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  What was your most DISTURBING event as an elder ? (Per T.O.S. no full names please).

  by Balaamsass in

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  i'll start the ball rolling.

  dealing with kids in any type of judicial manner.

  i would do everything i could to get parents to "deal with it-kindly" at home.

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  I will mention two, because they are so different, yet they illustrate corruption on very different levels.

  I sat on a special committee that was adjudicating a business dispute. Without going into the details of the case, I witnessed prejudice, bias, Simony, cronyism and noncomprehension of the facts, all on the part of the Service Department. The committee and I lost a lot of innocence on that one!

  The object of the second case was a gay man whose background included a failed marriage. He had been advised by the elders that marrying a sister would "cure" his homosexuality. He had been disfellowshipped and reinstated several times for acting on his impulses and inclinations. I sat on the committee that reinstated him for the last time. We learned over several hearings that he had not been promiscuous, but was simply aching for intimacy and affection. He pursued them in the only way that his brain could process. We learned that the reason he lived in a predominately gay neighborhood was so that he wouldn't stand out or get beat up. All he was surviving on was ice cream because his feelings of guilt made it impossible for him to eat (or keep down) anything else. Some months after his reinstatement he took his own life.

  All of the judicial situations that I witnessed were disturbing, but these were two of the worst.

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  Memoirs of the Beverly Hills, CA Congregation - Part 1 of ?: Charlie vis a vis Charleton

  by DNCall in

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  charlie smith (his real name), a professed member of the anointed, called at the door of charlton heston.

  mr. heston allowed charlie to read from the book of genesis.

  this rare allowance caused charlie to think this man was a "person of interest.

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  Charlie Smith (his real name), a professed member of the anointed, called at the door of Charlton Heston. Mr. Heston allowed Charlie to read from the book of Genesis. This rare allowance caused Charlie to think this man was a "person of interest." Charlie wanted to make sure he would make a return visit on him, so he asked his name. "Heston" (through clenched teeth), was the reply. Charlie was later informed that he had just spoken with "Moses" and about Mr. Heston's ties with the NRA, etc. I doubt that Charlie ever made that RV.

  You couldn't make this stuff up. ,

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  Those "Passion arousing jungle rythyms" !

  by wobble in

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  do any of you remember the wt putting those words in print ?.

  i remember when i read them that i thought "they don't give me a hard-on", now, slow dancing close to a lovely lady, that was different,.

  i was pleased to see her !.

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  "Dance music at its most elemental has always had a tribal feeling . . ."

  Come to think of it, the Old Testament has a tribal feeling.
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  My Father passed away during the night

  by jwfacts in

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  dad was a great man, great, despite the religion.

  he was powerful, tall and intelligent, yet humble and kind.

  he was an introvert, and a circuit overseer.

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  Dear Paul,

  Barbara and I want to add our condolences to you and your family. Regardless of the times of estrangement, you can always reflect on the contributions he made to your life, including the gifts that you inhereted from him.

  Much love,

  Frank
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  Came Across This Artifact Today

  by DNCall in

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  2. experiences

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  My father was in the record business. One of his labels was Magic Key Records. He released a series of children’s albums on that label, one of which is presented here for your amusement.

  The cover photo was taken on my parents’ bed. The young girl is my cousin, Laura, and the young boy is my nephew, Jeff. The book she is reading is From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.

  My father, wanting to “get a witness in,” chose the “Paradise Book" for the cover and the pictured story designed to lull children to blissful sleep is the chapter entitled “How We Know We Are In The ‘Time Of The End.’”

  Regarding how we know we are in the time of the end, it is of ironic interest that the above events transpired in the early 1960s.

  You couldn’t make this stuff up.

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  1874, 1914 and 1943

  by TD in

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  a persistent meme that floats around on jw related internet forums holds that christ's second coming was moved forward 40 years (i.e.

  from 1874 to 1914) in the year 1943.

  (this appears to be based primarily on a statment in the book god's kingdom of a thousand years has approached on page 209 and to a lesser degree, a footnote at the bottom of page 133 of the publication jehovah's witnesses - proclaimers of god's kingdom.).

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  jwfacts: I was completely joking. I fully understood the point of your comment. I just couldn't resist quoting it out of context so as to apply the old joke that compares lawyers, or anyone else for that matter, to pigs. Then you think better of it, because the comparison reflects poorly on pigs.

  I too have worked with many fine lawyers who are both honest and succinct. Unfortunately, I've also slogged through writing such as djeggnog's.

  If anything, I should apologize to you for a joke that didn't work.

