Posts by nugget

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ANONYMITY (Is it really possible on the Internet?)

by Terry in

i should begin by screaming the word: no!.

keeping secret your identity while posting in a public forum is like removing your pubic hair with a blowtorch.

which is to say, theoretically possible but not at all feasible!.

nugget

Perhaps our experience can help. We were presented with our postings on this forum and printouts of our facebook pages despite the fact that our privacy settings were high and I always posted personal experiences in the members only section of the forum. We had no JW friends on facebook and had successfully faded for a year. Just because you use a pen name does not mean that you cannot be traced from the information you share.

For us it was not the end of the world we were ready to start afresh and it was not the trauma it could have been.

Anyone who has signed up to the forum can read members only stuff whether they post themselves or not. Anyone can send you a pm claiming to have had a similar experience and gain information you would not share generally. Friends of friends can see facebook posts you have comented on.

Feel free to express views but be careful what information you share with people you do not know unless you are ready to leave.

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Hooray for me!

by stillin in

cleaning house and chunking out i useless trash today.

guess what went into the trash?

that's right, about ten years worth of magazines, all wt that i truthfully admitted to myself i never look at, and if i did it would be on the cdrom program.

nugget

It is surprising how long it takes to get rid of this stuff. Even though we set to with a will to throw out the lot, literature still turns up under the bed or hiding at the back of cupboards. I really need to move house that way I will know I have purged the lot.

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Witness Claims He Was Fired After Xmas

by Bangalore in

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friends

witness claims he was fired after xmas.http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/17/56756.htm.

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bangalore.

nugget

I think he has a warped idea of what the word work means. I would suggest he took the job under false pretenses and misled his employer. He claimed to be a cake decorator when in fact he was only able to decorate a limited number of cakes. He would have known that there would be an expectation to produce finished cakes for a number of occasions but also knew he would not be willing to decorate any of the seasonal items.

What is annoying is this person took the job away from someone else who would have been willing to work and who would have been able to have a good christmas themselves with a wage coming in.

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The official list of things for which you may be disfellowshipped

by slimboyfat in

from the secret elders' book which states that the list "of course" is "not comprehensive".

nevertheless here are the acts that they deem worthy of specifying as being possible grounds for chucking people out:.

murdermanslaughter such as killing someone while breaking traffic lawsattempting suicidesexual intercourse with someone other than your spouseanal sex with someone other than your spouseoral sex with someone other than your spousesexual stimulation of the genitals of someone other than your spousedelay in reporting a rape?

nugget

What about denying the governing body is gods representative on earth? That was what the elders were concerned about in our case.

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Will AAWA Become another cult?

by His Excellency in

please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

nugget

Cedars is just one of the founders. He is a strong willed bugger but the other founders and officers are not exactly push overs.

Not only that AAWA needs everyone to pull together and that won't happen is there is any whiff of egotiscal, dictatorial, despotic leadership.

Edit: I can't wait to get my computer back so I can stop posting accidently on Nugget's account!

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We warmly invite you to attend this year's three-day CONVENTION presented by Jehovah's Witnesses/ 'God's Word Is Truth'

by suavojr in

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we warmly invite you to attend this year's three-day convention presented by jehovah's witnesses/ 'god's word is truth'.

nugget

I wonder how many people who receive an invite will be motivated to actually attend. When they get there will they be offered a seat or be told that certain rows are not for them or be faced with rows covered in coats. Will people actually welcome them on site or look at them strangely because they look different?

If you are df'd can you really expect a welcome? Not realistic as they are told not to greet you.

Is it really welcoming to go somewhere and hear a lecture about how corrupt, diseased,and wicked you are?

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How Many Here Have Ever Smoked Pot or Tobacco?

by minimus in

jw
friends

am i the only one who has done neither?.

nugget

An I had a nice cigar last Saturday!

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baptize sister hope to meet a brother

by prinses1920 in

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nugget

This is not an appropriate place to raise this really.

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AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

by cedars in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

http://www.jwactivists.org.

facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

nugget

Where are the volunteer forms?

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Part 2 of the 2013 Conti and Simons interview now on YouTube (questions posed by JWN members)

by cedars in

part 2 of the interview series has now been uploaded to youtube.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmewxug3kck.

for those who are unfamiliar, this is the second part of a series of videos covering an interview with candace conti and rick simons where the questions were posed by members of this forum.. questions answered in this video are.... .

(to rick, asked by hoffnung) why was watch tower bible & tract society of pennsylvania, together with more watchtower corporations, not sued as well?.

nugget

I was actually glad she addressed these issues as it is clear that the WTBTS is willing to play dirty to discredit her. I feel sorry that anyone would want to attack the victim but it is a standard Watchtower tactic. They try to make it all about the acuser so as to distract from themselves, but by addressing these issues head on and showing that they are irrelevent means that the apologists have nowhere to hide.

The next tactic will be that this is all about persecusion and they are the victim.