Posts by Captain Schmideo2

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Impact of Death of Favorite Character

by peacefulpete in

i'll assume we have all felt a jolt of loss when a favorite tv, movie or book character dies.

when i watched the death of the incredible hulk tv movie after years of reading the comics and watch the tv show i was impacted.

funny even today it just feels wrong.

1975 selling of houses

by Paul Bonanno in

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as 1975 was approaching, many witnesses sold their property.

do you know about specific cases that are willing to share their experience of doing so?.

My uncle. His reasoning was "If it wasn't going to happen, then why would they keep emphasizing it in the talks?"

Um, yeah, sure.

I guess he did okay. I thought the place he moved to was beautiful. But he still died without seeing any of those promised being fulfilled.

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Follow Up to follow up

by Captain Schmideo2 in

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5134166409084928/follow-previous-post-re-my-niece.

so, with head firmly up his backside, my bil has decided to take his chances with a jury.he could have taken a plea for 18 months anger management classes, but no, he thinks he did nothing wrong, and so now his daughter gets to appear before a jury.. imagine a petite, "clean-cut", soft spoken young lady in front of a jury, as she answers questions about being beaten by her father for daring to have a boyfriend.

i can't see any scenario where this goes to the benefit of her father.

Captain Schmideo2

And the case has been pushed on the docket out to January, sometime. Sigh.

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Follow Up to follow up

by Captain Schmideo2 in

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5134166409084928/follow-previous-post-re-my-niece.

so, with head firmly up his backside, my bil has decided to take his chances with a jury.he could have taken a plea for 18 months anger management classes, but no, he thinks he did nothing wrong, and so now his daughter gets to appear before a jury.. imagine a petite, "clean-cut", soft spoken young lady in front of a jury, as she answers questions about being beaten by her father for daring to have a boyfriend.

i can't see any scenario where this goes to the benefit of her father.

Captain Schmideo2

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5134166409084928/follow-previous-post-re-my-niece

So, with head firmly up his backside, my BIL has decided to take his chances with a jury.
He could have taken a plea for 18 months Anger Management classes, but no, he thinks he did nothing wrong, and so now his daughter gets to appear before a jury.

Imagine a petite, "clean-cut", soft spoken young lady in front of a jury, as she answers questions about being beaten by her father for daring to have a boyfriend. I can't see any scenario where this goes to the benefit of her father.
It's either incredibly bad advice from his attorney, or his total refusal to acknowledge what he has done. Either way, what an incredible waste of time. He's a local businessman, it's a small town. Once this gets public, it's going to hurt him in a lot of ways. So dumb!

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Follow to previous post,re:My niece

by Captain Schmideo2 in

a few weeks back, i posted this:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6246845349625856/never-thought-would-see-this-my-family-circle.

so, in latest developments:there was a court hearing, in which a continuance was granted for two weeks, as my bil has pleaded not guilty.

which is, in my opinion, very bad legal advice from his lawyer.

Captain Schmideo2

A few weeks back, I posted this:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6246845349625856/never-thought-would-see-this-my-family-circle

So, in latest developments:
There was a court hearing, in which a continuance was granted for two weeks, as my BIL has pleaded Not Guilty. Which is, in my opinion, very bad legal advice from his lawyer. With the recorded testimony my niece has given, plus the records of the photo evidence of her injuries, I don't think whatever he will have to present will be seen as very believable. I get the vibe that his testimony will ultimately be that whatever happened, it was because her "bad behavior" provoked it.
(The bad behavior in question was getting involved with a "worldly boy" as her boyfriend")

She had be very reticent with me regarding the events of that night, but she provided me a detail that just floored me and made me sick to my stomach. That attack was so violent on her, that my sister had get a belt and start whipping on her husband's back to make him stop hurting his daughter, who he had on the floor. Jee-zus!
That little detail is going to absolutely require confirmation or denial from my sister, since she had a very active part in those events.
My niece believes that her mom is being coached or coerced into playing along with this charade, but that that the cracks in her resolve may be forming. Mother and daughter are now on speaking terms again, after weeks of silence, and I think (I hope) that my sister is seeing the wrongness of what was done to her. I hope.

