Posts by zombie dub

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BASHING the families of disfellowshiped ones

by Pistoff in

as if the first assembly day was not bad enough, talking about the greedy, fame hungry witnesses who go to college and will not get blessings from jehovah, sunday was worse.. .

i could tell the wife was not happy the minute she came through the door.

after letting her get her "lemonade" in a glass, i said, "so, no rough talks today?".

zombie dub

One question I have about disfellowshipping - if you tell an Elder that you don't believe everything and you have doubts, will they disfellowship you? If you say that you did or do have contact with a disfellowshipped family member but didn't feel that the WTS needed to know, would you be disfellowshipped?

last elders that came to rescue me, I told them I didn't believe any of it, that the WT was not God's channel. They looked surprised, but nothing was done, they just didn't come back again (after promising to look into a load of questions I had for them too)

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Swearing in WT DVD

by zombie dub in

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has anyone else seen the [amazingly badly] animated dvd/video about king david (on the dvd it was a double bill with one about noah).. i had to endure watching this one as it was to be 'studied' at the service meeting.. anyway, a bit of the way in, after the israelites beat the philistines, there is a good 3-4 second shot of all the israelites sticking up 2 fingers at the philistines (which, in the uk anyway, means "f*ck you" and is regarded as the same as verbally saying a 4 letter word), i pointed this out to my family and every witness that would listen.

everyone told me i was lieing or mistaken.. anyway, see it for yourself!

anyone else already notice this?

zombie dub

Has anyone else seen the [amazingly badly] animated DVD/video about King David (on the DVD it was a double bill with one about Noah).

I had to endure watching this one as it was to be 'studied' at the service meeting.

Anyway, a bit of the way in, after the israelites beat the philistines, there is a good 3-4 second shot of all the israelites sticking up 2 fingers at the philistines (which, in the UK anyway, means "f*ck you" and is regarded as the same as verbally saying a 4 letter word), I pointed this out to my family and every witness that would listen. Everyone told me I was lieing or mistaken.

Anyway, see it for yourself! Anyone else already notice this? It's a bit weird for a 'kids' video surely?

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Friday DC Releases

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

end of morning program, dvd video released: "the wonders of creation reveal god's glory".

end of afternoon program, announced upcoming release of a new songbook: "sing to jehovah".

excuse me while i go barf now.. b the x.

zombie dub

What's the betting that they've got rid of the song with that immortal line about the bees being molested????

That's my favourite, the line after too says "I will beat them off", euphemism overload!

There is one about 'mong men' too which I also found to be a source of amusement.

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Would you be willing to accept apology from someone that has hurt you?

by asilentone in

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if it was a very sincere apology from the heart, i would accept the apology.

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zombie dub

of course, you would be a jerk otherwise

if it was sincere of course, and they hadn't done the same thing/said sorry 1000 times before

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Friday DC Releases

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

end of morning program, dvd video released: "the wonders of creation reveal god's glory".

end of afternoon program, announced upcoming release of a new songbook: "sing to jehovah".

excuse me while i go barf now.. b the x.

zombie dub

the new song book will include 100 songs from the previous book, along with 200 new chants which will simply repeat the line "The GB is God, The GB is God" to different 'melodies' and keys.

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What crazy demonstrations did you see on the Service Meeting?

by BonaFide in

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i had a couple of pretty good ones, i thought.. my first one was theocratic news.

i know a lot of congregations that did this one.

we had a long table facing the audience, and we gave the "theocratic news" from the km as if it were a tv news broadcast.

zombie dub

I also got counselled for wearing a dress that showed a little bit of my shoulders

STONE HER, STONE HER! GODS STANDARDS DO NOT CHANGE!!!!

I once did a presentation in french pretending to be a foreign householder so someone could use that booklet with all the different languages in.

I couldn't realy speak french, just the odd word and mumbled "alor, blah blah, la le, blah, alor" a lot.

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How did you REALLY feel when you where out in field service?

by megaflower in

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i never felt comfortable knocking on door and i hoped no one would be home.

my presentation was short and to the point because i did not want to get into discussions.

as we walked from "door to door" i secretly wished i could be like all the ones i saw in the nighborhood.

zombie dub

the idea of "car groups" intrigues me. I have never heard of this in the UK, we just drove to the territory in our own cars, all got out and did the territory for 1-2 hours, then went home.

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Bethelite writes -Can be Disfellowshiped for being FAT??? Amazingly abusive articles!!!!

by Witness 007 in

these articles blow me away!

it's obviously written by a bethelite who sits at a table with hungry young bethel boys!

if you've eaten at bethel you know what i mean...get in quick or the chicken, beans etc will be gone!

zombie dub

ignoring all the scriptures about gluttony though, being obese is seriously bad for your health. So if you can be DF'ed for smoking (because it is unhealthy, and damages your body - therefore not shoing respect for your body), why not also obesity?

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Who is going to the District Assembly this year?

by asilentone in

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i do not think i will be there!

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zombie dub

Gotta go. I have a talk. Was planning on going weekend only, but they assigned me a talk friday morning.

Wow, how did that happen? Is it on the TMS? That sucks, having to give a talk about stuff you don't believe (I assume?) in front of thousands, my condolences :(

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Bethelite writes -Can be Disfellowshiped for being FAT??? Amazingly abusive articles!!!!

by Witness 007 in

these articles blow me away!

it's obviously written by a bethelite who sits at a table with hungry young bethel boys!

if you've eaten at bethel you know what i mean...get in quick or the chicken, beans etc will be gone!

zombie dub

"You ever met a terminal cancer patient that lost their hair, lost their appetite, but didn't lose one pound?"

No, and I know they are extreme cases. I'm just generalising, in nearly all cases people that eat healthy food and exercise are not obese.