i'm tired of being an apostate, atheist, agnostic, take your pick.
i was going to start calling myself a heretic, but then i decided to look up apostate in the thesaurus.
look at all the lovely words we have to choose from:.
I'm an apostate, plain and simple. I see no need to put too fine a point on it.
I just don't care for the way DissidentTruck fails to roll nicely off the tongue, and FrondeurTruck sounds too gay for me.
I can even go into online games as Apost8, which is kinda kewl.
No, nothing wrong with it at all.
You all can change your name if you want, but that just leaves more apostatey creamy goodness for me and the WT Wizard!
RD
i'm planning on giving him t w o dollars!
and i plan on making a h u g e deal of it as i secretly tickle his palm with the bills.
any hints?
I'm not at all certain what the point is, but it sounds funny.
I'll reserve my opinion until I know more.
RD
in the dispelling of the grand illusion, was there any particular book or writer .
that just made something "click" in the watchwork or your more rational self?
although i must give credit to many eye-opening books over the past year, .
Wow, I gotta check that one out.
I got a Bday coming up, I usually compile a booklist to make it easy for my family, I'll look into this one.
RD
EDIT: Oh. Postmodernism. Well, I'm glad it worked for you, but I'll pass.
i keep hearing - recently at a circuit assembly and also in the new jan 15th wt the phrase - progressive.. now i know people will argue that the gb are very conservative and not progressive but we (active jws) keep being asked are we progressive?
this is because of all the changes (progression) vs. continuation of the past.
we all know changes have been made and are on the way - some have been announced officially but i truly believe the rank and file are being [prepared for yet more changes - hence progressive as the phrase of the moment.
You callin me a spineless ratbastard 5go?
Well, I might just have to buy your town and evict ya, lol.
When I can get a break from my busy schedule of despoiling the planet, single-handedly melting the icecaps and keeping minorities down.
I'm swamped, man.
RD of the "tongue-in-cheek" sheep class
i keep hearing - recently at a circuit assembly and also in the new jan 15th wt the phrase - progressive.. now i know people will argue that the gb are very conservative and not progressive but we (active jws) keep being asked are we progressive?
this is because of all the changes (progression) vs. continuation of the past.
we all know changes have been made and are on the way - some have been announced officially but i truly believe the rank and file are being [prepared for yet more changes - hence progressive as the phrase of the moment.
WT Wizard says they will eventually ban sleep as it gets in the way of 24/7 servitude.
I can imagine the article "sleep, is it for True Christians?'
And they will say the beds contribute to a whole lotta fornicatin', so true christians would want to avoid the temptation.
Instead, go out in service more!
RD
i keep hearing - recently at a circuit assembly and also in the new jan 15th wt the phrase - progressive.. now i know people will argue that the gb are very conservative and not progressive but we (active jws) keep being asked are we progressive?
this is because of all the changes (progression) vs. continuation of the past.
we all know changes have been made and are on the way - some have been announced officially but i truly believe the rank and file are being [prepared for yet more changes - hence progressive as the phrase of the moment.
I always thought the political spectrum went:
Full-Bore Marxist Commies ----- Unwashed Hippie Pinkos ----- Spineless ratbastards ----- Fatcat Capitalist Pigs ----- Fascist Militia Wingnuts
I'm a pretty solid fat cat capitalist pig, myself.
RD
i recently saw my jw brother and sil and listened to them talk about poor sister sick(o) who has been diagnosed with major mental problems.
she went to the doctor's and the doctor supposedly began to berate her out of the blue because she is a jehovah's witness.
now the family wants to have the doctor formally rebuked for his so called "discriminatory comments".
I'm in the truth right now,
To go back to the WT I would have to clothe myself in lies, immerse myself in falsehood, and breath the toxic fumes of phoniness.
Never.
RD
of course, as witnesses, everything was possibly "demonized".
if you got anything second hand, you could be in demon trouble.
if you saw a horror movie or read anything by stephen king, you were inviting the demons to you.
Got no use for it.
RD
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=18798.
don't try to convert me, please by: lewis grizzardtues oct 23, 2007 9:05 am edt.
macon,ga.- religious freedom is a wonderful thing.
'Pulling a shotgun' does not necessarily mean actually pointing it at anybody, the term is synonymous with 'brandishing' which means 'to display in an intimidating manner'
As to the term 'convert', I remember the dubs running from that term, but now they are using it in the new kool-ade issue.
I think it's in the article about the 'anointed', something to the effect that if a replacement were needed it would unlikely be a 'newly converted one'
And they say they aren't out to get converts!
Where's my shotgun?
RD
i'm not proud of this.
i went to my dads grave, bearing in mind that i am the only one in the family that ever places flowers on it.
mum had visited and put a bunch of silk roses on it.. i saw red.
Shell,
I'm still waiting to hear what bad thing you did, because I've only heard 'human' thus far, not 'bad'.
RD
