Megachusen

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  I met a lady last week.........

  by Iamallcool in

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  i met a lady last week, we like each other, she flirted with me but i have not asked her out for date.

  she is very pretty but i ran a background check on her.

  she got arrested for possession of marijuana last year.

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  Megachusen

  Yep, that reefer is one hell of a drug. Wait, I was thinking about cocaine. Nevermind.
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  How can I be "COOL" on JWN?

  by Silent_Scream in

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  what are the unwritten rules and standards that make some people here cool, others not.. saying "just be yourself" is a lie!

  i see many people being themselves who start an interesting thread and have 6 comments (5 being their own), while others post "cheeseburgers" and the thread last for days.

  lol.. .

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  Megachusen

  It goes by Facebook rules except instead of boobs, popularity is increased by how cool your avatar is.

  Having boobs doesn't hurt though.
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  ApostaRAD! Apostates Wanted

  by Megachusen in

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  hey guys, i don't really get a chance to post here often but i've just made a site where i'm attempting to add a little humor to how horrible the witnesses are.. i'd really appreciate it if you guys could come by and critique the site and let me know what you think.

  also, if anyone would like to write something up for me, i would love it (as long as it's about religion and you at least try to make it funny).. to view the site click here.. thanks, guys..

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  Megachusen

  Hey guys, I don't really get a chance to post here often but I've just made a site where I'm attempting to add a little humor to how horrible the witnesses are.

  I'd really appreciate it if you guys could come by and critique the site and let me know what you think. Also, if anyone would like to write something up for me, I would love it (as long as it's about religion and you at least try to make it funny).

  To view the site click here.

  Thanks, guys.
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  So I just found a Kingdom Melody remix on youtube....

  by Megachusen in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_abpwtrqbg.

  apparently some of the jw's are into weird gay-clubbing-techno.

  long story short, i decided to make a ytmnd in its honor.

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  Megachusen

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_aBpWtrqbg

  Apparently some of the JW's are into weird gay-clubbing-techno. Long story short, I decided to make a YTMND in its honor. Unfortunately it's a little bit on the NSFW-side.
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  Attempting To Write a Book

  by Megachusen in

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  for a while i've wanted to write about my time as a jehovah's witness and i'm just starting to put the words together.

  so far i'm working on an intro that will grab the readers attention as well as forshadow why i took my stance against the religion.. what i've got so far:.

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  Megachusen

  No I haven't, broken. Is it that awful?
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  Attempting To Write a Book

  by Megachusen in

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  for a while i've wanted to write about my time as a jehovah's witness and i'm just starting to put the words together.

  so far i'm working on an intro that will grab the readers attention as well as forshadow why i took my stance against the religion.. what i've got so far:.

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  Megachusen

  For a while I've wanted to write about my time as a Jehovah's Witness and I'm just starting to put the words together. So far I'm working on an intro that will grab the readers attention as well as forshadow why I took my stance against the religion.

  What I've got so far:

  I had become deprogrammed. “This little girl had given her life praising our God.” The man behind the podium declared in a loud, booming voice that only a District Overseer of Jehovah’s Witnesses could muster. Part of me will always be in that old Phoenix high school auditorium that the local Witnesses would rent out for our assemblies twice a year.

  I was appalled. Looking for some sort of solidarity in the masses that were sitting around me, I began searching the surrounding faces for an expression that matched the one that was imprinted on my face. Instead I found only the teary eyes of the old women, the cold, apathetic stares of the men, the inspired guises of the energetic pioneer sisters, and the I’m-bored-to-death faces of the young children and teenagers. The tears of the old women were not tears of sadness, mind you, but tears of joy.

  I sat in my seat with a deep sickness tugging at the bottom of my stomach. I had never felt so alone in a crowd of thousands before. What could have given me this reaction? The speaker had been telling the story of a young 9 year old girl who was in grave need of a blood transfusion but had turned it down because of her beliefs – or, more accurately, her mother and father’s beliefs.

