don't make up threads asking people how to be cool would be a start not using the word cool would also help as "cool" isn't "cool" any more
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How can I be "COOL" on JWN?
by Silent_Scream inwhat 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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wotcha matey!
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Jw's forcing "niceness" on people
by highdose ini can't go into details but basically having been off the jw radar for years i'm now firmly back on it.
just recently it feels like i can't move without a jw being in the way!
they are trying a tactic with me which i've seen done many many times when i was a jw myself.
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"My biggest problem is I find it hard to be rude to people who are being SOOOOO nice." ... thats the whole point! they know you will find it difficult to rebuff them.
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Lions eating straw....is this possible?
by highdose ini recall a jw telling me that.... "they" meaning scientists, had done study's on lions in zoo's and discovered that if they gave lions straw and grass to eat that the lions became very passive and no longer showed predator behavior??
now they never explained who "they" were, or were these "study's" had been done or why based on these study's lions are not now fed grass etc
has anyone else heard this for real?
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I recall a JW telling me that.... "they" meaning scientists, had done study's on lions in zoo's and discovered that if they gave lions straw and grass to eat that the lions became very passive and no longer showed predator behavior??? Now they never explained who "they" were, or were these "study's" had been done or why based on these study's lions are not now fed grass etc Has anyone else heard this for real? or is it a JW urban myth?
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Jw's forcing "niceness" on people
by highdose ini can't go into details but basically having been off the jw radar for years i'm now firmly back on it.
just recently it feels like i can't move without a jw being in the way!
they are trying a tactic with me which i've seen done many many times when i was a jw myself.
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Phizzy:"If they say something like "We are so busy !" you can say something like I did on the last occasaion I heard that from a Dub "I know, life for a Witness is so hectic, you never seem to have time for yourself , at present I seem to need quiet and peace a lot"" i like that i'm going to use it thanks! Keep em coming won't you?
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Jw's forcing "niceness" on people
by highdose ini can't go into details but basically having been off the jw radar for years i'm now firmly back on it.
just recently it feels like i can't move without a jw being in the way!
they are trying a tactic with me which i've seen done many many times when i was a jw myself.
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black sheep, the trouble with being nice back is it just encourages them. makes them think that they are "winning me without a word", i know that at some point the "niceness" will start to be mixed with "encouragement" and "informal witnessing" followed by suggestions of coming to "just one meeting" or a bible study offer. these people really do not understand the meaning of the word "no" and have no respect for anyone else opinions I saw this happen as a JW, the long faded family member of a fellow JW would make the mistake of attending a meeting or a JW social function. They would get saturated with love bombing, people who weren't really bothered about them felt it was their duty to "show an interest" in the person. As i recall the person nearly always had the look of a deer in headlights...
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Jw's forcing "niceness" on people
by highdose ini can't go into details but basically having been off the jw radar for years i'm now firmly back on it.
just recently it feels like i can't move without a jw being in the way!
they are trying a tactic with me which i've seen done many many times when i was a jw myself.
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Ziddina, i know exactly what you mean, i do feel like smacking these people right in their smiling sycophantic gobs sometimes Thing is they know that i once was a JW worth having, regular, obedient and very "strong in the truth". They can't seen to get their heads around the idea that someone so devout has utterly left and left for good. Surely they must know that i know whats going on... i wasn't baptized yesterday!
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Jw's forcing "niceness" on people
by highdose ini can't go into details but basically having been off the jw radar for years i'm now firmly back on it.
just recently it feels like i can't move without a jw being in the way!
they are trying a tactic with me which i've seen done many many times when i was a jw myself.
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I can't go into details but basically having been off the JW radar for years i'm now firmly back on it. Just recently it feels like i can't move without a JW being in the way! They are trying a tactic with me which I've seen done many many times when i was a JW myself. Its called being forcibly nice! This is a brand of niceness which is not so much sugar coated as aspartame and saccharine dripping. Totally false but done with the idea of "if we start off being nice to her then she will have to drop her guard, she will have to be nice back and then we can start ""encouraging her""!" Its done in the knowledge that no one could reasonably object to someone being nice. Although some of the attempts I've seen over the past couple of days have been positively cringe worthy. almost quite demeaning to the person trying to put on the "nice act". They have been trying to engage me in conversation that is banal and inane in the extreme. Even answers from me like "i'm fine thankyou" are met with "oooh! goooooood! i'm sooooooooo pleased!!!!!!!" Major OTT.I give off all body language that cannot be mistaken and that any other reasonable person would take as a serious hint to get lost. But this is lost on them or they ignore it. Even worse it has been fed back to me through my relatives that the JW's are reporting back to them that they had a "nice friendly conversation" with me, its related in a tone of extreme hopefulness. When i'm unfriendly to them it gets related back as " i was only trying to be friendly but she was so rude!" Its all very very clever. Theocratic warfare at its most sly. But no they shall not get me back, but i for see allot more irritation and sycophantic moments in the future. I have though perfected the art of the fake call! I pretend to text someone, when really setting an alarm for 1 min time, then i pick up the phone when the alarm goes off "sorry i've got to take this" and proceed to walk out of the room while having my fake conversation.
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ASK AN ELDER ABOUT THIS VERSE
by The Searcher inmillions of witnesses believe in "new scrolls", based on the following "spirit directed teachings";.
"will jehovah use his holy spirit in the coming new world?
that spirit will be the force behind the new scrolls that will be opened at that time".
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i doubt they would even read the new scrolls, just make it up as they go along like they currently do
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How did you visualize Jehovah when you were young?
by Matsimus ini was born as a third generation (perhaps even fourth gen. but my great great grandfather never got baptized) jw.
i remember that when i was young, perhaps about five years old, i would think about jehovah as this big black ghost with yellow eyes.
to me he was quite frightening, and i was constantly catious not to piss him off.
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i could never understand why the israelits were told not to make a representation of jehovah, yet the wt prints them????