Posts by passwordprotected

55

More JW bragging about the Landover, MD. convention. Please have barf bag at the ready before reading

by AndDontCallMeShirley in

the following e-mail is circulating among jws about the international convention at fedex stadium in landover, md.

note the all-too-familiar jw claims: everything they do (including the simple act of parking cars) is proof of jehovah'stm blessing, and everything wt did at the convention was the fastest, greatest, best ever.

oh, and the never-fails-to-get-mentioned alleged 'persecution'/resistance from some unnamed authority who tried to get in watchtower's way and hamper the effort...but jws prevailed anyway (as always):.

passwordprotected

Pity Jehovah and his holy spirit can't coordinate a campaign to end global hunger and war. But parking? Like a boss.

42

God listens and RESPONDS to your prayer if you know how to log on to Him! Here is the proof.

by exWTslave in

all my family members and friends (that include some elders) advised me to divorce my wife whose only joy was to pick up fight with me for everything i do, except my grand-mother who said: when you married her, you looked for only her good pointher regular pioneering despite having an opposing family.

for being good, you will ultimately reap something far better through her.

stick on to her.

passwordprotected

We are god, so it makes sense that if we quiet our minds, we'll be able to "hear" ourselves better...

13

JWs at the Edinburgh Festival

by passwordprotected in

my girlfriend and i took the train through to edinburgh to soak in the atmosphere and catch a few free comedy shows at the fringe festival.. almost immediately i spotted them; jw.org witnesses.. how did i know it was them?.

well, the middle-aged, tall man wearing the suit, shirt and tie was a big clue.

that and the fact that he was holding the hand of a similarly tall, middle-aged woman, dressed in the jw uniform of long skirt, blouse and light summer jacket.

passwordprotected

My girlfriend and I took the train through to Edinburgh to soak in the atmosphere and catch a few free comedy shows at the Fringe Festival.

Almost immediately I spotted them; JW.Org Witnesses.

How did I know it was them?

Well, the middle-aged, tall man wearing the suit, shirt and tie was a big clue. That and the fact that he was holding the hand of a similarly tall, middle-aged woman, dressed in the JW uniform of long skirt, blouse and light summer jacket. Oh, and the "publisher bag" she had slung over her shoulder, with the clear plastic pocket on front displaying a piece of JW.Org printed propaganda.

And that was as soon as we'd emerged from the bowels of Waverley Station.

Then, after climbing up the hill to the Royal Mile, we saw more of them. You see, the Royal Mile at High Street is closed to traffic during the weekends of the Festival to allow street performers to do their thing, and the whole street is packed full of tourists, parents with young kids and hundreds of people handing out flyers to drum up an audience for the dozens and dozens of shows taking place throughout the city.

And there, right on the corner of St Gile's Street, at a very busy crossing, being buffeted by wave after wave of tourist and pedestrian, was two more JW.Org witnesses, standing with their literature cart (a potential trip hazard), each clutching the new August 1st "Where Can You Find the Answers... (clue; it's on our website)" tract.

However, unlike the people trying to generate interest in their comedy, dance or music show, the JWs simply just stood there. They didn't try to thrust the live saving message into anyone's hands. They didn't engage with anyone passing. They just stood there. In the fucking way. At a busy street crossing...

We now walked down Bank Street, onto North Bank Street, at right there at the steps leading down to the Scottish National Gallery was another two. Again, helping to contribute to a bottle neck of pedestrians. This time I knew them. Martin Benzie, formerly from Bellshill, now (I'm guessing) a circuit overseer and still a full-time nut sack (look up Hoboken's experience with Benzie at his appeal hearing).

Benzie's wife, a sickly looking woman, always has been, was standing holding up a copy of an Awake! magazine, adapting the new pioneer stance; stand still, feet planted, holding a magazine in front of her chest. As we waited for the lights to change, along with dozens of other tourists and visitors to Edinburgh, I watched them closely. Martin was being engaged in conversation with a small elderly bearded man who looked to me like a born-again Christian. Martin adopted the slightly patronising tilted-head stance of a person who believes he is superior in every spiritual way possible, nodding while the man spoke to him, while evidently wishing to end the conversation.

All the while his wife stood rooted to the spot while absolutely no one took a single piece of literature from her.

Here's my issue, apart from feeling nauseated at seeing a blast from my JW past.

The people handing out leaflets and flyers for their shows had much more passion and enthusiasm for the role than the JW.Org Witnesses had in spreading their life-saving message of urgency. They were prepared to stop strangers in the street, talk to them with a smile and do their best to "sell" their show. The JW.Org Witnesses, on the other hand, stood lifelessly, unsmiling like statues, holding anonymous pieces of paper, seemingly in the hope that a passerby would initiate contact with them, taking the tract from their hand.

Compared to the efforts of the entertainment hawkers, how on earth did they expect to get their message noticed by the thousands of people converging on the capital city whose lives they're apparently responsible for trying to save?

This religion is changing before our eyes...and yet it's closer than ever to the end.

88

Why Are People Anti-Semitic?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.

are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..

passwordprotected

The Jewish political state of Israel is based on the hoax presented in the bible.

Many people are critical of *Zionism* which is spun to make them appear anti-semetic. But there's a difference.

12

Recording of Telephone Call made to London Bethel Alarming!

by outinthemeadows in

i subscribed to this youtube.com channel a year ago.

this was updated this morning.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4_vsgoawes.

.

passwordprotected

It's not alarming. What was the caller expecting the Publishing Corporation to do with his subjective complaint? Unfortunately, to my ears at least, he came across as a bit of a weirdo and not altogether credible.

That said, the response - or lack of it - by the Service Dept rep speaks volumes as the the training and closed-off mind that's required to "man the phones" at JW.org; the way he left long silences, wouldn't empathise in the least with the complainant, and the cold way he ended the call tell us that we're dealing with a corporation. And one that doesn't have a particularly good reputation.

48

Surreal experience last night.

by objectivetruth in

recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".

her response went something like this, " we are all out!

everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..

passwordprotected

Brilliant news! Dream come true, surely.

28

Expressions on faces at DC/RC

by BU2B in

jw
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.

passwordprotected

I haven't been to a convention since 2008, however I drove up to Perth in '09 to scope out the convention venue. After being out for a year by that point I was struck by how uniform the JWs looked as they walked to the convention venue. They believe theyre giving a "fine witness" by the way they dress and groom, but they looked like robots. Mindless, cookie cutter robots. Which is, after all, what many of them are.

8