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  Twilight and other banned media

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks to online media of movies and books i've recently been watching the twilight series.

  issues of quality aside i enjoyed it enough.

  i mostly wanted to see what the fuss was about and have the fun of seeing a movie that was banned from the platform when it came out.

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  Hunger games, a story about a televised fight to the death by children? Seriously you think?
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  Apathy carts in NoCal

  by kaik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i spent couple wonderful days in napa valley and sonoma with visits to san francisco.

  what hits me was the number of apathy carts in the city.

  they were at powell station, embarcadero, fisherman wharf, etc.

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  In my cong the apathy cart is placed outside the hall... on a road where no one ever walks past! So the jws just stand there chatting and drinking tea.

  What a fine witness (!)
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  Twilight and other banned media

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks to online media of movies and books i've recently been watching the twilight series.

  issues of quality aside i enjoyed it enough.

  i mostly wanted to see what the fuss was about and have the fun of seeing a movie that was banned from the platform when it came out.

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  Thanks to online media of movies and books I've recently been watching the twilight series. issues of quality aside I enjoyed it enough. I mostly wanted to see what the fuss was about and have the fun of seeing a movie that was banned from the platform when it came out.

  I've also been watching the hunger games(loved it) and the divergent series.

  Any recommendations of further banned movies and books?

  P's. Team Jacob, Edward Cullen is an abusive asshole
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  Banned from the second school!

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been told by a jw friend that when her hall recently had a refurb that big changes were made to the second school.. one, a large sign has been placed on the door telling people not to use it and to sit in the main hall itself.. two,that all the chairs which used to face the large windows looking into the main hall are now side on to the window facing the wall instead.. this is because "so many people were sitting out in there!

  people were finding all manner of exhuses to sit-in there and the brothers want us to all be together in the main hall!

  " she said.. of course i didn't tell her what i really thought of this but seriously?

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  Thanks everyone for the replies. It seems this is a new policy, it seems to me that the harder they oppress the flock like this the more people will rebel and stay at home listening in instead.

  Where will all the anxious, germ and fragrance phobic go now? What about the df'd ones and the children who are just being children go?

  Frankly little short of dragging the flock out of their houses and making them sit in the main hall at gun point I don't see how they will make this work?
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  Banned from the second school!

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been told by a jw friend that when her hall recently had a refurb that big changes were made to the second school.. one, a large sign has been placed on the door telling people not to use it and to sit in the main hall itself.. two,that all the chairs which used to face the large windows looking into the main hall are now side on to the window facing the wall instead.. this is because "so many people were sitting out in there!

  people were finding all manner of exhuses to sit-in there and the brothers want us to all be together in the main hall!

  " she said.. of course i didn't tell her what i really thought of this but seriously?

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  I've been told by a jw friend that when her hall recently had a refurb that big changes were made to the second school.

  One, a large sign has been placed on the door telling people not to use it and to sit in the main hall itself.

  Two,that all the chairs which used to face the large windows looking into the main hall are now side on to the window facing the wall instead.

  This is because "so many people were sitting out in there! People were finding all manner of exhuses to sit-in there and the brothers want us to all be together in the main hall!" She said.

  Of course I didn't tell her what I really thought of this but seriously? What harm can it do to have some people sitting in the second school if they want to? Has anyone else encountered this level of control? What do you think is the reason behind it?
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  My parents haven't been to a meeting for a year now....

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now don't get me wrong, they still consider themselves jw's.

  but they seem to be plagued with ill health... especially on meeting days?

  they are very depressed about it of course and moan about how much they would like to be at the hall.

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  Fadetoblack, they do go out alot and even work. Recreation wise they are very active yet somehow ... Somehow always too I'll to attend the meetings?

  I don't believe this is a conscious decision to avoid the meetings, I don't think they are even aware that they are trying to avoid going. And they do seem to really get ill on meeting days?

  I'm wondering if it's their subconscious making them ill so that they don't have to go? Has anyone else encountered this?
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  Americans aren't allowed to grow their own food?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was recently told by an american i was chatting to online that in the usa people are not allowed to grow their own food.

  she said that if you have a vegetable patch or something that the government will come along and bulldoze it?

  she said that farmers are not allowed to grow food either and that the government bulldozes the crops if they grow?.

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  I was recently told by an American I was chatting to online that in the USA people are not allowed to grow their own food. She said that if you have a vegetable patch or something that the government will come along and bulldoze it? She said that farmers are not allowed to grow food either and that the government bulldozes the crops if they grow?

  Is this right? Surely it can't be right?
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  My parents haven't been to a meeting for a year now....

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now don't get me wrong, they still consider themselves jw's.

  but they seem to be plagued with ill health... especially on meeting days?

  they are very depressed about it of course and moan about how much they would like to be at the hall.

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  Now don't get me wrong, they still consider themselves jw's. But they seem to be plagued with ill health... Especially on meeting days? They are very depressed about it of course and moan about how much they would like to be at the hall. Yet strangely enough they are perfectly well for non JW things that they want to do? But I safely predict that as the time for the meeting rolls round a cold, a bug or just exhaustion will start up and oh dear! They just aren't up to going tonight! What a shame!

  So they listen in instead, although there's been several occasions when they have completely forgotten that it's the meeting night and they have carried on watching TV etc. ( of course I don't remind them either)

  As for the congregation itself, well I think they have written my parents off. No one contacts them these days, there's the odd " hello miss you" message on Facebook but that's it. The elders don't call or visit and in fact the last time my parents did go to the hall they where taken aside by the elders and roundly told off for having not been for so long. Both my parents came home very discouraged and haven't gone since.

  I'm not getting me hopes up though, they are still firmly brain washed and loving it. But just having them semi unplugged is enough for now. I suspect that illness that plagues them is phycological although I doubt they are aware of it. What do you think?
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  What do we do now Australian Royal Commission?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  what do you think is going to happen now that the dust is settling.

  does anyone know what is happening next?

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  I recently asked a jw I know I oz about the commission. He brushed it off and said that it didn't get much press coverage in oz? Is this right I wonder?
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  Narcissistic personality disorder and the dubs

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've recently started to research npd.

  having identified several of my family members as having it ( no wonder we're such a ¿***#@**!!!!

  up family)there's huge similarities between the borg and individual members of the cong as well i've noticed.the over whelming love of self, the need to believe in a grandiose fictional version of themselves, always striving for more power and wealth, being unable to stand any criticism, and then there's the manipulation of the victims too.i could be wrong i guess but what thoughts do you guys have about it?

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  I've recently started to research NPD. Having identified several of my family members as having it ( no wonder we're such a ¿***#@**!!!! Up family)
  There's huge similarities between the Borg and individual members of the Cong as well I've noticed.
  The over whelming love of self, the need to believe in a grandiose fictional version of themselves, always striving for more power and wealth, being unable to stand any criticism, and then there's the manipulation of the victims too.
  I could be wrong I guess but what thoughts do you guys have about it?