Posts by monophonic

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Raymond Franz in Prague

by Magick in

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=6c6i0fjiynu

monophonic

amen for the courage of franz. although i don't believe exactly how he believes, i respect his beliefs and what he has done to show how corrupt the wtbts is from the top of its heirarchy.

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Cartoon in 'New Yorker'

by IT Support in

if you've a problem viewing the cartoon, it might be easier to open the page in a new window:.

http://gods4suckers.net/archives/2007/11/12/irony/.

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monophonic

saw that too...clipped it out...great cartoon, thanks for scannin it.

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i was loading my purchase in my car yesterday when i saw out of the corner of my eye a 20 something man in suit and tie walk up to me and he was holding what i knew was a watchtower.. after 30 years of slavery and i was running late i went off on him, before he could even open his mouth i said, i was part of your cult for 30 years before i left.

he asked what made me leave, i told him that if when christ came invisibly to earth in 1914 and saw russell and his little group of bible students were the only people who had it right and so gave him authority over his earthly preaching work, why would you be disfellowshiped for teaching anything russell tought?

if the bible says that a person who predicts something to happen and it does not come to pass he is a false profit and the society had not been right on one thing, i told him i lived through [stay alive till 75] and knew many who sold their homes and had enough to live on just until 75 and again nothing happend, did he know that the second pres.

monophonic

looking back on when i was "in" and a pioneer and had people go off on me, looking back now, i completely understand it....and there was something deep inside me that understood it at the time, but i couldn't come to grips with it b/c i wasn't ready to challenge my belief system.

jws do represent something very wrong.

even though it's best to treat people with respect, every once in a while we all lose it....and that's ok b/c it's human. i say don't beat yourself up over it. his take will either be 'he was persecuted for righteousness' and should 'consider it all joy', or you may have given him enough umph to do some research and stop promoting such a destructive belief system.

also, he approached you, you didn't seek him out to give him a piece of your mind....they need to be ready to 'defend their faith' even though it hangs by a thread.

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For those of you who don't go to meetings anymore...

by exwitless in

when you attended your last meeting ever as a dub, did you know it was your last?

did something happen which made it clear in your mind you were 'never going back' (not to be confused with nvrgnbk)?.

the last meeting we went to was the memorial in 2006. we only went because we knew we were already pegged for the elders' unwanted attention, so we had to go to keep them off our backs a little longer.

monophonic

oh, i remember that lame submarine illustration. very funny.

it's amazing people actually believe that jws practice christian philosophy.

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For those of you who don't go to meetings anymore...

by exwitless in

when you attended your last meeting ever as a dub, did you know it was your last?

did something happen which made it clear in your mind you were 'never going back' (not to be confused with nvrgnbk)?.

the last meeting we went to was the memorial in 2006. we only went because we knew we were already pegged for the elders' unwanted attention, so we had to go to keep them off our backs a little longer.

monophonic

August 1999, don't remember the exact date.

for family reasons i still attend the memorial hopped up on xanax and a few drinks.

-why is ~~Brother~~, i mean Mister Monophonic so sweaty when it's cold in here? I can see the perspiration dripping from his satanic looking goatee.

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My Letter to The Editor was Published.....

by AK - Jeff in

again it ran in the sunday edition - i hope that a few people might be 'forewarned' and thus 'forearmed' against the jw religion.

perhaps a jw or two will read it also- here was the letter:.

to the editor; on october 25 the british press was awash with the story of young emma gough from tellford, uk.

monophonic

congrads and great, great letter....a very important message to get out indeed.

applause to you.

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Ever had the "privilege" of ...

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

... attending an international convention?

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was it a total waste of time and resources, or did you actually gain something from the experience?

monophonic

dude, i was a kid at that same convention...wasn't that also the year 'my book of bible stories' came out?

my parents have a bunch of photos from it....i'll have to see if they're still around.

assemblies didn't get good until i could sit with my friends, scope out the ladies and leave with phone numbers and reeking of pheromones.

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Amazing Krut Vonnegut quote

by monophonic in

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friends

"and lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been.

but she did look back, and i love her for that, because it was so human.

"

monophonic

wow, thanks steve2, i didn't know that about his wife.

his last book, i believe...can't remember the title off hand, was a great book of essays...oh, 'man without a country'.

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Stupid Idiots at the meeting

by B_Deserter in

i was at the sunday meeting today (i know, i know...) and i heard this one guy give a comment about how hollywood movies always portray rich people as happy and successful, so that's proof that satan controls the film industry because it's a lie.. .

i struggled to think of one recent hollywood film that portrayed anyone as being happy, let alone rich and happy.

if they made a movie like this guy was describing, it wouldn't sell.

monophonic

these lame comments need to be recorded and kept online somewhere.

man, i wish i was one of those people who recorded whole assemblies when i was "in"...there'd be so much actual footage of the double-speak.

maybe it's time to start a project digitizing what people here have on tape and uploading it to archive.org?

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This WT article makes me mad.... this is evil

by dawg in

it's bad enought that young people in the wt have to sell magizines, risk shunning when they find out the truth about the gb... but this article really makes me laugh and angry at the same time.

the part that made me the maddest was when the father said he "conquered" the habit, lying bastard!

http://www.watchtower.org/e/200611a/article_01.htm.

monophonic

“Masturbation is indeed a “hurtful desire.” It is also “uncleanness,” for it is an immoral practice, and this explains why the masturbator generally is ashamed of himself and hides his repugnant act from the sight of others.”

“….abnormal, mentally deranged people are notorious masturbators….many mentally disturbed priests and nuns are chronic masturbators.”

-Watchtower 1973, September 15th

“Masturbation can lead to homosexuality.”

-The Youth Book, page 44

It's so great that Jehovah gave the governing body new light regarding masturbation. (booming god voice): it's not as bad as you think, just keep it on the down-low and TRY to stop

-but, God, we had a whole chapter that masturbation leads to homosexuality in the red youth book.

pretend it never happened, like the great job you did deciding the fate of those pesky people in Malawi.