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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  I hope, JWoods, that you never surround yourself with overweight or ugly people--

  I share your hope.
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  JWoods

  I was trying to get the attention of people by announcing "Big News" back then. Perhaps I offended some, but I didn't intend to. I was very excited by what I knew that of the WT Society's 1990 blood bklt being exposed by Kerry Louderback-Wood's essay which was shortly going to appear in the Journal of Church of State and that was big news. It even made the newspapers because AP covered it. I heard from a someone who knew, that there was panic at WT headquarters about it back then and some very special people were assigned to deal with it. Since that time, WT has changed in ways that are not too obvious, which is the way they mean it to be, but it forced them to feature more and more information on blood fractions in their magazines. This movement has had definite ramifications within their own organization.

  I've never understood why some resented it when I said what I did about "Big News" and caused a number of people to get so put out with me, but to each his own. I try to do my best to inform. I'm not a leader in any group, just a "passer alonger" of information. I've not posted on this board for quite a long time but started to do so recently because I thought my input as well as everybody else's would be welcome, but apparently that isn't the case.

  The person who is now having reservations about me is the same one in the past who has many times thanked me for what I have done to expose WT. I must have really did something bad to cause him to start a thread about me now and I sure don't know what it is. I was caught in the middle of Jim's post and the responses made by others to his post. Jim and I and others worked things out the best we knew how to do, but now I'm not the victim but the accused. It appears at this point that whatever I do or say, won't help matters and there will be those who will continue this thread expressing for and against. Am I going to get the "Danny Haszard" treatment? If I do, then WT will have won. In a few days, people like "three Witness" will be posting all over the web about XJWs attacking Barbara Anderson and gloating. If my name on this board is offensive to some, say it and I'll remove myself from this medium. I'm not asking for anybody to defend me on this thread. I just want all of this to stop. Is that asking too much of people who have been hurt as much as we have been by WT?

  Barbara

  Thank you. The thread was not an ad-hominem. It stops. Point made, I think, by that post.
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  Have a little humility before you start throwing shit around, JWoods, you just might get covered in it.

  It washes right off, though - doesn't it?
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  And feelings must be expressed?

  If one is honest, yes. They do have a way of coming out sooner or later anyway -
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  Because those were my true feelings after reading that stuff from yesterday.

  Don't hold back - I already put my flame suit on before I started this thing.
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  JWoods

  If some of you continue to have problems with what I do or say on his board, say what you will. You have freedom of expression.

  Barbara

  Thanks - freedom of expression is something very valuable.

  James
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  what is your legacy JWoods? <leaving aside being an anonymous Internet jockey>

  I could tell you, but then of course - I would have to kill you. Like I said - this came as a matter of difficulty for me - but the words had to be said. To clear my conscience from a possible "crises".
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  For those that say the Witnesses are NOT a HCG - High Control Group

  by besty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let's start a quick list for reference.. here's a gem from the 2008 keep yourself in god's love book:.

  "....should the newlyweds identify to all the giver of each gift?

  christians from macedonia.

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  I think that the fascination the Governing Body shows with the private practices of marital (not to mention adolescent) sex speaks "HCG" about as strongly as Chairman Mao doing the re-education of his non-communistic scientific community.
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  Are YOU Afraid Of This Man?

  by snowbird in

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  i'm not.. as we used to say, "he looks like ned in the first reader to me.".

  sylvia.

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  JWoods

  would not let sleeping dogs lie.

  I have heard that Michael Vick would not either...
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  I am having some reservations about Barbara Anderson

  by JWoods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently, there was a very nice thread in which one of our posters apologized for having the temerity to challenge barbara anderson.. i thought it was very nice to see that they made up and put the personal stuff aside.. however, i felt the need to call it like i really feel it - i was very put off by the barbara anderson reply in which she plugged her new promotional meeting.

  it brought back memories of that horrid little affair from a couple of years back when she kept posting up "the greatest new thing about blood which will bring down the watchtower society is just around the corner -- and i could tell you but then i would have to kill you, etc."..

  just like another jehovah's witnesses prophecy about the coming of the lord in our time.. i am beginning to wonder if perhaps the siren song of self-promotion is getting a little too strong for real life.. ok. i said it.. james - and saying it was not the easiest thing that i have ever done.

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  Well, like I said - I had to think about it for 24 hours before I made my words. Because I do appreciate her contribution, and nobody will ever take that away. Still - - -

  Fragile but resiliant here in Dallas -

  James