Posts by out4good4

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Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

by MicaSmith in

can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

it's bewildering.

out4good4

The overlapping generation doctrine means that since 1995 the WTBTS has been making up shit as they go along.

They've been making shit up as they go along well before 1995.

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reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

out4good4

If I was still an active JW, I would much rather man a cart than bug people at their homes. I absolutely hated going door to door.

I have a relative that used to have a standing evening when she would go out with a group and do this cart work at a particular location. For some reason, this option and location was co-opted by a head honcho in the circuit under the guise that they could best serve the area by having a particular set of people with a certain skill set that they could manage.

She told me that the group cried about it on the last day.

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Disturbing/Puzzling Skit at JW Function Last Night Plus Odd Choice of Music

by Cadellin in

so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.

it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.

anyway, there was music and skits.

out4good4

Out of the mouth of babes.....

I'll bet the irony was completely lost on all the die-hards.....

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Caitlyn Jenner has cognitive Dissonance

by sherrie11 in

i have just finished watching the latest episode of i am cait!

lol yes i watch it!!!

they were discussing politics.

out4good4

Here we go again.....

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jw family loves to ask df'd ones for money!

by Ghiagirl in

well it finally happened!

we have been waiting about a year for this, my dfd husbands family asked us for money.

even though his own father hasn't met our 8 month old son.

out4good4

Give them copies of the latest magazines.....

Then paraphrase James 2:16....

"Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;"

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I dont know how i can leave my family!

by BlackWolf in

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friends

my mom and i were talking today about how next summer i will be 18 and she said that just thinking about it might make her cry.

that made me think about how much more it would hurt her if i quit being a jw.

i really do love my parents, i know they are just being cruelly manipulated by a cult and that they really think they are doing what is best for me.

out4good4

If you're intent on living your life the way you want to, you're going to have to eventually hurt their feelings.

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Leaving jw propaganda all around the house, what to do?

by Crazyguy in

the wife leaves it all around, not sure if this is by design i don't think so since the return to jah brochure was never left out.

it drives me a bit nuts but haven't done anything about it.

looking for ideas on what i should do?

out4good4

She'd probably be pissed if you left lying around Crisis of Conscious or Combatting Cult Mind Control.

Two can play that game. It's your home too.

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Leaving jw propaganda all around the house, what to do?

by Crazyguy in

the wife leaves it all around, not sure if this is by design i don't think so since the return to jah brochure was never left out.

it drives me a bit nuts but haven't done anything about it.

looking for ideas on what i should do?

out4good4

One day I packed all of the pieces of litter-ature she had lying around the house and stacked it with all the junk mail to be thrown out.

She got the message.

I don't think for one minute that this activity is not by design. It's left out in the hopes that you'll pick something up and read it and perhaps spur you to getting back into organizational activity.

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Every Know Anyone Too "Weak" To Wake Up?

by freemindfade in

a jw that is probably irregular, they don't really attend meetings, they are not up on anything going on, they may even seem like they are faded but they are not, they are just slackers.

a jw that is impervious to the f.o.g.

(ok maybe it bums them, but they are too lazy and self serving to do otherwise).

out4good4

sometimes I'm in for a lecture on how I'm letting satan mislead me and I'd better hurry up and get baptized because "the doors on the arc are starting to close"

the doors to the Ark are starting to close......

I really hate it when JWs pull that door to the ark shit excuse out trying to scare you back into towing the organizational line and out of the other side of their mouths talk about their sock puppet jah judging people by their heart condition.

Which face is it going to be in front of me today....the one spouting fear or the one spouting obligation and guilt!!!!

The last time a couple of elders were in my house trying that tact with me they got tossed out.

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William Ellison, Slave owner

by James Mixon in

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friends

i be damn, the guy an ex slave.

south carolina, a free black man and former slave.

he owned.

out4good4

I wonder, how can one justify in their mind to own another person.

OH...that's an easy question to answer. You just rationalize to yourself that the bag of meat and water you own is less than a full person or not one at all.

After slavery ended, that was still the justifications used for all of Jim Crow.