i'm being hassled by american companies tele-canvassing me from across the pond!
i'm registered with the uk telephone preference service which theoretically stops unwanted canvassing calls.
also, my caller display reveals whether or not a person is witholding their telephone number.
I LOVE telemarketer phone calls! When they call, I'll do one of the following:
adopt a goofy foreign accent and pretend that I don't understand
set the phone down next to a stereo speaker blaring music.
sit and talk for a long, long time and then say "NAAAAWWWW, I decided I don't need your product."(insert pissed off salesman reaction here)
launch into tirade about how much I hate telemarketers
TR
one of the things the society prides itself over is that jw's are not only preachers but also teachers.
jw's are told that they have the "best education in the world".
jw's are taught for a number of months before they are allowed to get baptized.
I was so frickin brain dead at the time of my baptism, that I just wanted to answer the questions to be able to join the club. How sick is that? Anyone can tell you what you want to hear. It took a few years, but stress and reality of being a 'hovah caught up to me, and I bailed.
TR
i have been reading posts for a while, but everytime i try and post my intro, i dont know what to say, so i suppose i will just write what comes to me.
lets see, i was born and raised in the "truth", i have never known anything else my whole life, so this is weird for me to think differently.
i was df'd about 4 years ago when i met my "worldly" husband, i have tried for the past 2 years to be reinstated, but i guess that i have not tried hard enough, according to the elders (who btw have not been very nice or loving toward me).
Hi, Monkey.
Maybe some of your 'hovah family will turn out to be like my bro and his family. They're 'hovahs that could care less about the rules. They even planned a wedding for their "apostate" son and his "worldly" wife! I don't know how they get away with it, but they do. Yet they still believe in the WTS crap. Unbelievable.
TR
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when the election rolls around, will you be pulling the lever for w?
i will, unless somebody comes along with the offer of free supermodels for me.. czar
I voted for W., and will vote for him again, unless what the czar said comes to pass.
TR- loves to hear the liberals whine, class
as i was growing up in the troof.
there were sayings used over and over again to control my behaviour.
the biblical on bad associations spoil useful habits and another on just because everyone else does it doesnt mean you have to do it to, would you jump off a cliff just because other people do what were the sayings that bugged you?
"Knock knock......Hello?.....SLAM!" was the saying I hated the most.
TR
i just heard that the norwegian watchtower apologist, rolf furuli, who esteems himself a biblical scholar of semetic languages, has completed the first of two volumes he plans to publish on the societys chronology, assyrian, babylonian, egyptian and persian chronology compared with the chronology of the bible.. title of this first volume is: persian chronology and the length of the babylonian exile of the jews.. i hear that although carl olof jonsson is not mentioned by name, or reference made to his book "gentile times reconsidered," it is nevertheless apparent that these volumes are an attempt to refute jonssons excellent study which has exposed the watchtowers 1914 date as total folly.. .
the book can be ordered now from furulis new personal website:.
http://folk.uio.no/rolffu/.
AREAS OF INTEREST AND RESEARCH:
The religion of the Bible and its text in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, Bible translation, the verbal systems of classical Hebrew and the other Semitic languages, Accadian/Sumerian texts and grammar.
Furuli doesn't mention his interest in 'hovahs. Too embarassed maybe?
TR
Makes no sense whatsoever. Somebody had to create 'Hovah, and somebody had to create his creator, and his creator, and his creator.....etc.
TR
may you all have peace!
when i was sent to speak to ones and they came back asking me why it is that we hear and they do not, i had taken it before my lord to ask him.
this is what he told me, their hearts are hard and they do not wish to hear what i tell them.
Seeing someone who hears voices = GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE!
TR
hey,.
my wife and i have had it with this expensive gate to hell, and we're getting out of jersey.. so, how is it out there?
what state do you guys think is better as to employment, car insurance, taxes, schools, etc?
I live in Spokane Washington, on the east side of the state. Job opportunities aren't as good as in Seattle, but the cost of living here is a lot lower.
My house sounds just like like princess', about 1700 s.f., but about half the price. My auto insurance runs about $2,500 a year, and that includes four vehicles, my wife and I as drivers and TWO teenagers. MY house insurance is about $700 a year. Sales tax is 8.1%.
There are several ski resorts, lakes, motorcycle/biking/hiking/snowmobile trails within an hours drive. We have great weather here. Nothing too extreme. It's pretty dry right now, we haven't had any precip. in about a month.
Spokane is definately NOT a cultural mecca, but oh well.
TR
the august 1 watchtower has a cover featuring a young african -american man.
and asks "how would you like to be remembered?".
"remembered?
God All-mikey!
I DO know that I don't want to be remembered as a brain-dead zealot after I'm dead, or right now, for that matter. It's hard enough knowing that "worldly" friends I haven't seen since I was a 'hovah still remember me as a brain-dead religious zealot.
TR
