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WHY APOSTASY IS DOOMED TO FAILURE!!!

by You Know in

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friends

apostasy has been the devil's most effective means of fighting against the truth.

after all, time and time again the devil was able to lure the israelites away from the worship of jehovah and in to all sorts of idol worship and whatnot.

some anointed christians in the 1st century were also induced to become antichrists.

Free2Bme

You Know
Are you for real or just having us on?
Free

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taking a brief break from my 'deceptive jw elders' series, i thought about conventions and recalled the annual exhortation from the congregation service meetings and the kingdom ministry about not saving seats.. in the early 1970s, my wife was pregnant with our second child.

we were attending the disctrict convention at the oakland, california coliseum where the oakland raiders and oakland a's teams play.

the stadium hold about 70,000 give or take 5,000 with extra seats on the field.. during the summer in the bay area, sitting all day in the sun listening to speakers you can barely understand due to planes flying overhead, poor sound system, and crying babies, becomes a tortureous event.

Free2Bme

Hi Amazing
I've just had a good belly laugh at your story.
Oooh but all these posts complaining about the sun! Spare a thought for those of us sitting in Sheffield or Leeds Stadium shivering in mid-summer with brolleys up against the rain.
Occasionally we had a warm convention when I can remember staring in shock at families claiming the no seats area 'cause they could open up sunbeds and bask in the sun.I'm sure there was a coconut sun cream smell drifting over..
Best memories of conventions for me was the camping in Sheffield with some fantastic people and trying to sneak to the showers in the morning before any of the young brothers saw me without my warpaint on!

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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HEY! 2001 CONVENTION POINTS

by Amazing in

jw
friends

the following is a recent jw advertisement about their upcoming conventions.

it can be found on the jw-media.org site under recent news.

i will quote them in italics and then make my own observations.. jehovah's witnesses office of public information.

Free2Bme

Why didn't we ever try out one of those waves that they do at Footie matches?

Hey Bill
If I'd served you I'd have given you extras on your weinie [;p]

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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Hair-raising Tale!

by Free2Bme in

jw
friends

let's have some fun.did you find out some juicy gossip about a witness that you are just dying to blab?.

here's one from me.. i went to a hairdressing salon for the first time and the stylist was a camp male who never stopped chatting from the second he got his gesticulating paws on my scruffy mop.. my mum who is a devout jw was sitting reading a mag waiting for me.. next thing he's telling us about his gay male friend who is a bit down because he is having an affair with a jw.

to make things worse he is married with kids (the brother not the gay friend).. stifling my shock and trying not to look at my mum who is staring wildly and unseeingly at her mag i asked his name or address and although he didn't know the name he told us his street and district!.

Free2Bme

Esther
Reminded me of an elder I knew who never parted with money if he could help it.He was well known for his "cons" that he proudly boasted about.
One time he took his elderly mum to buy a new coat.The shop assistant was the old-fashioned kind hardly heard of now (helpful).In order to assist the elder and mum to decide on the right coat she nipped into the hat dept nearby and popped the rather expensive creation on the sisters head.Predictably she enthused how the hat went with the coat.So the elder smiled and said he'd take them and no doubt the shop asst was feeling pleased with herself.Until the subject of money came up.Our crafty elder refused to pay for the hat and when superiors were summoned to the scene he insisted the hat was free with the coat because the assistant had said they "went" together.And he got it.
He did the same thing over a car deal that amounted to a much larger sum and again he pounced on the way something was worded to gain advantage.Mmmm good elder qualifications anyway..

Farkell
I curtsy to a Master.
Sorry m'lud

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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HEY! 2001 CONVENTION POINTS

by Amazing in

jw
friends

the following is a recent jw advertisement about their upcoming conventions.

it can be found on the jw-media.org site under recent news.

i will quote them in italics and then make my own observations.. jehovah's witnesses office of public information.

