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  Christian Neutrality-other areas for research.

  by singsongboi in

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  i've just been reading thru tallyman's thread, and the jw 'crawler' in dachau ( and individual act, of course!)...

  wonder did they df this guy after the war?

  and then there is rutherford's 'offer to deal' with the nazi's.. quote:... "and then, the watchtower society, scorned by hitler, started publishing bad things about nazism in their literature, whereas up to that point they were silent.".

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  absent friends!!!

  by singsongboi in

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  i've admitted to myself - .

  i miss my old friends (no!

  not enuf to ever consider going back).

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  a humble woman - fighting against religious contro

  by singsongboi in

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  at the launch of the sydney gay & lesbian mardi gras 2002, in the forecourt of the sydney opera house on feb 8, a keynote speaker was a str8 woman.. nan mcgrregor is an unlikely warrior - to me looked just like one of the faithful sisters that sat ignored in meeting after meeting.

  but in her heart there is a heroism that makes her special.. as one of the rainbow sash movement she wore a rainbow sash and asked to recieve holy communion in a catholic mass presided over by archbishop george pell.. she spoke of her heart searching before deciding to defy an elder of her church, and of how she felt kneeling for communion, as pell glowered threateningly at her..

  interesting!!!

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  Missing Friends - separated by stupidity

  by singsongboi in

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  i loove those reunion stories that come from places like the former east germany/west germany, north and south korea, the peoples of northern siberia and north america... after the control freaks give up and friends and families can see each other again.

  i love the looks on their faces when seeing someone dear to them that hasn't been seen for 50 years because some freak thot it was unpatriotic or untheocratic or something like that.

  you can see where i am going... i had to walk away from many people i thot a lot of -- .

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  transexual chosen to greet queen in NZ

  by singsongboi in

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  helen clark the prime minister of new zealand had other places to be when the queen arrived in nz on friday.. selected to greet the queen was mp georgina beyer.. ms beyer is billed as the world's first transexual mp, and is certainly one great lady....... i don't live in new zealand, but hear georgina speak a few years ago as the keynote speaker for the launch of the sydney gay & lesbian mardi gras festival season for that year.. she's a pretty gutsy lady and you quickly see why she got to be elected to the nz parliament, and keeps getting re-elected.

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  intersexed individuals & jws.

  by singsongboi in

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  i'm looking for information & experiences that intersexed people may have had in the congregations of jws.. if u are not sure what an intersexed person is u could check out this site... http://hermaphrodite.arriba.net/ .

  or if u pefer your text to be paper based rather than pixel, try the book ' hermaphrodites & the medical invention of sex', by alice domerut dreger (1998)... i seem to remember an australian transexual who had been male & a jw and who finished up in the uk.... wrote a book if i remember correctly!

  possibly his/her first name was also ken.. would appreciate any information & experiences-- whether positive or negative

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  was there anything good?

  by singsongboi in

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  i sometimes ask myself this question - i think i was 'there' for nearly 40 years and wonder at the waste.. what good came from it?

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  did anyone really find some good in all of the things we did?

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  disfellowshipping is a blessing in disguise!!!!

  by singsongboi in

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  i found this site by accident a couple of weeks ago -- i did not go looking for it, and felt no need for it..... reading the posts, was like entering an old house that i once lived in and was now abandoned -- the issues being discussed were like the furniture of the old house -- covered in dust and the crap of the ages.... but, as i stayed and read on and saw the pain that so many have, i started to think about the process that led us all here.. and my thoughts crystallised -- .

  i thought that i 'had' a good life as a witness -- yes i saw many things that i could question, but i accepted that old consolation that is offered when you have doubts - just wait on the lord brother - he will make all things clear in time...!!!.

  you know it's really strange that that expression is used so many times -- it leads me to think that so many must have doubts - even if unexpressed!

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  young brothers expelled from B/bethel in early 70s

  by singsongboi in

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  i am interested in the following incident(s)..... ........the witch-hunt at brooklyn bethel in the early seventies when dozens of bethel boys were disfellowshipped after learning of their midnight trysts in the sauna in brooklyn bethel...... if anyone can provide more detail i would be grateful!!!

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  Vale Clive Williams-gay, circuit o'seer-d'fd...

  by singsongboi in

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  this is the story of another man battling in a place he did not belong - i did not know him, only knew of him.....thru the everlasting gossip!!!.

  i think he had already left australia when i became a jw in the the 1950's -- and my knowledge of him is only thru recollection of whispered conversations.. i've called it -----.

  life gets better for clive williams.