Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  Annual Meeting 2015 Rant

  by freemindfade in

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  well i didn't watch all of it, but i did watch a good deal.

  it reminded me of the times i actually physically attended in the past.

  lets start with am3.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  It was very telling to hear him say how much he loved the name "digging for spiritual gems" or whatever the hell its called.

  "Digging for WT spiritual gems" translation:

  
  
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  This takes the cake

  by Sour Grapes in

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  today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  That speaker hasn't been keeping up with WT nulite. Current troof is that Jehovah is behind the new modern phones, computers, and Internet so that people can access the WT website and watch videos of the chubby, balding GB members beg for money.
  
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  Hello everyone!

  by Planetsmashers in

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  ive been lurking for a while and finally got around to registering.

  about me: i was essentially born in & indoctrinated from youth.

  i was always a borderline "bad association" type because i always did the minimum and always disagreed with much of what was taught; even when i was a child.. luckily for me my father was never a jw so i never had to endure the male head pressure.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Hello and welcome!

  I essentially left to save my life from suicide and end my years of misery and depression.

  Pete: Funny how it is that after you stop attending weekly funeral services (ie meetings), suddenly life seems a whole lot brighter.

  I remember that feeling.
  
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  October 14, 2015 BOE

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  october 14, 2015 .

  re: signs announcing meeting times .

  https://infotomb.com//38v6n.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Where my wife attends, they have the mid-week meeting on Friday. Maybe they should just call it 'not-Sunday' meeting.

  I've been in a congregation that had their Sunday meeting on Saturday. So they would have 2 "not-Sunday" meetings.

  I'd suggest that they call them "This Meeting" and "That Meeting".
  
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  You need to marry a ministerial Servant!

  by John Aquila in

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  a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.

  i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.

  my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Wow, if they'd have a discussion like this in front of a stranger, I wonder what the conversations were like in front of the father.
  
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  Hilarious Whatsapp message received - FIRST day after Big D

  by cognitivedizzy in

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  a hilarious stupid wa message is being circulated amongst jws in my area / country.. i had a hearty laugh at the ignorance and stupidity and brainwashed mentality, different people may express different emotions so you have been warned.

  day one after armageddon it seems ages since we last heard the gunshots and screams, today has been really quiet.

  the last few weeks have been sheer terror.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Two brothers had dragged the piano out of the hall and everyone was singing with such fervor, it brought tears to our eyes.

  It brought tears to eyes because the group was surrounded by angels threatening, "SING JOYOUSLY TO JEHOVAH OR DIE!"
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  Hubby has been doing research on the internet!!!!

  by atacrossroads in

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  my husband was recently subjected to an intervention by his parents.

  i am apparently a danger to his spirituality.

  after i stopped attending meetings and went apostate hubby decided to resign as a ms to spend more time with me.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  He said he was tired of the do more mentality of the witnesses. I was shocked when that came out of his mouth. He said nothing he did was ever enough and his father considers him a complete failure. He said that since he resigned as a MS it has allowed him to pursue other interests and he has enjoyed the freedom.

  I was good at acting happy as a JW. But I never really knew anything close to happiness until I moved away and stopped attending and wasting my life on Watchtower.

  I wish you both the best of luck on your escape from the cult and in coping with your extended families.
  
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  October 14, 2015 BOE

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
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  october 14, 2015 .

  re: signs announcing meeting times .

  https://infotomb.com//38v6n.

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  Instead of "Midweek Meeting" and "Weekend Meeting", the signs in front of Kingdumb Hauls should be:

  
  
  
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  2015 October 5 and 6, BOEs!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  2015 october 5, boe.. .. click the green download button.. .. re: recommending convention speakers and interpreters .

  http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/ppyuxbk.

  .. .. 2015 october 6, boe.. .. re: convention speaker ratings for bethel brothers .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  It's crazy in the first letter that they already acknowledge the problem that elders keep rating each other as grade A speakers, when they probably really suck. Yet this entire process seems to strengthen the elders' Good Ole Boys Club.

  It becomes very easy for elders to reward their family and friends that may be terrible speakers yet want to be onstage. For any 'outsider' elders that may actually be good speakers, it becomes very easy for Da Club members to find a reason to cut them out.

  I've given plenty of convention talks and heard plenty more of them. Sure, some speakers are better than others, but even for a good speaker there's only so much you can do to put life and reason into the sometimes jumbled and rehashed outlines.
  
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  Westboro baptists protesting Kim Davis

  by JeffT in

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  words fail me .... http://religiondispatches.org/god-hates-nags-why-in-gods-name-is-westboro-protesting-kim-davis/god hates nags: why in gods name is westboro protesting kim davismembers of the infamously anti-gay westboro baptist church (wbc) arrived in morehead, kentucky today to picket the rowan county courthouse, workplace of kim davis, the county clerk and religious liberty martyr who rose to fame by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples citing gods authority.daviss religious right credentials are solid.

  her stand for religious liberty has resulted in the support of four presidential hopefulsted cruz, mike huckabee, bobby jindal, and rand paula visit with the pope, and comparisons to rosa parks.

  plenty of others opposed davis, of course, both because of her anti-gay stance and because of her refusal to do the job she took an oath to do.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Fundies. They just ain't right.