I just got off the phone with my dad. Someone (he didn’t say who) in my JW family has screenshots, and he’s going to ‘let the brothers work this one out with me’. I’m off now. I have more pressing issues to deal with. I need to regroup and think about how I want to handle this. Thank you everyone for your concern. I trust you all will understand why I don’t want to get in the middle of this right now, as I have phone calls and emails to make, and bridges to put the fires out on.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini am an inactive jw.
i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.
i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.
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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini am an inactive jw.
i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.
i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.
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I am an inactive JW. I haven’t been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others. I have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others. Naturally I added them to my Facebook friends list. I live 2000 miles away from my JW relatives, so Facebook is a way to keep up with them too. I thought there wasn’t any harm since these were only names which were unknown to them. I created two friends groups, one JW and the other non-JW. Whenever I wanted to rant and use inappropriate language, I restricted the JW group from seeing the posting. I thought that was a good and safe system to keep.
Until now.
I had no idea what AAWA was until I finally got ahold of my JW brother yesterday and let him know when I was flying out. He told me to not even bother, and that it was a bad idea for me to come since there were going to be active JWs at the wedding. Pressed further, he mentioned that there were rumors going around the family that I had joined an ‘Anti-Watchtower’ group on Facebook (that is the term he used). I came clean to him and admitted that I had a few friends who were ex-JWs on Facebook, but that I most certainly had NOT joined this group. The conversation soon ended, and I frantically searched my Facebook profile. And there it was!
I have since been dropped from the group and have defriended my ex-JW friends.
Wish me luck in explaining to my dad how that whole AAWA thing was not my fault. This is bullshit.
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Are you approved to report (from the km for july)
by therevealer inyes indeedy.
if you are fortunate enough to be approved you can report (as in be allowed to report) 15-minute increments.
i knew that older ones, for example, were encouraged to report even the smallest amount of service and the cong.
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It just demonstrates the absurdity of even getting 15 minutes out of someone with weeks to live. Since JWs do not approve of euthanasia, what happens to comatose publishers after six months? Both in theory and in the records kept at Bethel, comatose granny would be in the same boat as me - inactive.
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Let's talk music!
by BreathoftheIndianNose inwhat is your favorite band/artist right now?
what music do we need to know about?
frank ocean is my addiction right now.
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I'm listening to Derrick Morgan right now. Can't get this tune out of my head right now:
Rudies in Court, no boys, Rudies in Court!
Rudies don't fear, no boys, Rudies don't fear!
Whenever summer starts I swing to reggae/ska. By winter I go all in for Pink Floyd.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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And to think that I will lose your valued insight on Hein v. Freedom From Religion. I was SO looking forward to that.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who thinks they are not a fool? Think about it. If you didn't get the mockery, then you will never know how stupid and ill-informed on this forum you sound. You will never be respected as a legal scholar here, at least not until you brush up on these writing skills and present better arguments. Hey, Poli-Sci eh? That MUST be the reason you are the reigning expert in all these subjects.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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Hmm... Dewey, LeBoeuf. I think I will look that up, thanks. Let's see... A global law firm headquartered in NY. Very impressive. I used to work there too once I got out of Harvard Law. Then I started clerking for Sonia Sotomayor. See Ricci v. DeStafano. Yup, that was me. The President's office and say... like 20 large law firms also sought me out. Man, I was the shit back then. I'm also a proven expert in Paraguayan and Tanzanian Constitutional law. (See Lopez v. Garcia and Kikwete v. Fruit Collective of Tanzania LLC). I'd love to have a debate with you on those subjects. You know, because I'm so smart and all. Did I forget to mention that I graduated from Harvard? Oh wait, the phone's ringing. Damn that Andrew Cuomo. He's always bugging me to accept a job on his staff. But where was I? Yeah, my resume is pretty impressive. Don't believe me? Well here's proof... go to www.harvard.com. Also see www.whitehouse.gov. Oh well, back to fending off calls from these pesky elite law firms. Associate? Yeah right.. I don't need that shit when I can be Professor Emeritus here on JWN.