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  Was I threatened by a student?

  by laverite in

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  well, the new semester has just started.

  as some of you know, i'm a college professor.

  i was in my large lecture course yesterday (a couple hundred students).

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  How does this story end? Did the student return to class? Was the student ever identified? Was he expelled?
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  shaking hands

  by man in black in

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  when i was a witness ( esp.

  as a youth) it seemed that whenever i went to a meeting, or assembly.

  i would send an incredible amount of time shaking hands.

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  I hated it back in the days when I was a witness. We had one pervy elder who just wouldn't take no for an answer, forced his handshake on everyone who came into the KH or book study where he was the conductor. My kids hated it, I hated it. One day, for my kid's sake, I told him we weren't going to shake hands any more, that it wasn't our custom. After that he made a big display of offering his hand then snatching it back with an 'ooh, ooh, you don't want me to touch you' act.

  Who knows what's being passed during a handshake! Sometimes it could be "green", most times it's just germs and dead skin cells and whatever the person has done since last washing. Nooooo thanks!
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  If you got apostate vids on Youtube take em off now!!! Legal Dept to Sue!

  by smithmandy1 in

  1. watchtower
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  i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.

  legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!

  my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.

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  Aside from what WT may try through formal processes, how will they go after alllll the copies that may be posted to free sites, share sites, or on servers in locations that they can't touch with their legalites (Sealand, etc.)? These issues have a way of snowballing; for every one video taken down, many others are posted!
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  I wonder if there are more EX-JW's than active JW's ?

  by UnConfused in

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  At one time *many* years ago I tried working it out using the annual report(s) published in the Yearbook(s). At the time I was an active dub. What I found was that there were many more "out of the truth" than "in the truth". I couldn't believe it. I re-did those calculations so many times, tried different combinations, etc. Finally I gave up, telling myself that I just didn't know what I was doing, that my numbers had to be wrong! Such is the mindset of a true blue dub!

  Yeah, I would say there are many more xJW's than JW's. Far more.
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  I attended a friend's birthday party, and no one was beheaded!

  by keyser soze in

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  it turns out that this isn't a common occurrence at these things.

  don't get me wrong, i still had a good time.

  but i was so looking forward to seeing my first decapitation..

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  It happened, it just that it was invisible.
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  Success with the Holocaust Museum!

  by rebel8 in

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  background: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/134406/1.ashx.

  i just got a letter from the museum saying they have added all documents i donated to their archives, and they have m. james penton's book in the archive as well!.

  activism does work sometimes!

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/134406/1/Petition-Tell-Museums-to-Stop-Hiding-Watchtowers-Past (Link to the first part of the story)
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  Racism, Justice and What Goes Unnoticed

  by metatron in

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  i have a well educated friend (who happens to be african - american) and i love our discussions because i can talk to her openly and honestly, with less guardedness than others.

  on one hand, i feel i'm right - but on the other hand, i acknowledge that she may have a viewpoint that i haven't considered.. we argue about obama - she, that he may lose due to racism, i , that racism didn't prevent him from being elected.

  as to 'justice for trayvon' being a reason for black on white violence, let me ask the following:.

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  Ever hear the expression "black and white town"? I heard it when we ventured out of SoCal and into the Midwest, where I was raised. It was used after I commented that the place where we were visiting seemed to be all white (and my family is not). I was told "the whites come out during the day and the blacks come out at night". I thought it was a strange answer, then I found out it was an accurate statement.

  My grown, married kids now live in that town, that area. Racism is rampant. I left. They're still there, seemingly by choice. I don't get it; I raised 'em better'n that. My (future) husband and I left for California right after I graduated from high school.

  As for grandparents, my mother wouldn't acknowledge my kids for years. When I was pregnant with the first one she actually offered to have the[ir] father killed. How it escaped my notice all the years I was growing up that my mother was talking one thing and living another I don't know, but once I figured it out I was glad I had only picked up the "good". It was no better on my husband's side; my MIL didn't want "that white girl" riding in her car. She tried to get us to give up that baby for adoption, she threatened to have him taken away. To the day she died I was never accepted, and this was an "educated" woman!

  Metatron: You wrote "How did this happen? A rebellious teenage daughter dating a black guy, I'd wager.... " It couldn't have been love, eh??? And what makes you so sure it's the guy who is black?

  You also wrote that "As late as the '50's, lynching still existed - but today is different, remarkably so." Really? As late as the late '80's we had to leave a Southern state because the local JW's warned us that my oldest son was about to be lynched (for real). His "crime"? He went out in field service with a white sister while her husband was at work. In that same town my oldest daughter was denied service at the local lunch counter while in the company of her mother (me), another (white) sister, and that sister's little daughter, same age as my girl. The waitress wouldn't take her order, wouldn't serve her food, but served the rest of us. The sister recognized what was happening before I did and got us out of there. We came back to SoCal (where all that matters is the color of your money; "Green Power").

  Wish we'd stayed in CA, but no, my mother claimed she needed help so back we went into another part of the country where we lost property to the threat of arson, simply because we were willing to accept business from anyone who cared to do business with us. That was unacceptable in that large, Midwestern city; the blacks were supposed to stay East while the whites lived on the West side of town. How do you fight (and win) when attitudes like that are ingrained in communities for generations? We left 'em to it; we moved.

  I don't think it's any better today. I'm still in telephone contact with some of the people I knew from "back there" in the Midwest. Every now and then I go back to visit. One by one, though, I'm losing those "friends" as unguarded comments make it clear that they never "approved" of my family composition.

  Another phenomenon is the "choosing" that a lot of teens and young adults go through: my own daughter (same one mentioned earlier) differentiates between her two sisters and categorizes the younger one as "white". She pretty much rejects that sister on the basis of her color. Same two parents, same house, same upbringing, but that daughter has internalized the notion that color makes a difference. She's pretty much rejected me as well. I've talked to kids at a Midwestern university who told me the troubles they were having coming to terms with their parent's decision to become a couple, and how they, too, basically rejected one in favor of the other based on how they perceived themselves in terms of color or race. Again, prior to that discovery I was oblivious!

  Can't we all just get along???
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  Getting away with murder - Literally

  by usualusername in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3hyxuf5ae.

  do you agree with no prosecution for father?

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  uun: Let me get back to you about dinner, some of the rellies are sleeping. :)

  tec: That's just it, you can't get the corruption out of the legal system. Innocent people die in the legal system too. If it interests you, take a look at how highway patrol(s) are formed; they're basically system-sanctioned vigilante groups!
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  Getting away with murder - Literally

  by usualusername in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3hyxuf5ae.

  do you agree with no prosecution for father?

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  Let me check with my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren on that one.
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  Getting away with murder - Literally

  by usualusername in

  1. jw
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3hyxuf5ae.

  do you agree with no prosecution for father?

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  Vigilante: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

  What's wrong with being a vigilante? People have been socialized into believing (or at least passively accepting) the notion that someone/something else can do "better" than they can. Is it true or is it a ploy to drain power from those who rightfully have it?

  uun: Awwwww....best compliment ever! That's as it should be! :)