I always wondered if Jesus choked the chicken as a teenager and then swore it off ofter being baptized or if he was so perfect he could control his roving hands 24/7 all through puberty.
marmot
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The First 30 Years of Jesus' Life...
by Nosferatu in...is a big blur.
he was obviously drunk for those 30 years.
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For my Birthday = I will break 10 of Jehovahs Laws in one day! Ideas?
by Witness 007 inyes, i plan to break the 10 "witness commandments" on my birthday!
any idea's...did i miss any?
i can't think of ten!.
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marmot
Listen to some gangsta rap and/or death metal, watch a really violent horror movie, play some violent videogames, smoke some weed, get a tattoo or extra piercing, have oral sex with someone, donate blood, eat blood sausage, question the faithful and discreet slave(tm), form an independent bible study group, attend a lecture on evolution, buy a handgun, go hunting, buy a two-seater car, dye your hair green and get a mohawk, buy a ouija board, make friends with a gay person, sleep in on a saturday morning and watch cartoons, go out for drinks with your co-workers after work, join an amateur sports team, etc.
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How, and how often do you bathe your Pet?
by ohiocowboy indo you have a set schedule to bathe your pet?
does it just get the hose outside, or a nice home spa treatment?
i bathe my dog about once a month or so.
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marmot
My dog is peculiar in that he has no "doggy" smell whatsoever so he only needs a bath if he's rolled in something, which happened to be last night when my brother and I went fishing and he discovered something incredibly foul to anoint himself with.
Including yesterday I've bathed him maybe twice in the last three years, not counting the times he goes swimming in the creek when we go up north. -
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profanity
by janitorforlife inmy disfellowshipped dad told me leaving "the truth" had not been good for me as i used too much profanity and liked to drink.
when i first became "free" i guess i went overboard with profanity and enjoyed the freedom to go to bars if i wanted.
they were novelties.
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marmot
Sorry changeling, that one's an urban legend too.
Wiki:
"There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms was ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible." -
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profanity
by janitorforlife inmy disfellowshipped dad told me leaving "the truth" had not been good for me as i used too much profanity and liked to drink.
when i first became "free" i guess i went overboard with profanity and enjoyed the freedom to go to bars if i wanted.
they were novelties.
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marmot
My favorite TV show is the Trailer Park Boys so yeah, I swear a lot. :D
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Music recommendations for young man born-in
by Eyes Open ini'm just about to buy a cd or two for a born-in relative of mine.
he's expecting the cd's to be delivered to him.
do any of you have recommendations of music which might be good for a born-in to hear?
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marmot
Then you're fighting a lost cause. It's only by planting the seeds of outright REBELLION that he's going to have a running shot at escape.
Give that kid some metal, dammit! When he see it confiscated he'll start to wonder why. Oh yeah, make sure to give him a good set of noise-canceling headphones too so he can listen to it as much as possible before it gets binned. There's nothing like the power of heavy metal to rouse the heart of a young man.
Hehe, I sound like a stereotypical internet apostate. They could use this post at a convention. ;)
(edit) I just thought of an even better idea, get him Guitar Hero II and III for xbox360 or Playstation, those are loaded with awesome metal and they're "radio edits" to make them pass the "E" for everyone family rating. Plus there's a Guitar Hero: Metallica pack coming out soon. -
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Music recommendations for young man born-in
by Eyes Open ini'm just about to buy a cd or two for a born-in relative of mine.
he's expecting the cd's to be delivered to him.
do any of you have recommendations of music which might be good for a born-in to hear?
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marmot
He likes rock, does he? Hmm, how about some Lamb of God, Testament or Ministry? ;)
Heck you could probably sneak these album covers into bethel in plain sight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlZAI2K0eU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcu7BVG7JE4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBKTo5K14M
(Note: these MUST be listened to on a good stereo system at very high volume. When your ears start bleeding turn it down one notch and that's the acceptable volume.) -
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Um hi....
by Hikaru iner, hi.
i dunno where else to say this, but i'm new.
my grandma is a witness.. (17/years old here...)and i fear death/armageddon so i've been studying to become a witness.
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marmot
Welcome! Definitely do some more research, especially if you're considering baptism, hopefully you might be able to see that this pattern has been going on for over 100 years with the watchtower society.
They used to set all kinds of definite fixed dates about when the end was going to come and they've shot themselves in the foot so many times that now they just resort to vague fear campaigns to "rouse the troops" and get them placing more literature. Remember just a couple of years ago the False Religion tract was supposed to start the Great Tribulation and people were getting all excited too. Well, witnesses were getting excited, I don't think a tenth of a percentage of those tracts actually got read.
Here's an excellent archive of actual quotes from published Watchtower literature that shows how far back this practice goes: http://www1.tip.nl/%7Et661020/wtcitaten/part1.htm (sorry, using firefox, you'll have to copy this into your browser)
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Faders: When You Left, did Anyone Give a Damn?
by shamus100 init seems funny to hear how some get love bombed, others get left alone when they fade.
i moved and told nobody - by the time they figured i was 'weak', it was too late - i was gone.
so honestly, what was it like for you when you left the 'organization'?
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marmot
Not really. I got a few "bombing runs", mainly from close friends, but not a peep from the elders. Oh wait, I did get ONE "hi how ya doin'" from an elder, but it was because my mother asked him to.
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Why are witnesses asking if householders know ASL?
by Chloe ini'm pretty sure this has been covered before, but i don't remember the explanation.
this weekend 2 very obviously jw ladies were in my neighborhood.
when they came to my door, the leader said they were with a "volunteer group" looking for those who knew asl or needed the service.. i asked what kind of volunteer group.
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marmot
I was associated with deaf witnesses in two provinces and what you're referring to is called "deaf search work" or just "search work".
I've done it a few times and the biggest benefit was that we didn't have to wear ties or identify ourselves as witnesses, just volunteers looking for deaf people to give them ASL material on DVD. It also makes it really easy to pioneer in an ASL congregation or group.
Doctrinal idiocy aside, the JWs have really tapped a market with the deaf community. Nobody has ever made an ASL bible (at least that's what I was told) and the New World Translation that's currently being released in stages will be the first. The deaf community is also fairly insular from what I've seen and many deaf go to the meetings as an alternative to the gossipy back-biting that goes on in their other cliques. It's a convenient social networking tool.
How long it takes them to clue in to the fact that the kingdom hall can be just as bad is another matter.
There's the potential for really rapid expansion in this demographic because it's been neglected by virtually everybody else and the good ol' boys in Brooklyn get those *kaching!* growth figures in their eyes when they see a ripe market. There's also an equally good chance that those figures will deflate just as fast for the above-mentioned reasons.