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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This keeps on getting better. Now you are making a unilateral and completely disconnected decision that intelligent conversation is impossible with me. Too late. I called you out on that first. The petulance is all yours, and now you are in the "I know you are, but what am I?" phase. Of course I'm interested in dialogue ('dialgue' according to you). I just would like it with some actual merit than on your credentials alone. That's all I hear out of you. But hey, I must be making some progress because in your last posting I hardly heard any reference to your education. But you still spout out references to random subjects. Do you need to do this to convince yourself that you are intelligent? This isn't a classroom and you are not the professor, but you act like you are. That's the reason why it's so difficult to get through any of your sentences without feeling that there is someone behind it with serious insecurities. Wow, you are so smart. Lemon/Agostini... Helm, McCreary, or Van Orden. And I must be so dumb because I didn't mention them. Oh and let's not forget Helm v. Freedom From Religion. This is completely lame 'gotcha' pseudo-logic. ($20 says you needed to google 'pseudo-logic') My, I am so impressed. It's just a shame that you obviously need to take a community college refresher course in spelling and Writing 101. Otherwise you might even be readable. As much as you claim I am not interested in dialogue (or 'dialgue', which one is it?), I am absolutely convinced you are not interested in it at all. You seek to be some sort of wise counsel on this forum, and are not used to people questioning you. I do question it because you write at a high school level, with argumentation skills straight out of the Watchtower.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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This is so pointless. It's like a cop pointing to his badge as proof of being such a good cop. If you were a doctor, you'd be handing out copies of your medical degree in your office as proof that your medical opinion is correct and incontrovertible. I did call your argument circular because it simply is. What does James Madison have to do with this subject? What about British Constitutional history? Already you have brought out two red herrings designed only to distract from what was previously discussed. True to form, you delve no deeper into the subject. Just by mentioning Madison and British Constitutional history, you seek to impress and intimidate people by the very mention of what you obviously consider a very significant subject. You throw these subjects out there as puerile way to intimidate people. Do tell me more. Did you even know that there is no written "British Constitution" and that it is based on Acts of Parliament? I bet you are hitting wikipedia right about now to think of something clever to say in response. Call me a child all you want to. At least I don't write and reason like one would. You got exposed for what you are and you don't like it. You are a fraud. Nothing more, nothing less. This is dimestore logic and boilerplate know-it-all bullshit. Attacking your credibility as a claimed expert due to poor argumentational and writing skills is not the same as a personal attack. But I obviously struck a nerve here and you seem hell-bent on screaming out as loud as you can that you are so scary-smart. Have fun with your wikipedia sessions, and maybe a glass of wine will help take the edge off.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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I simply expressed my incredulity that someone with such exaggerated claims of intelligence and education can write so poorly and with little reason. Your content is never anything that couldn't be gleaned from a wikipedia page. It's simply a fact that your subpar writing distracts from what you are trying to say. It's so circular in nature that your arguments lead me to believe that you have a pre-existing bias towards almost anything. I'm sorry if you take it as a personal attack. I'll let you speak what you want with impunity if you just lay off the reciting of your resume. It lacks real professionalism to do so, and you should know better if you are who you say you are. But I can't stay silent when I see such an obvious fraud. All I heard from you is some babble about the First Amendment and Constitutional Law and how you know what you are talking about. No real argument was presented. Only credentials. You might as well have just cut and pasted from wikipedia. No one else has confronted you on this until now. I kept my mouth shut for the most part and let things be. When you tried to hijack a thread and tried to put A Bible Student in his place, I felt the need to give him advice to just ignore you. You say that your resume is proof of your qualifications, but there is no way to verify this information. We have to take it on your word. So I'll say it again. Your style and level of writing actually does more to discredit you than provide any real "proof" of your claimed credentials. This is a forum for discussion and debate. If you wanted to hear nothing but your own echo, then you can speak into the mirror.