Posts by AWAKE&WATCHING

</form>parents prosecuted for forcing girl to join religious groupctk | 30 april 2009zlin, south moravia, april 29 (ctk) - a czech couple is prosecuted for oppressing their 18-year-old daughter for her refusal to join the religious society of which they are members, the zlin police told ctk wednesday.. the parents reportedly urged the girl, a secondary school student, to join the jehova's witnesses grouping.

AWAKE&WATCHING

Found a link to this on Facebook Thanks Kyria!

Free 14-day trial: MonitorPlus | Login / Register

</form>

Parents prosecuted for forcing girl to join religious group

CTK | 30 APRIL 2009

Zlin, South Moravia, April 29 (CTK) - A Czech couple is prosecuted for oppressing their 18-year-old daughter for her refusal to join the religious society of which they are members, the Zlin police told CTK Wednesday.

The parents reportedly urged the girl, a secondary school student, to join the Jehova's Witnesses grouping. After she refused to do so, they expelled her from home.

If found guilty they face up to six months in prison.

The parents left the girl without financial means. They told her she may return home only on condition she joins Jehova's Witnesses.

"The daughter has already come of age, but she does not yet work to earn her living, therefore the parents are still obliged to support her," police spokeswoman Jana Bartikova said.

She said the crime of oppression, when a perpetrator abuses the someone else's dependence or emergency situation to force him/her to do something, occurs only rarely in the Zlin region.

Jehova's Witnesses present themselves as genuine Christians.

The Christian churches generally consider Jehova's Witnesses a sect, oppose their interpretation of the Bible and criticise their totalitarian organisation and ways to spread their views.

rtj/dr/pv

Headline: CzechRep extends ways to punish unlawful steps by distrainers
Date released: 29.4. 2009
Time released: 10:37
Key words: Czech; Chamber; law; distraint; PHOTO
ID: T200904290245201
Service: cce
Priority: 3

44

Puke alert! There is another JWN - I left a comment

by AK - Jeff in

likely that they will not allow it to be published to the site.

[pending approval it says.].

here was the comment i left there.. are you aware that another site uses the same initials?

AWAKE&WATCHING

OMG!!!! First I puked and now I'm laughing my ass off!

They have a store!!! Get your ugly tie now!

And how about Brother Prince!!!

Prince’s ‘LotusFlow3r’

March 27, 2009 — JWN
Jehovah’s Witness News
Album review:

