Posts by miseryloveselders

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Get to the point!

by Mr. Falcon in

two jehovah's witnesses walk up to a house and knock on the door.

a younger man wearing a t-shirt with all kinds of swirl-patterns on it (think tie-dye, but not quite) answers the door and the first jw goes into his presentation.

he is offering the watchtower on the "occult" (cue spooky music).

This thread is ironic, as this past Saturday I got almost the same reaction, well not me, but my partner. I haven't used the Occult magazine as this is America and I don't think the average American equates the Occult with the Twilight Saga. This magazine might fly in Haiti, but not in Idaho. At any rate, my partner, rung the bell, and a woman with her 10 year old or so son, came to the door. My partner got into her presentation, and the woman stopped her abruptly and said, "I'm not interested." So I and my partner politely said have a good day, and a good rest of the weekend and we turned and started walking away. Then before the woman closed the door, she said, "We're in the Occult! She then laughed with her son." Thats when I shocked her because I went, "hahahaa", genuinely as I thought what she said was funny. I looked back at her, and she had a surprised look on her face because she didn't expect me to laugh with her. It shocked her. My partner who's of the melodramatic type, always having a problem, easily offended over anything and everything that someone did or said at the hall, didn't find it amusing. I reasoned with her to have a sense of humor over these things, otherwise you'll lose your mind if you take all of this stuff too seriously.

I hate working with some folks in FS, particulary people who ramble. It's winter time, and the householders aren't dressed appropriately to discuss why the fruit fly didn't evolve and had to have been created, for 5 minutes on the porch. Too many JWs force themselves on people. A few weeks ago after a meeting, I stopped at a Subway for a Black Forest Ham and Turkey sub. Some nut noticed me, and I seen him a mile away. I thought to myself, watch this nut try to make conversation with me. I'm by myself, and honestly I'm tired and I just want to be left alone. Sure enough, he approached me and asked if I was coming from church. Which I acknowledged yes without going into specifics as to what "church." He forced the issue, by asking where at. I told him the Kingdom Hall down the road. He said, oh you're a JWs. To which I replied yes, and he wanted to talk about the Holy Spirit and why JWs don't worship Jesus. I'm thinking to myself, c'mon bruh, I just want to eat and not be bothered, then it hit me!!! It really hit me right then and there, like I had a premonition!!! I'm irritated cuz this guy is bothering me while I'm trying to eat my lunch in peace, but guess what? I've been doing that for 20 years or so, knocking on people's doors bothering them at the most inconvenient of times to discuss things that they don't want to talk about! So eventually the guy got the point that I don't feel like talking, I feel like eating, and he wished me well and went his way.

There's been times I've worked with some brothers and sisters who are just entirely clueless when it comes to reading people. The householder looks irritated, its cold outside, and the nut I'm working with doesn't have enough sense to say, "maybe I'll come back another time!" Or just leave a tract and move on!!! Maybe we expect too much from The Friends.

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I sued the local congregation

by chukky 594 in

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friends

several years ago, before my wife and i left, my 5 yr old daughter got up during the watchtower to cross the aisle to sit with someone else.

she tripped on the roving microphone wire and smashed her head on the foot of a metal chair.

the bleeding was profuse and an ambulance was called.

miseryloveselders

TD, I hear ya, all too well. Yeah we can talk about building codes, inspections until we're blue in the face. But still, the fact remains that the kid either walked or ran across(probably the latter) the isle to sit with someone else, and wasn't paying attention to where she was going as most children don't pay attention, and she got jacked up as a result. Some responsibility has to fall on the child or the parents at that point. If the kid ran into a wall and broke her nose, can the parent sue and say the wall should have been somewhere else? Maybe the next time some kid gets his tongue stuck on a pole in the middle of winter, we can sue the city for not coating the poles with salt. At the hall, we've all seen 1 or 2 year olds who crawl under chairs, and forget that there's something over atop of their head and then inadvertently bump their head. Should we sue the congregation because it could have been prevented? Had the kid stayed put, or paid attention to where she was going, she never would have tripped over the wire in the first place. Considering it was a five year old, and considering that she busted her head pretty good, she probably was either walking really fast or running. I guarantee you after the event, I bet she payed a little more attention before walking across the isle.

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Four Americans killed on pirated yacht off Somalia: report

by chickpea in

washington (reuters) four americans on a yacht taken over by pirates were killed near somalia, cnn reported on tuesday, citing u.s. defense officials.. the americans were apparently shot during negotiations, cnn reported.

yahoo news is reporting it.

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miseryloveselders

You have to question the intelligence of some people. There's certain areas in this very country that I'm not travelling to, and those numbnuts decided to travel off the coast of Somalia with limited security? They used as much of their brains as Daniel Pearl did being a Jew hanging out in Pakistan.

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Do not let work get in the way of pioneering

by life is to short in

the april 15th wt is strange and it just throws things in here and there that are kind of out of sort.

i think it sticks in your mind more like hey i probably should pioneer when they throw things in that are kind of in left feild.. like this example on pages 16 and 17 it is talking about making decisions and in paragraph 15 it says "for example a congregation publisher might decide to pioneer.

will he succeed?

miseryloveselders

Good thread LITS.

