Posts by Xanthippe

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Are people really happy at Bethel?

by The Searcher in

if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?

:).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.

Xanthippe

Yes that makes sense Dagney. What doesn't fit is why they keep taking it down.

edited to add just seen your post wifibandit, possibly true but I find it hard to believe they thought it wouldn't end up online. Are they that naive?

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Are people really happy at Bethel?

by The Searcher in

if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?

:).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.

Xanthippe

Ok I will summarise it for you so far. The JW one may or may not have been made at the summer convention 2014 as an answer to the AAWA one made sometime In 2014.

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Are people really happy at Bethel?

by The Searcher in

if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?

:).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.

Xanthippe

Well thanks for answering my question while pretending that it was Illuminated who first thought of it. Never mind boys, a woman couldn't possibly have thought to ask that question first could she.

So John Cedars made a vid that JWs copied or was it the other way round? I guess we need dates. Anyone have dates for the two vids?

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Are people really happy at Bethel?

by The Searcher in

if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?

:).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.

This is the first vid that I have been able to play, possibly because every time I find it on here it has already been taken down. So what do we know about it? Who made it please? People on here are saying the GB know about it or it was made with their consent. Does anyone actually know?

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Oh the joy of freedom..... to be just me.

by franticfran in

finally after five years i have finally shut the door very firmly on the witnesses.

i have had this "sister" calling for over the last six months clearly trying to reactivate me,but never mentioning the reason why me and my family left the forfar congregation two years ago.

it was always any subject but the " elephant in the room" well today was the finale.

Xanthippe

Good for you Fran! What a great feeling. They don't have any power over you. Welcome to your freedom.

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Who is your favorite "Apostate"? Who helped you see the truth about "The Truth"?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i would have to say that ray franz was the biggest influence for me.. when i first got on this board, a poster by the name of james, a former bethelite and organization heavy, helped me understand a lot of the inner workings in the upper echelons of the society.. .

and of course, farkel's common sense approach was (usually) helpful..

Xanthippe

I have this memory that Randy Watters did a paper newsletter called Freeminds in the early nineties before the internet. Can't remember how we got hold of it. After reading CoC and leaving, that newsletter really helped us to feel less alone. Thank you Randy.

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Wow, the forum is very slow

by FlyingHighNow in

jw
friends

i know that logging in has been a problem for some.

i hardly post any more.

i figured there would be more activity than this.

Xanthippe

Well although I work with computers I never thought of myself as particularly a wizz with them but I have to say I haven't found the new site to be a problem. Perhaps I'm getting cleverer in my middle age

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Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoruuqjd81m

Xanthippe

Fascinating article NEJ thanks.

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Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoruuqjd81m

Xanthippe

I don't think that's technically correct. From what I've read and seen, many physicists believe the math points firmly in that direction, but there has been no observational evidence confirming these ideas. Until string theory is able to make predictions that are confirmed by observation, these ideas remain firmly in the hypothesis stage.

Really NEJ, that's interesting. So why did he put it in a pop physics book I wonder? I'm just reading The Grand Design at the moment. A bit misleading isn't it?

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Prince Charles, Cameron and Obama on their way to Saudi

by Xanthippe in

what do you think of royalty and premiers going to pay their respects at the death of saudi's king abdullah in light of the human rights abuses; public executions and people getting a hundred lashes for criticising islam?

a hundred lashes!

wouldn't that kill someone!

Xanthippe

Oil my friends oil.. - Zeb

Indeed!