Posts by Village Idiot

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Someone Turned Off the InterTubes

by Simon in

just a heads-up in case we disappear too, there's a massive ddos attack happening that has knocked a lot of major sites offline:.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835.

things like this can have knock-on effects as other systems become overloaded, so far we seem ok so fingers crossed we stay that way..

Village Idiot

Donald Trump found the "any Key"

Donald Trump is too stupid to find his own reflection.

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Someone Turned Off the InterTubes

by Simon in

just a heads-up in case we disappear too, there's a massive ddos attack happening that has knocked a lot of major sites offline:.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835.

things like this can have knock-on effects as other systems become overloaded, so far we seem ok so fingers crossed we stay that way..

I don't think I will be able to escape the JWs ...

by nevaagain in

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friends

i know i will get a lot of backslash on this forum for saying this, but as it looks like, i won't ever be able to escape the jws.

i have been a born in, third generation jw and awoken in one way or another (i joined this forum 15 years ago) for a very long time.

but i have adapted to the jw lifestyle to a point where it does not bother me anymore.

Village Idiot

nevaagain,
So what I am trying to say is, I woulnd't live any different as a worldly person.

Don't mean to be rude but how could you live with yourself if you were to convert a 'worldly' person to your religion? Would your conscience not feel guilty for introducing him/her into a destructive cult?

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Genital Warts Because our Ancestors were Banging Neanderthals

by cofty in

researchers have found evidence that modern genital warts – otherwise known as the human papillomavirus (hpv) – were sexually transmitted to homo sapiens after our ancestors slept with neanderthals and denisovans roughly around 100,000 years ago.....

Village Idiot

A 100,000 years ago? I'm a little confused. Although we started migrating 60,000 years ago from Africa it wasn't until about 45,000 years ago that our species colonized Europe where Neandertals lived (There is no evidence of them elsewhere). There may have been other "archaic" species in Africa who, when we began to expand in and out of the continent, might have infected us.

Yet again, we might have caught it from Neandertals in the ever changing border between our two populations (?).

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Week 16 Since My Disfellowshipping - Update

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.

i could really do with you advice regarding my current state since being disfellowshipped 16 weeks ago.. since being given the boot (i did try to fade but it failed) ive been on a rollacoaster of emotions.

lately im getting frequent headaches, tiredness and i have about 3 or 4 thoughts running through my mind at all times.. im passed the sadness phase of discovering it's a cult.

Village Idiot

pale.emperor,
What i'd like to know is, is there a list of phases one goes through before they're "recovered" from this cult?

It's probably different with everyone but I went through the following:

Rage, at the fact that I had been duped.
Later on my rage settled down but I still had resentment.
Support in a "phone tree" of ex-JWs (This was in the 1980s before the internet).
Eventually I outgrew my negative emotions and had become curious in an objective manner on their past history.

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Anybody else having trouble walking away?

by JW-Matrix in

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friends

ok...so i'm a 19 year old fifth generation jw.

mentality, i've been out of the "truth" since i was 16(woke up after i was baptized ironically), but on the outside i'm a model jw.

my parents are really devoted, my grandparents are super devoted, and so are my ants and uncles.

Village Idiot

...I intend to fade out after college...

If you're going to college it will consume more time than you will have for the meetings. Going to college should be the beginning of your fade not afterwards. You can always excuse yourself by saying that your studies are overwhelming you.

By the way, welcome to the forum.

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Is disassociating worth the hassle?

by HereIgo in

i have been out now for 6 years but lately i have been giving some thought to da.

i just kind of feel that chapter in my life is still open and for some reason i feel like da'ing might close that chapter but i'm not entirely sure.

im not df either, when i left i basically faded and disappeared.

Village Idiot

Good way of putting it NewYork.

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IF the elder were paid, how would it change the organization???

by James Mixon in

there would be lot more brothers reaching out that's for sure.....

Village Idiot

It would not be practical for JWs to pay several elders. The ratio of elders to congregation members is too high to be affordable to the rank and file. However, if a single elder where to be paid he could dedicate himself full time to the congregation while being supported by voluntary ministerial servants. The reason they have so many elders in a congregation except for one is because they all have full time jobs and can only handle a limited portion of the work needed to run it.

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