Posts by Diogenesister

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The Craziness of an Average Bible Study

by Number 6 in

last week i posted a thread asking about who knew any "real anointed" and got some cracking replies.. that got me to thinking, as someone brought up in the 70's and 80's in the watchtower religion, my experience of bible studeis in their homes and those who made it to the hall were mostly batshit crazy or at least people with some serious quirks.. i'll relate a few, none of whose names i remember with any clarity.. in our cong we had an older couple who were from london, but who had been in the 1950's in the circuit work in the mid west usa.

they brought along some woman one night they had started a study with who told everyone cheerfully she was a recovering alcoholic and this was her cure (coming to the meetings).

this went on for a few weeks until one night they brought her to the memorial and she was royally pissed, and i mean barely able to stand; and went up to the platform table and necked some wine.

Diogenesister

Number 9My take on it is also that going door to door, the JW's only seriously seem to engage in people with personality disorders or very needy people just looking for company but who by the nature of their personality defects, never would be ideal witness candidtates.

Absolutely agree. The sad thing is, many of these folks hold on to aspects of this belief system for many years, which only damages them further and lowers their already destroyed self-worth.

Keeping the lonely company is the one small good some witnesses do, like Anna Marina did. You’re a good soul Anna,Wish there were more like YOU in life.

We had an alcoholic lady we had to buy this “Barley wine” cans for because she would fit if she didn’t get alcohol. She had lost kids to social services. She was a ghost of her former self, terribly damaged and hurting 😥

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wt religion protection racket

by waton in

last week's study (october wt, page 23), par 10:.

abigail and david.

david and his fellow outlaws protected the nabal family's flocks no doubt with daily support (how else would these fugitives make a living?

Diogenesister

W=Priests write the tithing

That part where they demanded all the silver from the people.

"Oh that...yeah...um.....God said you have to give us all your silver Shekels. He did."

Pity they didn't have polygraph tests back then.

Bunch of crooks!!!

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Don't own Christmas Special guys!!

by Diogenesister in

kevin macfree has outdone himself with this one!

i think it's as good as his yellow brick road one.. i absolutely love the ghost with the blue skin!!

(won't spoil it for you make sure you give him a like!.

Diogenesister

Kevin MacFree has outdone himself with this one! I think it's as good as his yellow brick Road one.

I absolutely love the ghost with the blue skin!! (Won't spoil it for you make sure you give him a like!

https://youtu.be/gwo91H9bYOk

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Happy First Day Of Winter

by The Bethelite in

jw
friends

the great cycles of our life.. everything is moving and with the moving comes change...everything changes.

another cycle is over.

beginnings and endings.

Diogenesister

Thank you!

Happy Holidays to you too my friend. Sending you my warmest regards✌️

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If You Had The Choice To Live Anywhere In The World or Any State Where Would You Be?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i do like the usa but winters suck!

florida has some charm but it gets brutal with heat and humidity.

california is too looney.

Diogenesister

Cornwall. Can’t beat it. Padstow and trebethric. Polzeath beach*

The Isles of Scilley.

Italy is gorgeous.

I love Bordeaux, too. Place called Lacanau . South of France, too, of course. I speak some French so I know I’d pick it up again pretty quickly.

Never been to the States but Oregon looks nice. The Rockies, Washington State? New England looks nice too. I’ve always wanted to visit New England because of Johnathan Richmond lol.Id also like to check out Vermont and Maine They look lovely, summer and winter.

But if I could live anywhere, and I was rich, I’d probably move to Switzerland. And in the summer I’d just live on a boat. Nothing like messing about in the water.

*since the bloody royals started going there, David Cameron et al it’s gone downhill though.

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Department Store Santa Claus - Do They Still Exist?

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

i remember when stores would advertise that santa claus would be there from 2-4 pm on a saturday or something for several weeks before christmas.

you would see them everywhere.. do they still exist in your area?.

maybe parents finally realized that having a drunk guy with a white beard getting his jollies off with young children on his lap was not a good idea.. just my thoughts.

Diogenesister

the alternate reality that Minimus lives in, it is true that department store Santa's no longer exist and have been nearly banned by liberals as well as Christmas as a whole.

🤣🤣😂😂😂 yeah and in that world Starbucks managers will give you the SACK for saying “Merry Christmas” to customers!!!

Come to think of it....don’t a lot of dubs work in Starbucks??! Doo do doo do, doo do do do......

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Pray before sex just like you do for food-W62 3/15

by krismalone in

the governing body has lovingly provided instructions and reminders to couples that they should pray before having sex.

please be obedient and follow the wise counsel from the gb leaders who never stick their noses into other peoples business and are not creepy cult leaders at all....not!.

"had he not created the first human pair so that they could cohabit, planted in them an attraction for each other and then commanded them to "be fruitful and become many"?

Diogenesister

So they could “CO HABIT?” Well I certainly don’t remember God performing a marriage ceremony.

So co habit it is then Watchtower 🤣

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Did You Know Any "Genuine"" Old School Anointed?

by Number 6 in

growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.

in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.

thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.

Diogenesister

Stan One of my pals came out with the line.." he may be going to heaven...but he will be leaving a great crowd on earth"

Stan you kill me🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

we had a couple of very elderly ones. I think “prickly” is probably the best way to describe them. But then so would you be if you’d sacrificed marriage and kids to sell books for no pay.🤨

We also had the wife of one of our elders....the one playing a first class game of “Elder turf Wars”all over our territory.

You know that feeling you get when there’s a partial solar eclipse obscured by cloud? That’s how it felt when she walked into the hall🧛‍♀️....you could actually feel the temperature lower by a degree or two🤣

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Upon learning of a terminal illness would you return to being a JW to appease your family?

by NVR2L8 in

this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.

but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.

of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".

Diogenesister

Good question.

Im sort of in that situation with my poor dear brother. He’s a believer, but not a JW. In order to comfort him, I go along with what he wants to believe, even though I didn’t use to do so. 😰

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November 2019 Watchtower Study....Exaggeration at its finest

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | november 2019. lessons we can learn from the book of leviticus.

16 satan and his world have done much to make the work of that faithful slave challenging, even impossible, to carry out from a human standpoint.

despite two world wars, relentless persecution, global economic crises, and unjust treatment, the faithful and discreet slave has continued to provide spiritual food for christ’s followers on earth.

Diogenesister

Satan never prevented them from taking out televised advertisements or infomercials that within seconds would help people around the globe understand their message so that when it was delivered to their doors by local JW's, they wouldn't be blind sided when they showed up

Good point!

Except adverts cost money! Watchtower won’t spend ONE PENNY of its own money to gain converts and “save lives”. They prefer to keep their slaves in busy-work.