Thank you all for your honest responses.
Leaving the borg is bloody hard some days, so much so that occasionally
I wonder if going back and lying to everyone is a reasonable compromise.
Crazy talk I know.
sparrowdown
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Double-life, sounds like a prison sentence....or maybe not?
by sparrowdown inquestion: do you think the "double-lifers" have the best of both worlds?.
just asking, because i have wondered, if i had an outlet to express my utter.
disgust and general dissatisfaction with wt teachings and cong-life while i. was still in, ie on forums etc, maybe i would never have left.. just a thought, anyone else have any?.
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Double-life, sounds like a prison sentence....or maybe not?
by sparrowdown inquestion: do you think the "double-lifers" have the best of both worlds?.
just asking, because i have wondered, if i had an outlet to express my utter.
disgust and general dissatisfaction with wt teachings and cong-life while i. was still in, ie on forums etc, maybe i would never have left.. just a thought, anyone else have any?.
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sparrowdown
Question: Do you think the "double-lifers" have the best of both worlds?
Just asking, because I have wondered, if I had an outlet to express my utter
disgust and general dissatisfaction with WT teachings and cong-life while I
was still in, ie on forums etc, maybe I would never have left.
Just a thought, anyone else have any?
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Bill Cosby - too much smoke for no fire?
by Simon init seems like the list of people who are accusing him of rape and sexual assault is growing every day.
i'm skeptical of single accusations but the number of people and the similar stories seem overwhelming now.. it's not a conviction but to the court of public opinion ... guilty?.
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sparrowdown
Yes, the drug knownas spanish fly was supposedly an aphrodisiac.
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The Awake Faithful and Discreet Slave July 15, 1960 WT
by berrygerry ingreat stuff.. .
overwhelming credentials.
25 does the faithful and discreet slave class have any more credentials?
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sparrowdown
My credentials are bigger than your credentials- or so say the FDS.
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How and why?
by snare&racket inonce upon a time, there was a world in flux, undergoing change and diversity at an imperceptible pace.
only with hindsight was it possible to catalogue the various paths being born that led to a word and humanity so very different one hundred years later than compared to any time in the homo sapiens past.. technology, warfare, the universe, the discovery of atoms... born in stars, all things forced upon the fragile minds of mortals in a short period of time.. these overwhelming changes led to the birth of many things, including comforts and hopes that were far to readily available to grasp ahold of.
as the founders of these comforts could not themselves grasp the world they found the self in, they sought the worlds they knew, the past, 4000 years in the past......the technicalities and truths were to be ironed out at another time, a time never reached.. some had no choice in the matter, the grasping was done by their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents.....when the time came for personal analysis, not only had they inherited comfort but great, great fears.
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sparrowdown
If you make an agreement based on a lie, is it reasonable to renig on that agreement, once you discover it is a lie?
Abso-bloody-lutely it is. Give up on the lie people and step off into the rest of your life.
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So its the Elders School this Weekend.......
by Slidin Fast inwhat is the focus for this one.
is it "well lads ring the legal department but if anything goes wrong, you are on your own.
the cs deals with all that".
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sparrowdown
How to enforce GB rules in the congregation.
How to be an asshole basically.
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IS THIS SICK? LYING TO DISABLED CHILDREN!!
by Bloody Hotdogs! inhas anyone watched the videos for children on jw.org?
i feel sick.. in one video a little girl dreams about paradise: the blind can see again, the deaf can hear again, and of course, she gets to hug a cute little panda cub.
not until the end of the video is her wheelchair revealed.
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sparrowdown
How is this not "Sunday School" for kids?
I remember JWs bragging for years we didn't need a seperate lesson just for kids.
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Went to a non-Witness memorial service
by CaptainSchmideo inthis was a service at a southern baptist church for the father of a teacher at my son's school.
we had developed a friendship with her over the past few years, and i had met her father, knew about his terminal illness, and i wanted to pay my respects.. i have to tell you, it was a better show than the average jw "ceremony".first, lots of personal tributes about the man they were memorializing.
uplifting stories, funny stories, serious stories, describing a real life individual that many in that room knew and were going to dearly miss.. lots of singing!
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sparrowdown
It is interesting to experience the way different groups of people celebrate someones life when they pass,
as you say not the dry, unappetizing infomercial we hear at the hall. I attended several different groups
before becoming a witness so I already knew how bland the JW services were in comparison.
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A picture of a WT dream
by Sour Grapes inpeople stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
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sparrowdown
I thought it said wet dream.
Though that pic may induce a wet dream in somebody with a panda fetish.
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How did you feel when you got baptised? Seriously....
by stuckinarut2 inso recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
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sparrowdown
I felt on display.
There were quite a few pervy bro's looking forward to seeing me in a wet t-shirt.
How do I know?--a girl just knows.