Topics Started by feenx
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Elders calling me in an hour
by bottleofwater inokay, if you haven't figured me out yet, read my past forum posts.. so the 2 elders wanted to meet up with me for the last time today to talk to me, but i told them that i want to talk on the phone and not in person as i can speak more freely and have less inhibitions.. they found out that i had committed acts of homosexuality with a few people and they still want to keep me in the congregation somehow.. i, myself, don't feel repentant over what i did and don't really regret much.
if i came across an opportunity to actually be in a relationship with someone and it were to appeal to me, i could potentially take that opportunity.. so now, i need to know what to tell them when they call me in an hour from now.
i want to be able to let them know that i don't mind being disfellowshipped and that i'm not repentant.
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Link(s) to PDF files of Yearbooks from the late 80's/early 90's? or to WTBS Library?
by feenx indoes anyone know where/how i could track down wtbs yearbooks from the late 80's?
i suppose that would be on the wt library right?
anyone have a source for that by chance?
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Disaster relief in the 80's
by feenx inhey everbody .
does anyone happen to remember any disaster relief efforts that the org.
was boasting about in the mid-late 80's.
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Reviews and Recommendations on reading materials (e.g. Combatting Cult Mind Control)
by feenx ini ordered combatting cult mind control, though have not read it yet.
i am hoping it will be helpful.. has anyone else read it?
does anyone have other books to recommend?
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Anyone Know the title...
by feenx inof a book that came out recently that was a woman's comedic memoir of growing up as a jw.
i remember the cover clearly, it was a picture of a little girl standing under an umbrella, with sun and green grass, and the umbrella was shielding her from armageddon with dark bldg's behind her and people running.
it was either last year or earlier this year that it came out.. any help is much appreciated .
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I must be in a devious mood....
by feenx inbecause it occured to me that it would be fantastic to mount a large email carpet bomb at ye ol wtbs.
(i actually did this once with a major corporation, and it worked) how fun would that be??
get a bunch of people and we all flood people's emails with whatever lovely tid bits of our love and admiration for their truly magical, some would say even delusional, organization of "truth.".
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Active and/or Witnesses in good standing with the congregation: What brings you here?
by feenx ina question was posed on another thread whether or not those of us on this board who are no longer a part of the organization should be mindful of our words on this board so as not to upset any active witnesses.
there are some, including myself, that feel there aren't really any active jw's on here.
those who are still in the organization that post here are usually looking to leave, or seeking opinions on how to handle fading away.. i would be very interested, with complete respect, hearing something from any active witness as to what draws them to this site.
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Should our posts keep visiting Jehovah's Witnesses from being upset?
by hamsterbait inon another thread, i just said that i refuse to pander to the cult sensibilities of visiting jws by wording my posts in a way that will not offend them.. i am convinced that any dyed in the wool jw, will be offended by any of the "apostate" content of this board, no matter how witness friendly the words and phrases actually used.. even now, i can see a jw being offended by the word "cult".. they are also no doubt offended by the suggestion that they have "sensibilities" rather than true beliefs that should be respected.. they are offended that i disagree with them and see the need to start a thread like this.. if it scares away a reniaa, it will save us endless wasted hours dealing with hijacked and derailed threads.. and, actually if a jw is offended by my way of dealing with the damage, it is a pity they can't respect my own feelings.. i am not in the business of saving people from themselves.
those who leave the wt organisation do so because they are ready to and are sick of it.
hb.
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Liberals, Atheists Just Plain Smarter - Religious Conservatives Really Just Paranoid Cavemen
by daniel-p inlet the flame wars begin!
liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to iq.
by elizabeth landau, cnnfebruary 26, 2010 5:03 p.m. est(cnn) -- political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.. evolutionary psychologist satoshi kanazawa at the the london school of economics and political science correlated data on these behaviors with iq from a large national u.s. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher iqs.
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Borg court: 2nd session
by sd-7 injudicial committee, round 2. i have to give it to the elders on this one.
they fought well, albeit with unrefined technique.
pure strength of authority apparently seems to make up for a lack of sufficient evidence, just as the 300-pound fellow who believed you were checking out his girlfriend can beat the tar out of you even though you were merely looking at the clock behind her on the wall.