Posts by roybatty

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What a FOOTBALL game!

by czarofmischief in

steelers v. jaguars just ended.

wow, my pulse is pounding.

i haven't felt like this about football since we went to the superbowl in 1995. wow.

roybatty

I'd sooner call myself a Jehovah's Witness than concede the game you guys are talking about is actually football!!

lol! If you're basing your like or dislike for football upon seeing it on tv, then you're missing the real action. You have to see a game live. Sitting there with 80,000 screaming fans, nothing like it. Seeing a 90 yard touchdown pass, a running-back getting crushed by a linebacker, games that go back and forth and are many times decided in the closing minutes or seconds. It is 100% true that on any given Sunday any team can be beaten or give a beating. Just seeing 11 guys working together to make a single play work. There's nothing like it.

I believe most Europeans just don't have the mental ability to follow such a complex game.

Hey, if you become a Jdub again, try and give this dude some mags. :)

http://www.brianurlacher.com/downloads/backb800.jpg

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To what extent do the elders keep information on us?

by JH in

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i remember a few years ago, i changed congregation, so the elders told me that they had to send my folder to the other congregation.

when i was baptized, i don't remeber them telling me they kept information on me, and that they would pass it around to other congregations if ever i moved.. i wonder what kind of information is kept in these folders.

probably everyone in the congregation has his hours listed and the privileges they had written in it, but maybe there is alot more written that we don't even know about.

roybatty

They will send a cover letter as to your spiritual "health" in the congregation.

Last weekend I was finally cleaning out that certain corner of the basement that everyone has (you know the one where are the boxes are piled up). Anyway, I came across a bunch of old, unmarked floppy disks. Since the stuff in this corner had been sitting there unused for several years I was simply going to throw them away. Out of curiousity I popped one disk into the computer and found on it several letters dating back to 1997. These were introduction letters I had written as congregation service overseer. The PO's name along with the secretary's was on there. It was a bit disturbing reading them. Most of them were friendly enough but it was strange reading the names of people I hadn't thought about in a long time. In the letters I would mention any family problems the person might have but their "spiritual health" (i.e. field service hours and meeting attendence) was always the more important issues.

It again reminded me of the business side of the WT, even on a local level. It's all just a business.

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What's the deal?

by kwintestal in

with the bible god and genitals?.

we had a mini-discussion about this in chat last night.

what are your thoughts?.

roybatty

Here's another one. Why did there have to be a law for this? Did it happen often back then? Was there many one-handed Isrealitesses?

It shouldn't but the mental image of a bunch of one-handed Israelite women walking aruond made me chuckle.

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Terror Expert says new attack coming-what do you think?

by IronGland in

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"all of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike ?

something more horrible than anything we've seen before ?

is all but inevitable," said yossef bodansky, former director of the u.s. congressional task force on terrorism and unconventional warfare, in an interview yesterday with the jerusalem post.

roybatty

Personally, I hope nothing happens, both for the sake of Americans and the Muslim world at large. If another attack happens here on U.S. soil, I'm afraid of what the response be. The public will want blood and unfortuntely a lot of innocent civilians will probably suffer, as they always do in war.

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Why do you post?

by Xena in

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threads, posts within threads...life events, doctrine, hopes, dreams, drama.....what causes you to post here?

what do you feel you get from it?

or give to others?.

roybatty

Roy:
Xena as an avatar has NOTHING on Xena in person...

Why am I not surprised???

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Why do you post?

by Xena in

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threads, posts within threads...life events, doctrine, hopes, dreams, drama.....what causes you to post here?

what do you feel you get from it?

or give to others?.

roybatty

Number one, to stare at Xena's new pic. Number two, argue with Simon. Now getting both, ah, life is good!

