Posts by pr0ner

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SAD news about OOMPA......

by redredrose in

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our friend, oompa, has passed away.

just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

I want to throw in my experiance of Eric. A few years ago I ran an ex JW meetup group here in Charlotte, NC. At the time my screenname was burgertime (I was banned for awhile). Anyways Eric contacted me about coming to the meetup. I gave him directions and he showed up. I would explain Eric as a force to be reakoned with. He had ton of energy and was a very happy go lucky guy on the surface.

Just to tell you what kind of guy Eric was, at the time I didn't own a vehicle I took the bus or walked everywhere. The place we were meeting was a ten minute walk from my house. Well Eric met me at my house at the time and had non of it. He forced me to ride "bitch" on his motorcycle. He then asked if I wanted a moped since he owned a store that sold them. I said sure, and that I would pay for it. He argued that I shouldn't pay for it and I argued back that I should. We came to a deal that I would pay what he paid which was around $400. To be honest I figured he was just talking to be talking and trying to be nice but would never follow through. Well two weeks later he shows up with a brand new Scooter in tow to drop off. He told me I could pay him whatever for however long it took. To say I was shocked didn't quite put into words how I felt. That same day he dropped off my scooter I gave him my copies of In Search of Christian Freedom, Apocalypse Delayed and Crisis of Concious so I like to think it was a fair trade lol. Anyways I paid the scooter off in like a months time and I hung out with Eric another time outside of that. He was someone who cared very little about himself and wanted nothing but to please everyone.

All that being said, looking back I can see that he probably suffered from being bi-polar or more than likely was manic depressive. My Dad was diagnosed bi-polar and him and Eric are very similiar, though again my guess would probably be manic. When that is a factor it's no wonder he was pushed over the edge. I don't think the WTBS is totally to blame but again it's obviously a major factor...if nothing else I'm sure it stopped him from getting help when he should have which would have been early on in his life.

I haven't talked to Eric since probably 3 years ago, but I'll always remember him. So here's to you my wild friend. Hopefully whever you are you're riding your motorcycle and having a laugh.

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Here's a good one the Jehovah's witnesses are worse than Nazi's

by Star tiger in

i'm not sure if this is a controversial subject or not, i suspect it is, the 1936-1945 nazi regime were the most evil b*****d's in the world and thankfully were destroyed, however the jehovah's witnesses having sufffered under their rule, then became even more evil not by destroying the person's physical life, but destroying their way to god, if a person leaves then they become dead to god, and this from a second rate publishing company!

please don't think i'm being flippant about all the suffering and death the nazi's caused, but as we are most of us spiritual people, surely the witnesses caused a catastrophy in the post 1945 era.. best regards,.

star tiger .

pr0ner

Wow thread disaster. Mods do your job and move this to where it belongs as this is neither a scandel or a coverup. As for the OP comparing WT to Nazis and saying it's worse? I'm sure there are a lot of dead Jews and WWII vets that would strongly disagree with you and their families would much rather they live as JW's than dead by the Nazi's hand.

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I must stop playing with the JWs on the independent

by nugget in

i have become seriously addicted and think i may need help.

i keep posting comments on the independent article in response to silly jw comments.

i am surprised by the level of ignorance displayed on the simplest of doctrines and shocked by their passion.

pr0ner

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Ministerial Servant charged with soliciting sex

by pr0ner in

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http://www.gastongazette.com/news/sex-56219-officer-sting.html.

this guy goes to a hall in gastonia nc....i believe the south hall, it has split into four congregations now but back in the day he went to the south.

his dad was a very respected elder in the hall.

pr0ner

Cause it's backwards Gastonia, they still think that being gay is a crime.

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Ministerial Servant charged with soliciting sex

by pr0ner in

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http://www.gastongazette.com/news/sex-56219-officer-sting.html.

this guy goes to a hall in gastonia nc....i believe the south hall, it has split into four congregations now but back in the day he went to the south.

his dad was a very respected elder in the hall.

pr0ner

http://www.gastongazette.com/news/sex-56219-officer-sting.html

This guy goes to a hall in Gastonia NC....I believe the South hall, it has split into four congregations now but back in the day he went to the south. His Dad was a very respected elder in the hall. Anyways he is currently a MS. My brother and I were discussing who we thought might be gay and living a double life, I said this guy's brother and my brother said, "no more like Brian, he is a freak" he then went on to tell me a story about going to Carowinds with a group of young girls and he was being very "creepy" around the young girls...of course it looks like he is either bi or gay now so who knows. Anyways how funny.

