CordeDeVelour

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  What's your favorite line from a movie?

  by Isis in

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  ...or least favorite?.

  just for fun of course.. i just posted on the top 10 movies to take on a desert island and it had me wonder.. anyways....as to my favorite:.

  "there is no spoon.

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  TheEye: Sounds like a funny movie!
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  What's your favorite line from a movie?

  by Isis in

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  ...or least favorite?.

  just for fun of course.. i just posted on the top 10 movies to take on a desert island and it had me wonder.. anyways....as to my favorite:.

  "there is no spoon.

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  Hello Think41self!

  Isis: I love Gattaca too, one of my faves. Love Jude law too, tee hee. And Indy..hmm, one of my crushes when I was a teen ;-0

  I have to throw another quote from Ash in Army of Darkness:

  "Good, bad. I'm the one with the gun."
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  What's your favorite line from a movie?

  by Isis in

  1. jw
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  ...or least favorite?.

  just for fun of course.. i just posted on the top 10 movies to take on a desert island and it had me wonder.. anyways....as to my favorite:.

  "there is no spoon.

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  Isis: It's one of my favorites too! I see you're new here too, so hello! Theer's another quote I like off Gattaca:

  Eugene: "We must get drunk immediately!"
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  What's your favorite line from a movie?

  by Isis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...or least favorite?.

  just for fun of course.. i just posted on the top 10 movies to take on a desert island and it had me wonder.. anyways....as to my favorite:.

  "there is no spoon.

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  CordeDeVelour

  One of my favorites is Lester's in American beauty (rather prose than quote but..):

  I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry, you will someday.

  I kind of relate, heh.
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  Can't get Dissfellowshiped

  by NaughyBoy in

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  no matter what i do i just can't seem to get disfellowshiped.

  i havn't been to a meeting since 1994 and have been caught many times smoking, drinking, doing drugs (silly i know) , fornicating (lesbian threesome with 2 jw girls and my lucky self), swearing and sharing my outspoken apostacy with any jw that dares listen.

  it's not like the elders are slack.

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  Hm, a question comes to mind...Why do you care to know if they will disfellowship you or not? You haven't been to a meeting in years. it looks like you have minimal contact with them. Were you baptised?
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  most embarrasing thing ever at a meeting ...

  by alliwannadoislive in

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  hey ... i'm just getting into the swing of this great 'apostasy' thing right ... ?

  ... i thought y'all out there might well have a story or two to tell, so ... plz tell me tell me tell me about the most embarrasing thing you ever saw at a meeting ...

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  Once my brother was given the privilege to give a 10 minute speech a Tuesday night. He got so anxious he started cracking up and he couldn't stop! He went on trying to give his speech with tears in his eyes , sometimes glancing away toward his friends who , of couse, made things even worse by cracking up themselves. The entire hall was either discreetly laughing or whispering their outrage! At long last the elders got so upset they asked him to go back to his seat! I so wanted to laugh but I was mortified!!
  My brother ended up losing his "privileges" for a loong while.
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  Temoins de Jehovah on french TV

  by Celia in

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  wow !

  i am in france and right now the jw are having their summer assemblies all over the country.

  tonight on 2 national tv channels during the news there was a segment on them and these assemblies.

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  ok, since that in France the WT's numbers of new recruits have been plunging downward fast and hard they decided to gather together all the JWs in only 3 cities instead of the usual 20 or so ( there's power in numbers - all that for little good JW to fall in awe saying "Wow, we're many"). My brother who's still a JW -with his wife- went to the one in Villepinte, Paris. I'm trying to keep my mouth shut here so they'll keep on talking to me even though I'm not a JW anymore.

  Here are the numbers for that weekend:

  Villepinte

  Audience:

  Saturday morning: 94787
  Saturday afternoon: 93 763

  Sunday morning: 98 200
  Sunday afternoon: 98 200

  08/05/01:

  Villepinte 98 200
  Lyon 39 559
  Bordeaux 21 5914

  Number of baptisms - Villepinte : 975
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  Armageddon "Victims" in Waiting?

  by Englishman in

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  here's a pic of my family outside our house in weston super mare, england.. .

  according to jehovah's witnesses, we are all going to be destroyed at armageddon for various unspecified misdemeanors.

  excuse me for asking this, but isn't this just a little excessive?.

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  If murder is a sin, God is the ultimate sinner. JWs are so pompous as to say they're going to be the only ones to survive. Build your paradise but don't forget to shovel the billions of corpses on the way, and with a large smile like one of those on the WT illustrations of paradise!

  Wouldn't it be funny if they actually drew an illustration like that? Oh wait, that's not politically correct.
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  A funny thing happened at the book store

  by OrangeBlossom in

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  i recently ordered another copy of "in search of christian freedom" as i got rid of my first one (long story) and since it had been a couple of years since i read it, i decided to get another one.. since i live in a fairly small town, i decided to give a fake name, in case someone worked at the book store that might be a jw.

  it was saturday morning (a time when all good little jw's should be in field service) so i felt it safe to go pick up my book.

  i walk into the store and headed for the counter but was stopped in my tracks by an elder and his family.

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  You know you've got a problem when you are forced NOT to read a book....that's so sectarist....A religion shouldn't have to keep its followers away from any source of information. A real Christian looks on his own and makes the best judgement for him or her..Jeez I don't miss'em!
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  JUSTICE #8 - No Law? Invent One!

  by Amazing in

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  if there is not a clear law - invent one!

  i personally knew a sister who was very difficult to deal with.

  she had many emotional hang-ups, which i believe were left over from her failed marriage to an abusive and alcoholic husband.

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  CordeDeVelour

  Hello there. I'm new here. I was with the JWs for 11 years before I dissociated with them when I turned 18. My brother and mother were in it with me, but my father had been opposed to the WT all of his life. So of course, we were considered 'weak'. It blows my mind everytime to think the ones who need help the most, aka-the ones who need brotherly-sisterly support, are often if not always the ones who are pushed away and left in the cold. Just because they are not behaving like a real exemplary, flawless of little JW borg should (30 hours a month, regular participation, outward reflection of zeal).

  Where is the love all the JWs so proudly preach to everyone? During my years in the "truth" all I saw was discrimination within my congregation. If you did something 'wrong' by the WT's standards you were treated as a modern heretic. What love is there when your name is mentioned from the almighty pupiter in such a way you feel like the bad apple, and everyone is asked to dismiss you?? How human is that?

  I guess I'm lost in my little monologue here, but your post sparked questions I asked myself even when I was within the organization.

  What religion is right which does not act on what it preaches?

  Elders are most too often harsh and devoid of love. They say they reprimand because they love you and God loves his sheep (literally in their case), but all they do is push you further down into depression and isolation. I think they LIKE whatever power they have over their assigned congregation because elsewhere they're nothing. The WT is guilty of killing thousands of good hearted people. Both physically and emotionally. They are beyond forgiveness.

  Well, anyway, this is my two cents for what it's worth.

  Caro.