Posts by SYN

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Diary of an Armageddon Survivor

by GinnyTosken in

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i was sorting through my files today and found this piece from 1996 and thought i'd share.. ginny.

diary of an armageddon survivor.

ed thorn, our presiding overseer, told us that those who were missing should have spent more time in field service.. day 2. brother thorn called a special meeting this morning.

SYN

WOWEEE! I never thought in depth about what would happen AFTER Armageddon - but you know what, I think this is exactly what would occur. Please tell us a little bit more about the guy who wrote it!

It actually scared the BeJesus out of me...to think that a few years back I would have thought that all of this was inevitable, and now I know that it is impossible...haha...

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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JW Paranoia

by Norm in

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nowhere do we get a better idea of how paranoid jw's are when it comes to avoiding reality on the net.

anything to prevent having to deal with anything resembling critical thinking:.

hello my name is rita , i want to assist you in joining our jwotw group but because this is a private community for witnesses only, i'd like to ask you a few questions.. 1. what is your real name (first and last)?.

SYN

1. How many times have you had power-hungry Elders invade your life and your home to 'Lovingly Counsel' you?

2. How many years of education did you miss if you entered the Truth before 1975?

3. If the answer to #2 is >= 1, how many burgers a day do you now flip at McDonalds?

4. How many times have you been the subject of a Judicial Committee?

5. How many incredibly silly JW urban myths have you propogated, and how many demons have you expelled from your home by removing small items of furniture, purportedly from 'wordly' sources?

6. Do you have any children? What are their names? How old are they? What do they look like? (Please provide photos, names, telephone numbers, and addresses if they are below the age of 16. This is especially for use by the Elder 'Body'.)

7. Do you actually, physically, remember any part of last week's Watchtower? Really? Are you sure? Don't you think that's a bit unlikely, considering how dry and spectacularly boring it is?

8. If you attended Bethel, how many weeks did you spend scrubbing toilets, even though you were a qualified professional who would have been bossing around 60 people in the Real World?

9. Does field service play a meaningful part in your life? Also, do you watch any Demonic television shows, such as the Smurfs or Oprah? If you answered yes to any of the last two questions, please stop writing right now and leave. Goodbye, evil one.

10. What spiritual goals have you set for yourself? And what are your goals at McDonalds? Are you aiming for a managerial position at this place of employ? If you are, you are a power-hungry wordly wench, you should not be a part of this system of things, please stop answering these questions and leave quietly by your back door.

11. Have you ever seen people in your KH fornicating/smoking/holding hands with someone not related to them/drinking/watching football? If so, could you give us their full details please? We need to contact the Elders.

Hope to hear from you soon so that you can be on your way to making more friends in our little congregation on the web, and wasting EVEN MORE bandwidth repeating pointless paragraphs from the Watchtower in order to appear faithful, when you are really just cut-n-pasting them from the WT CDROM!!!

Please return this application within 7 days, otherwise we wil have to place you before a Judicial Committee for tardiness, sooner if you can. Thank you Rita

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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WARNING - THE WTBS CAN LOCATE YOU

by Jim Dee in

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guys and girls.

the society have now instituted carnivore - their data tracking system installed into the uk bethel to track all apostate email and activity.

the reason is the amount of "leaks" of confidential mail and facts.. they have tried and failed with legal blocking, so now they are plugging the leaks, these guys were brought into mill hill late last year after the leak of the june 1 letter.. their method is to use message boards and chat rooms for the "disaffected" and get them to go to other "society monitored" web sites.

SYN

*LOL* @ Rhett, don't worry man...I just wanted to supply some info tidbits. It's really quite a cool site you've got there, although it is TRULY the last thing I expected to see when I dereferenced that IP...hehe...

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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WARNING - THE WTBS CAN LOCATE YOU

by Jim Dee in

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friends

guys and girls.

the society have now instituted carnivore - their data tracking system installed into the uk bethel to track all apostate email and activity.

the reason is the amount of "leaks" of confidential mail and facts.. they have tried and failed with legal blocking, so now they are plugging the leaks, these guys were brought into mill hill late last year after the leak of the june 1 letter.. their method is to use message boards and chat rooms for the "disaffected" and get them to go to other "society monitored" web sites.

SYN

AHAHAHA! http://watchtower.org@63.92.157.81/mxplk4.htm points to a server called AsteroidModels.com!!! Whoever registered this site didn't fill in the domain name form properly:

Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE

Organization: Rhett Bourland
address: 3022 N. Fulton Ave.
Evansville, 47710 IN UNITED STATES

Admin contact: Rhett Bourland
email: [email protected]
phone: 812 4219764
fax: Tech Name............ YahooDomains Techcontact

Tech contact: YahooDomains Techcontact
email: [email protected]
phone: 619 8813096
fax: Name Server.......... ns8.san.yahoo.com

See what I mean??? Anyone who gets duped by this...well I won't say...if you look at the URL it's obviously just a hardlink to some IP address, but I guess not everyone has been working in the industry for years like me, so exceptions will happen.

