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  If Your JW Parent Died Would YOU Go To The Kingdom Hall For The Talk?

  by minimus in

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  i would like your thoughts, please..

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  My father never was a witness and my mother has been out for 20 years.

  I have been to the hall for several weddings.

  I stopped going to meetings in 83 but was never disfellowshiped.

  People still talk to me.
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  Conversation with a Seminary student over coffee . . .

  by Terry in

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  this is a distilled (and from memory) reconstruction of a chat awhile back.

  ive dusted it off for today.. my 81 year old ex-baptist minister friend dub and i went to starbucks for coffee and conversation.

  dub likes to start conversations with strangers.. today a seminary student caught his eye.

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  Good post
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  Seriously - is there a better live performance?

  by berrygerry in

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  hey!.

  it's the weekend.. is there anything more glorious musically?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwauzzkdys.

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  I got to see Procol Harum with Robin Trower open for Hunble Pie with Steve Marriot and Peter Frampton in Canton Ohio.

  Back in the day of Rock and Roll.
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  What do you think? Prison guards man-handle a young native Australian.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the desert areas of central australia, the so-called 'red heart' of the nation, still has a significant population of original australians.

  and many of them seem to have difficulty with the law.*.

  that's a very brief and simplistic introduction to this video of prison guards in the alice springs jail, manhandling a young boy.

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  That is the business I was in and retired from a detention officer at the county jail.

  That is the way it goes.

  I don't see anything wrong with what they did.

  The youth threatened to harm himself,

  That is why his clothes had to be removed.

  Would you like to get spit in the face by someone who has aids or hepatitis?

  How do you know what his health status is when he was just booked in?

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  In the USA a criminals health status is not revealed to the guards.

  They told him to get dressed in the smock and he refused and he threatened to hurt himself

  so his clothes had to be removed.

  I don't see the guard putting all his weight on the boy, but if he did and that is what it takes to

  subdue the boy, and that is what you have to do.

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  The video looks like something I did many times.

  I have seen much worse.

  And I have known a lot of officers that were fired for much worse.

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  I have to conclude that Dr. Bath has no hands on practical experience in dealing with juvenile delinquents.

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  Book knowledge does not cut it in the real world.

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  The youth is in jail. He did not get there because he was helping a little old lady cross the street

  or because he sings well.

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  If he does not want that sort of treatment. He should not act that way.

  If he had parents that cared about him they would tell him that but the truth of the matter is

  most youth that end up in detention are street urchins they have no responsible parents.

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  Jesus, the bible and history says you will always have the poor.

  Being poor is a mental condition and this boys behavior and his parents behavior are the acting out of the mental

  condition of being poor.

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  The boy threatened self harm so his clothes had to be removed so he can not strangle himself with them.

  You cant just throw him in a room and wait for him to hang himself, which they do, then you have to go in

  and wrestle with them while they have a sheet or shirt or underwear around their neck.

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  When I was in the business, I am retired now, I did everything I could to keep the youth out of

  the predicament/situation the youth in the video is in. But you can not always avoid it.

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  These youth are on various meds on the street and because of poor parenting among other things

  they go off their meds and that is what gets them in jail. Then it escalates because they are off their meds.

  Maybe they should never be on meds to begin with. They probably just need a mother and father and guidance

  and discipline at home.

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  If I was on that shift working with those officers, I would have said" good job men, Well done'

  They tell us at the police academy that people with no practical experience just book knowledge

  (Dr. Bath)

  would be judging our actions over Fritos and Coke.

  I have to say we all know that going in.

  Its a job with good benefits and a retirement. That is why people do it.
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  Just quit quietly - the law is on your side!

  by Ajax in

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  freedon of religion guarantees any individual the legal right to abandon any religion at any time for any reason.. if you are a citizen of a country which champions human rights, then your government doesn t care what religion you join, but they will uphold your freedom to join it, without interference, coercion or persecution.

  your countries human rights legislation will conversely uphold your rights when it comes time to abandon any religion you so choose.

  those (elders) who incite others interfere, coerce or persecute those who have left will be in transgression of the human rights statutes.. a person is only obligated to ecclesiastic law if he exposes himself to it or transgressed it while still a member of a religious community.. when your time comes to abandon the jw-wt cult, do it while still in good standing, be proactive - be decisive -put it in writing!..and do it before the hounders set sights on you.. write a card or letter with as much or as little explanation as you one day might wish to share with pharisees and lawyers.. take this card to a notary public to have your signature witnessed and have the writing overstamped in several places with the date.

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  I just walked away 30 years ago.

  No announcement no dramma.

  It worked for me.
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  Is Greybeard Gregg Steven Blasingame Hemphill Cannabis Witness Crazy or what?

  by Greybeard in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwkl9uxjos&list=uuur9bihctqbkito8ss05g5w.

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  Graybeard. I think you would be more successful on this site by just typing out various post

  that you are talking about. State your feelings opinions and let others comment on them.

  Maybe slide in a video from time to time.

  That is the format here.

  Make a youtube channel and find various ways to attract people to it.

  I would think a lot of people would be interested in cannabis.

  Make a facebook page and put your videos on it and try to find friends

  Maybe myspace.

  Good luck.
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  I WILL GIVE MY LIFE FOR THIS CAUSE

  by Greybeard in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptse5hcsyxi.

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  Amen and power to you.

  Good Luck.

  Checking out your web page.

  I relate to you in many ways.

  I also make music. I have mixcraft 7 and protools.

  Florida almost legalized marijuana this past election in November.

  But rich out of state interest spent a lot of personal money against it.

  The biggest opposition was out of state casinos and gambling.
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  The Hum Drum Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by minimus in

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  boring and useless, a waste of valuable time..

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  James Brown

  I am not defending the JW's, I loathe them.

  But in my never ending pursuit of truth.

  All life is meaningless, ultimately.

  The best you can do is eat, drink, be merry and have a good time.

  When you get to be my age, you cant even do that without serious repercussions.

  The food gives you cholesterol and the booze elevates your triglycarides and cholesterol

  and that can give you a heart attack.

  But, everyday above ground is a good one.
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  The Hum Drum Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by minimus in

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  boring and useless, a waste of valuable time..

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  James Brown

  I do tottaly agree that the meetings and field service were a waste of time.

  But you had to go through that to get to the parties.
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  The Hum Drum Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses

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  boring and useless, a waste of valuable time..

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  James Brown

  Just kidding.

  No I don't think it was the same religion.

  The JW's I belonged to said the world was going to end in 75.

  That is why I left when it did not.

  The JW's I belonged to said the generation that was a discernable age in 1914 would not pass away.

  They all have.

  I have no idea what todays JW's believe.

  Also my Congregation in Brecksville Ohio was very social back in the 70's.

  That was the trap the snare that held you there.

  All of the friends and the wholesome activities.

  If I can call drinking all you can wholesome.