As already recommended, don't put anything in writing. If you're interested, here are links to threads with my observations and some great comments from others:
Plan well!
Billy the Ex-Bethelite
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Advice on fading needed
by wallievase inthese 2 options are before me right now-.
1. write a letter to the elders and my family, not da myself but basically saying i have too much going on in my life and am confused, so that they will stop bothering my wife and stop asking me questions all the time.
after i write the letter continue to go to the hall less and less.... 2. appease my wife.
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Seventeen-and-a-half glorious minutes with the irrepressible Mr Lett
by rory-ks incan't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.
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Brilliant! I want to be a Pastafarian
by notsurewheretogo inhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pastafarian-man-niko-alm-wins-right-to-wear-colander-on-his-head-in-driving-license-photo-9610859.html.
.. .. an austrian man has won the right to wear a plastic colander on his head in his driving license photo, by apparently insisting that the kitchenware was a part of his religion.. niko alm decided to wear a pasta strainer on the document after he read that headwear is only allowed on official documentation, such as driving licenses, on religious grounds.. he submitted his application to wear the pasta strainer three years ago, citing he was a pastafarian the name given to a member of the church of the flying spaghetti monster.. the us-based parody-religion made headlines last month, when guy albon, a member from adelaide, used a photo of him wearing a metal colander on his gun license photo.
officials feared the photo suggested he did not have the mental competency to hold the license.. on its website, the leaders of the religion claim to have existed in secrecy for hundreds of years and claim to have atheists, agnostics, christians, muslims and hindus among their members.. niko alm who won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driving licence niko alm who won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driving licence following the confirmation, mr alm wrote on his blog: my headwear has now been recognised by the republic of austria.. however, a police spokesperson in vienna said: the photo was not approved on religious grounds.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
"The US-based parody-religion"
Although most followers are in the US, it's pasta roots are ancient and global... indeed universal.
Don't be deceived by the name "string theory" of theoretical physics. The proper name is "Noodle Theory"!
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The Bible Teach book illustration about the child having to be put through a painful operation
by defender of truth inhad you going there for a minute ;).
now you're here... there are several problems with that illustration, as i see it.. ..... 1) god is the one who inflicted the life threatening ailment that requires an operation.
(he supposedly decided what sin would be defined as, then once adam 'sinned', he cursed all of adams descendants to sin, grow old and die.).
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
I think the greatest logical problem with that illustration is that there only needed to be one "operation" on one "child". Christ underwent death to remove sin and suffering from all mankind.
Here we are 2000 years later and "children" are still being wheeled in for "painful operations" because... why?
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Beards......the CO allowed this one!
by punkofnice ina minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.
(not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.
what do you make of that?.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Oh, there are quite a few brothers with beards. Plenty of brothers have been encouraged by elders and overseers to have beards.
And by beard , I mean:
11) ( LGBT , slang ) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
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They continue to drop like flies
by suavojr inyes, the jws continue to bleed their young ones, so far in my local kh 3 were dfd, one girl just turned 18 this month and packed her bags and said goodbye to the cult and her cultish parents, another young 18 year old man decided to have a non-jw girlfriend and decided to stop attending and is no longer a witness.
they continue to leave and wt leaders dont give a damn.
they dont do anything to help kids be successful and live a healthy life.. .
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
If the newest DVD released is the GB's secret weapon to try to slow the exodus of young people, they better completely give it up. That mess would only appeal to the most shallow-thinking but deeply entrenched JW. The happy ending portrays this friendless, isolated family with late teenage kids with no goals except to study with Daddy and Mommy and act out bible dramas. This as the family sells their home and downsizes so that they can send more money to the WT pedo fund. Rather than actually address the issues raised by the kids about evolution or nonJW friends, it all gets magically scripted away with no real answers provided.
And the video was very, very offensive in the racial portrayals.
In case I haven't made myself clear yet, that newest video is so bad that words fail me. Imagine there is a huge pile of crap. Then imagine that that pile of crap took a crap. Now you're getting close to understanding how that DVD is the crappiest crap that ever crapped.
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Shunning Makes us Joyful - Another Blast on Jehovah's Trumpet
by cofty inlike all the best comedy this is hilarious and agonising in equal measure.. if you have not bookmarked the jehovah's trumpet blog do it now.. shunning makes us joyful .... "fiends, we are the happiest people on earth because of true worship, and this includes the practice of shunning our closest loved ones...".
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
That's some great satire.
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Ironic quote in the 5/14wt lesson "Are you moving ahead with Jehovahs Organization"
by BU2B inthe whole article makes me ill with its worse than average mind control.. i was going to only include one quote but there are so many doozies that i will post what i feel to be the worst.. from paragraph 6.
"gods organization survives and flourishes on earth because the people who are part of it have his approval.".
the great tribulation has been "so close" for over 120 years of wt history.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
nonJWS: "...being "in union" with the GB..."
Sounds like somebody's sharing tight pants with Tony da Turd.
"God’s organization survives and flourishes on earth because the people who are part of it have his approval."
If survival is all it takes to prove that an organization has god's approval, it logically follows that Apple, Inc. also has his approval. WT has new teachings, while Apple has new products. "Friends, are we keeping up with the latest nulite coming from the inspired engineers at Apple, Inc.? ... Well, we should be, otherwise we'll be birdfood very soon now!"
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Need some help from you guys
by bobert inso recently i've been preparing to move out of my parents house, and i've been seeking social assistance.
at my appointment, my social worker asked me for references to people who know about my situation at home.
i know probably nnone of you guys know me too well personally, or my home life, but i know all of you guys have been through similar situations.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Social services will likely need a relative, school counsellor, neighbors, someone really aware of details.
As bad as it is to endure a JW home, don't leave it to get stuck in yet another bad circumstance because you failed to come up with a good plan. Be sure you're not jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
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Chautauqua Salute makes a comeback at the Indianapolis Regional convention 7/13/14
by dropoffyourkeylee inas the regional convention ended in indianapolis, mark sanderson invited all the international delegates to come out onto the field for the final song.
as they walked out, they all held a white handkerchief aloft as they waved.
some in the audience waved a white cloth in return.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
I thought that was the universal sign for surrender. Certainly, everyone at the IC surrendered time, money, and brainpower in order to attend that mess.