Posts by TheKings

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Hurts so good?

by return visitor in

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i know many have been hurt by association with the wts, but i was just wondering, are there any truths that you accually can take away from your association with it.

for instance, before becoming a jw i would recite the lord's prayer, and had never read in matt.

that is was not to be recited, but that it was mearly there as an example of how to pray.

TheKings

learning to be socially retarded kept me out of a lot of bad situations in high school...but come to think of it...it kept me out of ALL situations.

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Speaker Follies

by Butters in

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friends

hi gang.

how many speaker follies can you guys remember?

i remember myself giving a presentation on the talking ass in numbers 22 once.

TheKings

they have assigned it to a young teenage brother.

this is always the case. why, why, why!

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Internet Service Provided By The Society

by BlackPearl in

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there's been speculation about how the society could make wt cd's with "site monitoring" software on them, how about internet service provided by the society?

this way you'd feel like you have the freedom to surf the net but all the "bad" stuff would be blocked out.

they'd have total control over what the surfer sees.

KNOCKING - DVD Release / What to Expect/ Scenes

by Joker10 in

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the knocking dvd comes with a 48-page study/discussion guide.

it includes information about the making of the film, all the main characters, their early history, expansion, civil rights, their community structure, their preaching methods, and distribution of literature ( that adds up to their annual operation expense of over a billion dollars).. some dvd scenes include:.

people from stratton, ohio being interviewed along with the mayor.

TheKings

so is this pro-jdub or anti ?

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Speaker Follies

by Butters in

jw
friends

hi gang.

how many speaker follies can you guys remember?

i remember myself giving a presentation on the talking ass in numbers 22 once.

TheKings

i cringed whenever we had a reading of the song of solomon. it's littered with sexual stuff.

and i've always wondered what any of it had to do with the bible that it should be included in it.

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HELP with history and daniel and damned confounded circular reasoning!

by TheKings in

i've been put into the corner arguing with my jw mom about 607/587 being the destruction of jerusalem.. i got her to admit 607 was wrong, but she says the prophecy in daniel with the cutting of the tree and removing the crown (anybody know what i'm talking about???

) was referring to when in 607 the kings and nobles in jerusalem were taken captive to babylon (i think it was babylon...she confused the hell out of me) and it was destroyed in 587, but that doesn't matter.. so counting the seven times is from the time the crown was removed in 607 to 1914 and jesus' invisible reign.. .

anybody understand this and want to help me?

TheKings

holy crap!

i looked into the daniel book and found where it said the exiles were taken 617 not 607 and i told her ...and she freaked out!

she cursed at me, threw a pillow, named every reason she could think of why i was a bad person, and told me i was ungrateful for questioning the society. i sat calmly and told her to stop with the name calling...she stopped after 15 minutes or so and told me i was mean. ...she said she would prove i was wrong, but it was mean to make her second guess what she knew.

(the day before when she thought she was right she said it was good to question. what hypocrisy )

she told me this morning that she would rather trust the society than believe any different because she had looked at th wikipedia online about it and one of their sources was questionable.

she said that everything else they teach is true and good so it doesn't matter.

what a bunch of horse manure!

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Someone may benefit from this..regarding the Expos'es of the organization

by Lady Liberty in

hello all.... i hope this day finds you all healthy, and happy.

i came acrossed some notes i made many months ago when i was going through the research phase of getting out.

my intent was to cover every subject i came across.

TheKings

i didn't know about the mexico/malawi thing before this.. all i heard was a few boastings in the yearbook about martyrs for the WT in malawi.

thanks for sharing this.

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (helping JWs see)

by apocalypse in

i am an "active" jw.

i serve.

give talks.

TheKings

reading stuff like this makes my day. i wish i would have known these things before leaving so i could have helped too.

you guys rock

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What Emotion Do You Have Now Because You Were One Of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by minimus in

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friends

are you angry that you ever got involved in this religion??

depressed??

confused??

TheKings

it was like waking up from a dream. leaving them wasn't enough, i had to find out that not only was it not for me, it was blatantly false...then it all melted away and i had power over the guilt i was saddled with.

i'm too busy enjoying my freedom to be angry...but then again i still have much of my young life still ahead of me. for someone who had been enslaved for more than half their life i can imagine it is much different.

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Where have you found JW literature?

by Funchback in

so, yesterday i'm at bally's (a fitness center) and i'm about to get on the treadmill.

i decided to check out their magazine rack.

let's see...'bicycling', 'sports illustrated', 'a2z', and about 10 watchtower and awakes.

TheKings

Inside a public toilet taped to the wall. Written next to them, " Emergency toilet paper."

finally, we've found a use for it.