Posts by gypsywildone

Give ONE shred of evidence that "these kids" are doing a "fine job of showing the way out of the Watchtower." I would love to see it, but I'll bet you cannot show they are doing ANY JOB let alone a "fine" job of showing people out of the Watchtower. They want out because they know it all is a pile of shit! My challenge has a few simple rules: using drugs, booze, sex, porn or anything like that to get people "out" doesn't count. Using doctrine, policies and just simple common sense DOES count. "It's all a big pile of shit" counts, too. I so agree with you. The site has steadily changed. I wonder if the people that write penis & nipple threads really stop to think that there may be thousands of REAL PEOPLE reading that stuff. I wonder if people ever take the time to stop and think about what they spend their precious time on Earth doing! What do all the political rants & insults accomplish? Does anyone really believe they will change anyone else's mind? Freedom is wonderful, but does freedom mean a contest to become the next Howard Stern wannabe? Friendship is great, but hours and hours spent on the internet writing sheer garbage (some, not all) to who really knows who, as Shamus brought up, keeps people out of real life. Tying up time with this stuff isn't growing or living. And it sure won't help anyone out of the borg! It won't console a suicidal teenager, it won't offer support to anyone with a problem. It won't offer brainstorming to solve anything in life. Before a person realizes it, they have sat here for hours engaging in juvenile, vulgar crap. What have they neglected in real life in order to participate in some of these threads??? The old H20 site was really eye opening, educational, supportive, & the atmosphere was highly charged with intellectual minds such as yours Farkel. Not to mention your sense of humor. I got my ass hopped once before on this board for bringing this up, & was basically told to leave. So, for the most part, I did. I come looking around here every once in a while & you Farkel, are a poster I always like to read. No drivel, no bs, no over the hill, middle aged teenage stuff. So don't leave, just keep on the high road because you do help. Your "rules" make sense! I will still wonder why people are using up their precious life writing some of this juvenile crap. Then trying to think of the most tittilating subject line they can think of in order to engage everyone else in the time wasting drudge. I am sure I will be attacked for speaking my mind again, but people like you make it worthwhile! The one thing I learned in my short, but memorable forced detention in the watchtower concentration camp from ages 13-15 a long, long time ago was that life is precious, freedom is precious, make every moment count! Use time wisely & try to give something back. You rock Farkel!

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New Contract

by Yerusalyim in

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i just re-enlisted in the army today.

i now have an indefinite contract...i'm officially a career military hack.. salute.

i am an american soldier.

gypsywildone

Thank you Yuru!

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Favorite childhood TV shows

by Nosferatu in

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now, i'm not referring to sesame street, mr. rogers, or any of the educational kids' shows.

i'm talking about the ones for pure entertainment, cartoons and such.

however, i can't really classify this as purely cartoons since some of you might have watched things like hr pufnstuf.. i grew up in the 1980s, when the magic of saturday morning cartoons existed.

gypsywildone

HR Pufnstuf!

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I was a good kid because I was raised by Bible Principles

by Nosferatu in

sometimes when i go visit my mother, she mentions that i was a good kid because i was raised by bible principles.

i was crying for absolutely no reason at all.

around 11:30, i felt completely ill. i went up to my teacher and told him i was going to see the nurse.

gypsywildone

I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten in a fraction of the trouble that I did if my mother hadn't gotten into that sick cult when I was 13 & I began asserting my personhood & refusing to become a jw. I can truthfully say I did not learn one useful thing in a kingdom hall, except how NOT to live life or parent children.

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I was a good kid because I was raised by Bible Principles

by Nosferatu in

sometimes when i go visit my mother, she mentions that i was a good kid because i was raised by bible principles.

i was crying for absolutely no reason at all.

around 11:30, i felt completely ill. i went up to my teacher and told him i was going to see the nurse.

gypsywildone

(((Nos)))

So sorry you went through all that abuse.

big hugs buddy! Gypsy

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

Wednesday,

I have been wondering this also, & thinking of her. I hope things turned out with a minimum of damage for her.

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

Well, thanks Just2laws, but at least I was a very opinionated 13 year old when my old lady got into this garbage cult. I knew from the git go it was total bs & just bided my time. No way was I gonna be railroaded into it, no how, no way. But the waiting was hell!

I saw and heard alot. There is no whitewashing this dangerous cult. It taught my mother how to alternately treat my dad like he was missing something or to try to bully him into the jws. His tactic to get by was to work more and more & avoid her jw psychosis. He ended up splitting, couldn't take it anymore, & I didn't blame him a bit! I saw a lot of paranoia, fakery, hypocracy, & shameful beating of kids in the backs of kingdom halls. How anyone could defend jws is beyond me.

I am sorry about your brother, I guess he couldn't see any other way out. The jw life is one of utter dispair for a teenager. Their very personhood is denyed them! Their familie's love is conditional. Parental "love" is based on pleasing an unpleasable cult. We need to make these young people realize there IS real life out there, there is another way, & there is a lot of help. I myself would take in any teenager in this situation that I ever would hear of!

There is no way to whitewash it. It is what it is. Personally, I don't give a damn about "good intentions". I don't care what they think they are doing. They are blind, & something must be broken inside them to treat families this way. Good intentions paved the way to hell!

I do wish that some Child Protective agency would have removed me from there so that I could have lived my life as a normal, happy teenager & out from under the eyes of jw spies that were constantly ratting on me & complaining about me for imaginary nonsense.

How very sad that your brother couldn't know it was all only temporary & he had his whole life ahead of him to contribute to humanity & be happy! I bet there are lots more feeling like him out there right now :(

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

I wish when I was a teenager, there would have been some child protective service or government agency that would have removed me from my "home". I wish someone would have saved me from the superstitious, restrictive, clannish jws. I wish somehow I could have been removed from having to hear all about their nightmarish visions of gloom & doom & their angry god. I wish I never had to hear about their "persecution" crapola & hate for "the world". I wish, instead of running around like Henny Penny saying "the sky is falling", my mother would have encouraged education & reality.

Hey, at least I got to finish high school & didn't end up sitting next to some geek I hardly knew one too many times & find myself engaged at a young age! I also got thrown out as soon as I turned 18 for wanting nothing to do with that cult & being "a bad witness". I did end up putting myself through school, with the aid of grants & guaranteed student loans.

You can too. Education is your best friend! The jws raise women to be subservient to men & try to keep them ignorant. If you do your best in school & take a look at your life, set goals & dreams for yourself, you can do anything you want with your life! Sounds like you are well on your way :)

Keep in touch with us, most of us have been there & lived through it, only to come out the wiser for it. Living well IS the best revenge. You will get through this & live a wonderful life, while they are still running on the watchtower treadmil.