just read the god delusion, crisis of conscience, and am now reading half of a yellow sun.
4digitcode
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I went to Barnes & Noble yesterday....
by journey-on inand bought two books that have been recommended by jwd posters:.
"how to read a book" by mortimer j. adler & charles van doren.
"the power of now" by eckhart tolle.
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The Movie "Borat "- Did you Like it? What Did you Learn from It ?
by flipper inprobably a lot of you saw borat.
my wife and i laughed our selfs crazy watching it.
mrs. flipper actually fell on the floor watching it, laughing !
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4digitcode
my favorite part for some reason: when he tells the american woman...is this a woman you shrunk gipsy or something like that pointing to a barbie doll she had in a yard sale or something (don't really remember that much sorry) or when he's scared of the old little jewish couple and think they became cockroaches....that was evil...i was scared to laugh actually!i'm too pc. parody is the best way to shed light on issues that would sometimes be uncomfortable to say in plain language. i thought the wrestling was over the top though....
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Has being a JW made you a better person?
by lfcviking inok most of us here on this board (including me) have got our grumbles with the wt for various reasons but please consider this:.
if you came into the 'truth' from the world at whatever point on your life and and have since then left the 'truth', do you think that you are a better person now than before you joined?.
lfcv.
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4digitcode
i became interested in JWs when i was thirteen and was baptized at 17. being a jw helped me lead a good life while i was in high school, not get caught in traps other teenagers did. but it also made me very depressed...now that i'm out i realize i snap more at people, i'm angry and i don't make excuses for anything. i think that comes from years of people walking all over me in abusive kingdom halls....so technically yeah i was better while a jw had more patience, was more kind, would bend over backwards, turned the other cheek...so being a jw didn't make me better. if they instill good qualities in people while on the inside but treat you like crap once you're out making you then bitter for all the hypocrisy they portray then i don't think they do you a great service.
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I came to a realization just now, how about you?
by return visitor ini have been inactive now for over a half a year, and i am just now realizing that there was not one thing i enjoyed about being a witness.
i enjoyed my friends and association with witnesses, and still do.
but i didn't enjoy one thing that we were supposed to do, not one.
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4digitcode
sacrifical loon , i totally agree with you about the structure and certainty of meeting etc. it's weird. it's what made me go back to a KH after almost a year out.(only once and i will never do it again..) sometimes i even tell my boyfriend that it's strange but i would like us to both go in our little sunday clothes to the meetings and go in service,....but don't get me wrong i know it's all bullshit....it's just the ritual i miss. Wednesdays fridays and sundays were my 'ritual days' just like people have shabbath on saturdays or football mondays. is tha tjust plain weird? i miss it but damn! i could never do it again.
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JW's are able to give gifts anytime, not just holidays, BUT DO THEY?
by OnTheWayOut inon a thread i started awhile back, the following was in the initial post:.
otherwise, the wife recently purchased some fancy gifts for her family members.
ready to send home, i asked her how her df'ed sibling would feel being left out.
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4digitcode
totally agree.they never do and i rarely did. only when i came back from trips from abroad. Once i brought back gifts for the most random people in the hall just because i had seen it and it made me think of them in particular...and i didn't bring anything back for some closer friends on one trip but i would on others. well anyway it was a bit awkward. A trendy sister at the hall used to pass down all her last season clothes to teenage sisters myself included and it could have been nice of her because we didn't have money but still wanted to look nice but the other side of the coin was that she and some sisters her age made a show of their cool clothes and then when you would wear the clothes she gave you in front of others she would say OH I KNEW MY SKIRT WOULD LOOK GREAT ON YOU....or NO NO NO THAT4S NOT HOW YOU WEAR IT I SHOULD HAVE KEPT IT or some stupid thing like that. what she doesn't know is most of the stuff we had to throw away anyway because we didn't want to tell her it was too big for us. i'm sure that would have shut her up. sad.
