Big Tex

Joined

• started 127 topics
• posted 10,216 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Big Tex

• 
  43

  reasons to live

  by SPAZnik in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  whut are yours?.

  .

  anyone, anyone?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  To break the cycle of incest in my family. My dad did it to me because his father did it to him, and his father before him and on and on. I want to break out and prove to my family and myself it can be done. A family can exist without raping the children.
• 
  14

  why do the jw ?

  by heathen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why do the jw lock their publications in cabinets ?i noticed on my visits to the local cong.

  that they are so anal about their publications in the congregations that they have locks on their cabinets where they keep the magazines and bibles .

  i can't help but wonder if they are worried about the publishers helping themselves .well ,i'm open to any explainations.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  Yeah, I was going to say it might just be a local congregation thing. When I was literature servant, we would shut the cabinet doors, but they were never locked (I don't even think they had locks on them). The only problem we would have is the pioneers advancing themselves literature and forgetting to tell us.
• 
  17

  Requiem

  by wasasister in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tomorrow, mozart's requiem mass will be performed in every time zone around the world.

  it's being called the "rolling requiem" and the idea originated in seattle.

  most, if not all, performances are free of charge.. although this piece of music was written with the latin words of a ritual roman catholic death mass, the music is transcendent of religion.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  Hey Farkel,

  I've heard theories that Mozart's death was at the hands of the Freemasons. As the story goes supposedly the Masons were angry at Mozart for revealing certain Masonic secrets in _____ (ack! Alzheimer's has struck; can't remember the opera). Do you put any stock in those theories? Or do you think he died young because of a full throttle lifestyle? Just wondering . . . .
• 
  14

  remembering 9/11

  by teejay in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sometime today--i don't remember exactly when--it dawned on me that tomorrow is 9/11.

  when the revelation hit me, i damned near cried on the spot.

  a fuckin 44 yearold, cynical, hardass black bastard like me!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  I didn't get angry and I didn't get sad, I just went numb.

  Yeah, that's kinda how I felt. I was in a daze and everything felt unreal as if my mind just wasn't accepting what I was seeing. I work at night and normally wake up around 10 a.m., but that morning, for some reason, I woke up a few minutes before 8 a.m. and I was immediately wide awake. I turned the TV on just a few seconds before the second plane hit. I get goosebumps just remembering how I felt when I saw it.

  That was the most bizarre day of my life.
• 
  43

  DID YOU EVER LEARN anything because you were a JW?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was there ever anything positive from being a witness?

  could you say that because you were a witness at least......or was it all negative?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  I learned to have the courage to stand up for what I believe in. All those years in school, going up to each new teacher and telling them the holidays I couldn't participate in and the pledge of allegiance (I was told I couldn't stand up, so I didn't) every morning was tough but I learned that what I believe is more important than other people's opinions of me. That skill proved very useful when I stood up to the Witnesses later in life. I found out that it's what you have inside that matters, everything else is just for show.
• 
  15

  DFing the newly Reinstated? Yes !

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my other thread an excellent question was asked: what i wonder is: can they disfellowship me for stopping the attendance immediately after my reinstatement?

  what could they do, apart from being a terrible nuisance?.

  some ex-jw choose to get reinstated so that they can have some certain family ties, and then just function with a low profile and then fade away ... but officially stay a jw for family sake.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  You can be DF'd for anything, all it takes is the will to do so. If a body of elders,or even a few of them, want you out, then they'll come up with a reason and DF you.
• 
  22

  Shunned & I don't seem to care. Can u relate?

  by joeshmoe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's a concern... i've been shunned by my family for going on 3 months... and so what?

  is it wrong that i don't seem to miss them?

  i know that this can be painful for many and i wonder why it doesn't seem to bother me?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  I don't consider the Witnesses to be good association so I shun them.
• 
  37

  PROOF at Last: WT. POLLUTES - $50,000.00 fine

  by JWrobot in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  since watchtower attempted to "ruin the earth" they were required to post $25,000.00 bond in their cleanup effort.

  if watchtower continues to comply with the law of the land, $20,000.00 of the $50,000.00 fine is suspended.

  your personal copy of this is available under (foil) freedom of information law from: .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  I think there's a reason why his account was deleted.
• 
  8

  Wild Turkey----Come out Come out wherever you are!

  by xenawarrior in

  1. social
  2. physical

  opening game: .

  cowboys: 10 houston : 19 .

  cowboys lose!!!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  The state of Cowboy mourning will continue until further notice. We should all pray to the football gods that Chad Hutchinson is all that and a bag of chips . . . .
• 
  31

  What power would you want???

  by LB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  imagine you can have some form of super power.

  just one.

  what would it be??

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Big Tex

  The ability to read minds.