Posts by Gozz

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Is the Watchtower Society strong enough to win this war with the internet?

by jack w in

jw
friends

could it be that the wts actually thinks it can win this war?

i mean, they are forcing sites to close down, suing the people that run them etc.

i wonder if this is the way they want to "handle" the internet problem.

Gozz

The WTS will win some battles, but evening winning a few court battles is effectively losing, as they're fast learning from their recent brush with Quotes.

A JW caught the Quotes news from nowhere, sent a mail to a group, and I replied with the details; the others in the group have never heard of the Quotes Site, and have been arguing that it's impossible for the WTS to shut down a site that offers no criticism of JW doctrine; it'll be interesting to see how it ends, this ongoing discussion. Even the WTS can surprise the most zealous, seemingly brain dead JW . They can run, but they can't hide.

P.S.: does anyone know if Quotes (Peter Anthony Mossier) was ever a JW ? Was he disfellowshipped or did he dissociate himself? I need this information as one of the JWs has asked to know. I wish to supply the correct information; obviously, he won't be checking the "work" of an apostate... the only snag is that there's nothing original by Quotes himself, they're all the WTS words; we'll soon get round to that argument...

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A Morbid Question: Who Could Die That Would Crush You???

by minimus in

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friends

for me, it would be my daughter.

my only child.

a married woman---but always still my little girl.

Gozz

John Doe, fairchild:

ride with me....

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My website: www.reexamine.org

by reexaminer in

jw
friends

greetings.. i have started a project that i hope will stay online for times indefinate, even to times indefinate.

you can find it at www.reexamine.org .. i started working on it in october and it is still a work in progress, however because of the shut down of the website located at http://quotes.watchtower.ca i felt that i should release the site in "as-is" condition, instead of waiting until it was completely finished.. currently, there isn't a lot of content in the 'wiki' section of the website.

hopefully in the next few days and weeks that will change, however there are still programming issues that i have to work out before that can happen.

Gozz

AK - Jeff,

it's really very easy.

A zip file will usually has many files inside of it, they're sort of compressed; zipped, you know ;)

You have to unzip it; this can be done using a simple program; programs to unzip are freely available on the iNet. You could download one here: http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/zipper/, there're instructions on the page on how to unzip a zip file.

Once the files are unzipped, you see them as they are: clear files ready for use to undo the WT.

:)

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Wow, new website! Pay Attention book, WT 2004 CD, Quotes all online

by kwintestal in

auld soul posted about a mirror site at www.reexamine.org/quotes/index.htm and so i checked it out.

i went onto the homepage www.reexamine.org and surfed around a bit and clicked onto the "community portal" and found a download section: .

http://www.reexamine.org/index.php/reexamine:community_portal:publication_downloads:secret_publications .

Gozz

Surely, more than a few Bethel Morons took part in writing that tortured Child Custody document. It's a clear shot to the foot.

Slightly retarded monkeys may have done a tad better were they to be able to write.

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Apostates protesting conventions = Something I laughed at

by free2beme in

jw
friends

sorry if there are those apostates here that do this, but you were often the butt of a joke and nothing taken serious.

i personally loved the ones who wore paper bags over their head, as they were often people still afraid of getting in trouble.

it is not like a political rally with people saying "make love, not war.

Gozz

Pratt: excellent point!

When I was a "study" and went to the Assembly with a bunch of brothers and sisters, I recall asking why they appeared to despise the picketers so much (it was all so clear in the attitude of the JWs; their reaction was, to me, insxplicable). Unfortunately, I missed most of the garbled explanations they gave. I should add that the picketers were very civil and orderly; they kept their cool, and you could almost feel their pain by touch; they wore signs; one of them written in the colour of blood read: "Blood Doctine is Murder in Disguise", or sth like that. It was touching.

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Lern,to/spel;and "punctuate"!!!!!

by bigmouth in

maybe i'm tired but........at the risk of seeming overly critical,there have been a number of posts on this forum where the spelling and punctuation have been abysmal.i have no problem with the occasional error but the subjects here tend to be somewhat more complicated and it makes it too much of an effort if i have to keep re-reading things to figure out what the missing word was or where the sentence ends.one academic said it was no big deal as even his professors were poor spellers!well i've got news for you guys, if you don't sharpen up your grammer i'm not even going to try to give you the courtesy of figuring out what you're talking about.

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now,i'm going to have shower and go to bed and i want this thing sorted out by tomorrow.love pete.

Gozz

What 'bout those of us for whom English isn't a first language?

Speck and Rafter in the eye and all that...

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Has the "custody" brochure already been discussed, re: the "Big News"?

by AlmostAtheist in

for the first time today, i saw the brochure the society publishes to prepare jw parents in dealing with custody issues.

they have sample questions that a lawyer might ask and sample answers you might give that take the bite out of the question.. one such question is, "do you teach that it is better to die than to take a blood transfusion?".

the suggested answer is interesting, since the big news recently highlighted how the watchtower has dishonestly suggested that blood transfusions carry more risks than benefits.

Gozz

The Child Custody document is here: http://black.mydnspages.com/~vbpics/ChildCustody.pdf

Indeed, the WTS completely ignores the religious argument in the recommended response to the question on blood transfusion. This perhaps because the religious argument is bound to fail in court? The WTS has itself dug a shallow grave for themselves. What's needed is the will of the genuinely aggrieved to get them into it.

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