Zep, there's a message there for you if you're smart enough to see it. -SolidSender
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From the Twilight zone to Kingdom Hall
by Zep inwhen i was doing a bible study... well... when i read "you can live forever in a paradise on earth" (goofy title) with a witness anyhow....i cant really call it a study.. anyway, he mentioned to me that there was a big convention get together sort of thing coming up and said i should come along...so i sort of said i might and left it at that!.
i was under the impression that it was just another big church meeting, heaps of people, i could just slip in up the back and have a look nice and easy....well..... it was a sunday, and i was a bit hungover...and on the spur of the moment i decided to go have a peek.. so i get in there wearing casual clothes, blue jeans with a hole in the left knee that had been badly stitched over...walk through the car park, notice this mafioso type guy (probably an elder) looking at me sort of strange... keep walking...come to the entrance and this witnees greets me...i say i've just come to a have a look if thats alright.....(couple of people looking at me...no big deal).......he says ok and leads me to a seat in the stadium.......well, the seating arrangments in the main stadium were such that anyone walking in has to walk along a 50 metre walkway in full veiw of about 2000 odd people (iwas about 2hrs late btw, since there was no way i was going to a meeting that went all day)...so i'm walking in wearing utra casual, scruffy clothes plus hungover, into stadium in full view of all these silent witnesses who are listening to some guy talk....it was full on... noticed a fair few people looking straight at me like i'm from planet x.. oh well, who cares, no big deal, i sit down and lay back and listen after the guy finally finds me a seat...... they were just finishing up a little dramatisation of why you should be careful about what you watch on tv....so anyway,that finishes and the speaker announces whats next on the card......its a lecture, a talk on "how you dress and what you wear reflects your attitude", i could feel the spotlight fall right on me...."oh sh't, i got to get outa here" i think.....so get up and walk back out in full view of all these well dressed witnesses, back along the walkway and out!.
it was a blow out for sure!....
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PREZ JOKES
by SolidSender inhere's some bumper stickers recently spotted:.
honk!
if you had sex with the president.
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Here's some bumper stickers recently spotted:
HONK! If you had sex with the President
Clinton: We forgive you...Now Resign!
Al Gore: One heartthrob from the Presidency
Adultery IS NOT a family value
Does character matter YET?
One More Whore And We Get Gore
Bill Clinton: Commander in Heat
My President Fooled Around with Your Honor Student
Jail to the Chief
Today kids no longer play doctor, they play President
The Clinton Creed: Take Credit, Not Responsibility
If his private life doesn't matter, let him date YOUR daughter
Save the President: Legalize Perjury
Two terms for Clinton: the second in jail
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Irony of "Rebellious" Youth
by Pathofthorns ini've found it quite interesting talking to several young ones who lead double lives.
the sad thing is, i don't find these ones so wicked.
i find them basically good kids who got a little messed up because no one had any time for them, or attempts to relate were rather lame.. the irony is that while talking to one while he was smoking a cigarette, out of nowhere he says, "but i still believe its the truth".
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Typo above - sentence should read - Love as a motive doesn't stand a chance inside the "organisation".
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Irony of "Rebellious" Youth
by Pathofthorns ini've found it quite interesting talking to several young ones who lead double lives.
the sad thing is, i don't find these ones so wicked.
i find them basically good kids who got a little messed up because no one had any time for them, or attempts to relate were rather lame.. the irony is that while talking to one while he was smoking a cigarette, out of nowhere he says, "but i still believe its the truth".
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The diversity human of human experience/expression does not fit into the narrow, confined, claustrophobic, little box otherwise known as the JW mindset. Their insistent, compulsive, disturbing obsession with conformity to WTBS regulation thoroughly negates any claims they make that Jesus Christ and all he stood for ever existed. Love, as a motive doesn’t stand inside the “organization”. They made sure of that a long time ago. That a person people can act in a way contrary to what he/she claims to believe does not, personally, bother me. I’m not expecting human nature to really make that much sense or want everyone on earth to be a clone of myself like the “organization” does. One thing that used to get to me, being a witness, was all this continual astonishment that problems existed, as if conflict wasn’t supposed to be a part of life. The problem is people who think that there shouldn’t be problems, who insist on dichotomizing the world. - SolidSender
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Disassociated
by Scorpion init has been an experience to say the least.
i accepted eagerly the teachings of the watchower bible and tract society over the last 7 years.
i have been a dedicated pioneer for four of those years.
