Mary

Joined

• started 337 topics
• posted 12,723 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Mary

• 
  15

  How many Governing Body members have secret accounts on this forum?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  how many of them do you think have secret accounts on this discussion board?

  could it be just a couple of the younger ones or all of them or none of them or do they get others to read and post on the forum on thei behalf.

  i saw in a news article that you can hire social media and internet agents to manage your online profiles on your behalf.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  I doubt any of the Slobbering Body members actually have accounts on here but some of their underlings obviously do. I remember a few years ago when someone posted a link to the new Elders' Manual on here. I believe Simon got a notice from someone that it was to be taken down immediately (maybe Simon can confirm this?) due to copyright infringement.

  While I doubt they spend hours and hours on here, Crooklyn almost certainly has a few of their henchmen who come on here to see what we know (usually before the R&F do) and probably with regards to any lawsuits or reports in the media about Witness pedophiles. They probably report back to the powers that be that we more or less make mincemeat out of their crazy doctrines, while the GB can only sit there in impotent rage that we're not living in the Good Ol' Days of ancient Israel where they could have all us 'apostates' murdered.
• 
  7

  PICTURES I TOOK FROM A WILD STORM LAST NIGHT

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  man oh man did we ever get a bad one last night.

  it was unreal!!

  i was sitting out on the front porch and it got really dark, clouds swirling but not much else.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Man oh man did we ever get a bad one last night. It was unreal!! I was sitting out on the front porch and it got really dark, clouds swirling but not much else. Then the wind suddenly shifted, it started really raining hard and coming straight out of the north. By the time I stood up, turned aro und to fold the chair (about 2.5 seconds) this wall of wind came straight out of the west and just ripped right down the street ripping up trees, sheds and everything else. I could not see even 2 feet out the front windows---it was like a huge sandstorm that covered everything My gazebo (which was bolted into 2x4’s that were drilled into the ground with cement) was ripped completely off. Someone’s tire and chunks of trees were in the driveway, Another shed blew up the road and was squashed on someone’s front lawn, a neighbour up the road had a huge tree come through the back of his house and the woman who lives across the road had a huge part of her tree break off and blocked the road out front. It was a total frigging mess!! Yet just a few streets over, they didn’t get hardly anything.

  Here's a couple of pictures I took:

  What once looked like this:

  Looked like this after:
• 
  21

  Two teenage boys rescue girl from kidnapper

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  we need some good news about our young people and this shows what community caring is and can be about.

  article is in freakoutnation and on cnn.

  temar boggs and his buddy saw a man grab young 5 year old jocelyn rojas and speed off.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Now that is the kind of story I like to hear. Those boys should be given medals. If not for their persistance, I think we all know what that little girl's fate would have been.

  Hope they catch the POS who abducted her......
• 
  79

  JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.

  despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.

  it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Here's something every ex-Bethelite should buy:
• 
  272

  A Video Series about 607 BC vs 587 BC

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is the main series playlist:.

  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=plynx0om_bmgbfmnapjr_v5fe9_pf8sqa1.

  this is the accompanying video appendix:.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Scholar, ya little dumb shithead! I see you're still eating, sleeping and dreaming about 607 BCE---the woman of your dreams, after all these years. And after all these years, your posts are still all BS. Hope you've saved something for your retirement beyond trying to be a puppet for Crooklyn. LOL.
• 
  79

  JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.

  despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.

  it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  With all the wealth of watctower surely there must be something can be done for these people?

  And indeed their solution is to kick them to the curb before they get any older and let them fend for themselves. I also wondered how the hell they can be 'laying off' middle-aged Bethelites and pointing them out the back door while at the same time begging for new younger recruits through the front door. It's not like you get a great paycheque or anything.

  The only thing I can think of is that Crooklyn needs people with skills now. That means they need computer programmers, constructional engineers, electricians, mechanics, technicians, doctors, nurses and all the lawyers they can get. The 56 year old Bethelite who was first mentioned in this thread, was 19 when he entered Bethel and that would have been in 1976. Virtually no Witnesses would have had any marketable skills when they entered those doors in '76 and they never developed any. Fast-forward 37 years and you've got a scene right out of an Austin Powers movie where they're still living life like it was 30+ years ago without realizing the world has changed. You could call it: The Cult That Shagged Me.

  I sincerely doubt they're given any kind of a settlement when they're handed the dreaded pink slip, or if it they are, it's absolutely minimal. When Ray Franz was given the boot, I think they gave him $10,000 and he had been a member of the Governing Body. I can't see them giving a damn about a lower ranking Bethelite......
• 
  259

  Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.

  if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.

  there was never an obvious message/answer from god.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

  I'll let you know for sure after the lottery numbers are given tonight.
• 
  79

  JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.

  despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.

  it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  He had no idea life on the outside was this hard.

  That is, unfortunately, the reality of being a middle-aged Bethelite these days. They were told when they were young to join Bethel and they'd be taken care of for life. (There was actually something like this written in the literature several years ago that I came across one day---I'll see if I can find it again).

  I also saw a show on tv a few years ago where it showed what life was like in Bethel. One woman who was working in the laundry was asked by the reporter how she felt doing the laundry for everyone else. She made the comment that 'they wouldn't have time to do it themselves and still attend to all the spiritual needs' or something equally as dumb. Because that is exactly what those who live outside the holy of holies is expected to do. The R&F are supposed to work, cook, clean, do laundry, buy groceries, attend to the children, study, attend meetings, field serve-us, etc. etc. Bethelites have most of this done for them and it's all free. No wonder it's such a shock to them when they have to live in the real world made up of rent, groceries, clothing, bills, work, etc. because they haven't a clue what the real world is actually like.
• 
  480

  Zimmerman Not guilty

  by mouthy in

  1. social
  2. current
  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Mary: Your links are a big FAIL - there is no evidence there at all, just unsubstantiated claims.

  Simon, I never thought I'd say this but some of your statements are becoming very irrational. Which surprises me as I've always thought you to be a level-headed person. I sent you 2 links that showed her husband is a wife/spouse beater. He's admitted it. And now you're saying that it's a "big FAIL"? Seriously?

  Whatever. I've grown tired of this discussion. In reality it makes no difference what you or I or anyone else thinks about the whole situation because Zimmerman was found 'not guilty' by a panel of his peers. Whether we agree with it or not, it is what it is and we can't change it.

  Time to move on.
• 
  7

  And you thought the witlesses are bad?

  by WTWizard in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, they are bad.

  dreams lost because of pious-sneering, opportunities lost because of the rules, vacations lost, missing holidays, and the dread of field circus are bad.. however, i have found information about a few even worse cults that are gaining traction.

  now, these are not the "the world is going to end and you need to commit suicide to be saved" rubbish.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Mary

  Children as young as 2 are bound and forced to sit at attention.

  Why do I foresee that in a few years time, members of this whacky cult are going to have numerous child-abuse charges laid against them?