Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to all of us apostates & everyone else who may venture onto this site.
Don't let this topic die, let's make it the longest topic on site, keep on posting.
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merry christmas & a happy new year to all of us apostates & everyone else who may venture onto this site.
don't let this topic die, let's make it the longest topic on site, keep on posting.. .
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to all of us apostates & everyone else who may venture onto this site.
Don't let this topic die, let's make it the longest topic on site, keep on posting.
i know that the elders and all jws have stupid "conscience" decisions to make from time to time, but this topped it for me.. my brother's gay and that's why he left the religion a few years ago.
now my mum wants to get re-married to another brother but the elder that she asked to marry them both declined.
he says that it would bother his conscience too much "because of luke living with you, because he's...ya know...gay!".
i concure WTF
ok some of you will laugh at this, but it's true, there is a spirit that haunts the premises where i work.. it has spoken to me once when i was locking up, it was 1 single word "hello", i looked around and saw nothing, i ignored it, set the alarm locked the door & went home.
other times i have felt something brush passed me as i have entered the building early in the morning.
the experience that got to me most happened the other nite when i was called back to the store by security, as i pulled into the drive way there was a man standing at the rear of the building, in the split second of looking away he dissapeared, there's no way that he could have run off the property in that split second.. what do you think?.
lately i did a lot of reading regarding the un scandal, the org being a ngo for 10 years.
i tried to read both sides, the comments on jwfacts.com, as well as the defense at jehovahsjudgment.co.uk.. and then the endless discussion on topix.com between thirdwitness and alanf and others.. while i am sure, the way the org handled the whole situation, especially after the article in the guardian, was plain wrong, instead of openly confessing a mistake, it was done secretely and only after inquiry, and made it look like a cover-up.. .
however, considering the whole issue, i think it comes down to one question:.
On Sundays I went to KH
Mondays I delivered paint to Whenuapai Air Base
OK it's a little off topic I know LOL
as we all know the net is chock full in conspiracy theories, bible prophets and end of the world prognosticators.
some of the things being promoted are ufo invasions, end of the world in 2012, asteroid strikes, the rapture, aliens disquising themselves as humans, a one world government and a new world currency.
all this just scratches the surface.
If one says when it will happen, it won't, murphy's law LOL
i know that what counts as swearing differs alot from region to region, amongst the words i heard used were "crap, bloody, shit, git, bastard, bitch" and the dubs who used these words would say that they didn't belive they were swear words at all!.
I remember swearing at an assembly 1 time "bloody hell" during lunch, a young sister heard me & became very indignate, didn't get pulled up about it tho.
i,ve got old bound wt,s awakes and other books and mags dating back to the early 50's, it's taking up quite a bit of space and i don't know what to do with it.
i had thought of setting it alight but i'm not sure if it would burn, it would also be a waste of a perfectly good match.
could anybody give me any ideas please..
I burnt all of mine when I left New Zealand, I was given more here in Australia but within a year dumped them in the recycle bin.
The old ones dated from 1950s.
Unfortunetly I didn't know any better back in 2001
i know that what counts as swearing differs alot from region to region, amongst the words i heard used were "crap, bloody, shit, git, bastard, bitch" and the dubs who used these words would say that they didn't belive they were swear words at all!.
When I was a teenager I would swear when I was away from jws & not swear when around them, I had trained myself very well in this deception. There was once when I did let my guard down when with jws, it was when I was out driving with my 'JW' friends & another driver did same dumbars thing & i replied with "that f..k..g bastard" the whole car went silent, no one ever mentioned it to me & I never had a call from the elders. phew.
There are many many times I have heard jws swear even with the so called worst words, this even by elders from my own cong & others.
even if you don't belive in god?
its somthing that has become a swear phrase rather than an actual prayer.
so was wondering.... is this somthing you say?.
OMG YES
did you at least want to say "hi"?
or did you avoid them like the plague?.
When I was in my late teens I worked with a DFd person, we had all types of conversations including the jws as a topic, never worried me, at that point in my life i had not been baptised. The elders knew of the situation, none of the them ever approached me about it.
A couple of times I have seen DFd persons on the street & I have made a point of approaching them, to their great surprise.