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  Ozzie's Wine of the Month - August

  by ozziepost in

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  how did your wine tasting go last month?

  here in oz, there's been a lot of good quality reds appearing on the shelves of local "bottle shops" (as we call them here downunder).

  ozzie's recommendation for this month is a red that mrs ozzie and i downed in double quick time over a meal at our favourite restaurant last night.

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  i like snapple...
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  My Story Part 1

  by Robinhood in

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  i chose to remain cloaked as to my true identity for now.

  because the watchtower trolls who lurk here need to eat fresh meat.

  i will not be a quick and easy disfellowship assignment for the local boys.

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  "RobinHood is famous for his gallantry, robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny."

  good name!

  Marion: Where will you go?
  Robin: Sherwood.
  Marion: They'll hunt you.
  Robin: Yes, but they won't catch me.

  ***welcome to sherwood
  

  (looking forward to the next arrow)
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  Theocratic Warfare at my house part 3, the end

  by freeman in

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  thank you all who responded to my earlier post, i am pleased to say there has been a major development.

  just twenty minutes ago i was sitting at the piano and my wife comes up to me and says, "i talked to the brothers, you were absolutely right, i apologize, he (my minor son) will never go to the meetings again".

  i sat there in stunned shock both happy and sad at the same time.

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  My minor son will not be sneaked off

  that *is* good news about your son. but just continue to be cautious and pay close attention to your wife and son to make sure nothing's amiss. i don't trust those elders who are "advising" her... they've already demonstrated how sneaky they are., and she sounds confused and vulnerable. thinking good thoughts for you and your family. p.s...

  I HATE THE F--KING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS CULT TOO!

  THEY DESTROYED MY FAMILY!

  YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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  Hello

  by jozb5 in

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  er i thought there was an introduction page but i guess this will do nicely.

  my name is josie and i am a longtime lurker.

  i just recently got up the nerve to post something and i thought i should make a more formal hello.. i was raised with the borg but i never got baptised and i'm glad to say neither has any of my siblings.

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  ahoy there, josie! welcome aboard.
  
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  And I thought I didnt have any.........

  by SpiceItUp in

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  as the general rule i don't scare easily and i am always looking into the unknown corners.

  i like the creepy and spooky.

  spiders and snakes dont freak me out either.

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  cockroaches. definitely.
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  Were you " SPIRITUALLY IMPOVERISHED"?

  by refiners fire in

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  or did you have the truth in your hearts?

  brothers and sisters.

  field service/ meeting attendance/ personal study/ and personal prayer.. how were your key indicators?

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  IP. You were so holy I cant believe it. You were practically a Catholic Saint. Other people are doing VILE things and you have to purge condemnatory thoughts about them out of your mind! I mean, most dubs would have at least drawn a perverse satisfaction out of feeling superior to those "dirty cuplike" ones.

  the totality of their control over me was real and pervasive and never-ending. this is why this is so monstrous - to think that jehovah examines every single thought in your head and will condemn you for even one tiny bad thought, let alone action, is, well... did you ever see "the manchuraian candidate"? i saw that once and it freaked me out so bad i never watched it again but it stayed with me...

  (((refiner))) for some reason...

  p.s. no, i never felt superior to anyone, and i don't now. and ihave a problem with people who think they are superior to their fellow humans. ooh what's that song about "what if god was one of us"? i can't remember who sang it but he just might be on the bus sitting there right next to you, looking like a wino, seeing how you treat him. obviously the message is you don't know that person's story they could have been a king at one time... ~~~~~~~~~*

  Edited by - Incense_and_Peppermints on 2 August 2002 22:54:44

  (damn typos)

  Edited by - Incense_and_Peppermints on 2 August 2002 22:56:31
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  Were you " SPIRITUALLY IMPOVERISHED"?

  by refiners fire in

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  or did you have the truth in your hearts?

  brothers and sisters.

  field service/ meeting attendance/ personal study/ and personal prayer.. how were your key indicators?

