Posts by VIII

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My bucket list letter to my sons, 41 years after leaving WT

by FatFreek 2005 in

several months ago i finally sent them a letter.

they are from the group of die-hards that continue to shun their father.

the following is a paste of part of the first page.

VIII

I have to agree with Good JW.

I loved all of your reasoning behind the 1975 fiasco. I was a little older than your sons and understand all that happened. My parents also broke up about the same time for similar reasons. It took years to get to know my father and as we were just getting to a better place he dropped dead of a heart attack. Try again. Send them a heartfelt letter telling them about you, why you love them, about your love for them and why you need to see them. They need to get some sense of who you are now.

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I Got Very Stange JW Doorknocker Yesterday

by pale.emperor in

i had an ex-jw uncle of mine visiting me yesterday from another part of the country.

i usually only ever see him at weddings and funerals but we keep in touch on facebook.

we were catching up in my place with his wife when about an hour into the visit there's a knock on my door, this was about 4pm.. strange... the only people who ever knock without calling me first are the postman and my ex-wife.. i open the door and it's a face i recognize from my last congregation.

VIII

Then goes into a rambling rant about "the truth" and "the world" and "sticking to our decisions". He claimed that people in "the world" would slit your throat as soon as look at you. Also that he would never keep the kind of company that I keep.

My Mom constantly tells me that Worldly people will slit my throat and knife me in the back. They must really push this thesis in the KH and the WT and other literature.

Odd, in 40 odd years of being gone, I've not had one Worldly friend actually do it; some maybe figuratively, however, it was never over anything life changing and I just dropped them as a friend. Big deal. The JWs drop you over your acknowledging a Birthday. Crazy people.

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Do You Know Of Anyone Who Left JWs And Then Decided To Return?

by minimus in

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friends

quite a few years ago there was a poster here that left the religion because he knew it was simply not true.

however, he returned to jws because he wanted to be with his family.

i don’t know how he is doing but gumby was his name.

VIII

Weird...

I recently received an email from my DM-DHJW (Dear Mother-Die Hard JW) who told me in no uncertain terms that I'm a flawed person who, while having done nothing "technically" worth DFing over, will still Die at Armageddon unless I return to Jehovah ASAP and ask for forgiveness for all I've done. (Anyone see the idiocy of that statement?)

This email was filled with quotes from the JW org page. It was formatted oddly in a different font. Lots of bible quotes. I didn't bother reading it. She lost me at "you're going to Die at Armageddon". Uh, I'm going to take my chances and see what happens.

She also asked me if I would honor her wishes and follow her "No Blood" card. I said yes verbally. If she wants to die a martyr for those idiots, so be it. You can't fix stupid. My DH is on the fence with this. I'd rather be there when she goes than have the local Elders standing over her telling me and/or the doctors that those were her wishes.

These are the reasons that just make me more determined than ever not to go back to the Evil Empire.

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Anyone Tried "Sous Vide" Cooking?

by Simon in

i like a nice steak but cooking one can be a little intimidating and the results hit and miss especially when it comes to getting the right temperature so getting it wrong can be an expensive mistake.

can anyone do that "finger and thumb together to check the doneness" thing?

i can't .... so i came across this cooking technique called "sous vide" which cooks food (in a sealed vacuum bag) in a warm water bath, even steak.

VIII

Sorry I'm late to this thread.

I've done the Sous Vide thing for about three years. L-O-V-E IT!

I have the Anova one Simon references on page 1. I learned about it on a website called Serious Eats. The main Chef/Teacher is a guy named Kenji. He has videos and how-tos with this method and lots others. Great way to learn-he's funny!

https://www.seriouseats.com/tags/sous%20vide

I've cooked steaks, chicken, seafood and recently been making Limoncello. Yes, Liquor. It's a snap with the Sous Vide machine.

They have come down in price and really up your cooking style.

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Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

by LoveUniHateExams in

so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

VIII

That video was too funny!!

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How many JW´s spend their whole lives being JW´s?

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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friends

ever since i became an exjw activist... i have wondered, how many people can i hope to reach?.

what are the odds that my parents and loved ones will live out the remainder of their lives as jehovah´s witnesses?.

is there a way to calculate the odds that any jw will remain a jw for the rest of their lives?.

