Are you kidding? I think this is a pretty easy one: The GB, like lots and lots of dubs, are ideally suited for multi-level marketing (pyramid schemes).
Bring on the Shaklee vitamins!!
Buster
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Governing Body looking for work
by Iwasyoungonce inif the governing body of jehovah witnesses suddenly found themselves out of the power seat that they currently refuse to vacate what do you think might be a fitting job for them to fill?.
i vote for the gb to start making fortune cookie predictions.
finally they could put some of that self appointed spiritual powers to some worth while means.
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I suspect this will sound wierd
by buckthesystem ini have been reading about the witnesses for some time - but the information i read is always massively biased against.
it is even hard to tell if this web site is exclusively designed for aggrieved ex-witnesses.
i am at a loss here.
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I were a dub
Self-perpetuating doomsday cult living off the human tendency of some to want to be told what is right and wrong, as well as their own human tendency to ell everyone else what is right and wrong.
(boy that felt good)
Edited by - buster on 14 November 2002 18:14:25
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been away from organization for a while now, yet?.
by intellecta ini found this site accidently i guess.
i have been away from the truth for a while now...6 years... yet it always permeates my mind somehow and i fear the events happening in the world, and wonder.... i guess my problem was that i hated going out door to door as a child.. somehow i hated invading other people's privacy and felt wrong somehow, or embarrased, or just plain hated it period.
i think that is the biggest thing that keeps me away from ever returning.. somehow i, in my small mind cannot understand why small children should do such a thing until they are old enough to at least have a say in it.. like an opinion??
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Intellecta,
The first JW site I found when I started surfing was 'Silent Lambs.' That area is dedicated to the child abuse victims and the processes used by the society. I read some stories and was immediately struck by the familiarity and tone. First off, when I was fading away, one of my sister's best friends was victimized by her dad - an MS. It was hushed up (he ws DFd for a couple months, and couldn't answer at meetings). Shhhh .... Jehovah will take care of it.
Since I've been hanging around this site, I've heard of another event at the same hall. Same outcome- nothing.
Its a damn horror show! Those clowns will do anything to protect the org's name - including telling a 10-year-old victim to shut up and stop wearing such provocative clothes around dear old dad.
And you know its true.
And welcome to the board. I'll think you'll find these people pretty interesting, eh?
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Gone for good?
by JH inwhat would make you come back to the organisation?
after the 9-11 events, many were scared of what would happen next, and returned to the meetings.
now that the dust has fallen, in more ways than one, what event in your life would make you reconsider and go back this time for good.. .
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Mary - I wanna know where you go now. (I really like charity work)
Edited by - buster on 12 November 2002 18:22:34
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six degrees of separation..claim to fame!
by asortafairytale in.
everyone is somehow connected to a celebrity, with that wondeful six degrees of separation.. for me, my aunt's(by marriage), first cousin is ally sheedy.. how are you related?
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I skated with Bobby Orr at his hockey camp when I was 12
One of my fraternity brothers went out with a girl that turned up in Playboy's 30 Anniversary edition as a runner-up
My Great(12th)-grandfather came over on the Mayflower (Hopkins)
I caught a foul ball hit by Spud Web (Texas Rangers I think) at a Red Sox game
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Gone for good?
by JH inwhat would make you come back to the organisation?
after the 9-11 events, many were scared of what would happen next, and returned to the meetings.
now that the dust has fallen, in more ways than one, what event in your life would make you reconsider and go back this time for good.. .
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Don't JWs quote the 'dog returning to its vomit' scripture snippet?
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Kangaroos and the Flood
by Zechariah innoahs descendants .
genesis 10. the table of nations .
the japhethites .
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Don't we all remember some of the other rationalizations:
- God's spirit could have sent all the animals into hibernation to minimize the food they needed
- The force of the flood was what actually broke up the original single land mass and caused the various continents to split, thereby isolating some species.
Of course it is all bunk. If you want to believe that God wrote the bible, then try to imagine his chuckling at the notion that some people still take it as actual fact - word for word. It is just a story about how God cleans his people. He would have excused the ignorance of earlier times. But he's gotta be lifting a heavenly eyebrow at literalists of today.
Scientific thought was devised as the means to show that in a vacuum, heavier objects do not fall faster that lighter ones. It is merely a series of extensions to realize that one guy and a few sons could not have done what some credit them with.
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six degrees of separation..claim to fame!
by asortafairytale in.
everyone is somehow connected to a celebrity, with that wondeful six degrees of separation.. for me, my aunt's(by marriage), first cousin is ally sheedy.. how are you related?
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Breakfast club: When we were on our honeymoon we went to a Broadway play. My second (and current) wife wore a hot, long black strapless dress. Anthony Michael Hall gave her a good looking over - not too blatant, but pretty close.
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six degrees of separation..claim to fame!
by asortafairytale in.
everyone is somehow connected to a celebrity, with that wondeful six degrees of separation.. for me, my aunt's(by marriage), first cousin is ally sheedy.. how are you related?
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My first wife's parents were close friends with Phylis Diller.
My brother-in-law's brother went to prison for dealing coke with a guy that claimed to to have dealings with a guy that knew Sammy Davis Jr.
My dad once caught a football from Terry Bradshaw
I used to meet regularly with some people that were led by some people that claimed to speak to God.
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What Is The Hardest Thing About Leaving The Truth?
by minimus inif you've left or are considering leaving the "truth", what is the most difficult thing that you must deal with?
is it losing family or friends?
is it feeling isolated?
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Readjusting my thought processes to be less dogmatic. Even after I left, I was so sure that all thought processes had to some to a firm decision of black and white, right and wrong, yes or no. It took way too long.
Besides that, I remember the first few times I scheduled something for a Thursday night - felt really weird.