Posts by sir82

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People in England were easiy convinced to believe....

by BoogerMan in

....that a mass killer was roaming their streets.

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now theyre struggling to believe the grim reaper is not so grim and it's safe to go outside again.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52669441.

sir82

the fit & healthy were put under house arrest. Absolute lunacy!

I can't wrap my head around comments like this.

It's been 2 frig-wigging MONTHS that we've known about asymptomatic carriers fer gawd's sake.

How is it possible that breathing creatures with an IQ at least in double-digits haven't heard that "fit & healthy" persons can be asymptomatic carriers and, if wandering about in crowds, can infect dozens or hundreds of other people in a matter of hours?

Is it ignorance? Short attention span? Intentional cruelty? Abject neanderthal stupidity? SMDH

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Kingdom Hall Scheduler

by Thetruthhurts in

i'm sure there's already topics on this but i couldn't find one so i'm starting my own.

is the kingdom hall scheduling program new?

is this where they are entering all of the members data now?

sir82

Cell phone carrier?

No one needs to know that. Something fishy there.

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Hilarious JW Wikipedia edits

by neat blue dog in

jehovah's witnesses are funny in that most have no objective, self-aware view of themselves.

they think they are the center of the universe, that their beliefs are undeniable facts, and are generally very entitled.

yet another added this:.

sir82

They think they are the center of the universe, that their beliefs are undeniable facts, and are
generally very entitled.

LOL. Yep.

Did you know that World War 2 was started by Satan himself, personally, for the sole reason of attempting of exterminate all JWs?

Oh, how about this one? JWs were having so much success in the 1950s, starting Bible studies with housewives who would then convince their husbands to join them, that Satan prompted economic downturns such that "houswives" had to go out and get jobs. Thus, no one was at home when JWs called there, and so they were not able to start so many Bible studies.

Oh there's a million stories like these.

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Ancient Hebrews Got Away With So Much

by Tim207 in

why wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?

even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.

if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?

sir82

Wealthy males in the dominant ethnicity got away with, at times, literal murder.

A piddling little thing like "sleeping with your daughter-in-law because you think she's a hooker" wouldn't even rate a 2-line story in the Jericho Times.

Funny how little things change in 3000+ years.

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Trying to get my head around these go bags

by phoenixrising in

when i was looking at prepping back in the 90s i was told by several elders that we needed to just rely on the org and jehovah and not prep.

i started to put away vacuum sealed bags of rice beans and spices anyway.

now they have this go bag crap.

sir82

All the "go bag" stuff happened after Hurricane Katrina.

Thousands, probably tens of thousands, of JWs were forced to evacuate their homes, sometimes ending up hundreds of miles away. There was no organized system of checking up on anyone, so it was the perfect opportunity for JWs to "fade".

The organization was, and is, utterly horrified that they might be forced to loosen even slightly their stranglehold grip on control & power over their adherents, so now there are orders for every congregation to have a "disaster plan", including giving your phone numbers and out-of-state contacts to the elders. So in case there is another Katrina-scale disaster, the elders can hunt you down. No more easy fading.

The "go bags" are part of the protocol for those congregation disaster plans. But as noted, by far the most important piece of that plan, from the WTS perspective, is making sure that contact information for every publisher is up-to-the-minute current and in the hands of the BOE.

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My latest letter to WT demanding correction from their side

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

brothers and sisters associated with the watchtower society may 9, 2020. i have tried to inform you of the necessary adjustments you ought to take in order to truly be in the truth.

but my efforts have remained fruitless.

you well know the biblical procedure.

sir82

Ooh, a demand!

I'm sure they'll get right on it....

...right after they answer the 48.987 other letters from other cranky ex-members telling them what exactly what they've got wrong.

Lotsa luck.....

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Memories of Maryland Conventions!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

posting for brother x. petra!.

if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?

the question is; how could you forget?

sir82

The coldest I have ever been in my life, literally, occurred at Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, long since torn down).

It was summer, fer gawd's sake, don't remember the date, but it was either July or August, because the conventions in Pittsburgh were always July or August.

Had to travel to Pittsburgh from Sir-town for the convention, so of course only packed clothes for summer.

Was working the food stand. Always got put at the food stand.

Anyways, for some reason, it was unseasonably cold that morning.

Our food stand was directly in front of one of the 4 main "gates" that served as entrances into the stadium.

In addition to the temperatures (in the 40s? below 10 C) being so cold, a fierce wind was blowing....directly from the direction that gate was facing....funneled into the narrow gate....right at the food stand.

Thought I would die.

Somehow (I guess because I was outranked) I got stuck at the coffee urn.

Of course, on such a cold morning, EVERYBODY wanted coffee.

It was maybe a 30 or 40 cup urn, took 5-10 minutes to brew if it was filled up. People were demanding coffee RIGHT NOW, they were in semicircular rows 5 deep, then 8 deep, then 12 deep, they had all paid their "food tickets" and were wanting the coffee they had ordered.

Poor little coffee urn, and me, couldn't keep up. But if you didn't give the people their coffee, the lines just got longer and longer and longer...

I have this foggy memory of freezing cold, fingers stiff, in pain from the wind whipping, in only short sleeves, splashing tan water with a hint of coffee flavoring (as the urn was not done brewing) into styrofoam cup after styrofoam cup, cup after cup after cup after cup after cup after cup....

Good times.

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Have you ever known elders who were more into being and elder than really being a believer?

by phoenixrising in

i have known many elders who were much more into the idea of being an elder and getting all the old ladies to tell them what wonderful talks they give and the power then really being a believer.

i had one elder tell me that when he became an elder he was on top dog on top of the heap.

i knew some who were really all about the religion and following the cult.

sir82

Rub a dub's elder categories are spot-on, though I would probably adjust the percentages.

This is one of those things that should probably, by now, no longer shock me, but still does:

A very large proportion of elders have virtually their entire identity wrapped up in being "an elder". It is Who They Are, period, full stop. Literally their whole life revolves around "elder stuff".

That's why it is so devastating if they are ever "removed" as an elder. Suddenly, their identity is torn away. Who are they? They've devoted virtually their entire existence to being An Elder, and now they aren't. They have no interests, no passions, no hobbies, no nothing. They're just a shell. It would be sad if it weren't entirely of their own (stupid) making.

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What do you make of this recent article regarding the United Nations stance towards overriding religions of the world on certain matters?

by devout_no_more in

first of all, this is my first post here on the forums even though i have been registered now for some time.

i have been faded from the jehovah's witness religion for many years now, but only recently within the past year or so gotten quite serious about it - crisis of conscience by ramond franz really kicked things off for me personally.. anyway, my wife, parents, step-sister and her husband and my half-brother are all still active jw's, so i am still exposed to them, and this is also the reason why i'm still "faded".

frankly i'd probably just as soon disassociate myself without the threat of being shunned.

sir82

The United Nations wouldn't have the ability to enforce fishing limits in a backyard pool, much less "come for your religion".

I wouldn't lose any sleep over the possibility that "maybe the JWs are right".

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This is not even close to the cult I grew up in

by phoenixrising in

i was watching some of the may jw cult broadcast.

this push to be a movie studio and other things makes this cult seem like something else entirely from what i grew up in.

they really are trying to use anything they can to hook suckers into being cult members.

sir82

They really are trying to use anything they can to hook suckers into being cult members.

Well, there's something that hasn't changed!