from the time i was a small boy - i loved rock n' roll music.
beatles, rolling stones, led zeppelin, hendrix.
i started getting slighted for the music i listened to as i lay in my bedroom listening on headphones to led zeppelin's song " black dog " at age 14 with my elder dad looking suspiciously at me as i'm rocking out .
TALESIN- LOL back with you. I get what you're saying sister . Peace & love.
SPECTRE- Exactly, yeah no doubt very true what you say. LOL.
CAPTAIN SCHMIDEO- Thanks for the quotes from WT's showing how ridiculously stupid WT Society's views of controlling people's music listening really is.
BAKER- That must be hard to be surrounded by WT tunes wherever you go. I believe I'd off myself if I had to listen to those JW tunes constantly
my wife and i sent my 22 yr.old pioneer witness daughter and her husband a anniversary card and $ 40.00 and flowers the end of april.
my daughter wrote mrs. flipper and me each our own individual letters thanking us initially for the gifts - and then went into detail as to why she has not spoken to me for over a year and shunned me.. keep in mind as i paraphrase some of the highlights to these letters that the only negative thing i have said about the organization to my daughter in 3 years was to show her the ap news release about the child abuse settlements by the wt society .
i'll quote parts of the letter to mrs. flipper first :.
The " rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. " THAT is what the corporate leaders want, THAT is what the 1 % want , THAT is what the wealthy elite Republican leaders want - in order to keep people in their allegedly " proper place and pecking order ".
Wall street wants poorer people " dumbed down " so they won't see through the veneer that is Hillary & Trump as they know these people are desperate and won't do the research needed to see that their lives are being duped by billionaire elitists. That's one reason Trump stated in a victory speech about a month ago , " We LOVE the undereducated " ! He doesn't actually love THEM ! He loves that they are UNDEREDUCATED because they won't bother to call him on his shit !
It's the same principle as JW's NOT doing research about the corruption of the WT Society. They put their fingers in their ears and go " nah, nah ,nah " and refuse to research the facts. Same concept for those who think Hillary and Trump are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Nothing is further from the truth. They are unscrupulous, dishonest billionaires who have lied, manipulated their way to the top 1 % of wealth and are sociopath's who refuse to admit wrongdoing. You want THEM to lead this country ?
Time to take a SERIOUS look at Bernie Sanders and how he actually has financed his own campaign instead of whoring himself out to the corporates and global elitists who want to crush the poor. Sanders is a much better choice for president
let the investigations commence.
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/21470/jehovahs_witness_charity_loses_appeal_against_commission_inquiry.
Classic "divide and conquer" stuff that keeps what's left of the middle class pissed at the lower classes. I grew up in a family of wannabe republicans, hearing about "welfare queens". They were gonna vote Trump until he really blew it.
Being 60 years old now, I've seen the wages go down, prices go up, work go overseas and corporate higher ups getting obscenely huge pay. I've been self employed and at times worked for people with large money - I was advised by one to grow my business : "Hire a bunch of Mexicans, pay as low as possible." To my protests of not wanting to use people that way - "People like that can't handle money - if you pay them too much you just make problems for them." No joke.
Anyone got a video of Corporate welfare folks complaining about being cut off?
Mrs. Flipper
i would probably collapse laughing.
have you noticed just how strong peer pressure is amongst witnesses?.
the desire to match or better one another's "spiritual accomplishments" or decisions in life?.
pioneering - because it is the "right" thing to do.. answering at meetings...perhaps multiple times - because it is the "right" thing to do.. choice of employment.
i haven't posted anything for a bit, but wanted to express how i am losing this battle.
it has been over 3 years now since i woke up about watchtower.
the battle that i am talking about is the tug of war with my wife (i adore her immensely), watchtower is winning, she simply will not give in to my so-called negative thoughts about the religion that we are in.
hello everybody,i've been lurking for a while and since i really adore reading the biggest part of the posts, especially this italian ( american) guy about his experiences at bethel in the 70's, i feel a little bit guilty for not participating with my contribute.
i am really so sorry for the people that are suffering because of the wts.my story is a " happy ending " story, i married a jw almost 30 years ago and i am here to tell that we are still very happy.
she is very liberal and our 3 kids are " normal ".
ROBERTO- Welcome to the board. My deepest condolences on the loss of your father-in-law. The WT Society and Jehovah's Witnesses are a criminal organization in that thousands of JW's have died worldwide due to the " no blood transfusion " policies. And yet- WT leaders will get away scot free without paying for their crimes of murder from such policies. WT leaders should be brought up on crimes against mankind for not only their blood transfusion policies - but also their faulty child abuse policies.
I'm glad you are here with us and very happy to learn that your wife and children are a family that's still intact and thriving positively. Good for you my friend. Others aren't so lucky. Count yourself fortunate ! Look forward to hearing more from you. Take care, Peace out, Mr. Flipper
keith emerson , the virtuoso keyboard player of elp has sadly passed.
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another good one gone.
