My initial impression is to doubt that this really happened. It's probably another scare tactic aimed at drawing the wagons just a bit tighter...
NeonMadman
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New Apostate Tactic-Disrupting Telephone Conference Bridges
by CaptainSchmideo init was announced last week at my hall that if you have a pin number for the audio conference bridge, you are never to give it out to strangers.. this bridge is available for elderly and shut-ins who can't be at the meetings.
you dial an 800 number, and enter a pin for your particular hall.
(this is amazingly high tech and convenient for the brothers.
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JW Convention week...pure hades.
by Sparkplug inthe jw lady i work with went to summer convention last week and the following days were pure sheeeeite.
all week i could hear her a row over trying to fill everyone with her crazy spirit.
i could not find my mp# until thursday and by then i was totally pissed off.
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NeonMadman
Start asking her questions about the organization's false prophcies, rejected teachings, pedophile sitution, involvement with the "image of the beast" (UN), etc. After the first few questions, she probaby won't bother you any more.
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Walkill on Google Earth Please
by ThomasCovenant inhi anyone point me to wt premises in wallkill area please thanks thomas covenant
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NeonMadman
The address to enter is:
900 Red Mills Rd
Wallkill, NY 12589It doesn't come up with a very clear shot, though.
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Song Lyrics That Remind You Of The Watchtower
by Arthur ini was listening to a song today by rush.
i had heard the song a few times before, but today i really listened closely to the lyrics.
i read the lyrics off of the cd jacket and the words remind me so much of how i felt in the watchtower organization - never being allowed to ask serious questions or raise any kinds of objections to organizational practices.
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NeonMadman
Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
Bob Dylan
There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write.
There's a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much but she's drifting like a
satellite. There's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze, laughter down on
Elizabeth Street
And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed in a stream of pure
heat. Her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practiced
what he preached from the heart.
A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me the time and the place that the trouble would start.
There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage
And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
Of a book that no one can write.
Oh, where are you tonight?
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode.In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road.
I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John, strong men belittled by doubt.
I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding
them out. He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting,
putting flowers on the shelf.
She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair and discovered her invisible self.
There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped,
There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped,
As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape,
I won't, but then again, maybe I might.
Oh, if I could just find you tonight.
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way.
Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes, the guy you were lovin'
couldn't stay clean.
It felt outa place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money was
green.
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg.
Then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss and who always was
too proud to beg.
There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that leads
up to the stars.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the
scars.
There's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived.
If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived.
I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive,But without you it just doesn't seem right.
Oh, where are you tonight?
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Song Lyrics That Remind You Of The Watchtower
by Arthur ini was listening to a song today by rush.
i had heard the song a few times before, but today i really listened closely to the lyrics.
i read the lyrics off of the cd jacket and the words remind me so much of how i felt in the watchtower organization - never being allowed to ask serious questions or raise any kinds of objections to organizational practices.
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NeonMadman
Changing of the Guards
Bob Dylan
Sixteen years,
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves.
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
Fortune calls.
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
The cold-blooded moon.
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
They shaved her head.
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
I stumbled to my feet.
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking.
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
Gentlemen, he said,
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
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Is Anyone Looking Forward To The Sopranos Coming Back???
by minimus ini am.
i think they wait way too long though for their series to come back on!
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NeonMadman
This occurred to me the other evening: remember at the beginning of season 6 when Uncle Junior shot Tony? While Tony was in the coma, he dreamed he was an ordinary schlub named (I think) Kevin Finnerty. I think maybe it's Finnerty who's in the coma and he's spent the last several years dreaming that he's a mob boss.
Sort of a variation on the Newhart theme...
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New Watchtower conductor guidelines
by Frequent_Fader_Miles inhinging on an earlier thread on this topic; here's a quotation from the text of the letter to all elders:.
"the kingdom ministry school textbook emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation on the part of the study conductor.
but this does not mean that he should introduce additional material from his own personal research and thus possible overshadow what has been published in the magazine.
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NeonMadman
Well, obviously the point is that you are supposed to do your own reasearch using only the WT pubs. It's research from other sources that are the big problem. If you research using WT pubs only, you can fool yoursef into thinking you are truly investigating the matter when in fact you are merely being spoon-fed propaganda.
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Gas prices soon to pass $4.00 mark
by free2beme ini remember last year, a lot of blame against the republican congress for doing nothing to stop big oil companies from raising prices.
democrats are in office now, and no one seems to be saying anything.
why are the democrats not being the night and shinning armor about gas prices?.
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NeonMadman
If they get us all into a panic about approaching $4.00 per gallon prices, think how happy and relieved we will be if they only go up to $3.50 - which is higher than they've ever been in the USA.
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Who got a FREE PASS in your Kingdom Hall
by NotaNess inthis has probably been a topic before, but why not re-hash?!.
who in your kindom hall got away with the way they acted or things they did, just because they were a jw, and what was it?.
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NeonMadman
I knewa casewhere a young guy who was "new in the truth" and an elder's daughter got publicly reproved on the same night (you can probably guess why). Her restrictions were gone in a month; his lasted over a year.
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What forbidden music did you listen to?
by brinjen init may have been done before, if it has it's being done again.. what worldly music did you listen to?
i'm talking about the singer/band that made the elders blood boil and got you whispers and stares at the kingdom hall.. i was an eighties child so for me it was madonna!
the lacy tops and bras, crucifixes, slutty makeup and openess towards sex was the perfect outlet for me.
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NeonMadman
My first application to regular pioneer (in 1971 or so) was turned down in part because I listened to Beatles music. Later on, the body of elders changed and I got appointed anyway.