Topics Started by DisArmed

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How to Wear a Pinkie Ring, by Stephen Lett, Governing Body Member
by Oubliette in
1. social
2. humour
always the fashionista amongst the governing body members, mr. stephen lett recently showed us how even an older man can display a certain swagger, a certain je nesais quoi that says, "i'm one of the anointed, and you're not!".

he does this in so many ways, but the one i want to draw our attention to is the way he rocked the theocratic fashion world with his wearing of a very manly pinkie ring in a recent wtbts video.. - -.

stephen lett of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses demonstrating how to wear a pinkie ring.
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reading COC for the first time
by This is my tigersuit in
1. jw
2. experiences
43
JW Lady Witnesses to me in My Truck While Trying to get a Nap !
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
incredible.

absolutely incredible.

so i asked, " isn't it 100 years since 1914 ?
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Internet Dating - I feel like I am being love bombed again
by KateWild in
1. social
2. relationships
i am on three or four sites and lots of guys are showing an interest and trying to be genuine.

it reminds me of being love bombed by the jws.

i am having so much fun and loving all the attention, i almost got carried away with it all, until i got a pm on jwn.. i have just been absorbing it all and it dawned on me i am still vulnerable, and possibly not ready to date.
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Escaping Indoctrination - Faith Isn't a Virtue.
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the unknown writer of the gospel of john put the following words in jesus' mouth, "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.".

persuading countless generations that it is a virtue to believe incredible things on insufficient evidence, is one of religion's cleverest tricks.. the more incredible the claim; the more flimsy the evidence; the stronger the belief; the greater the virtue.. this is the exact opposite of how we operate in every other aspect of our lives.. rational people must demand objective evidence for everything they are asked to believe.

"extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence".. leaving the dogmatic claims of the watchtower is only a first step.
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Am I part of the Cure or am I part of the disease
by Jon Preston in
1. jw
2. friends
so this is the ultimate dilemma.

my wife and i are on the same page.

do we fade, in which all our friends, and i stress friends call us and feel sick and hurt and hurt and we feel guilty; or do we da so we tell the wt what we see as wrong as what we see that lead us to believe its a false religion; or do we df and let me or my wife let them catch us at some wrong doing and stop going to meetigs..... .
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Hi Everyone
by DisArmed in
1. jw
2. friends
hi folks,.

i've been reading posts here off and on for years.

i decided to go ahead and join in with a post.
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!
by snare&racket in
1. jw
2. friends
i am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.

the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.

different teachings on when the end is coming.
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How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?
by Julia Orwell in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.

as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?

surely education should come first.
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What's your personality type? Myers-Briggs test
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
take this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.