I bet the society Cash in on this adverse publicity ver quickly...oh look they have already!
Posts by Gizmo
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22Danish Police Shoot KH Teddy Bear
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/sc2363725
danish police shoot teddy at jehovah's witness hall.
copenhagen, jan 23 (reuters) - a danish bomb squad shot to pieces a teddy bear left on the doorstep of a jehovah's witness hall on thursday evening with a note saying it contained a bomb, police said.. a group of jehovah's witnesses on their way into a meeting had found the cuddly toy with a note reading: "if you touch me i will blow up.
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I am moving but where to?
by Aztec inmy sister told me the other day that at the end of june a friend of her's is moving to detroit and i will need to move out.
i was hurt at first but i understand why now.
she loves children but she has very little patience for them.
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Gizmo
You could always move to NY, oppisite Brooklyn HQ of JWs, that way when Armageddon comes, er...soon, you know could be anytime now, you could quickly duck into the HQ, and wait till it's all over, seeing they will be safe.
After that, sneak away, and live anywhere you want FREE!
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I"ve got room at my place cutey...
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Elders will be here in 10 minutes...pray for me
by Jacqueline inelders will be doing a shepharding call in 10 minutes...why we have not attended meetings in so long.
i want nothing to do with the organization anymore....pray for me that i can keep my strength against them!
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Gizmo
Our father who art in Heaven Harold be thy name
The Elders Come their will be done?
On earth as it isn't in Heaven.
Give us tonight your strength and might
To fight for the right to be alright
To drive these men from incessant "New Light"
To Give them real hope and leave well enough alone
And Please Oh please
Just Piss off Home!
AMMMMMMMEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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A BIG VICTORY!!!!!--help she is trying..part 7
by Jesika insorry it has taken this long to get to updating you all.
i have been celebrating our victory!!!
let me explain......................... .
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Gizmo
We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets,
We shall fight in the hills;
We shall never surrender,Way to Go Jesika!
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Do we come here to "convince" ourselves?
by bittersweet in.
ok...so the other day my husband(he is still an active witness) starts questioning me about why i come to x-jw sites.. he said the reason people come to these types of sites,is to convince themselves that they made the right decision to leave the"truth".i told him i come here to get support from others who feel they were tricked into believing something that wasn't true.he knows i feel my life has been taken away from me because i wasted so many years following their doctrines.i told him it helps me to know i am not alone in my feelings.he is still convinced that people are afraid they are wrong,and just come here to keep finding reasons to stay away from the "truth".he doesn't understand that we know what the real truth is.. i was just curious what everyone else thought about this.do you feel we are "convincing" ourselves that we made the right decision to leave?
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Gizmo
To be absolutely Honest, I found this site by pure accident. I have been out of the (b)org now physically, for around 3 years maybe. That was the last time I attended any meetings.
One Sunday morning around the beginning of December 2002, I flicked the TV to a current affairs program called strangely enough "Sunday" here in OZ.
They were reviewing some of the cover stories they had up through the year before the end of the season, the story immediately caught my attention cos the words "Jehovah's Witnesses" were uttered, plus an elder I had known well was featured in this story!
Well the story was about Silent_Witnesses as it wasn't the full story being presented, cos they were only reviewing the years stories, I decided to go online and see if The "Sunday" program had a transcript of the full story.
I managed to find their website, and the story, and what I read not only disgusted me, but, made me want to find out more.
Yes, believe it or not I was totally oblivious of these types of goings on in the society, I didn't watch current affairs TV much or read newspapers, most stories kinda depressed me, and after leaving the (b)org I decided to keep my life as simple as possible.
So, as I surfed the net looking for more stories on JW's, I stumbled across this site, decided to have a look, and thought it was a bit of fun initially until I realised, the helpful information I could obtain, plus, I am very much a loner type person now, and this is the only place where I seem to have anything in common with others. Other Forums or chatrooms just don't hold much interest for me. Our past experiences with the (b)org still links us somehow, someway.
I don't try to convince anyone that the (b)org isn't the "Truth", it is up to each individual to decide that for themselves, I had enough of trying to convince people of anything while in the (b)org.
