Posts by joenobody

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Rules For Dating My Daughter

by DakotaRed in

"ten simple rules for dating my daughter".

some thoughtful information for those who are daughters, were daughters, have daughters, intend to have daughters, or intend to date a daughter.. rule one: if you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.. rule two: you do not touch my daughter in front of me.

you may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck.

joenobody

A classic!

I loved especially the one about a "barrier". Can't wait til m daughter is old enough to date!

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Mormonism - a few points

by Amazing in

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mormonism is an enigma.

they extol higher education, then turn right around and insult education by their farms archeology site sponsored by byu.

just how this religion ever got by as far as they did is beyond me.

joenobody

I'd like to challenge your statements Susan - saying the BOM is not "easily unravelled" as Amazing says. Have you looked into the history behind the BOM? Do you know about it's connections to transcribed mistakes from early KJV versions of the Bible? Ask a Mormon just which of the many versions of Doctrines and Covenants is the correct one. Also, get back to me on the Book of Abraham... err Egyptian Book of the Dead! Finally, just where are those gold plates? Seems like an awful thing to have lost. Please tell me about the extent of your research.

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Watchtower Moves In For Kill On silentlambs

by silentlambs in

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draffenville

congregation

of jehovah's witnesses

joenobody

I am getting sick over this. It is a ridiculous stipulation not to have a recording device. Without such, there is no transcript of the events that take place behind closed doors.

Please make sure you record this to cover yourself. And absolutely figure out if there are any lawyers present at the start of the hearing.

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Why do Jws use id badges at assemblys?

by haujobbz in

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i have wondered why jws wear" id badges" at assemblys and not on the preaching work or at the hall,i know of someone who was stopped by an attendant because he wasnt wearing a badge.is it something to do with showing off our religious belief to outsiders, i must be honest i use to take mine off when leaving the assemblys but i noticed many wearing theres even when going home on the bus or walking home "i knew of 1 who wore his to bed", mormons wear id cards on their preaching work so do you think jws should.maybe due to the paedophile scandal jws may have to wear id badges especially paedophiles.

joenobody

I agree - it was great for getting more info on those hot young sisters. You could figure out where they were from, their name etc and get the lo-down on them. Ahh - the best part of conventions!

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The Ransome Issue

by Amazing in

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from a very young age i have been curious about the ransom jesus provided.

i always wondered why god found it necessary to have his son killed for our sins or our inherited sin, when he simply could have just waved his hand and forgiven us.

my catholic faith helped me some to understand the 'financial' exchange aspect of the ransom, but it was never truly satisfying to my sensibilities.. upon becoming a jw, i felt that they had better ideas and definitions.

joenobody

Amazing,

I appreciate your questions on this matter. This is the kind of thing I have not been able to make sense of either. I could not understand why God requires that parents be responsible for their progeny and what they do, and yet he takes no such resposibility himself for the actions of his own creations (ie. Adam/Eve/Satan all exercised "free-will" and rebelled).

Also, I never could come to terms with the fact that once a person died and was brought back to life, that they would need a ransom - "wages sin pays is death" - ie. you've paid the price once you died. Why too would a benevolent God be so tied up in legalastic red-tape to serve his sense of justice? I sincerely cannot imagine that a chess game of epic proportions between God and Satan's minions using mankind as pawns to prove some point is loving. When I read things like this in the Bible, it actually leads me to believe that if there is a God, then he is relatively perfect (ie. perfect in relation to humans) but not perfect overall. The 100% black and white, good-vs.-evil doesn't make much sense. Then again, that might be my feeble human brain unable to comprehend such weighty matters.

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My B/F told me he's a J/W after months of dating!

by Funky_Diva_53_2000 in

hi, i'm 17 and i've just recently become a member of this website and i want you to know what has happened to me over the past months.back in sep/oct 2001 i started chatting to a 20 year old bloke via the internet and we developed a great friendship over the net.we would talk online for ages,text and phone each other loads,we sent each other photos of ourselves and he would often put his webcam on for me to see.before i knew it he played a great part in my everyday life...and i spent so much time chatting to him that my college work suffered a lot & i wasn't doing my coursework (i eventually got told to leave as i hadn't done loads of the assignments and stuff & had fallen behind).

after about 6 months we arranged to meet up (i made sure my parents were at home coz i know it's dodgy to meet people from the internet).anyway,he came round my house one evening in march and we got along soo well...he lives quite locally too which was good.our friendship then grew into a relationship and we started dating and going out together,i was sooo happy and i fell for him in a massive way & he said he felt the same way too.to me,he was a girls dream come true...he was kind,caring,fit,good-looking & gentle and i loved him to bits!,i still do,and i thought we'd be together forever.

something that i did find a bit strange though was i hadn't met his family yet or heard my boyfriend talk much about them.i would question him about his family but he seemed to get a bit funny about it and when i mentioned about meeting his family he said something along the lines of ''they're a bit strange,you might not like them'' (or something like that anyway).that got me thinking and i though prehaps they lived in a run-down place or something,or they wern't very nice people and i thought my b/f could be ashamed to let me meet them.i thought to myself to give him time & he'll see that i'm an understanding & nice person and hoped that he would soon come out and tell me what the problem was (thinking it was about what i've just mentioned).

joenobody

I wouldn't get overly excited about it like other people on here have, but I think LB got it right.

I read your story as a guy now 30, out of the org for years, but in the org. at the same time as your BF. Honestly, at 17, just give up on him. Don't try to pull him out... even if you succeed in getting him out, he's going to be distraught to some degree for at least some period of time as he gets over having his social circle yanked from him. It will have an effect on his relationship with you (he may resent you subconciously).

You've probably heard it all before that feelings at 17 are strong and that you'll feel differently in a few years. There's too much growing to do in the normal course of things between 17 and 25, let alone having to help someone cope with a life in shambles from shunning, a constantly strained life of opposing viewpoints or other personal pressures.

Keep shedding tears - it's natural. But after you've shed a few more, think clearly and realize it's not a battle you likely want to fight right now.

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Heat Advisory: Philadelphia Assembly Next Weekend

by Room 215 in

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calling all dubbies in the middle atlantic states unlucky enough to have been assigned to the annual sauna in philly july 11-13.. as the u.s, northeast bakes in sweltering heat and debilitating humidity, what greater first-hand evidence can you find of bethel's callous indifference to your well-being than their persistence in scheduling these pointless hum-drum events in such a notorious blast-furnace environment as vets stadium, when just across the street, at the spectrum, and in countless other venues, air-conditioned auditoriums are readily available to them?

repeated, public warnings in the media of the health hazard to the very young and elderly posed by such conditions fall on deaf ears in brooklyn.

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