DireStraitJacket

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  Finally!!! Run in with JWs...

  by Tashawaa in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've lived here for about 1 1/2 years and haven't seen a single jw.

  i read all the posts where there have been run-ins, people called on, elders talked to, etc.

  and couldn't hardly wait for my turn.

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  I've bumped into a couple on the street doing field service, always saying that I'm not interested, and brushing them off when they ask why.
  What got to me was when this guy from some student church group came up to me and asked if I was religious at all, and I replied no, I've had bad experience with religion and now I avoid all of them, he asked what religion I was involved with. When I told him he said he had never heard of them, but his religion was really accepting of people and I should try attend a meeting on the sunday morning, all the people are really friendly and they don't ask for money. It sounded way to much like the jw's, he even followed me half a block before he seemed to notice I was ignoring him and gave up..
  They always seem to appear when you least expect them or want them to appear, when you feel like having an argument theres non in sight.
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  Very sad

  by DireStraitJacket in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this guy isn't linked to jw or anything, it's just sad that tragedies like these are happening .

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  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1087220700373b263&set_id=1

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  this guy isn't linked to jw or anything, it's just sad that tragedies like these are happening
  
  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1087220700373B263&set_id=1
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  More exposure for my music!

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yeah, another shameless plug for my music.

  i found a great website that will allow me 50 megs of storage for music!

  this means better bandwidth for my tunes (rather than using the free sites).

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  lol, who does the description? do you have to fill out a questionnaire, or does someone interview you, or did you write the whole thing yourself..?
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  Correcting Falsehoods About Ray Franz's Beliefs (Holy Spirit, Trinity)

  by allpoweredup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  see what he himself says at http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-holyspirit.html i was told many falsehoods by watchtower diehards such as he is now "a rabid trinitarian," "a nondenominalist or pentecostal.

  " also he's transdenominalist (associates with christians and others) not just those of one belief system.

  i'm sure many of you also heard a lot of falsehoods put out about him.

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  to me it just points out the fact that no-one really knows what god (or whatever greater power one believes in) is/was. The holy spirit seems like a random force that is used as cover for all the random unexplainable events that may or may not have occured in history and were attributed to god in the bible. i'm not really sure what point i'm trying to make here, except that i guess i'm at a loss as to what to believe. The jw upbringing has resulted in me pretty much rejecting the bible completely, so I'm trying to find some other explanation for how we came to be on earth.
  i guess this is off topic, but i've been reading some 'conspiracy' theories lately, a couple by David Icke, it makes for interesting reading, problem is that at almost any point in his books you can close them and say what utter garbage it all is, and end up being more confused than when you started. which is where i am..
  
  aah well
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  cocktails/mixing drinks

  by baysixforme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to a bbq the other night and had a couple of glasses of white wine before being offered a white rum with black pepper.

  i knocked back two of those...not particularly large ones either and that was it...i was somewhere else!.

  the good part about it was that i was with some good friends who were able to take care of me....the bad part was that i could hardly remember anything the next day.

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  i find that drinking smirnoff for a couple of hours and then switching to romanov or russian bear for the next couple of hours (due to wallet pressure) has that kind of effect on me as well. Don't drink much rum after that one night.., varsity party, woke up lying on a cardboard box on some stairs in small building on campus the next day..
  Mixing beer with spirits generally has the worst effect though..
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  Another Gaming Thread

  by Stefanie in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  crap.

  i pressed enter.. what video games is everyone into.

  currently i am into mortal kombat on xbox.

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  I still put in a hour or so a day on the original Unreal Tournament, other then that Need4Speed Underground and Hot Pursuit 2, Call of Duty (fps, EXCELLENT!!), Far Cry, Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire, and yeah I still play plenty freecell..
  oh, forgot to add Max Payne 2
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  Just randomly underline study WT or book?

  by Max Divergent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  did you ever get into just doing random underlines and notes and all that on your study wt or books just to look like you?d studied it without ever having even looked at it before?

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  the watchtower studies have gotten so easy, especially when you've seen most of the topics many times before. I would practice speed reading technics on them, trying to read the whole paragraph in 5 seconds, and then see if i could answer the question. without reading scriptures I could prepare the whole article in 3 minutes. the underlining got a bit messy, that just made it stand out more..
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  Do you still struggle with a negative world view?

  by new light in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well-trained jws tend to view all current events in relation to armageddon.

  they see the world as having no hope of improvement, and view all efforts to improve our home as a waste of time.

  have you totally broken free of this destructive viewpoint?

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  I've just become so insensitive to any form of suffering..
  Whenever theres a natural disaster, or anything I think 'to bad', I'm not affected, I don't care.
  The war in Iraq, people are dying there everyday, theres all sorts of other crap happening around the world, I watch the news and I see people all over the world crying for lost family members, I'm thinking to myself 'To Bad, oh well whats for supper..'
  I hate to say this but I saw the video of the Iraqi militants cutting the guys head off, I was eating lunch when it finished downloading, so I watched it then. I stopped midbite thinking 'damn, thats wrong' carried on eating, and checked what else had finished downloading.
  I don't get affected by anything unless its happening to someone real close to me, like a close family member or a good friend. I can only assume this is because of the JW teaching, but then again I've always known that deep down theres something really wrong with me..
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  Finish this sentence "The longer I'm away from JW's......"

  by doodle-v in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  here's mine: .

  the wackier they seem to me!!!

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  the more I feel sorry for the people who have just gotten sucked in
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  Only times people at the KH talked to me

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  elder: hi nos.

  me: good.

  elder: how's school going?.

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  someone: hey DS how you
  me: ok (wtf does this person want)
  someone: we missed your comment tonight
  me: oh, (gee, i haven't answered for six months, how come you only talking to me now)
  thats strange, I answered paragraph 6, about the holy spirit.. you must have missed it.
  someone: oh of course, yes thats right now I remember. Anyway, see you on tuesday..
  me: bye (idiot)