The danger is about the same as if they a screwed up the bunghole by someone with HIV without a condom.
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so... i'm writing because i have mixed feelings.
keeping my kids safe is my goal... until they are old enough to understand and reason on their own.
my mother gave me the tapes (that i gave her back in december) of combating mind control by steven hassan, saying that she didn't have a tape player... reminded me of three years ago when i gave her crisis of conscience by ray franz and she said it's to big book to read and she's not a reader.
The danger is about the same as if they a screwed up the bunghole by someone with HIV without a condom.
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although i was exposed to the jw's as a child as the only religion i knew, i was not a jw until i got out of the navy as a conscientious objector.
so i was typical "worldly" when i hit 18 out of high school and i got to see the world before personal catastrophy involving heavy drinking made me turn to the lies that i thought were "the truth.
" so just over 30 years ago, i got the special privilege of serving as the original crew of a brand new ship with a crew slightly over 200. i served 5 years on the "uss worldly" and then left to become a jw.. when you are the first crew, you learn together how to use that ship, how to run things smoothly.
Well said; and I am glad you got the chance to reconnect with old friends. I am happy that you have moved on.
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i am not hot linking to jw borg, but they have a whole section for obviously very small children (become j's friend, with a whole array of caleb-related stuff).
i have actually never visited the site, today was the first time, because i wanted to check a technical information about their websites architecture and came across this sh*t!.
the way they are targeting small kids is nauseating me (i have a 5 year old, still in with her mother).
I am waiting for the King David/Bathsheeba cutouts!
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and did you always seem to get caught?.
my daughter told me that all her teenage friends used to smoke tobacco, pot, do drugs, get drunk and "misbehave" with other kids all the time..
I remember my last assembly, I hung out with a friend after the lunch break, and we hung out at a pool hall for the rest of the afternoon. It was the best afternoon session I never attended.
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about 5 minutes ago i get an article emailed to me from my mother telling me that i need to find a way to get back to jehovah and his saving arm... she read an article in a reputable newspaper that all the friends are using to show that its not just jehovahs witnesses who see religion about to get attacked by the u.n.. it concludes with a link to the article and her desire for me to please read it in light of my recent situation.. .
here is the article http://www.examiner.com/article/is-the-un-preparing-to-attack-religion.
the writer bill underwood is a jehovah's witness.
Bro. Underwood is a fucking, moronic stooge. He is so unbiased; my ass! He is sucking on Brooklyn's teet.
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P.S. to Tech49, I just wanted to take some of the heat with my rant, I have your back!
[warning: this post contains spoilers!].
i've been reading hawthorne's the scarlet letter.
it is really quite an interesting read for us ex- and soon-to-be-ex-jws, especially if you or a loved one has ever been dealt with judicially by the elders.. i love the way hawthorne portrays the main characters:.
Au contraire, TD.
The "A" stands for apostate.
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so if you are still an attender, how many use their tablets or ipads during the mtg for 'non theocratic' purposes?.
i often log on here, and post during the mtg (if no one is sitting behind me that would notice).
You are not the first, and you will not be the last.
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how sad is it that one of the only eight links, on earth, to the creator of the universe thinks an endorsement by one and two year olds is a sign that jehovah has blessed the sparlock video?.
exerpts from anthony morris explaining the new sparlock animated video as downloaded to youtube by cedars.
] and as it would end shed gesture,..again.
Ah yes, those were such tasteful videos about masturbation. (if you lick your fingers afterwards) Thank you Jehovah! (gag)
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sign up deadline is the 31st, in a couple of days.
if you have problems with the website and youve been there before, try cleaning out your cookies and cache, then restart your computer.
that worked for me.
EoM,
I agree with you in principle; but the repercussions of putting all of those people out of work would have an immediate hit on economic growth, and the GOP would make the Dems pay. I truly think eventually it will morph into a single payer system, but they had to start somewhere. And it was not worth "falling on the sword" to get it through, and wipe out the progress that has been achieved.
Obama, like him or not; is a shrewd politician. It has to come in phases.
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sign up deadline is the 31st, in a couple of days.
if you have problems with the website and youve been there before, try cleaning out your cookies and cache, then restart your computer.
that worked for me.
Insurance companies are the antichrist. But the economy would suffer a tremendous hit if all the greedy insurance agents and companies were suddenly out of work.
It is a Catch-22.
Single payer would be better.
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