And another good one he wrote with the Moodies :
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
by flipper inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
by flipper inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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In memory of Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues dying I'll post a couple of his songs he wrote while with the Moody Blues . Here's a good one :
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Stealing From The Worldwide Work Fund.
by Charles Gillette inall the money paid out by the watchtower to the child abuse law suits comes from the worldwide work fund or the contributions from the monies given for the kingdom hall real estate.
so,when we were actively involved donating funds for this purpose,and the watchtower used those funds for purposes other than the worldwide work are they not guilty of stealing funds that were donated for jehovah's kingdom.
can anything legal be done about this?
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CHARLES - PIMO means " physically in , mentally out. "
Good thread by the way. Yeah, not only are WT leaders guilty of misusing JW's contributions to pay out child abuse lawsuits, but even in letters they sent out to congregations telling JW's NOT to send clothing, blankets, or marking money donated for Puerto Rico hurricane victims- they weren't allowed to put " for Puerto Rico victims " on their donations. ALL donations have to have as Jeff said " for the worldwide work " on the donation- thus it makes it really easy for the WT Society to hide where those funds are being used. There is NO transparency whatsoever. It's a criminal organization
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?
by compound complex ingreetings, dreamers:.
i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.
last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.
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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?
by compound complex ingreetings, dreamers:.
i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.
last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.
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CoCo- Hey man, you're not alone. I used to have a lot of dreams about the JW's. In the dreams I was always OUT of the cult trying to explain to some of my friends and relatives who are JW's about the injustices within the WT organization. Or I'd have dreams about reconnecting with my adult JW daughters since I've been shunned by them for years now. I still dream a lot and remember my dreams ( I even write my dreams down - I've now logged almost 700 pages of dreams the last 7 years ) . But I don't dream about the JW experience as much anymore as it's been over 14 years since I've been out .
https://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Verbatim-Frederick-Perls/dp/B000KQ84JS.
The link I just posted is to Amazon regarding the book by the well known psychologist Frederick Perls Gestalt Therapy Verbatim which I highly recommend to read about dreams and their meanings. For years Perls held dreamwork therapy seminars at Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California assisting people to work through their dreams and own them. In a nutshell Perls theory about dreams is that he felt that we dream about unfinished situations in our lives that have been rattling around in our subconscious for years and these unfinished situations come out in our dreams. Negative or positive situations. I've read several of his books, and when I analyze my dreams- I tend to agree with him. When giving the seminars he would have the volunteers restate their dreams and reenact the dreams in the here and now - or restate them as if they are happening now. It was fascinating seeing what emotional baggage was deep within each of these people that would come out. But it was very helpful in assisting them to re-own this hidden part of their subconscious.
Here's a link to wikipedia about Frederick Perls Gestalt Therapy :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy.
Let me know what you think after reading it a bit ! Pretty cool stuff in getting people to become actualizing and opening up to their inner subconscious dreams and thoughts. Take care my friend , Peace out, Mr. Flipper
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COLD today
by wasone init's a cold 13 degrees fahrenheit in tennessee this morning where i live.
glad i'm retired and don't have to work outside today.
what about where you live.
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I almost feel ashamed to say how nice it's been in Northern California with most of you U.S, citizens under an arctic cold blast attack ! But- since you asked - this winter has been very mild. Up until last night when we FINALLY got some rain- the day time temperatures have been about 60 - 65 degrees. Night temperatures high 30's . With the rain we are now down into the low 50's but the storms are warmer. High snow levels at 7,000 ft. elevation which is not good for building up the watershed.
If we don't get some colder snow out here in California at lower elevations- we are going to experience one hell of a drought next summer and extreme fire dangers. I wish you east coasters could hurl some of that snow to our Sierra Nevada mountains out here ! Hang in there my cold friends ! Hope it warms up for you soon ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper
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Hello from Scotland - it has been ages....
by The Scotsman inwell how the devil is everyone?
i have not been here for a long time........totally lost track of what is going on in jw land, apart from the little bits i hear from family members still in.
(they say everything is swell and that armageddon is just round the corner).... :).was hearing that anniesland congregation in glasgow has been (or is about to be) disbanded.
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Welcome back Scotsman, nice to have you here ! As you can see it's pretty apparent the WT Society is in full tilt downsizing mode as to consolidate congregations and try to put more $$$ in the " kingdom " bank accounts.
That being said - they have to do that due to a couple factors. I was made aware two or three years ago that the WT Society went into default on some big construction bank loans from one of the major banks back on the east coast in U.S. ( possibly B of A can't remember ) but after that - they were blacklisted from receiving any more construction loans. And then of course since you were last on the board their have been thousands more JW child abuse lawsuit cases around the world. Not only the bad publicity of having their child abuse policies exposed publicly by the Australia commission- but WT Society is digging in and refusing to hand over court requested documents showing there are approximately 23,000 pedophiles still inside the JW organization. They stood in contempt of court to do so, even willing to pay millions of $$$$ in fines to protect the names and identity of said JW pedophiles.
So in a quick nutshell - this kind of stuff has been going down since you left. Personally- I think that with each progressing year - WT Society is getting backed into a corner tighter and tighter until eventually ( and who knows when ) the air will be squeezed out of them by authorities