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young brothers expelled from B/bethel in early 70s
by singsongboi ini am interested in the following incident(s)..... ........the witch-hunt at brooklyn bethel in the early seventies when dozens of bethel boys were disfellowshipped after learning of their midnight trysts in the sauna in brooklyn bethel...... if anyone can provide more detail i would be grateful!!!
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RABBIT-PROOF FENCE - Go & see it!!
by singsongboi inthe 'rabbit proof fence' is an australian movie that tells the story of some aboriginal children who escape from a camp established by evil white australians with the mentality of the biblical joshua.. it's just been released in the us.. if you want to understand australia and australians you should see this movie.
it tells a story that should deeply shame all modern australians, but sadly, many, maybe a majority, are not ashamed!!!!.
it was made by phillip noyce, who has also directed good movies like, patriot games, the bone collector, clear & present danger, the saint.. noyce & his male partner live in a funky old house at palm beach nsw, and their home & lifestyle was recently featured on national tv in an australian show called "burke's backyard.. hope this link to a site for the film works..... .
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was there anything good?
by singsongboi ini sometimes ask myself this question - i think i was 'there' for nearly 40 years and wonder at the waste.. what good came from it?
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did anyone really find some good in all of the things we did?
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It was NOT supposed to end like this.......
by singsongboi ina few weeks ago my former mother-in-law (gwenny james) died.
bowel cancer, so i suppose it was painful.
and my former wife (anita), has apparently taken it rather hard.. when i heard the news, i couldn't help remembering the days when we were new jws.
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Compare-the WTS & the Chinese Communists
by singsongboi ini have a long time interest in china -- and continual amazement at the similarities between the way the wts presents it's propaganda and the way theat the chinese communists do it....... last sunday, in beijing, a fire in an internet cafe killed 24 people - there was a swift response from the "leadership" -- all 2200 internet cafes in beijing were closed as a result.
just like politicians in the west, this was clearly a knee-jerk response by beijing leaders, as they tried to make sure that they could not be blamed for poor supervision of the growth of these places.. but the really interesting thing, is the way that the state owned media jumped on the bandwagon and the language they used..... .
"don't let the internet bars destroy kids" - headline in the people's daily.. .
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When A Whole Branch Went Wrong!! - Part 2
by singsongboi inwhen a whole branch went bad !
part 2. .
i cannot recall all the steps in the growth to commercialism in the australian branch.. but, i was told that things were well advanced in the use of volunteer labour for commercial work by the time that rutherford visited australia... when was that?
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savagery in christianity
by singsongboi inbeen reading some of john boswell's - "the kindness of strangers" , in which he re-constructs the laws and social attitudes, to "getting rid" of unwanted (live) children from roman times to medieval times... .
just wanted to share this story... "the story of the nun of watton".
maybe some of us will relate to the girl in the story..... a 4 y.o.
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disfellowshipping is a blessing in disguise!!!!
by singsongboi ini found this site by accident a couple of weeks ago -- i did not go looking for it, and felt no need for it..... reading the posts, was like entering an old house that i once lived in and was now abandoned -- the issues being discussed were like the furniture of the old house -- covered in dust and the crap of the ages.... but, as i stayed and read on and saw the pain that so many have, i started to think about the process that led us all here.. and my thoughts crystallised -- .
i thought that i 'had' a good life as a witness -- yes i saw many things that i could question, but i accepted that old consolation that is offered when you have doubts - just wait on the lord brother - he will make all things clear in time...!!!.
you know it's really strange that that expression is used so many times -- it leads me to think that so many must have doubts - even if unexpressed!
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how many gospels???
by singsongboi ini've known of the 4 "official: gospel accounts.... and, i know the gospel account by thomas,.
was just reading a synopsis of a course run by the wea** in sydney oz, called "on line - new images of jesus of nazareth", which says in part.... "his teaching was purely oral so we have to rely on the transmission of his words by others to achieve even an inkling of what he taught.
how reliable are the sources?
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intersexed individuals & jws.
by singsongboi ini'm looking for information & experiences that intersexed people may have had in the congregations of jws.. if u are not sure what an intersexed person is u could check out this site... http://hermaphrodite.arriba.net/ .
or if u pefer your text to be paper based rather than pixel, try the book ' hermaphrodites & the medical invention of sex', by alice domerut dreger (1998)... i seem to remember an australian transexual who had been male & a jw and who finished up in the uk.... wrote a book if i remember correctly!
possibly his/her first name was also ken.. would appreciate any information & experiences-- whether positive or negative