Posts by Room 215

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New Trend in Dramas?

by breakfast of champions in

so it used to be that all dramas were ot.

period, that was it.. then they started incorporating a "modern day" application of the ot drama where actors in the present day reflected on the story.. then they started using some highly fictionalized nt characters in dramas (never jesus of course).

in the past few years we've been getting more "modern dramas", just about people in the present dealing with their "problems".

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"It opens with us seeing Sister Loving, who died in the arms of her dear husband, Brother Loving, who promised he would stay faithful to Jehovah so they could be reunited in the New World. But Sister Loving awakes in the resurrection to find Brother Loving arm in arm with Sister Dress-Slutty, the young single flirtatious bitch all the nice sisters hated in theCongregation. And look there! they have a new little son, Jr Loving. Junior is 10 years old. Oh my, Sister loving comes to realize that she has been dead less than 11 years. Brother Loving must not have waited long to spread his loving around.

Real life drama in Paradise. This could be fun entertainment. "

Great suggestion, DOC!!, Now THAT is what I call a drama!!

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Up-skirt voyeur pervert is a Jehovah's Witness

by RayPublisher in

this jw guy put a camera in his bookbag and went around snapping pics... sick.. .

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8799082/up-skirt-voyeur-a-jehovah-witness.

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Remarkable that the perp is unnamed in the article..... I mean, who are they protecting?

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The Governing Body scenario is nearly identical to that in 1977 - no power

by Dogpatch in

the watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.

the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.

the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.

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Randy, you're in an iconoclastic frame of mind!

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exJW Psychology 102--How to Ask a Question When Questions Aren't Allowed

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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now that enough time has passed and i've moved away, i think i'm overdue to share some of the stories from my fade.

i've mentioned some of this before, but i think it deserves its own thread.. we all would like to be able to freely ask questions about jw beliefs and get our family and friends to really think about certain questions.

however, when you're a baptized jw, you really can't ask any good questions or you'll get the "apostate" label slapped on you!

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Good going, Billy; I tried a variation of your tactic when the Manchester Guardian published that item on the UN NGO question; brought it up before a post-bookstudy coffee-and-cookies session at my house. Two elders were present; lots of stammering before they trotted out the conjecture that the reporter "might well be an apostate."

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At what point in the story did WT get it wrong, went off at a tangent?

by prologos in

looking at the bible narrative now, with open mind, the talking snake and all, it is a poorly contrived story.

all these clever people picking up and adding to the thread, the fabric its intriguing, certainly a valued literary work.

fiction.. using this story wt has woven another, parallel account that you would expect to harmonize with it, and hopefully attempt to connect with reality.. in your thinking, where did wt become unhinged, drifted off into total detachment?.

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At what point did any religion ever "have it right?"

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At what point in the story did WT get it wrong, went off at a tangent?

by prologos in

looking at the bible narrative now, with open mind, the talking snake and all, it is a poorly contrived story.

all these clever people picking up and adding to the thread, the fabric its intriguing, certainly a valued literary work.

fiction.. using this story wt has woven another, parallel account that you would expect to harmonize with it, and hopefully attempt to connect with reality.. in your thinking, where did wt become unhinged, drifted off into total detachment?.

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I think the reactioonary, destructive 1980 Franz-Dunlap "witch hunt" and expulsion of several other progressive liberal minds set them on a downward course, a tailspin subsequently accelerated by the emergence of the internet.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 06-09-2013 WT Study (READ BIBLE)

by blondie in

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comments you will not hear at the 06-09-2013 wt study (april 15, 2013, pages 7-11)(read bible).

4. what does it mean to read the bible in an undertone?.

1:6) how, then, are we to understand jesus words about this generation?

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"made up of a small group of anointed brothers who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food during Christ’s presence "

By saying "directly involved," are they suggesting that some on the GB actually write the articles and other printed matter? A highly dubious premise.

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What problem did being a JW leave with your personality?

by frogonmytoe in

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and i don't (necessarily) mean a religious or spiritual one.. for example, i think the traces of guilt and paranoia i often fight with come from being a born-in, but my biggest issue by far is not being able to live in the moment.. i have listened to the power of now audiobook (and eckhart tolle's voice put me to sleep) so i read it instead.

i have read other self-help books, most of them buddhist in leaning, but i still find it hard to stop thinking only in the future (thanks to the great trib, armageddon), or in the past (jesus, flood, 1914 being responsible for that).

and whilst i no longer believe the big a is looming, and barely give anything else a second thought, my behaviour has projected itself, and i still find it difficult just to 'be' in the moment, enjoying and savouring what i'm doing, and doing it to the best of my ability, i'm forever thinking what is coming up, and what i did badly last time.. my sister said the last time i visited her that she felt like she was waiting for something to happen "but not like armageddon, something else".

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In my post -JW life, developing tolerance of diversity in cultures and attitudes, sensitivity to other people's needs, a social conscience, charitable impulses

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Brothers who were held back from being elder for stupid reasons?

by toto555 in

do you know of any cases where brothers didn't get to be elder for a stupid/bogus reason even though they otherwise qualified?

do you think some/most appointments are politicially motivated?

how much do you think politics plays in the appointment process versus merit?

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If anyone were "turned down" from being an elder, they were done an immense favor.

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Anthony Morris The 3rd Talks About Human Hot Dogs At Armageddon, There Will Be No Picnic For Survivors

by frankiespeakin in

watch out for armageddon it is going to be numbing to human sensibilities:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micq4iqrklm.

i guess he's thinkin jehovah's gonna roast them like a hot dogs burned to a charred ruination over a fire.

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I believe in a previous threat on this nut-job it was pointed out he served his Viet Nam tenure mainly on a posh military compound complete with barbershop, commissary, etc. Kinda reminds me of the Circuit Overseer involved in the Menlo Park (CA) Kingdom Hall fiasco who falsely claimed he was a Navy Seal.