Posts by marmot

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"The Friends"

by FeelingFree in

i have only come across this term very recently on jwn and in an "apostate" video i watched yesterday.

never have i heard anyone refer to jw's as "the friends" here in the uk.

is it just used in america?.

marmot

My old-timer Uncle in Brooklyn refers to them as "the friends" and yeah, it sounds creepy/culty as can be.

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Sunday NY Times: How ISIS drives Muslims from Islam.

by Balaamsass2 in

230 comments.

sundayreview | op-ed columnist.

how isis drives muslims from islam.

in an earlier thread, i mentioned that i wasn't a particularly doggy person but that my parents got a husky last year that i've come to regard as a kind of brother.. huskies superficially resemble wolves and for me it's been fun to compare and contrast husky and wolf behaviour.

huskies howl but rarely bark, and seem to have a strong prey drive and a strong pack instinct - a nod to their wild cousins.

this is why i love huskies, i think.. do you have a favourite dog breed and why?.

marmot

DACHSHUNDS!!!!! I love their clownish personalities and the fact that they snuggle under the covers with you at night.

Followed by Labradors. Had a number fo them growing up and they're great dogs but we live in an apartment so we can't have a big dog at the moment. :(

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Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and all the stuff you weren't allowed to play as a JW

by marmot in

by nature i'm a total geek.

i read the lord of the rings for the first time in grade 3 and i would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing rpgs among jws.

if anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

marmot

BTW, did any of you see last week's South Park episode, "C*ck Magic?" I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

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Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and all the stuff you weren't allowed to play as a JW

by marmot in

by nature i'm a total geek.

i read the lord of the rings for the first time in grade 3 and i would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing rpgs among jws.

if anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

marmot

Nice! Thanks.

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Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and all the stuff you weren't allowed to play as a JW

by marmot in

by nature i'm a total geek.

i read the lord of the rings for the first time in grade 3 and i would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing rpgs among jws.

if anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

marmot

By nature I'm a total geek. I read The Lord of the Rings for the first time in grade 3 and I would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing RPGs among JWs. If anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

Anyway, I'd like to get into the whole scene as I've never played a game in my life but I'm a bit overwhelmed and I don't know where to start. Anybody on here play? I'm willing to try anything, pen and paper RPGs, mini figurine RPGs, card games, you name it. I've heard that it helps to get into the hobby with a friend but I don't know if my fiancée has the patience for it so I'm gonna try and corrupt my 12-year old nephew. One game that really struck my fancy is relatively new, it's a card game based on the Warhammer 40,000 sci-fi universe called Warhammer 40K: Conquest. Unlike the regular Warhammer tabletop games, you just need the starter card deck to play instead of a bazillion figurines so it's cheap to get into.

Magic: The Gathering is also intriguing but I'm intimidated by the sheer volume of stuff out there.

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Revelation, its Grand Climax.... remember when?

by wallsofjericho in

i remember being at the assembly in 1988?

when this was released.

everyone was so excited that we finally had a simple explanation of revelation with pictures.

marmot

I remember being excited about it because my bethelite uncle was used as a model for one of the illustrations. I forget what page it was but he was a catholic priest of some sort wearing a little black hat standing next to some bald-headed military general (or was it a businessman?) with a big cigar.

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Montreal Gazette: 'Homosexuals like you in tight pants,' JW leader says

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://montrealgazette.com/life/turning-the-page-homosexuals-like-you-in-tight-pants-jehovahs-witness-leader-says-reportsturning the page: 'homosexuals like you in tight pants,' jehovah's witness leader says reportsjillian page, montreal gazette more from jillian page, montreal gazette.

published on: november 12, 2014 last updated: november 12, 2014 11:33 pm est.

skin-tight pants are a no-no in public, church leader says,.

marmot

*snicker*

I'm sooo tempted to share this on my facebook feed but I don't want to alienate my remaining JW relatives who haven't shunned me.

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Heavy metal

by Godsendconspirator in

i have always loved heavy metal music (thrash metal to be more specific).

since heavy metal is usually associated with satan and occult themes many christians and jws in particular stray away from it.

in my teenagehood i was listened to it obsessively until i started studying and got baptized at age 18 and i started listening to other genres.

marmot

I just went to see Gojira and Mastodon on Wednesday.

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With all the WT's eschatology and prophetic interpretation, why is there no mention of Islam?

by marmot in

you'd think that the third major abrahamic religion would be of interest to the witnesses and their fanciful interpretation of just about anything written in the bible, especially with the white-hot relevance islam has in current affairs and the middle east.

not only that, islam had a huge influence on european history, with conquering armies and direct control over jehovah's supposed holy city of jerusalem.. american christian fundamentalists trip over themselves trying to connect all the dots in scripture so why hasn't the watchtower society?

laziness?

marmot

It still doesn't explain why the crystal ball-gazing geezers in Brooklyn missed the boat completely on Islam's rise to relevance. They used to tie the most mundane scriptures to prophetic realizations like the Anglo-American world power, the creation of the UN, etc.

Islam is kind of a big deal and there's *nothing* on it coming from the WT.