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  Battered Lambs Webpage (new)

  by silentlambs in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reviewing the society's vapid interest in helping battered women and seeing the many sad stories posted as a result of the article, i have a new addition to the silentlambs website.. a new webpage for battered lambs.. this will be accessed off the victims page with a clickable link.

  there you will be able to read the stories of those who have suffered physical abuse at the hands of wt policy.

  all stories will be posted anonymously of course and there will also be a second poems and thoughts page dedicated to victims of physical abuse.

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  Yerusalyim

  Does this count?

  My wife's exhusband has a twin brother. Within three weeks of marrying he moved in with them. She was expected to treat him just as she did her husband in all arenas but the bedroom. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, getting him drinks and snacks, letting him watch what HE wanted on the TV, etc. He could never hold a job for more than a year and contributed little financially when he worked, and leeched off them when he didn't.

  He insulted her and talked down to her all the time. Disciplined (read HIT) the kids, etc. This went on for 13 years of their 15 year marriage. She was even known in the KH as the girl with two husbands. The Elders never interceeded and always told my wife she needed to be obedient to her husband in this matter. Several arguements about the twin brother even resulted in her exhusband striking her.

  Finally having enough she told her ex it was her or his twin, but one had to go. She left after the Twin didn't. She was called before a judicial committee. The exhusband was exonerated of any wrong doing. She was not DF'd but soon there after DA'd.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  Republican or Democrat or Indie?

  by slipnslidemaster in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for all you american's on the board, are you a republican or democrat of independent?.

  read http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=12506&site=3 for background.. seems like quite a few democrats here.. slipnslidemaster: "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  - ben franklin

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  Yerusalyim

  FIN,

  I too favor a woman's right to choose, that is, up to the point where she is pregnant, then it involves another life...oh, we've had this discussion already. We do NOT need to pay more taxes, but I think the Rebate was a BAD idea, lets pay the debt off before we start to rebate tax money. Seems with the National Emergency there is no Surplus this year.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  Military reponse? Or lets not cause more violence

  by bboyneko in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what to do if you happen upon a peace rally by stupid naive hemp-shirt-wearing college idiots, to teach them why force is sometimes needed: .

  1) approach dumb rich ignorant student talking about "peace" and saying there should be, "no retaliation.

  2) engage in brief conversation, ask if military force is appropriate.

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  Yerusalyim

  HERE HERE! Finally, someone who understands! Bless you my son.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER

  by You Know in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.

  as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.

  since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.

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  Yerusalyim

  Robert,

  Did you ever stop to consider that the reason the market fell off as much as it did was because the boys with the $'s were holding out waiting to buy cheap, taking advantage of the situation. Or have you stopped to consider that the reaso the market is going back up is because they are now buying cheap. Some have already done some profit taking. There is no basis for your assertation that the market will collapse. Sorry guy, you're WAY off. I mean that in more than one sense too.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  Republican or Democrat or Indie?

  by slipnslidemaster in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for all you american's on the board, are you a republican or democrat of independent?.

  read http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=12506&site=3 for background.. seems like quite a few democrats here.. slipnslidemaster: "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  - ben franklin

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  Yerusalyim

  YES

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER

  by You Know in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.

  as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.

  since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.

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  Yerusalyim

  your average panic buying

  
  LMAO, too funny.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  Society CD ROM vs BOUND VOLUMES

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  several years prior to the release of the first edition of "the watchtower library" in england on cd rom in 1994, the society made an announcement that back-issues of bound volumes of the watchtower and awake would be available (for sale) by ordering through the literature desk.. many in the congregation had wanted a complete library of watchtowers for years and there was a frenzy of orders placed.

  i, myself, ordered the complete collection.. however, upon receiving news of the cd rom becoming available, i wondered just why the society had made so many old re-prints available when they must have known about the future release of the cd.. this also coincided with the rules changing in england for the charging / donating for literature and i distictly remember a talk by an elder saying how much we should donate for the cd through the new donation process... something like "a comparible encylopedia on cd rom would cost 30 to 40 in the shops - so how much do you think we should donate for this treasure of god-given knowledge".. it just struck me that the literature sell-off was a last ditch attempt at making money, for fear that the cd rom combined with the new donation programme would spell disaster for the societys income.. any thoughts?.

  i need a more recent copy of the cd rom if anyone has one?

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  Yerusalyim

  You're not suprised by the editing are you? They've read Orwell.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER

  by You Know in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.

  as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.

  since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.

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  Yerusalyim

  Robert, are you at it again? Even with the WTC disaster the market is recovering nicely. Foolish false prophet.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  What is going ON?

  by Aintthatcute in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first of all: i am new and have been lurking for about 2 weeks.

  whoow!

  glad i got that out of the way.. something that really bothers me is: when they say that the gb all the way down, elders, and ministerial servents are "appointed" by jehovah, and are deserving of "double honor".

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  Yerusalyim

  Even if God did appoint him (which I seriously doubt) we still have this thing called free will, and are free to act upon it. All of us are sinners. The church (mine is Catholic) has a divine mission, but is made up of humans, and humans tend to mess things up. That you're questioning the society is good, GREAT EVEN. But I recommend questioning doctrine rather than the actions of the so called APPOINTED and ANNOINTED.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  We need a ex-JW conv. in the south...

  by MrMoe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what ever happened to the one proposed in georgia?

  i would love to attend an apostafest - but it needs to be in the south and somewhere close to florida so i can drive to it.

  any ideas?

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  Yerusalyim

  Nope, it needs to be in Columbia, SC so I can go.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]