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  Q. For Anti-Royalists.

  by Englishman in

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  how much do you think that every man, woman & child in the uk, each pays every year to keep queen liz on the throne?.

  if you know the answer for certain, please don't quote your source just yet.

  i'm just trying to get a general picture about what people think.. englishman.

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  Englishman,

  Speaking of anti-Royalists, and/or a possible answer to your question about how long is Mel Gibson going to play parts where he's being persecuted by the British ...

  Have you forgotten Mad Max Mel's first major role?: The one where he played a young Australian soldier doing his bit for "Crown and Country" on the slaughterhouse shores of Gallipoli in Turkey in the Ist World War? Maybe his penchant for Pommy bashing goes back to those days. For I, too, can understand Mel's motivation so well, as being proudly Australian myself - even if Mel was born in New York and grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney - I was closer to Bondi myself - but wouldn't you be feeling bitter, Englishman, even revengeful, when you think of all the young Australian men who went to their death in a War which really had nothing to do with them - or us - on the other side of the planet? Long live the Repulic, from this anti-Royalist - in Australia - who agrees with Farkel about the Queen's worth. But hey, after the success of the Queen's Jubilee, where there is cash. there is still hope. And anyway, as I'm always the little gentleman, and good sport, QE 2's half century of hardworking, faithful service should be admired by everybody, Royal or not. The surviving prosperity of the Monarchy - in England - may just become fashionably Retro even yet. Cheers.

  Uncanny

  Who still misses Lady Diana dearly.
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  Hooray for Men In Funny Hats

  by Uncanny in

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  do any of you other lurkers or posters ever give a thought to the poeple - not publishers - who may have helped you learn 'the truth about the the truth?

  ' i'm talking about ex jehovah's witnesses like myself who have been there, done that, seen the light, and are trying to shine it on others.. just over 2 years ago now when i got banished to the bottom of our earth - to a dying mining town in western tasmania on my first and last mts assignment - yours truly started wondering what the heck had become of his life.

  i got lonely - real lonely - then on the net, only to find, not solace, but salvation; by discovering all the stuff i'd swallowed from the wtb&t society for the previous 20 years had really been just a pack of dated, if even manipulative theories.

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  Out in the boondocks and loving it, AF. Loving the peace and quiet of these beautifully classical Australian hills of the Onkaparinga Valley. Since Sept 11 - or six weeks later when I started getting over it - I have been very busy writing a book about my bird. As pictured, Whacker of Woodside: The True Story of a Real Galah. It was supposed to be a 25,000 kiddy winks book with all these digital photos I now have of my beloved bird. But I got carried away with the narrative, and stretched it out to the teenage and young adult market over 70,000 words. I'm tired, AF. Mentally tired, and tired of being admired, as you must feel from time to time. But I'm happy and will soon be working with my hands helping to build an environmentally friendly, 3 storey straw bale house for myself and my pet galah and true life companion, it seems for now. (We like a lot of space, especially where there are so many, many stars.)

  I'll always admire you, Alan, and if I can get this book up - my 2nd try in 12 years - I'll make sure this Forum hears about tt all right and you get a complimentary copy, with the bird's beak - not signature inscribed as well. Ha. Ain't life grand, AF?! And I still miss Farkel and Uncle Bruce, and love to yer better half.. and you know the rest.

  Uncanny
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  Hooray for Men In Funny Hats

  by Uncanny in

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  do any of you other lurkers or posters ever give a thought to the poeple - not publishers - who may have helped you learn 'the truth about the the truth?

  ' i'm talking about ex jehovah's witnesses like myself who have been there, done that, seen the light, and are trying to shine it on others.. just over 2 years ago now when i got banished to the bottom of our earth - to a dying mining town in western tasmania on my first and last mts assignment - yours truly started wondering what the heck had become of his life.

  i got lonely - real lonely - then on the net, only to find, not solace, but salvation; by discovering all the stuff i'd swallowed from the wtb&t society for the previous 20 years had really been just a pack of dated, if even manipulative theories.

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  Thank you for dropping by, Spender. Yes, AF does wear a cool hat. What is it? Sort of Wild West Omish maybe? And speaking of mysteries, like Af, I'd also like to know the topics of some of the questions you have for him. I'm sorry I can't help. I could help you with your Form Guide, or the late mail for the Seventh at Rosehill Gardens tomorrow, but I have to leabe the big stuff up to the big boys. But really, I'm sure a lof of us here would like to hear your questions and your reasons for belief about things as well.

  Keep searching, Spender. I personally LOVE the fact that life is just a bowl of cherries; don't take it serious, it's too mysterious...you work, you save, you worry so, but you can't take yer dough when ya go go go... Sorry, I'm just a dead set Rudy Vallee fan tonight. And if you've never heard of him, he was a crooner and a swooner - the first true hero of prehistoric pop music, and my Galah likes him as well.

  Uncanny

  Uncanny.
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  Hooray for Men In Funny Hats

  by Uncanny in

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  do any of you other lurkers or posters ever give a thought to the poeple - not publishers - who may have helped you learn 'the truth about the the truth?

