hey everyone!.
as you all may know, denmark is famous for its cartoons that can make a whole world laugh out violently.
we are also capable of drawing other subjects than unshaved middle-eastern men: .
Hey everyone!
As you all may know, Denmark is famous for its cartoons that can make a whole world laugh out violently. We are also capable of drawing other subjects than unshaved middle-eastern men:
http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/
Everything is in english. It's kept me laughing throughout my hangover - hope you will enjoy this great example of what keeps the vikings laughing over here :-)
Have a nice day folks!!!
float.
seems less punk than the older works.
i guess that makes it more accessible.
Flogging Molly rules!!! Along with Dropkick Murphys
i certainly have heard a lot of idiotic stuff during my tenure as a witness - but this one is priceless:.
a neophyte was complaining about the heat, humidity, physical effort, etc., involved in attending the district convention at veteran's stadium in philadelphia - and she was right.
it was miserable.
G’day fellahs!
1. A couple of months after U2 had performed a big concert in Copenhagen, we had an assembly, and the circuit overseer had been reading a review of the concert, in which it was stated that ‘Bono acted as a priest preaching his message of love and mutual understanding between the people on the Earth to his willingly listening and believing audience that night’.
The idiot did not understand the simple figurative language used in the article, and warned us all about this ‘band that was truly a part of Babylon the Great’ and that we would risk being ‘guilty of idolatry’ by attending this event.
I happened to have been at the gig and was surprised to find out that I had sinned!
Surprising that he choose to hit out at the world’s most loving band when he had the chance of raging against more ‘evil’ concepts like The Rolling Stones or even Bon Jovi.
At the time I had been a keen listener of Slipknot and the like for years so my ears almost fell off.
2. An old guy made a speech in my congregation. He started out by saying ‘Hello, my name is Simon Winther – also in the summer! Ho ho’ and then the standard was pretty much defined. He rambled on about the usual stuff – and then he got the great idea of pointing out certain really bad elements from Satan’s Evil World.
In the exact words he warned us about things like ‘Harry Potter, Play-Station, X Box, XP, Inter-net, S-M-S, I-Pod and other so-called modern inventions that are made up to make us stumble and fall down into Satan’s World’ (I wrote it carefully down not to forget it).
Wow.
i grew up around very hypocritical jw youth.
many of whom i now know at 20 were never living up to the lie they put out ... stupid me i was.
here i stand now because of it - i am sure most of you here being ex-jw's know this very familiar situation.
Hello there!
Well, I am quite familiar with the situation, as I lived that way myself, although I still believed. But as soon as I realized what a big pile of bullshit my life was, and especially when I found the truth about the ‘truth’, I knew I had to get out of it. But as you all know, it is a long and exhausting process, and after years I am still not finished, though I have gotten over the hardest part – to learn how to be cynic about family and friends that will never see you again. Since I am a mariner and on the sea much of the time, being hard comes naturally. So I guess that is a blessing.
And one thing I do not understand is why so many of those living a double life never get on and get a decent life outside of the cult. MANY of them must have serious doubts, right?
I know that when you are inside, you are alone with your thoughts and it is dangerous to express any concerns or doubts about the Society (I sincerely hate the capital letter).
But – when I first started fading, many of my bad-ass-dub friends knew very well what I was doing, so it would have been quite safe to be honest and talk to me about their doubts, if I was leaving anyway, right?
But they did not – instead they just did all they could to talk me out of it and all of a sudden showed a kind of newfound born-again-christian love and devotion for the Society. And when I eventually fell into a spiritual ‘relapse’ because of the pressure from the people I loved, they – along with myself – went on with their wild double life, openly being hypocrites and disobeying all the laws, even boasting about it in the KH after the meeting!
WHY? They are not even being honest to themselves – and the way I see it, a double life can never be a decent and happy life, but will remain an unsolvable conflict until the day you die.
Do they not have doubts? Do they not desire freedom above all, as they time and time again run their head against the walls of the cult and realize that elders and the Watchtower law codes are in charge of their lives and occasionally slam down hard on them when their ‘sins’ are uncovered.
They must have doubts, they can not be stupid. It is so obvious that something is wrong, even when you believe. I have heard that from so many formerly strong believers now.
This is sort of my point:
I can understand why some choose to stay, if they at a high age finds the truth about the truth, as it must be extra hard to get out of it if you have wife and kids in it.
