Posts by unbrainwashed

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Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die!

by Sad emo in

i hope this reads ok when i post it!

i couldn't change the formatting.

family member: "i'm calling to tell you, she died in january.

unbrainwashed

Wow...just more proof how braindead our modern society has become.

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once i left the jw social scene and started hanging out with "worldly" people a lot more, i realized that these "worldly" people don't gossip nearly as much as the witnesses.. i didn't realize it at the time but now i can see how much of a gossip-based social structure it all was.

jws absolutely thrive on gossip.

has anyone else noticed this?

unbrainwashed

Once I left the JW social scene and started hanging out with "worldly" people a lot more, I realized that these "worldly" people don't gossip nearly as much as the witnesses.

I didn't realize it at the time but now I can see how much of a gossip-based social structure it all was. JWs absolutely THRIVE on gossip. Has anyone else noticed this?

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-6-2006 WT Study (CHOSEN NATION)

by blondie in

"it is you jehovah your god has chosen to become his people.

are jw children born into god's chosen nation?

after pentecost 33 c.e., every individual...had to make a personal dedication to god and be baptized.

unbrainwashed

One of the subheadings:

Rejected as a dedicated nation

They are talking about the Jews right?

This is totally contradictory to what is said in Romans chapter 11.

But of course it doesn't matter since the WT magazine holds more weight than the Bible in WT-land.

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DO JWS REGARD MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AS SIGNIFICANT?

by badboy in

jw
friends

any ideas?

unbrainwashed

True, but then high oil prices (reflective of increasing demand verses static or decreasing supply) portend serious consequences in almost every facet of our lives.

That's right. It goes down with everything else. I guess it's not really something to look forward to then.

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What book are they studying at the book study these days?

by unbrainwashed in

haven't been to one in a couple of years.

i know they just finished the daniel book.

what are they studying now?

unbrainwashed

Revelation book AGAIN??!!

Actually that's great news! It sounds like organizational suicide to me.

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DO JWS REGARD MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AS SIGNIFICANT?

by badboy in

jw
friends

any ideas?

unbrainwashed

If oil price shots up,I wonder if WT RUNNING COSTS WILL GO UP,MEANING MORE LAY OFFS,MEANING MORE SPECULATION ABOUT ENDTIMES.

I have always thought that this would be the catalyst to the end of the WTS which we are looking forward to. They simply can't operate with oil at $6 a gallon. Remember when oil goes up everything else goes up. They would be able to survive if donations were flowing in at a proportionate rate but that's not gonna happen.

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What book are they studying at the book study these days?

by unbrainwashed in

haven't been to one in a couple of years.

i know they just finished the daniel book.

what are they studying now?

unbrainwashed

Thanks!

That's a funny name for a book released by a bunch of people who say they've had the 'truth' for over a century.

"What does the Bible teach?" - Armageddon is coming in 1914

"What does the Bible really teach?" - Jesus returned invisibly in 1914

"What does the Bible really really teach?" - Armageddon will come within a generation of 1914

"What does the Bible really really really teach?" - the generation has nothing to do with 1914

"What does the Bible really really really really teach?" - Whoever said anything about 1914?

"What does the Bible really really really really really teach?" - Just shut up and do as we say!

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What book are they studying at the book study these days?

by unbrainwashed in

haven't been to one in a couple of years.

i know they just finished the daniel book.

what are they studying now?

unbrainwashed

Haven't been to one in a couple of years. I know they just finished the Daniel book. What are they studying now?

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Are you happier out of the org?

by dobbie in

hi everyone i was just wondering if those of you that have left the org for whatever reason, have found your'e much happier than when you were in it?probably a daft question but i tried to talk to a friend about how i was feeling about a few things and why i don't go to meetings and she said would i really be any happier out than in?it just got me thinking about why i joined in the first place, because i was lonely and down, although i still am several years later it seems!have you found life better on the outside?did you feel a sense of freedom or was it really hard to adjust?when i try to explain what i find hard in the religion they can always say something back that then makes me think i was wrong in the first place and it is the truth after all - aagh!

unbrainwashed

It's awesome to see so many people's lives changed for the better.

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What would happen if WTS banned alcohol?

by Confession in

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any thoughts?

how long?

unbrainwashed

They would be grieving the "spirit".