  ' i'm talking about ex jehovah's witnesses like myself who have been there, done that, seen the light, and are trying to shine it on others.. just over 2 years ago now when i got banished to the bottom of our earth - to a dying mining town in western tasmania on my first and last mts assignment - yours truly started wondering what the heck had become of his life.

  i got lonely - real lonely - then on the net, only to find, not solace, but salvation; by discovering all the stuff i'd swallowed from the wtb&t society for the previous 20 years had really been just a pack of dated, if even manipulative theories.

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  Do any of you other lurkers or posters ever give a thought to the poeple - not publishers - who may have helped you learn 'the truth about the the Truth?' I'm talking about ex Jehovah's Witnesses like myself who have been there, done that, seen the light, and are trying to shine it on others.

  Just over 2 years ago now when I got banished to the bottom of our Earth - to a dying mining town in Western Tasmania on my first and last MTS assignment - yours truly started wondering what the heck had become of his life. I got lonely - real lonely - then on the Net, only to find, not solace, but salvation; by discovering all the stuff I'd swallowed from the WTB&T Society for the previous 20 years had really been just a pack of dated, if even manipulative theories. I read a lot of essays from a lot of clever minds. And learnt a lot of truths about the Truth in a very short time. But more than all that, I remember experiencing more help and love from these cyber strangers - the kindness of strangers - in a matter of weeks than what I ever did in years of being 'in the Truth'.

  So to cut a long story short, get a life is what I did, and get a life is what I now continue to do. So I just want to say thank you again to a lot of sort of cyber pals who are still trying to assist searching ones WITHIN the organisation to revaluate the Society's doctrines, and indeed, their own faith if need be.

  Because you should understand how impressed I find myself feeling tonight when, after 6 months absence from this still excellent JW Forum - thank you, too, Simon - one of the first posts I see back is from a young man named Spender who, even if he did express himself very well, wanted to ask AF some more questions concerning the truth about the Truth.

  You probably already know the post I'm talking about. The one less than 12 hours ago, and there was AF, already having faithfully replied, with an offer for phone contact if required. Thou taketh off thoust hat off to you, Squire. (That is if I had one, like you.) Ha.

  So suffice to say, thank you again, AF, and all the other men and women who wear funny hats. The reclusive Uncanny salutes you valiant ex brothers and sisters who work so hard at helping people to rescue themselves from religious bondage and perhaps, themselves. Yes, thank you AF, for your ongoing committment to helping anybody and everybody learn the truth about the Truth. (Love ya hat,too.)

  Uncanny
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  The Price For NOT Being Disfellowshipped

  by Uncanny in

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  those two young american girl tennis players and supposed jw sisters have arrived down under again for this year's tilt at the australian open championship.

  yes, the flamboyant venus and serena williams show is back in melbourne town.. after last year when sr venus triumphed at this event, i thought it would be hard for any jw sportsperson to top her ecstatic run around courtside with old glory.

  or the way she stood so solemnly and proudly as her nation's national anthem got played after the big win.

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  Those two young American girl tennis players and supposed JW sisters have arrived Down Under again for this year's tilt at the Australian Open Championship. Yes, the flamboyant Venus and Serena Williams show is back in Melbourne town.

  After last year when Sr Venus triumphed at this event, I thought it would be hard for any JW sportsperson to top her ecstatic run around courtside with Old Glory. Or the way she stood so solemnly and proudly as her nation's national anthem got played after the big win. But lo and behold, younger Sis Serena's latest peice of 'got it, flaunt it' shennanigans will take some beating.

  Now a rather shameless self-promotor herself, the interview quotes below are sure to raise a few eyebrows within the Watchtower Society's Brooklyn heirarchy/fifedom. Or will they?

  After being photographed draped upon the rooftop ledge of an uptown CBD skyscraper in a racey centrefold type pose, Sister S. Williams was asked to comment on her latest rather revealing and provocative tennis outfit. She answered: "Firstly, I am an innovator. I'm always making a statement. And I never want to be second at what I do."

  Huh? So whatever happened to the 'quiet and mild spirit' or the 'chaste young virgins' young Jehovah's Witness girls are always being admonished about? Actually, I don't mind the Williams sisters. Both are talented and good looking, as well as already having become multi-millionaires. They also add some interest and colour to this increasingly boredom-inducing sport cum grossly over-rated circus which has become international pro tennis. It's just the double standard and out and out hypocrisy which brings out the Irish in Me.

  Yet you can't help feeling sorry for all other rank 'n file young witnesses who are told to behave one way, while these two role models in reverse gallivant around the world doing exactly as they please. When I was a JW, we always scoffed so readily at Christendom's leaders for the way they often winked or looked the other way when its followers were letting the side down by not living up to their vows.

  So strike up another black mark for those tired old hypocrites in Brooklyn and Patterson who, as with whacko Jacko, continue to prefer not to discpline high profile JWs as long as those hefty donation cheques keep rolling in.

  Uncanny

  "You have messed with the primeval forces of nature, Mr Beale,
  and you ... you ...will atone!"
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  Suicide and other Fluff part1

  by unclebruce in

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  my younger sister ran up to me in the yard, tears running down her cheeks.

