Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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I have renounced atheism: I now believe in God!

by Awakened at Gilead in

if you don't believe me, watch my latest video debunking atheism!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjs9yblgupq.

cheers!.

SnakesInTheTower

marking for Toni to watch later.....

she always says I will be struck by lightning talking like this....

,,,,I tell her His Noodliness will protect me....LOL.

Snakes (Rich )

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Do Elders and Bethelites really follow this site?

by jamesmahon in

just a question really and whilst i would not put it past them i sort of feel it is too 'conspiracy theory' for me.

are elders and bethelites officially sanctioned to lurk (or engage) in this or other sites to try to weedle out apostates?

does anyone have any direct experience of it happening?.

SnakesInTheTower

if they did I would have been DF long ago. Just google "Snakes" and "SnakesInTheTower" along with the site address in advanced search. My real name is here somewhere. My picture definitely is.

I know that individual elders in the congregations do, but those are not officially sanctioned, but also not discouraged, by the Society.

One poster here had reams of their personal blog posts (not posts from this forum) printed out by our young tech-savvy PO in the course of his private investigation (ie, witch hunt). There really was nothing in those particular blog posts that should have gotten that person DF. The PO took the info to the elders (including myself), had already gone to the PO before he came to us (other than his elder/former PO father), and the CO instructed the elders to form a JC, which was to include all of the elders (ie loyalty test). JC came back to DF. Individual appealed and lost of course. It was a witch hunt through and through. I had tried to give the person the heads up, but that horse had already left the barn.

Rule of thumb: If you dont want people to know, don't post it on the internet, not even in the so called private boards or via email. It can always be cut and pasted elsewhere and forwarded and/or printed out.

Snakes (Rich )

10

Guess who's back

by Cagefighter in

been relocating over the past few weeks.

things are good.... kind of turned a corner spiritually.

too much to discuss right now.

SnakesInTheTower

yay to cagey and snowbird....

Snakes (Rich )

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When Was The Last Time You Went To A Meeting?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i think it's been around 7 years for me.

and i never ever missed going or being with the "friends"..

SnakesInTheTower

I had to look up a post from 2 years ago where I updated my story to that point. Wow a lot has changed since then.

Last FS: Dec 2006.

Last FS Report: August 2007. (phantom reports 2007).

Last DC: Summer 2007.

Last meeting at a Kingdumb Hell: September 23, 2007.

Freedom: September 24, 2007 -- Priceless.

Snakes (Rich )

10

Six Screens of the Watchtower Site??

by Incognito in

jw
friends

does anyone know what's going on there?

it's been unavailable for many days.. rick and inez occasionally post here an i know that mouthy and others here often call-in to the conference calls.. i usually review the conference call archives for topics of interest but the archives had not been updated in a while.

now the entire site seems to be off-line.. i tried looking through the previous weeks topics on jwn but i didn't see anything related to the six screens site..

SnakesInTheTower

whosis (http://whois.melbourneit.com/index.php3) doesnt show the registration expires until november.... google cache looks like it screenshots a blank black page. who knows.

As good as the information is on that site, I sure hope the site is down for a major redesign. The current design is very dark and offputting (is that a word?). If I had been looking for information as a doubting witness and came across that site back then, I would not have taken it seriously. (aka, I would have thought "angry apostate").

just a thought.

Snakes (Rich )

WhoIs Result For sixscreensofthewatchtower.com @ whois.melbourneit.com
Domain Name	sixscreensofthewatchtower.com
Creation Date	2006-11-25
Registration Date	2006-11-25
Expiry Date	2010-11-25
Organisation Name	Warren R. Fearon
Organisation Address	PO Box 61359
	Sunnyvale
	94088
	CA
	US
Admin Name	Admin PrivateRegContact
Admin Address	PO Box 61359
	Sunnyvale
	94088
	CA
	US
Admin Email	[email protected]
Admin Phone	+1.5105952002
Tech Name	TECH PrivateRegContact
Tech Address	PO Box 61359
	Sunnyvale
	94088
	CA
	US
Tech Email	[email protected]
Tech Phone	+1.5105952002
Name Server	yns1.yahoo.com
	yns2.yahoo.com

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elder school 2011

by inbetween in

jw
friends

we received a letter announcing elder school starting fall 2011, it will be one whole week !!!!!.

the kms school for 1 1/2 days were already long enough, now 5 long days ?.

what can possibly be taught in 5 days ?.

SnakesInTheTower

can you imagine having to waste your precious vacation from work to go to this? Especially if all you had was a week. What about the window washer janitors? I am sure they don't get vacation, so either they have to do both (depending on the distance to the school) or have someone else take the accounts (and lose they income) while they take in all of this wonderful new spiritual light ***gag***.

