Posts by JerkhovahsWitless

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Today was day 1 of my district cultvention

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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some of the memorable moments today would be:.

1) the nutty mother on stage with her little boy who became an unbaptized publisher at 6. i missed his current age, but he was a tiny little kid, couldn't be much older than a couple years over 6. tomorrow he gets baptized.

2) the husband and wife couple who work part-time to pioneer, but wanted to do more so they sold their home, down-sized to one car and made other adjustments to make their lives more simple to put the kingdom first.

JerkhovahsWitless

I've been putting off mentioning day 3. I've successfully managed to block most of it out of my mind. I'm so glad its over.

The audio announcement wasn't made at this particular convention. I asked a friend of mine if it was since he was there for the entire 3 days.

Oh, and I caught the age of the kid who was on stage Friday (the one who at 6 was an unbap pub). He was the youngest to get baptized on Saturday. He is now 8 years old.

All I remember about Sunday is what a load of BS the drama was! That was the largest amount of propaganda I ever recall seeing (or am I just noticing it now?). Its like the WT read things cult members say and decided to include them into the drama script. I could not believe people were emotionally moved to cry, oooooh, ahhhhh, laugh and applaud that crap. If I was a bible study or some walk-in, I would be disgusted at how people who aren't JWs were portrayed. That drama was the final thing I needed to see to be 100% convinced that the Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult. Someone please tell me there's a video of the drama on the net somewhere?

An interesting thing happened at dinner that night. I went with family and friends of my family (a couple of them had to wear their jehooba damn badges to dinner). The waiter was talking to a sister at the table about some other restaurant. The waiter mentioned he had only been there once and didn't remember it too well because he was drunk. The sister didn't seem to mind that, after all she was sucking down more alcohol than she could handle, like the rest of the JWs at the table, but when the waiter said it was at a birthday celebration I saw her cult personality trigger. Her body got tense, her friendly smile turned into a bitchy scowl and she broke eye contact with the waiter and that was the end of the conversation. Creepy... The waiter looked puzzled and walked away.

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You Have No Witness "Friends"

by metatron in

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i apologize for this point, as if beating it to death, but folks, you don't have any witness friends!

there is no such thing.. does that sound extreme?

too radical?

JerkhovahsWitless

My life long experience with witness friends, has been for the most part, they only want to use you. They'll take all they can get and you won't hear from them again until its time to take some more.

Most of the time you never get too close to any of them because there's phony spiritual walls built up. Its hard to truly know someone when you have to be cautious with what you say or do doesn't trigger the cult insanity thats festering in their brain.

Then there's the problem with how can you be friends with someone who you can't trust with information that would require they turn you into the independent thought and morality police.

I only have one JW friend that knows a lot of dirt on me and I know dirt on that friend. They are the most involved person in my personal life and know my feelings towards the cult. I know that friends feelings of disbelief in the WT and bible as well, yet that friend remains a JW for family and will probably get married into it and be trapped for life. I'm looking to break away, so when that happens that friend will have no choice but to shun me like the rest.

Not even that friend can prove to be a real friend as long as being one of Jehovah's Witlesses.

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I was at the meeting sunday

by stillin in

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and it made me think...of this song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptedd4f-lgw.

and i realized that i was thinking out of context.

the song was out of context, me being at the meeting was me out of context, the scriptures being read were out of context.

JerkhovahsWitless

LOL, good song.

There's a song I think of at meetings sometimes, by a band called Guttermouth, but posting it here would probably get me banned as it says a combination of the words "BS" and "the s word" a total of 28 times within 35 seconds...

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How many here actually still believe that there is a God??

by annalice in

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after being gone from the jw's for many years now , and having done extensive research on the history of god and the belief in him , i can't seem to find any logical way to have a belief in an invisble being up there ruling over us.

how many here still believe?

how many don't?.

JerkhovahsWitless

Don't believe. No belief at all. Zero. None whatsoever.

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Is the artwork on the new creation DVD astrological?

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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anyone else after opening the dvd case for the wonders of creation reveal god's glory (hole), immediately think of the zodiac when looking at the disc?.

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JerkhovahsWitless

This was the Watchtower's original idea for the DVD art.

The Vatican didn't want to be associated in any way with the WT (they're trying to keep their image clean of pedophilia these days), so that's why the WTS had to go with a more subtle zodiac. True story

Vatican 1291 Christian Zodiac

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Is the artwork on the new creation DVD astrological?

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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anyone else after opening the dvd case for the wonders of creation reveal god's glory (hole), immediately think of the zodiac when looking at the disc?.

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JerkhovahsWitless

Anyone else after opening the DVD case for The Wonders of Creation Reveal God's Glory (hole) , immediately think of the zodiac when looking at the disc?

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Today was day 1 of my district cultvention

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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some of the memorable moments today would be:.

1) the nutty mother on stage with her little boy who became an unbaptized publisher at 6. i missed his current age, but he was a tiny little kid, couldn't be much older than a couple years over 6. tomorrow he gets baptized.

2) the husband and wife couple who work part-time to pioneer, but wanted to do more so they sold their home, down-sized to one car and made other adjustments to make their lives more simple to put the kingdom first.

JerkhovahsWitless

Did they make any statement like this?

audio recordings
are not to be distributed in peer to peer fashion, nor are they to
widely duplicated and spreaded. any recording is a for personal use
only..

