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  Most interesting chat with an annointed JW today

  by A.M. Number 1 in

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  we sat in a mc donalds talking for the last 2 hours.

  she made some very interesting claims like:.

  god magically takes thoughts from her head and puts them in the watchtower magazine.

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  I think she needs her meds adjusted...
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  SAD news about OOMPA......

  by redredrose in

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  our friend, oompa, has passed away.

  just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

  it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

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  Google "Eric Hampton Reeder" and look at the results.... He has made the topic of several web sites on the internet... BTW, Oompa was wonderful to talk to, you could tell his heart was in the right place.. His wit and humor will be greatly missed on this board and beyond.. My last convo with him was great, I had called him when I was having a difficult time. I was trying to hold back tears and not let him know that I was actually bawling my eyes out... before the call was over I felt good again... Oompa had made my day... And I am positively sure that I am not the only person he has helped..
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  Light a Candle for Oompa

  by BabaYaga in

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  there is a lovely site where one may light a candle for a moment of silence.. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles.

  i set up a group, where they may all flicker together, if you like.. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=oompa.

  (we love and miss you, oompa.).

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  It's not a candle but it'll have to do..
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  Stop fighting about Oompa.

  by Robert7 in

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  i am writing this because i am so upset about the bickering and fighting that is going on about oompa.

  this was an amazing wonderful, peaceful, giving man who never met a strager who is now deceased and you are taking his name and running all over the place with it using it for your own agendas.

  he is not a statistic.

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  I know I didn't know Oompa they way you did but all of my conversations with him were great... He helped me in my time of need..
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  SAD news about OOMPA......

  by redredrose in

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  our friend, oompa, has passed away.

  just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

  it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

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  Sorry to hear...
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  I would love for you to know my Oompa.... (from one of his closest friends)

  by Robert7 in

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  Dammitt... I have spoken to Oompa many times... He even invited me to come and stay at his place on the beach..

  Sorry to hear.. and thanks for the share.
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  Suspicious package prompts bomb squad visit to East Peoria church

  by Gayle in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48733387/ns/local_news-peoria_il/.

  ???

  not a bomb,,but still under investigation,,what was in the manila envelope?

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  Be Thankful You Weren't in this Underground Cult! Literally Under-Ground

  by Diest in

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  moscow (reuters) - seventy members of an islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of kazan in russia, local media reported.. the sect members included 20 children, the youngest of whom had just turned 18 months.

  many of them were born underground and had never seen daylight until the prosecutors discovered their dwelling on august 1 and sent them for health checks.. a 17-year-old girl turned out to be pregnant.. religion was suppressed in the soviet union which collapsed in 1991, prompting various cults and sects to flourish in the vacuum that opened up.. the group - known as the "fayzarahmanist" sect - was named after its 83-year-old organiser fayzrahman satarov, who declared himself a prophet and his house an independent islamic state, according to a report by state tv channel vesti.. satarov was described as a former deputy to a sunni islamic cleric in the 1970s.

  his followers were encouraged to read his manuscripts and most were banned from leaving their eight-storey underground bunker which had been dug in the basement of a building, vesti said.. prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the sect and have said it will be disbanded if it continues its illegal activities, such as stopping its members from seeking medical assistance or education.. no arrests have been made although police are likely to look into suspicions that some of the children were being abused.

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  That's messed up...
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  Flipper Jr. & Flipper Sr. Leave Child Abuse News Releases at Kingdom Halls

  by flipper in

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  2. child-abuse

  of course everyone knows about the news of the candace conti child abuse case which has gone viral , ( one would have to live in a cave, under a rock, or another planet not to know about it ).

  that being said - it may very well be that those jehovah's witnesses who do not use the internet, or read newspapers, or in simple english are neanderthal's, still living in the 19th century or before , out of fear of negative reprisal from wt authorities may have not even heard about this case because they are in the habit of not watching the news or using the internet.. so- with those particular type of people in mind my son flipper jr. & myself decided to print up about 20 copies of the candace conti child abuse lawsuit from the england daily mail issue , here's the link : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml .. so what we did is since we are doing some out of town jobs in several counties we figured we'd leave these child abuse news releases under jw car windshields at kingdom halls while they are out in field service.

  we left about 15 so far at 3 different kingdom halls under car windshields .

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  Yay!! Flipper!!
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  Thanks to everyone on this forum!

  by cedars in

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  today is my first anniversary as a jwn member.

  it's hard to believe that only a year has passed since i joined, but i feel that's a testament to how much i have been welcomed and made to feel like part of the furniture.. i would very much like to take this opportunity to thank everyone on the forum for the immense help and assistance i have received, particularly in my first few weeks/months of posting.

  it truly was a lifeline at a very distressing time for me.

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  Congrats Cedars... I don't get on here much anymore but when I do I see your posts... I think you have been beneficial to JWN...