Meanwhile, my niece tonight gets to do something that is part of normal behavior for a young woman:she is going to the Homecoming dance at her school, with her beau.
She sent me pictures, and they were heartbreaking. She is growing up to be such a beautiful young woman, and her young man looks very handsome and well dressed. It also emphasizes how old I am getting, and as I reflect back on all those activities that were denied to me because a bunch of childless old effers in Brooklyn deemed them as "bad". My sister and her husband, by their boneheaded beliefs and actions, have denied themselves a joyful event in their lives based on those idiotic rules.
Another plus. In talking with her, she said that someone from her hall had reached out to her, asking about her well-being, and (of course) inviting to take her to the meetings. I asked her if she was going to go, and she said "I don't really feel comfortable going right now. I'm kind of questioning everything after how my dad is acting. I'm not trying to be a rebel child...I just don't truly understand how someone could this plead not guilty and then do a Bible reading at the hall."
It was all I could do to restrain myself from telling her some things. All I could do was reply "I can see how that would be very disturbing and disquieting.."

More to follow, I am sure.

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Pursue Peace Assembly 2022 .. Joseph shares stories about his Bible days

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

pursue peace assembly 2022 shows a resurrected, newly shaven joseph, the son of jacob and rachel, having a nice dinner at a beautiful restaurant in the new system.

the survivors of armageddon all want to know if joseph can share stories about his life.. ''can you tell us what egypt was like?

what was pharaoh like?''.

Captain Schmideo2

Oh, vomit.

I'm sure after his fifth Non-Kosher meal, where he has to answer the same damn questions again and again ("Hey, how about Potiphar's wife? Stacked?"), he would start declining invitations due to "being busy calculating new grain production!"

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Never thought I would see this in my family circle

by Captain Schmideo2 in

so, my 17 year old niece reveals to me that for the past few years, her father (my sister's husband) has been physically and verbally abusive to her.enough so that it finally came to a breaking point, and she reported it to the police.

she told me that she had wished she had told me sooner, but she was trying to wait til she was 18 so that she could leave.i knew that she and her parents had been locking horns for the past couple of years, but i chalked it up to teen puberty and general growing pains.

but on their last, most recent visit, i could tell that something was really eating at her.apparently, what set off this latest incident was that he discovered that she had been seeing/involved with a non-witness boy about her age, and got so violent with her that it left marks.ironically, she went and got help from her boyfriend's father, a paramedic, who documented the injuries and encouraged her to report it.so, yeah, he spent a night in jail.she is now staying at the parents of her boyfriend, while still trying to have some aspects of her old life (work, school, etc.

Captain Schmideo2

What adds to all of this is that they live a day's drive away from us, so there is the distance factor.

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Never thought I would see this in my family circle

by Captain Schmideo2 in

so, my 17 year old niece reveals to me that for the past few years, her father (my sister's husband) has been physically and verbally abusive to her.enough so that it finally came to a breaking point, and she reported it to the police.

she told me that she had wished she had told me sooner, but she was trying to wait til she was 18 so that she could leave.i knew that she and her parents had been locking horns for the past couple of years, but i chalked it up to teen puberty and general growing pains.

but on their last, most recent visit, i could tell that something was really eating at her.apparently, what set off this latest incident was that he discovered that she had been seeing/involved with a non-witness boy about her age, and got so violent with her that it left marks.ironically, she went and got help from her boyfriend's father, a paramedic, who documented the injuries and encouraged her to report it.so, yeah, he spent a night in jail.she is now staying at the parents of her boyfriend, while still trying to have some aspects of her old life (work, school, etc.

Captain Schmideo2

So, my 17 year old niece reveals to me that for the past few years, her father (my sister's husband) has been physically and verbally abusive to her.
Enough so that it finally came to a breaking point, and she reported it to the police. She told me that she had wished she had told me sooner, but she was trying to wait til she was 18 so that she could leave.
I knew that she and her parents had been locking horns for the past couple of years, but I chalked it up to teen puberty and general growing pains. But on their last, most recent visit, I could tell that something was really eating at her.
Apparently, what set off this latest incident was that he discovered that she had been seeing/involved with a non-Witness boy about her age, and got so violent with her that it left marks.
Ironically, she went and got help from her boyfriend's father, a paramedic, who documented the injuries and encouraged her to report it.
So, yeah, he spent a night in jail.
She is now staying at the parents of her boyfriend, while still trying to have some aspects of her old life (work, school, etc.).

Now, here is the saddening thing.
With all this going on, my sister, who I communicate with daily, has not said "boo" about any of this going on. They cancelled their family vacation "and were just going to have a staycation to save money" (because I am sure that they had to pay some bail). But, when I ask questions like, "How are the kids?", and "Are they ready for school?", nothing is mentioned at all about this.
Meanwhile, I find out from my niece that word has gotten back to her that her parents have put forward the tale that "she put the marks on herself" and that "she ran away so that she could live with her boyfriend."

