Posts by Midget-Sasquatch

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Were there any cliques in your congregation?

by badboy in

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hope i spell cliques right?.

know what i mean?

Midget-Sasquatch

This may be yet another post where you all think I must have constantly been wearing rose tinted glasses, but here goes:

All the adults in the foreign language congregation I grew up in did all sorts of things together.And many of them had different educational backgrounds, jobs, incomes, and were from different regions of the mother country.

With us teens though it was exactly like the sub-cultures you'd find at school.

When that congregation was disbanded and we all went to the english, my father and the other adults were confronted with many people who didn't ever bother to try to broaden out. Alot of them were dissillusioned with the english.

I'm glad the pricks...oops...JW teens....I grew up with were more natural about it and cliquish because it helped to keep things real for me. Actually there were two really nice ones (heartwise) that would even risk their cool status to talk to a loser like me.

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Spies? Do tell.

by jwbot in

so it is well known that this religion has spies...my mom used spies at my school to get information about me.

many haveposted their own experiences about spies.

i want to know more about it on a large scale.. like, "watchers" at a convention?

Midget-Sasquatch

Happy-Guy,

From what has happened to a number of other posters here, I'm forced to conclude that I haven't been spied on extensively because I'm not worth it!

I feel like Bugs Bunny when he got enraged that bounties on rabbits were only 25 cents. I'm just a harmless cuddly creature eh? Maybe I should raise a little hell.

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Hello To All

by homme perdu in

i have been raised all my life in the jehovah's witnesses organization.

i am not baptised.

after recently reading reasoning from the scriptures i began to question the organization.

Midget-Sasquatch

Welcome Homme,

And from your impulse to question and find answers, I'd say your only lost/perdu to the Org...but you're not hopelessly lost in the numbing JW mindset.

I envy you're being unbaptized...that is a huge benefit and should make fading away real easy. You sound smart and resourceful enough to pull off a fantasy I had while bored in service a long time ago. I was never motivated enough to try. Get a few territory cards on your own. Look for the do not calls on the sheet that are nearly expired. Secretly leave in their mailbox a pamphlet/flyer with websites on the WT false prophecies, flipflops, and now the UN and silentlambs material. Change the date on the do not calls to make it expired and the next time you're out with an elder you and him try the call. Too much work, with no real certainty of it working though..those people either wouldn't read it or the ones who did would probably not be at home. I

Nice having you here.

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This is a real concern: Should Shari'a Law be introduced into civil courts?

by azaria in

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here is an excerpt from the first site.. premier dalton mcginty is considering allowing an islamic court to resolve domestic disputes among the muslim community in ontario by applying sharia law, a 1400 year old system of religious law.

the plan was proposed by the islamic institute for civil justice and is vehemently opposed by the muslim canadian congress, the canadian council of muslim women and by several legal and women's groups.

ontario's former attorney-general marion boyd is hearing from both sides of the issue while attorney-general michael bryant is already busy looking at ways to have it up and running this year.. http://www.listenuptv.com/.

Midget-Sasquatch

To those of you who grew up "in the Truth" but wanted out, the answer should be clearly no. If you thought you were subjected to a stifling and unduly restrictive system then read up on sharia law. Teenage girls in France from Muslims homes who were caught not wearing the hijabs while at school were physically punished by parents and sometimes even beaten by other members of their religious community. If only the adults who subjected themselves to this were involved then I'd say its their poison, but thats not realistically going to be the case.

Also to any who like to argue that Sharia law is equitable and just to all involved including women as long as these individuals are filling their traditional roles, what's the chances of that happening in a different culture, land and time? Were they truly fair to begin with? Tell that to the 13 year forced to marry someone who already has another wife or two.

Finally and on a different note, the last thing I need is for more women to have one more excuse to turn me down.

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Let's turn book & movie titles into WTS titles

by GentlyFeral in

(first you might want to refer to these threads - .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/77314/1.ashx.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/77487/1.ashx).

Midget-Sasquatch

PAYCHEQUE - Giving up riches for a better future .

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Ethics, aesthetics, and morals

by onacruse in

so, in the course of tonight's prolonged conversation with one of you jwd recalcitrants .

if, in fact, this life, this life, is all there is, and nothing remains after...no resurrection, no reincarnation, no transformation, no metamorphosis; that is to say--these bags of salt, water (and a few hydrocarbons and genetic variations thrown in for good measure) are all that we are, and all that we ever will be, and then "poof":.

why should we refrain from whatever brings the "greatest" personal pleasure to our measured and time-limited existence?

Midget-Sasquatch

Then expect the same thing to happen to those you love. Hows that for a deterrant? Empathy was mentioned and the Golden rule and they were spot on. Most people acknowledge the gut feelings of these things, except for those few psycho/sociopaths.

If you don't fancy ANYONE else then you're more than likely an aberration, even if you want to strictly talk about this from a darwinian and purely materialist point of view. Look up kin selection. Amoral evolution would not have kept selecting for such a behaviour if it didn't benefit the organisms somehow. True its only for those sharing the same genes. But we can be more than ill tempered chimps can't we and extend the sphere in which it operates?

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TRULY HORRIFYING!!!

by Terry in

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when is the last time you had the jeezus scared out of you?

Midget-Sasquatch

Last week, late at night in a rough area of Toronto, I was walking towards my car to head home when I heard two loud shots so close I thought they nearly grazed me. Turned out to be a wreck on wheels just two parking spots down backfiring!

Stinky Pants,

Thats terrible! I hope you made a full recovery since then.

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They came by today

by czarofmischief in

so my wife is standing at the door, waiting for me to finish my morning ablutions so that we can go out, and she asks me to go to the door.

i met a very friendly couple who wanted to talk to me about jehovah.

i informed them that i was raised as a jehovah's witness and that i had been disfellowshipped for about (and i had to think about this) five years now.. and the dude was offended by my existence.

Midget-Sasquatch

I wish I had some of your gumption and even a fraction of your vocabulary.

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New Website About Child Abuse

by Corvin in

i am putting together a website geared toward non-sexual jw child abuse.

i am in the midst of getting clinical assistance from mental healthcare professionals and many others are wanting to get on board.

the link to the first page is below.

Midget-Sasquatch

The layout is appealing, tastefully done and you're covering excellent facets of the issue with what to look for as indicators, and where to get help.

In the text to the right side of the header, I believe there was an extra s on the end of witnesses(s).

Believe me I'm not being nit picky. About the only way I can contribute is with the "idiot stuff" cause I'm no scholar.

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crucifixation or upright stake

by cakes in

hi everyone, i'm new :) i know jesus died on an upright stake and not a cross but i don't know where to find the info on where or when the idea of the crucifixation orginated from.

can someone help me on this please?

thanks in advanced :)

Midget-Sasquatch

I'd even venture that it would give too much of a focus on Jesus for the Borg's tastes.

I should think more before I spew my feelings on the WT Org.

I let my antipathy for their view of God bias my thoughts on all sorts of matters. I know the Borg focus heavily on Jesus and the Ransom as well. Please disregard my above statement.

I still hold to my objective comment before that one though.