Prince turns a brilliant sonic triple play: 3 albums in 1 day
By now, most music fans are well aware that Prince will self-release three albums that will sell in one $11.98 bundle at Target and on the artist’s website starting Sunday. Which one you fancy the most depends on what flavor of Prince “u” prefer — the nasty antiquity of “MPLSound,” the guitar-hero antics of “LotusFlow3r” or the VIP-lounge purrs of his protégée Bria Valente on “Elixer.”
“MPLSound” is a valentine to Revolution-era traditionalists. The nine-song collection pays homage to Prince’s beloved Minneapolis and trades in nostalgia, lifting the syncopated drum machine beats from “When Doves Cry” and name-checking Rick James. But it’s not all naughty retro: “MPLSound” also incorporates Prince’s faith as a Jehovah’s Witness, like when he shouts “thank you, almighty” and “hallelujah” to a lover in “Dance 4 Me.”
All three albums have a touch of the spirit, an abiding cleanliness that elevates sex to heavenly communion, but “MPLSound” might be the most pristine for what it ultimately lacks: the sense of real, lusty sin.
Ballads “Better With Time” and “U’re Gonna C Me” leak syrup all over the soundboard, but “Chocolate Box,” a strutting bit of funk braggadocio set in the club with a guest spot from Q-Tip, is electrifying. In “Valentina,” Prince addresses Salma Hayek’s daughter: “Tell your mama she should give me a call.” Hayek might be one of the world’s most voluptuous movie stars, but new mothers and their “nightly feedings” are not the typical pop subjects.
Possibly the album’s most notable track — for reasons fine and regrettable — is the spirited romp “Ol’ Skool Company.” Here Prince, his voice doctored to sound like he’s taking hits of helium, lets his curmudgeon rip for more than seven minutes, longing for an “old-school melody when God, his son and the love of family ruled in the community.”
Valente, Prince’s latest in a storied line of beautiful muses, has a lovely voice that matches his current tastes for the clean line. Her soundscapes, produced and arranged with Prince, are lighter than her mentor’s, traipsing from velvet-chaise funk to street tales of girly crushes to dance-floor siren calls.
The problem is that not enough of “Elixer” sounds strong or fresh. Her single “Another Boy” is sweetly reminiscent of ’80s freestyle icons Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, but it doesn’t have that group’s rhythmically inventive backbone. In “2Nite,” Valente whispers “disco,” a genre that needs at least one modifier to not sound mummified in polyester — and then reports that there are “no drugs or guns up in this place,” just “old-school jazz put a smile on your face.”
It’s one of the many times when Valente feels uncomfortably like the mouthpiece for Prince and his oldster agenda.
The biggest challenge of Prince’s triptych is “LotusFlow3r,” a guitar-steeped odyssey that bounces from Steely Dan jazz chords to James Brown-esque mandates for funk to the tattered-flag psychedelia of Jimi Hendrix. Though Prince has covered Radiohead’s “Creep” on several occasions, he’s not interested in mimicking Jonny Greenwood’s articulated melancholy. Instead, Prince’s guitar is a warm explosion, sometimes self-indulgent but always rendered with starry-eyed fascination for the instrument, endearing from a masterful musician who plays so many.
In an effort to align himself as a true rocker, Prince includes a reverb-soaked cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crimson and Clover,” but it doesn’t improve on Joan Jett’s definitive rendition. His own compositions are much more twisty and tasty. “Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful” is a jaunty slice of party funk with Prince’s most charismatic vocals this side of “Kiss” — screechy, swaggering and caterwauling. “Love Like Jazz” swings the other way, a bewitching gem that wouldn’t sound out of place as the intro to a ’60s sitcom.
Prince geeks out on the whammy bar, drawing long, noodly jams on “Boom” and the songs that bookend the album. But it’s more rewarding when he introduces control and structure, delivered by a crew of stars including Maceo Parker and keyboardist Morris Hayes. “MPLSound” might be comfortingly familiar, but “LotusFlow3r” is the work of a musician who’s still curious after all these years.
Margaret Wappler —Los Angeles Times

I guess you can do whatever you want if you are writing a big check!

78

6/15 WT- GB More Powerful than Worldwide Anointed- Don't Judge Partaking

by flipper in

jw
friends

more of the latest from the june 15th " witness only " watchtower.

under the article " the faithful steward and it's governing body " there were some very telling quotes which could indicate how the wt society is tightening the control of it's members - and trying to justify more partaking of the emblems at the memorial since the numbers partaking have gone up from about 8,000 to 10,000 since they no longer feel that the sealing of the anointed ended in 1935.. so first off, notice this quote indicating the importance of elevating the governing body over the rest of the anointed around the earth.

paragraph 16 it states , " are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths ?

AWAKE&WATCHING

All I can say is, "Hey CrazyB, don't bogart that bottle my friend, pass it over to me!"

I think we should all attend the memorial next year and partake. If anyone says anything we just say "Don't you judge me!"

16

THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END

by stillajwexelder in

jw
friends

televisa television network quoted mexico city officials saying there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.. the quake rattled nerves in a city already nervous about a swine flu outbreak suspected of killing as many as 149 people nationwide.. "i'm scared," said sarai luna pajas, a 22-year-old social services worker standing outside her office building moments after it hit.

"we mexicans are not used to living with so much fear, but all that is happening the economic crisis, the illnesses and now this it feels like the apocalypse.".

co-worker harold gutierrez, 21, said the country was taking comfort from its religious faith, but he too was gripped by the sensation that the world might be coming to an end.. "if it is, it is god's plan," gutierrez.

AWAKE&WATCHING

Tacos give Jehovah indigestion and Jesus got Montezuma's revenge when he was visiting.

86

Help on becoming a Jehovahs Witness

by tpadgett in

jw
friends

i am seventeen years of age and have been born into christianity by my parents.

for some reason i havent really been all that into going to my christian church.

some of the things we discuss are very confusing.

AWAKE&WATCHING

e and e....is that you?

44

What I do know is that there is peace to be found and there love to be had, after the organisation

by LIftsong in

my mother became a jw when i was six months old so i was brought up within the confines of the organisation.

i left properly in my early twenties and i am now 43 so a good 22 years of life, post being a witness have i travelled and documented thus far.

mine was a typical experience of a child in the congregation and i was busy doing my best to be a little adult as the child within slowly fell asleep.