Posts by Noumenon

i'm in the middle of decorating my new house, and was a bit stuck as to what to use to mask off the furniture/carpets etc until i spotted an oldv pile of watchtowers that i'd been meaning to throw out.

i now have paint spattered watchtowers all over my living room.. anybody else got any good things to use old liturature for?

Noumenon

I keep them for mould cultivating and fungi growth. Even fungi needs a home.

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What's The Silliest Rule That You've Seen In The Organization Or Cong.???

by minimus in

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one congregation in the 70's allowed only white shirts to be worn on the platform.

if an out of town speaker didn't know the "rule", it was ok. the brothers kept a variety of white shirts in different sizes in case that happened.

Noumenon

brother on the platform must have their jackets buttoned up.

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An Anti-Aging Prediction

by metatron in

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i stumbled across an essay published in cornell science and technology magazine, vol 5 issue 2 summer 2000 about the.

future of aging.

some quotes:.

Noumenon

Your Uncle Gene must have good genes.

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Did you ever say/do anything as a dub that went against your conscience?

by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

i ask this question because now that i'm out of the borg and see things for what they are, i have been reflecting on what i did and said as a dub.. i truly believed in the preaching work when i was in.

i believed in alot of the things from the bible.

so for me, the preaching was something i enjoyed.

Noumenon

Like you blissisignorance I could never go door to door again with all this child molestation media scandal breaking out.

One thing that troubled my conscience was not being allowed to say at least a harmless 'hello' to disfellowshipped ones. That always felt wrong.

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Elder comes to visit

by Smyler in

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i haven't to a meeting in about 2 or so months and tonight one of the local elders came to visit me.. he goes on about, how he and the hall misses me and loves me.

and they want to go back to the meetings, "it must be a teenager thing, everyone went thru it, but i know that you will be back.

" i was thinking to myself, you don't know that i'll be back, and i don't plan on it either.

Noumenon

typical case of JW black or white ultimatum thinking. 'choose your girlfriend or choose to survive at Armageddon'.

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Sweden minister murded

by happy man in

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sweden foren minister,anna lind died this morning after she was atackt by a men widh a knife,yesterday,wery tragikal and sad,many of us remember olof palme how also was killd over 20 years ago .. sweden are just now in campain if we going to have the euro , anna lind was one of the main persons how say she want sweden to join euro and leave the swed krona, some think this was the reason fore the murder.

Noumenon

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They treat child molesters better than they treat us!

by Swan in

i have been thinking about this a lot.. my family treats child molesters better than they treat me.

my sister-in-law's father was accused of child abuse by her sister.

since there weren't two witnesses to this terrible violation, he is still in good standing in the congregation to this day.

Noumenon

Geez have they really deepfried JW's for masturbation? Heck, then I guess 99% of single males in the truth shoulda been deepfriend ages ago (unless you're one of those freak goodie two-shoe square peg Amish Bethel, MS school graduate prissy pioneer eunech types, yeck). Then there'd be no one left, hahaha...

Actually, on a more serious side, I think this is one of the reasons why there are so many sexual perverts lurking in the Org, because of the unbalanced view of sex and obsession with things like masturbation, oral sex, etc being so wrong. What is repressed grows stronger and by heaping all this guilt on young JW's about masturbation etc they get warped and obsessed with it, hence turn into kiddie fiddlers and so on. Probably analogous with the rampant problem of homosexuality in the Catholic Church and any church which enforces celibacy...the sex drive just gets warped through guilt and repression and look at the horrible consequences.

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A question for those familiar with Bethel Policy and Child Molestation??

by badolputtytat in

i cannot go into great detail just yet, because a lot of what i have going with my family hinges on what will happen on the weekend of october 10th.

a short background of this topic before the question: at a very young age.

very young i was sexually abused, by more than one member of our congregation.

Noumenon

I see the hypocrisy of the stance, but I can't blame them for not wanting homosexuals or potential homosexuals at Bethel.