Posts by themonster123

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More Watchtower Convention invites ..well sort of

by Gordy in

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first the original.

first parody.

second parody.

themonster123

okay the spagehetti one was funny- i laughed and stomped my feet. The others weren't funny-sorry, they just weren't. Good work though!

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JWS WITH CHILDREN ON THE DOORS;TRUANCY?

by badboy in

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a carer of mine noticed that when some jws were doing door-door work, they had children with them.. she did think,those children should be at school,she thought those children were truancing..

themonster123

Maybe it was a school holiday. or maybe they were homeschooled.

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Your Opinion On Text Messaging While Driving

by minimus in

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that i think is crazy but most younger drivers do it.

"Another' false prophecy! :)

by Gayle in

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i forgot about this!

in the early 70's at bethel, knorr spoke down at breakfast commented about a brooklyn heights news article then about jws, complaining that jws were taking over brooklyn heights.

he chuckled saying, "we are not only just taking over brooklyn heights, but over the whole world!

themonster123

On The Way Out, you forgot Starbucks and MacDonalds..... That's scary man, about him laughing about taking over the world I know it's a joke, but still.....

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Top 10 things cultish to outsiders, but normal to Witnesses!!

by themonster123 in

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1. whenever we did the kingdom hall cleaning and would wear casual clothes, we weren't allowed to wear any shirt/sweatshirt/top w/ a logo on it!!!

(and not obvious stuff like "camel cigs" or "budweiser"), but stuff like "reebok" "quiksilver" etc etc etc.

(omg) (hey, on the way out, you reminded me of this in another post!!).

themonster123

Notaness, Good point brotha about shaving-that it IS God-given and I'm sure for you guys it does get dry and patchy and just too bumpy and painful to shave it sometimes....

Kudra, hilarious about the duct tape

and Arthur, so true about the car-door thing! lol....

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My latest JW experience.

by Abandoned in

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i was assigned the dining room this morning at work and i had a jw at the first booth.

i recognized her by her bible made larger because of the included reasoning book.

i got a kick out of recognizing her in this way.

I hated going out in service not so long ago....The whole idea of it never made sense-bothering a bunch of people isn't going to make them change their mind. I remember one morning before I had to go out in service lying in bed and I was just lying there waiting for my alarm to go off at about 8:17 a.m. when that THOUGHT struck me like a bolt of lightning- The idea of service doesn't make sense to me!! When I thought about the faces of everyone I would meet at the door (the apathy, the "....and who are you?"), I started to lose faith in what I was doing. TO a Witness, the householder's (and manager in your case) means that they're RIGHT b/c that's Satan's influence on them, but when I started to think about it clearly, these householders I had to preach to were just....people, regular people. I Was the one who was a part of this crazy religion. The seed had been planted, (my own seed)

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Top 10 things cultish to outsiders, but normal to Witnesses!!

by themonster123 in

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friends

1. whenever we did the kingdom hall cleaning and would wear casual clothes, we weren't allowed to wear any shirt/sweatshirt/top w/ a logo on it!!!

(and not obvious stuff like "camel cigs" or "budweiser"), but stuff like "reebok" "quiksilver" etc etc etc.

(omg) (hey, on the way out, you reminded me of this in another post!!).

themonster123

1. Whenever we did the Kingdom Hall cleaning and would wear casual clothes, we weren't allowed to wear ANY shirt/sweatshirt/top w/ a LOGO on it!!! (and not obvious stuff like "Camel Cigs" or "budweiser"), but stuff like "REEBOK" "QUIKSILVER" etc etc etc. (OMG) (Hey, On the way out, you reminded me of this in another post!!)

2. At district conventions, we weren't supposed to buy from the little ice cream vendor guys selling stuff on the grassy area

3. Witnesses explicitly CALL themselves "sheep." Uhhh, if someone calls you a sheep it's not a G-O-O-D T-H-I-N-G!!!!

4. how loud the speakers got near the end of their district convention talks

5. The Watchtower's depiction of a "party." (a Grandma and a brother wearing khakis and a button-up shirt playing Kerplunk, and NO loud music, or music-period-in sight)

6. filtering of apostate material (it's labeled Apostate Material, when, in a non-WItness world, it's really just..."material.")

7. Everyone's gonna die at Armageddon except for Jehovah's Witnesses (and that one guy on the top of a mountain in Tibet who's never met JWs, but he has a good heart condition)

Okayyyyyyy........I run out....

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Maintain Christian Unity - Follow The Example of Starbuck's

by Arthur in

when i walked away from the watchtower religion, there were several aspects of the organization that i could finally see accurately.

there were things that i had been proud of (refusing blood transfusions, shunning people, obeying the gb in brooklyn); that i was now embarrassed to look back upon.

there were also many things that i had once been ashamed of (critical thinking, questioning, compassion for "worldly people"); that i could now be proud of.

themonster123

Daaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnn!!!! THIS was a good post!! you know, you're pretty smart for a baby.
I love the end line about the cashier having Holy Spirit-I totally cracked up.
But on another note, this post actually was really helpful to me b/c that was a MAJOR reason I believed I was in THe Truth b/c they always are talking about "If you go to another country and visit a Kingom Hall, you'll be automatically welcomed into people's homes and shown a lot of love that you won't find anywhere else. And-think of the unity-every Kingdom Hall you go in across the whole world is the same. In the U.S, all these Christian religions-they can't even agree on ONE thing!" hmm....that was extremely persuasive propaganda when I was in, but the fact you're comparing it to Starbucks' "unity", it kind of brings it all home for m.e

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I can't believe they just sat there...

by troubled mind in

saturday i photographed a witness wedding .

during the part about the woman's role the speaker made the comment to the new bride ,"don't try to manipulate your husband .....we know how you women can be ...!".

my jaw noticeably dropped and i uddered " what the heck " as i looked around to look for support from other women there,.

themonster123

I laughed when I read your line about "At least they were over 20- a rarity for a Witness wedding." On a similar note,

MY aunt was 18 when she got married
my cousin: 18!
my other cousin: 21-ha
my OTHeR cousin: 18
and..my OTHER cousin: 20.

I'm glad when I finally DO get married, I'll be old enought to drink...at my OWN wedding.

And are you for real about the speaker saying "no clinking of the glasses?" OR are you just adding that for comic relief?

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Wife willing to leave the DC early on Sunday.

by OnTheWayOut in

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friends

you all know i post every jw thing that happens to me.

so here it is.. we had booked an airline to go to the 3-day convention this summer.. dc's for many foreign languages are held in jersey city, nj.

the return.

themonster123

Yeah, you guys should go visit this really cool place called Brooklyn Bethel. Did you know they give free tours to the public? ....Just something to think about.