Posts by rebel8

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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

by WingCommander in

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anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

rebel8

He had so many issues with coworkers over the years at many jobs, making false accusations that they were out to get him and calling him names. @ one point, his employer directed him to seek medical attention or he would be terminated. Once, he was fired and had to be removed from the premises by the police.

He claimed Jehovah told him to do it.

Yes, it could be just anger issues. But...there is a legitimate suspicion that this was a mental health issue. Consider this: paranoia (everyone is making racist comments about him), command hallucinations (Jehovah speaking to him), delusions of grandeur (saying those other mass murderers are "his boys"), bizarre behavior at work (former employers state this) and aggression characteristic of several common mental illnesses. It's well within the realm of possibility.

Now we will probably never know for sure, since we can't have him diagnosed now.

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Another annointed disfelowshipped for showing love

by poopie in

jw
friends

ok this is story1.annointed bro moves into a house and rents room from a lady.

2.he is currently serving as elder.3.there happens to be a disfellowsipped brother also living in house.4.

the annointed elder decides to help him to return to jehovah.5 the other elders find out and decide to remove him as elder because he is living and helping a df person and the annointed bro cannot move out because he does not have enough money.

rebel8

If an anointed person gets disfellowshipped, does he lose his Get Off of Earth Free card?

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How did you feel when "your book" was discontinued?

by OverlappingGeneralizations in

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friends

i didn't know where to posts this, i hope "friends" is ok-.

how did you feel when the book you studied in was deemed "discontinued"?

for instance, when i was studying, i studied the knowledge book.

rebel8

When I was in school, I had textbooks that said "Negroes". Then it was changed to "colored", then "black". We had a session in the beginning of the school year when we had to sit there and cross out the old words and write in the new ones. There was some speech about how the old word is not nice and won't be allowed.

It seemed odd to have a word that was A-ok 3 months prior to suddenly be a bad word, but at least there was transparency.

In some respects, the avg dub is childlike in his unquestioning acceptance of what Mother Borg tells him. Yet he gets little closure or acknowledgement. He is usually left to figure out what changed so as not to make a misstep.

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Go on welfare!

by life is to short in

i am going to make this short.

i ran into a older jw women who i have known my whole life.

she is pushing 80 and will never change.

rebel8

She was one credit away for getting her degree when there was an assembly and she realized that Jehovah did not want her to go for higher education and that she should pioneer instead. The strange thing is Jehovah revealed this right when the system cut her off.

Jehovah needs to get a Day Planner to keep better track of these things. LOL

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Three day convention

by BashfulAshG in

tips to survive this?

or should a feign an illness?

rebel8

And they finished at nine at night.

omg can you imagine 7 days and evenings? wth did they fill all those hours with?

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Sister attendants not able to give directions to a brother..Misogyny

by Theburstbubble in

at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.

apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.

this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.

rebel8

What do you mean by giving directions? Like, "Sister, please tell me where the restroom is"?

This is an odd turn of events. We finally have men asking for directions and now we can't answer. ;) j/k

NY44MM is right though. We don't have a built-in pointer. Thankfully, there's an app for that.

Seriously though, _Morpheus, IIRC, the restriction only applied to directing, as in giving instructions or guidance to.

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Go on welfare!

by life is to short in

i am going to make this short.

i ran into a older jw women who i have known my whole life.

she is pushing 80 and will never change.

rebel8

I know of several JWs who draw SS Disability, but they are well enough to pioneer and work on QuickBuilds etc

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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.

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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

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