Burger time, I don't know who the hell you've been watching, but Ryan Leaf? C'mon, that's like me comparing Brett Favre to Todd Marinovich. And BTW, Go Cowboys, sure they won't win the Superbowl, but they'll at least clean house in the NFC.
bluesbreaker59
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bluesbreaker59
Romo, has 1 TD, no interceptions, over 200 yards passing and has only like 5 incompletions, going into half time, what more do you want??? Minnesota is so tough against the run, that I think they forgot how to defend the pass. Dallas has some injuries, which is why they are a little weak against the pass right now, which New England did an excellent job of exploiting last week.
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bluesbreaker59
Well I'm a Dallas fan, and have been for about 15 years now, so I'll pipe up, and simply say "Go Cowboys". But I'll tell ya, you Vikings fans are lucky to have a really great young player in Adrian Peterson, he's not only a good player, he seems like a mature young man as well. The key to this game for Dallas in the second half is going to be stopping the run, and making Jackson beat them, and offensively, Dallas needs to start running the ball with Marion Barber and also just keep throwing, Minnesota is awful against the pass.
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Hell has froze over... Bluesbreaker went to CHURCH!!!
by bluesbreaker59 inso, i swore to myself after leaving the dubs and getting df'd earlier this year that i would never enter a church again, except for weddings, etc.
well, for the longest time, i've had some musician buddies of mine that attend a local church, and they have a musical service.
i met one of the pastors a long time ago, and he and i became friends, just a very down to earth type guy.
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bluesbreaker59
So, I swore to myself after leaving the Dubs and getting DF'd earlier this year that I would never enter a church again, except for weddings, etc. Well, for the longest time, I've had some musician buddies of mine that attend a local church, and they have a musical service. I met one of the pastors a long time ago, and he and I became friends, just a very down to earth type guy. He is married, has kids, smokes cigars, drinks whiskey, collects vintage instruments, plays bass and goes to blues clubs all the time. He's never once mentioned religion to me, except when I asked him a question. He's never quoted scripture to me, or brow-beat me like some religious folks do. So I called up a buddy of mine that used to be a devout Catholic and we went to church together. The service was nice, it talked about how God loves us, even when we fall short, and focusing on our blessings that we have in modern society. There were some announcements and a children's service and lots of music. The best part was the ending... The band broke into an old ZZ Top song, "Jesus Just Left Chicago", and I was invited up to play lead guitar with them, because my buddies, know I'm a huge Billy Gibbons fan. I had a blast playing with them. The house lead guitarist is my guitar mentor, and he is an absolutely fabulous musician. Don't think I'll go every Sunday, but it was nice to go, and "get some religion" to quote the late, great blues musician Son House.
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Who has been Disfellowshipped or Reproved the most times?
by oompa inmy diehard, hardcore, zealous, door knocking ex-wife has been disfellowshipped three times and reproved twice.
i think that is a lot of suffering for one life.
if it happens again, at least they don't have a name for it......oompa
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A woman at my old hall has been DF'd 4 times, she got axed for the 4th time shortly before I got mine. Personally, I've been reproved twice and DF'd once, and those will stay my records, because I ain't going back.
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Hi Snake in the Tower
by Jeepthing inhi snake in the tower.
it wa nice meeting you.
wish we had more time to visit.
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Hey Snakes,
I'm in central Iowa, close to Des Moines. Yes, if there is a midwestern Apostafest, I guarantee I'd be going.
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Remember: Every Kingdom Hall Has Dynamite Within
by metatron inallow me to point out that, per the society's regulations, every kingdom hall has a pile of metaphorical dynamite within.
every kingdom hall.
is required to keep judicial files - often going back decades - locked in the kingdom hall.
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bluesbreaker59
Yes, but you're also not going to be able to simply "waltz" right into the library or "back room" with a screwdriver and cause a ruckus with the file cabinets, within about 5 seconds the elders are going to gang tackle you. The only way I could see this working is if someone that was a key holder for the hall was truly an "apostate", and whilst being out in the ministry by himself, had to stop back at the hall for a restroom break. He could then get into the cabinets, but would also have to have a lookout, and some walkie talkies to notify him of "brother suspicious" coming towards the hall.