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SC - my prayers and thoughts are with you. A very moving post. If you need someone to mail or phone or talk to, to help you through - whatever, let me know i'll send my details. Of course you'll be very disillusioned, disappointed and depressed about this maybe for a while. That's only natural, those things are evidence of an unbearable conflict within ones psyche. You're on the road to freedom. Continue in prayer and bible reading. God IS with you. “For my yoke is kindly and my load is light.” Matthew 11:30.
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Vincent
by Seven ini've always found it difficult to put into words my true feelings and after 240 posts-i find it no easier.
i am not a good writer, nor will i ever be.
i feel most at home with brush in hand-allowing it to do my talking for me.
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Edited by - SolidSender on 1 August 2000 3:26:46
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What is the WT afraid of???????????????????
by Zep inok, since it was so easy to get on here i'm assuming that this place is also over run by wts critics...but anyway!.
i've read a plenty of wt mags and got sucked in enough by the whole thing to go to a few meetings and do a bible study( which i wouldn't really call a study, since we just read one of their books).i soon broke of the whole thing and didn't even read another mag for about 6 years...6 months ago i wandered into h20 out of curiosity and ended up reading up on the arguments against the wts.. i have a simple question, and its probably very naive to ask this...but why is wts so afraid of debate?...there are plenty of sites arguing against the wts...but none for, apart the official site which doesn't address the issues raised by so called "apostates" anyway.. if the wt has the the truth why dont they just refute the the arguments against them instead of shutting up shop and labelling anyone who questions them an "apostate?
" or from satan or something.. i'm really beginning to think that all this wt business is just waste of time, that if i were to go to kh and ask questions that i have, i'm more likely to be labelled a trouble making agent of satan rather than be taken at face value as someone with serious questions.
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7 - thanks. temporary Usernamechange at the moment due to probs with being a thrillbilly. Anyway re: your post - you were obviously a precocious child. I also had a variation on the theme but it was along the the lines of : then one day jed went shooting for some food and up through the ground came ellie in the nude/ next thing you know old jeds in the truck, fly wide open ready for a ...........yea anyway.
i mean next thing you know old jeds a millionaire
kinfolk said jed move away from there
said california's the place you oughta be
so he loaded up the truck and moved to beverly
hills that is
swimmin pools
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Donations for Literature?
by Andyman ini know that there is a variety of posters here from different places.
i have seen some from canada, the u.s., and australia, and england.
so i wanted to ask about the "donation" arrangement for literature.. somebody in another thread mentioned the "double" payment thing.
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What procedure did the first century christians advised when they placed magazines?
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oops forgot topic : A Quiz
by Maxee inam i a member of a cult?.
i found this quiz try it and let me know [url] http://www.omnimag.com/archives/mind_brain/cult/index.html[/url].
edited by - maxee on 15 june 2000 20:37:18
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Waiting, so where would you rather be? where you were then or where you are now? The way I see it is at least I'm out the other side and more or less still in one piece.
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What is the WT afraid of???????????????????
by Zep inok, since it was so easy to get on here i'm assuming that this place is also over run by wts critics...but anyway!.
i've read a plenty of wt mags and got sucked in enough by the whole thing to go to a few meetings and do a bible study( which i wouldn't really call a study, since we just read one of their books).i soon broke of the whole thing and didn't even read another mag for about 6 years...6 months ago i wandered into h20 out of curiosity and ended up reading up on the arguments against the wts.. i have a simple question, and its probably very naive to ask this...but why is wts so afraid of debate?...there are plenty of sites arguing against the wts...but none for, apart the official site which doesn't address the issues raised by so called "apostates" anyway.. if the wt has the the truth why dont they just refute the the arguments against them instead of shutting up shop and labelling anyone who questions them an "apostate?
" or from satan or something.. i'm really beginning to think that all this wt business is just waste of time, that if i were to go to kh and ask questions that i have, i'm more likely to be labelled a trouble making agent of satan rather than be taken at face value as someone with serious questions.
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marion, your post is a put on right?