Posts by Nambo

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JW hate group

by Wayward Son in

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according to wikipedias definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hate_group), a hate group is an organized group or movement whose primary purpose is to promote animosity, hatred, hostility or violence toward members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc.... the southern poverty law center explains that inclusion of a group in the list does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.. under the category of religious hate groups, westboro baptist church was cited for promoting hatred toward homosexuals.

creativity movement and aryan nation were mentioned as promoting racial hatred.. is it a stretch to categorize the watchtowers rhetoric toward apostates as that of a hate group?

keeping in mind that promoting or engaging in violence is not required to be identified as a hate group, does the constant degradation of other religious philosophies, organizations and adherents constitute hate speech?

Nambo

"Some reason this site wouldn't let me paste copied the cite, links, etc on the board that I've had to re- type the entire reference everytime. What I do wrong?)"

Same for me mostly, I use Firefox and I get a notice saying I cannot copy and paste, but I have found a limited trick, If I copy and paste into the post a reply box before I strart typing my message, I usually get away with it the once, thats how I did your quote, now if I try it again:-

nothing, I get the grey box up telling me its not allowed.

So what I sometimes do, compose your message elsewhere, even on an e-mail page, put in all the links you want, then copy the whole lot and just paste it here.

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just need encouraging words... elders came over and breifly stopped by to encourage me back to hall

by Butterflyleia85 in

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well i was kinda cut of gaurd when i saw them.

it was the two elders from the local congregation.

they said they just wanted to come over for encouragement to come back to the meetingsm one of the elders i knew me sence i was a baby and saw my son in my arms and asked how old he was.

Nambo

Your feelings possibly included guilt and fear of man, which is understandable because they drummed it into us to have this fear of man, to allways be on your best JW behaviour when in thier company incase they realised you where just a Human Being.

But no need to fear, as you know, God is with you, that proves them to be wrong, not you, they would say God wont touch you with a barge pole, yet God is with you, so you know they are wrong and therefore not superfine apostles to be heald in awe and dread.

Be confident in your stand that you are now closer to God than is possible when you filter him through a self proclaimed priesthood.

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Would you ever go back for the fake friends ?

by Pitchess Co-Gen in

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to quote the great rapper t.i this statement hit home : "never forget the people who stayed when everyone else left.. stay true to your team".

i had a lot of people leave my side three years ago; because some of my "phony homies" began to listen to my ex-finance spreading rumors about me and my family.

so to make a long story short i lost a lot of "friends" from my old way of life, but i picked up some true homies , and reconnected with a true homie in the long run.. i just had to ask that question because some of us were popular while we were in or we weren't the social butterflies.

Nambo

When I stopped going to the meetings I had a few friends who tried for a long time to continue friendship, even being invited to Witness gatherings, but I felt so unworthy that I didnt recipricate, I allways felt bad how I had to drop them like that.

I expect they though I was a fake friend.

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Thieves will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

by Paralipomenon in

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but they sure can avoid getting bored to death by it.. i was going through some old memory boxes i found this:.

i picked it up while i was still considered a good witness and knew enough to hang onto it.

later when i was trying to fade, i would show up a bit late to the convention and pin this on.. it's amazing what you can get away with having one of these pinned to your suit.. i would show up at lunch, say hello to the people in my congregation and they always asked where i was sitting.

Nambo

When did they issue attendants with ribbons?, or is that ust a Canadian thing?

I was allways an attendants but all we got in the UK was the paper badge.

We where allways attendants because it meant we missed the sessions so had an excuse to go to another assembly down in Plymouth to catch up on that fine Spiritual food we had missed, oh and to see if the Sisters down there where more interested in us than ones in London were.

