Ditto to OODAD too f**king young. I was 14 when I was dunked. In the cong that I was in that had about 80 publishers 13 kids were baptized all around my age. It was a huge push to get your kid dunked that summer. We were like our own little club. The kids that did not get baptized were looked down on and labeled bad association. Looking back it was sick. There was a mind set back then (this was 1969) that if you waited in to your later teens or gawd forbid your 20"s you were a doubter, worldly, and immature. It was a numbers game and remember folks that is when the whole 1975 thing started rumbling.
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Anyone care to guess the age of this baptismal candidate?
by cedars inthis picture appears on page 30 of the latest october 15th 2012 watchtower in an article discussing the importance of sticking to our baptismal vows..... .
anyone care to guess how young this poor chap is?.
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Artists or authors who are famous but who you are not that crazy about
by Chemical Emotions ini have to say, although i don't dislike him, i'm not a huge fan of jackson pollack.
i mean, i find his work boring.
5, which is nice, but i just don't "get it".
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Have to agree on the Stephen King except the book about the cat and the various journeys. Can't remember the name?? Help now I am going to be bugged about that until someone sends me the name. Hate Hate Hate Taylor Swift. A mashed cat would sound better. Just read she is the high paid singer (?????) under the age of 30. I would preferher under a bus.
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The Sandusky Scandal's Possible Impact on the WTS
by Quendi ini hope the powers-that-be in brooklyn are paying close attention to what is happening in state college, pennsylvania with respect to the hideous pedophile scandal at penn state university because it speaks directly to their own handling of pedophilia.
here is a news release about the matter:.
state college, pa. (ap) -- penn state's investigation into the jerry sandusky scandal concludes that the administrators who fielded a 2001 complaint about him created a dangerous situation for future victims by not reporting the matter.. the freeh group's report issued thursday said that in order to avoid bad publicity, president graham spanier, football coach joe paterno, athletic director tim curley and vice president gary schultz ''repeatedly concealed critical facts.''.
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smiddy: not knowing about the legal system down under does that mean the all charges were drop. What prompted this move??? I had just heard about this last night when talking with a buddy in Florida. Were did the pressure come from? Yicks HB
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Candace Conti's Rap Sheet
by Bangalore incandace conti's rap sheet.. http://www.jw-archive.org/2012/07/candace-contis-rap-sheet-just-for.html.
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It is refreshing to see you all's reaction to this. You bet blame the victim. And OODAD right on...... how is this relevant? It isn't. The WTBTS has missed their calling. They should be contracted by the Presidental canidates to spearhead the upcoming smear campaign.
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Is their a slackening off / lack of zeal in the witnessing work that I am observing or is it just the area I`m living in
by smiddy inlast saturday i was home with my wife,having a leisurely brekky pottering around in the kitchen ,then i noticed her standing still pondering ,what`s up i asked , wife :i thought i heard someone knocking ,i looked out the window to see two middle aged guys exciting my front drive.why didn`t you tell me they were their,i didn`t hear them.
i would have engaged them in conversation , but my wife doesn`t think i ought to,just let it go ,is her motto.. but my point is : i`m not deaf , and i didn`t hear them at the door , we were both in the front room ,my wife only thought she heard someone at the door only to be proved right observing them leaving i was in my pj`s and dressing gown so was not going to pursue them.
we have been living here nearly 5 years now and i can honestly say they have never been on our doorstep more than 4 times if that , i personally have only encountered them 3 times at the most.
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Yep many left gzeens on my door. counted me as a RV and placement. Elder stopped by not so much lately called it a sheperding call. it is all about the numbers.
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The Sandusky Scandal's Possible Impact on the WTS
by Quendi ini hope the powers-that-be in brooklyn are paying close attention to what is happening in state college, pennsylvania with respect to the hideous pedophile scandal at penn state university because it speaks directly to their own handling of pedophilia.
here is a news release about the matter:.
state college, pa. (ap) -- penn state's investigation into the jerry sandusky scandal concludes that the administrators who fielded a 2001 complaint about him created a dangerous situation for future victims by not reporting the matter.. the freeh group's report issued thursday said that in order to avoid bad publicity, president graham spanier, football coach joe paterno, athletic director tim curley and vice president gary schultz ''repeatedly concealed critical facts.''.
