Posts by Diogenesister

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Bethel Family Matters

by WatchtowerReviewz in

using the hilarious song 142 i went ahead and created a sitcom intro about life at bethel.

this is what that song was really created for.

i hope watchtower likes my pitch!

My First post

by Simple Minds in

i have been lurking on this site for 3 years and this is my fist post.

i would like to thank everyone for helping me wake up.

i was baptized at 24, married at 25, ms for 18 years mentally in for 24 years but started to wake up 3 years ago doing research to give public talks, and the actions of arrogant and narcissistic brothers and sisters did not help.

Diogenesister

stuckinarut25 days ago

Welcome mate!

Another Aussie!

I take it that's the REAL Perth., with an icon like that!

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Who has more Zeal, wt or Isis?

by prologos in

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35260475 would a jw shun, treat as dead, with contempt his own mother for her attempt to have him leave the wt religion?.

Diogenesister

They are the same. I don't know why people cannot see that!

Its only a question of doctrine...the utter belief you are carrying out the will of god and that others are spawn of the devil is identical. If the witnesses did not believe that Jesus ended the law they would gladly kill.

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What is your relationship with ALCOHOL?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk new drinking guidelines have been issued which suggest "no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.".

another piece of the advice which is getting a lot of attention is that "if people drink, it should be moderately over three or more days and that some days should be alcohol-free.".

already people are making cries of "nanny state!

Diogenesister

Every man I have ever lived with, with the exception of my brother, drinks every day. As has been mentioned earlier alcohol is the only thing JW's are allowed to do guilt or sanction free. They can't even go fishing for bleeps sake. Is it any wonder I have met quite a few in rehabs. I used to get told that drink " was a food" by JW' s. No, its a poison. Besides which many foods can be lethal.

However I totally get how some people cannot face life without it. Or think they can't. I know many people who are dying because of it.

Why is it some can go totally Ott with it in their youth and just stop whenever..and others caught in a cycle of addiction/dependence/depression/death. Christopher Hitchens, despite fully knowing the damage it had caused him, did not regret it and believed he wouldn't have achieved all he had, or been the person he was, had he not regularly imbibed. That is easy to believe when you see his sober, dull, reactionary christian brother

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bethelite kills self because of guilt 10/31/73

by new boy in

jw
friends

i was working on my car in the factory {bld.

1} on friday oct. 31 1973, when all hell broke loose, the fire alarm in bld.

4 went off at about 9:30. the night watchman could find nothing.

Diogenesister

It is the modern day Abraham and Issac...these folks pass their own flesh and blood "through the fire".. Child sacrifice is an evil thing..the Borg is always willing to sacrifice a few more.

An earlier poster to this thread said it aright that " obsessive doctrine should never come before a life"

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I almost died laughing at the meeting last night. OMG WTF is going on? Have I been away this long?

by macys in

ok so most of you guys know already that i am going through the reinstatement process for my parents but i do have a partially sinister plan which i will not mention here since someone told me that there are b-lites that read boards like this.

last night and it was the funniest experience i have ever seen.

besides that the brother doing the sound and video screwed up the whole thing when showing the videos and it took 3 brothers to fix it after 10 minutes, the whole thing was a joke.

Diogenesister

@mrquik it stands for "our Christian Life And Ministry" - the new look week day meeting, tut tut you are obviously being mrslow (to the meetings) uhghh terrible jke!

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Elder continues serving as elder after his daughter got disfellowshipped!

by hardtobeme in

this is what is happening in a spanish congregation in our area.

this happened 3 weeks ago.

this brother conducted the school and after the school was over, another elder gave the announcement: "( name of the person) is not longer a jehovah's witness".

Diogenesister

Boy do I ever feel sorry for this kid. The poor thing could be that desperate to drive her family out of the cult, who knows?

If, I say if, its not gossip and she is looking for love in all the wrong places the worse thing they can do is shun her.

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Well known cartoon creator artist of SpongeBob -- was he a JW?

by FatFreek 2005 in

jw
friends

was i dreaming that he posted here a few years ago?.

len.

Diogenesister

Scooby? Wooooooo ooooo👻 eldurrrs wouldn't like that!

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Our Letter to Our Family

by What Now? in

our families have cut off contact with us for the last several months.

they found out that we were celebrating holidays with our non-witness family.

our families were our last tie to the organization, as our former friends stopped associating with us about 3 years ago.

Diogenesister

Fantastic...really....you may have borrowed some of Daniel's words but I can guarantee there will be many occasions when people will borrow your words found here, if not the whole letter, in the future!!!

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Changed Will Watchtower You Get Nothing!

by Hadriel in

as i mentioned last week i'm a covert fade.

it dawned on me that i had the watchtower bible and tract society in my will.

i just changed it.

Diogenesister

She's afraid to rip the band-aid off and I'm afraid not too. I don't want the kids indoctrinated any more than they already are now.

Hadriel.. I believe in a conflict our duty is to those who come after us...not those who came before.

"The belonging you seek is ahead of you, not behind" The force Awakens!

Re the job and the mischief: just do it!!😈