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Your most powerful spiritual saying is?????

by anti-absolutist in

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we all go through times of stress and sad times.

what is a simple, yet profound saying that you have reminded yourself of to make these troubling times easier?

you don't have to believe in a literal god, just that there are higher thoughts within us that we all are able to draw from.. the one that has worked the best for me is: .

The US Sedition Act Appropriate Today?

by ThiChi in

is the sedition act appropriate today?

now that we are at war, should this act be used to address some that oppose the war?

this question was put to me, i now ask for your comments.

SloBoy

Hey Trauma...you still up? How you doin? I enjoyed our visit in Seattle. Stay cool, keep it comin.

SloBoy

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Bush's Message to the Peacenik Democrats!

by reporter in

president's remarks to traitorous peacemonger democrats: "last call to hop on board the bloodwagon!

bury your principles in red-hot, shockin' awesome war porn!

statement by the president .

SloBoy

Damn!!!...if it wasn't so close to the truth, it would be funny.

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The US Sedition Act Appropriate Today?

by ThiChi in

is the sedition act appropriate today?

now that we are at war, should this act be used to address some that oppose the war?

this question was put to me, i now ask for your comments.

This war/invasion/liberation will meet it's true destiny. While being conceived, many months before 9/11, there were voices warning of it's fallacy. Kudos to the Bush propaganda machine for even making it this far. From here on though, it will be about saving face, and scrambling mightily to mitigate the onslaught of gestated terrorisim. I am truly saddened for all the present and future victims.

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Armageddon SOON!!!!

by PopeOfEruke in

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according to my brother the big elder, this is it!!!

this war with iraq will bring on armageddon for sure!!!.

so if thats the case (and he is an elder so he can't be wrong can he??

SloBoy

Yeah, I remember our elder bookstudy conductor telling us in the fall of ' 99 that there were just "a few" weeks left of this old system. The Dubs have had they're shot at being "true prophets" and have failed miserably.

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First Of The Fallen Come Home.

by Englishman in

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yesterday saw the first of the fallen brits being returned home to raf brize norton.. .

the first 10 british soldiers who died in iraq, were, unusually, returned to the uk.

normally, fallen brit soldiers are buried at the place in which they fell, however it has been decided that where possible, all bodies will be returned the homeland in the hope that the bereaved relatives will be able to gain some comfort from this.. englishman.

SloBoy

Support the troops by bringing them home to build roads, schools, and hospitals. There's plenty of work right here; good, productive, SAFE work. I support them and at the same time feel bad for them that they have been drawn into this "war" by the slick propaganda of the Bush regime.

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Confessions of an ex-elder

by Irreverent in

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since this forum is for cleansing and healing through sharing, i want to share some confessions of an ex-elder.

how could i have allowed myself to be conned into becoming an elder?

and, after becoming an elder, why did it take me 3 years to finally figure out the hypocrisy of the organization?

SloBoy

Thanks for making this post......Within (but certainly not unique to) the WBTS, I've come to see the difference between an apology ( i.e." I'm sorry" that you're such a repulsive low-life ), and a true amends. There is a huge distinction in the results, for both the giver and the receiver. Peace to you as you continue on the path of true amends.

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The Prodigal One That Never Went Back...

by Valis in

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this is the tale of a young man that had a bright future as a cellist..he was only sixteen and things were looking bright if not for the very one that was supposed to be the head of the household.

we'll call him jack...short for jackass btw.

jack was a violent man, living and conducting himself as an upstanding jw in the eyes of the congregation...he beat his wife, married his 16 year old daughter off to some cretin, mistreated his other daughter, and finally took much aggression out on his sons...well jack did a real good job of beating the hope out of the prodigal one...he gave up playing cello and ran away from home to join the navy during vietnam...the rest of his life was hard and being rather tall, even for a prodigal one, his body got tired after a hard life...congenital lung disease, several bad motorcycle wrecks/suicide attempts imo, he's dying now..on a respirator...to complicate things, his wife of more than 15 years died today of congestive heart failure and complications from open heart surgery....you see, he never went home because there is not one to go back to...his mother died of cancer , jack left his first family and moved on to abuse two others while remaining a jw (not one now as far as i know) and has not been heard from for years.

SloBoy

Valis,

My heart goes out to you and your uncle and his siblings. Can't remember which poster used to sign off, "WT-Shredded families / Ruined Lives" Now that's the real truth!

This spring is the first memorial I will not attend in 39 years, and one of the most power and validating reasons for not doing so is the long list of friends and acquaintances I had for almost 4 decades. As I watch the pitiful "power" of their devotion to an organization play out in their lives it confirms to me that I am moving toward the light and not away from it.

I have lost loved ones too, Valis. Most specifically, my precious brother-in-law who died while DF'd, addicted to drugs, and never having recieved even one so-called "yearly" visit in 21 years. I am sorry and sad that I ever participated in the shunning of anyone. My one true regret.

Hugs to you, my thoughts are with you.

SloBoy's Spouse aka Dragonfly5

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Circuit Assembly this past weekend

by Jourles in

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this past weekend we had our circuit assembly.

you guessed it, same ol' same ol.

' on saturday, the overall theme was based on materialism.

SloBoy

SloBoys' Spouse checking in.

Thank you everyone. How absolutely revealing and depressing. Validating too. I have not attended a meeting or assembly since the sunday meeting after the Memorial last year. However, I have not given any money of any sort since January of 1997. To quote myself at the time to an elder on a camping trip, "I'll not give one red cent to the Society as long as there is any chance that my money would be used to defend a pedophile."

It is just so unbelievable how duped I was. Memorial is coming up. This will be the first I have not attended in 39 years. I feel no guilt. I do not feel it would honor Jesus or his Father for me to attend such a farce. Yet, I am saddened that so many I have loved through the years still labor under the control of this MAN MADE ORGANIZATION, striving to please it and thinking they are pleasing God.

Well, I have homework to do. Thank God for things that keep my mind busy rather than obsessing about the WTB&TS.

Thank you all, Farkel, Gary Buss, All the posters, if you weren't here when we were ostracized it would have been real ugly.

Dragonfly5

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Dangerous escalation

by Satanus in

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i was going to call the thread wwiii, but that's a bit sensational, isn't it?

the escalation pattern is in these headlines on a newsite i read sometimes.. china readies for future us war .

15,000 indonesian 'holy warriors' to fight for iraq .

SloBoy

Thanks Saint,

All the consequences that were "whispered" into the ear of George. But by crackie, he's the "leader, and that's what I'm a gonna do".