Posts by Amber Rose

On the one hand I can relate to Joel. Being on the recieving end of intolerance, knowing what it feels like, makes you more sympathetic to other "oddballs'. On the other hand, like Junction Guy, Joel makes me want to puke. He completely misrepresents and distorts the ideals of JWs. To say that his mom is so tolerant because she never voted for someone anti-gay, what a laugh. He doesn't know what it is like to be a JW or a DF'd JW because he was never either.

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Learning True Tolerance: Joel Engardio on NPR

by betterdaze in

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learning true tolerance .

by joel engardio .

weekend edition sunday, november 25, 2007 i was raised as a jehovah's witness.

Amber Rose

He understands tolerance. I guess that's why he's not a Jehovah's Witness.

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Email being circulated among JWs regarding the Golden Compass

by The Oracle in

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thought i would share this warning email that is circulating among hundreds of jws.... -----------------------------------------------------------------.

just wanted to inform you all of a children's movie that is coming out in december, during the christmas season, which is entitled "the golden compass".

the film stars nicole kidman and is based on the first of a trilogy of books for children called "his dark materials" written by phillip pullman of england .

Amber Rose

You can google a synapsis of the The Golden Compass ,

This made me laugh. When a person grossly misuses a word, as they did here, it really makes them seem like they don't know what they are talking about. Their whole cover of pseudo intelligence is blown.

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i found a pice of sublimnal art as a dubbie i'm shocked!

by XOCO in

you guys this has really freaked me out so much tonight as i was looking though my revelation book climax at hand i was looking to see where we had left off and i usually do this by seeing where i have stopped highlighting in the book.. so i started at pg 156 & 157 of the book so there were a bunch of marks on those two pages their are pics nothing special there.. but on page 159 their is a pic of jesus in the heavens where he is extending his handout to get a piece of paper and that's where i notice on the hand that were the wrinkles are supposed to be there is a face like a fetusnow i mean anybody can tell you that is a face of a baby.

i don't know why a baby on jesus hand or what it suppose to mean.

i guess it really shows how the control tower (watchtower) make me a jw feel really shitty.

Amber Rose

I agree. That is a very creepy picture. I'm sorry though, I just don't believe in the secret society connection with subliminal art. Maybe Russel was a Mason over 100 years ago but who is keeping the secrets today? Who is directing the artists to "make the hand look weirder", or put a scary face here or there, but don't tell anyone that you were told to? I don't have faith that Bethel can keep secrets that well. They're just bad artists.

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Here's a dollar for gas.....what a joke...

by SnakesInTheTower in

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i heard the other day on the radio that gas (in the us) was up 81 cents/gal.

from this time last year.

i am sure the 2 at the beginning of the price of gas on the sign is about to be as extinct as the dodo bird.

Amber Rose

It seems like the cheapest, most worthless people on earth are usually the first ones to whine when their free ride isn't luxurious enough.

My favorite was when the elders and their wives would make their grand appearance for the CO visit. All the men would work together and the poor elderesses couldn't drive their husbands vehicles. So I would get a car full of spoiled, whiney old women in my shabby little car. Then it would start, "this back seat is not very big." "Is your car supposed to make that noise." "I'm getting a headache." "I think you have an exhaust leak." "I think something else is wrong with your car."

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have u ever wonder why sisters wear skirts to the meeting?

by XOCO in

someone had told be the reason b4 but that was billions of years ago.

any way so why?.

xoco (ur annoyin' lilttle youngin').

Amber Rose

Gotta keep the women in their place. Let them wear pants and they will think they own the place!

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How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

by Trevanian in

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most of the people i've met since i left don't know that i spent years of my life as a door knocker.. i have very dear friends who don't know.

i've even had lovers who didn't know.

my last partner knew, and found it vaguely amusing.. i guess i find it deeply embarrassing, although over the years it's become easier to mention it.

Amber Rose

Usually, telling new people that I used to be a JW isn't something that I like to do. However, I had to get a new hairdresser (old one is still JW). So, she asks me what I'm doing for the holidays, and I was like, "Oh. Uh, I don't know." - awkward pause. Then I thought, that sounded retarded so, either explain why you're a retard or just be retarded. So I said, this is my first year celebrating, my family never celebrated because they were JWs. It turned out that her parents used to be JW's too and we had a pretty interesting conversation.

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Asinine JW comments Part 2: The Sequel

by 5thGeneration in

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there was a cia agent that was just caught for stealing secrets.. i took the opportunity to say to my sister: "well, i remember stories that the kgb infiltrated the society and got as high as district overseers!

" (thinking of course that she may question the "spirit appointed" part).. instead she replied: "i heard the same thing and that once they got there they realized it was indeed the truth and became brothers.".

can you say kool-aid?

Amber Rose

The idea of the CIA even caring enough to infiltrate the WTBTS is funny - I'd have laughed my ass off if you said that to me.

There was something about this in the Daniel book. I can't remember if it was the CIA or the KGB or whoever but it sounded believable to me. The reason for the infiltration is because the WTS was suspected of treason or conspiring against the government. The CIA wanted see if there was substance to the suspicions. As for them becoming "real brothers", uh...yeah...sure they did.