Posts by sparrowdown

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Jesus Christ Sniper Star (Parody of Convention Video)

by Jehalapeno in

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otpfxz4k49k.

What Should I Say?

by cookiemaster in

i need a bit of advice.

i've been pimo for a long time and fading more and more.

i occasionally attend for family but never give any answers or actively participate in any way.

sparrowdown

I think they only get spooked by your behavior if you act cranky and sullen, if you remain happy enough or neutral that seems to delay concern for a while.

My advice would be to just hold your ground politey confident. Non-aceptance of invitations with a "thankyou for the offer maybe next time" seems to work and in the end they seem to stop asking.

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jw dad invited me to the KingHall next Sunday!

by JunkYardDog in

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i said i'll go, just bring me the wt study for next week.

i'll study and test it.

and every time there is a lie, i'll stand up speak up and expose the lie in the wt study.

Not knowing you or your father, the fact that he asked what material you would use is actually, I think a good question and a good sign, shows he's interested on some level. Or, maybe, he's just humouring you.

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Sometimes it's the little things....

by dubstepped in

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i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

the elder called it hyper-bowl.

soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

sparrowdown

I remember the WT reader pronouncing simony as sy - mon - ee and everyone else including the WT conductor folowed suit even though he had been pronouncing it simony up til that point.

Yes groupthink, consensus trance and parroting stock responses is one of the most frustrating things about being part of a group that insists everyone think and speak the same, and dare I incur the wrath of the intolerant by saying we even suffer from here sometimes.

ps Our elder was Macedonian and pronounced hyperbole "hyper-balls"!!!

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CO asked for everyone 20 years old & younger for a group photo

by LevelThePlayingField in

there was a co visit in ohio a couple weeks ago.

when he was finishing up his sunday talk he said that he would like if "all the children that are from this congregation, not if you're just visiting, but from this congregation to come on up on the stage right after the meeting because i want to get a picture of you.".

i thought to myself, why?

sparrowdown

Oh I forgot to say there was a sub CO that gathered the youvs for a photo after the sunday meeting.

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Foetus baptism

by Fay Dehr in

foetus baptism - surely coming to a watchtower study article soon?

jw parents are reminded of 2 ti.3:14,14 "from infancy you have known the holy writings".

and the watchtower explains the greek word bre'phos "infancy" as follows: "...it is generally used of an unborn child.

sparrowdown

Infancy = unborn child wtf ?

All I can imagine is some Hamdmaid's Tale style ceremony that involves reading scriptures to baby bumps and a bath ??

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Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

by minimus in

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i don’t get it.

who really cares?

in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

sparrowdown

Royal wedding- God I even have trouble saying it.

RW free zone for me coz it's all a bunch of BS fed to us by lamestream media plugging the global royal brand.

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CO asked for everyone 20 years old & younger for a group photo

by LevelThePlayingField in

there was a co visit in ohio a couple weeks ago.

when he was finishing up his sunday talk he said that he would like if "all the children that are from this congregation, not if you're just visiting, but from this congregation to come on up on the stage right after the meeting because i want to get a picture of you.".

i thought to myself, why?

sparrowdown

There was CO who asked all the kids to write a poem or drawing and place them on the platform so everyone could read them before and after the meeting. Sounds all well and good, right?

Well, come thursday night arrive at meeting to find people miling round the platform strewn with poems and drawings, then CO(L) Klink instructs the elders to remove the ones that were "inappropriate" - wait, whaaaaaaat!

The collection looked quite depleted after the Farenheit 451 squad completed the purge and after perousing them from what I could tell a couple of poor old Jesus on a "stake" drawings didn't make the final cut I'm afraid (lol) couldn't say what the other stuff was.

But seriously come ooooon what a dick thing to do.

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"We havent seen you in...

by zeb in

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warning, zeb is having a rant.. i have become so pissed off at jw i bump into who come out with "we have not seen you in ages" and with "we miss you.." my answer is the same "miss me?.

i still live in the same house.".

just recently one sister said she missed my comments and jokes.

sparrowdown

Don't ya love the way they all read off the same script.

JW: "We miss you."

Faded: "Well my number hasn't changed and I live at the same address?"

JW: " Gotta go great to see you."

They are scared to visit in case you trap them in an apostate conversation and give them apostate cooties from your apostate tea and apostate bickies while sitting in your apostate house.

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Nice thought for the day ...

by neat blue dog in

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just thought i'd share what i found in my fortune cookie.

(i know, fortune cookies are inviting demons, just like lucky charms cereal 😜) well actually it's more of a proverb, like most of them are nowadays:.

"as one grows to understand life less and less, one learns to live it more and more.".

sparrowdown

Rather like "Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom." Or some such thing, Socrates said it anyway.

So true tho, so true.