Posts by Ima Apostate

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Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Ima Apostate

Haha... Something tells me the nice middle-aged black lady won't be coming back real soon.

But if the guy comes back, I thought of a universal hand sign I could give him. I've known it since the third grade ;-)

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Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Ima Apostate

ASL - American Sign Language

Sorry, I forget not everyone knows acronyms... I get confused by quite a few of them on here.

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Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Well, sorry about that... Maybe it's God's way of helping me, really! See, I'm not comfortable enough to invite someone in for a lively Bible debate when my nipples are exposed. It would be a waste of time anyway, so the fact that they only come when I am innappropriately dressed is just a sign that God is really on my side.

I hope they don't go to my parent's congregation. As much as I disagree with my folks, I love them and I don't want any condenscending, hypocritical assholes critizing them and the way they've raised my sister and I.

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Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Ima Apostate

I remember at least two scantily clad, or I should say partially nude, sex-smelling people answering the door when I used to knock on them in my pre-pubescent years. I remember thinking, "Maybe worldly people have sex in the morning..." I had thought it was a night thing.

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Good news on the family front...or is it?

by Ima Apostate in

this morning i called my parents to let them know my father-in-law made it through the night (he's got some blood clot problems).

my dad answers.

some of you probably have read how we have had issues in the past.

Ima Apostate

This morning I called my parents to let them know my father-in-law made it through the night (he's got some blood clot problems). My dad answers.

Some of you probably have read how we have had issues in the past. Just yesterday, I had called him after reading Captives of a Concept to share with him some of the issues I had with the whole 'invisible return of Christ in 1914' thing. Because as that book makes perfectly clear, the entire theology of the JW rests on the idea that Christ found them alone worthly in 1914 when he invisibly returned, making them the 'Faithful and Discreet Slave'. Our conversation goes nowhere. Mind you, my dad will let me share my apostate ideas, but he never really is open to them. Any flaws in the organization that I point out are, "increased understanding, new understanding, the light getting brighter, etc". But he will listen, and we agree to disagree.

My dad feels that the reason I seek out knowledge all the time on the organization is because inside I am struggling because I deep down know it's 'the truth'. That's not the case, but whatever.

But anyway, he's really nice on the phone this morning. And he wants to know if it's okay if he sends my daughter a pocket-sized Bible (who wants to bet it's a NWT?) Anyway, I tell him she already has a Bible and she really doesn't read it yet, but if he wants to send it, fine. He also says he wrote a letter to her apologizing about our recent fight over religion. See, he told my daughter that our new church is run by Satan and she had horrific nightmares. So he's written a letter apologizing for what he said and explaining how adults just have different views about God. That's what he SAID it said.

So I'm hopeful. Maybe my dad is really sincere and he will quit trying to shape my daughter into a JW. Maybe he finally has decided that the decision is ultimately up to her.

Maybe. We'll see when we get the package containing the letter and the Bible.

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Well guess who just knocked on my door....

by Ima Apostate in

of course you know the answer... how ironic.

i swear, jehovah's witnesses only come when i'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on.

if i am wearing a bra, they don't come.

Ima Apostate

Of course you know the answer... How ironic. I swear, Jehovah's Witnesses only come when I'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on. If I am wearing a bra, they don't come. However, no bra seems to make them come. Interesting.

So anyway, this morning I've got the flu or some stinking sinus infection, so I didn't go to church. I really wanted to go, because it's 'Trinity Sunday' and being my first year going through the church calendar, I was interested in hearing the sermon. The Trinity is the most incomprehensible part of mainstream Christianity, after all. But my husband convinced me to stay home and rest, so I've been reading the Bible on my own and in general thinking of all things religion, despite being sick.

So there is a knock, and I think, "Who the hell?" It's Kingdom Hall time - I know because it's 10 - 12 in the morning here (my parents are there in fact). So I ask who it is, and they say, "We're volunteers." Well, okay. So I open the door and it's a middle aged black woman and a middle aged white man. I say hello. I like helping volunteers.

They say, "Good morning. We're volunteers in your area looking for people who know ASL." I say, "Well, I'm an ESE teacher, and I will be learning ASL this summer to help one of my students. Why?"

They reply, "We'll, we have some materials and DVDs about ASL. We're Jehovah's Witnesses and..."

Well, at this point I quit listening because I felt like I'd been tricked. If you're a Jehovah's Witness, just say so before I open the door. I said, "Oh, well my parents are JWs and I was raised as one, but I very much disagree with your gospel and am not interested." And they said, "Oh, okay. Do your parents go to our congregation?" I said yes, then they wanted to know who they were. So I said, "Well, I'd rather not share that, you know how that goes." And they left.

I know that if I had given them my parents names they would go and tell them what their daughter had said, or they would just tell everyone else in the congregation about how one of them had a heathen daughter who didn't want to talk to them. I just hope they don't go prying around as to who has a daughter that teaches ESE in the county with blonde hair...

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What exactly happened at Meribah ?

by aligot ripounsous in

i attended this we the meeting of an english speaking congregation, where they happened to have their co, an american ex- bethelite with his french wife.

he sounded quite sensible in his concluding prayer, saying that jws are in search of the truth, in connection, i assumed, with the wt article of the day.

that was the least he could say since, as i told him at the end of the meeting, we had seen three different definitions of the generation of the end within the last 13 years.

Ima Apostate

I recently studied this in a bible study. I think what really happened was that Moses took credit for the water coming from the rock. If you read Number 20:6-9, which provides another account, Moses was to SPEAK to the rock, but instead he STRUCK it and said "Must WE bring you water out of this rock?"

Moses was too embarrassed to speak to the rock and took the credit for the water. Hope that helps.

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Remember the term: Heavy petting.

by odie67 in

i guess that would include tongue kissing, touching etc....the things two people do when they dig each other.

heavy petting was a huge no no!.

i remember sitting in front of three elders as a teenager spilling my guts about how i kissed this boy.

Ima Apostate

Having to talk about sexual things you've done in front of elders is so weird...I remember my one or two times in the back room getting questioned... But I was at the height of my teenager bitchiness, so I just kept rolling my eyes and not telling them what they wanted to know.

As an adult, I'd almost like to be in one of those rooms now, for kicks. I'd probably get a kick out of trying to turn the elders on by saying, "Yeah, and he kept rubbing my breasts, and it made me so wet! I wanted his c**k so freakin' bad so I...."

Well, you get the idea. I'm a little twisted like that. And those elders deserve any torment they can get, those condenscending little bastards.

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

by V in

just another interesting comment i have received on the watchtower comments youtube channel.

feel free to deconstruct.... .

what is wrong with you?

Ima Apostate

V,

You're awesome. Hopefully in time more young people will see the light. I hope you hear back from this guy again.

Ima