Posts by cha ching

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New here

by MarkofCane in

hello and thanks to everyone for participating on this forum it has really been of much value, for those of you that post here know that your words are not lost you never know who is reading your expressions, lives are being changed and nonsense challenged.

i’m not much of a writer so excuse my untrained writing style and grammar but i want to share my story to help anyone who is visiting here to see that we are real people, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have come here for answers, there is no agenda, just searching for truth.

i hope my story will help others as so many here have helped me..

cha ching

Dear MarkofCane! Thanks for writing, it is so interesting to hear of what is helping people escape the mind control of "the Borg."....

I remember that assembly, those phrases, "Do you know????? You better!!!!!" (sounded like a scene out of Star Wars, haha) and later that year we had the article on "607 B.C.E"... that finally had references that could be checked... and we did... and that is how I came to look at 'history', family, and life differently too!

I have definitely have appreciated the support and the large wealth of knowledge here on this board also... It takes the power away from the WT, they can't keep you feeling 'crazy.' We have seen behind the curtain, and are talking with others who have been there too.

So, a 'cold winter of 2013 with a long coat'... and now it's 2016...

How old are you? are you on the east coast? and what happened after that? ..... if it's possible, please fill us in...

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looks like the org. stopped all the "leaks"

by nowwhat? in

cedars site hasn't had anything new since september when the new mid week meeting was disclosed.

wonder if the moles were caught.

cha ching

Hmmmm.... maybe that's one of the reasons they are laying people off??? Less tweekers, less leakers.. ;-)

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"I thought About You" Email

by BeautifulMind in

hey everyone!!

i hope everyone is doing good today.

i don't share or comment often, but i'm in the mood to do that today.

cha ching

OneEyedJoe, they challenge EVERY one elses assumptions, they should be able to step to the plate & have THEIRS challenged too!!!

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"I thought About You" Email

by BeautifulMind in

hey everyone!!

i hope everyone is doing good today.

i don't share or comment often, but i'm in the mood to do that today.

cha ching

Go Magnum, go Magnum!!!!!! Haha, that was GRRRrrReEeaaaaTtTttt!

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Canada - Abuse allegations in Newfoundland casting a cloud over Jehovah's Witnesses

by OrphanCrow in

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/abuse-allegations-jehovahs-witness-1.3401468.

abuse allegations in newfoundland casting a cloud over jehovah's witnessesallegations of abuse involving two members of the jehovah's witness religious movement in newfoundland have emerged, though details of the charges are protected by a court-ordered publication ban.

cbc news has learned that a former volunteer church elder and his son are facing charges.the former elder is charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation relating to allegations dating from 2009 to 2012 in central newfoundland.according to court documents, a second man is charged with sexual assault, with the information referencing a period between may 2011 and december 2013 in a community on the avalon peninsula.cbc news has confirmed that the pair are father and son.a sexual exploitation charge involves anyone in a position of trust or authority who commits an offence against a young person.the matter involving the older accused was called at a provincial court on wednesday.it was set over until next month, when a date is expected to be set for trial.the younger accused is scheduled to make a court appearance later this month.. read full article at link.. *note the very last sentence in the article.

cha ching

Thx Orphan for the story, & E-G for the link!

Very true Flipper. No one EVER heard about child abuse.. EVERY one ALWAYS heard about "adultery / fornication!!!!"

Priorities, where are they???

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"I thought About You" Email

by BeautifulMind in

hey everyone!!

i hope everyone is doing good today.

i don't share or comment often, but i'm in the mood to do that today.

cha ching

Interesting. I keep waiting for an email from one of my old friends.

The last time I called her, I said, "Sharon?" She replied, "there is no one by that name here"

Months later, after being inspired by this quote, I sent her an email with only this quote in the"re:" line "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"

Came the reply, "Everything has a price" We make our own choices. Your friends have never left you. 'Anne Bishop'

What nerve, hmmm?

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Reveal News: "Another Judge Criticizes Jehovah's Witnesses Court Tactics" by Trey Bundy

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/another-judge-criticizes-jehovahs-witnesses-court-tactics/.

another judge criticizes jehovahs witnesses court tactics.

by trey bundy / january 11, 2016 .

cha ching

This judge figured out exactly how this "Watchtower dog hunts." When did WT file it's claim that 'it's just too inconvenient for our witnesses to travel to PA?

Judge Jenkins points out that the WT waited until THE NIGHT BEFORE THE TRIAL to file a " forum non conveniens” … even though the defendants had come to give their depositions the day before, without complaint.

“The Court added: “A transfer petition should not be a tool by which a defendant may forestall litigation in the underlying case by generating litigation concerning the transfer petition.”3

Pg 16 “the Congregations (WT & witnesses) “Delayed filing their motion to transfer and supporting affidavits from four witnesses until the eve of trial – after the witnesses had appeared without objection for their depositions in Montgomery County, just twenty miles from center City Philadelphia”

"Transfer to York County could significantly delay trial, a troubling possibility given that trial was scheduled to begin in PA just two weeks after the court granted the Congregations’ motion for transfer…”

"The facts strongly suggest that the motion to transfer venue was the product of bad-faith collaboration between the Congregations and the four York County Witnesses”.

Pg 17 The Congregations’ motion for transfer was not to avoid oppression……. But was a last-minute gambit to delay trial.”

Thanks to all who keep up the hard work of getting the real facts! Trey Bundy, Barbara Anderson, Irwin Zalkin, Steven Unthank & all the rest!!!

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The disappointed look on a Jehovah's Witness face - that you're living a good and fulfilling life

by jambon1 in

jw
friends

another thread got me thinking of this issue.

i don't think you'll ever come across a set of people with such a skewed and twisted outlook on life.. my memory serves me well when i recall a sort of blood lusting excitement over things like the 9/11 atrocities.

in fact i remember jw's describing the event as 'sad but exciting.

cha ching

I like that analysis TMT: "its like they are trying to play a video game on a non-existent level" !!!!!

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Half of the cong was dancing last night

by StarTrekAngel in

so went to the meeting last night.

i had not been to one since before the holiday break (3 weeks ago).

besides, it was our first meeting in the new format.

cha ching

Remember when these songbooks came out? The music was just 'off'.... when you thought it would go up? it went down.... Like having a 2/4 tempo then change to 3/4...

My son described it as trying to spell a word, and spelling it wrong... Thinking you can sing, and you can't... He nailed it when he said, "Like elevator music, or music you'd hear at the DMV!"

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The new service meeting

by John Aquila in

i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.

it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.

its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.

cha ching

I don't know.... I knew some pretty funny characters in the hall I use to attend, some of their comments were right out of a TV sitcom. Especially one older bro from Jamaica, he hardly had a grasp on reality.... thinking he had a close relationship with Princess Diana (via TV) thinking "Radar" signs (when you are driving) emit signals, and IF you slowed down before the sign, you could not get caught for speeding! He was hilaaaarious!