Posts by sparrowdown

only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.

Just give it up already WT. Your stinking cult recruitment program will not be "preached" in all the earth, inhabited or otherwise. And btw the idea of preaching in uninhabited parts of the earth always was and is just plain stupid.

But, the "entire earth" was never gonna happen, even with your fancy new website and cult propaganda broadcasting studios.

So just drop, change, tweek and hide all your end-times prophecy scriptures and move on.

In the words of Mrs Doyle from father Ted go on, go on, go on, you know you want to.

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Strip off the old personality

by eyeuse2badub in

yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.

their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.

so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.

sparrowdown

The only difference with a non-soul-sucking-cult "road to Damascus" type moment is you get to keep your own soul oops I mean "personality."

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Excellent YouTube channel

by Are you serious in

a few days ago, thanks to someone's post on here (sorry i forgot who it was), i found an awesome youtube channel called theramintrees.

the videos this guy has made are amazing!

i'm sure others here have seen some of his videos.

sparrowdown

I don't find the voice creepy at all.

On the hand, Stephen Lett and all the other pretentious assholes on JWdotborg creepy as f**********ck.

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Avatar image or whatever it is called

by amicabl in

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could someone please tell me why my image is either sideways or upside down.

i feel an utter fool asking this question but i can't find any help anywhere.

sorry..

sparrowdown

You could just use the random avatar the site provides while you're figuring it out if it bothers you too much.

Good luck and don't let it put you off posting it can be therapeutic.

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It's Going Down: The Family Is About to Go to War Over... Halloween Decorations.

by Sorry in

yup, you read right.

despite other personal turmoil that needs to be addressed, my family has decided to go nuts over halloween decorations being "too close" to our yard.

a new family just moved in next door; their kids are super young.

sparrowdown

Not like JWs to respect anyone elses right to observe holidays is it, it's only the JW's religious right not to that matters Tolerance is a one way street with them.

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Dietary Quirks Among JWs

by millie210 in

i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.

it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.

the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.

sparrowdown

It's understandable to me now that people with so little control over their own lives become so "thingy" over little things and develop psychosomatic symptoms. Witnesses are basically prisoners of a religion and food is one of the few things they can have personal control. Also long term cognitive dissonance is a bitch no wonder they're all "sick."

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Avatar image or whatever it is called

by amicabl in

jw
friends

could someone please tell me why my image is either sideways or upside down.

i feel an utter fool asking this question but i can't find any help anywhere.

sorry..

sparrowdown

You could try refreshing your avatar and try again. If that doesn't work try a different image.