Posts by Roddy

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SMOKING GUNS?

by BEROEAN in

i've visited this board often looking for hard evidence of a major story, but most of what's reported here is misdeamenor type stuff.

other reports are heresay or rumored.

does anyone have some real smoking gun facts?

Roddy

I've visited this board often looking for hard evidence of a major story, but most of what's reported here is misdeamenor type stuff. Other reports are heresay or rumored. Does anyone have some real smoking gun facts? For example, several people have alluded to the Gov. Body members being pedophiles. Can't someone hide a camera up their tookis during one of these orgies? Also, there's been reports of lavsih lifestyles and expensive suares. Can't someone take pictures of Gov. Body members having "all white" parties? Come on people! This section is called 'Scandals & Coverups'! I want mug shots, love children, and sex tapes!

Unless you want to entrap the person or you are conducting a sting operation, usually such things happen in the moment, by consent, or the victim was too powerless to do anything about it at the time.

The victim or witness has to come forward and the police has to do their crime scene invesitation and interrogation - and the police are quite good at it. They know how to get information from liars.

I've always maintaind, even when I was in the JWs, that the elders are totally unqualified to act as police. I think these kinds of matters should be given to the authorities immediately and let the authorities get to the bottom of it. Then let the elders deal with the spiritual rebuilding of the guilty and innocent parties, after, of course, professional services were consulted. (Yes, I've known too many elders that are complete idiots and made matters worse for the people they were supposed to help. The sad thing is that they refuse to admit to their damage and blame the person for not having a "good attitude".)

Oh well! We'll all get through this somehow!

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Is Jehovah the most perverted creature in the universe?

by mkr32208 in

ok here's my thoughts.

i'm gonna ramble for a few minutes!

if i die and jehovah is going to resurrect me with all my memories and everything intact... hummm how to put this delicately.

Roddy

If I die and jehovah is going to resurrect me with all my memories and everything intact... Hummm how to put this delicately. Every time I've spanked my monkey he's had to record it in minute detail (he's not only watched he's had to count!) He's had to note every dirty pic I've ever looked at, every dukey I've ever taken! Everything I've every done with my wife, he's watched and recorded! Every thing I've ever done so that my memories will be "complete." Ok so far he's just a peeping tom right?

If you believe that then do you also believe this?

NWT Isaiah 1:18 "Come, now, YOU people, and let us set matters straight between us," says Jehovah. "Though the sins of YOU people should prove to be as scarlet, they will be made white just like snow; though they should be red like crimson cloth, they will become even like wool.

(Pardon if I use the NWT. I still know many Scriptures rendered in the NWT so it's quicker for me to look them up.)

I think that Jehovah is a God of integrety and will not resurrect you less than whole. Now, what happens next is the same as what has happened before -- your choice.

If you decide to become right with God, I believe that Jehovah will forget the things you did even though he resurrected you with your memory intact.

1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness

As regards the other things you mentioned. I'm reminded of another Scripture.

1 John 4:20 If anyone makes the statement: "I love God," and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also.

Also consider that the guilty person has his or her memory intact too. He or she are haunted by those memories and the guilt that it brings especially when he or she sees his or her victims again. And those haunts will continue until he or she asks forgiveness of you. Hopefully, you'd be in the superior position of power to "set matters straight" to forgive and heal so the both of you can forget those memories as well; just as Jehovah as done with you and Him.

Don't underestimate the power of forgiveness. Forgiveness is greater than resentment.

Ok, maybe this is more information than what you really wanted. Maybe more "Bible" than you needed to know. I don't even know if you were really looking for an answer. Take it for what it's worth. If it helps you, cool!

But I don't share the opinion that "Jehovah is the most perverted creature in the universe".

Oh, one more thing. A technicality, really.

Jehovah is not a creature. A "creature" is a created being. Jehovah is not a created being.

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Looking for a website monitor

by Roddy in

can anyone recommend a good website monitor program that will alert me when changes are made?

has to work on microsoft windows xp.

i think i too would like to watch and play "gotcha!

Roddy

Can anyone recommend a good website monitor program that will alert me when changes are made? Has to work on Microsoft Windows XP.

I think I too would like to watch and play "gotcha!" when jw-media.org makes another one of their secret unannounced updates and changes.

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Watchtower Comments YOUTUBE PREMIERE!

by V in

Roddy

Nice job, V. I like the way you used their historical documents to contrast what they are doing now. Keep your new series going!

What they are doing is indeed fishy. Suggests a great insecurity from the top down.

On the other hand, Jesus said ...

NWT Matthew 10:27 What I tell YOU in the darkness, say in the light; and what YOU hear whispered, preach from the housetops.

