Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  What's your personality type? Myers-Briggs test

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  take this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "I understand that he was something of a drunk?"

  He may have been a drinker, but he was no Joseph Rutherford.
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  June 1st Watchtower for the public

  by Lynnie in

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  2. beliefs

  one of my smart ass friends gave me the public copy of the watchtower for june 1st, 2014 and the main article.

  is about "god's view on smoking.

  " okay it goes on and on about how we need to keep our body "clean" and.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Oh, and to add... The fact that this religion so decisively condemns smoking but is tolerant of child molesters, well, that just shows how sick this crazy cult is.
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  June 1st Watchtower for the public

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my smart ass friends gave me the public copy of the watchtower for june 1st, 2014 and the main article.

  is about "god's view on smoking.

  " okay it goes on and on about how we need to keep our body "clean" and.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Driving around in cars is dangerous and harmful to the environment. Car crashes are defiling to the body, and exhaust emissions are "ruining the earth." So, JWs should stop driving to the KH and in FS.

  Forcing your cult on other people can be dangerous because you could get punched in the face. And getting punched in the face would be defiling to the body. So, JWs should stop their recruiting tactics.

  Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of smoking. But the opinions of a Bronze Age god in Palestine are pointless on the subject. For that matter, I think that many of the writers of the bible were doing some kind of drugs.
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  What's your personality type? Myers-Briggs test

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  take this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I remembered this thread and thought I'd posted on it. I wish I would have put my test results then so I could compare to now. At the time, they helped confirm my decision to go into engineering. I just retook it today, thinking it might help with the job-hunt. I, too, am an INTJ.

  Introvert 22% (slight)

  Intuition 88% (strong)

  Thinking 12% (slight)

  Judging 33% (moderate)
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  International Convention East Rutherford, NJ 2014

  by wannabefree in

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  listen ... obey ... and be blessed!

  has this become the official cult watchtower theme song?.

  here is a video making the rounds on facebook.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Perhaps they were meaning to say that 144,000 were invisibly present.
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  Another Family Escapes Their Clutches

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  my coworker actually was involved in training me, and i used to be a quiet good little jw when he met me.

  i first shared information about him on this forum 7 years ago when he was just starting to learn that i was no longer going to the kingdom hall.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/125918/1/pressure-to-conform-from-his-wifes-congregation#.u6t3c5rx-uy.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Sounds like a good plot for the next WT video!
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  Elder: I threw out all WT & Awake and only keep the last ten years...

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  2. friends

  i had a recent conversation with an elder from my mother's congregation.

  he with another elder was at my mom's house.

  my mother has all the bound volumes for both the awake and watchtower plus most of the older books.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  They should put expiration dates on all the WT litteratrash, so everyone knows how quickly it will become "old light".

  Better yet, as soon as the magazines and books arrive at the congregation, just toss them in the dumpster. It saves the trouble of opening, counting, distributing, and then destroying.
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  New DVD review

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i managed to catch the new dvd on youtube last night before the inevitable takedown.

  as a film i felt it wasn't anywhere near as good as the prodigal movie, the story wasn't as dramatic, the characters much less interesting and developed and the direction weaker.

  i found the prodigal relatively entertaining (all things considered) this one was just dull.. here are some of my random thoughts anyway [spoiler alert - ha!].

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Some more random thoughts...

  The older son and daughter and daughter's boyfriend seem older than high school kids, both in how they look and how they talk. It just seems weird. And the daughter doesn't have her phone locked? Her brother can pick it up and start reading everything? That conversation in the car between the bro and sis was weird. Clueless to reality. The less JW we were, the better I got along with my siblings. The "break-up conversation" was really strange. She should have just said she didn't want anything to do with him because her church said he was too worldly and was going to be destroyed at armageddon. And the conversation with the boss was unrealistic.

  Obviously, they don't address the kangaroo question for Noah's ark.

  When I recall how joyfully JWs sing about millions being slaughtered "at your very side," I'm not sure what would have been on Marcus' recordings that would be worse than that. The whole story of this boy being some kind of "rap master" is completely unbelievable.

  Yeah, the "Uncle Marcus story" is dumb melodrama. All these years and the kids knew nothing about this? The "reenactment" is instantly fake to me bacause they did the shot of the supposedly racing car with the rain rolling down the windshield rather than being pushed up by the motion. A mistake like that, to me, is akin to having Jesus wearing Nikes.

  Something really weird was the extremely small cast. This family lived in a vacuum. There were no JW friends shown or even spoken of. No friends now, no indication of any friends in the past. It's like they and the couple in the basement were isolated from any other JW contact. There is absolutely no extended family here. No grandma or grandpa, cousins. There aren't even any neighbors. The ending seems rather creepy that they are this isolated, friendless family with aging children who have no plans for the future.

  The casting did seem to have racial issues going on.

  In the end, I think that with the magical negro moved out of the basement, this "new spirituality" will last 6 months, tops.
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  New DVD review

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i managed to catch the new dvd on youtube last night before the inevitable takedown.

  as a film i felt it wasn't anywhere near as good as the prodigal movie, the story wasn't as dramatic, the characters much less interesting and developed and the direction weaker.

  i found the prodigal relatively entertaining (all things considered) this one was just dull.. here are some of my random thoughts anyway [spoiler alert - ha!].

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Have only watched part of it so far. The guy playing the dad looks so familiar to me... just a whole lot older than I remember. I'm sure I know him from bethel but can't recall his name. It's drivin' me nuts.

  While this might tug at the heartstrings, the first thing I see is that they aren't like any JW family I've ever met. While some JW dude may start to think, "I should do more...", it's easy to dismiss it by saying things like:

  "I'm not making tons of money like this guy. I don't have a huge house and fancy cars for my kids. We're barely scraping by."

  "My kids are not as bad as his. They aren't trying to be rock stars or running the school newspaper."

  Which, BTW, are there still school newspapers and would they write about gay marriage? Ours only wrote about ordinary school stuff like sports, parking issues, and preventing dropouts.
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  Expressions on faces at DC/RC

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  i have become more observant at the last couple district conventions of jws faces and enthusiasm and it seems to be very somber.

  i remember a couple of years ago i was an attendant at one of the upper sections at the blue cross arena in rochester, ny and in afternoon session at least half were curled up with their eyes closed, some with blankets.

  the applause seems very forced and mechanical.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "Every JW event I can recall, the bathrooms always smell like one giant fart. I don't know what it is, but that's always the case."

  These arenas are typically designed for events that last 2-4 hours. The discrap crapventions are 3 consecutive 8 hr. days or so. It can easily overload the ventilation and plumbing systems.