For your information here, good people of JW.COM: If you see a URL with an @ near the beginning, everything before the @ symbol is garbage. You could write PollyanaHasAGiantParrot before the @ symbol and the URL would still point to the same server.

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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Part 11: The Amalgamated Wedding

by Amazing in

part 11: the amalgamated wedding .

by now, tensions between the elders and me had subsided.

we were gearing up for the wedding.

SYN

Excellent! That musta been a tense wedding...!

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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disturbing thoughts from witness site

by detective in

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friends

i found this on a purelanguage.net thread.

what smug, bizarre, self-satisfied comments.

it's sad that these folks don't realize how ugly some of the things they say (and apparently think) really are.. an excerpt:.

SYN

Unanswered: In the case of the Bush administration, I think the Dubs would actually be able to do a better job. In their spare time. After field service, meetings, Conventions, Book Studies, Not-At-Homes, Witness Get-Togethers, and Judicial Meetings.

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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WARNING - THE WTBS CAN LOCATE YOU

by Jim Dee in

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friends

guys and girls.

the society have now instituted carnivore - their data tracking system installed into the uk bethel to track all apostate email and activity.

the reason is the amount of "leaks" of confidential mail and facts.. they have tried and failed with legal blocking, so now they are plugging the leaks, these guys were brought into mill hill late last year after the leak of the june 1 letter.. their method is to use message boards and chat rooms for the "disaffected" and get them to go to other "society monitored" web sites.

SYN

Carnivore? At Bethel? Please! Those people couldn't hack their way out of a PAPER BAG!!!!!!! (You know I'm laughing my tits off when I use that many exclamation marks, LOL )

You are seriously overestimating the technical prowess of the Dubs. PULEEEEEEZE. The day those people install Carnivore (which is classified FBI technology BTW, nobody has it except it's creators) is the day that I start preaching Islamic teachings in the American Congress!

Maybe, *just maybe* they are using some sort of a simple referral tracking system (this is very easy to implement), but anything further than that is very, very doubtful. JWs are just too honest.

Then again, they are very well known for their spying abilities, aren't they? It's conceivable that some Dubs work at ISPs and have access to some of this information, and could get it to Bethel...but this would almost be like science fiction.

To summarise: This is impossible. Referrall (sp?) tracking maybe, but THAT'S IT!!!

Get yer facts straight, dude. No offense intended, but I think this is ludicrous. I was a Dub for nearly 15 years, I went to Bethel A LOT. (Well the one in Johannesburg, which doesn't really count...), and believe me, they simply aren't up to it.

For what you're envisaging to happen, you'd need some pretty talented crackers who have access to large numbers of administrator's passwords to do the back-dereferencing on the mail servers. Even then that won't help them against some of the smarter apostates who use tunnelling HTTP bouncing servers to connect to the Internet.

These people are not Samurai, they are sad cult drones. Deal with it.

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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Spitting it out!

by BritBoy in

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friends

i doubt i shall be hearing from my sister in a while.

she is a jw and has known i am gay and all about the smoking etc etc.

she said it did not bother her and that i am still her brother!

SYN

Britboy, if I stayed in my own place I would have asked you to come and lodge by me, but I don't, so sorry

Did the, uh, incident occur at the Krugersdorp Bethel? BWHAHAHA! Damn, that must have been the ultimate...shit...

Seriously, don't waste your time dabbling with narrow-minded homophobes, they aren't worth it. But she is your sister, and you two share chromosomes, so you should at least BOTH make the effort to be civil...just my R200.00...

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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My problem....

by LDH in

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friends

ok guys i have a problem and i can use your input.. i've been trying to drop little hints about the 'troof' for a year and a half now.. unfortunately i think i have a late-in-life case of adhd because i can't stay focused on one topic.

i would like to discuss one topic rationally with my father (mother doesn't talk to me) but somehow i end up getting all emotional and wanting to shout "are you f-ing blind?

that religion is a scam and you have wasted 35 years of your life!".

SYN

Practise Zen meditation or something...I dunno. There are usually two ways to tackle problems like this: let them slide (permanently...what's out of sight is out of mind, people tend to have very short memories), or just sorta take the bull by the horns.

If the other person is making you angry, then remember that THEY are controlling YOU. You don't want to allow that.

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

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Atomic Bomb

by deceit in

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friends

i often wonder wether there will be a day in my lifetime when i hear-.

'it has been confirmed that a nuclea bomb has been droped on _________ by the ________ , total damage cannot be assesed nor numbers, but the city of _______ is no more......'.

with the way america is acting lately, i have to wonder wether they are medling into other countries affairs too much, and now with this speach that bush made naming countries, asking congress for the highest ever defence budget since the cold war ect ect.. what is the hidden agenda in all of this?

SYN

I agree, Abbaddon - not even the smartest of Majestic's snoops know exactly how many stolen nuclear weapons (suitcase-sized nukes among them) were smuggled across the Russian/Afghanistanian border during the 80's and 90's.

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.