ddddddddd this is default 10pt.... which is what I use.

I usually only bold for emphasis or bold for other posters screen names (quoting, etc)...

and of course...my sign off...

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