i have a confession to make.
a strange urge is building in my brain... each time i see a jw literature cart on the street it builds.
it is becoming a stronger and stronger thought in my mind.
I can think of totally legal hilarious things you could do all day long.
Introduce yourself to the cart folk and be sure to shake the hand of the sister.
Then say, "Oops! Oh no! You're not menstruating right now or having a discharge beyond your period, are you?" (wait for response)
"Because Leviticus 15:25-30 says when I touch women with discharges I will be unclean until evening. Do you have any hand sanitizer?"
i have a confession to make.
a strange urge is building in my brain... each time i see a jw literature cart on the street it builds.
it is becoming a stronger and stronger thought in my mind.
If you see the carts that often, you could come up with a different (legal) funny thing to do each time.
"I'll have a footlong with relish and hot mustard, please." Continue pretending they are selling hotdogs no matter what they say. Put a tip on the table as you leave.
at my mom's bed side all i see is either jw family or friends making a concerted effort to have me return to their fold.
evidentlyy, my mom has encouraged this and i'm a trapped prisoner, as they do their best to have me come back.
it's bad enough that i have to endure my mom's dying, now i have to be bombarded with this bs..
Minimus (( ))
I wonder if you might slip in a few mumbles here and there when mom's out of earshot and line of sight--something along the lines of demons, Ouija, garage sale Tupperware, that sort of thing.
I'm serious.
They will not be sure if you're kidding, but they'll avoid irking you. I've had a high success rate with this technique.
And it's fun.
i was in town centre about an hour ago to buy a shirt and tie for an upcoming job interview when i was stopped by a youngish, clean cut american young man (20-ish) in a cheap suit.
my heart sank as i thought it was local jws.
to my slight relief, it was mormons!
They have hidden scandals in their history, just like wts. For example, the women used to be allowed to have >1 husband. This is not widely known among Mormons. It is on ancestry dot com. You can show them those things and it will be a shock to them.
any takers?
we can pick a date and pull the plug?
lol .
While it may be cathartic and funny to sign DA letters with other people's names, it could be dangerous. People have committed suicide because they were shunned. It destroys some people's lives.
You will also fulfill their persecution fantasies, pushing them back to Mommie Borg for safety.
No good can come of that except the jokester getting a few moments of fun. It's not right.
any takers?
we can pick a date and pull the plug?
lol .
We could all get anonymous Twitter accounts and make profile pics with Guy Fawkes masks.
If we could all post using the same Tweet and the same hashtags within the same single hour worldwide, would that cause it to trend?
If we all said a single thing, in unison, it seems like it would be powerful. It would show how many of us there are--so many more than the current membership!
The Guy Hawkes mask is already associated with cults and protesting while protecting one's identity, so it seems fitting.
This could happen simultaneously with people DAing themselves (those that choose to--there are many of us who won't).
Examples:
I support the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses quitting tonight. #notmentallydiseased
I stand with the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses quitting tonight. #don'tdrinkthekoolaid
i found this picture and i just can't believe it?
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http://www.jw-archive.org/post/130152768378/jw-booth-at-a-book-fair-in-brazil-photo-shared-by#.
Not the point of the thread, but I wonder what's going on with that unscripturalTM sistaTM who is wearing a pants and the scarf (not tie)?
I was almost compelled to return to the org until I was stumbled by that extra cloth between her legs.
i've always wondered about this.
i've always felt the main reason the borg made publishers do time slips/field service reports was to show that they are doing a community service to justify their tax exempt status.
we all know about their money grabs with the kh build scams, their selling off millions of dollars in real estate, etc.
This is one of those topics that keeps getting rehashed in this forum.
The requirement to do charitable works is a complete myth.
IRS tax codes are available online. You can read what organizations must do to obtain and retain tax exempt status, but you can't have it revoked for one organization unless that organization did something to break that code (like demonstrating it was no longer eligible).
will the branch send out a letter to address appropriate attire for the worldwide graduation from .
"the school that no one ever graduates from"?.
i have been thinking of the endless ways this new direction for the tms termination screams for criticism.. i am sure a quick publication search will reveal several references gushing at how great of an invention the tms was, how it has benefitted jw's, you know, gush, gush, greatest thing since sliced bread, blah, blah, blah.... i'm not interesting in looking at the moment, but wasn't knorr credited with its invention and rollout?.
Well I'll be damned.
Many are not full-on culty because of fear of public speaking and field service. If they remove those 2 things, they'll corral a lot more people in.
I prefer my dangerous cults to be weird on the outside. It's a good warning mechanism.
All this external normalization is good for recruitment.
the culture of jws as encouraged by the watchtower is one of informing on one another, reporting to either the elders or ones designated head.
whats the wackiest thing that someone reported on you?
im not talking about a black-and-white watchtower rule that would land you in a judicial committee, but some judgmental nonsense that someone thought they should turn you in about?.
Wearing a pale red, knee-length pencil skirt with black businessy pumps and black pantyhose. I was told this made me look like a harlot and a bro complained. IIRC, Jezebel was mentioned to me in the back room. @ this point I was aware the elders were not inspired of a true god.
