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62All voices raised in song please ///78 today
by mouthy ini expect at least 1 good wishes...please!!!!
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Do You Personally Know Of Any JW That Was Sexually Abused?
by minimus in,,,,while they were witnesses?
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Count me among the "personally know" class.
My best friend's sister had some sort of encounter with and elder.
I don't know the details, she still won't talk about it now, about 20 years later.
All I do know is she confided in me (way back then, after it happened and the cover-up had, well, covered everything): "Do you know what he *DID* to me? If I went to the police instead of the elders, he'd be in jail right now.". She said this with tears forming.
The elder lost his elder's privleges. The victim's father, also an elder, was among the elder body that failed to report to the police. To this day, he remains friends with the perpetrator.
For some reason, the victim is still a JW; I suppose she thinks this was a remote incident and doesn't want to "throw out the baby with the bath water". But as I've said before here on JWD, IMO, there is no baby. There is just a big, stinky baby-poopie.
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The more the Governing Body warnsabout the dangers of the Internet the wors
by frankiespeakin inthe more the governing body warns about the dangers of the internet the worse it gets.
i think they are going to keep going in the direction of more and more warnings until everybody in jwsville sees the light.
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ivy said:
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I didn't even know that they were warning against it until I joined the forum.
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Just in case there are any other lurkers out there, feel free to educate yourself on all the "delightful, correct words of truth" that WTS has printed to demonize the internet:
http://quotes.watchtower.ca/internet.htm
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Did you meet any con artist types there?
by LongHairGal init seemed to me that there were a number of con artist types of personalities i came across during my years there.
i am not referring to people who were actually doing anything illegal.
what i am referring to are people who were very adept at getting things out of other people.
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Time: late 80s, early 90s.
Who: My (JW) friend ("D") working for my other (JW) friend's ("JP") father as a salesman at the specialty software company that he owned.
What: After six months on the job, my friend's ("D") salary was coming to an end. He was supposed to be making enough sales commission at that point, and they had agreed from the start that the "Base Salary" would stop after six months. Problem is: there were no sales, despite best efforts.
So, the owner, ("JP's father, who was and elder) tells my salesman friend ("D") that he will "lay him off" so that he can collect unemployment. That way, the government will pay his base salary. Of course, the layoff was fake and "D" was supposed to keep working his sales job.
When "D" objected, thinking it was not proper, he was told by the elder / business owner that he does it all the time, anytime biz slows down he lays himself off and collects from the gov't and then re-hires himself when business picks up.
Does this qualify as a "Con artist" type? or is it simply "Criminal Fraud"?
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JWS in the Holy Land
by z infair game?
ellen dlott, the jerusalem post may.
some weeks ago, my doorbell rang in the early evening.
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It's official - 20 years out and free
by Lady Lee inok 20 years out only 10 years free (cuz sometimes i'm a slow learner).
yup may makes 20 years since i officially got the boot.
20 years since i lost my entire way of life and had to start all over - no money, no home, no education, no job.. there's a sad kind of irony here in that except for the education i'm sort of in the same boat.
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JW's mentioned in favorable context by evolutionist!!!
by doogie inthis is a pretty old review written by richard dawkins of a pretty old book (richard milton's the facts of life: shattering the myth of darwinism).
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/worldofdawkins-archive/dawkins/work/reviews/1992-08-28shattering_the_myths.shtml .
after tearing the book a new one, he makes this comment:but this is a more sophisticated criticism than milton?s book deserves.
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(Quotes puts on his Theocrapic hat and says)
"As long as Jahoobee's name(tm), and his Organization(tm), are made known, even these lies act as a witness(tm) to all the world(tm). Honest-hearted ones(tm) will recognize the baseless accusations(tm) against our brothers(tm) and their fine publications(tm). Their curiosity piqued, such sincere searchers-of-truth(tm) will search out the Truth(tm) and learn about Jahoobee's plan(tm). Even when Satan's godless athiests try to discredit us, it only serves to give a witness(tm)."
(Quotes removed his Theocrapic hat, holds it under his chin, and vomits profusely with such force that it splits open the hat and leaves vomit and bile all over his lap.)
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Math Trick from God !
by Amazing1914 in6. add the last 4 digits of your phone number .
7. add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
what number do you get?
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Assume your phone number is of the form A + B such that A + B = your phone number, and A = the first three digits in 10-thousands, and B = the last four digits.
(ex: if your number is 555-1212, then
A = 5,550,000
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B = 1212
and A+B = 5,551,212 = your phone number
The instructions given are:
{[({[(A / 10,000) x 80 ] +1} x250) +2B] -250} / 2
which reduces to
{[({(A / 125) +1} x250) +2B] -250} / 2
which reduces to
{[(2A +250) +2B] -250} / 2
which reduces to
(2A +2B) / 2
which reduces to
A + B which is the number we started with.
In other words, A+B = A+B!
~Quotes, of the "math works" class
P.S. Now, if you had used the dimensions of the Great Pyramid, and showed how it predicts the year 1914, I would have been REALLY impressed!
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JW teen allowed to transfer to New York hospital (Canada)
by ezekiel3 insource: http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=2ced5108-1b2a-489c-942b-cfd45cf22d18.
teen who is jehovah's witness allowed to transfer to new york hospital.
greg joyce.
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Thanks, Ezek.
I wonder what is up with this NY hospital. Are they a real hospital, or just a bunch of quacks?
Interestingly, I read in another post that this other hospital will still transfuse, if it becomes necessary (even by their standards) so she could get transfused anyway.
I hope she recovers her health (either with or without transfusion) and goes on to adulthood and realizes what a crock of cr4p is Watchtowerism.
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Why do they walk so slowly?
by helios ini have only to turn into any road or street and if there are any jws operating within my area of vision i can pick them out.. it may only be something that occurs in uk but they actually walk at half speed.
yet if i see any local jw in the town shopping they fly along, except the very old ones.
we are in the end of the end time.
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MidwichCuckoo said
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I was actually thinking of waiting outside the KH (I'm guessing they must meet there to go on the 'Service' at wekends) and follow a depressed-looking one
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I did this summer 2002. It was great fun... for me, that is. The JWs didn't look like there were having any fun at all.
You can read about my "experience" here: I went in Field Service (TM) this morning!