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  Or did you have the truth in your HEARTS?

  i did. i was faithful and devout and really tried every day of my life to be one of jehovah's loving children. i prayed a lot - upon awakening each day, before every meal, before bookstudy, and always before settling in for the night. and i never asked jehovah to give me anything i just told him i loved him, or thanked him for being such a loving "father". (i never asked for anything because i think i knew subconciously that i would never get anything from jehovah.) i would see other kids doing "wicked" things at the few parties i was allowed to attend and thought of that scripture about the cup being clean on the outside but dirty on the inside and so i would try doubly hard to purge those wicked thoughts about my hypocritical brothers and sisters so that my mind was pure... it was quite exhausting, as i remember... the worst was going to farrell's ice cream parlor on friday nights and praying in front of worldy people and listening to their snickers, and then having them stare at us for the rest of the evening.
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  uh-oh...

  by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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  i just read this in my "moe/syn thread"... .

  simon wrote: most disturbing has been a few accounts, all registered within a short space of time, that have been used several times to reply to each other and purport to be from people unfamiliar with the original poster, not know them and their family etc.

  i am guilty of registering with more than one account.

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  Beck, we better let Imbue get back to work trying to manipulate IPs head....

  whaaa....?

  to quote cher horowitz from "clueless": "AS IF!"
  
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  Who Here Believes in God?

  by The_Bad_Seed in

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  personally, i do not believe god ever has or ever will exist.

  i have my reasons -- i guess i could be considered an agnostic, rather than an athiest.

  i was curious to see what the larger part of the former borg community believed, now looking from the outside in, rather than the opposite.

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  i struggle with this one a lot. i dont believe in a "god" like the cathiloics and jw's taught me...

  but i think there's some divine omnipresent incredibly beautiful spirit entity but i don't think it makes little rules and gets mad at us if we violate them. i think of "god" as starstuff almost, but filled with light and overpowering love and who can even explain such a thing... anyway that's where i'm at...
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  What pisses you off about elders wives?

  by bay64me in

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  the elders wife that really pisses me off, is the one that would boastfully announce that jehovah had provided her husband with a part-time teaching job, emphasising that his employment was "on the line" each year....but thanks to jehovah,(in other words) we are so fucking loyal and do many hours in field service and things that nobody could possibly know about ( but i'm letting you know indirectly) so my husband has an income to assist us in our pioneer service!

  what pisses you off about elders wives?

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  The fact that their little children COULD NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG--EVER!

  their single-minded mission to always appear correct and perfect in everything they do. in public that is. in private, they show their true selves. my niece's ex was the son of an elder, and he credits his mom for most of his mental and emotional illness. the last straw was when he got disfellowshipped, and he went to her with tears streaming down his face saying "i'm sorry mom" and she said "you have never been anything to me but a colossal dissapointment" and walked away, leaving him there in that anguished state. this is why he's an anorexic closet cross-dresser now...

  anyway, he got reinstated and he still lives in that house with his parents and his older brother, at 25, never been on his own, hating every day he has to get up and do it all over again, hates his mom, is angry at his dad for never defending him against her abuse, can barely function it's really sad to see such things because he is a nice young man but really a little boy - a very fearful, sad one. i met her two times she's such a phony she makes me SICK. smiles and says nice things to total strangers but treats her son like grabage. why DO these witness ladies care so much what people think of them? they need to get over their bad selves... i wonder if he'll ever leave? you know what's weird? he and my niece got to be good friends with my son (they both play guitar) and they would hang out together and they would tell him how they both felt he was so much older than them - he is 15, they are 23 and 25,. very sad... what's sadder is my sister since shunning me again has forbidden her daughter to see her cousin (my son) anymore, and it broke both their hearts because they bonded very quickly and tried to recover lifetimes lost. i almost wish my son hadn't met his cousin now, because it hurt him very deeply to have her in his life and then taken away just like that. he doesn't really understand but he thinks the witnesses are jacked and wants her to get out but she's even deeper in their clutches now that she's engaged to a good witness boy again (a nice change from all those worldy men she was dating.)