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  A Benign Question for [Some] Posters...

  by AGuest in

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  may you all have peace!.

  can someone (perhaps the "fellas") tell me why... although the "female" symbol is present and prominent next to my "avatar"... i am often referred to as "he" or "him"?

  i am a girl, truly.

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  Uzzah

  Perhaps it is the arrogance and tone of your posts that leads people to believe it is more testosterone driven.

  It is the height of huberus to believe you can channel the thoughts of what you claim is the highest entity and most powerful creature of the Universe.

  It is also your obsessive and controlling nature dmonstrated in your posts (insisting that only certain people are 'allowed' to post on your threads) that people may think you are male.

  I personally just think you need to go on meds to stop hearing 'the voices'

  oh and I do not accept your passive aggresive 'peace' that you wish upon others whom you have obviously judged as either being worthy or not.
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  Did You Ever Secretly "Sin" & The Elders Never Knew About It?

  by minimus in

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  we, as elders, would every so often give a little talk about keeping the congregation clean and that if anyone felt the need to talk to us, to get whatever is bothering them off their chest, we would be readily available to them.

  you'd be shocked to see how many would tell us some naughty things they were feeling guilty about.. i'm sure there were plenty of smart people who simply kept quiet and didn't say a word.. here's your opportunity to tell us what you wouldn't tell them..

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  Uzzah

  WHile an elder I had one young brother about 24 years old confess that he and his kid brother had twice mutually masterbated. Neither were baptized at the time and it happend when they were like 15 and 13 years old. Both were serving at Bethel and had been appointed as MS by that point.

  I asked him if he prayed for forgiveness. Yes. Do you believe that your baptism was a fresh start/clean slate? Do you blieve god's holy spirit is running this Org including the appointments of MS and Bethelites? Ys

  So I told him the problem was not the 'exploratory act of a young child becoming a sexual being' but rather a lack of faith in Christ's forgiveness. If he trully believed in it why would he continue to carry the guilt for so many years. If he truly believed Holy SPirit was involved in appointments should not his and his brothers being appointed as Servants in the congreagation and to serve at 'god's hous' prove of such forgiveness?

  Personally I think he was trying to get his brother in trouble since the younger was being fast tracked congregationally and at Bethel. He confessed this to three other elders after me. <shrug>

  That was probably the wildest thing anyone outright confessed to in my experience. Lots of 'confessions' after being caught but very few proactive confessions.
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  Swine Flu

  by purplesofa in

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  2. friends

  well, i was wondering if anyone here has had swine flu?.

  i got it last week.. my son, daughter and granddaughter have it now.. jada was sent to the emergency room at the childrens hospitol here yesterday.

  her symptoms were bad and she is under two.. so they sent her there.. the entire emergency room staff, security etc were wearing masks.. apparently it is getting worse here, the amount of cases.. it was a brutal sickness, i can't imagine babies and elderly dealing with it well at all.. although, i got sick with the symptoms a week ago, i feel very weak and tired and have a terrible cough still.. i read on one site the symptoms being disorientation and confusion, which i experianced.. has anyone here had it, how did you survive it?.

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  Uzzah

  Just recovering from it. Went down last Thursday and forced myself back to work today. Likely staying bed tomorrow cause I am exhausted and obviously not over it yet (still infectious). It is a brutal bug.

  Considering I sit on the Provincial (state) steering committee on pandemic planning and have been very active in both the H5N1 and H1N1 activities I am not thrilled with irony that it took me down prior to the vaccine being available. At least gives me a perspective I didn't have before I suppose.

  I encourage all to get the vaccine and not to buy into the Internet hype against them. Despite having the flu this week, I will be posing next week for a media event where various sector leaders will be publicly getting the shot. I believe in the benefit of the vaccine that much.
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  Former JW Survey

  by Opus92 in

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  i'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.

  i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.

  it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .

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  Uzzah

  Done. But one last question might have been good to include. If more than high school education, when did you get your college or university education while a witness or after.
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  Rorschach test for JWs

  by 1914BS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (i think i spelt it right??).

  99 out of 100 jws won't be able to spot the jest ---- why??.

  because they are mentally conditioned thru 5 mind control meetings per week to ignore jests of any kind.. (the gb would never allow jests in the artwork).

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  Uzzah

  Well since a fish is often representative of Christianity, and the fish is what is feautred predominatly in teh picture, can we assume that Christianity is ruining the earth?
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  It's nice to see the WTS is lightening up...

  by peacedog in

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  2. beliefs

  when i was attending, an elder would never give tacit approval to a jw's participation on a website like this.

  back then procedure was a harsh warning followed by disfellowshipping if the behavior were to continue.. when i was being raised a jw, no witness in good standing, let alone a pioneer, would ever consider allowing his/her children to attend a halloween or birthday party.

  seems as though the days of "mental regulating of youth" are in the rear view mirror.... how great is that?

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  Uzzah

  The traditional stance taken in Canada is that attendance at a church for a funeral or wedding is technically a conscience matter but the "stumbling others" counsel was always given right alongside of it. What if someone who knew you as a JW saw you entering a house of false religion? These matters should be seriously weighed when making a decision to support such a worldly event... blah blah

  However being an active participant in such an event is cause for disciplinary action including being removed from a privilege such as pioneering or serving as an elder of MS. Since in this circumstance the JW would be particpating in some form of false worship.

  Uzzah - who can't believe he can still parrot this crap after being our for more than a decade.
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  Whatever has happened about swine flu?

  by badboy in

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  don't seem to have heard so much about it lately.

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  Uzzah

  A resurgence of H1N1 is happening in North America. Fortunately it is the same strain and hasn't mutated into a more deadly virus.

  Had two deaths last week in one area near me from H1N1. Both were in their teens with underlying medical conditions.
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  This May Be a Stupid Question

  by snowbird in

  1. social
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  what happens to the members of a football team who sit on the sidelines and never get to play?.

  if they are professionals, do they still get paid?.

  i'm asking because i notice some who never leave the benches?.

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  Uzzah

  The bench warmers or 'just in case' players do get paid but at a significant lesser rate than the 'first string' guys.
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  Is this an act of a deranged Pioneer JW?

  by dissed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone arrested on a plane for preaching the bible.. who would be so stupid so as to quote the bible incessantly to the person sitting next to him?

  then refusing to let the passenger get up from their seat until they finished preaching, so as not to acquire blood guilt?

  and finally going beserk when he refused to stop, biting another passenger?.

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  Uzzah

  OMG a Born Again Danny Hazzard... either that or one of the Jah Christians were travelling that day <snickering quietly to himself>
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  Does anyone here remember a guy................

  by cantleave in

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  just been the the thread about co'd and do's i started thinking about people who seemed to have vanished off the scene.

  i recall a guy, i think he was originally from canada and then move to the uk, called lawton york, does anyone remember him or what happened to him?

  i was friendly with his son graham, would love to get back in touch..

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  Uzzah

  Wasn't he the guy who was arrested for disturbing the peace/disrupting a religious assembly? (using a bull horn) He was a file on my desk for quite a few years.

  He was already pretty old when that happened (circa 1990).