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Have you ever faked a service report?
by Orgull init's only my third day here so, go easy on me.
lol.. seriously, my new doubts have made it harder and harder to go in service.
a few months ago, when a new month rolled around, i realized that i hadn't actually gone in service at all the previous month.
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4digitcode
no i could never fake it. not that i feel anyone who did is bad but i was glad to show the elders when i wasn't going.....
but more as a cry for attention...i still believed it was all real and wanted help in preaching the good lies. ever seen that video from evanescence where she's a star on the outside but her life is a hole sham and she does a commercial for "lies" cereal.......that image came into my mind.
see ya.4dc.
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Did You See Married Couples Arguing Loud in Public,Kingdom Hall, Anywhere ?
by flipper inhello folks.
i touched on this answering another thread and it made me think.
i remember seeing fairly often married couples at times verbally sparring in public at times in the kingdom hall or parking lot.
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4digitcode
well i wasn't married to her but i almost punched a sister in her face at the kingdom hall (rock and roll!!!!!!!!!)when she slnadered my name for the ummmpht time.
the elders must have seen the rage in my eyes becasue the biggest one of them slowly came and stood between us and i'm a pretty skinny sister.......oh shit i can't believe i said i'm a sister.......
help
next thing i know i'll be trying to sell my weekly gossip magazine to a stranger on the tube saying "knowing evry detail of posh-becks sex life will give you eternal life."" oh jesus......
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so let me get this straight
by 4digitcode ini have been on here for only the past 3 days or so....so i don't really know how it goes.. this is an 'apostate' site right?.
so today i've learned that there is just the ol' regular apostate and an 'active' apostate.. but are there actually active witnesses on this site as well??.
because i just saw a topic about someone asking for advice on how to do a talk?.
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4digitcode
wow....thanks guys i do feel so welcome.
i lived in new york city so i know bethel pretty well and the shite that goes on in there as well.
i hope this is the start of a nice and loooooooooong relationship.
bye for now. 4dc
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so let me get this straight
by 4digitcode ini have been on here for only the past 3 days or so....so i don't really know how it goes.. this is an 'apostate' site right?.
so today i've learned that there is just the ol' regular apostate and an 'active' apostate.. but are there actually active witnesses on this site as well??.
because i just saw a topic about someone asking for advice on how to do a talk?.
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4digitcode
i have been on here for only the past 3 days or so....so i don't really know how it goes.
this is an 'apostate' site right?
so today i've learned that there is just the ol' regular apostate and an 'active' apostate.
But are there actually active witnesses on this site as well??
because i just saw a topic about someone asking for advice on how to do a talk?
i mean i think that rocks! but i sure wasn't expecting it. the first time i tried to visit an apostate site i wasn't df'ed yet and i almost passed out on the floor from the guilt of doing it.
so just want some clarifacation.......i always knew there was one type of witness. we were all little clones of each other but now that i'm out i see there is a great variety both out ...and in as well?gulp. i wish i had been smarter, i would have stayed 'in' still talked to my friends but laugh inside about all hypocrisy ....instead of leaving feeling my soul destroyed by all the hypocrisy.
i feel like that would have been enough revenge for me without having lost one person in particular that i love so much....and that i've been considering going back to meetings in order to get reinstated just to talk to........
*sigh* oh well.
Put me in the know. i really do feel like a newbie.......apostafest????so much to learn........
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4digitcode
hahaha too funny.....that last bit on pilates was a brilliant final touch!!!!how the hell do you come up with these? i read another one yesterday and since i'm new to the site, i had no idea it was a joke until after the 2nd paragraph with 'truth that goes poof' but i swear i was so convinced that in the short time i had been out the watchtower could have gotten that much weirder.
I'm sure if somehow (without the obvious blows of course) you found a way to infiltrate bethel and print that as coming from the faithless and pompous slave, half of them would go into rapture over this 'new light'.
Keep them coming.hilarious!!!!