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  What is WT?

  by Dakota in

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  don't yell at me for it.

  i've seen it all over the place but can't find anything that says what is is or what it does.

  can somebody tell me or point me in the right direction?

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Some help with the abbreviations:

  WTS = WatchTower Society

  WT = WatchTower

  F&DS = Faithful & Discreet Slave

  R&F = Rank and File Jehovah's Witness

  JW = Jehovah's Witness

  GB = Governing Body

  any others?...
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  The Exorcist.......in 30 seconds.......re-enacted by bunnies

  by Wallflower in

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  a short version for those who didn't see the film the first time round.. http://www.angryalien.com/0204/exorcistbunnies.html.

  i'm now going for bunny counselling.

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  LMFAO!
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  My Story... please don't freak out on me...

  by Big Shooter in

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  my story .

  well, i am new here, and i have a very long story.

  i don?t even know where to begin.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  dude...that's why you were supposed to highlite EVERYTHING..*LOL*

  Valis

  To cover their ass, some I know would highlight the cited scriptures in the study article and then highlight, in a different color, the quoted scripture in the paragraph. Then when they got KH, if they had no time to actually 'study', at least it looked like they did

  ...How pathetic
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  Dumb criminals

  by Sirius Dogma in

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  is this anyone you know?.

  http://www.bullguard.com/badnews/

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  Winston Smith :>D

  I must have rewound that 10 times with tears in my eyes it was so funny!
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  Dumb criminals

  by Sirius Dogma in

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  is this anyone you know?.

  http://www.bullguard.com/badnews/

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  LMFAO, that is too funny!
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  My Story... please don't freak out on me...

  by Big Shooter in

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  my story .

  well, i am new here, and i have a very long story.

  i don?t even know where to begin.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Winston, Reading what you just wrote makes me want to break down and cry... It's exactly how we feel.

  Well, I was just getting you back for getting me all chocked up reading your posts

  I remember feeling as you do right now.

  When I finally realized that judging other people wasn't in my make-up, I broke down and cried over all that I did in my life.

  Then I approached a DF'd friend of mine who I had previously shunned and told them that I no longer was going to shun them and then asked for their forgiveness.

  That was the first day of the rest of my life.

  Welcome to yours...

  Best,

  Paul [Winston.]
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  My Story... please don't freak out on me...

  by Big Shooter in

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  my story .

  well, i am new here, and i have a very long story.

  i don?t even know where to begin.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Hi shooter.

  Wow, that took a lot of guts to write all of that!

  Your candor with any mistakes you made is a good sign IMO. It shows that you want everyone to lay their cards on the table and play fair. This includes the WTS, but unfortunately, they will not play by the rules. As survivors of the WTS, we try to be more understanding than this, including not judging people. IMO, judging is up to God and no one else.

  Yes, the hypocrisy is breathtaking.

  Your wife can?t get baptized ?cause she doesn?t get 10 hours/month, oh wait, she?s pregnant and getting married to a baptized publisher, well, now she can get baptized regardless of her 2 hours/month. And don?t compare yourself to others in the congregation, but do make sure you keep with Jehovah?s chariot and get in the monthly average. And make sure to show Christian love to others, as it looks good for the Watchtower Society Jehovah, but be sure to shun anyone in the KH not answering every week at the WT study and who isn?t regular at meetings, plus you must shun anyone who isn?t a JW. Besides, everyone who isn?t a JW will die real, real soon at the ?Big-A?, so what harm can come from shunning them today?

  And the rules of shunning protect God?s people and keep the congregation clean! As if God needs harsh rules to protect his people. Is God so weak that he can?t protect his people himself? Does He really need his creation to shun each other to make sure that His protection doesn?t leave them?

  Ridiculous!

  While I haven?t gone through all that you have, the stress you are feeling trying to operate under such circumstances is something most of us here can understand. It?s suffocating!

  I feel that it is commendable that you are able to continue to have a successful marriage in spite of getting married too young, having a child out of wedlock, having an affair, and oh yeah, living in a high-control religious group your entire life under the thumb of an elder of this group.

  If you can survive this high-control religious group with your family in tact, you will be able to endure just about anything I would imagine.

  Welcome to the board!

  ***EDIT, Wow, this thread moved about 10 posts from when i hit 'reply' to when I finally hit the 'submit' button :-) ***
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  Exercisers Get Spiritual at the Lord's Gym

  by detective in

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  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115122,00.html

  exercisers get spiritual at the lord's gym .

  thursday, march 25, 2004 .

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Interesting...

  I'll think I'll keep my membership to this club :

  
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  You go girl!!!! You don't have to take that crap!

  by Elsewhere in

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  i'm inclined to think this case will be tossed out for being the bs it is.

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/law/03/25/simmons.cite.ap/index.htmlexercise guru richard simmons cited for assault.

  phoenix, arizona (ap) -- exercise guru richard simmons allegedly slapped a man who made a sarcastic remark about one of his videos, police said.. simmons, known for his "sweatin' to the oldies" series of exercise videos set to songs from the 1950s and '60s, was cited for misdemeanor assault.. a fellow passenger recognized simmons on wednesday night at phoenix's sky harbor international airport as he was waiting for a flight to los angeles, police said.. the man "made the off-hand comment, 'hey, everybody.

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  How could such a pretty girl do such a horrible thing...
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  It just friggen gets worse.....

  by Country Girl in

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  tomorrow i am leaving for the silent lambs summit.

  at 5 a.m. tonight, my jw brother, who is dying from a very rare disease, tells me that he was molested by the same guy that molested me.

  he also hints around that our brother, who is dead, was molested.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  (((((Country Girl)))))

  Wow Country Girl, that information about your siblings is awful.

  I don't have anything to say besides that I hope you find peace in your heart in the near future.

  How you go about doing that I wouldn't even dare say since I have so little comprehension of what you have & are going through.

  Paul