Born and raised as one....dipped at 14...regular pioneer at 18...first public talk at 19....Bethel at 19...Kicked out of Bethel on my 21st b-day for underage drinking (obviously prior to my 21st b-day)...gradually stopped going over the next four years
Posts by Angst
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Tip #1: If your hedge cutter stops working
by Simon intip #1: if your hedge cutter stops working you have most likely cut through the power cable .
tip #2 is never do gardening after drinking beer.. tip #3 is never do gardening.. .
damn these sunny afternoons - if it had rained at the weekend like it usually does then i would have had an excuse not to go out there in the first place!
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Angst
Ever hear the one about the stupid JW that cut the power cord on his gas hedge trimmers????
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SPIDERMAN..SPIDERMAN..DOES WHAT EVER A SPIDER CAN
by plmkrzy inok even at my old age[8>] i still like the super hero action flicks.. the better ones anyway.
the first superman, the first batman and even some of the sequels to bat man were not bad.. how ever this week-end it seemed like everyone went to see spiderman all at once so i didn't go yet.. they just gave the stats on the news.. spiderman grossed over $$$114,000,000.00 so far and still counting.. did anyone go see it this week-end????.
and if so.
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Angst
I thought Willem Dafoe did a kickass job of playing the green goblin...
the wet shirt scene with Kirsten Dunst was priceless!
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What does everyone here DO anyway?
by In_between_days inhi everyone,.
i am a new poster who is putting off their own personal story of finding this site for a while..... i find alot of people here utterly fascinating, and would like to know..... exactly what is everyones professional field of work?.
i would like to be a full time poster on this forum, but alas, the $$$$ are quite light in that field of work.. apologies if this has been asked before.. just curious.
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Angst
Freelance web/graphics designer
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memorial
by daveyJones inremember me?
i posted once before in november of .
once a year, or should it be celebrated weekly, even daily, like some.
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Angst
UADNA-US (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America-United States)
more info please Dungbeetle.
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What will future generations do?
by sleepy ini was looking forward to the future, before it was drasticly cut short by my realisation that i will probably die in about 50 years.. but what kind of advances will we see in that time and on into the future.. just whatching a film from 5 or 10 years ago it seams like a different world.. i was watching a film last night and looking at the size of the mobile phones ,they looked like telephone boxes, and of course no internet, computers in cars to tell where you are or dvd players etc.. go back a little further and we have no videos ,no computers at all.. back a hundred years or so and we loose cars, plane , tv and most things we take for granted.. so what does the future hold?.
i find it quite exciting to think of what advances could be made.. cures for diseases , improvments to the human body?more information on the universe,improved transport lots of things.. going massivly into the future how about this, ressurection of dead people?
(even people who lived thousands of years before like us).
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Angst
So what does the future hold?
My mother and I had this discussion about the "new system". She asked me, "Don't you want to live forever?" I replied, "Frankly, no! Because I don't want to live forever with the likes of Jehovah's Witnesses!" Her retort was that everyone will be reaching perfection and the things that trouble me now will pass over time as everyone becomes perfect. Great, I thought, it'll never work for me to be around millions of people who think they're perfect.
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Will The Watchtower's Last Weapon Fail?
by metatron inshunning!
disfellowshipping!.
the watchtower's final weapon in its corrupt war against.
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Angst
to quote Metatron:
4) Frankly, most Witnesses I've known MY WHOLE LIFE
I think the chronic illness part is so true Metatron. I've known countless chronically ill witnesses including my own mother. Personally I think that their being chronically ill is due in part to the fact that they are weak minded individuals who desparately feel the need to be led along mentally.
ARE JUST BORING COMPANY. God!, I often ask myself
what did I ever talk to these people about? They
don't read, think, or generally have hobbies
other than chronic illnesses! I don't care how
elevated they may think themselves to be - the
narrowmindedness of the 'truth' takes it toll!
Boring meetings make boring people! Their loss may
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Did U find Sheperding Calls rude?
by Reborn2002 inreading the lb thread "home but hiding" struck a chord with me.. i remember when i was inactive for the period of about a year the elders made a few "sheperding calls".. did anyone else out there find these very rude and condescending?.
first of all, in my case at least they always showed up unannounced.
how much do you think those "hell-ders" would like it if someone randomly dropped by their house unexpected?
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Angst
Valis,
that sounds just like the party that I had at Bethel and was kicked out for...because a little bitchy narc night watchmen felt spritually concerned to inform on us...I'd have paid good money to kick that kids ass all the way to manhattan.
Course I'm happy to be gone now!!!
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The Annual ``Don't Misbehave'' at Asemblies'' KM
by Room 215 ingreetings from the ``here we go again'' department.
while worldlings have only the song of the robins and the bloom of the daffodils and crocuses as harbingers of spring, jehovah's people and readers of their literature can always count on two more: the annual ``don't partake!
'' article in the watchtower, and the yearly exhortation to ``make nice at the summer's assemblies'' in the km.. in the case of the latter, the tone and content of the annual scolding is unbelievably demeaning to any responsible adult... being told to dress nice (suits and ties only, please, for the men and deresses only -- not too short ladies) not to abuse complimentary breakfasts, pool privileges and generally avoid rowdiness at the hotels where they stay-- all laced with clearly fabricated -- not to mention unattributed-- quotes from ``worldly observers amazed by our fine conduct.''.
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Angst
Well when you consider the average IQ of the witnesses you have to take into account that a large majority of the kids homeschooled and couldn't even hack that. So it is necessary to talk down to the lowest common denominator in order to reach the idiots.
I think homeschooling should be banned unless you are physically or mentally unable to attend a school. Homeschooling=Idiocy!
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celebration of birthdays...a matter of conscience?
by Angst inmy family and i have argued about this for awhile now and i would like someone to confirm this.
back in the late nineties at a district convention during the late sunday afternoon (yawn) symposium i swear i heard mention that the society now views the celebration of ones birthday to be a conscience matter and should be done with extreme caution so as not to affend others who may still view it as wrong.
forgive me for not remembering which year it was that this was mentioned.
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Angst
Good, good now can anyone verify the QFR date? And/or post a copy of it on the net?