Posts by mind blown

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-21/features/ct-prj-0421-letty-cottin-pogrebin-how-friend-sick-20130421_1_printers-row-journal-activist-sick-friend.

q: one of the first hurdles is knowing what to say and what notto say when a friend is first diagnosed, when the friend gets bad news, or when the illness goes on for months or even years.

give us the three most essential of your "10 commandments for conversing with a sick friend.".

I have a good friend who's recently had a mastectomy and now under going chemo. I've really had to choose my words carefully. Like when she told me she was scared..instead of saying "I know how you feel"......I said.... "I can only imagine" .......it really takes conscious effort....

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HA! Take that Watchtower! One less Borg for you!!!!!

by Gojira_101 in

jw
friends

last week a friend of mine contacted me out of the blue asking if we could have lunch together.

my friend has been studing with the jw's on and off for about 11-12 years i think.

she has told me everytime i see her that she can't wait for jehovah to end this evil world...she can't wait for the new system...the end is so close....etc.. i sent her a message back telling her that i left the jw's and asked her if she had heard that.

mind blown

Wow...CONGRATS sweetie!! Let's hope it's smooth sailing the rest of the way for your friend. I was hoping you'd do a follow up post! Well done

Also BIG THANKS for posting the info on God's name. I was going to ask if you could share that info after I read your op, and lookie there......it's posted...I'll have to read it later eve......

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Mouthy Grace is not well. Please send love.

by return of parakeet in

jw
friends

in another thread, mouthy said she was "not well" and mentioned "kicking the bucket.

i believe she needs some encouragement and well wishes.. mouthy, you don't need to respond to this thread if you don't feel up to it.

just consider it an exceptionally long get-well card..

mind blown

Is there anyone that can check in on her?? Or contact her to make sure she doesn't need anything??

Sending MAJOR LOVE GANNY GRACE

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Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - "Certificate of Incorporation" and "Memorandum of Association"

by jwleaks in

jw leaks has just published the 21 page "certificate of incorporation" (and application) for watch tower bible and tract society of britian, as well as a copy of their 13 page "memorandum of association".. www.jwleaks.org/britain.

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mind blown

........I think it has a lot more to do with WTS investment interests then anything. A lot of major investing advantages for WTS in England.

http://www.investmentinternational.com/magazine/international-tax/a-comparison-of-the-uk-and-the-us-tax-treatment-of-investments-2907.html

Uk Hedge Fund Conference 2011/ WTS Listed:

.http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Product/13793/Forthcoming-Events/InvestHedge-Forum-2011.html?ElementId=9679

Uk Hedge Fund Conference 2012/ WTs Listed:

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Product/15516/Forthcoming-Events/InvestHedge-Forum-2012.html

2013 not listed yet.

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did any of you jW read orwells 1984 or Animal Farm

by nonjwspouse in

read them while you werre still active and didn't know ttatt yet?.

i am wonderiing about your thoughts, and did you read, recognise, anything that disturbed you, familiariaties.

did you notice them?.

mind blown

I have it on DVD......

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How much do you pay for your internet service?

by JH in

jw
friends

a few years ago, i had dial up internet with netrover, and cost about 18$ a month, unlimited use.

but it was slow.. then i had videotron here in quebec, low speed internet (cable) for about 29$ a month which was about 3 to 4 times faster than dial up.

now i upgraded it to high speed for about 45$ a month plus tax of course.

mind blown

ATT DSL $25.00

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Cleveland kidnapper's mom is a JW

by just Ron in

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/castro-brothers-spend-night-jail-article-1.1338131.

down near the bottom of this article, a neighbor of ariel castro's mother reveals that dear old mom is a dub.

bet this won't become a part on a assembly..

mind blown

Jezzzzzz......another one?!

Have you read about this? Crazy huh

http://njnnetwork.com/2009/09/sex-offender-philip-garrido-used-jehovahs-witness-to-get-early-parole/

Sex offender Garrido used Jehovah’s Witness to get early parole

Lenient parole system and Jehovah’s Witnesses helped Garrido get back on the streets after 10 years of 50 year sentence

Philip Garrido as photographed by El Dorado County, Calif. Sheriff's office, and taken Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 after his arrest for the abduction and 18 year sexual abuse of an 11 year old girl

Story from San Francisco Chronicle, updated with James A. Beckford reference

Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy are under arrest for the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, then 11 years old, on June 11, 1991. Garrido was a convicted sex offender for past three decades who had been in an out of jail. Nancy was a devout Jehovah’s Witness who converted Garrido to the religious sect prior to 1978.