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JW's Came to the Door

by pr0ner in

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boy she didn't know what she was walking into.

it was a wealthy (she drove a lexus and was very well dressed) middle aged woman with a younger girl.

she used the typical line this time of year asking if i knew where the origins of christmas came from.

pr0ner

lolz gotta love the troll squad.

Anyways thanks you guys. I've noticed the best tact to take with JW's at the door is to never give away too much that you know about them or were associated with them. They tend to stick around longer if you simply act like you know a ton about the bible but not much about their religion (when they ask how you know so much about the bible tell them you went to school for religious studies). Most JW's have a well of bible versus but never go outside of those individual scriptures for context. Every time she would turn to a scripture I would say, "now lets read what was before and after" then point out that her scripture didn't have much to do with our argument in the context of the chapter. This usually always dead ends JW's since critical thinking is a no-no.

Another thing I pointed out to her was how silly their name was. The question they can never answer is, "Paul had no problem calling himself Christian, why do you?". It always gets the same response, "we are Christian, but we are witnesses of Jehovah". To which I again just said, "Paul didn't call himself that, to the nations he was known as a Christian", it's another thing they never think about that they usually can't wiggle out of. She was most def. having a hard time and you could tell it in the way she was thinking out loud.

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JW's Came to the Door

by pr0ner in

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boy she didn't know what she was walking into.

it was a wealthy (she drove a lexus and was very well dressed) middle aged woman with a younger girl.

she used the typical line this time of year asking if i knew where the origins of christmas came from.

pr0ner

Boy she didn't know what she was walking into. It was a wealthy (she drove a Lexus and was very well dressed) middle aged woman with a younger girl. She used the typical line this time of year asking if I knew where the origins of Christmas came from. I explained to her that I was well aware of the pagan origins which shocked her, then I mentioned how I really didn't care since my celebration of Christmas has nothing to do with Christ. I then set up the trap asking her why she didn't celebrate it just because of the pagan thing. She explained so then I asked if it was OK for her to wear a wedding ring. She said of course, so I told her that had pagan origins so what was the difference. Her cognitive dissonance really kicked in and she started using the, "well almost everything has pagan origins we couldn't live if we took away everything". It was pretty funny so then I told her she was creating levels for sins, my sin of celebrating Christmas was somehow worse then her wearing a wedding a ring. This concept just went totally over her head, although I know it didn't because she was still trying to justify it to me which meant she was thinking it over. I also told her about Romans and the meat sacrificed to idols that Paul had to allow some things so that the Romans could migrate into the Christian congregation without being totally vilified, so it was basically like allowing folks to have Christmas trees as long as the spirit of why you had it was fine. It was a bit of flawed logic and a stretch but she bought it and finally admitted that there was nothing wrong with it. This however lead to the DF convo which she was very strong on. I also forced her into a corner about it and drove home the point about how with out transparency it's always doomed to hurt people which is not what Christianity is about. I wish she would make a RV on me.

This is the second time it's been an older woman with a younger sister. Both times the younger one just sat there kind of in awe that I was going toe to toe. It's those situations I like cause there is the chance the younger one might take a little bit in and question their logic.

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JW gets attacked by police dog and bites back!

by pr0ner in

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where in the world was the holy spirit?

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39978891/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/.

pr0ner

Where in the world was the holy spirit?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39978891/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/

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Darkness In The Watchtower

by Yizuman in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnuwpk7ppa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpaq8uswjc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46b274msfk.

pr0ner

lolz I love the subliminal art theories. Why is the Anarchy (a very crude not well placed one BTW) symbol there? Um it couldn't possibly be that it was put there by accident? Or that the person who sees those things is just fishing for something "evil"? GTFO with that crap. They might as well accuse the WTBTS of being reptilian shape shifters, or aliens from another planet. Those idiots give those who want to do something positive for exiting JWs a bad name. I wish they would just STFU and actually try to help people leave and support them instead of spending hours in their basement making this crap up.

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Electronic Cigarettes?

by pr0ner in

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friends

i'm working for this company blu cigs.

what are you general opinions on them?

i'm going to be doing pr and events stuff for them in the future.

pr0ner

Haha I was telling the president of our company I thought we should advertise at MMA events since they seem like the type would would use it like a status symbol. So I can certainly see the a-hole types just using them to get attention. When I would do shows for the other company I worked for (our companies are linked through some investors) I would play around with them and always felt a little weird especially since I don't smoke. It was almost like the feeling you get when you have to wear a costume or something to a normal event. Of course now since I'll be doing trade shows and events I'll be having to use them all the time.