VIII

My Maternal side is all in...for the most part. My Mom is hardcore and would never leave. She preaches to me daily on her calls to me (she's 80 and I get a daily call to check on me). She tells me about JW.org and why I need to check it for facts on JWs.

I have told her since I grew up in it I know all I need to know. She says there is "New Light". I gag as I tell her that I don't need the new light. Period. I tell her to STOP. She will quit for a few days and start over. I also get bi-weekly mailings of Watchtowers with notes written on them. UGH!

She seriously believes that she is going to make it through the Great Tribulation and will live forever. She feels good, is in surprisingly good health and has a JW best friend who is 85 and still alive (she's also a born in). She somehow thinks that they will both make it through the Big A.

She talks about Satan and uses so many key JW only words that I don't think she could survive in the worldly world. She wouldn't know how to communicate like a normal person without using the JW verbiage.

So, will she leave the JWs? No, never. No matter the crap they do/did to her/us. She is firmly in until she kicks Memorial plate.

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JWs and 9-11. What was your reaction when it happened?

by kairos in

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friends

it was shocking.. all these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time..

VIII

I had the news on this morning and was getting ready to go out running. They said they were going to put on a 20ish minute video of 9/11...it would show what happened that morning. I started watching and all the memories flooded back. I started crying uncontrollably. And, I couldn't stop watching. Seeing the plane crash on 9/11/2011 live on TV I'll always remember. It was surreal. Seeing it again was heartbreaking.

Watching the people run down the streets covered in ash...horrible. Seeing the second plane crash; I remember vividly. I had CNBC on in 2011. They couldn't believe it. I kept changing channels to make sure it was really happening.

The worst was the people jumping. Seeing people whose only option was to jump to their death just makes me physically ill. To know that their only option was to look down and see their certain death or be burnt alive is just horrific. I cry as I type it.

The brave heroes who went in to save people are to be commended. Also the people on the plane who tried to stop the hijackers in Pennsylvania...

I never got out running today; I've been sad all day. Just a tragic day.

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Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

by LoveUniHateExams in

so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

VIII

Serena is not fighting for women. She is fighting for herself only. Just like the majority of "Feminists".

How do "I" know this? Being a woman I have been undercut, sabotaged and backstabbed by women numerous times. They are just as devious as any TV show depicts them. All for one and one for ME.

I can't wait until the first transgender tennis player shows up in women's pro tennis...Hopefully, Serena will still be playing.

Would Serena win against a Transgender woman playing against her? Would she be able to claim sexism? What if the transgender were of the same race? Racism?

This has started to happen in various sports so it's not too far-fetched...

I saw her tirade and she was completely out of line. She made the JWs look bad. A shepherding call may be in order.

As to the tennis player who changed her shirt and got penalized-many female athletes to work out in just a work out bra. That seems fine in any number of sports. Why isn't that acceptable on the tennis sidelines where the temps were soaring? She was not displaying her boobs to anyone. A sports bra is very heavy and concealing. The only thing visible was her midriff.

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2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

by Not_Culty in

sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

VIII

They are completely off the rails wacko! I, too, was lucky that I was able to go to college when it was a "choice". They didn't encourage it, yet, the internet hadn't been invented so video's like this hadn't come about. Just the locals warning you of "bad associations".

Why isn't this out in the public domain?!

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DECEMBER 2018 WATCHTOWER STUDY ARTICLE...Many loyal Christians have remained with an unbelieving mate under very trying circumstances.

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

december 2018 study article :.

honor “what god has yoked together”.

17 admittedly, there have been instances where an “unbelieving husband” seems to prove that he is not “agreeable to staying with her.” he might be extremely physically abusive, even to the point that she feels that her health or life is in danger.

VIII

Thank you zeb and ToesUp. I stopped doing sleep-overs at her house though I did ride my bike over and keep up my friendship with her. I would guess that the creepy Dad did it to her also.

Not "stumbling someone" are the keywords...I hate to use the term trigger, however, those terms just pop up because only JWs use them and that was also a control method to keep one in line.