This board was quite instrumental at the time (late 90s, early 00s) when I was really beginning to question things inside the Borg. I was still an elder when I came across this place. Now I'm over 5 years removed from my last meeting at a KH. .............I haven't been hanging here much in recent years (didn't even post last year) but that's because the board had already provided me with what I needed. ..............The highlight was my first (and only to date) Apostofest 3 years ago. Also, coming across some folks who to this day remain good online friends. ..............I do miss those heady early days. The board was more controversial, with big breaking stories like the UN scandal, etc. The chat room was lively, and I was making new friends. The board is still OK, but I miss those earlier days.
rocketman
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What About JWD Has Been Special To You???
by minimus inwhen i was exiting, i would read this board and i learned a lot.
there were tons of people that were realizing the truth about the organization.
i had already read critical books about jws but this site was a daily, regular "spiritual feeding".
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avatars and member names, who's going to keep the same?
by DaCheech inif joining other boards, will you stay same?.
how will we know who you are from this universe?.
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rocketman
I'm rocketman no matter where I go on the Net - taking off or landing. :)
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rocketman
I've seen: Elton John (5) - excellent /////////Bad Company - my eyes burned from all the marijuana smoke ///////////Billy Joel - excellent //////////Heart - quite good /////////Dokken - not my type, went to impress a girl 10 years younger than me ////////Bruce Hornsby - good, but played only one hit song //////////Savage Garden (2) -decent show
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I don't get it
by noontide ini dont get it.
i find myself saying this about certain people, items or situations that seem to be popular with most people.
am missing something?
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rocketman
I'm on board with 3 of the 4 things that noontide mentioned. I think Spidey is a good comic book hero. But Kidman is totally overrated in terms of looks, I don't get most of the supposedly great works of literature either, and Sushi turns me off. ---------------I'll add the following as my "I don't get it"'s: - Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd - yes, I owned the album and I own the CD. This is widely regarded as a great album. Besides the song Money, I can't see why. ---------------------- Art...whether it's paintings, sculptures or whatever, I don't get why Art is so highly regarded and so expensive --------------- Jesus...he's supposedly carries all the redeeming virtues that the God of the OT seems to lack. But I never really found him any more endearing than Jehovah/Yahweh. I can respect him and admire him perhaps, but I feel no "closer" to him than to Jehovah (sorry, this was probably meant to be a non-religious discussion).
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Your Favorite 1970's Music Groups/ Singers/ Songs ?
by flipper inin the 1970's i was a teenager.
i wasn't that big into disco- although i enjoyed kc and the sunshine band as well as earth, wind, and fire.
but my really big love in music was always rock n' roll, blues , stuff like that !
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rocketman
The 1970s - I was a teenager, and looking back, the 70s were not as good as the 60s but the music has aged rather well. Even Disco, when looking back, wasn't quite so bad (though at the time, I really started to hate it). My favorites: Elton John (hit it big in the 70s, but he was actually rooted in the 60s, as his first two albums were recorded in that decade). Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen Heart The Eagles Paul Simon Led Zeppelin
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Your Favorite 1960's Music Groups/ Singers / Songs ?
by flipper inalthough i was just a kid pre-teens in the 1960's - still because of having older brothers and sisters i listened to some 60's music as well !
groups : .
1. the beatles.
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rocketman
I was also a pre-teen through the 60s, but I think that decade's music was the best ever. So many great songs, and Motown was great too. I wouldn't know where to begin as far as naming my favorites.
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Are judicial committees titillating when the wrongdoer is attractive?
by JimmyPage inis it more interesting to the elders if the sister doing naughty things is sexy?
or is it just uncomfortable for everyone no matter what?
do their questions get more or less detailed depending on looks?
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rocketman
I love the "Sister Jolie" phrasing.
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Stevie Nicks -- witch?
by gloobster indo the jw's still consider stevie nicks from fleetwood mac to be a pagan witch-type?
i picked out the song "landslide" for my mother's funeral about a month ago, which most of my extended family, jw's one and all, attended.
it didn't even cross my mind when i selected the song, my mom just had always liked it.
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rocketman
I never heard anything about Nicks being a witch. A nasal-sounding singer yes; a witch, no.
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Are the number of non-JW related Topics increasing at JWD?
by nicolaou inon the typical page of 20 topics you'll most likely find that up to half of them are not related to the jw experience at all.
i think that percentage has grown over the past 7+ years that i've been here.
not sure what it means though .
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rocketman
I've found that this is actually quite a good site for non-jw topics. There's good discussions to be had here on a variety of matters. I think that's a good thing. I'm at a point where talking about jw topics gets to be like beating a dead horse. But I've hung around mainly because this board is pretty cool for discussing other stuff too.
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What JW teaching did you find hardest to defend??
by karter infor me it was that god is killing billions of people just to prove a point.
what about you?
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rocketman
Lots of good replies....
For me, some of the stipulations surrounding separation and divorce were very difficult to defend, especially the notion that a woman had to be in 'extreme physical abuse' to justify separation (and that still didn't give her "scriptural grounds" to divorce). So basically, a woman had to have the crap beat out of her to justify leaving.
Another area was the nitpicking in regard to so-called sexual misconduct. Such misconduct varied between everything from momentary touching of a woman's breast to fondling them, etc. I'll never forget an elders meeting with the CO in which we went point-by-point through the Society's oddball designations of what consituted "uncleaness", etc., and trying to match such terms to the conduct to which they were applied. It boiled down to a roomfull of guys discussing breast-touching.