Posts by Preston

I took all of my old literature (books, magazines, brochures) out of my room and put them in my garage. I have all the latest books and brochures so if you guys want to take them from my hands I'll be more than happy to do so. I have no more use for them since I'm too busy reading Peter Straub, Anne Rice and the latest issue of Playgirl...

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KOIN TV NEWS station on JW's

by VeniceIT in

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tonight on koin news a portland or station there will be a segment on the jw families that have been murdered recently.

dad was called for an interview this afternoon, but since we're in fl now they had to do it on the phone.

others were also interviewed.

Preston

A quote from the article sf posted:

Critics have said the practice of disfellowship severs family ties, shatters individuals and may lead to suicide or attempted suicides. But Charles Hobart, who has been a Jehovah's Witness for 50 years and is a presiding elder of Northeast Portland's Beaumont Congregation, said he's never heard of a case when it was associated with suicide.

I would say he's a well-informed PO....OF course I'm being sarcastic.

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GOOD GOD!

by SYN in

hehe, all my best threads usually have all-caps in the titles.

this one's a doozy!.

i went out to this nightclub near my work last night (saturday night), and i was having a good old time, when i decided to sit down on a big, flat futon couch near the entrance to one of the dancefloors for a while (it's an outdoors club!).

Preston

There is an excellent song by Prince that I would suggest you listen too for advice, but it's too dirty to post on here.

I know someone who fell in love with a girl who had a child from another relationship. Whether you like it or not, the bagage from her previous relationship will be evident in whatever one you start with her, even if the girl looks like Britney Spears.

I'm not saying this to spoil your parade. Personally, I wouldn't want to see anything bad to my X-JW bretheren. Still, whatever decision you make I hope everything goes well.

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Where do you enjoy most - Making Love???

by Celtic in

where do you enjoy most - making love with one another, making that deep down, soul to soul shared connection?.

for me, if it were possible, it s/he would be out within nature, upon the woodland floor, with a few sleeping bags and cushions, amonst the leaf strewn woodland floor, at night with the moon overhead, owls calling, wow!!

the connection there i imagine would be pretty awesome, still never done it.. or on top of the cliffs, with the waves pounding below, sending ripples of vibration through the hillside above.. in stormy weather, on the beach, each place adding / sharing another shared perspective in our one soul love creating.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm if only.. peace, lots of it, kindness, joy and great friendships, music, wine and general jollity and boogeying it down.. love.

Preston

I'm pretty conservative about where I make love. Personally, I love doing it between the sheets. I have done it more than once in the front seat of my car. Last week my boyfriend gave me a blow job while he was driving and we stopped at a red light. Oh the places we've gone....

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a guy turned me down for a date

by hungry4life in

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i am so bummed yesterday i called this guy i know and asked him out, and he turned me down.

not just a polite "i'm busy" but he let me know that his relationship with someone just ended last month and he needs time to recover, he said " i am taking the rest of the year off from dating" (sounded to me like "don't bother to ask again")i didn't even know that he had been seeing someone in a serious relationship (the last time i ran into him was in early december).

we used to have had a few classes together and he always flirted with me.

Preston

Awwwwwww... Sugarbaby! If I wasn't gay I'd go out with you in a heartbeat! . Seriously, though. It's kinda hard knowing what a guy is going through at times (believe me, I outta know). At one point in my life I rejected someone that I felt strongly attracted too primarily becuase of some pretty nasty external matters. I thought I did the right thing because I didn't want him to be affected by it. We're good friends still.

Anywho, I hope you'll find someone special in the future, you seem to have soooooo much that my heterosexual brtheren would find attractive (smarts, looks, diva-like attitude). Tell me how things work out.

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No soliciting = Solicit, only if you're a JW!

by Preston in

when i was an active jw in the field ministry, i was timid to the usual "no soliciting" sign and it was always an elder, or a po, or a c.o.

who reminded me to not skip the house (which i did) with a "no soliciting" sign out front because the field ministry was not the same thing as soliciting (of course we're not soliciting members for our church, we're just warning you that if you don't become a member of our religion you're toast!

) i was a rather timid witness, so didn't care if they joined the religion or not, but i never did liked the reasoning that was put into preaching to people who had conspicuously placed "no soliciting" signs (you know, maybe thay don't want anyone who they don't know knocking at their doors anyway).

Preston

When I was an active JW in the field ministry, I was timid to the usual "no soliciting" sign and it was always an elder, or a po, or a c.o. who reminded me to not skip the house (which I did) with a "no soliciting" sign out front because the field ministry was not the same thing as soliciting (of course we're not soliciting members for our church, we're just warning you that if you don't become a member of our religion you're toast!) I was a rather timid witness, so didn't care if they joined the religion or not, but I never did liked the reasoning that was put into preaching to people who had conspicuously placed "no soliciting" signs (you know, maybe thay don't want anyone who they don't know knocking at their doors anyway).

BTW, whenever a house had a "no tresspassing" sign out in front it was said that it was okay to walk up to their door and preach to them as long as we stayed on the driveway (because the sidewalk usually led into someone's driveway, it was considered public property [8>]) Yeah, yeah...I know.

I think these are examples of a ministry that was conducted "by any means necessary". I often heard the illustration that if your neighbor was sleeping in a burning house, you would do anything in order to get their attention. But, of course, there was no danger. Hmmmmmmm.... too paranoid for me....

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Jack Chick says something sensible! Gasp!

by SYN in

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0026/0026_01.asp .

check it out people, for once the man is *not* speaking out of his rear.... the earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing.

- the golden age

Preston

I don't know about you guys but Jack Chick's cartoons are strangely amusing, albeit repetitive.

Every cartoon is almost the same:

An erstwhile Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Satanist who has become a Christian coincidentally meets a deceived; person who demonstrates a faith that the Christian once practiced. The Christian, using specious reasoning successfully converts the deceived person in couple of minutes.

Either that, of the guy for some odd reason dies (in an airplane crash, a car crash, a war wound, etc...) and is judges by a 5,000 foot high Jesus and is promptly sent to hell. In which case the cartoon ends with Don't be like Billy, he never worshipped the psycho God that I do, and remember, if you do what he did, God will roast you for an eternity, good night!

All of the characters in his cartoons are heavily stereotyped. In Jack Chick's world, it is one of heroes and villains, and the villains are dehumainized and sent to hell. God is made to look worse than Satan, which is disturbing. What does Jack Chick expect to get out of his cartoons? Probably the same cryptic following that follows the WBTS...or an underground comic book for that matter...

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Movie that could describe your experience as a jw?

by Nicolas in

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personnally, i thing that the movie "the matrix" and the movie "the truman show" really describe my experience in the wbts.

when i discovered the truth about the "truth", my perception of the reality became really different.

all that i have been taught was just a big lie.

Preston

No contest, Breaking the Waves.

Breaking the Waves is the story of a devout young woman who belongs to a strict religious sect. In her religion, elders frown upon marrying outside their religion, women remain silent in church, and ex-members are "disfellowshipped" not just from the church but also from their own families (hmmmmm, sounds familiar). During the film an event happens which tries her faith, and she takes a path that divides her from her congregation. It's the first great spiritual movie of the digital age, and it's one of the best films I have seen. Some like it, some hate it, but when I think about my life as a JW, no movie hits harder than this one.

BTW, I posted a thread similar to yours but it had to do with music. Personally, I see all of your lives in PULP's amazing album THIS IS HARDCORE. I posted some of the lyrics if you want to read them on that thread in the music section.

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how old are you? the avg. age here?

by rekless in

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i'm 56

Preston

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