Posts by rebel8

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Breaking Heart Needs Help

by thankyou in

was happily married many yrs unconditional love till wife went heaven yr n half ago.

3 mos ago sun morn.

when i once asked her if she been abused, cause seems like it, she didn't ans just hung her head.

rebel8

It is very possible for a JW to be homeless/transient. They strongly discourage careers and education, just wait for the Sky Daddy to take care of you.

The head shaving has nothing to do with JW. In fact, she will probably be counseled by the church elders for doing that because it draws attention to herself. (Sometimes homeless folks will shave their heads because of lice they got from sleeping in infested bedding.)

JW do not believe in psychiatric help or mental illness. She would be looked down upon for having a mental illness and more so for getting treatment.

jw do not date w/o chaperones. She would get in trouble for being alone with you. The fact that you are a non-jw means she would get in deeper trouble.

This woman has a lot of problems.

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Your thoughts on Halloween , yes, no or maybe ?

by Finkelstein in

well its that time again when the ghouls come out to play.

i personally think halloween is a bit irresponsible and inappropriate from a sociological perspective.. there's something about the intent of frightening young impressionable children minds with frightening objests.

and feeding them candy which most likely cause tooth decay and stomachs is irresponsible activity conducted by adults.

rebel8

Actually Rebel that has happened in the past unfortunately.

Yes, it is mentioned in the article I linked to.

What I was pointing out is that it has happened only a few times, and most of those were found to be siblings playing practical jokes on each other. The article discusses all the times it really happened, and the fact that it became an urban myth that it was being done in a broad sense.

Interestingly, most of the times it really happened were near times when the Satanic Ritual Abuse scare (myth) was going on too.

Some pranksters were playing upon the mass hysteria at the time.

I was a jw at the time and they were all about amplifying those 2 rumors. Razor candy was one of the reasons given for not celebrating Halloween. It is a relief to be able to to put it into perspective after leaving the cult.

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Your thoughts on Halloween , yes, no or maybe ?

by Finkelstein in

well its that time again when the ghouls come out to play.

i personally think halloween is a bit irresponsible and inappropriate from a sociological perspective.. there's something about the intent of frightening young impressionable children minds with frightening objests.

and feeding them candy which most likely cause tooth decay and stomachs is irresponsible activity conducted by adults.

rebel8

Also, those scumbags that put drugs, pins, and razor blades in products to be handed out as treats ought to be tried and then tortured.

Most of that is made up.

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Your thoughts on Halloween , yes, no or maybe ?

by Finkelstein in

well its that time again when the ghouls come out to play.

i personally think halloween is a bit irresponsible and inappropriate from a sociological perspective.. there's something about the intent of frightening young impressionable children minds with frightening objests.

and feeding them candy which most likely cause tooth decay and stomachs is irresponsible activity conducted by adults.

rebel8

I love Halloween. The neighborhood bonds and we have a good laugh. It's amusing to go out to a bar in costume too--it breaks the ice and gives a reason to strike up conversations with strangers.

It's pure fun. Life is hard. Having a few laughs is awesome.

I don't like being scared myself and would not go to haunted houses so people can scare me. I wouldn't startle others either.

I do have some spooky decorations. Life is spooky. It's ok if we make light of that. It's kind of empowering to mock death.

There is no such thing as demons or ghosts, so that part is just for laughs.

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Should I associate with this person?

by stuckinarut2 in

so there is a guy who wants me to associate with him.

but there are some strange things about him, such as:.

he hears "direction from unseen" forces.. he thinks the idea of slavery was ok.. he likes killing animals and splashing their blood around and making huge bonfires of carcasses smoke all day long.. he has one wife, or maybe two, but is ok with having lots of other sleeping partners as well.. he likes another person who slept with his own daughters.. he thinks women should be subservient and "keep their place".. he frowns on education.. he thinks killing in a war is ok if they deserve it...even babies should be killed.. he is often asking for money.. he thinks that pyramids foretell the future, and that only a few people can explain divine truths to him, except their explanations have changes many, many times...often contradicting other teachings.... etc..... get it?

rebel8

LOL, no, you should stay far away from whatever biblical character you're referring to. He is bad association.

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My First Birthday.....

by The Marvster in

i awoken today and realised immidiately i'm 44 today... and after 3 years of being out, decided to acknowledge my birthday.... i'm off out to treat myself to a big hearty breakfast with cup of tea in the local weatherspoon's by the massive pond full of weird bird-life, later today i'm giving myself a gift of a 90 minute relaxation session in a float tank down by canary wharf in london.... only really have 2 close friends (it's a slow process trusting people agian) and they probably won't be able to see me today, but i'm sure i'll have a belated surprise from them both.... the first thing i did when i remembered was to rush to the computer, connect to the web and put on stevie wonder's 'happy birthday', as i listen to it, tears stream down my face... all those years of my life stolen ' but..... i'm free....'.

rebel8

Hope you enjoyed your day. (I have no idea what a Weatherspoon's or a float tank is.)

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Did you like hymns as a jw?

by jean-luc picard in

jw
friends

i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

rebel8

Yes, some that I remember from pre-borgification are Ave Maria, Kumbaya, and Amazing Grace.

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Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians. It's impossible.

by DATA-DOG in

good morning.

i was just checking out the forum and something occured to me.

jws simply cannot be christians.

rebel8

The dictionary says people who believe in Jesus as a supernatural god are xians. jws meet that criteria.

It strikes me that all other distinctions are really things individual religions have chosen to add to the definition, which is what denominations and religions are all about--making their own definitions.

"Belong to Jesus" vs. "receiving salvation through Jesus' sacrifice" to them is a big deal, because they get to convince themselves they are the teacher's pets.

To me, it doesn't really matter which one is more "into" Jesus or any other imaginary bearded sky daddy. The bible has been massively disproven as a source of fact, truth, wisdom and morality.

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Have you ever had your oven door explode?

by Ucantnome in

the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

the oven was cold.

rebel8

Demonic Appliance Assessment Tool

Was the oven purchased at a garage sale?

Did the homeowners have backwards masking rock music records, wind chimes or Ouija in the house?

Have you heard whispers at night that subsided when you called out to jehoohoo?

Did the voices beg you to bake devil's food cake?

Did the oven temperature setting dial get stuck on 666 degrees?

Has an invisible force tried to have sex with you?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, please contact the elders immediately for spiritual guidance.

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Waco attack on Kingdom Hall

by Aprostate Exam in

local jehovahs witnesses kingdom hall attacked, man arrested.

posted: oct 19, 2015 9:00 am mdtby anthony j. garcia.

brian oatman.

rebel8

Why oh why would they go outside to try to stop the violent guy?

Because they had 2 angels that were supposed to by their side that only the attacker could see, thus making the attacker believe in jehoover and ask for a bible study.

What the elders did not know is the angels had taken a dinner break and were eating BBQ ribs at the time of the attack.