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Gail Bethea-Jackson video has been removed

by dust in

http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=../vnr/index.htm.

there used to be three videos under "child abuse" in the right column.

the one that isn't linked from there anymore is the "progressive understanding" video.

Roddy

The Website Widget ( click here ).

Drats! What a good program to keep tabs of their secret antics but I need a Mac to run it. No Windows version? I'm sad! (sniff!)

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Special announcement next week?????

by seek2find in

jw
friends

it was announced at the meeting last night that next week all should be in attendance at the service meeting as a special important letter will be read.

this is in addition to the letter about the district convention.

any idea what it's about?

Roddy

You will need to fill out the DPA card for your state of residence only. The DPA card is valid indefinitely anywhere in the United States and will serve as a statement of your wishes when you travel internationally. In the future, you should fill out a new DPA card if (1) you need to make any changes to your DPA card, such as changing your wishes, health-care agents, addresses, and telephone numbers, or (2) your DPA card has been lost or destroyed.

Figures! One less thing for them to print every year.

I'm still surprised they haven't figured out how to PDF the thing, stick it on their website, and have the membership download it and print it for themselves and their families. Or have the PO download it and print it for his entire congregation.

Maybe that will come next for something else.

Kind of sad, really. I still keep tabs with some of JW friends. When I talk about all the many cut-backs going on, the layoffs going on at the Bethel homes, and the selling of WTS properties in Brooklyn, I notice a mute concern written on their faces. Something they still can't speak about even now. They can't use the "simpification" line anymore.

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Most people would say that practising any religion is better than not......

by JH in

most believers think that it's better to practise any religion than to act like an animal and not practise any.. even my dad who used to dislike the jw's when he was alive, told me once, "you're better off going back to that religion, than not practising any religion at all".

i'm a believer like he was, but it's funny how most believers will say that practising any religion is better than not practising any.. jw's wouldn't agree, because they think that only their religion is the right one, even though a wrong religion may have a postive influence on somebody's behavior and happiness.. the only thing a jw looks at is the carrot "eternal life".

they won't look at the good that may come out of practising another religion.. after my jw experience, i won't go to any other religion.

Roddy

Most believers think that it's better to practise any religion than to act like an animal and not practise any. ...

Depends on the religion and the practice. So you can say that I'm picky. For example, I wouldn't practice a religion that approves of barbecuing humans. I prefer chicken.

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Memorial 2008

by wha happened? in

anyone know the date?

Roddy

More importantly, does anyone care ? LOL... but to answer your question: Saturday, March 22, 2008.

"Field Service" alert! The elders will make sure every JW and their uncles will be out pounding the pavement that morning! LOL

Technically, you count 14 days after the observance of the New Moon nearest the Spring Equinox. Doesn't Nisan 14 fall on Fri, March 21, 2008? Am I missing something?

Personally, I think somebody at the WTS got this calculation wrong. But the WTS is not going to admit to another mistake so they are going to let this one ride.

If they do admit the mistake, I'll be quite impressed! Could be the start of something good.

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"missionary position"

by belbab in

now don't get all excited, .

this is a research project, not in the actual act itself, but the origin of the term... from whom did the expression "missionary position" surface.

i swear to god that i believed that a missionary first used that expression.

Roddy

The Witchtower is hereby telling couples exactly what moves they are allowed to do during copulation. They have it narrowed so much that there is only one act that is allowed, and that has to be done in the prescribed manner or else "uncleanness" results. They can't call it "porneia" because they lost that in 1978, so they just call it uncleanness so that couples can get disfellowshipped but not divorced.
And yet they are allowed to molest children, using their bogus authority and in the pretense of a hounding call, with impunity as long as there are not two witnesses to the event.

Which bugs me. During the Bedroom Inquisition Period, how did the local elders know when couples were not doing Watchtower approved copulation?

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could it be a coincidence?

by XOCO in

i know that i don't created a lot of topics but i've been thinking about my feelings towards jw teachings and what i have learned so far from jwd and a couple of other sites.

i always found it hard 2 dismiss what i have learned from the kh and on apostate sites i feel like i'm in a cognitive dissonance, which means uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time.

video: hovah means mischief .

Roddy

Video: HOVAH means MISCHIEF

Oh, I've seen 2Proud2BMe videos (or rants) on YouTube before. She is a former JW that is singing sour grapes and continuing to sing sour grapes. She hasn't moved on and I doubt that she will.

YouTube currently counts that she made 50 videos. Who wants to bet that she'll cross the 100 videos mark all on the same theme? After seeing about three of them, I'd be willing to take that bet!

I find the videos of those that have moved on and are not stuck in bitterness more encouraging than the videos from 2Proud2BMe.