Free2Bme

Bugeye
I burst out laughing at the thought of you dressed as a Roman soldier "cracking a whip at those woosy God thumpers".
BugEyesWife
I was gutted about them stopping the food.Where was their compassion for all those lonely singles who lived for the intervals when they might get to pass a hot dog to wedding-ring-less hunks while breathlessly asking if they'd like anything else through pouting lipsticky lips? Inevitably they'd ask for extra onions with a rueful grin (flirty young devils) then a bleached blonde with decidedly questionable neckline would appear at his side and you just knew she'd got it dammit(his address)
What am I on about "hunks"? I was that desperate by the time I left at 27 yrs old I would've pouted at Woody Allen!!
I once asked a married brother what I should do to attract a brother at the convention and he said I should carry my bible all the time and look spiritual.Yeah right - that's why all the tartiest sisters always finished up with a handbag full of addresses.Maybe their spirituality just shone right through the make-up?!
lol

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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FOCUS: please help with a quotation

by Osarsif in

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friends

focus, the quote below was taken from the list:.

http://www.freeminds.org/history/part4.htm.

could you please check the red text?

Free2Bme

Osasif
Yes you are right.Presuming the cd-rom version is true to the original Watchtower anyway.
So if the FAithful Slave is associated with the GB are they saying it is not the GB so back to the famous"who is?"
We all know that gb consider themselves the FS slave however they choose to carefully word it past present or future.

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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Hair-raising Tale!

by Free2Bme in

jw
friends

let's have some fun.did you find out some juicy gossip about a witness that you are just dying to blab?.

here's one from me.. i went to a hairdressing salon for the first time and the stylist was a camp male who never stopped chatting from the second he got his gesticulating paws on my scruffy mop.. my mum who is a devout jw was sitting reading a mag waiting for me.. next thing he's telling us about his gay male friend who is a bit down because he is having an affair with a jw.

to make things worse he is married with kids (the brother not the gay friend).. stifling my shock and trying not to look at my mum who is staring wildly and unseeingly at her mag i asked his name or address and although he didn't know the name he told us his street and district!.

Free2Bme

Thanks everyone for replying. Sorry for being a baby!
Blue Sapphire- the stories make me laugh but they make me sick when they think they are better than me.At least I have turned an honest face up toward God.
Mommy-I know what you mean about going to the accused and asking them but being DF'd and not good enough to cast a shadow on their righteous souls with my presence it makes it awkward! As for the gambling sister I told my mum and she had a quiet word with her.
As for your sister-phew! The most disgusting part of the whole story imo was ignoring your innocent kids.What a fine witness!
Thirdson-your story reminded me of a brother my mum asked to fit her kitchen thinking ,of course, she could trust him to do a good job for a fair price.He clumsily knocked a big chunk out of her lovely new worktop, charged her more than the going rate and left her high and dry with the work unfinished. As he was a brother my mum didn't dare make a fuss!
BugEyesWife-yeah we had a couple of preggers cases in our cong (sudden weddings at registry office and embarrasing public talks where us young uns sat smirking knowingly)
Jang-wife-swapping?? How does a thing like that get started? Cut to scene of typical JW adult get-together (why couldn't we just call em parties?) the Carpenters in the background and everyones had a turn at Charades. Bro .Brainy suggests a wholesome bible quiz and is ready to hand round the biros when bro.Tenttrousers pipes up "hey guys throw your car keys in that empty plant pot on the coffee table and you sisters get to draw out a set of keys each and match the keys to a brother for a bonk behind the sofa." EVeryone looks at eachother and someone murmurs "well it's more exciting than Monopoly s'pose.."
Mmmm I thought some of my parties were naughty!
Jezebel Influence-I always ask my mum about what's going on with peeps I used to know and she makes me laugh 'cause it's like getting blood out of a stone then she always says "don't tell anyone whatever you do!!!" like anyone I associate with now could care less?
Scorpion-look forward to squeezing some juicees outta you later.
Jelly-When I was in the 'truth' all I ever seemed to hear about was courting couples 'doing it'.My brother was even at it in my bed with his pioneer girlfriend (not while I was still in it I hasten to add)Yugh!! As for me I was just bloody jealous!
Thinker's Wife - I was thinking of getting my hubby involved in the forum as Free2Bmahubby but he doesn't get it at all and wonders why I bother being interested in JW's etc but what can I expect from a moslem blissfully ignorant of christian issues.His take on his duties to Allah seems to be now and again contributing to the poor on behalf of dead relatives and big discussions on the purpose of man blah blah don't happen too often in our marriage.Dunno if I think that's a good thing or bad .(Must be great to thrash out forum issues with your other half)

Bye for now

Free

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards...

