aligot ripounsous

Joined

• started 36 topics
• posted 913 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by aligot ripounsous

• 
  5

  Hudson River Plane Crash

  by purplesofa in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have been watching the news about this plane/helicopter collision over the hudson river.. my heart goes out to the families and friends of the ones that died.

  .

  http://www.newsday.com/news/nine-believed-dead-in-hudson-river-crash-1.1357113.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  In Paris, flying over the intra muros city is forbidden, apart from exceptional events such as the Bastille day parade, for the French AF, or film shootings, due to confined air space. Don't they do the same in NY ? So sad.
• 
  81

  MY APOLOGIES TO ALL

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking back over the last few weeks, i think i've been unnessarily rude to some posters and i just want to apologize to anyone who has been on the receiving end of my anger recently.. i believe that i'm so angry, dismayed, devastated and heartbroken over what's happening to my brother in law, that i've been taking it out on others and that's not right.

  it makes absolutely no difference what i think of the wts as a whole, or whether or not americans have a universal healthcare system......none of that makes any difference whatsoever when someone you love and has been like your brother for 35 years is dying and there's not a fucking thing we can do about it.. my sister just called me and there's more bad news, and that's that his disease has now progressed into the acute myeloid leukemia which means he cannot start the therapy they were going to give him, as this is far more serious now.

  they want to start chemo right away, but his blood counts aren't up high enough for him to survive.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  Mary,

  we are all used to your vigourous style but that's not the point right now. Rather, my thoughts are for wishing you and your family strength to endure and, maybe, hope.
• 
  144

  I Have A New Grandson But He's Very Sick :(

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he was born yesterday with many complications including breathing problems, possible lung underdevelpment, anemia and body temperature issues.

  the poor little guy was hooked up to a breathing tube and tons of monitors.

  because the hospitals couldn't handle some of the problems, they sent him and my daughter to the best hospital in boston last night.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  Minimus,

  my best wishes are with Benjamin, his parents and yourself. Babies can be so resilient, I was told that when I was born, my father lamented that I was so small and frail, doctors were unsure about my future. However I wanted to live, everything got fitted in proper order within days and I'm still here. Warm thoughts to you all.
• 
  13

  Chaplinsky: a Fine Example of "Christian Conduct"

  by Farkel in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  if the wts likes to brag about anything other than themselves and how great they are, it is their boasts about their triumphs in the united states supreme court.

  they brag about how much the people of the united states owes them and their god jehovah for their part in championing freedom of speech and religion in america.. we've seen all of those supreme court cases paraded about in various wts publications, haven't we?.

  i recently found one of them that is nowhere to be found on my wt cd rom.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  Never heard about Chaplin having been involved with public preaching, although I can imagine him quite well. Did he kick the cop's ass or did he beat him with his cane and run ?
• 
  6

  Lurkers, food for thought...

  by Gregor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i observe two ways the watchtower society keeps their followers "sheeplike".

  both are based in fear.

  love is not the glue that holds it together, although familial love is exploited by them in #2 below.. 1. god is going to destroy everyone who is not a jehovah's witness in the immenent armageddon blitzkreig.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  Gregor,

  I agree on #2 tactic to keep the flock stick tight, I'm no too sure about #1. As far as I could observe until I left (only a few weeks ago), the prospect of Armageddon plays a very small part, if any, in directing JWs' individual lifes. I've not heard any JW for a long time mention in conversation that they should keep awake, in case it occurs in their lifetime, other than as an old conventional JW expression. I believe more in the power of the fear to lose social and family links, which, IMO, is in the end the last glue that keeps JWs together. No religion in that, just social pressure.
• 
  42

  Jackson never molested his kids or the kid from "Home alone" and "Webster" so not a pedophile!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  his kid friends {now adults} who defended him include culkin from "home alone"...the kid from "webster"...godfather to his kids, the kid from the movie "oliver.

  " his own kids, so.....can pedophiles switch it on and off....out of thousand's of kids he met why didn't he molest more including his own kids..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  Thanks, startingover, for this-almost-first hand evidence, that tallies with the inner impression I had watching him on the TV, and this shyness in socialising is coherent with what he repeatedly confessed. Let's hope justice will be rendered to his memory.
• 
  42

  Jackson never molested his kids or the kid from "Home alone" and "Webster" so not a pedophile!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  his kid friends {now adults} who defended him include culkin from "home alone"...the kid from "webster"...godfather to his kids, the kid from the movie "oliver.

  " his own kids, so.....can pedophiles switch it on and off....out of thousand's of kids he met why didn't he molest more including his own kids..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  I remember having heard him plead to journalists that he wasn't "a criminal" and, from the way he did it yes, I believed him. When you add up what that chap has had to go through, vitiligo, lupus, scalp pain, the fact he resented people believing he was denying his black nature and what else, you just want to tell him RIP, MJ, it's all over and people won't stop soon dancing on Billie Jean and Beat it.
• 
  10

  New unique book on JWs published

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a book on jws containing contributions from more than 10 professionals, giving different angles on jw doctrine, organization, life and culture has been published by the norwegian university press publishing ho... a jw is also contributing, allowing the jws to give a self-presentation.... it is rolf furuli who has written that part, he is also coordinator in an oslo congregation and is working at the university of oslo.. in fact, my parents intends to read the book, and that is good, cause it also mentions information not commonly known among regular jws, e.g.

  mexico/malawi etc... it also gives the web address to a number of support web sites for "disgruntled" witnesses.. the book has come into existence also in cooperation with brooklyn hqs and the national branch office providing information and literature.. a good reading, accurate, containing less than five actual mistakes in close to 200 pages ;-)... (one minor one in the witness chapter.

  he says in general witnesses are ambassadors of god s kingdom.. and shows this by reference to 2. cor.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  That sounds like a serious work, let's see what it holds
• 
  60

  Ex jw wife

  by sspo in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i find it interesting that i posted about 16 days ago concerning whether i should write a letter and.

  allow my ex wife to be free and marry.. saturday night she called out of the blue ( maybe there is a god upthere looking down) after 3 years of not talking to her and she wants to meets.. we met last night and after small talk about how we are both doing and family stuff, she asked me if i would write a letter.

  freeing her or releasing her from our marriage without admitting adultery, since i don't believe in the bible anymore,.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  SSPO,

  If you think that your common life with your jw ex wife belongs to the past and that there is no chance whatsoever that you resume it, it would be a nice and kind move on your part to give her back her freedom along her own rules. In doing so you will just manifest a generous non revengeful nature, well above petty schemes and you will be the winner.
• 
  15

  Have you ever written a letter to the WTBS and gotten an answer?

  by gubberningbody in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm curious..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  aligot ripounsous

  I wrote twice. The first letter was "has Erich FROST really given in his colleagues to the gestapo, as we can read it on the internet ?" they answered that they were not in a position to tell me but if I wrote to the German branch they could tell. They added that the value of an information is often in direct proportion with the value of its source (apostates on the internet) and the fac-simile pages of FROST's questioning by the gestapo "had the appearance of authenticity".

  The other letter was about a WT study article where they say that in Mak's Gospel the sower is the JW publisher, when it is quite obvious, through comparison with Matthew's synoptic Gospel that the sower is Jesus. They answered that one could come to that conclusion at first sight but the FDS must have written that for good reasons, we must trust them, bla bla bla.

  I don't know if the branch sent my letters to the elders, I showed them anyway, with the answers, quite happy to sow seeds of doubts in the less ignorant ones' minds.