kenpodragon
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Quick, someone call the elders
by kenpodragon inone thing i remember when i was a witnesses, was the lack of responsibility we had to take for our own actions.
if we said something and someone took it wrong and we were attacked for it.
well we would call the elders and they would work it out and people would have to accept their council.
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JW's have trouble letting go
by jurs insomething i have observed since i've left the org is that people who were raised in the org and have lots of family in , aren't able to really act like a grown up.
its more like a teenager sort of thing.
i've read where adults won't openly celebrate holidays because of fear of being shunned by parents.
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Catch a wave and your sitting on top of the world
by kenpodragon inlast fall my wife was in a friends wedding.
my wife was helping out a lot, and thus we spent a lot of time at the bride's house.
he said, "well i thought it did and i wanted to tell her.
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question about free speech and ex-witnesses
by ballistic ina while ago, there was some yacking about free speech on this web site.... i was thinking how despite recent events, it's amazing that a group of people with such different reasons for leaving their past behind, now with differing religious views and feelings on life and the world, men and women, young and old, people from different nations having much more contact than they ever did in the org, can actually form such a close community.. some people say, their goal is not to bring the org down but to see molesters disfellowshipped and brought to justice.
can i then put it this way.... some people are hoping and praying (rightfully) that the org does to these sickos what was once done to many of us.
(note the strange irony of those wicked people un-challenged and those summarilly dismissed).. does that mean that on a free-speech web site, the perverts would then be allowed to join, post and air their views, if not take over the forum when numbers reach the proportion that could be expected?.
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Kenpodragon a question?!
by mindsweeper incould you answer me this one question?, (i trust you will see this message) ~ .
on beyondjehovahswitnesses.com, did you pose as "snoozy", write a few posts to which you signed her name and have to apologize to tim?.
i just wondered what sort of person you really are.. you may not choose to answer this question, (for obvious reasons).. by the way, you are not a bad writer, a tad "flowery" in my opinion and you're not exactly nietzshce, but it obviously keeps you busy.
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"TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS"
by kenpodragon ini rewrote this for all of us witness children who wanted santa to come visit us, yet had to accept that is was all just some evil pagan mess.
yeah right!!!
like we didn't want christmas.. "twas the night before christmas".
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Update from Ray Franz
by Amazing inlast night, after my post regarding ray franz comments of bill bowen's posted statements, i received a good number of email and phone calls.
one item consistently surfaced regarding ray's assignment to write the chapter in the book, organization for kingdom preaching and disciple-making, by the title of safeguarding the cleanness of the congregation.
in the chapter, the "two witness" rule was outlined.
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I don't often initiate posts. Instead ...
by JWinSF in... i'm usually one who responds to topics that interest me.
yesterday, i wanted to respond to certain posts, but needed to step back and wait until things became more clear to me.
i didn't use an attention grabbing subject line for this post [e.g., something referring to raymond franz, bill bowen, silentlambs] since my purpose was basically to express my feelings, whether or not anyone wanted to read them or respond to them.. i watched with bewilderment the recent accusations flung against raymond franz and the comments made by some supporting the accusations both here and on the yahoogroups email list.
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Did we take nothing good from the JW's?
by kenpodragon inrecently on another location online, someone told me my thoughts sound like something from a watchtower or awake.
they said, i come off in the same manner and use illustrations to speak.
it was also mentioned that i come off as an elder at times, and sound very authoritarian in my manner.
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The Problem Around Here is
by out4good3 inthat some people seem to think they are the authority on everything and feel like they should always get the last word.
i try not to get involved in the flaming that goes on around here by checking my ego at the door and thats not the reason for this post anyway, but it's my experience that all of, without exception, jw are like this.
the perceived arrogance that they alone are in possession of the only truth seems to compell them to keep an argument going even when they are clearly on the losing side so that they can be sure to get the last word in.