It could be done, but it would take a good measure of planning, and would have to be done very late at night / early morning at a remote Kingdom Hall that's not in the middle of town. Also a hall that Dubs don't live near. Really there are quite a lot of variables to pulling off something like this. Its possible, but again the planning and timing would have to be impeccable.
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Update on family reunion and other things
by dawg inok, it's been awhile and i thought i'd tell you guys what happened about the family reunion situation.
to rehash... i wrote a letter telling all the jw's in my family that i wasn't going to take any crap off them anymore, that i would embarass their dumba#* if they treated me badly in anyway at funerals and reunions and the like.
i told them i was going to bring information about the idiot jw's to every family event and i was going to get in their faces if they chose to treat me badly cause i refuse to follow the fools at the wtbts.
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Dawg, nice to see you back around these parts. I'd been wondering how your activity was going, good on you, for taking a stand and seeing some results. Next time I'm in Georgia visiting my family, I'd love to meet up with you.
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Exciting announcements at service meeting
by truthseeker inwe've already had a post on this, but there were other interesting comments.. the brother giving the announcements said that there would be a new understanding of jesus' reference to the generation as discussed at the annual meeting.. an elder giving a service meeting part review of different watchtower articles from the current year brought out the new light concerning 1935.. he asks: "when is the sealing of the anounted ones?".
elder answers: "there is no specific date".
later after the meeting, i asked an elder if the new understanding of the remnant now meant that younger people could go to heaven.. he answered with an affirmative "yes" and that we would be getting the new understanding of the generation jesus spoke of in a future 2008 watchtower.. .
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bluesbreaker59
Boy it would be nice if they actually seriously thought about these changes, BUT SADLY, many will not. They will just "lap it up", and soon the Borg, will paint the picture that really it was the R&F that were wrong. Soon all of the earlier annointed teachings will be gone, just like Dust in the Wind. I also expect, many of the date teachings to be done away with that way, this "dog and pony show" can go on forever.
I miss my family, but I know, they will just eat this stuff up, they always have, I mean how dare you question the Governing Body's direction on matters. My father is so intelligent, it really bothers me that he doesn't use his brain on this. My two aunts are easily fooled, and well grandma isn't going anywhere because she's too old, and dedicated her whole life to being a JW. Some of my distant family has been "simplifying" their life, and selling assets and businesses to pioneer, etc., so I know they aren't going anywhere.
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The lost generation
by noni1974 indo any of you find it weird that a lot of the ex jw's here and at other sites are in there 30's??.
it's like the jw's have lost a whole generation..
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bluesbreaker59
I started doubting in my early teens, then the change in 1995 happened when I was 14, that pretty much sealed my fate, once I thought about that. I started fading at 21, then came back at 24, and finally DF'd at 25 1/2. While I was at college I read many things about "da troof", the Dateline about child abuse came out then, and I was shocked, especially the 1975 ordeal. I confirmed that there was a 2 witness rule with my elder father and elder grandpa, and that's what made me start my initial fade at 21. I came back because some brothers that were old friends of my family showed some interest in helping me out and having me over, eventually they invited me to go to their hall. Well my (now ex) wife, wouldn't go along, so I went alone. I later found out about her affair at work, that had been going on for quite a while, but she refused to tell the elders. I then saw "the love" of the elders, when they yelled at me in the back room about "leaving my wife on unscriptural grounds", they kept telling me over and over again, to return to her and make our marriage work. Then when I'd leave the committee, I'd drive by her boyfriend's place and her car was there. Many times I invited the elders to go with me, and time and time again, they refused. They told me I would never be scripturally free, because "she was doing nothing wrong", "I filed for an unscriptural divorce, because I didn't wait on Jehovah". I got so tired of that BS, plus all the many doctrinal changes, I decided late in 2006 that I no longer wanted to be a witness, so I started fading again, because I wanted no part of that organization anymore. Then in early 2007, I got busted for having a girlfriend. Ever since I've been reading and researching alot of things in the organization's dark past.