Posts by Lakes

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Were you 'alive in '75' and how was that year for you?

by punkofnice in

i was a junior borgite in 1975. i remeber looking at the calendar at work in october and thinking: 'armageddon isn't here yet.....and it doesn't feel like it will be here anytime soon either!'.

i was surprised that jehovah hadn't obeyed the superior command to bring the big 'a' as instructed to him by fred franz.

how dare god disobey the jw leader!!!!!.

Lakes

I was 8 going on 9 in 1975. My parents, who had converted from Catholocism in 1960, were so certain that 1975 was the year that we lived in a shack on a large block of land. Another shack contained provisions for the great tribulation - a massive storage area of tinned food which I was told never to talk about to non-family members. My biggest concern as a child was that I wouldn't be able to withstand the torture and persecution that we all knew we would be subjected to during the GT. Scenarios of degradation similar to those experienced by the Jews during the holocaust filled my mind - as an 8 year old.

The year before I started school we went on an expensive 3 month family trip to the homeland (Italy) with my parents primary objective being to witness to and convert the extended family. Great holiday, but they failed.

1976 arrived and my parents completely bought the company line that the organisation had never stated that 1975 was the year! Plans were immediately set in motion to build a large and comfortable house and to secure a solid financial future, but they remained committed Dubs. Unbelievable really.

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C,O's,D,O's from down under...who remembers??

by karter in

wolford and betty john,nice loveing couple,always loved children.. arther and tinnie roderson, nice couple he passed away some years ago too young from cancer.. wiakato and hine gray couldn't ask for better people.. jack teesie ..single guy would never go to a single sisters place for dinner even if she had children apperantly a bad look.. joe sleighman and wife nice couple were d.o's leaft and joined our side.. sandy pannell and wife...he reminded me of bill clinton always love to look down from the stage and wave his left finger at the congro....never liked him.. han's hubler,nuff said has been a few threads started about him.. there is many more.. karter..

Lakes

fulltimestudent,

Vince McNee has been in my head for years. Do you recall the year Terrie divorced him? Did you get your information about the Brisbane incident from Jan and Anne Langbroek? Sorry about all the questions, but I've been wanting to know what happened to that arsehole for decades.

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C,O's,D,O's from down under...who remembers??

by karter in

wolford and betty john,nice loveing couple,always loved children.. arther and tinnie roderson, nice couple he passed away some years ago too young from cancer.. wiakato and hine gray couldn't ask for better people.. jack teesie ..single guy would never go to a single sisters place for dinner even if she had children apperantly a bad look.. joe sleighman and wife nice couple were d.o's leaft and joined our side.. sandy pannell and wife...he reminded me of bill clinton always love to look down from the stage and wave his left finger at the congro....never liked him.. han's hubler,nuff said has been a few threads started about him.. there is many more.. karter..

Lakes

fulltimestudent, Vince McNee studied with my father, and his wife with my mother while in the Blacktown congregation in NSW during the late 60's. He was disfellowshipped around 1970 for what I believe was financial fraud - preying on an elderly Witness woman. I can't recall when he left NSW, but he would regularly stay with our family when he returned. Vince always took a great interest in the young boys and men of the congregation.

The following incident occurred when my brother was 16 in 1976. I was only 10, but overheard my parents speaking of the incident for many years. My mother was calling for my brother, asking where he was, to which he responded: "I'm in the shower with Uncle Vince." My brother when questioned by my parents revealed the following: Vince approached him in the shower; Vince was naked and fully erect; Vince retreated as soon as he heard my mother's voice.

Now, you would think that my parents would have immediately booted Vince and his wife out of the house, but they didn't. You see, over the last few days Vince had been talking about: the great dangers of drug use; how easily the young fall into Satan's clutches; and how parents must be constantly vigilant in looking for signs of drug use. The signs, according to Vince were red eyes and puncture marks on the body. So ... when my mother heard that Vince was in the shower with my brother she immediately assumed that he was looking for needle marks. My never baptised brother left home the following year.

We heard years later that Vince had again been disfellowshipped and reinstated. The state might have been Western Australia.

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Another non-JW reacts to Sparlock video

by cedars in

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ssv2nh0rc.

and two weeks ago i highlighted another video where sparlock helped an ex-mormon.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmesmlhydru.

though it still depresses me to think of all the young ones (including my own relatives) falling under the influence of this dangerous piece of propaganda, it's at least some small comfort that the sparlock video is backfiring so dramatically among thinking non-jws.. .

Lakes

The JWs so like to see themselves as different/ special/ superior to the rest of Christendom that the fact this blogger wasn't aware of a key teaching that is used to differentiate themselves with would be hugely offensive. Here are the JWs being rightly lumped in with a whole lot of other Christian fundamentalist whack jobs. Not so special after all!

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It's the JW's fault that I no longer see evidence for god......apparently.

by punkofnice in

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if i had a quid for the amount of times i've been told that the reason i no longer see evidence for a god is because the watchtower(tm) damaged my trust in god.....................................i'd have at least a pony!*.

could there be any truth in this?.

have you been told similar for your choices in 'spirituality'?.

Lakes

As a teenager I became appalled by the JW god - cruel, merciless, jealous, unjust, mysoginistic. By my middle teenage years I had pretty much decided that even if this biblical god existed that I wanted nothing to do with it, but continued to live the JW life to maintain parental approval. At 21 I told my parents that I was an agnostic. Atheism didn't really take hold until my early 40s because I became briefly involved in the 12 step world that requires, not necessarily a belief in a biblical god, but a belief in a higher power that is able to respond to prayer. The narcissism attached to the belief that a higher power could respond to my petition for assistance and yet do nothing for the starving and suffering became overwhelmingly apparent.

So, in answer to your question punkofnice, it was my brief involvement in another cult - AA, that led to me researching the possibility of the existence of some benevolent supernatural force and coming to the conclusion that there was zero evidence. Thank you science.

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Sydneysiders meetup

by l p in

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just wondering if we should try and organise a meetup...a couple of peops have suggested on another thread..... .

so how bout it?.

lp.

Lakes

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Sydneysiders meetup

by l p in

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friends

just wondering if we should try and organise a meetup...a couple of peops have suggested on another thread..... .

so how bout it?.

lp.