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  The Insight and Wisdom of Warren Jeffs

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  i don't know how many of you are following the trial of warren jeffs, leader of a mormon splinter sect, who is being prosecuted for arranging and advocating the marriage of young girls (14 years old and thereabouts) to much older men, with the parents' cooperation, of course.. one of these victims testified that she was made to listen to recorded sermons by this guy pretty much throughout the day.. cnn helpfully provided a snippet of one of his recordings:.

  http://www.cnn.com/2007/us/law/09/11/fleeing.polygamy.hammon/index.html#cnnstcother1.

  i am providing a transcript of the last bit, it's a howler, but it also sounds a little familiar.

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  That creeped me out.
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  Have You Ever Met A "Celebrity" or Actually See One Face To Face?

  by minimus in

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  while i was in new york i walked by two men and one looked like the comedian jackie mason whom i adore.

  i looked at him and said, "i just wanted to say how much i enjoy your shows.

  i've seen you perform a number of times".

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  George Clooney

  William H.Macey

  Jamie Fox

  Lee Majors

  Jean Smart

  Park Overall

  Jason Connery

  Meshack Taylor

  Josie Davis

  Maria Conchita Alonzo

  I met a few people over the years because my mom works as an accountant on movies. A few years ago I spent 3 months in Salt lake City and 3 months in L.A. working as her assistant. Years ago she wanted me to come to L.A and get into set design, which I loved the idea of, BUT I had disassociated myself, still believed and was going back to the JW"s. I missed out on a really great opportunity to do something that I would have loved. Haven't we all?
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  Advice Needed

  by faundy in

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  i stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.

  i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.

  now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.

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  My niece had a jc because she was drinking with a "worldly" boy when she was 17. Later one of the elders called and she admitted to "playing his flute". He called her back later to ask if she spit or swallowed.

  When she told me about it I was livid. I listened on speaker phone when she called him to ask if he had told the other brothers on the commitee.

  He actually laughed out loud and said, "No I just told them you were having boy trouble, I didn't figure they needed to know all the gory details."

  He even told her he used to date a sister that moved away and became a porn star.
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  Hello

  by Lloyd Braun in

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  hello all ex-jw's long time lurker first time posting.

  obviously my name is not my real name but i don't want to reveal my real name for fear of shunning obviously.

  i have really appreciated much of what this site offers in vast amounts of information that is valuable to me.

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  You are going to fit in around here just fine.

  Not a reference to #3 above.
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  How to Ruin a Childhood

  by WTWizard in

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  2. experiences

  here is one effect of our going out in field circus, that they will not tell you about.

  no, not the getting persecuted.

  no, not that last-call syndrome where the last call takes forever.

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  bluesmurf92 - what's up with this statement?

  Told repeatedly that school is an evil place which turns kids away from their parents. Cowering as my JW dad towered over me, screaming that I was doomed to go to hell, at the tender age of 6. I can even thank my dad, his beliefs, & his temper for my poor eyesight.

  hell you say?
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  What Were the "Geneologies" Of Which Paul Was Warning In 1 Tim. 1:17?

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. watchtower
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  interesting...from the jaimeson, fausset and brown bible commentary:.

  genealogies--not merely such civil genealogies as were common among the jews, whereby they traced their descent from the patriarchs, to which paul would not object, and which he would not as here class with "fables," but gnostic genealogies of spirits and aeons, as they called them, "lists of gnostic emanations" [alford].

  so tertullian [against valentinian, c. 3], and irenaeus [preface].

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  I read something a while back, somewhere on the evil internet, about how only a few scriptures were used in the publications,repeatedly of course.

  It was really interesting and was broken down into percentages, for example 1% used 98% of the time and 99% used 2% of the time. I don't remember the real numbers and I can't find it.

  Anyone remember that info ?
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  Hello

  by Lloyd Braun in

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  hello all ex-jw's long time lurker first time posting.

  obviously my name is not my real name but i don't want to reveal my real name for fear of shunning obviously.

  i have really appreciated much of what this site offers in vast amounts of information that is valuable to me.

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  Serenity now, insanity later.

  WELCOME - good to have you. Now have a seat, Melrose Place is about to start.
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  Worst use of "Jehovah" instead of Lord in NWT Christian GRK scriptures?

  by oompa in

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  nwt (acts 7:55-60) 55 but he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of gods glory and of jesus standing at gods right hand, 56 and he said: "look!

  i behold the heavens opened up and the son of man standing at gods right hand.

  "57 at this they cried out at the top of the voice and put their hands over their ears and rushed upon him with one accord.

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  mark for later
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  Visit from my mom, oh the joy.

  by RollerDave in

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  i realize it's been a while since i spun a good yarn, but the past few days i have had my mom staying with us, and that is enough to fuel a yarn if anything ever was.. it starts last week when my sister, mrs po was over at mom's trying to discover why mom's pc seems to randomly shut itself off for no apparent reason.

  i imagine she scoured the house for garage sale items with attached legions of demons or mischievous smurf dolls before noticing a correlation between the ancient prehistoric freezer mom has switching on or off, and the lights dimming and the pc simply going poof.. but it couldn't be this pleistocene menace freezer that is the problems, it has to be the top-end pc i built mom.. please excuse me while i roll my eyes and peer at the back of my skull for a moment or two..... there.. anyhoo, it gets decided that i'll come out and pick mom up along with her pc and bring the both of them back to my house for a few days.. not decided by me mind you, but decided nonetheless.. i mean, i've got a giant truck that chugs gas as if from a fire hose and an electric scooter to ride up to mom's door, why shouldn't i go collect her, haul all her stuff to the truck, load it, help her climb up into the truck and then load my scooter?.

  all from the back of my scooter, mind you.

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  Ahh, Dave - yet another tale of family fun. Thank you for cheering me up.

  Edit; I hope that didn't sound sarcastic, seriously, bad day and it made me laugh.

  Once we have lost our sense of humor, what's left?

  I love your stories.
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  Blog From A Christian Who Attended The Meeting Discussing the Sept.07 KM

  by Justitia Themis in

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  2. beliefs

  very good reading.. http://apologeticfront.blogspot.com/2007/09/tightening-leash-watchtowers-attempt-to.html.

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  justitia.

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  Excellent article, thanks.