Wild_Thing

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  Whoopsie - I did a DoS attack against myself !

  by Simon in

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  sorry the site was offline for a short while - i kicked off a re-index of the site to pick up the http -> https changeover and, well, i didn't put any rate limits in place so google went full bore at it.

  having the site hosted in google's data centre probably helps it go faster than normal.. in other news, i now know the site can scale to handle an insane number of requests if it ever needs to (as long as i put some more coins in the meter)..

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  Thanks for paying to keep the lights on, Simon!
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  New Shunning Video - RC 2016

  by wifibandit in

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  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20rww_-7ua.

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  That is the craziest shit I have ever seen! How can anyone not think this is a cult?
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  Field Service Privilege Can Be Taken Away Due to Hairstyle and Tight Pants???

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  millie2105 hours agohere is something i just found out this week.former belief - field service is a publishers inalienable right new belief - field service privilege can be taken away if person styles hair or wears clothing in a way that is deemed metrosexual.i was pretty much dumbfounded.. this was posted on another thread, so i decided to start a new topic about this.

  i think this is amazing!

  i wish this was in place when i was a kid.

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  Here is something I just found out this week.
  Former belief - field service is a publishers inalienable right
  New belief - field service privilege can be taken away if person styles hair or wears clothing in a way that is deemed metrosexual.
  I was pretty much dumbfounded.

  This was posted on another thread, so I decided to start a new topic about this.

  I think this is amazing! I wish this was in place when I was a kid. In my mind I see all the JW kids running out and getting their hair dyed purple and donning tight pants with colorful socks! I would have done ANYTHING not to go out in field service!
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  Please sum up the last decade in JW history

  by oldskool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i used to be a member of this site, but jumped off a good number of years ago (08?).

  i don't have access to my old email, so i'm using a new account.. anyway, i was baptized jw in late 90's.

  da'd mid 2000s.. when i left there were three meets a week plus field service.

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  Wow! I left the witnesses 15+ years ago, and I have never seen all of the changes over the past 15 years summarized in one place. It really is amazing!

  It almost doesn't even look like the same religion (almost). It just seems so bizarre.

  The creepiest change I have seen since i left are the Sophia and Caleb cartoons and their new slogan "Listen, Okay, and be Blessed". I watched one of those episodes and at the end, one of those creepy cartoon kids looked at the "camera" and said, "Listen, obey, and be blessed" and my hair stood on end!
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  Jehovah Witness vs Jehovah's Witness

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being brought up as a jehovah's witness means you are so used to the term that you rarely stop to think about it.. one thing i've noticed is that people unfamiliar with the religion will say "jehovah witness" (no 's) instead which i always found a bit grating.. but watching the us election, something struck me.

  people are often referred to as "trump supporters", not "trump's supporters" and so on.

  thinking about other things, people would say they were "united fan's", not "united's fans" and so on.. it seems weird that a group would refer to themselves as though it was someone else talking about them (in the 3rd person, if i have that right).. what do you think?

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  prologos
  

  I am one of Trump's supporters or I am one of the many Trump supporters?

  
  I don't know ... either way sounds wrong.
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  Jehovah Witness vs Jehovah's Witness

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being brought up as a jehovah's witness means you are so used to the term that you rarely stop to think about it.. one thing i've noticed is that people unfamiliar with the religion will say "jehovah witness" (no 's) instead which i always found a bit grating.. but watching the us election, something struck me.

  people are often referred to as "trump supporters", not "trump's supporters" and so on.

  thinking about other things, people would say they were "united fan's", not "united's fans" and so on.. it seems weird that a group would refer to themselves as though it was someone else talking about them (in the 3rd person, if i have that right).. what do you think?

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  "Jehovah Witness" has always grated on me, even to this day! It doesn't even make any sense without the apostrophe and s. What is even worse is when I hear someone say that so-and-so is "a Jehovah". A what? Please! Your ignorance is showing. You might want to tuck that shit back in.

  I have to admit that when I am in certain company who are discussing JWs and I do not want them to know that I was ever even associated with them, I will purposely say "Jehovah Witness" just to prove how far removed I am from them!
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  The two paths of exJWs

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's easy to think of exjws as being a single amorphous group but the more i think about it, the more i believe that there are two distinct sub-groups and wonder if you agree.. there are those who believe and those who don't.

  i know that seems obvious but let's break it down a bit more.

  there are those who don't and never believed and some who are looking for a religion to match their beliefs.. i used to think this split would be between born-ins and converts but of course it's possible for born-ins to be believers although i suspect that many, like with other faiths, do so simply because they have never experienced anything else or made a conscious choice.

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  I think there is a certain niche of people that are attracted to what the WTS has to offer. I am talking about converts, not born-ins. I have noticed that many of the converts are poor, may be in abusive relationships, or have other things in their lives that seem out of control.

  The WTS provides 2 things: hope and control. The new convert instantly has hope that their shitty life will get better, and the WTS provided regiment and control that salves the feeling of their life's circumstances being out of control. And to boot, they get an instant support system to go along with it.

  Even when the convert starts to doubt or no longer believes, it is hard to let go of all of those other "supports" put in place by the WTS.
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  Why are the Scientologists Getting All of the Attention?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  there are more jws than scientologists.

  jws shun their ex-members, too, and have beliefs just as weird.

  we also have had our celebrities .... michael jackson, prince.

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  There are more JWs than Scientologists. JWs shun their ex-members, too, and have beliefs just as weird. We also have had our celebrities .... Michael Jackson, Prince.

  So why don't JWs have the spotlight in the media as much as the scientologists? It doesn't make sense. I guess since the JWs become tight-lipped and refuse interviews on any controversial topics, it makes for a boring news story. The Scientologists come out with all claws, and the TV cameras line up to get the shot.
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  NEW PEW Research data on Jehovah's Witnesses just released

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was expecting people who "identified" as jws to follow watchtower beliefs more closely than these pollsters report.. .

  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/26/a-closer-look-at-jehovahs-witnesses-living-in-the-u-s/.

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  My money in on the dubs not understanding the questions. Seriously, have you attempted to have a discussion with a Dub that required reasoning on their part?

  DataDog, that is exactly what I thought!. I also wondered if most JWs even understand the differences in ideologies between conservatives, moderates, and liberals. I'm sure if any of them would even know how to answer the question.
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  To Continue the Theme of All Things Prince ... The Dirty Songs List

  by Wild_Thing in

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  link is here.. line outapr 18, 2013. .

  "an incomplete and disorderly catalog of prince's dirty songs".

  by kelly o. .

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  Growing up, my older siblings listened to Prince and so I already knew a few of his songs ... I LOVED Let's Go Crazy. I was only seven or eight years old when Raspberry Beret was released, and thought I had found my new favorite. Well, my mom or older sister or somebody quickly told me that I couldn't sing that song because it was a dirty song. And of course I had no clue how it could possibly be dirty. As far as I was concerned, it was a catchy little song about a fruit shaped hat.

  Since then, my catalogue of Prince songs has grown significantly, and even looking at just the song titles can be quite blushing. And now ... I think you to myself .... Really? Raspberry Beret? THAT was the Prince song you objected to?