  Best,

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  1874, 1914 and 1943

  by TD in

  1. jw
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  a persistent meme that floats around on jw related internet forums holds that christ's second coming was moved forward 40 years (i.e.

  from 1874 to 1914) in the year 1943.

  (this appears to be based primarily on a statment in the book god's kingdom of a thousand years has approached on page 209 and to a lesser degree, a footnote at the bottom of page 133 of the publication jehovah's witnesses - proclaimers of god's kingdom.).

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  jwfacts: "You will make a great assistant to some unscrupulous lawyer that wants to provide copious amounts of text, so as to charge by the minute."

  Now, I have the highest regard for jwfacts. However, I, as a legal assistant (not by choice), take umbrage at his statement above. To suggest that djeggnog is better suited as a legal assistant (to an unscrupulous, overbilling lawyer, or not) is an insult to legal assistants everywhere.

  Cheers, mate!

  P.S. Bravo TD, jwfacts, Leo, Cameron_Don, 00Dad, just n from bethel, diamondiiz, et al.
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  WT Lexicon

  by 00DAD in

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  2. friends

  i was thinking it would be helpful if we put together a wt lexicon for those that are not too familiar with wt terminology.

  it's important for them to understand these theocratic expressions so that they too can understand and speak the "pure language" of truth.

  - zeph.

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  Encouraging (verb): pressuring

  Generation: definition subject to change

  Blood Fractions: damned if I can figure it out
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  How Did You Deal With God Destroying Non-Witness Relatives that You Loved?

  by DNCall in

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  2. friends

  startfragment.

  so many of my non-witness relatives were, and are, good people.

  i had to do something to deal with the likelihood of their being destroyed.. those i was close to in the faith, and i, had the hope that, sometime before the end, some issue would arise that would wake up our relatives and other loved ones to the realization that they had to come into the fold.

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  So many of my non-Witness relatives were, and are, good people. I had to do something to deal with the likelihood of their being destroyed.

  Those I was close to in the faith, and I, had the hope that, sometime before the end, some issue would arise that would wake up our relatives and other loved ones to the realization that they had to come into the fold. Some would speculate that the destruction of false religion would be that event, even though the notion is at odds with “current truth.”

  The other thoughts that we comforted ourselves with were that: (1) the God of Perfect Justice would not destroy anyone without just cause; and (2) even good people would be destroyed for the crime of “t[aking] no note,” as Jesus described those destroyed in Noah’s day.

  Those thoughts worked for me, for a long time, and I believe they keep many current Witnesses pacified on this issue.

  I’m curious to hear of other techniques that any of you used, when you were associated, to rationalize a loving god destroying good people.
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  Space Shuttle, NASA, and The NAZI SS.

  by pedal power in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  todays last landing of the space shuttle atlantis, and the ending and retirement of the space shuttle fleet,signals the end of an era in manned space flight in the usa.. i feel obliged to bring to your attention, the man who put the the usa at the forfront of the space race, and put the first man on the moon, and was the brains and driving force of nasa, that would result ultimately in the shuttle programme, the construction of the space station, and the hubble telescope.. who was he, and what was his background ?

  well his name was wernher von braum, he was a german soldier, scientist, who attained the rank of sturbannfuher in the ss, he was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in the nazi regime, developing the v2 weapon, the first icbm.. he and his team of german scientists, were captured near the end of ww2 and taken to the usa, there they escaped the war trials, and von braun, the former nazi officer, was put in charge of the space programme, set up by president kennedy, he and his team of former nazi scientists designed and built the saturn v rocket which took men to the moon in july 1969, i was 7yo, my father insisted on wakening me up, to view the looner landing, i am glad he did, and now 42 years later its over, and some of our thanks, if not all must go to,wernher von braun, german ss officer..

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  Another player in the U.S. space program who is worthy of mention here is James Whiteside Parsons. During the 1940s, he was a researcher at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. He was one of the founders of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), also in Pasadena. His field was the development of solid rocket fuel, as opposed to liquid rocket fuel that was at the center of Robert Goddard's work.

  As interesting as being a former Nazi is in the case of Mr. Von Braun, is the fact that Mr. Parsons was a prominent American disciple of Aleister Crowley, the famous British occultist. Mr. Parsons' home on South Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena doubled as a lodge of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis. White and black magic rituals and a wide variety of sexual rituals took place there. Parsons also rented rooms in his home to those who were drawn to his world. One of the more famous renters was L. Ron Hubbard, who ran off with Parson's girlfriend in a boat purchased with Parson's money. There is a crater on the far side of the moon named the Parsons Crater, in his honor.

  You couldn't make this stuff up!

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