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  Fading Game of Thrones Style

  by Rattigan350 in

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  i started watching game of thrones online back in april and watched all 5 seasons by june.. i wonder how my life would be different if i had watched it from the beginning.. if i had seen it over a year ago, i would have left the organization the way the hound left the capitol.. during a battle when sandor clegane, aka the hound, had lost half of his men and saw that the king was a coward, when told that he needs to protect the city, protect the king, he replied - f--k the king's guard, f--k the city, f--k the king and left.. i wish i would have done that.

  f--k the elders, f--k the judicial committee, f--k the gb.. best if done during a comment or from the platform.

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  OneEyedJoe

  When I saw the thread title I was certain this was going to somehow involve a beheading.
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  If jw's obeyed all of the bible commandments what would they be like?

  by purrpurr in

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  the jw's cite abstaining from blood along with other cherry picked commandments.

  but then ignore the others.

  this is very hippocritical and if they are going to obey one commandment they should be obeying the rest.. just as a bit of fun then... what would jw's be like if they obeyed every rule in the bible?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  It would be completely impossible for a group as a whole to obey ALL the commandments in the bible. Jesus command to have love of neighbor contradicts a good number of other commands (most of the mosaic law, really). The only way to make it work is to state, as JWs do, that Jesus' sacrifice made the law obsolete and they therefore are no longer bound by it. (I'm sure someone who cared more could probably find contradictions in commandments in the NT alone, but I'm not going to bother.) But when you start negating part of the bible, you get into the area of interpretation and then anything is fair game.

  Anyone can behave however they want and they can find justification for their behavior in the bible if they look hard enough.
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  Funny encounter at work

  by respectful_observer in

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  i just had a meeting with a client and we both paused to watch a group outside of the conference room present a cake to a group of colleagues.

  i made the comment that it seemed to be a pretty frequent event in their offices.

  his response: "yeah, it happens all the time here, but not in our group.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Yeah, I love that for all the gloating about billions of hours spent preaching, the public's perception is basically "oh those are the weird people that wake me up on saturday morning and don't celebrate holidays"

  A few years ago, while I was still an indoctrinated JW I worked for a company that got a lot of contracts for the USPS, which at the time was (probably still is) having some monetary troubles and one of my coworkers joked "They should just give the mail to the jehovah's witnesses to cut costs - they're coming through the neighborhood anyway!"

  I was glad that I had never told them that I was a JW.
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  Do we have consensus that Mr Jackson was wearing a gold Apple Watch?

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  i mean, we have discussed mr morris' "rolex" but many also pointed out to the potential for a knock-out.

  i don't think there are apple watch knock outs out there, are they?

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  OneEyedJoe

  If indeed he has an expensive watch, it is far more likely to have been a gift from some favor-seeking sycophant.
  JWs have nearly perfected the art of under-the-table simony.

  That's a possibility, but just the same it could be sold and offset some of the donations that were otherwise required, and indeed asked for in a recent broadcast. It seems neither faithful nor discrete to keep the watch for oneself in this scenario.

  Though maybe he's just trying to imitate Jesus when he insisted that the fine perfume be used on him instead of being sold to feed the poor.
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  Do we have consensus that Mr Jackson was wearing a gold Apple Watch?

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i mean, we have discussed mr morris' "rolex" but many also pointed out to the potential for a knock-out.

  i don't think there are apple watch knock outs out there, are they?

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  i think the correct question is "Who gives a flying fuck?"
  

  Quite possibly lurking JWs who are exploring initial doubts. For many opening their eyes to TTATT takes a great many small things, and seeing that their glorious leader (wait that's north korea...) is wearing a watch that costs $10,000 that he could only have purchased via their own donations could be a relatively big factor in their waking up.
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  JWs nearly killed my mother

  by cookiemaster in

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  the past week has been hell for me.

  my mother started feeling ill and we went to seek medical assistance.

  we live in the mountains and the nearest large hospital is about 150 kms away.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Wow. Congratulations on saving a life - that's a privilege that most won't get to experience, even if it was rather thankless in your case. Well done.
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  Starting to get grilled by parents

  by Anonymous17 in

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  so my parents had a meeting with me to talk about me not progressing spiritualy as i should be.

  i felt like i was being interrogated in a nice way.

  they want to know who i talk to and if my association at work good.

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  It's tough to be put in that sort of a situation. At least you're in a position to understand what's going on and know that they really do care for you and are trying to do the right thing even if they're completely wrong about what that is. They may be using emotionally manipulative tactics, but you can focus on the fact that they do care for you in spite of their being misguided.

  One other thing that you might be able to tell them with complete honesty is "The truth has never been more important to me than it is now." Obviously they'll hear something different, replacing "the truth" with "the watchtower society" but it's their fault for making up their own definitions of words. A little theocratic warfare, if you will.
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  Having One Of Those "Pondering Disassociation" Days :(

  by freemindfade in

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  there are a lot of things that make me have days like this, the utter embarrassment of being are part of a cult that protects child abusers, that enforces emotional brutality through shunning, and that lies constantly.

  the lying i can tolerate, the world is built on bullshit, i have a high lie tolerance.

  i can ignore it if it has no effect on me etc.

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  As for the #3 reason not to do it - I suspect that it would be a wash. There might be a few on the verge of waking up that wouldn't feel they could talk to you after you DA, but there would probably be a few that feel they can talk to you, precisely because you had DA'd and no one would find out that they'd expressed their doubts to you. For someone who's doubting, it's a risk to talk to anyone who's still in on paper, even if they're inactive. I guess it might not be fully the case since you seem to have been somewhat vocal about your issues with the cult, but even so when people start to wake up they're really paranoid a lot of the time.

  Also, for your #1 reason to DA - that one doesn't bother me because you're only a JW on their paper. I don't care if they think I'm a JW on paper, with their track record if they put it on paper it can be taken as convincing evidence that it's not true. As long as no one tries to list me as a JW at a hospital or something like that, I don't care.
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  Bible teach book does not mentioned shunning

  by poopie in

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  or disfelowshipping si the bible does not teach it.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Deceptive recruiting tactics at their best.
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  UK TV--next monday 24th aug---channel 5-----9 pm--escaping the witnesses

  by stan livedeath in

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  just see it advertised on tv--with photo of our friend from south wales

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  OneEyedJoe

  I love that people are mentioning scientology and the JWs in the same breath. Even if people don't watch the thing, that's sure to leave a (well deserved) negative impression of the JWs on the minds of any normal person that sees it.