Thanks everyone for the great (and hilarious) replies. To "imanaliento": Not a bad idea. It so happens that there is a Freethinkers Union on campus that I'm investigating. It'd be a great job to join and set up a table near the Dubs' table. And Scumrat ... don't tempt me ...
Ephanyminitas
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They're on my campus!
by Ephanyminitas insay it ain't so.
you'd be lying.
) i knew it'd happen eventually though: witnesses set up a table here at my university.
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How do you define evil?
by kenpodragon inhow do you define evil?
is evil what you are told is evil or is it a personal matter that you decide for yourself?.
i ask, as many people will say something is evil.
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Ephanyminitas
How do I define "evil"? HTML formatting -- that's how!
No, really, I don't believe in Evil. I feel it's a concept made up by religious fanatics to make people believe in higher powers. There IS no Evil.
Take, for example, Adolf Hilter, who is arguably the most hated man in history. He wasn't evil. There was nothing inherently "bad" about him. In the end, he was just a very sick man. He was demented, sick, and twisted -- but evil? No, I don't think so. He -- like Osama bin Laden -- is a person with severe psychological issues.
Evil -- in this broad sense -- is nothing but superstition, meant to make you believe in higher powers, "sin," and things like that.
Bah!
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What's the worst thing you did at the KH?
by glitter in.
i went to the 1999 memorial with no underwear on!.
so what's the worst thing everyone's done on borg property?
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Me? I was a model Witness youth. I never did ANYTHING that could Bring Reproach on Jehovah's Name ("Jehovah," I now know, meaning, "the Society"). I'd've been an M.S., but my hours weren't high enough. Awww.
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They're on my campus!
by Ephanyminitas insay it ain't so.
you'd be lying.
) i knew it'd happen eventually though: witnesses set up a table here at my university.
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No! Say it ain't so. (No, don't. You'd be lying.) I knew it'd happen eventually though: Witnesses set up a table here at my university. I rode the shuttle to the campus's nexus, the U.C., and I saw a trio of JWs sitting at a fold-out table, perpendicular to another group's ("Love for all; hatred for none") table.
Then, on my way back to the dorms, I actually got on a shuttle with them. There was a middle-aged "brother" and "sister," and a dude in his late teens, who might have recognized me. (Fire Dragon, whom I am friends with, went to his congregation at one time. I am of course assuming what congregation they were from, but it is most likely this one, which is nearby.)
I thought about giving them a hard time, but chickened out. I did watch the younger one on the shuttle and quietly rejoiced that I was no longer part of the organization. Ah, freedom. They got my youth, but they won't get the best years of my life, dagnabbit!
Ephanyminitas (who wishes this stupid editor would remember that I _don't_ want to use HTML formatting!)
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One Year, 10 hours, and 43 minutes
by Bendrr inand just why the hell is iraq still on the map?!.
we've had our time to remember and mourn and heal.
no more memorial services are going to make me feel any better about what happened last year.
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"And then Iraqi newspapers commemorate the 9/11 mass-murders with the headlines "'God's Punishment.'"
REALLY?! How sick. I admit, it's tempting not to blow those religious wackoes out of the water, but that just wouldn't be right. Right? ...
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Can "Wordly" people go to book studies?
by Double Edge innever being a jwi have a question.
my dub friend invited me to her church (whatever) one sunday, which i of course i went - it was ok - nothing special, except i know what you mean about being "love bombed".
my question.... do any non-dubs go to the weekly bookstudies?
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It was said: "'By a show of hands, how many pedophiles are here in this room?'"
Then you might say: "Oh ... that's right. I guess you'd prefer to keep quiet about it. Okay, thanks anyway."
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I'm Free. I'm Free! I'm FREE!
by Ephanyminitas ini have finally extricated myself from my jw parents' house.
i'm living on my own, and on a college campus!
now i can visit the forum whenever i want to!
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Er ... my report card? I, uh ... ooo, look at the time!
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I'm Free. I'm Free! I'm FREE!
by Ephanyminitas ini have finally extricated myself from my jw parents' house.
i'm living on my own, and on a college campus!
now i can visit the forum whenever i want to!
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Thanks to everyone. Since two people have asked, I'd better answer: my major is English (creative writing)!
Ephanyminitas ("Me fail English? That's unpossible!)
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I'm Free. I'm Free! I'm FREE!
by Ephanyminitas ini have finally extricated myself from my jw parents' house.
i'm living on my own, and on a college campus!
now i can visit the forum whenever i want to!
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I have finally extricated myself from my JW parents' house. I'm living on my own, and on a college campus! Now I can visit the forum whenever I want to! I will associate with evil, evil apostates!
But I'm debating, though, whether or not to really be a part of the forum. On one hand, it's therapeutic to be among other JW defecters and to bitch about the Society. But on the other, I just want Jehovah out of my life, and visiting this forum will -- in whatever form -- keep him in. Torn, torn, torn.
Maybe I'll just take it a day at time ...
Ephanyminitas (who despises the HTML formatting options)
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Why has God Permitted Wickedness?
by hillary_step inyes, i know what the wts teaches....but what do you believe?.
if god exists why is there is so much suffering both among humans and even more so among his creation, where all animals must, deceive then eat one another to survive?
if he does not exist why is there is so much suffering both among humans and even more so among nature where all animals must eat one another to survive?
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Wrote LDH: "Because he's a narcissistic, selfish asshole?" Well said, I say! And don't forget what Homer Simpson once said: God is insecure.