If they did, I wasn't paying attention. I did get there after the afternoon session started, so maybe I missed it. Today I got there right at lunch during the baptism to see my friend become corporate property of the WT. I left right after to eat and I got back after the program started again, so if it was announced then, I missed it yet again. There was one more break for song and announcements before today ended, but they didn't say anything about audio recordings. I usually sit down during the announcements and day dream while smacking a stick of gum around in my mouth, but tomorrow I'll make sure to keep an ear out for that particular announcement.

I wish I felt up to mentioning today's session in depth, but I feel so mentally drained from arguing in my head with what was said from the platform and trying to practice classifying which mind control tactic was being used in certain talks.

The afternoon satanic fear fest during the symposium was just awful. Some of the demonstrations were so cheesy, good vs evil and a couple seemed really sexist. One was two sisters talking about another sister who just became a pioneer and one of the sister's was acting catty, tearing the pioneer down, being negative (like Satan), while the other sister was happy for her. Another demonstration had one of Satan's evil worldly drones trying to seduce a married brother at his job. It appeared like Paul / Slobbering Body-like misogyny to me in that the subliminal message was women are gossiping loose moraled temptresses. Those over-acted parts mirrored 50's propaganda films. Oh, another part that annoyed me was 2 worldly girls teasing their Witless school mate about being gay because she won't date any guys. Later when the Witless was discussing the problem with her parents, she said how her school mates think she's been brainwashed in some cult. (Ever notice anyone who says something to that affect usually is actually in a cult?) Judging by the laughs and giggles, the audience ate all of that crap up with a smile.

While I'm on the subject of over-acting and cheese, for those of you who have had the displeasure of attending, what's up with that recorded bible reading for the story of Job? The voices of Jehovah and Satan were hysterically campy. The reading of Daniel in the lion's den creeped me out when Sister Loving who was sitting beside me let out an evil joyous cackle during the part about those who accused Daniel of wrong doing were thrown into the lion's den along with their wives and children. Her idea of porn is probably artistic renderings of people dying at Armageddon.

I doubt I'll get there early enough to hear tomorrow morning's session, which means I'll miss out on hearing the doomsday talk entitled, how to survive the end of the world. I kind of want to be there to hear it, just to make fun of it later. Oh, the morning symposium looks like a great load of crap I'll miss, too... At least I'll be there for the drama so my parents can apply the story to me. I hope this doesn't move people at my hall to start coming by here more often to harass me.

Alright, I'll stop rambling. I need to go do something else to empty today's trash out of my head... Thanks to the forum for being an outlet for my DC loathing, lol.

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Today was day 1 of my district cultvention

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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friends

some of the memorable moments today would be:.

1) the nutty mother on stage with her little boy who became an unbaptized publisher at 6. i missed his current age, but he was a tiny little kid, couldn't be much older than a couple years over 6. tomorrow he gets baptized.

2) the husband and wife couple who work part-time to pioneer, but wanted to do more so they sold their home, down-sized to one car and made other adjustments to make their lives more simple to put the kingdom first.

JerkhovahsWitless

Some of the memorable moments today would be:

1) The nutty mother on stage with her little boy who became an unbaptized publisher at 6. I missed his current age, but he was a tiny little kid, couldn't be much older than a couple years over 6. Tomorrow he gets baptized.

2) The husband and wife couple who work part-time to pioneer, but wanted to do more so they sold their home, down-sized to one car and made other adjustments to make their lives more simple to put the kingdom first. (what a cult)

3) The announcement we can now make donations via plastic at the terminals in the lobby. I made eye contact with my dad during that announcement and smiled because he was "stumbled" when he first heard of that "new arrangement" at the service meeting a few months back.

4) The jackasses being excited about the new song book. Same crap sounding music, now with new and improved loaded language.

Fortunately, I only made it for the afternoon session because I decided to sleep in and enjoy my lunch before going to that hell. I got there after it started, so I avoided being love-bombed by people telling me how they miss seeing me at the meetings. I fled after the final 10 minute prayer to avoid being stuck in the parking lot for an hour trying to leave while some pitted-up-pus-faced-14-year-old-in-a-suit tries to direct a few thousand cars out of a parking lot in 90 degree heat. God forbid they pay some money to have the police direct traffic for once. Bastards.

Tomorrow I'll have to get there a little earlier because someone I know and value is unfortunately dedicating his life to the WT$, and I told him I'd be there to see it.
Two more days of hearing BS being spewed out of the anus of the WT$...

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As a JW Did other Witnesses Annoy you by Condemning " Worldly Music" ?

by flipper in

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i know i got bothered by all the self righteous music police who would condemn me or others for our awesome record collections from early years as a teenager .

several experiences were really quite odd .

one brother came up to me saying i was wrong to listen to the moody blues " nights in white satin "!

JerkhovahsWitless

OnTheWayOut - As a young converted adult JW, I had already chosen heavy metal and hard rock as my favorites.
The JW's my age or slightly older got me believing in the existence of the Satanic symbols and the backwards messages.

You reminded me of this CD I own. I always thought the caption on it looked like it was taken from some crazy fundamentalist literature. I didn't know until a few years ago when I was looking through an old Awake that I kept from back when I was a witless music nazi where the caption possibly came from.

*** g94 9/22 p. 6 Satanism’s Handmaidens—Drugs and Heavy-Metal Music ***

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"He was really smart. Smart people leave all the time" <- Unwitting Witness Tells The Truth

by gubberningbody in

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how many of you have heard this one, or words to that effect?.

JerkhovahsWitless

I've heard "He was too smart for his own good." Even at that time, when I was "theocratic", I thought what he said was stupid and cultic. Should have been a warning sign to me, but it did come from a "spiritual" pioneer brother who seemed to suffer some type of mental slowness from his teen years before the troof when he was always high and not getting an education in high school...