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Hair-raising Tale!

by Free2Bme in

jw
friends

let's have some fun.did you find out some juicy gossip about a witness that you are just dying to blab?.

here's one from me.. i went to a hairdressing salon for the first time and the stylist was a camp male who never stopped chatting from the second he got his gesticulating paws on my scruffy mop.. my mum who is a devout jw was sitting reading a mag waiting for me.. next thing he's telling us about his gay male friend who is a bit down because he is having an affair with a jw.

to make things worse he is married with kids (the brother not the gay friend).. stifling my shock and trying not to look at my mum who is staring wildly and unseeingly at her mag i asked his name or address and although he didn't know the name he told us his street and district!.

Free2Bme

mmm so either no-one wants to play
or
no-one knows a witness who's two-faced
or
perhaps it's just a case of ignore the newbie till she gets the hang of how it works cause hasn't she figured out yet that you have to be posting hilarious artwork/ exposing major doctrinal error/ slagging off FH or picking fights with other posters to fumble your way into the accepted gang?
Hey God forbid you should accuse me of attention seeking or whatever but when you first discover this place it's like eating chocolate-
delicious and addictive.
Just wanted my fix and childish as it is I love a bit of gossip esp when it reaffirms the hypocrasy of many of to coin a phrase God's people.
It's a bit like when you first try out the chat rooms on the net. You appear in the room and usually most people make an effort to say hi. Then they proceed to resume their friendly banter with eachother and hardly utter a word to you again. You find this goes on for a few days until your nickname becomes familiar and you finally break into conversations without feeling you should have said pardon-me-for-living first...
But of course that sort of excluding and ignoring and dare I say the word shunning would never happen in this wonderfully welcoming forum that seems to have become a place of recovery for ex-JW's who have experienced too much of that in their old lives..would it?

Free2BkindahurtNdissillusionedNprobablyoversensitive.

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HEY! 2001 CONVENTION POINTS

by Amazing in

jw
friends

the following is a recent jw advertisement about their upcoming conventions.

it can be found on the jw-media.org site under recent news.

i will quote them in italics and then make my own observations.. jehovah's witnesses office of public information.

Free2Bme

The main thing I remember about the conventions was the amount of sleeping going on!!!
Bearing in mind the bum-numbing seating and cold and drizzle (UK of course) I don't know how we got comfy enough for snoozing but it was pretty much the done thing especially going through the Watchtower.
I had to laugh at the mention of drink. I can remember my pal's mum whipping out a small bottle of pop at regular intervals during the meetings and assemblies. I just thought she was excessively thirsty till eventually my friend admitted her mum's Sprite was neat vodka!!
And why do the uk assemblies always coincide with Wimbledon (or do they still) cause that's another irritation I remember.Mmmm I suppose it would have been inappropriate to ask them to slip in the odd comment on the men's finals?
But what were the most important concerns when eagerly looking forward to the conventions?
Er...How much can I afford to spend on new clothes/hairdos/bags/accessories because you cannot be seen in the same outfit twice?
Er...How often dare I get out of my seat during the program to try and catch the eye of that dishy brother a few rows behind?
Er...I wonder if someone's sorting out a night out after the program and I hope Brother Right turns up...
Not very spiritual really was I but I was single and desperate in those days and had a one-track mind!!

Seriously though I will be interested to hear about any new thoughts and how they are going to keep JW's stirred up about Armageddon without the Generation argument and in view of the subtle steering away from the 7000 year stuff .In fact their new policy of skating around all the important issues leaves me wondering what exactly they dare talk about anymore!!

Free

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More Than An Ex-

by Francois in

jw
friends

we all spend lots of time here giving the lie to the cult known as jehovah's witnesses and their cover organization, the watchtower bible & tract society.

here, the real truth about this dangerous and divisive organization of men is revealed for all who are interested.

long before i showed up here, the jedi and other advanced members here have given unstinting support for people coming out of "the organization.

Free2Bme

Hi Francoise
Thanks for your post.
It's made me realise that I have become totally obsessive about JW's and I am giving more time and attention to the org now than I ever did when I was in it!
So in a way they have still got me.
I don't like that.
So I am off to get a life and look after my gorgeous hubby and take a course and get on with painting a watercolour just for the hell of it and find the real person who has no resemblance to a JW or an exJW but is just ME.
Ooh this is going to be pretty nerve-racking...

Thanks for jabbing that pin in my ass.

Free2Bme...soon i hope.