Mrs. Fiorini

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  Adventist lawyers bully small Jewish sect over name

  by kurtbethel in

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  it looks like watchtower lawyers are not alone in protecting their business interests even if it means bullying someone's religious faith.. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/12/21/news/sandiego/z5f313b68926a1807882575210081e64b.txt.

  jewish group sued over 'adventist' namevalley center ---- what's the first thing that pops to mind upon hearing the word "adventist"?.

  the seventh-day adventist church, probably.. .

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Amazing. If I trademark the word "Christian" can I prevent all other churches from using it in their names?
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  Some questions for the board from a lurker

  by purplesofa in

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  welll, he is waiting to sign up.

  hi leslie!

  just wondering if you could do a post for me?

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Others could give better advice addressing your friends situation, but it seems to me that the only way she will avoid a DFing is to do a fast fade (especially if it involves moving away) or turn herself into the elders and beg for mercy (although this usually doesn't work after having been DF'd once).

  My best wishes to her. This should be a happy time in her life, not one full of dread and fear of losing her family.
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  VonRay

  by coffee_black in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvm3slitqig&feature=related.

  my daughter is having lunch with vaughan tomorrow to talk about helping with my grandson's project to help homeless children.. my grandson's website will be up and running soon.

  there will be lots to share in the weeks to come... coffee .

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Glad to hear your daughter and grandson are trying to help out. We need people who care about their communities like that, now more than ever.
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  New BOE letter re: parents permitting fornication

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  unfortunately i have no scanner.

  but i thought y'all might like a glance into the latest mind of "mother".. i won't type out the whole thing, but just select pertinent parts to quote:.

  "to all bodies of elders.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  I think Yknot may have identified the source of the "issue." If non-JW adult children have to move back in with parents due to losing their job, etc. they better get married or don't bring the boyfriend/girlfriend with them.

  This will be a real problem for some families as many cohabitating couples have kids these days and parents will not only have to kick out their children, but young grandchildren too. This could be difficult if they have nowhere else to go.
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  Floods in the north-fires in the south

  by smiddy in

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  thought you might like to know the situation in aussie land.

  bushfires raging in victoria have claimed the lives of at least 35 people so far and the toll is expected to rise in the 40`s.yesterdays temp.rose to 46.4 cent.

  (115 f ) more than 85 towns were under threat and dozens of homes lost with a terrible loss of livestock and wildlife.. in the northern part of the country qld.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  I've been following this in the news recently. So sorry to hear the death toll is now over 100. Please be careful.
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  Urgent!! Anyone in WA state--remember Dennis Lindberg?

  by Tatiana in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i received this email and i don't live in wa, but promised i would forward this here.

  for those who didn't hear about this case..... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/medical/153452/1/another-newspaper-article-on-the-blood-issue.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/medical/168839/1/blood-petition-signatures-appreciated.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Tatiana,

  You have a PM.
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  deaden your body member(s)?...jw wifes answer...many jw questions too

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we talked briefly by phone after she read this email/letter, and we talked about the masturbation point and married sex stuff....i asked what were the biblical reasons for fds teachings....she said for masturbation it was "deaden therefor your body members"....i said that did not mention masturbations....then it hit me.....crap....masturbation is how you deaden your body members!!

  !......esp as a kid....your all excited (horny)....so how do you deaden it?....the answer is obvious.........oompa.

  dear wife, please read all of this letter.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Before I quit being a JW, a friend of ours kept bringing up problems he found with the WT. At first I just dismissed him as misguided and confused. After awhile though, I realized that if he was right, the WT was really a very presumptuous organization. When I allowed myself to be open to that possibility, I was out in short order.

  Who knows, maybe it will be that way with your wife, too. I hope so.
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  Moments of Epiphany... and other touchstones in life...

  by AK - Jeff in

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  2. experiences

  when i realized that 1975 was past, and the end appeared no closer than before.when a boe made up of men i had 'served' with for better than a decade were willing to write a letter of 'recommedation' that was character assassination at it's finest, and then defend the lies within with a straight face and no remorse.when i began to notice that many of the 'friends' seemed mentally unstable, in an organization that claimed it offered the greatest hope for mankind and the 'only true brotherhood' of supporter's available.when i saw a 'bible student' who was refused any assistance in her move to another congregation because of her sins before she was ever baptized [she never was in fact].when i was 'allowed' to conduct funerals and weddings that needed a minister, but for people who were too soiled in one way or another for the self-righteous upper-crust elders to touch.

  yet they all attended and seemed to rejoice/mourn with all others in attendance.the day in the early 90's when i read a critique of jehovah's witnesses in which the author roundly condemned jw's eschatology regarding the '1914 generation', and in such article stated that they would have to renounce such foolish reasoning soon, before the end of the century to avoid being the 'relgious laughingstock' of the world.the day in 1995 when i saw his predictions come precisely true in the watchtower.when i watched and saw no other jw's bothered by this massive change in position.the months that i compiled a chart in which, using actuarial mortality figures, in which i applied the numbers, age-group by age-group to the 'annointed' from 1941 to 2002, and saw that it was empirically impossible for 8500 to still be alive.the month in which i read ray franz' books, and found myself aware that my life was about to change forever.october 2006, when after 3 years of 'fading' and staying out of sight, i submitted my letter of disassociation, and saw a look of happiness on the face of the friend-elder that took the document, though it meant the end of 20 years of personal friendship with him.the day my cousin - my best friend for 35 years - decided i was unworthy of even a reply to a simple email.the list is longer.

  but so theraputic to put in words.

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  When a nice, young woman I met out in field service invited me into her home. She was a very enthusiastic Christian and we had a lovely conversation about the Bible. As I left, I realized that she was just like me, except that I had the one true religion, and hers was a lie from Satan.

  When a CO gave a talk stating that JWs shouldn't expose themselves to any critique of the WT because it could cause them to leave the organization, implying "the truth" couldn't stand up to criticism.

  When I saw what a nice person one of my coworkers was, but realized that Jehovah was probably going to kill her at Armageddon.

  When I read Steven Hassan's book, "Combatting Cult Mind Control," and realized that the WT wasn't the only group who thought they had the corner on truth and everyone else was living in the dark.

  When my then father-in-law said, " 'Where else would we go?' is not a reason to stay a JW!"
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  JW Org. spins posative light on U.N. in the 90's ???????

  by annalice in

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  does anyone have the article that met the un obligations for being a ngo?.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Thanks to everyone on this thread for their great info. I still can't believe the WT has gotten away with it. It shows just how much they control their followers access to information that most JWs know nothing of this.
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  8 Months sober and going strong

  by digderidoo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't really posted here much lately, i think it's because being old skool i cannot get used to the new format, but thought i'd check in.. i posted long and hard here the first half of last year about my alcoholism and attending aa, so thought i'd give a short update for anyone who remembers and gave me a lot of advice, which i am grateful for.. my last drink was may 30th, so i am now 8 months sober.

  i hardly ever crave or even want a drink anymore, if i do it's when i think that maybe i can handle one or two on a night out or something.

  but it soon goes, when my head kicks into gear and realise that i can't.. i used the aa alot in the early stages.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Congratulations!