Posts by sparrowdown

* Do I Iive in a theocratic "hotel" where all my meals, laundry, housekeeping and utilities are provided for free and completely paid for by contributions?

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feeling of hopelessness and fear

by 060702015 in

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do you have feelings of hopelessness and fear for not having a religion?.

do you envy happy jehovah witnesses and living their lives carefree?.

sparrowdown

No, I don't experience fear or hopelessness from not having a religion.

I experienced fear and hopelessness from having a religion.

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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

by WingCommander in

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anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

sparrowdown

I like an ice cold Pure Blonde. Really nice refeshing beer.

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Done.....done done done....

by dubstepped in

my wife and i just found out that our disassociation was announced last night.

we....are...free!.

i'd like to take a moment to thank some people:.

sparrowdown

You both are an inspiration and thankyou for the front row seat with updates.

It has given me the courage to seriously consider my own disassociation.

Time to rip off the bandaid.

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A Balanced View of Money. Sept Awake.

by ToesUp in

how do you view money?.

a self-examination might alert you to the need to acquire a balanced view of money.

for example, ask yourself the following questions.. am i attracted to get-rich-quick schemes?.

sparrowdown

They left out

* Does my pinky ring and gold watch blind people when I am giving talks?

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August Study WT "Prepare Now to be a Good Little Drone in the New Order"

by JW_Rogue in

i thought paradise was supposed to be a delight?

not according to the august study wt, on page 20 paragraphs 4-12 it outlines how much paradise will be exactly like being in the org today.

still following rules, waiting on jehovah and obeying those taking the lead.

sparrowdown

Ahhh yes.....

The para para paradise.... with nuclear families petting pandas as far as the eye can see.

Guys in Hawaiian shirts playing the ukulele.

Women with Farrah Faucet-Majors hair and a come-hither look in their eyes as they stroke a panther.

Little girls in frilly dresses and boys in short pants and check shirts playing upon the hole of a cobra.

Nothing wrong with the American dream baby.

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Wt contradiction

by poopie in

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7/15/2010 wt says"in more recent times opposers of true worship similarly used the threat of isolation in an effort to put fear in the hearts of true christians.

sounds a lot like shunning.

sparrowdown

2010 is sooo old light.

The 2015 new light states that opposers of true worship will now use the threat of lawsuit in order to strike fear into the bank accounts of true pedophile protectors.

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Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

by wifibandit in

per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

report).

sparrowdown

If they made such a list in my area there would be twice as many on the inactive list as there are going to meetings.

If they are stupid enough to think there would only be a handful they need to think again, where I live there are literally more of us than there are of them.

The task of documenting them for a file would be a mammoth undertaking, that most elders have not got the time or inclination for. I can see a lot of publisher cards going missing and collective elder body amnesia occurring.