Posts by Mickey mouse

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JW.Orgy......let's come up with slogans

by AndDontCallMeShirley in

here are a couple suggestions for slogans:.

missionary positions available".. 2.

where jesus isn't the only one coming for a second time".. .. add yours to the list.

Anyone Here Used to Fear Persecution?

by kneehighmiah in

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i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.

i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.

seeing my family tortured.

Oh yes, I had regular concentration camp themed nightmares as a child. I distinctly remember sitting under a chair at the kingdom Hall as this account was read out and it terrified me. It's from the April 1st 1970 Watchtower (shame it wasn't an April fools joke):

16 When a Christian witness of Jehovah of Ntifinyire Village was beaten for refusing to purchase a political card, Banda’s youths took a knife and made cuts encircling his arms and then his legs and inflicted many cuts on his head. Other Witnesses had six-inch nails driven into their feet, bicycle spokes were forced through their legs and then these Christians were told to run. Still others were tortured with a burning stick placed against their arms, legs, head and entire body. Still these Witnesses refused to compromise their religious beliefs or deny their God Jehovah under such barbaric torture. Do you have the quality of Christian endurance in you to stand such tests? You may be called upon someday to prove your faith. How will your faith stand up?

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EX JW Podcast

by snare&racket in

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i am setting up a podcast (radio show) where we will cover the issues of jw's, amongst the topics of science, belief and more.. i am letting you guys know because i would like to interact with the forum as we do them, looking for suggestions for topics, looking for guest ideas and also we can mask voies and change names, so interviewing current jw's to help provide people a voice, an outlet for their frustration whilst providing a safety net.

there is no hierarchy, but current elders, bethelites etc that contribute here already will be more than welcome and protected!.

the podcast will be pro science, i will have both atheist and theist co-presenters in the episodes but i can't deny my bias towards evidence and science, but hopefully it should be enjoyable and informative for us all.. i plan for it to be about 2hrs long, maybe an episode a month or every 2 or 3 weeks.

Mickey mouse

Sounds good. I thought it was a great shame that MadSweeney stopped doing his podcasts.

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Had a reply for job...

by snare&racket in

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got a cool job, surgery and emergency medicine in a nice holiday town, super happy :d. .

Mickey mouse

It's a lovely town, congratulations.

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The JW sign language v 50 cent video goes viral

by Mickey mouse in

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/03/09/jehovahs-witnesses-propaganda-vs-50-cent/.

it's the gift that keeps on giving..

Mickey mouse

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/03/09/jehovahs-witnesses-propaganda-vs-50-cent/

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

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I did it !!!!

by snare&racket in

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7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.

i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.

i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.

Mickey mouse

Huge congratulations to you snare. What an achievement

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a list of good movies/tv shows to get a JW to think

by nonjwspouse in

ones that have themes that come uncomfortabllly close to the cult dynamic.. i already got him to watch the obsolete man on twilight zone.

he sauggested watching some old tz again tonight so i wioll pick where is everybody, and escape clause.. i have heard oters say the movie truman show was a good movie as is the matrix ( though i detest violence).

any more suggestions for my personal handy dandy list?.

Mickey mouse

I saw the Truman show years before I woke up from my JW slumber and it troubled me deeply in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on (see my avatar!). Looking back my brain was screaming 'this is your life!' even though it was a while before the message got through. Films and books can draw useful parallels for JWs, reading 1984 was a similar experience for me.

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HANDLING CHEMOTHERAPY - Advice anyone?

by hamsterbait in

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i have just been diagnosed with colorectal cancer (tuesday).. the consultant told me i am to get a scan to see how far it has spread.. i am going to have surgery to remove it, then chemotherapy with a break in the middle.. strange to say i am more terrified of dying under the anesthetic than anything.

but i have a fear of nausea and vomiting, which chemo caused in all my relatives who have had it.. any advice for coping with this?.

hb.

Mickey mouse

I'm sorry to hear that. There's some limited evidence that fasting briefly before each bout of chemo can be of benefit. There needs to be further research but check out some of these links http://www.google.co.uk/#q=fasting+before+chemotherapy may be worth a go?

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JW university?

by wearewatchingyouman in

why don't the witnesses have an accredited university?

almost all other xtian denominations do.

why not dubs?

Mickey mouse

Reading the Awake is as good as a college education don't you know?

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Plymouth Brethren have their application for Charitable Status accepted - finally.

by besty in

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/go/news/article/1226627/charity-commission-will-accept-plymouth-brethren-application-charitable-status/.

the regulator says the preston down trust, whose initial application was rejected in 2012, has agreed to change its governing documentsthe charity commission has said it will accept an application for charitable status from the preston down trust, a devon-based plymouth brethren congregation.. the regulator announced today that it would accept an application from the trust, which adheres to a doctrine of separation that limits members contact with the outside world, after it agreed to change its governing documents.. the commission said the trust had agreed to amend its trust documents by entering into a deed of variation, which sets out, in a manner that is binding on trustees, the churchs core religious doctrines and practices.. it signals an end to a dispute dating back to february 2009, when the trust first made an application for charitable status.. a draft deed of variation, published by the commission, includes directions on issues such as how disciplinary matters should be dealt with among members.

it also says meeting halls should display prominent details about how non-members can attend services.. the commissions decision document says that it has heard allegations of harsh disciplinary practices for minor transgressions and people being cut off from the community.. it says there had been claims that threats of legal action had been made against people who spoke out against the brethren and those who leave "are ostracised and consequently treated differently from other members of the public".. in responding to these allegations, the commission said the plymouth brethren christian church had told it some were of an historic nature but it did acknowledge "past mistakes in relation to its disciplinary practices".. the regulator said the trust had "demonstrated a willingness to make amends and to do what it could as a christian organisation to ensure, as far as it was consistent with its religious beliefs, it would act with christian compassion in the future", particularly in respect of its disciplinary practices and in its relations with former members of the brethren.

Mickey mouse

Disappointing.