Posts by riverofdeceit

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I unwillingly gave blood!!!!!

by ButtLight in

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yep.

i didnt want to, and it was taken from me anyway!

i was at our cabin this weekend, walking through the woods.

riverofdeceit

I never had a tick bite but I am surprised that so many could be biting you without you feeling any pain

Actually they dont bite, but you dont feel them at all!
You be quiet emu!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They actually inject something that makes you not feel them (i've heard...I am not a biologist). Anyhow, I was fishing one day in shorts around some tall grass. Later that evening after stepping out of the shower I had one hell of a shock: a tick had attached itself to my testicles. I laugh about it now, but OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!!! I am now completely paranoid of ticks and my wife makes fun of me. She just doesn't get it.

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Did you ever write an excuse on the back of your service report?

by JH in

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when i joined the jw's, i remember an elder stating that when you do less than the average number of hours in your month, mark the reason why in the back of the service report sheet that you give at the end of each month.. did anybody else receive these instructions way back in the late 80's?

riverofdeceit

I remember the one time I aux pioneered. I only got 57 hours. The elder I was giving it to told me to just write down 60.

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 5-7-06 WT Study

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 5-7-06 wt study (april 1, 2006 issue, pages 21-25) (baptism).

review comments will be in red.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

riverofdeceit

No, I know that. He was already a "brother". Already a baptized dub, and he got baptized again.

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 5-7-06 WT Study

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 5-7-06 wt study (april 1, 2006 issue, pages 21-25) (baptism).

review comments will be in red.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

riverofdeceit

Made only once--no rebaptisms allowed

When I was baptized there was an old guy (forgot his name) who was getting baptized again. I never got an answer as to why. Anyone ever heard of this happening or know of a reason that someone would get baptized twice? I wish I could remember his name.

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"Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"

by scout575 in

"according to believers, god is answering millions of their prayers every day.

prayer seems to be especially powerful in the medical arena - god eliminates cancers, kills viruses, reverses the efffects of poisons, heals internal organs, repairs injuries etc.".

the above quote is taken from an ex-christian website.

riverofdeceit

The bible clearly states somewhere in there that we dont need all of our limbs... something about tripping over your hand sucks, so if that should be happening to you just bust out your machete and chop that sucka right off.

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Are people on earth "pawns"in Jehovah and Satan's chess game?

by booker-t in

one of my best friends in the world pam who is a non-judgmental born-again christians told me that she thinks that we are only "pawns" in a chess game played by jehovah and satan.

at first i thought pam was joking with me but she told me she was serious as a heart attack.

she then started to explain her position.

riverofdeceit

Are people on earth "pawns"in Jehovah and Satan's chess game?

as opposed to people somewhere else? Sorry, I couldnt help myself. If we are the pawns, then who are the other pieces? Any ideas?

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quick question

by riverofdeceit in

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friends

yo.

my wife is doing a report on religion and has to do an interview with a person of that faith.

we are cheating and pretending i'm a person from work who is a jw.

riverofdeceit

Yo. My wife is doing a report on religion and has to do an interview with a person of that faith. We are cheating and pretending I'm a person from work who is a JW. I'm trying to explain the five different meetings but I don't know what magical book they are studying for the book study. Any help would be appreciated.

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Attacking Satan by drawing scary pictures

by hallelujah in

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i was watching pictures of the stampedes at the haj and it occurred to me that throwing stones at the pillar of satan was a really ineffective way of dealing with evil in the world.

it occurs to me that drawing scary pictures of satan in the watchtower is similarly ineffective in combating evil.. any thoughts?

riverofdeceit

Householder to JW: "So, if I buy one of your crappy magazines, will you get your multi-headed demon snake thingy pet off my lawn?" Robert V Frazier

hahaha hilarious. Reminds me of captioning almost all the pictures in the Greatest Man book

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Re-instatement - How long ex - elders?

by CaptK in

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i am a white male and was d'fed in late 2000. i started attending the sunday talk and wt for the last two years.

my old congregation was merged into a new congregation following the years that i was gone (downsizing yes) with now all the elders are another race than myself.

i wrote a re-instatement letter in mid dec...which the elders never answered till mid jan... for a committee hearing.

riverofdeceit

I was disfellowshipped for about three years. You have to play your cards right. Remember: There is no holy spirit on these dudes. (regardless of whether or not there is any holy ghost anywhere else - ask scooby doo, maybe he knows) I did a bunch of "naughty" things for those three years, then I went to about 5 meetings, sneaking out early and such, wrote a big long "repentant" letter telling them of my naughty stuff and how I -ahem- overcame them. How I used to have a "bad attitude" and how I have overcome it, and so on. They met with me two weeks later, reinstated me one week after that. Now, I am NOT a believer, and I wasn't at the time I was reinstated, but I can be a convincing sob. My cousin on the other hand, a real believer, disfellowshipped for loose conduct, extremely repentant, never missed a meeting, prayed all the time...took him a year of constant letter writing/ass kissing, etc. It very much depends on the elders personal feelings and your ability to bullshit. what is your rush anyway?

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Who is more powerful? the convincer or threatener?

by DavidChristopher in

is it the guy who has a gun to somebodies head trying to force them to do what he wants, or the guy who convinces him to put away the gun?

who is the most powerful of the two?

can being curious outweigh the desire to control, threaten, and punish others?

riverofdeceit

Who is more powerful?

1. define power.

2. define the objective

If using a threat is the only way to convince someone then a good convincer will have recognized this. It may just depend on how much convincing is needed. Also, for a threat to get the proper result it has to be believed to be real (convincing).