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  An Interview With An Admin at JWZone

  by SYN in

  1. social
  2. humour

  admin: hi syn!

  admin: does the red pill contain blood?

  syn: now, now, mr. admin.

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  PurpleV

  ROFL

  even though we make them wear dishcloths in the presence of male babies

  Priceless!
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  Are there any real reasons to go on living?

  by Robdar in

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  2. medical

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  i would be interested in hearing a few.

  for the life of me (pun intended) i can't think of any good ones.. robyn

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  PurpleV

  ROBDAR

  I have a must-read book for you. It helped change my life. It's about learning how to deal with changes.

  "Who Moved My Cheese," by Spencer Johnson, MD

  I'd be happy to send it to you if you want.
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  Ray Franz.....LIAR?

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my witness family members agreed to take a look at crisis of conscience, and after.

  perusing the first couple of chapters, said that she thought it could be all made up.

  agreed that the documents presented could be legitimate, but as far as franz's personal.

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  PurpleV

  For those who have "seen the kitchen" they know how filthy the resteraunt really is.

  Some people really, really do not want to see the kitchen!
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  Ray Franz.....LIAR?

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my witness family members agreed to take a look at crisis of conscience, and after.

  perusing the first couple of chapters, said that she thought it could be all made up.

  agreed that the documents presented could be legitimate, but as far as franz's personal.

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  PurpleV

  Ask her if all that stuff Ray wrote was false, why hasn't the Society sued him for libel or slander?
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  Letter Read Last Night

  by Intuit39 in

  1. social
  2. current

  hey bro, i just thought it may interest you to know that they read a letter last night describing how they need to build a new printing facility up at patterson that will be the size of two assembly halls.

  they will be getting all new printing machines to be shipped from all over the world, and they will need many volunteers for the project to be completed by january 2004. and we should all realize that this is going to be at a tremendous cost, the buildings alone should cost about 60,000,000 dollars.

  please start praying about what we can do, yada, yada, yada.

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  PurpleV

  Does WTS pay property taxes in Brooklyn? They'd have to be astronomically high. On the other hand, they have prime real-estate there. If they totally vacated brooklyn and sold their properties, they'd make more then enough money to pay for new facilties in Patterson.

  They pay 0 taxes. The City of NY would probably get out of its current fiscal nightmare if the WTS packed up and sold the buildings... the tax revenue alone might reopen some firehouses closed recently.

  They would get a mind-boggling fortune if they sell. They would have enough money after selling their PRIMO Brooklyn waterfront properties to hire lots more lawyers to protect pedohpiles expand the World Wide Work(TM).

  LEAVE!! Good riddance. PLEASE sell the buildings to tax-paying companies.

  PurpleV of the Get Them Out of NYC Please Class
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  Just victims of media ?

  by A Paduan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an article (from another thread) on the adventist history of jwism, and pondered these couple of sentences.

  "....distributing the society's literature from house to house.

  by 1927 this door-to-door literature distribution had become an essential activity required of all members.

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  PurpleV

  My grandmother was one of those early people. My mother also recalled going door-to-door with windup phonographs to play records of Rutherford's rantings.

  perpetrate a cultural shift in thought

  Absolutely... my grandma was dirt poor but when she "joined" she felt part of something important. Not much has changed.

  (((ALBATROSS))) It gets better... welcome.... sounds like you might have some survivor's guilt. Try not to feel that way... people make their own decisions. You were brainwashed, nothing to be ashamed of. We all were.
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  My Becoming a JW

  by Juliana in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was raised non-religious.

  i don't call myself an atheist as such because i don't like to label anyone, but i don't actually believe in god (though i am christian in background, and several branches of family family are roman catholic).

  my fiance knows this.

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  PurpleV

  Ditto what everyone else said.

  PLEASE keep us posted, we care about you!
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  update on jw grand parents trying to steal my babies

  by larrynbabies in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well today was a very trying day in court.

  megans parents have completely snowballed the guardian ad lietem.

  he did state however that he had not had the opportunity to talk to all parties involved and that his descision to recomend megans parents could be changed by the testimony over the next couple of days.

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  Oh Larry....my heart goes out to you and your kids...

  Of course the parent's snowballed the guardian. They are masters of lying Theocratic Warfare. They will do anything to get custody, keep that in mind. ANYthing.

  Tell your lawyer to play up the shunning thing... if your kids decide to "leave" the JWs eventually, they will be shunned... play off the shunning testimony already given... what kind of environment is that to leave them in, if they leave the religion they were raised in they will wind up shunned by their grandparents who raised them, AND alienated from their blood father???

  ALSO you should emphasize the blood transfusion issue... there is plenty of evidence about children ripping IV lines out and elders harassing people at the hospital... I am sure many people here can direct you to resources for that...

  Your children's grandparents would let them die rather than have a transfusion.

  Keep on fighting. You can win. You have to be as devious determined as they are.

  Thanks for keeping us posted... I keep looking for new information about what's happening.

  Hugs, V

  Edited because I am of the Punctuation Challenged Class
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  Are there any real reasons to go on living?

  by Robdar in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

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  i would be interested in hearing a few.

  for the life of me (pun intended) i can't think of any good ones.. robyn

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  PurpleV

  ((((Robdar))))

  Reasons for living:

  Chocolate

  Puppy kisses

  Not having to go to the meeting anymore

  Sunday morning in bed with the newspaper and gourmet coffee

  People who love you

  People you love

  Chocolate

  A tropical vacation

  A long massage, followed by a facial

  Hot fudge sundae

  Champagne

  Chocolate

  Orchids

  Roller coasters

  Kittens

  Chocolate
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  Last night I asked about getting reinstated...

  by Gadget in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after the meeting last night italked to some of the elders in the car park, and asked what more i neede to do to get reinstated.

  they commended me on the things i've been doing (?

  ), and said the main point for reinstating would be how much contact i've been having with my fiance, who's still a wittness.

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  PurpleV

  I wouldn't lie about it, personally. To me, that means they're controlling you too, in that you are forced to lie* to avoid the repercussions that they determine upon you

  This is absolutely true, however, JWs feel no compunction about lying theocratic warfare when necessary. If it will spare the fiance from the pain of DFing and losing her family, I think a little lying untheocratic warfare is justified.