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Is Bono Studying with the Dubs?? Latest CD

by Gretchen956 in

i had heard rumors that bono was studying with the witlesses, so i payed particular attention to the lyrics in his new cd "how to dismantle an atomic bomb".. if you read the lyrics there is a lot that could be construed as religious, he's obviously being influenced by someone's version.. and i even caught a couple things i thought may have come from the green bible... but then i read the lyrics to this song: .

anyone know the scoop?

someone was complaining on another thread about how political he is, that doesn't sound very "theocratic" either.yahweh take these shoesclick clacking down some dead end streettake these shoesand make them fittake this shirtpolyester white trash made in nowheretake this shirtand make it clean, cleantake this soulstranded in some skin and bonestake this souland make it sing yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn take these handsteach them what to carrytake these handsdon't make a fisttake this mouthso quick to criticizetake this mouthgive it a kiss yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming upthe sun is coming up on the oceanthis love is like a drop in the oceanthis love is like a drop in the ocean yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn take this citya city should be shining on a hilltake this cityif it be your willwhat no man can own, no man can taketake this hearttake this hearttake this heartand make it break music by u2lyrics by bono with the edgeproduced by chris thomas

roybatty

Plus he cares too much about the poor, the sick and humanity in general.

I've followed U2 since the Boy album came out some 24 years ago and I'm amazed at his drive to help the poor and helpless. Other superstars have also but after a while loose interest in the cause. I.E. Springsteen and his "I gotta help the working man" image. Bono and his work on trying to help Africa has been simply amazing. What blows me away is that his cause isn't "glamourous" like other causes, I've gotten the impression that he really wants to help these people and this energy motivates us "normal" people to get off of our butts and do something.

IMO - If anything, Bono is the exact opposite of what JW's stand for.

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Is Bono Studying with the Dubs?? Latest CD

by Gretchen956 in

i had heard rumors that bono was studying with the witlesses, so i payed particular attention to the lyrics in his new cd "how to dismantle an atomic bomb".. if you read the lyrics there is a lot that could be construed as religious, he's obviously being influenced by someone's version.. and i even caught a couple things i thought may have come from the green bible... but then i read the lyrics to this song: .

anyone know the scoop?

someone was complaining on another thread about how political he is, that doesn't sound very "theocratic" either.yahweh take these shoesclick clacking down some dead end streettake these shoesand make them fittake this shirtpolyester white trash made in nowheretake this shirtand make it clean, cleantake this soulstranded in some skin and bonestake this souland make it sing yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn take these handsteach them what to carrytake these handsdon't make a fisttake this mouthso quick to criticizetake this mouthgive it a kiss yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming upthe sun is coming up on the oceanthis love is like a drop in the oceanthis love is like a drop in the ocean yahweh, yahwehalways pain before a child is bornyahweh, yahwehstill i'm waiting for the dawn take this citya city should be shining on a hilltake this cityif it be your willwhat no man can own, no man can taketake this hearttake this hearttake this heartand make it break music by u2lyrics by bono with the edgeproduced by chris thomas

roybatty

I got the whole CD and its great. I would think if he was studying, he would have said Jehovah instead of Yahweh.

lol...good point.

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Marriage question

by starfish422 in

i have a question for those who got married in a jw ceremony, or who became jws after being married.

did the elder marrying you, or those studying with you, counsel you as to what forms of sexual intercourse are acceptable within jehovah's loving organization(tm)?

just having a "discussion" of sorts on another board and i'm being challenged by a dutiful jw wife.

roybatty

As elders, it was a "don't tell. don't ask" WT policy. "Good" JW couples wouldn't do certain things, even in the privacy of their owh bedroom, and elders wouldn't go snooping around. The only diretion I can recall was a CO or maybe it was at an elder's school which basically said the elders should only act if someone in the congregation is going around and openly stating that they're having oral sex.

And I got married as a young JW and nope, no sex talk.

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tell me about yourself

by bagpuss in

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in a recent thread someone said that bagpuss was a good name but didn't know what it meant.. bagpuss was a character from a childrens programme in the 1970s and is becoming popular again now.

i chose this name as like bagpuss i am soft,cuddlyand loyal, but will get the claws out when needed.. why did you choose your 'alias' and what does it tell me about you?

roybatty

Billygoat was the nick that my father gave me as a child. I was a little on the stubborn side. It's what helped me escape from the WTS.

I always wondered why you used that name.