Posts by SloBoy

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help please
by Scooby in
1. jw
2. experiences
i just wanted to see if anyone out there could help with my situation.

my husband and i are inactive witnesses very very recently.

we separated as we are both very unhappy with our lives.. my husband was raised a jw and has gotten flack his whole life by elders.
SloBoy

Scooby,
Welcome to this site. There are many here that can relate to your feelings of anxiety and despair. Being under the influence of WBTS dogma can be so emotionally, spiritually,and mentally incapacitating. This is a good place to start on the road to "recovery". Leaving the WBTS will not guarantee a problem free existence, but it seems that you are now putting yourself in a position to be helped by other people, groups, and agencies that can lay some wonderful tools at your feet for getting on with life. Above all, DON'T PANIC. Keep doing what you have started and don't give-up before the miracle.
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On TV tonight! (Thursday)UPDATE
by Golden Girl in
1. jw
2. friends
my daughter just told me that on our channel 5 news tonight they are telling about another religion that is covering up child abuse!..

it is on at 10 pm central here.

nbc news.
SloBoy

RIGHT-ON PISTOFF!!!........or "he's not wearing a tie", "his hair's a little long", or "she's got a tatto"; I use to be caught-up in that same dynamic, always looking for a reason to invalidate the real "truth".
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The Cry for Peace & Security WHEN?????????...
by JT in
1. jw
2. friends
*** w81 11/15 11 "peace and security!

"-then "sudden destruction" ***.

whenever it is that they are saying: peace and security!
SloBoy

Yesirrreee!.........whatever goes down, the "true channel of divine light" has it covered. My wife and I refer to it as "Win/Win" dogma. It's a great tranquilizer/anti-depressant. Little wonder it's such a struggle for some to "get-out".
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Elder Lou Anguiano Ordered to Stand Trial
by Nathan Natas in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20030208/localnews/944157.html .

saturday, february 8, 2003 .

trial ordered for jehovah's elder.
SloBoy

Billygoat,
The villification and discrediting of my pioneer wife ( very pretty), begun shortly after she told the Presiding Overseer that his full body, rocking hugs were inappropriate when given to those who had no interest in participating in such "hugs". He was a bit hurt, because afterall, as he put it, he would write talks "just for her"....... CREEPY!!!
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I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed
by Yerusalyim in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep,.

it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.
SloBoy

dubla,
It must be a locale specific thing. She lives back east, I'm on the west coast. The joke was originally e-mailed to us by someone else, and it was also sent back to us from her locale. I could be over reacting, but it sure got my attention.
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I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed
by Yerusalyim in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep,.

it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.
SloBoy

once again....HEY DUBLA!!!!!....you can invalidate this experience all you want. I was the one to open her e-mail back to us explaining what happened. I wish it was something fictional, out of a movie, but it happened. So scary.
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I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed
by Yerusalyim in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep,.

it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.
SloBoy

Hey Dubla..it was an e-mail to !!!!her HOME!!
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I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed
by Yerusalyim in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep,.

it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.
SloBoy

And by-the-way, all this conjuring up the spectre of Nazi Germany...nothing seems more like it than all this talk about "patriotism to the homeland", using it as a vehicle to allow this administration to go unchecked. Take some time and look back at pre-war Germany and the similarities are amazing.
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I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed
by Yerusalyim in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep,.

it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.
SloBoy

Just a little example of where this current tide of "patriotism" is taking us.........My wife e-mailed a little joke about Bush to her sister last week. When her sister went to open it, a window came up a informed her that a message "derogatory to our government" was intercepted and that she will not be able to receive it. This really happened, it was a simple little joke. Remember what one late, great statesman said, "Those that are willing to trade security for freedom, deserve neither."
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San Francisco man first American to grasp Irony
by Simon in
1. social
2. humour
san francisco man becomes first american to grasp meaning of irony .

jay fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first american to get to grips with the concept of irony.

"it was weird" fullmer said.
SloBoy

Simon,
Good thread!.....are the Brits the masters of wit and irony? Could be. Many of my wet-the-pants laughing attacks have come at the font of British humor.