Posts by GetBusyLiving

do you every regret the way you treated or shunned faders, d/a, or d/f people in the past while you wonder under the influence of the "cult".. if so have you every gone back to any of those people said that you were sorry?.

i ask because there are a few people in my past that i discarded so easily and quickly, i am really conidering tracking them down in the hopes of making amends.. i don't know if it would do any good, but i know that i would feel better.

GetBusyLiving

I think it's pretty easy to say that you've never shunned anyone, but did you still associate with the person as regularly and normally as you had previous to the announcement? That to me is the big thing. Most of my old dub friends who understand why I left will say hi to me in public and mutter a few words, and they don't feel guilty about shunning because they do this. They are still shunning. I don't get phone calls, I don't get emails, and I don't get invited out for beer and wings, if you know what I'm sayin'.

I had a really close old friend that DA'ed herself about five years ago. It broke my heart, I'm telling ya. But I shunned her. I didn't call her and I didn't write, I didn't do any associating with her of any sort. Now that I've DA'ed and have tried to rekindle the friendship things are different, she's a little colder with me. And I damn well deserve it.

GBL

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To God We Are Dedicated...

by FMZ in

i used to love hearing this song at the conventions, everyone singing..

but dammit, now it's in my head, and i just realized that it sounds kinda like the imperial march from star wars.

and it sounds great when you hum it and desk-drum a beat to it..

GetBusyLiving

The Pentecostals are much worse than the witnesses as far as using music to invoke emotion. They play music practically through their entire services. I gotta say though that the 'Old Rugged Cross' cut is pretty catchy.

GBL

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To God We Are Dedicated...

by FMZ in

i used to love hearing this song at the conventions, everyone singing..

but dammit, now it's in my head, and i just realized that it sounds kinda like the imperial march from star wars.

and it sounds great when you hum it and desk-drum a beat to it..

GetBusyLiving

*psst* I made those lyrics up. Sorry!

GBL (of the"and us to ourselves we have behest" class)

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JWs Now Condones Long Hair on Men?

by ezekiel3 in

you be the judge.

the scans below are from the watchtower july 1, 2005 page 23 from the article "good news for people of all nations".. .

the man shown has hair long enough to tuck behind his ears and long enough in the back to throw any elder i know into a tizzy.. .

GetBusyLiving

This man is clearly only studying, as can be deduced by his smiling face.

GBL

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Get over it. The elders don't want to "shepherd" you.

by ithinkisee in

jw
friends

whenever elders hear the complaint from someone that "they never get shepherded or visited by the brothers" do you know what they do when you walk away?.

they look at each other and roll their eyes.

they make comments along the lines of "great.

GetBusyLiving

I had been known to give sheparding calls to single sisters. Sadly though, I was never a servant.

GBL

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Star Wars, the Dubs, and religious delusion

by GetBusyLiving in

jw
friends

i just watched the new star wars flick (awesome) and noticed a lot of parallel's in it with the jay-dub world view.

a lot of my old witness friends are hard core fans, and i think that if they ever were to remember me and and make that spiritual connection in the movie, they would liken me to aniken skywalker falling to the dark side and becoming the evil sneering apostate, darth vadar.

i probably would have thought something retarded like that when i was a dumb ass witness.

GetBusyLiving

The truth about the organization telling them I will! Cunning the dark side is. Do or do not, there is no...point in going to meetings.

GBL

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Star Wars, the Dubs, and religious delusion

by GetBusyLiving in

jw
friends

i just watched the new star wars flick (awesome) and noticed a lot of parallel's in it with the jay-dub world view.

a lot of my old witness friends are hard core fans, and i think that if they ever were to remember me and and make that spiritual connection in the movie, they would liken me to aniken skywalker falling to the dark side and becoming the evil sneering apostate, darth vadar.

i probably would have thought something retarded like that when i was a dumb ass witness.

GetBusyLiving

I kept hoping to find a princess Leia in my old hall but one never transported. Okay now I'm sounding like a f**king trekkie.

GBL