Posts by sparrowdown

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Just Bumped Into My JW Sister And Brother In Town

by pale.emperor in

so im walking through town today on my lunchbreak and spot the unmistakable walk of my younger brother.

this is the one who left watchtower... well it turns out he's returned to the vomit after stupidly turning up to the 2017 convention and a few elders filling his head with seeing our dead dad in paradise and to "wait on jehovah".. a few meters behind him was my sister.

she spotted me first, then hurried up her step to my brother.

sparrowdown

If it makes you feel any better if a convicted murderer or bank robber accepted a bible study and turned up at the meeting they would be all over that!

Oh we're all sooooo bad, as Austin Powers would say beehave!

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Current week long Elders school. Outlines / talks?

by stuckinarut2 in

so in my part of the world, they are currently holding the week long elders schools.

my father is attending one.

does anyone (hello wifi bandit?

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I'm sure some good person will spill the beans on their special school before too long.

My guess would be "Elders: why they should be loved, obeyed, confessed to and treated special."

12

Self Intro

by Cimarrona in

i've done a good deal of posting in my brief 24 hours here so far, figured i might as well provide a slightly more in depth narrative.

second generation born-in.

elder's daughter and elders' granddaughter.

sparrowdown

Welcome.

Yeah, I enjoyed writing the tiny plays for the TMS also, and I wasn't too shabby at it even if I do say so myself.

Heaven forbid a women talk to the congregation directly lol!

Enjoy your time here.

Sparrow

21

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.

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A religion of heartless bastards.

12

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.

10

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!

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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!).