Posts by stan livedeath

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Why did you leave the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Vanderhoven7 in

i've never been a witness so i never left.

graeme hammond writes:.

for some years i’d had a growing irritation and disillusionment with the religion: i was getting tired of the pompousness, the arrogance and the control, i felt increasingly choked by their restrictions and i was drained by their demands on my time.

stan livedeath

ive probably explained why before...

mom got religion when i was about 10. There followed a time in my life where i was taken to meetings--and out of school assembly. I got baptised at 14 because other kids in the cong were--and my dad decided to get dipped at the same assembly. So i did too as not to be left out.

i couldnt wait to leave school--at 15, and started work. Heard Ron Drage ( DO ) banging on about pioneering--so i thought that would be cool. Tried it for a few weeks--nope--hated that too.

By about 17 i wanted a girlfriend--and met one at yet another assembly. Her parents were ultra zealots--circuit shining lights--and i was suddenly the new kid on the block. Moved to their cong--went pioneering again--19 now. was made a servant--all good stuff to polish my inflated ego. Started doing public talks--home and away. I was treated like a rock star. But all this was to please others--parents--girlfriend--big circle of "friends" all over the circuit.

We married when i was 20---in order to have sex. Both pioneering.

Then my life went all wrong--in their eyes. I knew i didnt love my wife--in fact--didnt even like her. Hated pioneering--wanted a proper full time job--a career.

Forwards to my early/ mid 20s--1975 looming!!--and my wife was pregnant. In line with Watchtower teaching--i thought long and hard about blood transfusions--what if my wife needed one--or what about the child ?

Then it hit me hard--like a blinding light--what was i doing here--i had no interest in god--or his stupid religion. I was only living a lie--and that was the end for me.

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ponder on these---

by stan livedeath in

ponder on these imponderables for a minute....... .

1. if you take an oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?.

2. if people from poland are called poles, why aren't people from holland called holes?.

stan livedeath

i simply stole it from a facebook page. None of my input whatsoever.

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ponder on these---

by stan livedeath in

ponder on these imponderables for a minute....... .

1. if you take an oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?.

2. if people from poland are called poles, why aren't people from holland called holes?.

stan livedeath

Ponder on these imponderables for a minute......

1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? (I like this one alot!)

12. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

14. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered if Chinese mothers use toothpicks?

15. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the post?

16. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

17. No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

18. Ever wonder about those people who spend two pound a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards:

19. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

20. If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhoea, does that mean that one enjoys it?

21. Why if you send something by road it is called a shipment, but when you send it by sea it is called cargo?.

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Bethel Scandals

by XBEHERE in

anyone have some to share?

i'll start:.

when i was there the worst i heard was a thief going around stealing the $90 out of some other bethelite's lockers the day we all got "paid".

stan livedeath

i heard a scandal that a GB member was filmed in a liquor store buying a trolly load of expensive scotch .

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The corrosive nature of CRT

by LoveUniHateExams in

diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

stan livedeath

If --like me--you havent a clue what CRT stands for, but were a bit shy to ask--its not the same as HRT. I googled it--it stands for Canals and River Trust.

You have not been charged for this helpful advice.

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The corrosive nature of CRT

by LoveUniHateExams in

diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

stan livedeath

i wouldnt worry about Ms Abbott. She does the country a lot of good--keeping the labour party in second place.

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A Jehovah's Witness in a relationship with a non-Jehovah's Witness

by KShelton in

my name is kevin shelton.

my wife is a jehovah's witness.

my two children are jehovah's witnesses.

stan livedeath

my troll radar is pinging.

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WHAT DO Jehovah's Witnesses believe?

by Vanderhoven7 in

please add or correct the following written by helge kare fauskanger.

"for starters, imagine a distinctly insular form of protestant fundamentalism minus the trinity (god and jesus are held to be separate beings, and the holy spirit is god's active power rather than a person).

note: since the witnesses want to think of their faith as something absolutely unique, they themselves will not agree that they are either protestant or fundamentalist.. * very important to call god by his proper name of jehovah, and as noted, you must not get him mixed up with jesus.

stan livedeath

i think its a very accurate summary of what JW's believe.....and it only goes to reveal what a crackpot cult it is.

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Can watchtower really continue with cart preaching?

by Hellothere in

can watchtower really continue with cart preaching?

it has become like zoom.

we're people attending zoom not wanting attend halls.

stan livedeath

. Sitting by a cart and trying to get people's attention probably is a lot less stressful.

most cart staff ive seen are trying NOT to get peoples attention.

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1975 on the back burner

by Fisherman in

“1975” still marks 6000 years from the creation of adam in wt calendar.

according to “all scriptures inspired” book, there is a gap between the creation of adam and the creation of eve and her marriage to adam.

it was at that point in time when eve was created that marked the end of the 6th creative day and the beginning of god’s rest, the 7th day as recorded in genesis.

stan livedeath

this 7000 year day thing was a major stumbling block to me--back in the '60s. I could never accept it. But within a few years i also came to realise i had no belief in the concept of god--a new world or the resurrection. I was out.

fast forward to about 2010--and i discovered this internet world of ex jw's---and quickly found out that this 7000 year concept had been quietly dropped.