article about joining ymca

by jennybear 41 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • StAnn
    StAnn

    Cameo, not every venue in this nation has to be atheist-friendly. It's a private club you join. If you don't like the "C" in YMCA, don't join.

    And the Boy Scouts don't "discriminate" against atheists/gays. They simply have a specific purpose, which they've had from the beginning, and they don't wish to assimilate modern societal values. Again, it's a private group. Don't like it, don't join.

    Around here, most hotels/motels with indoor pools sell memberships to use the pool. The Y is rarely the only game in town.

    Suggestion: have a pool installed in your backyard and start up a club for your kids, called "Atheist Scouts of the World" and make them sign a paper saying they DON'T believe in a higher power. That's your right. And then dare anyone to say you're discriminating, because you're not: you're merely serving a specific market.

    It's like saying that an Italian restaurant is "discriminating" against Asians because it doesn't serve egg rolls.

    Lighten up.

    StAnn

  • orangefatcat
    orangefatcat

    Like everything else in the WATERTOWER SOCIETY they were ADVOCATE's of the UN as they had to take a PLEDGE of ALIGENCE to the USA. and nothing will ever convince they didn't know what they were doing. They knew big time and it would have continued had not some one blown the whistle on them., and so why make it an issue and tell witnesses it was wrong to go to the Y. Why I have no cotton picking idea. It was so stupid their reasoning. Lets face it they fornicated with the image of the wild beast, Satan's so called visible organization on earth riding the beast and was also committing harlotry, Oh heck how evil is the YMCA?

    I mean considering their own stance on accepting moneys from the Philip Morse Tabbacco Comp. and letting people die and covering up pedophilia, I think joining the Y is prefectly acceptable. Don't you? I use to go to the Y when I lived in Montreal and I never told anyone I was going to the Y pool either I mean the worse they could do was what disfellowship me, hey then I would have been out eons ago. Why didn't I tell everyone I use to go? Hummm hind sight 20/20 . If I had have left back then I wouldn't have gone through all those years of misery, but hey maybe it wasn't time. I believe there are reasons for everything in life so maybe something was going on in the universe and I wasn't yet aware of it. But hey I am out now and looking forward to entering into the priesthood. I will be a pleasure to serve God and my fellow humankind to learn of the Grace of God and of eternal Salvation through Christ our Lord. It has nothing to do with the WTS.

    After the Olympics the swimming pool was available to anyone wishing to swim so I started going their, wow what an amazing pool. Huge and deep and high diving everything you love to do when your an avid lover of the water like me. My friends all call me fish. I still am trying to figure out how I got the name orangefatcat. Both names I love.

    Joining the Y as far I was concerned was my own business and I don't think it was anyone elses affair.

    Orangefatcat the rebel en garde ye Watchtower. Ye days are limitedpuss and boots

    Just try and ignore Orangefatcato, he is in one of his more dramatic playful moods and you just have to humour him. He gladly will sit and have his photo taken with you for FREE. So ignore the Kat , there is just no living with him.when he starts acting out or as I say acting like a Ham.

    Really Orange I do love you but a little less acting would be nice. You crazy ham. or cat rather. But I still love ya.

  • orangefatcat
  • White Dove
    White Dove

    I am a member of the Y, never signed any religiously discriminatory paper, nor ever gotten kicked out for wearing my Wiccan jewelry. All faiths or no faiths are welcomed there. I'm in Delaware, "Greenland."

  • orangefatcat
    orangefatcat

    the same was true in Quebec, nothing to do with any thing religious at all.

    no papers to sign. nothing nada.

    orangefatcat

  • Scarred for life
    Scarred for life

    I have been associated with 3 "Ys" throughout my adulthood. I have never seen one that required any proof or declaration of Christianity. They're just community centers for recreation, fitness and classes.

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    I will not compromise my integrity to sign such a thing. I am not a member of any church and I do not "believe" in their "god". So I will continue to wear a wet shirt on hot summer days and just get fat cause I got nowhere to swim.

    The phrases, "pick your battles," and "cutting off your nose to spite your face" come to mind.

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d
    I will not compromise my integrity to sign such a thing. I am not a member of any church and I do not "believe" in their "god". So I will continue to wear a wet shirt on hot summer days and just get fat cause I got nowhere to swim.

    The phrases, "pick your battles," and "cutting off your nose to spite your face" come to mind.

    All right, Bizzy Bee. You asked for it.

    Consider this. It's the day after Armageddon! Watchtower is running the show. In with the New System ----out with the Old!

    All the retailers have gotton together and formed a Giant Sam's Club. The only way you can buy groceries or new shoes is to sign a membership form that says "I believe Watchtower is God's only organization on this earth and is God's sole mouthpiece and I will uphold all doctrines of the WT."

    Would you sign it?

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    Jay-zus! It's a swimming pool, not the Spanish Inquisition. Chill.

    I have six Ys as clients. They couldn't be nicer, less threatening or more tolerant. Even of crazy people.

  • StAnn
    StAnn

    Cameo, for the last time, the "Y" is a private club you have to join. It's not the only game in town. Your WT analogy doesn't fit, because the "Y" isn't a necessity of life nor does it have a monopoly on swimming pools. Just find another pool. For pity's sake, give it up.

    As I mentioned previously, around here you can buy a pass to use the pools at hotels/motels. Also, the local university has a recreational sports center with olympic pools and you can buy a membership to it.

    Find someplace else to swim. Or just put on your sneakers and go for a walk, which is free.

    StAnn

Share this

Google+
Pinterest
Reddit