Part of why I stopped donating any money to the WT is because of articles like this. They have a lot of nerve to print this kind of stuff. When you consider the wear and tear on your vehicle, the money spent on clothing and shoes, the time spent "willfully volunteering" for a publishing company, after a while one has to say that enough is enough. What more do you want from us? All the time spent in field service, preparing for field service, preparing for and attending meetings, its never enough for them. Never enough. They want you to pay for the CO and his wife, pay for some mediocre speaker from Bethel to come and deliver a talk at your local congregation, pay for rooms at hotels that they have contracts with to stay during the conventions and assemblies, pay for suits, ties, dress shirts, shoes, brake pads, gas, oil changes, the electric bill at the hall, the gas bill at the hall, the water bill at the hall, the phone bill at the hall, clean the hall after the meeting, spring cleaning at the hall, fall cleaning at the hall, take the CO and his wife out to eat, take the visiting speaker and his family out to eat, occasionally take the DO and his wife out to eat, drive around doing return visits, etc.. It never ends. On top of that, none of that is good enough for them as they want you to do more. Please.

You know, Babylon the Great actually has services and charities for the general public. Everything from hospitals, soup kitchens, temporary shelter for the homeless, funds for people suffering abroad in various countries dealing with disease, earthquakes, hunger, poverty, you name it. What do Jehovah's Witnesses have? A "volunteer" service offerering literature and free bible studies that nobody wants. Those volunteering are routinely and systematically made to feel that their work is never good enough. The only charitable work Jehovah's Witnesses do is provide free shelter, the best medical care, and luxury living to anonymous shysters at Bethel.

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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised

by therevealer in

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12 the watchtower ?

5 what good results there can be when.

children are trained to keep a simple eye!.

miseryloveselders

They count on the rank and file's ignorance.

People aren't offered scholarships. You have to apply for them and you might or might not be awarded one. You MIGHT be offered an application for a scholarship, as in, "here, you ought to fill out this application for a scholarship." Nobody is offered a full ride to Harvard or anywhere else UNLESS they are both brilliant AND they applied for it. So anyone who claims they were offered a full scholarship should be asked: "why did you apply for a college scholarship instead of putting your faith in Jehovah?"

I didn't know this, I never knew this. I didn't even take my SAT's when in high school as being a born-in JW, I already knew college was viewed more negatively than pornography. But I never gave it any thought before that for a scholarship, one has to actually apply for it. I never knew that. Wow.

They really are some lying, unscruplous snakes up in the Writing Department aren't they? Wow.

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Why so many Atheist VS. Christian discussions here?

by mindmelda in

i notice a lot of the discussions seem to be atheist vs christian here.

or is that just my perception?.

but, do the other people who are neither just not care to debate as much or are there just fewer or them, or both?.

miseryloveselders

My opinion, The JW's told us everything else is wrong and they spent a lot of time proving it.

So when you find the JW's are wrong and evrerything eilse is wrong that leaves atheism.

This is what I was thinking, and also what B to the X mentioned as well. You're taught, better yet you're trained to effectively strip other religious beliefs down to the very core. Even if JWs have wrong views of what other faith's teach, enough of what JWs are trained to believe about other faith's is accurate enough to brush those other faiths off as not worth jumping from the frying pan into the skillet. After finding out the JWs are full of crap too, what else is there besides Agnosticism or Atheism? I guess some would say, "there's always Jesus!", but what written about him is insufficient at times, at least for some people, lately myself included depending on my mood.

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News on Prince

by blondie in

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will prince and ballerina live happily ever after?by c.j., star tribune.

last update: february 19, 2011 - 11:14 pm.

0diggsdiggmore from c.j.prince has a new love interest, a ballerina, who is being described as "his first sister since sheila e"bymediatakeout.comif misty copeland, of american ballet theatre fame, is really prince's new lady, the first thing that i noticed is that she's a baby.

miseryloveselders

Ya know something, Prince is what...about 5-5", and 120 Lbs? I hope he knows what he's doing, cuz that one picture of her looked dangerous. I'd be hesitant to get intimate with her. She should have an advisory notice tattooed on her back and stomach.

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I sued the local congregation

by chukky 594 in

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friends

several years ago, before my wife and i left, my 5 yr old daughter got up during the watchtower to cross the aisle to sit with someone else.

she tripped on the roving microphone wire and smashed her head on the foot of a metal chair.

the bleeding was profuse and an ambulance was called.

miseryloveselders

I believe BOTR is talking about blameworthiness and outcome severity theory. In other words, even though the negligence of another party is the root cause of the accident, the victim can render the outcome many times more severe through their own negligence then it would otherwise have been.

A pedestrian walking in a desginated isle is not demonstrating negligence by failing to negotiate a hazard inasmuch as an unobstructed walkway is the whole purpose of an isle.

But what about her running across the isle to sit with someone else, and she's not paying attention and gets balled up? I'm all for bringing the WT down, but this whole thread just left a bad taste in my mouth. Had she remained......nope, I'm not gonna say it.....

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News on Prince

by blondie in

jw
friends

will prince and ballerina live happily ever after?by c.j., star tribune.

last update: february 19, 2011 - 11:14 pm.

0diggsdiggmore from c.j.prince has a new love interest, a ballerina, who is being described as "his first sister since sheila e"bymediatakeout.comif misty copeland, of american ballet theatre fame, is really prince's new lady, the first thing that i noticed is that she's a baby.

miseryloveselders

She's fine.

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I sued the local congregation

by chukky 594 in

jw
friends

several years ago, before my wife and i left, my 5 yr old daughter got up during the watchtower to cross the aisle to sit with someone else.

she tripped on the roving microphone wire and smashed her head on the foot of a metal chair.

the bleeding was profuse and an ambulance was called.

miseryloveselders

Damages are discounted by her amount of fault.

Interesting.