I remember the Australia branch sent a bro to law school so they could be all lawyered up.
Fittingly (if I remember correctly) his name was Bro Toole, very unfortunate name for a lawyer I always thought.
What goes through any lawyer's mind;
"how can I spin this to get my client off the hook" more than likely.
seriously, endured a torturous conversation with an active jdub yesterday.
and he was frothing at the mouth about how "muslims are doing the right thing with .
executing the....." he then went on to list everyone from drugdealers to thieves to fornicators.. he said "countries where this sort of thing is happening have got it right!
"we are all in this fight together" ????
What "fight" would that be?
I have heard of spiritual warfare but fight? really?
What an idiot, he obviously forgot the first rule of sprirtual fight club- don't talk about spiritual fight club.
it amazes me how much thinking one does when you're out of the cult.
i mean another thread got me thinking about the story of jesus death.
so adam breaks a little test lives for 900 plus years and then dies of natural causes.
Ahh sometimes me just sits and sometimes me sits and thinks.
Yep, I like thinking.
I had forgotten how much I missed it.
Feeling is good too.
recently, we drove by the kingdom hall in galena, il, the sign was removed and it was closed down.
a while back, the hall in taylor mo was also closed.
one congregation in peoria, il was dissolved last year.
I have been eagerly awaiting news of a merge of the congs in our area for some time.
We have three separate small and getting smaller congs meeting within twenty minutes drive of each other.
Not if, but when. There will be plenty of turf wars when that happens.
i could find another thread so i thought i might add a few comments here - not a full critique though.
"hear jehovah's voice wherever you are".
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140815/hear-jehovahs-voice/.
Bongos for Jehovah.
Congas for Jehovah.
Who the hell cares, this religion is all about the fun!
ok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.
she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.
he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.
What did they do with the fingers?
Put them in a jar for show-and-tell-time at the assembly.
Puleeze, give me a break.
seriously, endured a torturous conversation with an active jdub yesterday.
and he was frothing at the mouth about how "muslims are doing the right thing with .
executing the....." he then went on to list everyone from drugdealers to thieves to fornicators.. he said "countries where this sort of thing is happening have got it right!
True dat!
And don't forget one of the biggest threats to hetrosexuality the scurge of "homo-loving tight pants".
i think that many of them were saints.
some were bitches and others seemed like they hated their status.
many wives were very good examples and were more "qualified" than their elder husbands.. .
Just as the cult personality does strange things to elders it can do strange things to wives aswell.
No one can live by these twerps rules and come off unscathed and unaffected in one way or another.
The org treats all women like second class citizens who are only allowed to be a supportive role
to "greatness", and that causes all sorts of passive aggressive behavior amongst the women.
Even if they never show that side of themselves to the men in their lives.
the majority have good jobs,drive newer vehicles,have nice homes,go on vacations.all in all they have the smarts.. however,rwhen it comes to their religion,they are dummer than a sack of hammers.they drive around in circles to get two hours of service time.they can't differentiate what the fds/gb say is from jehovah god,when in reality it is the stuff that comes out of a horses ass.what the horse eats(as it were food at the proper time from the gb) comes out of the horse as manure(shit sounds better) as a loving provision from jehovah.. .
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What's to understand, there is no imperative on religion to make sense.
That is probably one of the lesser known commandments;
"You shalt not make sense, lest you get called out on thou bull shit"
seriously, endured a torturous conversation with an active jdub yesterday.
and he was frothing at the mouth about how "muslims are doing the right thing with .
executing the....." he then went on to list everyone from drugdealers to thieves to fornicators.. he said "countries where this sort of thing is happening have got it right!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot he also said "Syria was a civilized country",
and "the Koran was not that much different from the Bible, after all"
Most JWs from western countries that have no real experience with
the atrocities that go on in the name of religion, if came face to face
with an angry mob and witnessed an actual execution of one person
(let alone billions), would literally $hit themselves and cry for their mommies.
That's the reality.