Jaycee Lee Dugard at 11 photo: Childquest

1991 was 18 years ago and the couple held the child and sexually abused her. Philip Garrido fathered two children by the abducted Dugard.

The Garrido’s kept Dugard and her children locked up in a backyard compound in Antioch California, east of San Francisco. They used the girl, along with being their sex slave, to handle telemarketing forprinting business related to religious brochures the Garrido’s were promoting.

In 1993 Philip Garrido was returned to prison on a parole violation. In 1999 he was released from another parole violation. During that time it was his wife Nancy Garrdo who held the Dugard child captive.

Mrs Garrido’s role has stunned America, leading to speculation about her motives, her relationship with her husband and her own mental state. Little has been made public about her early life but it is believed that she was a Jehovah’s Witness when she met Garrido during a visit to her uncle in a prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. TimesOnline.uk

Garrido house from the air showing ramshackle compound where Dugard and her two children were held photo: AP

Conversion to Jehovah’s Witness

Nancy met Garrido in 1977 when he was in prison on a rape conviction. The 1970s rape and violent abduction had sent Garrido to Leavenworth on what should have been a virtual life sentence of 50 years.

Nancy, slightly younger than Garrido and a devout Jehovah’s Witness, was visiting her uncle in prison according to the Times Online.

The fact that they married behind bars in 1988, and he was released shortly afterwards, proves how valuable she was. She gave him what seemed like a family life, and, by implication, proved that he would not offend again. Daily Mail

Philip Garrido was using his newfound JW faith as early as 1978 to obtain his release.

When Garrido subsequently appealed his sentence, however, his lawyer said he was getting help in prison and had become a Jehovah’s Witness. In a handwritten letter to a judge in March 1978, Garrido said he was ready for a chance to “get my life in line.” “I am so ashamed of my past. But my future is now in controle (sic),” he wrote. SF Gate

For the 11 years after Nancy and Garrido met while he was in jail, she corresponded with him. She converted him to the Jehovah’s Witness faith which would have required the approval of the local JW congregation. It is highly unlikely the Witnesses will confirm his conversion although Garrido claims to be converted.

It was the marriage and conversion that Garrido used to convince the parole board that he would not re-offend.

Nancy Garrido is facing more charges than her husband for the abduction and systematic abused suffered by Jaycee Lee Dugard photo: Mail Online

Jehovah’s Witnesses take pride in converting the down-and-out, drug addicts, people down on their luck.

In his study The Trumpet of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah’s Witnesses Sex offender Garrido used Jehovahs Witness to get early parole photo sociologist James A. Beckford *(1) theorized that people with low social attachment are more likely to accept the other-world view of a religious cult like the Witnesses. Beckford, who writes on religion and teaches at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, found in his 1975 book that the most likely converts to the Jehovahs Witness cult are females in their mid-20′s who are dislocated from society due to a move away from their home location or through multiple child births in close succession.

Similar studies of the members of the Jim Jones cult who committed suicide in the 1970′s showed adherents were poor, dispossessed and looking for a new world order that Jones promised to deliver.

Garrido apparently strayed from Jehovahs Witnesses to form his own religious cult. In 2007, he began blogging under various titles. One blog”The Truth Will Set You Free” is eerily familiar to the insider dialogue of Jehovah’s Witnesses. To those inside the JW sect, the code word for Jehovah’s Witness is “The Truth”. Members use that bible quotation to define themselves as being “in the Truth”, “strong in the Truth” and defectors conversely as “weak in the Truth.”

It was the religious fanaticism that caught Philip and Nancy Garrido. They were spotted handing out religious pamphlets at UCLA Berkeley by police. Under questioning, the police became suspicious of the parolee and sex-offender accompanied by children.

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My Final Goodbye

by Lady Lee in

i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.

i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.

i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.