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  Who are you?

  by Kent in

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  many people do post on this board, and many of the participants do spend a lot of hours every day/week helping others by answering to private mails.

  many do get lots of private phone calls, and spend a lot of time talking to people on phone as well.. others are here to discuss, find friends, socialize with others and generally have a good time.

  the nice thing about the net is the possibilities of finding new friends.

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  Farkel

  : And, then eventually referred to me at a Circuit Assembly as the Chief Apostate of the Pacific Northwest

  Good grief! The Watchtower Printing Corporation has to have classes and sub-classes for EVERYTHING! They now have a sub-class of the "apostate" class: "Chief Apostate!" Next there will be a Governing Body of Apostates, Branch Apostate Overseers, District Apostates, Circuit Apostates, Special Pioneer Apostates, Pioneer Apostates and R&F Apostates. Some apostates will be very spiritually weak, others in the demonized class; there will be regular apostates, irregular apostates and inactive apostates. Only qualified apostates will be allowed to run mics at apostofests, and only apostates with years of faithful service will be eligible for apostate charity. If an apostate is not doing his or her research, they are not "reaching out" and will be judged accordingly. Apostate Circuit Overseers will duly make notes about such people and duly send them back to Apostate Central in triplicate.

  The society better order several new floors worth of filing cabinets to keep track of all those classes. Imagine all that new freaking paperwork they'll have to manage just to track of us and clases of us!

  That is too funny!

  Farkel
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  A People For His Name

  by Princess in

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  does anyone know where i can get a copy of the book "a people for his name" by timothy white?.

  my husband really wants a real copy of the book since all we have is a photocopied version.. any help is appreciated!.

  princess.

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  Farkel

  Princess,

  The full title of Timothy White's book is "A People for His Name: "A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation." It was originally published in 1968 by Vantage Press.

  That should give you some place to start. Usually books of a vintage that old are out-of-print, but dilligence may yield you a copy.

  I suggest you first contact Vantage and see if someone else picked up the rights to re-publish it. Then, there is always Amazon.com and e-Bay!

  Farkel
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  What drives exJWs to atheism?

  by ros in

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  a significant number of former jehovah's witnesses come out of the watchtower still believing the bible and considering themselves christians.

  most coming out are in a serious state of bewilderment, and they look intently and sincerely for something to fill the huge void of lost religion, lost family and friends, and lost fellowship.

  they seek some viable spiritual association with others of like mind while at the same time having become very wary of any organized religion.. what is it that eventually draws so many of us (not me) to agnosticism or atheism?

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  Farkel

  Dub-Dub,

  :Ros' brand of Christianity:

  : Be ready to compromise any principal regardless of whether or not it is Biblical.

  : Blame 'fundys' and 'evangelicals' for atheism because unlike Ros, they do not 'water down' biblical principals.

  Right. They don't like watered-down soupy shit: they like hard and firm shit. The only difference between soup and firm is that with firm there's a lot more pure shit.

  Farkel, who hopes dub-dub doesn't regret his fundy conversion twenty or more years from now
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  What drives exJWs to atheism?

  by ros in

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  a significant number of former jehovah's witnesses come out of the watchtower still believing the bible and considering themselves christians.

  most coming out are in a serious state of bewilderment, and they look intently and sincerely for something to fill the huge void of lost religion, lost family and friends, and lost fellowship.

  they seek some viable spiritual association with others of like mind while at the same time having become very wary of any organized religion.. what is it that eventually draws so many of us (not me) to agnosticism or atheism?

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  Farkel

  proplog2,

  : What drives some x-jw's to atheism? Logic!!

  Yep.

  rem,

  : How about "What drives some JW's to become Apostates?" - the answer is logic.

  Yep.

  Ros,

  : Logic, in of itself, can be flawed.

  Give us an example of that, please.

  For a logical person to believe in God is to throw away logic and embrace faith. It's that simple, and there is nothing more to add to that.