I have pointedly asked my niece about details, where she was comfortable to talk about them. She is not making this up.
She has been interviewed by the police, by case workers, by Human Services, and they aren't doubting her either.
I am so disappointed in my sister participating in this lie and slander against her own daughter. I didn't think she had it in her, especially since she had gone through similar with her first husband 30 years ago.

My niece was worried that, in the court appearance, her dad would be believed over her testimony. I basically said that a courtroom is not the same as meeting with the elders at the Kingdom Hall, and that with the evidence and interviews with various professionals against him, he is going to have to do a lot more than just present himself as a nice guy in court. I am sure that the court has seen similar masquerades before.

I am treading the very thin line of giving her moral and emotional support, while not overtly making comments about her religion, or remarks against her parents. I don't want to be seen as the guy who "turned her away". I don't want to be seen as someone interfering with her parents (but believe me, there are SO many things I want to say about this goofy, dangerous religion, it's been hard!)

Right now, though, she is safe, and experiencing a JW parent's worst nightmare: She is in a different environment where she is safe, encouraged, and not constantly yelled at and condemned. The family appears to be very nice, somewhat well-off. The dad, in addition to being a paramedic, is also a Youth minister (which means much more training than an Elder ever gets). She has already stated that she doesn't feel safe going back home, and I don't blame her.
I have told her that she is welcome at our house with me and my wife.

On the positive side, she actually got to go on a date with her boyfriend, who was old fashioned enough to take her to dinner, skating, and bought her chocolates and roses. So, he sounds like he has some quality.

Anyway, been a long time since I was on this board, and needed to unload.

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Another silly Bible story....Joshua and the killing hailstones

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

◄ joshua 10:11 ►.

and it came to pass, as they fled from before israel, and were in the going down to bethhoron, that the lord cast down great stones from heaven on them to azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword.. .

looks like the amorites came to the battle only wearing helmets.

Captain Schmideo2

https://youtu.be/jXNLXqB6KhI?t=51

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Watchmen HBO Series Mentioning the acutal Watchtower by JW's

by 720Reddog in

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watchtower.

the watchtower is a jehovah's witnesses publication, but it’s fitting that it would feature in the watchmen series.

in this episode the watchtower by jehovah's witness is displayed.. "it's interesting to me cause it's an obvious display of cultish type beliefs.

Captain Schmideo2

There was a similar scene in the comic book, back in the 80s.
It's 1985, the Doomsday Clock is at one minute to Midnight.
A magazine kiosk owner gets approached by someone who buys a newspaper, and then the customer says,
"Now that I bought one of your publications, perhaps you would like to read one of ours? You see, we believe that the world is going to end very soon, and..."
"What! No way! That's not going to happen!"
"Oh, well, then, we'll be on our way..." and the pair ride off on bicycles.
"Lousy fanatics! Always wanting to be the first to say "We told you so!"

The artist gets the details weirdly wrong. The magazine says "Watchtower", but it has a cross in the logo. The bicycles are too "Mormon-ish" a detail as well.

In the episode on HBO this past week, it shows the character getting off of a church bus with several other white shirt and tie teens, coming from Tulsa on their "mission" to save people on the sinful East coast (Hoboken, NJ, to be precise!). The are at a street carnival.
The magazine itself looked kinda weird. It was thin, like a tract, with the Watchtower logo across the top. The headline reads "Are You Prepared?!", and the graphics are of the typical paradise picture, complete with a panda on the cover (much like the tract they had many years ago).
He gets confronted by a gang of kids (these are called "Knot-Tops" in the comic, due to their distinctive hairstyle), but a female in the group rescues him from being assaulted, and leads him into the Hall of Mirrors. She starts asking him if he really believes the world is going to end, and then begins to take off his clothes, saying "You don't want to die a virgin, do you?" He weakly protests, even as she strips him of all his clothes, and then, it turns out she's just setting him up. She grabs up all his clothes, swears at him, and runs out, leaving him naked.
As he gets angry at himself for being such a "stupid sinner", the "Midnight, 11/2 event" happens, and the fact that he is in the mirror building saves his life.
It's also pretty obvious that the event, which is apparently the result of a dimensional portal being opened up, and an awful, giant alien creature entering the center of Manhattan and exploding, has changed his religious beliefs in the aftermath. Actually, mentally, the guy is mess as they portray him in his 50's.

Tim Blake Nelson (a fellow Oklahoman!) did an amazing job in this episode. I hope he gets an Emmy for it!