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  For Drue: Who are the Borg

  by Gianluca in

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  on this board our russian friend drue asked what are the so called borgs.

  if i remember well i think the following was posted on the "old" h20 quite some time ago by a certain "worldlywitness".

  i personally found it was a great post, i hope you will enjoy it too!.

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  freddo

  Oops! Giordano got there first ...
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  For Drue: Who are the Borg

  by Gianluca in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on this board our russian friend drue asked what are the so called borgs.

  if i remember well i think the following was posted on the "old" h20 quite some time ago by a certain "worldlywitness".

  i personally found it was a great post, i hope you will enjoy it too!.

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  freddo

  The Borg are from Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are a vast collective of drones.

  They fly around space in a big cube and take over and assimilate all whom they encounter who become absorbed into the hive mind and who become part of the group.

  They have a phrase such as "resistance is futile" which they say just before attacking their latest prey.

  See any similarities with jborg?
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  WT - Study Ed, October 2017 - The Truth Brings, “Not Peace, But a Sword”

  by Sanchy in

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  another article analyzing how bad poor jw's have it when it comes to opposition from family.

  few interesting quotes:.

  parr 2:.

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  Ha! The bastards in the Tower are getting more vocal and strident.

  More and more folk must be ignoring the bastards.

  I know I do.
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  What are the chances of getting another Raymond Franz default from head office ?

  by Chook in

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  all regimes get defectors and some are more vocal than others..

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  freddo

  Maybe one of the "helpers" but no one on the GB. Look at 'em - overfed and/or physically soft. Mentally soft in Lett's case.

  They're all TV stars (remember that?) now.
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  Brussels Central station was evacuated Tuesday amid reports of an explosion and at least one man shot who shouted "Allahu Akbar,"

  by freemindfade in

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  it looks like these attacks in europe are going from weekly, to daily, it literally gives me chills to think about traveling to europe with my family.

  that is very unfortunate.

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  freddo

  Europeans are "used to it".

  Not wishing to be rude but American non-servicemen have had it "soft" until 9/11 - let me explain. And frankly the Brits have not had it as tough as the Europeans.

  Two generations before mine we had WW1. Northern France and Belgium were quagmires of death and destruction as was what is modern day Poland on the German/Russian front. Paris was shelled by the Germans, London and the East coast of England were bombed by Zeppelins. For the first time civilians were involved. The USA civilians had no such terror. Even their entry into the war came two an a half to nearly three years after it kicked off.

  In the generation before mine we had WW2. European civilains stuck in the middle like never before plus the Holocaust. France decimated again; UK blitzed as far west as Plymouth, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool. London got V1 and V2 weapons fired at them just after the Luftwaffe went on the back foot. Germany bombed flat. Russia and Poland utterly devastated as far as Moscow and Stalingrad. Italy rolled back as the US and UK pushed the Nazis back over two years.

  Spain had its civil war just before WW2 and Greece had its civil war just after.

  1950's through 1980's Europe is getting used to the idea that if WW3 kicks off they will be in the path of the USSR and any retaliatory action; nuclear weapons hang heavily.

  Now let me swing to the UK.

  Late 60's through late 90's - the ever present threat of the IRA and to a lesser extent the UDA response. Bombs going off in Northern Ireland, London, Manchester, Bristol.

  Then suddenly we get 9/11. America wakes up. and since then it has been Muslim extremists at the fore. 7/7 in London 2005 then France seems to be at the forefront and now it is North West Europe once again.

  We are "used to it" - have been for 100 years - it doesn't occur to me not to go to Europe due to terrorism. I've been to France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland - Mediterranean islands. Again it would not even occur to me not to go anywhere in Europe due to terrorism.

  Going wider afield ... A JW elder in 2005 said to me "I wouldn't go to Bali - they had a bomb out there!" (referring to an incident in 2002 where over 200 were killed by Muslim extremists)

  I sat in the hotel lobby of a Balinese hotel sipping pina colada watching one of these new-fangled flat screen TV's as the 7/7 bombings of London were reported.

  All my life I have gone to London - school trips - Museum trips with my kids and now myself. Weekends away. Stop overs waiting for aeroplane journeys.

  It doesn't occur to me to not go about my daily activities due to terrorism.
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  Favorite/least favorite CO's and DO's

  by HereIgo in

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  i posted this thread sometime last year but thought i would revive it due to the new ones on the board, and to change things up a bit.

  my favorite?

  bro murikami, from hawaii, very humble, kind bro.

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  Kenneth Williams?

  "Ooooh Matron!"
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  What "Rules" Did The Elders In Your KH Make?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  some congregations were known as liberal and others were considered very conservative.

  back in the 1970s a nearby congregation made all speakers who gave public talks a white shirt to wear.

  if a speaker came in wearing anything but white they were brought into the library and were given a white shirt!

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  And this is supposed to be a punishment?? How so?

  If you go to meetings it is mind-numbingly boring if you aren't a ceiling touching "answer every other paragraph" nutter.

  So doing the mics means you stay awake, get a little exercise, catch the eye of likeminded bored people and catch a glimpse of the attractive sisters' shaplier parts.
  
  
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  What Happens If the JW Beard Policy Stumbles a Person

  by Cold Steel in

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  2. beliefs

  some of the videos on youtube really make the beard policy look ridiculous.

  i wondered what would happen if the jw beard policy caused someone to stumble?

  jesus most likely wore a beard, and charles taze russell had a beard.

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  Just gotta suckitupbuttercup.

  Psalm 119 v 165 is occasionally twisted and applied.

  The riposte is Leviticus 19 v 27.

  And round it goes ...
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  Surprise Elders Visit

  by Tight Pants Twinkle Toes in

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  2. beliefs

  hello community!

  quick background - baptized 1971, 46 years in the borg, former elder.

  wife - baptized 1973, pioneer...... we became disgusted with the oranization 10 years ago but still believed it was the truth.

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  freddo

  If you can be bothered and you don't want df'ing then using Job 6 v 3 (wild talk) and James 3 v 2 (no one is so perfect as to not stumble in word) you could explain the pressures of life might have caused "someone" to misinterpret what you said.

  But my guess is the Genie is out the bottle!
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  Surprise Elders Visit

  by Tight Pants Twinkle Toes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello community!

  quick background - baptized 1971, 46 years in the borg, former elder.

  wife - baptized 1973, pioneer...... we became disgusted with the oranization 10 years ago but still believed it was the truth.

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  freddo

  With apostasy they should only go judicial after a second admonition according to their elder book.

  The WT ref is this:

  *** w88 4/15 p. 27 par. 5 Discipline That Can Yield Peaceable Fruit ***

  "The same was to occur with apostates, such as Hymenaeus: “As for a man that promotes a sect, reject him after a first and a second admonition;"

  However the definition is quite narrow as in promoting a sect.
  

  The time gap makes me think they have consulted the CO or the Branch Office who have said go back and give it a go to snatch you out of the fire cover their backs.