  That's what I had to do, and in doing so, I don't have to explain or more importantly justify my personal beliefs to anyone. They are unexplainable, and I'm wise enough to understand that. If I were to offer any justification at all it would be, "Hey! It can't hurt!" That's it.

  Farkel
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  To My 'Cyberhubby'

  by AGuest in

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  hello, dear one... and may you have peace!.

  you are right, i did say you could call me anything... as long as you did it with love.

  but i know... you have 'nuthin' but love' for me.

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  Farkel

  Who is this guy? I'll mess him up.

  Farkel
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  To: AlanF ragarding CO

  by Amazing in

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  hi alan: you asked on my post about the name of the co who gave the idiotic talk about masturbation.

  you wondered if it was don amy.

  no, i don't recall meeting don.

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  Farkel

  : They MUST have contempt for the ignorant servility
  they encounter.

  This whole attitude was carefully cultured by Rutherford with his "classes" of JWs and has been expanded and extended to this very day. Rutherford and his sidekicks had nothing but contempt for the R&F and pioneers slaving for him and his Empire. He considered them to be an "unwashed" class that had to trained, nannied, carefully watched and whipped around to do his will.

  Farkel
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  My Turn!

  by Derrick in

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  i request the first ones to read this post, to save this post on your hard drive.

  i understand this forum is not moderated, and have carefully worded this post with the utmost consideration for simon.

  however, in case gremlins cause it to mysteriously vanish, you can share this post with others who might want to know a little about me.

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  Farkel

  : Tina, I have never seen this side of you before, that of a truly caring person.

  Maybe you were just not willing to look before, Rick. I'm not so bad either, you know, and neither are all my friends who were branded with a broad brush by yours truly. Sure, we all have our faults, but we really were and are trying to do some good for the JWs who want to learn all the FACTS they can about their religion and its history.

  I'll also re-extend the peace pipe to you we smoked together a month or two ago and just let it all blow off as differences we happen to have. Life's too short for permanent acrimony and I'm too old for carrying it around with me, too.

  I wish the best for you.

  Farkel
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  Convention news

  by Liberated in

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  my daughter's friend is excited about their upcoming convention.. she's been told there are many changes coming from jehovah (thru.

  the fds.).

  anybody know what these "changes" might be?

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  Farkel

  : My daughter's friend is excited about their upcoming convention.
  She's been told there are many changes coming from Jehovah (thru
  the FDS.)

  This is a good example of the double-think dubs routinely practice. On one hand they tell everyone and even themselves how wonderful everything about their religion is. They tell everyone that they have advanced so far up the spiritual totem-pole that they might as well be at the top, especially since God has been "feeding" the FDS for two thousand years. I'm how long does it take for your average FDS to get something right? Isn't two thousand years of practice quite enough? NO!

  They eagerly look forward to MANY CHANGES every single summer at the District Convenctions. They did thirty and forty years ago when I was a dub and they are doing it four whole decades later. This is typical dub double-think: everything is so peachy-wonderful in our faith, AND I just CAN'T WAIT for MANY CHANGES to be announced each and ever summer for the rest of my natural life.

  Doesn't this tell us that silently they must acknowledge that their religion teaches and practices piles of spiritual shit?

  It tells me that.

  Farkel
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  A Somewhat Surprising Letter

  by JanH in

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  commentary press.

  box 43532. atlanta, ga 30336-0532.

  770/949-4947; fax 770/949-5601; e,mail: [email protected].

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  Farkel

  Kent,

  : On top of that the I(diots)D(ummies and) G(oons)books threatened to sue me if I didn't remove a page called "1914 For Dummies".

  I wrote "1914 For Dummies" as you know. Let them sue me!

  Farkel
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  Joining

  by Daniel in

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  i want to join the jw family but i am having trouble finding a hall in houston.

  do anyone know how i can find one or help me by giving me one in houston.

  thanks

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  Farkel

  Daniel,

  If you're so dense that you cannot find a Kingdom Hall in the fourth largest city in America, you certainly deserve to be a full-fledge Jehovah's Witness and will become an elder in no time.

  Farkel