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  ZO Talk in Japan - Part Deux

  by WinstonSmith in

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  you might remember last weekend i posted up some info from my friend that had the opportunity to attend the zone overseer talk in japan.

  that thread is here: http://jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/251038/1/hot-off-the-press-zo-talk-in-japan.

  well today my friend forwarded me this little gem.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I actually think that anytime I hear Tony speak, millions of my brain cells self-destruct and I actually become dumber.
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  A fourteen year-old elder set this sister straight!

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i was supervising a class of 14 year olds and there were a couple of jw kids, a girl and a boy, both of whom want to go to bethel.

  i told the boy i wasn't comfortable with all the changes the gb's been making over the years.

  i mean, i'm the teacher, right?

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Good point "a watcher", JWs are like the Nazis--get the kids young and teach them obedience to "the Father/Führer". I'll never forget how we were taught as JW kids to pray for the slaughter of billions of innocent people because that's how we were trained by WT.
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  Heartwarming JW Facebook Comment

  by exwhyzee in

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  this urban legend/anecdote was on the facebook page of a jw who is a facebook friend of mine.

  it's kind of long but tell us what you think....it was all i could do to stop myself from making a snarky comment.

  a young couple very much wanted to have a family, but his wife could not conceive, so they decided to adopt a baby.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I think I heard a similar experience, except they had adopted a child that turned out to be a smurf and when they tried to take it to the meeting, it ran out and drove away in the car.
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  A fourteen year-old elder set this sister straight!

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was supervising a class of 14 year olds and there were a couple of jw kids, a girl and a boy, both of whom want to go to bethel.

  i told the boy i wasn't comfortable with all the changes the gb's been making over the years.

  i mean, i'm the teacher, right?

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I'm sure he'll do a fine job scrubbing toilets at bethel. He can spend all day reminding himself how privileged he is to be living obedient to WT in the very last moments of the last days of the last centuries of this system, so very near to that kingdom that was established in 1914... wait...

  Whatever you do, don't let him see this lesson from Sesame Street... aired in 1975...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhEcRrMA-M
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  So tired of life

  by LouBelle in

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  i am so tired of waking up without hope.

  so tired of fighting one more day...i just want it to end as painless as possible.

  i truly don't have the willpower or strength anymore..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  {{{LouBelle}}}

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8
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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Or you could respond. "I was sad when I read your letter, but I wasn't surprised. Since we've been worshipping Satan for a while now, he told us this letter would be coming today. Oh, and from what he said, you better be careful on those back stairs, I know you're looking forward to surviving to see that 50th wedding anniversary. Here's hoping you make it!"

  Okay, I wouldn't actually send that either. But I think she deserves it.
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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
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  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Maybe send a copy of the letter back with a note saying something like, "I'm not going to be the one to tell your grown grandchildren that their grandmother refuses to see them anymore. If you wish to inform them that your obedience to WT is more important than them stopping in to visit with you before you take the final dirt-nap, tell them yourself. And have fun telling everyone at your anniversary party that you refused to allow most of your family to come because you think if a child is sexually molested, the elders should call the WT legal department instead of the police. Of course, next year is also the anniversary of 100 years from 1914, so I suppose most of your JW friends will be too busy talking about how the latest interpretation of 'generation' could mean another 50 years before the big A."

  Okay, don't actually send that, but it's what she deserves to hear for being such a WT drone.
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  If you have a family, do you make it a point to provide companionship for those unmarried?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

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  quote from this week's congregation bible study.

  ch.8, para 15, 16.. .

  one sister opened her heart this way: "i've since left the world and do not desire to go back.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Would I like to come over to enjoy Hamburger Helper with your family, and then join you for your "Family Worship" reading litteratrash?

  
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  The Meetings

  by molybdenum in

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  the meetings.

  as a jw you know what to do.

  twice a week, does it give you a clue?.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I used to stay for meetings the whole way through.
  Now just 8 minutes would be enough to make me spew!

  
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  After hearing ESPN's Chris Broussard rant against gays, I'm wondering if he's Jehovah's Witness

  by matt2414 in

  1. watchtower
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  after the nba's jason collins announced yesterday that he is gay, notice broussard's comments:.

  im a christian.

  i dont agree with homosexuality.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  After looking at the problems of violence and poverty that are ruining the lives of innocent children, this guy goes off because some bball player says he likes dudes? The usual twist on Queen Gertrude's line from Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet immediately comes to mind...

  "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

  Any guesses as to how soon pictures show up of Broussard with a hired rentboy?