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  Psyco baby killer welcome at Sunday meetings!

  by Ranch in

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  i am providing the link to this story if you are interested in reading the whole thing.. http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12257203&drd=1671&pag=461&dep.

  hear are some quotes,greist is the east coventry man who stabbed his pregnant wife to death and butchered his unborn child in may 1978. two years later at trial, former judge thomas a. pitt jr. declared him not guilty by reason of insanity.. .

  o?brien had served as an expert witness for the commonwealth.

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  If he is babtized they'll come out of the woodworks.

  Sad but true. Backgroung does not matter to most of them.
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  Psyco baby killer welcome at Sunday meetings!

  by Ranch in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i am providing the link to this story if you are interested in reading the whole thing.. http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12257203&drd=1671&pag=461&dep.

  hear are some quotes,greist is the east coventry man who stabbed his pregnant wife to death and butchered his unborn child in may 1978. two years later at trial, former judge thomas a. pitt jr. declared him not guilty by reason of insanity.. .

  o?brien had served as an expert witness for the commonwealth.

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  LOL, Sunspot!
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  Psyco baby killer welcome at Sunday meetings!

  by Ranch in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i am providing the link to this story if you are interested in reading the whole thing.. http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12257203&drd=1671&pag=461&dep.

  hear are some quotes,greist is the east coventry man who stabbed his pregnant wife to death and butchered his unborn child in may 1978. two years later at trial, former judge thomas a. pitt jr. declared him not guilty by reason of insanity.. .

  o?brien had served as an expert witness for the commonwealth.

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  Yes,

  Jehovah's hands are overflowing with atrocities and I guess he just likes to hold them and look at them because he sure hasn't bothered to do anything about it.
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  The things you believed as a child

  by Sirona in

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  what things did you believe as a kid that now make you chuckle?.

  i believed:.

  that father christmas had special dust which he sprinkled into the children's eyes so they would forget they'd seen him.

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  I believed that TV shows and Movies were of real families live. I believed that there were cameras in our home filming us and we were on TV or movies.

  LOL, I guess I was one of the first to come up with the concept of reality TV.

  I also thought I had magical powers but just hadn't perfected them yet. That came from me watching bwitched and I Dream Of Jeanie when my mom wasn't around!
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  Read the Bible alone for 2 years and you will lose the truth?

  by TowerWatch in

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  2. bible

  anyone remember the publication where russell said that if someone read his works for 2 years even without the bible they would learn the truth but if they read the bible without his publications they would lose the correct understanding of the bible in 2 years?

  it was something like that, i can?t find it i?m trying to quote it and i?m not sure which watchtower or book it was in, can someone help me.

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  This is still true!

  If a person reads the Bible especially the Greek scriptures with an open clear thinking mind they will see that WT is lieing to them!

  I know because this is what happened to me, but it didn't take two years. It started with me reading the context around the scriptures read and quoted at the meetings. I encourage all you JWs out there to do the same, it's okay remember the Boreans?

  Anyway, I was freaked out at what I was learning. They are the worlds worst for taking things out of context and twisting scriptures to their doctrine. I then started reading the Bible to see what else they lied to me about. I walked away completly disgusted!
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  Psyco baby killer welcome at Sunday meetings!

  by Ranch in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i am providing the link to this story if you are interested in reading the whole thing.. http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12257203&drd=1671&pag=461&dep.

  hear are some quotes,greist is the east coventry man who stabbed his pregnant wife to death and butchered his unborn child in may 1978. two years later at trial, former judge thomas a. pitt jr. declared him not guilty by reason of insanity.. .

  o?brien had served as an expert witness for the commonwealth.

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  I am providing the link to this story if you are interested in reading the whole thing.

  http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12257203&DRD=1671&PAG=461&dep

  Hear are some quotes,

  Greist is the East Coventry man who stabbed his pregnant wife to death and butchered his unborn child in May 1978. Two years later at trial, former Judge Thomas A. Pitt Jr. declared him not guilty by reason of insanity.

  O?Brien had served as an expert witness for the commonwealth. Dr. Barbara Ziv has since taken over.
  
  She testified during the most recent hearing that she disagreed with Greist?s course of treatment and that placing Greist in a less-restrictive environment could trigger a psychotic relapse.

  Greist is permitted to attend church services at the West Norristown Congregation of Jehovah?s Witnesses every Sunday for three hours.
  
  He is also allowed to attend "planned outings" four times per year if it is approved by the hospital and written plans are given to the district attorney?s office and the local police departments where he will be traveling no less than three days before the outing.

  Hmmm, What do you want to bet that those "planned outings" are JW related!

  I can just picture the Witnesses welcoming this man with open arms to the meetings, probably studying with him if he is not babtized.

  Lets see, they welcome Psyco baby killers,pedifiles,murders,rapist, ect... as long as they suposedly repent and are in good standing or are willing to study. I can't figure out why they cant see how F#@&@d up that is!

  Just compare that to how they treat their own flesh and blood when they are DF'd, Da'd or labeled as "Apostate" are treated. It makes me sick, angry and frustrated!
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  WTS positives- A therapy project

  by zugzwang in

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  so my therapist told me that if i am ever going to heal emotionally and psychologically from the damage done by the wts that i need to not just focus on the negative, but to think about how the wts helped make me a better person.

  i suppose it is because of the wts that i never got involved with illegal drugs or gangs.. .

  because of the wts i was always a good student in school.

