Posts by expatbrit

What do I do when the little bastards come to the door?
Do I need to act scared? Do I need to scare them with a spooky voice?
How much candy will the little sods extort?
Should I spike the candy with colon cleanser?

Help me!

Expatbrit

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My Take On Anonimity.

by Englishman in

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this is just a few thoughts that i have regarding the subject of anonimity.

yes, i am making this post after being in the chat room with several others including kent and prisca.

it seemed to me that kent posted prisca's pic mainly out of sheer mischievousness and was quite taken aback at her very real distress at having her identity exposed.

expatbrit

Englishman:

What you have said is quite true, and I'm on the cusp of this situation myself.

Anonyminity has it's uses for a time. When you are making the first breaks from the WT, gathering information and starting to interact with "apostates", remaining anonymous provides safety. It allows you to arm yourself, as it were, build up your defenses for the inevitable onslaught of family-fronted cult pressure.

But I've found that once this part of the withdrawal process is complete, remaining anonymous becomes a negative thing, preventing further progress in withdrawal from the cult.

I've decided, recent shenanigans with pictures being posted notwithstanding, that as soon as I've figured out how to use my damn digital camera and software, that I'll be posting my real picture and name in my profile. I'll still go by the posting name Expatbrit though.

This may well result in unpleasantness with family. But that is something I've come to realise is inescapable in the process.

I do however apologise to those who will be disappointed and upset in finding out that I am not, after all, an Orangutan.

Expatbrit

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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up

by Farkel in

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i have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .

i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.

(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.

expatbrit

Um....if we're all a family, that means all the women I've been flirting with in chat are my sisters!

Eeeeeeeewwwwww!!!!!

Expatbrit, cyber-celibate class

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I Now Provide You With Entertainment.......

by Ranchette in

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i put some of the funniest stuff in bold print.. enjoy!.

opic: unique plans for paradise.

pantherkatz wol stepper posted 09-22-2001 12:09 am we all look forward to common things in the new order such as, no more sickness and death, no more wickedness, meeting bible characters, etc.... but what are some of the personal, more unique things that you would like to do?

expatbrit

being assigned to teach a resurrected one from Medieval times

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

Witness: So tell me Hogphroth, what do you know about Cain and Able?

Hogphroth: pone cwealm gewraec ece drihten, paes pe he Abel slog. Ne gefeah he paere faehoe, ac he hine feor forwraec, metod for py mane, man-cynne fram.

Witness: Er, yes.....right! Brother Chaucer, what do you have to say?

Chaucer: Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his.......

Witness: Um....good...er...paragraph 2 then?

I would like to play chess with Moses

Witness: Hmmmm....bishop to queen's rank 4!

Moses: WHAT!!! O Jehovah, cast your eyes upon this stiff-necked people and their bishops of Baal and succulent-breasted queens....etc etc etc etc

mass plagues of locusts and pestilences ensue

Expatbrit

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LOSER!

by Seeker in

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*ahem* i take this moment to interrupt the usual in-fighting, cat calls, horrible insults, and general sniping to introduce a brief spelling lesson:.

it's loser!

that is how you spell someone who is not a winner.

expatbrit

Excuse me, but shouldn't you American chaps be spelling it "lozer"?

Expatbrit

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On STUMBLING BLOCKS

by You Know in

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just a few loose ends and random thoughts for a select group of readers who have not been completely defrauded of your faith.. on the topic of stumbling: stumbling typically involves the mistakes of others whether real or perceived.

the reason jehovah does not consider any stumbling block as a valid reason for abandoning ones faith is because a persons faith should be in jehovah and christ in the first place.

and since god most assuredly did not let his worshipper down, what a fellow believer does or does not do should have no bearing upon our personal relationship with our heavenly father.

expatbrit

Excellent stuff, You Know. A shame Charles Taze Russell didn't apply it to his previous religions.

Expatbrit

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IBSA AND WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

by JEMIMAH in

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something came across my desk, today indicating ibsa's association with the wcc.. i can't reveal what at this moment, as this would reveal my id.. however i know that there are posters out there who will verify my credentials.. what is needed is someone willing to carry out some digging in the info about the wcc.. let's just say that the scarlot beast isn't the only one to be ridden by the society.. once this is out in the open, more can be revealed,.

any info much appreciated.

regards to all, especially max and oz.

expatbrit

Here is some further info on IBSA I posted a while back: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=5725&site=3#67078

Ignore the statement about IBSA closing down, it is an error on my part.

JEMIMAH: Please feel free to e-mail me if there is anything I can do to help in digging and uncovering information.

Expatbrit

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Red Flag Apostate Phrases for JWs

by comment in

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i remember that when i was a witness, seeing certain phrases would trigger the response: "aha, this must be from an apostate!".

those words and phrases included:.

"the watchtower society"--because the brothers would usually just call it "the society" and because this was, of course, merely a legal instrument the brothers used to advance the preaching work.. "the governing body"--because despite the power they may wield, the governing body does stay in the background personality-wise most of the time and has done so pretty much since the days of knorr; therefore, i regarded any attempts to point to them as personally important as suspicious (and can recall being charmed in an odd way a few years ago when a brother giving a public talk was unable to recall the name of the society's current president).. "the rank and file"--obviously this was insulting because jehovah's witnesses have no clergy-laity division!

expatbrit

These days, virtually any statement ending with a "?".

Expatbrit