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JW hate group

by Wayward Son in

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according to wikipedias definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hate_group), a hate group is an organized group or movement whose primary purpose is to promote animosity, hatred, hostility or violence toward members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc.... the southern poverty law center explains that inclusion of a group in the list does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.. under the category of religious hate groups, westboro baptist church was cited for promoting hatred toward homosexuals.

creativity movement and aryan nation were mentioned as promoting racial hatred.. is it a stretch to categorize the watchtowers rhetoric toward apostates as that of a hate group?

keeping in mind that promoting or engaging in violence is not required to be identified as a hate group, does the constant degradation of other religious philosophies, organizations and adherents constitute hate speech?

Nambo

I seem to remember someone here in the UK reporting the Watchtower under new "hate crime" laws we have here now, for the recent Watchtower article calling Apostates mentally sick or somesuch, anybody know how thats progressing?

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Could UFO Disclosure Bring About A Golden Age?

by metatron in

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there are a great many people - and internet sites- that preach a sort of 2012/ufo gospel.

while they may contradict one another, they mostly teach that ufo's will intervene and save us, especially if governments admit that they exist.. yeah, ok..... been there, heard that..... but could there be a core of truth to this idea?.

what would happen if the world acknowledged that et's exist?.

Nambo

Or it could be the demons looking for any DNA of thier lost loved ones.

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I MAY VERY WELL MEET RINGO STARR!

by Band on the Run in

newflash in the ongoing addiction and mania that started at age twelve when the national broadcast news showed pictures of these english boys with very, very long hair.

i stopped by a local grocery store b/c i was not certain that a challis scarf was wool or rayon b/c the fabric content is in arabic.

thank allah for arabic numerals.

Nambo

We get celebs where I work.

Last week Billy Idol of Generation X shook my hand after I had added some anecdotes to his tour without letting on I knew who he was.

Some months back I was outside alone having a fag when this fella comes out to smoke as well and we started chatting, I thought he looked like Fergal Sharky of the Undertones so I asked him if he was someone famous, he said No, then he said his name was Fergal, I asked him if he would sing Teenage Kicks for me but he replied he wouldnt, but we had a good chat together.

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New light or did the speaker just pull this out his wazoo?

by pubtruth in

i went to the last day of the dc here in west palm beach, just to make my mother company.

wow, what a difference can a year outside the lie can do to perception.

it was the same crap as you'd expect but there is a plot twist: the speaker was so into the talk he was actually starting to shout and wound up mentioning that they now know how many angels will be needed to destroy everyone at armaggeddon.

Nambo

Just think, if there had only been 93,000 Assyrians, Jehovah would have only needed to send half an Angel.

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Why would Jehovah wait so long?

by schnare in

jehovah's witnesses and many other religions believe jesus will return or has returned (invisibly .

Nambo

Seems people here want God to come and kill a load of babies so that they can hate him even more for the miserable life the JWs gave them.

Jonah gives a picture of a man getting angry because God didnt come down and kill every body, God answered that he didnt have to as they repented, this tells me that God doesnt want to go around killing people unneccecarily.

When he does act, it will be because conditions here on Earth have gotten so bad, that as the scripture says, "unless he cut those days short, no flesh would be saved".

So, at the moment, lifes not so bad that God has to step in with his KIngdom of salvation which will also include his judgement.

But when things get so bad that the world ends on mans account, rather than Gods, say they start a Nucleur war using Iran as an excuse for instance, or if Babylon the Greats One World Government starts killing off Christians because they wont worship the Beast,

Then God acts, when his salvation of his own peoples are threatened by the actions of the ungodly.

Whats the scripture that says when they touch you its as if they are touching my own eye?

Otherwise I belive if things went on as they are, he would never act, because he doesnt want to "murder" people, but he does know that there will come a time when he has no choice.

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United States and Israeli Relationship...

by chapstick in

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i posted the following comment after an article about mitt romney committing to put "all of the us cards on the table" over israeli security.

comments from jewish and israeli citizens welcome, no racism or nationalism intended.

does anyone consider this a reasonable answer to the palistinian issue?.

Nambo

Babylon the Great, kingdom over the kings of the Earth. Jerusalem. "In her was found the blood of all those that where slain on the Earth" Rev 18v 24

Better do as the whore says if you dont want to experience the "Samson option".