Topics Started by GetBusyLiving

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Jehovah's Witnesses GET CRAZY!!
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
do you guys know any very obviously crazy jw's?

i've noticed that they have been "flocking" to the org.

over the past few years especially.
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Keep Your Eyes on the Fries
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
i just hit macdonalds and while scarfing down a double big mac burger noticed the words "keep your eyes on your frys" written on the inside of the little burger container.

now i can't get that effing "keep your eyes on the prize" song out of my head!!

boycott macdonalds!
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Peaceful Forest Gump or Tormented Pablo Picasso?
by GetBusyLiving in
1. social
2. current
a while back when i was a witness i was reading a book with some dubblie friends that asked interesting questions to spark conversation and debate.

one of the questions was this: if you had could choose to live a life as an entirely content simpleton (forest gump) or a tortured genius (pablo picasso) what would you choose?

i was really taken aback when a lot of my friends said that they would choose to be forest.
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Memorial Alternative
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
hey what do you guys think of starting up like a thread on the night of the memorial to just relate reasons why we are happy to have left the organization and things we are greatful for?

this is going to be the first year for me in not attending the memorial and i think it might be sort of strange.

believers and unbelievers alike still have reasons to be grateful and i think this could be a nice little tradition every year here at jwd.
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What is the most OUTRAGEOUS thing you've ever seen an apostate do?
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
hey i was just wondering if some of you wouldnt mind relating some crazy stories of things that apostates have done to get attention of witnesses and break them out of the trance.

i would think right after the 'stay alive till '75' fiasco there must have been some really pissed off and vocal people!
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Do you ever DEFEND Witnesses?
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
i know i come on here a lot and laugh at the crazy stuff i used to believe.. it's a terrific place to vent my frustration at the org.

and share experiences with people who understand.

but i find that when some people trash talk witnesses who were never part of it i end up sort of defending them usually.
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Great Books.. Lets hear your favorites!
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
just wondering what your favorite books are guys.. any and all genres would be cool!
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'Who Wrote the Bible' - terrific book!
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
i bought the book 'who wrote the bible' by richard friedman.. wow!

this guy is a really respected scholar, not some crackpot-prediction-making jackass.

as a typical jw, i didn't know much about how absurd the idea of moses writing the first five books of the bible really is.
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The 'Thinking'
by GetBusyLiving in
1. social
2. current
before i had disassociated myself i went through a period of missing meetings (go figure) and i was lurking around sites like this for quite a while, reading ex-witness books, and doing a lot of reseach into the bible itself.

i got an email from my best friend that was in my hall who was wondering what was up and if i was 'discouraged'.

i told him that i had been reading up on the wtbts and that i had been feeling like shit because i wasn't sure what i was doing with my life, still hanging onto some dream my parents had that was demonstrably messed up.
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Describe your last meeting!
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
my last meeting was memorable.

it was a saturday morning bookstudy.

i showed up a little late per usual with my coffee.