I knew of JW wives who would go somewhere with the kids and other sisters while their husbands were at these schools.

A week? TRY WASTING EIGHT WEEKS AT MINISTERIAL TRAINING SCHOOL (MTS)...that is what I did. Of course, the difference is I volunteered for that crap. . Elders do not get a choice, they are expected to attend the Elder's School whether they want to or not.

sigh...glad I aint doing it any more.

Snakes (Rich )

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Another Question for Guys: Do You Like Children?

by snowbird in

really, really like them?.

please, no tasteless references to pedophilia.. thanks.. syl.

SnakesInTheTower

In reality, I used to not really didn't like kids too much, but they seemed to like me. When I was engaged to the JW sister in India (back in 2006...man time flies), she had a then 5 year old...so she would have been my boy's age now..... I would talk to her (best we could with her just learning English and me not knowing Tamil) on the webcam. When I flew there, and the engagement quickly ended, the 5 YO girl kept my spirits up with her funny antics for the 4 days I was there. I will never forget that.

that was the only good thing to come out of that relationship...that I could indeed be ok with liking kids. Honestly my 9YO boy is funny and extremely intelligent...and extremely annoying. I figure it was karma biting me in the ass, since I was a terror as a kid....at least that is what my mom and people who knew me back then say.....LOL.

Even now I go to customer's doors and the kids are calling me "cowboy" because of my infamous hat...and asking me questions about being the "cable guy." The sad ones are the kids who say "how am I going to watch cartoons now?" (answer, someone else usually comes behind me to do the final shut off...I leave the basic on just taking the digital boxes so they cant watch premium channels).... kids dont deserve that. Better than being the guy who shuts off the water or electric though, all a matter of perspective.

Snakes (Rich )

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I Am Taking Up Auxilliary Pioneering in September.

by african GB Member in

jw
friends

this is gonna be my very first time as a ms.. i'll be on leave for about 3 weeks.. our cong.

is still up and coming, and there is a need for brothers.

right now there is only one elder, 2 ms's including me.. elder told me if i work hard enough and display my love for jehovah, then they will make me an acting secretary in no time.so i am working my a*s off to get that "position".. .

SnakesInTheTower

If you continue on your current course of activity, I would expect you to be a Circuit Overseer within the next two to three years.

I dont know which creeps me out more, the avatar (what did syl call it...I am sure I cannot repeat it).... or the above quote...

I sure was on the course to become a CO...Hell, I even made it to secretary....DUN DUN DUN... and went to MTS...and graduated......DUN DUN DUN!...... then 5 years later QUIT! DUN DUN DUUUUUN! I bet if I had stayed I could have been GB! rimshot..... That and a $5 green handshake would have gotten me a cup of coffee at Starbucks..... LOL

Snakes (Rich of the "thank goodness I got the hell out with my life back" Sheep Class)

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karma is a b!tch and i am her fan....

by chickpea in

.... because she is coming back around.

to bite some well-deserving asses..... the lump that was principal when my son .

was first trying to raise the issue of bullying .

SnakesInTheTower

I hate text messaging, it is blocked on my phone. I have FB but not sure I like it much either (I have it to stay in contact with a couple of friends from, ironically, HS). I can see how both of these electronic means of communication can be abused, especially by teenagers. Thankfully, neither was around when I was in high school (25+ years ago)...if they wanted to bully me, they had to do it in person.

I have a 9YO boy, my fiancee's son..and he wants a cell phone. Fiancee said she will give him a TracPhone when he turns 10. I am completely against it....this is only one of the reasons why. Hell, anyone else my age or older need a telephone in their room, let alone their pocket, when they were kids?

How sad that a 15 year old girl now has to spend the rest of her life disabled. I hope she wins the lawsuit. However, in her win, the school district's taxpayers lose. The cost of the lawsuit, along with the increased premiums for the district's insurance, could cost the students in the long run. This is not to say that the girl shouldn't sue, she should. The taxpayers should turn around and sue the principle and administrators for negligence for failure to do their jobs (and costing taxpayers money). Apparently only the school counselor did her job. The ball was dropped after that.

What a lousy turn of events for that poor girl.

Snakes (Rich )

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Another Question for Guys: Do You Like Children?

by snowbird in

really, really like them?.

please, no tasteless references to pedophilia.. thanks.. syl.

SnakesInTheTower

Sylvia:

Another Question for Guys: Do You Like Children?

I love kids, kids are crunchy in milk.

Snakes (Rich )

Oh wait...that's KiX....not kiDs... KIX stays crunchy in milk..... ... my mistake.