  Why this little girl’s story had affected me was a mystery. None of this was out of the ordinary. The brothers, as the baptized men were called, made a routine of reminding us all of the sacrifices that we would have to sometimes make to worship our God. Martyrdom was a subject that was often discussed, though the speakers were always very careful to never call it that, and most born-ins had become accustomed to it; in fact, most of us were even comfortable with it.

  Yet I sat there with my intuition screaming into my head that something was amiss. I was horrified by this sudden realization. “Was I becoming an Apostate?” I thought to myself. Apostates were the worst thing that you could be, after all. Like most of my friends at the time, I had been born into this religion and I knew it was right. Still, even with my thorough brain-scrubbing, I sat there uncomfortably thinking of this unnamed little girl. Everyone was so happy with the fact that she had given her life for a guaranteed ticket to paradise.

  Suddenly, things didn’t seem so clear. “What if this isn’t true?” I wondered. This was both the most powerful thought that I had ever contemplated and the most difficult question that I had ever asked. It flew in the face of all that I knew. Everything inside of me told me that I should just try to hide my doubts; though, fortunately for me, once you start thinking you don’t stop.

  For the first time in my Jehovah’s Witness life I, quite by accident, had started using something that every parent in our religion feared their children would acquire: independent thinking. Yes, independent thinking was scorned in our faith. Critical thinkers need not apply. This seemed logical to all of us; why keep searching if you’ve already found the truth? If you were thinking independently it would mean that you had been thinking outside of the information that we had been given and that information was absolute.

  We were instructed to be innocent lambs that would follow the lead of our shepherds. Our shepherds, as we were promised, had been put in place by Jehovah God himself.

  Where was all the proof for this? We were assured that it was in the Bible.

  This was my religion.
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  How can someone be sure that he will survive in Armageddon?

  by XPeterX in

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  don't know what to say...most jw's i asked looked down and said in a bit silent voice that they don't know or that it doesn't depend on them.another jw said that if "i die in armageddon so be it.

  "what do you believe?.

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  Megachusen

  Nope. That's why they stress the word "probably".
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  Anyone been out for a long time, then for whatever reason went to a meeting or convention? What was it like to you now?

  by Think About It in

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  i've been out 15 yrs and never attended again.

  anyone been out a long time and for whatever reason went to a meeting or convention?

  what was it like to you then?

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  Megachusen

  I remember I felt really nerdy. Like I was in the middle of a LARPing convention.

  Everyone was taking something that I considered mythology very, very seriously.
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  Interesting phenomenon I'm seeing on Facebook

  by JimmyPage in

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  it's becoming more and more evident that many young jws just don't care about the wt rules anymore.

  one jw on facebook has particularly intrigued me lately.

  he posts pics of himself sporting (gasp) a beard and uses curse words in his status updates.

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  Megachusen

  The internet opens up all kinds of windows to the true nature of the Human condition, doesn't it?

  That's probably why the Dubs hate it so much. It lets them lower their guard and show off the parts of themeselves that they like to suppress.
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  A Message To All Creationists

  by Megachusen in

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  recently i read the following from themadjw's retarded website:.

  "no one would claim that the simplest device- such as, say, a pen, could ever come about, given all eternity, by accident!".

  wow!

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  I quit, I personally make no claim as to whether the universe is infinite in any sense. Science doesn't know at this point.
  
  If I was going to speculate and say that this universe is infinite than yes, everything with a probability higher than absolute 0 would have happened. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand the concept of endlessness.
  
  Anyone who knows anything about mathematics (which I have basic knowledge in) would know that infinity isn't a value and that taking a sample of it would destroy the meaning of infinity itself. Even if I waited 10 100 years for a pencil to somehow appear in the universe and it didn't happen I could still wait another 10 100 years and another after that. In fact I would have and endless amount googols that I could sit patiently through until I hit a point where there was a pencil in the universe that I was occupying.
  
  Most religions in the world claim that God has always existed and therefore this argument would apply to that reasoning. Also saying that I can't use a hypothetical situation in an argument is ludicrous.
  
  Also anyone who is interested in probability in infinities should look at this website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ndr/ProbabilityParadox.html
  It's an interesting little read that demonstrates my point perfectly.