Posts by sparrowdown

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Shunning: Extreme apathy!

by StephaneLaliberte in

i thought i'd share this one with the group.

many years ago, my mom was disfellowshipped.

then, my sister passed away in a car accident, she was fairly young, as she was in her early 20s.

I would like to thank the Lord I am OK

by Sour Grapes in

i saw this on facebook: "i would like to thank the lord i am ok. had a serious fall yesterday from my garage landing to the cement floor and landed on my back.

i suffered a closed head wound, severe cervical sprain, 2 broken ribs and multiple contusions on hand and arm and shoulder.

could have been a lot worse.".

sparrowdown

Religious narcissism at it's worst.

"God saved me, helped me, told me, noticed me, excused me, rewarded me, protected me, me me me..."

God, save us from your narcissistic people.

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Sexual Depredation as a function of male society by men of a Certain Age

by TerryWalstrom in

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i would like to remind those folks younger than i that it was very few years ago when almost the entire planet earth was run by and for the benefit of men.women have throughout history been the property of men.due to religious restrictions, teachings, and fundamentalist doctrines, women in the largest societies on earth right now (muslim, chinese, n.korean) have almost no human rights at all.next year, in june, women will, for the 1st time, be allowed in arabia to drive---but--only if they are 30 years old or older, and for only a few hours per day!the old testament laws (read through them sometime) are horrifying reflective of prejudice toward gender, bodily cleanliness, guilt-tripping, and anonymity.

(what was noah's wife's name?

lot's wife?

sparrowdown

True those old movies are a shocker but white male domination in movies?

I imagine in black, brown and Asian countires there is black, brown and Asian male domination not just in movies but in everyday life far worse than what we have ever seen in white western movies. Muslim women in western countries still experience this it's just that it's under the radar.

This doesn't excuse any colour of brutish behavior cause human rights are too important and must be passed on to the next gen.

Thanks for the reminder Terry.

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Woman threw Watchtower in my face so I voted yes to Australian gay marriage.

by Witness 007 in

years ago on one of my last witnessing trips i left two magazines with an intelligent looking woman with a lovely house.

she gave my a donation and we carried on.

after 45 minutes she tracked us down at another house and returned the mags to me saying we "hate homosexuals and are preaching hatred..." she looked very upset and i was shocked by this and because someone actually bothered to read the magazines i just left!

sparrowdown

She must have been intelligent to have figured out that JWs are a Religion of Hate - in record time too.

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Why "fancy dress" and "theme weddings" were BANNED by our Congregation!

by Witness 007 in

our kingdom hall was in a boring town of 30,000 people so to spice things up me and some special pioneers living with us decided to have a fancy dress up party!

what could go wrong?

nice clean fun, and no booze (oh crap!).

sparrowdown

What about dressing up as zombies oh wait they already are, anyway like the ones on The Walking Dead and say you're the resurrected.

"I see dead people." That's scriptural right?

19

Look what I got for five bucks...

by Nosferatu in

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i think i've found the one true religion!.

.

sparrowdown

Well, thanks to Ray Franz and the internet the mystery is finished now - it's a bloody cult!

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Things I Cant Stand Since Leaving Watchtower

by pale.emperor in

what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.

now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.

little kids in suits.

sparrowdown

Things I can't stand since leaving WT.

Phoney fake people.

Talking with JWs (see above.)

18

The Ever-Changing Song Book

by Cimarrona in

the songs in the old brown song book were way better than these new ones.

had they not changed the songs, i may never have left (halfway joking).

they gave no feeling, no soul (but of course there's no such thing as soul or whatever)!

sparrowdown

The next song book will be Sing Praises to The Faithful Slave.

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''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth FULL STOP''- Matthew 24:14. JW ORG

by ThomasCovenant in

hi.

only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.

sparrowdown

Message to WT:

Just give it up already WT. Your stinking cult recruitment program will not be "preached" in all the earth, inhabited or otherwise. And btw the idea of preaching in uninhabited parts of the earth always was and is just plain stupid.

But, the "entire earth" was never gonna happen, even with your fancy new website and cult propaganda broadcasting studios.

So just drop, change, tweek and hide all your end-times prophecy scriptures and move on.

In the words of Mrs Doyle from father Ted go on, go on, go on, you know you want to.

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Strip off the old personality

by eyeuse2badub in

yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.

their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.

so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.

sparrowdown

The only difference with a non-soul-sucking-cult "road to Damascus" type moment is you get to keep your own soul oops I mean "personality."