Hey evergreen,
Sounds like it could be a good thing for your wife. Maybe she should read CoC for herself?
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seattleniceguy
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My wife caught me and in bed!!!!!!
by evergreen innew that would catch your attention.. yes its true folks , my wife caught me in bed reading notes that i had written down about raymond franzes book crises of conscience.
she is a staunch follower of the borg and i have now been inactive for about 2 years.. i wrote about 30 pages of notes from this book as the only place i could get my hands on one was from the library.
i couldnt order one as i was so afraid of her finding out i was reading "apostate " material.. she asked me what i was reading and said it was er just some notes i had written .
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
Poztate, who wrote that? Is it yours?
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
Poztate! I thought it was you I had heard it from! Thanks!
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
LOL...Google is the first place I looked. Unfortunately, the only phrase I thought I remembered from the poem was "This is my box," but unfortunately those are all absurdly common words, and the quoted phrase didn't net me anything, so I must have misremembered it.
Hmm...Thanks anyway. I'll just keep this up in Active Topics for a while and see if the original poster spots it.
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How would JWs run a country if they had one?
by Spectrum incan anybody imagine what it would be like to live in a country run by jws?
what would they call it?
what laws would they have?
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seattleniceguy
It would be like any other totalitarian regime. Stifling and poorly run. See heading, "North Korea."
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No, It's not BIG news
by ApagaLaLuz ini'm sorry, i do not see this as being big news.
the ties to the un, yes that was huge for me.
the child abuse, yes, even bigger.
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seattleniceguy
Well, the funny thing in all of this is that it really doesn't matter what JWs think of it.
If a legal precedent is set that costs the Watchtower Society money, it will affect everything.
For example, imagine 1000 ex-Witnesses who have been adversely affected by the blood policy launch a class-action lawsuit for $1,000,000,000 (a million dollars per litigant). Not only is that big news, but I seriously doubt that the Society has that kind of cash. They have assets, but probably not that much cash. So they'd have to start selling property to manage the payouts. Witness watching this all go down may tighten up their purse strings, adding to the Society's financial woes.
In other words, if legal and financial pressure is brought to bear on the Society, it is a good thing, regardless of how individual Witnesses see the news immediately.
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Misrepresentation
by quango inmy understanding of the "big snooze" is that the essay maintains that jws have misrepresented quotes from secular sources.
is this message board not an obvious misrepresentation?
it claims to represent jehovahs witnesses (in its title)yet the vast majority of posters are anti jw and many have been expelled.
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seattleniceguy
quango,
Welcome to the board!
You're right that the name of the board was a good marketing move. It seems monolithic, official. But the board clearly says that this is a "Jehovah's Witness discussion forum," which it really and truly is. The only reason active Jehovah's Witnesses are so few around here is that their organization forbids them to be here. It's ironic, really.
I can give you that the name of the board might at first glance be different than what you might expect. Then again, if I went to mormon.com and found that it was mostly populated by ex-Mormons, I don't think I'd feel particularly deceived. I'd probably say my hellos, congratulate them on snagging a great name, and be on my way to the official site if I were interested in getting there.
Another point to consider is that the Watchtower Society has chosen to represent itself as "Watchtower." They had the chance years ago to purchase the jehovahs-witness.com domain. They chose not to. Their brand name is Watchtower. It would have been a simple and extremely inexpensive matter to also own jehovahs-witness.com and redirect it to their main domain, but they chose not to. That's fine, that's their choice. But it certainly means that anyone else with an interest in the domain can buy it. And that's what happened. And this site clearly has a valid stake in the name. It's not like we're selling tennis shoes here.
Finally, I wanted to offer some thoughts with regard to your suggestion that supposed misrepresentation in the name of this site is similar to the misrepresentation by the Watchtower in (for example) the Blood brochure. There is a world of difference between choosing a name that is likely to generate good traffic for a web site, and publishing material that deliberately quotes so as to make it appear that external sources are saying things they do not. The Watchtower Society communicated specific misrepresentations with intent to deceive. (Intent is obviously hard to prove, but in many cases the Society edits words out of the very same sentence that they are quoting in a way that significantly alters the meaning. It is hard to see this as anything other than deliberate deception. No one is stupid enough to do this accidentally, and if they are, they certainly shouldn't be writing for "God's Channel.")
Anyway, welcome again to the board! Hope you stick around.
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
Actually, I believe I read it here. It was written simply, but I don't think children would understand it. It was quite long as poems go. I'm sorry I don't have any better information than that. I guess that's I can't find it! :-)
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
Midwich, no I haven't, but thanks for the suggestion!
under, no, that's far too nice a poem. :-) The one I am looking for was an allegory about narrow-mindedness.
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Help me find a poem: "This is my box"
by seattleniceguy indoes anyone remember this poem?
it was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved.
they box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
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seattleniceguy
Does anyone remember this poem? It was all about a person who lived in a box that they loved. They box made them feel safe and sound, and they knew they could trust the people inside their box, but they were afraid of the world outside.
I've been trying to find it but apparently I can't remember an exact phrase from the poem, which is making the search difficult. Can anyone help?
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