Posts by TheOldHippie

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THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING SOMEBODY TOLD YOU
by minimus in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
what's the most outrageous thing that you were personally told ,while in the organization??

?
TheOldHippie

Being told by a Pentecostalist woman that I would be fried in the Great Frying Pan of God.
Being told by a Pentecostalist woman that we did not sing at our meetings.
Being told by a Pentecostalist man that we did not pray at our meetings.
Being told by many that I do not believe in Jesus.
Being told by some people that I believe that Jesus walks the earth right now.
Being told by a Pentecostalist man that I believe not in the Bible, but in 7 books.
Being told by quite a few that I will burn in hell.
Being told by my father that I was better off as a drug addict, because for them there is hope of quitting.
Being told by a Pentecostalist man that Satan's Evil Look was staring at him thru my eyes.
Being told by a Pentecostalist youth friend of mine that he would soon get a van, because he had prayed to Jesus for one.
Being told by the parent of one of my son's classmates that it was no wonder my son turned a drug addict, since I was his father.
Oh, there are many horrible things I've been told while being a Witness.
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Panorama print-out?
by TheOldHippie in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i've been away for some days; the dateline program was possible to read as a print-out or file where the spoken words were to be found on print.

(i am sure there exists a simple word for this, but as i don't know it, please excuse this lame attempt of trying to explain what i mean ...) since the panorama now has been aired, is the text somewhere to be found in the same fashion?
TheOldHippie

Yepp, that was the tricky word I had completely lost! And thanks for asking, my daughter is doing relatively fine. Still a bit groggy at times and has to lie down and get some sleep when she's been "active" (like fetching the mail ....), but it seems it's going in the right direction.
Thanks again,
TOH
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Panorama print-out?
by TheOldHippie in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i've been away for some days; the dateline program was possible to read as a print-out or file where the spoken words were to be found on print.

(i am sure there exists a simple word for this, but as i don't know it, please excuse this lame attempt of trying to explain what i mean ...) since the panorama now has been aired, is the text somewhere to be found in the same fashion?
TheOldHippie

I've been away for some days; the Dateline program was possible to read as a print-out or file where the spoken words were to be found on print. (I am sure there exists a simple word for this, but as I don't know it, please excuse this lame attempt of trying to explain what I mean ...) Since the Panorama now has been aired, is the text somewhere to be found in the same fashion?
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U Win Some...And...You Lose Some
by D8TA in
1. social
2. current
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/78433_nopledge13.shtml

tooooo bad.. d8ta
TheOldHippie

OK to salute flags?
I don't think you should accept EVERYTHING your ex-JW telles youas being "the truth" about "the truth" ........
The only ones I've see doing so, were the two famous sisters.
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Top WTS Leader in Japan DF'd
by abbagail in
1. social
2. current
just saw this at silent lambs/grits.

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date: 09 jul 2002. time: 18:36:56. comments.
TheOldHippie

WAY too .............
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Bad news?
by happy man in
1. jw
2. friends
i find this on unother bord.. .

i have it on reliable source that one of the founding jws in.

japan, who has been serving as a branch coordinator, was.
TheOldHippie

OK, happy man, I am sorry that I offended you. If it is any comfort, the sentences I write often look very differently when I read them afterwards; strange mis-spellings have occured. Also, the flow of the sentences are very different in other languages, so I clearly see my own mistakes too. It was just a small smile of the second, the moment, and I could not help it. Again, sorry.
Poland? Isn't everything great in Poland?
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Top WTS Leader in Japan DF'd
by abbagail in
1. social
2. current
just saw this at silent lambs/grits.

remote user: .

date: 09 jul 2002. time: 18:36:56. comments.
TheOldHippie

Not QUITE the same Honma, I am sorry .................
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Bad news?
by happy man in
1. jw
2. friends
i find this on unother bord.. .

i have it on reliable source that one of the founding jws in.

japan, who has been serving as a branch coordinator, was.
TheOldHippie

Littel? Is he here? ...........
Sorry, I can't stop smiling or -- OK, laughing - I know, I know, it's bad, it's terrible, I'm a bastard, but it's so nice to have found someone who possesses the same knowledge of the English language as I do myself ....
assambley? where?
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Bad news?
by happy man in
1. jw
2. friends
i find this on unother bord.. .

i have it on reliable source that one of the founding jws in.

japan, who has been serving as a branch coordinator, was.
TheOldHippie

Happyman said he " have no attentions to qite" ....
attentions?
qite?
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NEARLY 17 YEAR OLD BOY IS MINISTERIAL SERVANT
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
things must be getting pretty desperate.

i just heard some wonderful news of another boy being appointed a ministerial servant.

the comment was that even though he is young, he is very mature.another person, speaking of a different boy being appointed said that he had the added advantage of being home schooled and that really helped him to mature.
TheOldHippie

Well, orangefatcat, MS guys are not supposed to give you councel, they are supposed to take care of practical issues like literature, sound equipment, microphones, district maps etc.
I agree, though, that the pressure towards elderdom will start after a year or so.
Me? I was appointed a MS two years after my baptism, when I had been a drug addict for many years, and made elder a year after that. Considering one did not have an alder dad or did not even grow up within, that was rather quick too .....