Although this is not my life here, I must admit it becomes somewhat addictive, but as I said it's mainly that we all have a common link to the past, as we all believed we had a common worldwide brotherhood while on the inside!
I certainly do not need to keep convincing myself the (b)org is not for me by coming here, to need that kind of reassurance from a site like this would only indicate I was a weak minded type person, that can easily be manipulated, to believe anything. My personal decision to leave the (b)org was well thought out.
Here are some more links to the Sunday Program
Gizmo
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Purple Passion!
by RubyTuesday inwhat floats your boat...revs your engine....lights your fire..(did i forget any?).
whats are the things that just makes you completely forget your problems?
mine is...photography, snow skiing and painting.edited by - rubytuesday on 15 december 2002 13:27:35.
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Gizmo
XW,
That Plate is awesome, excellent colours
Animal,
That beard is looking cool dude, soon you'll look like Dusty Hill ....Rock On ZZ
Oh...er ...I guess computers and some Graphic work gets me mellow. This place doesn't do a bad job either!
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Gizmo
Edited by - Gizmo on 23 January 2003 2:26:54
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flash of light thread
by zev inat the school on thursdays and or tuesday, we were discouraged from using word wiskers.
well ever done a search on the wt cd on the word "flash"?
want to see word wiskers?
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Gizmo
*** km 5/93 6 Benefit Fully From the 1993 "Divine Teaching" District Convention *** Moving about unnecessarily, carrying on conversations, or using flash cameras or video recorders in a way that distracts those trying to concentrate
*** yb73 185 *** BROTHER BROWN RETURNS
In closing this part of the history let us flash back to the Palladium Cinema Hall at , where a convention of 800 brothers is ending on .
*** wi 6 The Bible-Inspired by God? *** the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
*** g75 11/8 10 Hinduism-Can It Meet Your Spiritual Needs? *** Knowledge of this strange oneness with God, however, is not attainable by normal intellectual processes. Instead, it comes by an ecstatic flash of certitude in the midst of deep meditation,
*** w74 7/15 427 "When You See Jerusalem Surrounded by Encamped Armies" *** Yet though they had the faces of women they had the hands of murderers; they approached with mincing steps, then in a flash became fighting-men, and drawing their swords from under their dyed cloaks ran every passer-by through.
*** w67 5/1 271 You Are Invited to Come Again *** This flash of light came at a meeting, which calls to mind the proverb: By iron, iron itself is sharpened. So one man sharpens the face of another. (Prov. 27:17) This underscores the importance of meetings.
hehehehehe I like this game let's do another word
Edited by - Gizmo on 22 January 2003 7:16:33
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What Does THIS Remind You Of?
by Prisca in.
i found it in an online real estate site:.
warning: this pic may produce trigger reactions..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
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Gizmo
Sorry,
That doesn't look anything like my x KH Prisca, we had a quick build dual hall, kinda nice hall actually, the library seperated the 2 from each other, and you could go from 1 to the other, after a meeting. Not that I wanted to. LOL
Plenty of windows ceiling to floor one side, running from the door to the stage area, high up louvres near the ceiling the other side, also had theatre type seating and air conditioning.
Oh ours had a little caretakers cottage too. .
Most of the bro/sis in that hall were well off, so I guess they could build it that way? Don't know obviously the society approved the plans.
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Your LAST door
by RAYZORBLADE injust curious.
would anyone like to share, if they feel like it, their memory of the last door they ever knocked on?
i was with about 3 or 4 other people, all sisters.
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Gizmo
Wow Rayzor what a great story.
I can't remeber my last or my first door, first door cos I was probably 5 at the time, last door cos obviously nothing exciting happened. Wish I did take note of it though, except I couldn't have known at the time it was going to be my last door. So, who knows, but I do know I let go of a few Bible studies, just like that...and heaps of return visits....hehehehe wonder what they thought when I never showed up again.
Oh well, who cares prolly saved them and their kids from a lifetime of misery eh?
Good Post Canuck