Posts by dudeski

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Myspace- newly dissacociated and need support! please read

by burningbridges in

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friends

hey there guys!

my name is brooke, age 26. i am recently dissacociated.

i have just set up a new myspace account and would like any who are on myspace to please put my on their friend list so we can encourage and support each other., i need it!

dudeski

hi brooke!

i also added you (i'm soul-obsequial inhesion), and was similarly surprised to see your account deleted almost immediately. all of us understand exactly what you are going through, and can appreciate the internal conflict possessing you now. i am also sure that everyone has shared their similar experiences with you by offering some words of encouragement or just sympathetic ears. unfortunately for individuals such as myself, i never had the internet when i left the cult - and faced the same existentialist questions and dilemmas that you face now, only i had to do it entirely on my own, without help, without empathy from like-minded individuals, and completely alone

i do not wish to encourage you to leave the jw's based solely on my own subjective judgments, or opinions on the religion. as much as i utterly despise the fundamentalist judeo-christian world view (in particular, the jw's) i do not feel this will help you in the ways you probably require at this point in your life. however, i wish to convey a point of view that helped me when i faced with the same situation bearing down on you now:

i believe in truth. truth as it pertains to myself and my life only. in order to achieve this state of truth one needs to have both sides of the story, both sides of the argument. when one side acts to suppress the opposing arguments, as the witnesses are NOTORIOUS for doing, truth is destroyed - and all that remains is propaganda. personal truth degenerates to just a pipedream when faced under the enduringly mind-numbing effects of propaganda, and anyone, or any organization, who tries to maintain their beliefs in such a way is a blundering fool at best

the jw's are NOT honest about their history, and this alone negates any semblance of truth implied in their beliefs. given how the cult prefers to call itself the 'truth', they sure do have a one-sided view of what they like to call truth - and the propaganda used to convey such 'truth' is a blasphemy unto itself. salvation is found only in a careful examination of both sides, not in just the dogmatic narrow view of the governing body, the liars that they truly are.

~find your truth~

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GUESS WHO I SAW YESTERDAY!

by badboy in

jw
friends

as i walked into town,so i saw a lady with a baby in a pram with an elderly lady knocking on a door,i thought jws,ater i passe ,i believethe elderly lady pulled out a piece of paper to write on it(didn't actually see her do this,but her actions suggest that what she did)

dudeski

awesome.

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Weirdest People you've met while Witnessing!!! {Nut cases}

by Witness 007 in

i once called on a guy who invited us straight in...then told us he was "lazarus son of god.

" he had a cazy look in his eye, and would repeat this line every few minutes.

the brother with me was trying to "reason from the scriptures" that he in fact could not be lazarus...i just wanted to leave.

dudeski

the worst experience i ever had took place when i was 10 years old in rural arizona with my mother. the houses were spread about 5 blocks apart from each other and shared a common dirt road for entry. one residence had several "no trespassing" signs posted along the fence and at the entry to the driveway - however, you and i know that will never stop a witness. my mother justified our approach to the house by saying "as long as we are on the beaten path we are not trespassing," and so we made our way across the 100 meters that comprised the dirt driveway.

about halfway to the house i noticed piles of dried-up dogshit everywhere on the premises. i mean, EVERYWHERE. but given where we were exactly, i didn't give it much thought. as we approached the front door my mother suggested that i take this one, so i pulled the watchtower and awake magazines out of my book bag in preparation and knocked on the door. all seemed well and trivial, however, things were about to take a very abrupt change.

this monster of a man swung open the door violently and just stared at us. he looked like your typical hell's angel, which was very scary and intimidating to my 10 year old jw eyes. there were grease stains scattered across the tattered wifebeater tanktop he was sporting which highlighted the massive beerbelly underneath, and a crusty zz-top beard clung to his jowls. i only got about 6 seconds of my greeting out before he slammed the door shut as quickly as he opened it. i glanced at my mother, and we just shrugged our shoulders. before we could turn around to leave the door flew back open - only this time our bikergang antagonist was wielding a double-barrel shotgun and he pointed it right at us.

"get the FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY" was his reply, and we both turned to leave. my mother grabbed my hand and was repeating "jehovah jehovah jehovah jehovah jehovah jehovah" over and over again as we walked quickly back down the driveway. when we were about 50 meters away from the road he yelled "NOT FAST ENOUGH!" i turned to look and witnessed 2 huge rottweilers bolting out the front door and tearing across the front yard coming right for us. my mother grabbed me by the collar and we ran like mofos to get off the property.

we got out onto the common road well ahead of the dogs, but there was no gate at the end of the driveway, so we ran for the car (which was about 2 houses back in the other direction) hoping not to get mauled by these beasts of satan chasing us. the two dogs reached the end of the driveway and just stopped. to my amazement they did not follow us onto the road, and i heard bikerguy release a deep hearty laugh. yep, he sure showed us. it was everything i could do to keep from falling apart, but i did anyway - which prompted my indoctrinated mother to pray to jehovah in the face of satan's torment. during her prayer i heard her ask jehovah for the strength to go on to the next house, and in my mind i was like "the next fucking house?!?!?" not to be deterred from being strong, loyal servants of jehovah, that's exactly what happened.

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Live radio discussion of dead JW 14 year-old

by Nathan Natas in

in about 15 minutes, newsradio 710 (am) in seattle will have a discussion of the death of 14-year-old jw dennis lindberg.. if you are local to seattle, tune in!.

you can stream the show here:.

http://www.kiro710.com/showdj.asp?djid=31726.

dudeski

here is a copy of "Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Transfusions, and the Tort of Misrepresentation" mentioned in the beginning of the thread: http://rapidshare.com/files/73619978/jwbloodtortmisrepresentation.pdf.html in summary, the essay claims that the "How Can Blood Save Your Life?" pamphlet enables availability of private action suits for persons harmed when a religious organization misrepresents secular facts, and means to further legal theory regarding the use of tort law as a narrowly tailored means for affording harmed persons legal redress.