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Quendi: As alway you cover the bases. I started a thread this early AM about the very thing. What really stickes me is Freed's candor about the responsibilitly of the upper"s at Penn state. Culpablility does fall on the institution. DUUUUUU WTBTS take note you are in this mess. There needs to be a big push to make known the similarity between Sandusky and the BORG. Maybe just Maybe things will start rolling. It would be about time. HB
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Old People ask....?
by dreamgolfer inthis is wide open for all - lets have fun!.
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
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harleybear
Okay really??? was there a book released "Old Peple Ask" No I am serious. I am sooooooo out of the loop. My question would be " Wat up bro????"
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"we need to help that brother"
by TimeBandit inat the last district convention i went to (2010) i was sitting in my seat during the lunch break.
i was listening to two brothers sitting together chatting in the row in front of me.
they were talking about brother 'so and so'.
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Hi Just popped in on this thread. Blondie you are so on the spot. The " help someone" is the sagway to gossip. It is what I call view spin. under the pretense of "helping" someone, they can justify any and all conversation. I was "helped" and it resulted in the elders 10, 11, and 12 year old children giggling outside of the "hall" about me. Helping gives them a superior statis, and also erases their accountablilies.
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Questions about disfellowshipping and 'non-sanctioned' shunning
by Steve_C inbasically, i have a couple of questions about the current rules regarding disfellowshipping and shunning.
by current i mean since 1999.. sorry, but i have to put a bit of my history to clarify my situation.. i was a born-in who was baptized in 1983. got married to a sister in 1984. then the kids came.
by the mid-1990s my wife and i had become increasingly irregular, so that by 1999 we were both inactive and only went to the memorial and conventions.. in 1999 i committed adultery, confessed to the elders, and had a judicial committee.
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I have faded, not DF'ed nor DA'ed. Family what it is, has not shunned me but I divorced them. No contact with my father who a huge pain in the ASS and a phony, uncles and aunts who smile nodding their heads and say " she's a good girl". Not many "sheperding call" unless they are short on their time and need a RV and placment. Once a month maybe. I really doubt there will be any action because I intimidate the living crap out of them. Gawd I actually ask questions and I am a chick. What will Jehovah think. The non-sanctioned shunning is a way for "them" to feel better about where they are. What I wonder is if they look at me and think " but for the grace of God, there go I". Do they secretly yearn to do the same thing I have done.
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Louis Freed report on Penn State and how it is like the WTBTS
by harleybear inwow.
louis freed (retired fbi) released a 200 plus page independant report on the culpability of the upper rants of penn state in the sandusky case and it it was not flattering!!!!!
what struct me was the reference that the university knew of the wrong doing for over 14 year and did nothing about it with the excepiton of covering it up.
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Glad you all joined in. Diest you are so right sport figures have been getting away with conduct that would be considered outrageous by the average main stream. Remember back in the days of the New York Jets and Broadway Joe. Namath bedded ( or was reputed to have bedded down) with every blond on the planet. If that would have been a Josephine and a 7-11 clerk she would have been a slut. The disparity has many layers. First male vs female. A guy puts the moves on a gal he is cool, a stud, man's man's, a gal does it she is a whore. Can't you just see the headlines in the LA Times "Pioneer sister seduced 14 boys and demands sex" Brian Williams would walk over his dying mother for that story.
The second division is the priorities in this country. Sports fans will spend millions on T-Shirts, tickets, Pay Preview on sports and never blink an eye but ask that same fan about charitable contributions and you will get a blank stare as though you just sprounted two heads.
Finally, religion is sacred. You want to talk about the first " don't ask don't tell" policy. Yicks the Catholic church invented it. Relegion is "that thing" we do on Sunday and JW's are no different just more times a week. It is the thing in our twisted minds that makes us wash ourselve clean of all the "bad" stuff. How long did it take the Catholic church to take action. This is a huge!!!! organization and just most recently it has been the topic of the 5 PM news. REALLY?????? Then you add the extra degree of difficulty that JW's and the WTBTS are viewed by most as a bunch of wackos, cult memebers, and THOSE PEOPLE that disturbes your lawn mowing on Saturday morning and you really have a barrier.
The WTBTS DEPENDS on that perseption. It keeps them alive and operating. That too is a part of the elite mind melt that the BORG cultivates.
I think that about the only way to get the exposure to this matter out there is a full court press ( no sport pun intended ) to put pressure on the media to do their job. Will it happen?? Hard to say but if it is really true that the Conti case ( and I do believe it was) a real attempt to expose the BORG and its't policies then it behooves all of us to put pressure on what ever media we care to target and insist that they respond.