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  I have tried this exersize myself but most things I list end up being things that most normal law abiding citizens do anyway.

  Watchtower teaches that most people in the world are imoral, into drugs ect, this is not true.Some are but the majority aren't. I don't buy into their propaganda about the world. It mostly boils down to your parents, environment, your associates, and your inborn character that determins how you turn out. So really it's hard for to come up with something that I would not have been taught by my parents,school or my church anyway.

  The Watchtower always pats themselves on the back and take credit for things that any normal person does, they harp on how honest and law abiding they are. Most people pay their taxes, they know there are concequences if they don't.

  I am sorry if I sound negative here because I know were all trying to heal here,but I just did not need them to be a good person.

  Public speaking is about the only positive that I learned from them that I probably wouldn't have ended up with anyway plus thats where I found my mate, that's about it for me.

  I am so angry that I was robbed of a normal life!

  I guess it will take time for me to make peace with my past.
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  Was There Ever Any Rule That You Thought Was Silly In The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  the rule on having "large gatherings" was stupid.

  because some people abused a "christian get-together" that had a lot of people, we could only get together in smaller groups.

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  How about sisters having to wear a head covering, sisters not allowed to teach in the congregation, sisters not allowed to have any privledge in the cong except for pioneering and cleaning bathrooms!

  Brothers had to have hair cut to a length above the top of the ears or they couldnt have privledges. No cowboy boots on stage,

  No slits in sisters skirts. They are still harping on that one and have for over 20 years!
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  July 8th Awake On Adolescence & Puberty

  by Ranch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night my mate and i read three articles from the july 8th awake on adolescence & puberty.

  i vasilated between laughing my ass off and being apalled.

  the first article is only a one page intro to the next two articles, it is entitled, the joys and challanges of adolescence it basically says that we are "living in critical times hard to deal with"(2tim 3:1) so this adds to the pressures on youths.

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  ezekiel3,

  Yes, it looks like he had a growth spurt alright, and I guess his poor JW parents can't afford to buy him a new bed or refuse to maybe because they think it would be materialistic or something.

  ohiocowboy,

  Question,

  Just courious, did you used to take a sock to bed with you or did you wear the sock to bed?
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  July 8th Awake On Adolescence & Puberty

  by Ranch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night my mate and i read three articles from the july 8th awake on adolescence & puberty.

  i vasilated between laughing my ass off and being apalled.

  the first article is only a one page intro to the next two articles, it is entitled, the joys and challanges of adolescence it basically says that we are "living in critical times hard to deal with"(2tim 3:1) so this adds to the pressures on youths.

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  Last night my mate and I read three articles from the July 8th Awake on Adolescence & Puberty. I vasilated between laughing my ass off and being apalled.

  The first article is only a one page intro to the next two articles, it is entitled, The Joys And Challanges of Adolescence It basically says that we are "living in critical times hard to deal with"(2Tim 3:1) so this adds to the pressures on youths.

  They quote a female editor of a Teen Magazine.

  (I was thinking of how we were not allowed to read those evil teen magazeens because of the bad association, loose morals, and idolism promoted in in them, hmm, I wonder who at Watchtower is reading Teen Magazines.It's so loving of them to risk their spirituality and morals to get this important info to us?)

  Anyway she describes the adolesent experience as "Walking on a tightrope without a net" she is also quoted as saying that adolescence is like being "caught between childhood and adult hood" "teens are left holding the worst attributes of each world"( This editor probably has no idea that a pedifile protecting Org is quoting her.)

  The next article is entitled , "What's Happening to me?"

  ( LOL,I wish you could see the photo, It's a teenage boy lying in a twin bed under a sheet, fully clothed in jeans, t shirt, oh and socks! Who goes to bed like that? Someone was up on this boys ceiling and photographed him from a birds eye point of view. His hands are on the outside of the covers, clinched, and he has a very guilty and unhappy look on his face. I believe if you look at the sheets real closley you can see that he has a hard on !)

  This article attempts to explain puberty, starting with the age it usually starts for both sexes,hormone changes,being clumbsy, how girls should not fear menstrual periods, gross description of what periods are,cramps, irritability, starting to care more about appearence,how your body "betrays" you by sweating , how you should shower, use deoderant, and wash your clothes to combat this pesky problem, Acne,emotions, & lonelyness,

  LOL. by the way, the best way to combat loneleness is to reach out to othersby visiting the elderly and doing chores for them acording to Awake.

  Then they talk about boys voices changing, They quote a boy by the name of Bill as saying " I didn't even realize my voice had changed, except that people stopped thinking I was my mom or sister when I answered the phone" They advise boys not to dispair about this because the voice will settle down in time.

  The last article is "Keep Your Creator in Mind"

  The quote Eccl 12:1 from The Contemporary English Bible

  It says, "Keep your creator in mind when you are young! In years to come, you will be burdened down with troubles and say, "I don't enjoy life anymore"

  What a positive message! The photos encourage adolescents to give up their joy in their youth by sacrificing their time to read the bible, go in service, avoid bad association, and sit in your living room visiting with your parents, thus assuring that you don't enjou any of your life!

  Then they try to sell you the book, Questions Young People Ask....Answers That Work

  That book brings up a whole slew of hilarious and appaling conversation subjects!But I won't go there now.

  The longer I am out of the Org the weirder their teachings and behaviour become. I was just thinking of how weird and out of place these articles would seem to the typical person who happens to agree to accept these religious magazines. I