  "it's mum .. come quick" she pleaded.

  i ran inside and there was mum spread out on the bed, pills and empty tablet bottles all around her.

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  Uncle Bruce,

  Fluffy you will never be, and I admire your guts for revealing so much about your family. You may indeed by OUR very own "family jokerman", but when you decide to hit, you hit hard. Great post.

  I don't have much sympathy for suiciders myself. To me, UB, it's the ultimate in sulking. I should know, my father took his own life when I needed him most - when I was sixteen years old. What really irked me many years later after I finally came to terms with this 'tragic loss' was how the people who supposedly knew him best - "Fergus was such a kind and generous man" - still kept telling me how much he loved his family. Really? Forgive me for sounding cynical, but how can anybody love their family when they just go away one day and kill themselves, leaving their 'loved ones' to bear the scars and pick up the peices from the mess they leave behind???

  Choose life, if only for the ongoing sake of the ones who REALLY love you.

  Uncanny

  P.S. Next time I roll my ageing FORD down the hill into Adelaide to buy some fish at the Central Markets, I'll keep an eye out for that bikini wearing old lady in her garden with a King James bible.
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  I Don't Sympathise With Suicides

  by Englishman in

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  let me explain.. firstly i have seen any number of so-called attempted suicides.

  i've walked past an old girl friends house, seen her watching tv through the window, by the time i'm knocking on the door she's told me that she had her head in the gas oven and my knock stopped her.. my mother in law walks into the sea for a pastime.

  every time she can't get her own way she walks in up to her knees and waits for someone to see her.

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  Ditto, Englishman,

  I've never viewed myself as a heartless SOB, but I do view suicide as the ultimate in sulking.

  Uncanny
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  Mad as hell...shivered and cried like baby

  by DannyBear in

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  yesterday, when farkel announced his departure and shunning of us all, i was incensed and outraged.

  in fact i had similar feeling's to those day's 20yrs ago, after being df'd, where former friends and relatives, just simply said 'your no good, your not worthy of my/our attention anymore' turned thier back's and walked away from me.

  then witnessed farkel ignore the sweet comments lilac's writes just for him....made we want to ring his neck.

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  Well done, DannyBear.

  This is my first day back here after many months of absentia. I'm glad I'm back, and you know why. It's because posters like you, and your great sense of humanity. Because when its displayed this way - so openly and honestly - all of us can relate, and usually gain comfort or learn something from it.

  Uncanny
  Life Is Too Short To Drink Cheap Wine.
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  Farewell to all

  by Amazing in

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  i already said farewell in my apology post to julie.

  but many of you may not have read it since it was specific to her.. i was planning a long farewell statement because i have a number of things i want to share, but decided i would do that in private if anyone wishes.

  you can reach me at [email protected].. i chose to leave for a number of reasons, and some stated on my last post.

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  What's going on around here?

  I go away for a few months and come back to visit today, and see a 'Farewell' post from Farkel first-up. Then, lo and behold, now I've just read a goodbye message from another valueable poster shuffling off to Buffalo? (Are these New year's Resolutions being fulfilled or what?)

  So at the risk of sounding patronsising, I just want to say "Thank You" Amazing for all the hard work and heartfelt concern you have shown to so many of us over such a long time. I was one of them - from way back in the old H20 days two years ago when posters like you, and AF and Farkel and Kent and Seeker and Focus and Randy and COMF and Ros and Wasa and Jan and You Know helped me to see the Truth about the Trooth. (I disassociated myself very promptly after 20 years of WT psychobabble, thank you very much.)

  And so H20 lost its way, and a lot of the old gang made an exodus here to JWD about mid March 2001. I think I signed up the same day as you did, Amazing. Yes, it was a shame how Rick did so much great work for such a long time at H20, and then, unfortunately, he let the stiffling, judgemental JW-mindset of that silly Edler/Cop/Moderator thing slowly destroy that site's relevence. So it was a relief to find Simon and his more user-friendly JW Discussion place permitting a sense of ongoing freedom of speech for all. It obviously still does, but now will only be the poorer from the lack of input by people like yourself and Farkel and AF etc.

  Amazing, you have no responsibility to anybody here and I wish you well with your future endeavours. But you should know, before you go, that your hard work, mature insight and vital information - not to mention your love for others - has really aided the often confused and damaged Jehovah's Witnesses who bit the bullet and went looking around the Net for answers one day. I know - I was one of them.

  No, you will not be easily forgotten. Because its regular contributers like yourself who can often mean the difference between someone starting a happy, new life or continuing to live a sad and dead one. Thank you, again and again.

  Uncanny
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  Whacker of Woodside

  by Uncanny in

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  tired of living?.

  depressed about world conditions?

  missing farkel already?.

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  Ah yes, mike047, he's a mischievous little bird, isn't he?!

  And yes, Unca, I knew another real South Australian galah like yourself wouldn't be able to resist Whacker's new site. By the way, who's your plastic surgeon? Nice job, cobber.

  Uncanny