But when you are young, you have quite a fair chance to go out and get a clean start and a family away from the hell inside of the organization.
When I have hard times fading, I think about the kids I know I want in the future, and they must not grow up in the same shit I did, and have to go through the same hell I did. It would then be a circle with no end. I must break the circle! This is where it ends. It is not in question that the circle must brake before the next generation.
I just don’t understand why they don’t do anything. I really feel sorry for them. Maybe the desire for freedom is only that strong, if you – like me – is a rebel by nature?
My best wishes for all of you! :-)
Redbeard of the Seven Seas.
it feels like being in the twilight zone right now!
what kind of choice is is when we are put in the position of choosing between loved ones and our freedom??
i am so angry right now, i feel like screaming in frustration.
Hi Maddie! I think I know how you feel, I often have the same thoughts. It's the most tragic choice you can force a human being to make. It should not be this way!!! But it helps that everytime one of the old farts from GB or one of the many other fools participating in ruining the life of their fellow human beings die, you know they are not going to heaven or anywhere else, but they have wasted their entire sorry life waiting for something that will never come for them. Each time we can be happy that we belong to those whose sight is clear enough to see behind the lies. All my good thoughts to you. Redbeard
i want to fade from the org but i am not really sure how many meetings i should miss to begin with.
is it best to decrease them gradually or go once a month?
i have a son and baby grand daughter that are jw's and belong to a different congregation.
Bluebell has already delivered a very good reply to you, very valuable advice. I can add my own situation; I'm gonna be a sailor, currently taking my four-year course to become a ship's officer, which means I'm going to be away from the country for periods of up to 9 months. Conventiently, I realised that this makes me completely out of reach for the congregation and the elders, and they can do NOTHING about it, there's no 'legal' steps they can take towards me. So, make something the excuse. It can also just be working overtime or at nights so you can't attend the meetings. This can get comprehensive though, regarding education and work it's of course not something that one should just do to make a fade easier, it's gotta be something you really want to do. But its nice if you can find something you would like to do that can 'coincidentally' hinder your meeting attendance. Then there's the easier one: Go on holidays or a course or something else for a period of time, maybe a month, long enough to make them used to not seeing you there. Then after you've returned, simply don't show yourself in the kingdom hall anymore, and do not hand in reports anymore, this way you lose contact with the congregation, and it may be a while before they start worrying. This has so far worked in my situation, as it's still a while 'till I'm going to the Seven Seas, and I couldn't wait any longer with fading. It may not be as simple in your situation but this is in short what I did. Sorry for the crappy formatting. :-) Wish you all the best.
hi everyone, don't know if you remember me, i posted a topic a while ago because i was in need of advice about what to do in my life - so to all you who took your time and posted caring replys and good advice, i just want to say that i've made up my mind - i'm continuing my fade for the fourth month and i'm gone from the borg for good.
if some elders decide to stick their nose in it, i'll shut the door myself.
there's no future in staying in there for the sake of anyone else, lying to yourself and everyone else.
Hi everyone, don't know if you remember me, I posted a topic a while ago because I was in need of advice about what to do in my life - so to all you who took your time and posted caring replys and good advice, I just want to say that I've made up my mind - I'm continuing my fade for the fourth month and I'm gone from the Borg for good. If some elders decide to stick their nose in it, I'll shut the door myself. There's no future in staying in there for the sake of anyone else, lying to yourself and everyone else. Thank you, to the ones who replied, and to all of you, for being here and providing "food at the proper time" ;-) Peace, love and freedom from Denmark.
for me its an old one, here's the link.
i love the lyrics!.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luba&search=tag.
There's just so many... Music is usually my psychiatrist, in this it is too. Currently it is Muse - Starlight.
i've been on the board for quite a while now and was wondering, what do my fellow jwdr's do for work, employment or career?
me, i'm in probably one of the most hated careers in america right now.
(not gonna tell you what it is either) but how about you, what do you do to earn a little coin?.
I'm studying to be an officer in the Danish merchant fleet, aka 'captain'.. an education that combines navigator, engineer and fireman in one. Quite unusual for a (former) jw I think. Have never heard of anyone else
hey!
i'm new to this forum as a user, 'been hanging around for a while and enjoyed reading the posts here, this site has provided a lot of confidence and encouragement to me through harsh times.
so nice to know that other people out there struggle with the same issues as me.
I sincerely thank you all for your comments and the amount of time you dedicated. I wish you all the best. Redbeard :-)
