Posts by MungoBaobab

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Questions about Dating a Former Jehovah's Witness

by The wanderer in

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weighing the decisions

having spent a number of years in the organization and the opportunity to.

marry in the "truth" there was this reluctance to do so.

Who Was The Weirdest Person In Your Congregation?

by Arthur in

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i guess this is kind of a fun topic.

who was the weirdest person in your congregation or kingdom hall?

without naming names, who was the person that was the most creepy, eccentric, or "out in left field"?

The brother of the PO was tremendously obese, like the Grimmace from McDonald's fame (the sweaty, grunty type). He also had an artificial leg, as he had lost his in a motorcycle accident. Anyway, he described how, when he got home from meeting, removed his leg from his torso and kept it inside his pants leg. I guess the idea was that the next day for service he could slip both on right away! He also urinated in the front lawn of a not-at-home going door to door. Somehow he managed to get a fiance, and, during his first dinner with her parents, discussed how many times a week they should have sex. Guees what? She called it off. And all these stories came from his own mouth.

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How do you answer this question??

by LuciousJ in

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ok, i'm now da'd as many of you already know.

it's so fresh that my stomach turns everytime the subject comes up about religion.

however, something that does puzzle me a bit.......is how do you answer people when they ask you the question "what religion are you?

MungoBaobab

I say I'm a skeptic, and let them figure out the atheist part. If they're offended, and they usually are, it's their own damn fault.

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How many 'real" friends did you ever really have in ther "truth'

by The Lone Ranger in

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sure we got to know a lot of people, we knew a lot more people then the average person, but how many real friends did we ever have?

a friend that we could trust, that we could confine in.

i can say i had just one, bro x and even then i still had to be careful, bro x is an elder now and he tells me that im the only real friend hes ever had, he cant freely talk to anyone.

MungoBaobab

None. I didn't even feel like Jehovah was the imaginary friend he should have been.

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Were dinosaurs part of a pre-Adamic "paradise"?

by M.J. in

the wts seems to affirm a lot that adam's blunder really screwed up the earth, and that the earth was not meant to be this place full of killing, disease, death, pain, etc.. but according to the wts version of the story, did god create the earth with these types of features before adam even came on the scene?

the wts does not deny the existance of dinosaurs, who in their words were created prior to mankind during the 5th or 6th symbolic day-ages.

yet its clear from fossilized remains that dinosaurs killed each other, had a high mortality rate, often died young, suffered from disease such as cancerous tumors: .

MungoBaobab

Let's ask an expert in paleo-archeaology:

Ghetto Girl, were dinosaurs part of a pre-Adamic "paradise"?

"Hell muthaf****in' no!"

Well then, folks, there you have it.

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Young JWs..damned if they do and damned if they don't!!!!!

by Gill in

the july 1st watchtower is one that i'm sorely tempted to kick into oblivion....yes it irritated me greatly.....mind control at its bluntest!.

young jws are being encouraged to stop dilly dallying around and get dunked!!!!.

'....why would you put off getting baptized?.

MungoBaobab

What gets me is the demeaning way in which the Watchtower talks down to "young ones." If the article was addressed to the general JW public, it would read like this:

True Christians are free to determine for themselves where that people (a people for his name) is to be found.

Instead of the usual third-person reference, which can seem condescending enough, we get this ultra-direct, almost scolding tone:

'You young people are free to determine for yourselves where that people (a people for his name) is to be found.

Lay it on thick, Watchtower. See where it gets you.

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I might be going back to the kingdumb hall !!

by boy@crossroads in

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i'm thinking about going back to the meetings.

hopefully just sunday meetings for awhile.

not because i want to or that i feel any inward guilt to return.

MungoBaobab

Oh, I feel your pain, my brother. I haven't been to a meeting since last July, and goddamn does it feel good! But Memorial's coming up. I was forced to move back in with my parents, and let me tell you, I am not looking forward to the "I'm-not-going-to-Memorial" conversation.

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Science of the Bible

by startingover in

did anyone see the program on the national geographic channel - science of the bible-rivals of jesus?.

here is a description taken from their website:science of the bible.

rivals of jesus [].

MungoBaobab

"Verily I say unto thee: Praise the one true God and give your monies freely unto the poor, as my hos best give their monies unto me." - Simon Magus

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What are your most hated JW words and phrases?

by Low-Key Lysmith in

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mine are, in no particular order:.

"the friends".

"glean".

MungoBaobab

What I really hate is that backwards talk you hear at conventions and on the covers of magazines.

"Do we not also agree that the great day of God the Almighty is near?"

"Let us turn in our Bibles to Exodus 2:11."

"Racism- Its End is Near"

"A World Without Greed- When?"

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A question for my atheist friends.

by PaNiCAtTaCk in

i can certainly understand why many turn atheist but what would you tell your 5 year old daughter who was conscience but dying on a hospital bed looking into your eyes?

would you be inclined to give her some hope of a better place even though you didnt believe it yourself?

thanks in advance!

MungoBaobab

Where would she be going? What if she asked you that question?

No child would ever ask such a contrived question unless someone else put that idea into his or her head. Why would this child assume that you "go" anywhere when you die? Why would anyone, for that matter? Utterly ridiculous.