Posts by sparrowdown

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Unbelievable! Is this even allowed? Two elders from my hall RANDOMLY stopped by my apartment!

by macys in

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ok wow.

i am really really pissed.

i had to really hold back and bite my tongue.

sparrowdown

Dropping in unannounced and claiming "they were just passing by" is one of JWs favourite weapons.

Catch you in an unguarded moment, have you at a disadvantage etc. I view these drop in visits as a kind of spiritual litmus test designed to gauge how hospitable and receptive you will be to them, so they can measure that all important spiritual "health." I hate them too, so intrusive and rude. Like the secret police turning up at the door.

Though, if you are trying to be reinstated it's not completely unexpected, that they would call in.

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Caitlyn Jenner has cognitive Dissonance

by sherrie11 in

i have just finished watching the latest episode of i am cait!

lol yes i watch it!!!

they were discussing politics.

sparrowdown

Wasn't the whole "this board is the hatiest board on the internet" thing done about a month ago?

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Judgment handed down by Court of Appeal in legal challenge to Charity Commission inquiry opened in 2014

by OrphanCrow in

this is good news.

the wt have lost in their attempt to stop the uk charity commission's inquiry into their affairs.

however, the wt is still digging in their heels about turning documents over to the charity commission.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/court-of-appeal-gives-judgment-in-court-case-by-jehovahs-witness-charityjudgment handed down by court of appeal in legal challenge to charity commission inquiry opened in 2014.today, the court of appeal handed down its judgment regarding the commission’s statutory inquiry, opened in 2014, into the watch tower bible and tract society of britain (the leading jehovah’s witness charity in the uk).

sparrowdown

God I would so like to WT's charity status challenged everywhere, how the hell did they ever qualify?

They do squat for the community, are anti-education, anti-family, anti-choice, anti-voting, hell, just about anti-everything!

Yet Joe and Jane Taxpayer subsidizes it all, while WT does snow-angels in it's money!

Bring it on UK Charities Commish - investigate the hell out of them.

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What song explains what you have gone through in life?

by brandnew in

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this is mine....watch "coolio ft. l.v - gangsta's paradise (official music video)" on youtubehttps://youtu.be/cpgbzylnz7c

sparrowdown

BTW - shut up brandnew, I happen to like that song by Foreigner so sue me! (only joking, nobody get their knickers in a knot!)

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Making friends in the "truth"

by Jordandemm in

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what is it about making friends in the organisation am i the only one who had found it tough?

don't get me wrong there was some good people but unfortunately there was also a lot of egotism, back stabbing, jealousy and gossiping.

i could never really fit in any group, everytime i thought i had found a group it was as if i would be sidelined or ditched.

sparrowdown

They are horrible people. I don't why people say they're soooo nice.

Yeah, if you find fake, back-stabbing, gossip mongers to be "nice."

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What song explains what you have gone through in life?

by brandnew in

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friends

this is mine....watch "coolio ft. l.v - gangsta's paradise (official music video)" on youtubehttps://youtu.be/cpgbzylnz7c

sparrowdown

Yup, so many great songs especially the ones that were off-limits as a JW.

For eg I love dancing to the song When A Fire Starts to Burn by Disclosure but I would never have admitted to that as dub. Devil music!!!!

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What song explains what you have gone through in life?

by brandnew in

jw
friends

this is mine....watch "coolio ft. l.v - gangsta's paradise (official music video)" on youtubehttps://youtu.be/cpgbzylnz7c

sparrowdown

Depends what mood I'm in and what period of my life I'm reflecting upon.

Some days when I think back on my WT rebellion songs like Firestarter by Prodigy are appropriate.

Other days if I'm feeling vulnerable and introspective I will grab a glass of wine and sing along at the top of my lungs to a few oldies but a goodies like I Want To Know What love Is by Foreigner .

There is no one song for me I love and can relate to so many.

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Making friends in the "truth"

by Jordandemm in

jw
friends

what is it about making friends in the organisation am i the only one who had found it tough?

don't get me wrong there was some good people but unfortunately there was also a lot of egotism, back stabbing, jealousy and gossiping.

i could never really fit in any group, everytime i thought i had found a group it was as if i would be sidelined or ditched.

sparrowdown

Not possible to be friends with a JW - not in the true sense of the word.

It wasn't until I accepted the truth of that statement did it stop bothering me.

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Lady drives car into Kingdom Hall

by Sugar Shane in

right smack into (what looks like) the front entry!.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-13/78yo-female-driver-crash-jehovahs-witnesses-church/7243268.

this was in australia, but the khs i've seen (in the us) are designed so that you'd have to almost intentionally want to ram a building to cause this kind of damage.

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On a side note, I always found it interesting that to be a useful dub "carrying his own load" you really needed to drive and own a reliable car to be able to get yourself out in FS and to the meetings. The ones that didn't were treated like a pain in the arse.

Such a Christian attitude.

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Our COBE(Coordinator Of Body of Elders) Cried at the Kingdom Hall

by James Jack in

it was announced recently, that "bro.

z is no long the coordinator(76 years old), bro y(60) is now the new coordinator of the body of elders".. you see, bro.

z has been an elder for 43 years and 35 of them as the cobe/po.

sparrowdown

Thie borg has been moving toward the worship of youth and beauty since the magazine photography became more sophisticated. Of course that's understandable if you are trying to attract and retain the young, but there is a callous rejection of anyone that is deemed no longer useful that is harsher than so-called "worldly" standards.

No way is there a "place for all" in God's organization and the criteria for being considered useful is getting narrower and narrower.