Posts by rebel8

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Three day convention

by BashfulAshG in

tips to survive this?

or should a feign an illness?

rebel8

If you're sitting on the floor, sit as close to the front row as you can. If in the bleachers, go to the top. This is for maximum impact.

Eat gas-inducing food and fart really loud. Laugh every time. The laughter will become contagious and disruptive to the program. First the kids will giggle because they can't resist a good poo joke. Then it will be the teenagers, then everyone will just start laughing.

If you can't produce a fart at least 4x per hour naturally, I'd suggest getting some apparatus from a practical joke store to simulate them.

Do this for a few hours, then start faking cramps. Squirm around in your seat, holding your belly and groaning. Get louder and louder.

This should all climax by you jumping up and running out of there really fast, groaning, "oh noooooooo". Keep running past the bathroom and straight to your car.

This should be 100% effective.

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Jehovah's Witness Claims Surgeon Refused to Operate

by OrphanCrow in

jehovah's witnesses are unreasonable in the way they expect the larger community to respond to their no blood policy.

the medical community is too often held hostage by their insistence on adhering to tan erroneous interpretation of an old book.. jehovah's witness claims surgeon refused to operate.

(*full article at link).

rebel8

Interesting approach, albeit a lame one. The contention appears to be that, as a government employee, the physician had an obligation to support his practice of religion.

Outside a government setting, this strategy would seem irrelevant; healthcare providers are not obligated to treat anyone unless it's an EMTALA issue (which this clearly was not).

He's a vet and then became a jw...or something. So accepting the veterans' benefits is not against his conscience, I guess.

40

Petition for U.S. AG investigation.

by freemindfade in

not sure if anything will come of this.

but i signed it.. https://www.change.org/p/united-states-attorney-general-investigate-the-watchtower-society-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-re-child-sexual-abuse?recruiter=363165656&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink.

rebel8

Will this be sent to the AG with some sort of evidence?

39

Are There Good People Out There?

by LaurenM in

even though i'm no longer mentally a jw (i still technically am) i do recognize that there are some benefits to being raised one.

for example, the first (and only so far) wordly guy i was involved with had to smoke weed every day and got drunk all the time and that was his idea of fun.

i couldn't help but feel bad for him.

rebel8

Yes, love, peace and long-suffering are beautiful qualities to have. I have yet to find all of that 100% in a single human being, including myself. I think you will find it to varying degrees in different people.

I've found those qualities less in jws than in non-jws. jws are some of the worst people morally and personality-wise that I've ever met.

112

Geoffrey Jackson's Golden Apple watch INVESTIGATED

by C0ntr013r in

i went through the original footage to get a good look at the watch.. from these pictures we can probably say that it is a apple watch and that it has a golden color.

the color on the pin is black, and the band is white, grey, silvery or beige.. .

the pin is in the exact place for it to be a apple watch.. only apple watch edition have the gold color.

rebel8

They used to make fun of the Pope's rings and the televangelists' watches!

I understand you pretty much need an iPhone to use most of Apple watch's features. I wouldn't even expect someone who took a vow of poverty to have an iPhone.

I admit it would be a lot of fun to start texting him on his watch as he's giving a talk.

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Petition for U.S. AG investigation.

by freemindfade in

not sure if anything will come of this.

but i signed it.. https://www.change.org/p/united-states-attorney-general-investigate-the-watchtower-society-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-re-child-sexual-abuse?recruiter=363165656&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink.

rebel8

Why the US AG?

23

Please reach out to Te New Yorker

by Jonathan Drake in

i have found an article on their website that moved me to contact them.

i share it here hoping more will contact in a similar vein and maybe we can raise awareness and tear down this propaganda.

i'm writing regarding an article about jehovah's witnesses and their blood transfusion doctrine, found here:http://tinyurl.com/pxku9dgit is clear to me, reading this article, that it's writer is either profoundly ignorant or profoundly biased.

rebel8

This is me. Perhaps my role in this discussion is not one of expert but rather one with a harrowing personal experience, so my bias may be at work.

I researched "bloodless medicine" a bit. As far as I can tell, this was mostly invented by jws. I do not say this as a person offering credit for something good, but perhaps blame instead.

Yes, there have been advances to prevent more deaths in battle, and after AIDS came to light, more research was done about reducing the use of blood products. Those were the good advances.

The rest of this woo called "bloodless medicine" largely seems to be techniques not proven effective and safe, yet touted by such disingenuous front groups such as NoBlood.org. They have "expert" shills claiming they have no connection to jws and are genuinely so supportive of these non-evidence-based techniques that they spend their free time promoting them.

I see these front groups as not different from Narconon, the Scientology group blamed for deaths while preying upon vulnerable people to convert them to a cult.

Anyways, whenever I tried to identify non-jws supporting "bloodless medicine" I came up empty. FWIW.

34

JW to SDA anyone do it ?

by Introvert 2 in

a couple friends pointed me to some info on the sabbath and i just plain like it, being the workaholic i am it's a lifesaver for me and gives me the motivation to be more balanced about my business and work schedule.

so from there i looked into the adventists and found a hall near my place and went last week.

i honestly enjoyed myself and the meeting time is not disruptive and the people were great and pretty laid back.

rebel8

The teachings are close to what you know, and so is the lifestyle and all the other things wrong with its sister cult you used to belong to.

There are so many religion-free options for structure, morals and fellowship.

Sunday Assembly

Humanism

And if you prefer more church in your church, this

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G.B. & J.W.'s Becoming Clap-Happy

by The Searcher in

at the regional convention (national!!

) for scotland, mark sanderson elicited 13 rounds of applause during his closing talk, (for the least little things!

) plus a final one for his closing prayer!

rebel8

I kid you not...at one District Assembly the crowd broke into applause when it was announced....[car with its lights on in the parking lot]

That might have been my handiwork.

43

G.B. & J.W.'s Becoming Clap-Happy

by The Searcher in

at the regional convention (national!!

) for scotland, mark sanderson elicited 13 rounds of applause during his closing talk, (for the least little things!

) plus a final one for his closing prayer!

rebel8

I used to initiate rounds of applause, just to see if I could. It proved to me that it wasn't some organic moment of mutual appreciation, but rather a reflex.