Posts by disillusioned 2

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666 Jehovah Witnesses in Iceland

by disillusioned 2 in

just came across this news article and thought you all might like to see it.

quite funny.. figures on registration in icelands religious institutions have yielded some interesting results.. visir recently compiled data that they requested from the national registry on the numbers of people registered with different religious institutions in iceland.

unsurprisingly, the largest number of registrants belonged to the national church; some 240,395 icelanders out of the total population of 331,244 belong to the church, either by voluntary registration or from being autoregistered at birth.. where other religious institutions are concerned, one of the more interesting data points is that there are exactly 666 registered members of the jehovahs witnesses in iceland..

disillusioned 2

Just came across this news article and thought you all might like to see it. Quite funny.

figures on registration in Iceland’s religious institutions have yielded some interesting results.

Vísir recently compiled data that they requested from the National Registry on the numbers of people registered with different religious institutions in Iceland. Unsurprisingly, the largest number of registrants belonged to the national church; some 240,395 Icelanders out of the total population of 331,244 belong to the church, either by voluntary registration or from being autoregistered at birth.

Where other religious institutions are concerned, one of the more interesting data points is that there are exactly 666 registered members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Iceland.

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The only way to preach!

by ToesUp in

this pic was posted on a pro jw site.

easy way to get your time in.... no need for special pioneers!.

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The cart in my local shopping centre is manned twice a week. Only in the mornings. One day two old sisters are standing right next to the cart holding magazines in their hands trying to get people to take them. The other day it is manned by younger sisters who stand a few yards from the cart leaning on a fence talking to each other. Years ago I definitely would have been in the latter category. Much better than door knocking.

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A call from family - Armageddon this month!

by kaik in

i very seldom receive a call from my jw siblings, i mean seldom.

i can count them on my hand in past 10 years.

while we talk about mom a lot and i am in touch with her, i was very surprised when i received this call.

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Five years ago my sister-in-law put on Facebook after returning from assembly: a speaker at the assembly said, concerning Armageddon, IT'S NOT SOON IT'S HERE! She was so excited. This of course was greeted with loud applause. Idiots!

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Where you are in your life now.....What would you have preferred .... To be left in ignorance ? ...Or to know the truth about the truth

by smiddy in

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friends

i think possibly their are a few valid reasons for either options to this question ,depending on a number of factors .. such as how old you might be, how long you have devoted your life to the "truth" as you believed it .

?....how it may affect your mental/physical health and well being.?.

how it will affect your financial position in your life ,?

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I would have preferred (and have said this many times to my family) to have never been 'in the truth'. But I can't change a decision made by my parents, which has affected my whole life and still is.

I am glad I found out TTATT but it has caused immense conflict in my life with my family. Trying to make them see what I now see but couldn't has caused much pain and tears for all of us. So in that respect with reflection I admit it would have been easier if I had never questioned anything and just been a good little girl and kept my mouth shut and carried on like a little robot. But I couldn't and so here I am.

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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

by Funchback in

there were many addressed to me.

for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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We were told by an elder that we couldn't have our wedding filmed in kingdom hall because it wasn't showing respect to jehovah. Six months later a friend of ours got married in same hall and they were allowed to have theirs filmed. Was I mad!

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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

by Funchback in

there were many addressed to me.

for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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My dad was told by an elder that he had to get rid of his beard. My dad argued with him over it saying that Jesus and disciples had beards. Elder said he thought the beard looked scruffy and they weren't supposed to have them. My dad said "well I don't particularly like your socks" and walked away and never went back.

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"It's The Truth!" (A Poetic Retrospective of the Watchtower Society)

by Confession in

"it's the truth!

i think this just might be the truth

lets all just believe its the truth!

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Amazing! I think you covered everything there. Really clever.

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Your assignment , to be an Guardian Angel.

by James Mixon in

your assignment to watch over brother xxx for the next 80 years.

some guardian angels are assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group, kingdom or country.

the assignment to watch over one person sounds boring, is it a 24 hour thing.. what happen when his assigned person get into a altercation with another person assigned by another angel, do they make bets who will win.

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The angels sick? Well at least they don't come down to earth anymore taking the beautiful women to have sex with them, filling the earth with giants! Thank God for the flood!

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John Lee Hooker - Jehovahs Witness

by apostrate in

a couple of excerpts from an interview with john lee hooker, american blues legend, a few years before he died in 2001. i found this to be somewhat humorous.. have you been married more than once?.

four times.

i aint never gonna get married again.

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"I ain’t never gonna get married again. I mess around some now, you know, but not like I used to. I may shack. When you’re shackin’, you do wrong and you can get the hell out!"

Does this sound like a witness?

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Do you feel embarrsed?

by The Rebel in

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friends

when you look through a keyhole, and see the person you once were?.

as for myself, i am just pleased i have mended my ways.

i realise ( now) my time as a witness was a keyhole that looked in to the ground, and licked the elders arse.

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I used to feel ashamed for being embarrassed about being a witness. After all I was supposed to be proud of the fact and let everyone know and preach at every opportunity, school, work, standing at a bus stop etc. When in reality I would shy away from it.

I hated going on ministry especially when people were nasty and I couldn't answer questions like "how is Michael the archangel Jesus"? And what would have happened if we hadn't gone to war, if everyone were pacifists we would have been taken over by Germany. Would you let your child die because you wouldn't let them have a blood transfusion? So embarrassed trying to explain that one. So embarrassed when I started a new job and had to to tell everyone I was a witness. It usually came up when someone was collecting money for someone's birthday and I had to tell them I couldn't because ........ and then explain why we didn't. I always felt that was a stupid explanation, the beheadings and most of them didn't know or care about it being pagan!

I remember once explaining to a workmate about why we didn't celebrate Christmas. Went through the whole thing, saturnalia etc, thought I had explained it well. Someone else asked that girl why I didn't do it, she said to her "something to do with the Romans"! Thought that was funny.

Many other embarrassing moments over the years, too many to count. I didn't choose this religion my parents chose it for me. My life would have been a lot less embarrassing if they hadn't.