Posts by Diogenesister

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Are the anointed really "lovely people"?

by purrpurr in

i've personally never met any of those who claim to be anointed but the other jw's who have are always unanimous in their praise of how lovely and what wonderful people they are.

and i don't mean the gb i mean common or garden anointed.

i was told that when they speak about being in heaven that they almost "seem to glow".. is this right?

Diogenesister

I've known a few but the two I knew well one was very old, an outstandingly cantankerous so and so. Of that generation whereby they were all anointed simply by virtue of their being witnesses pre ' 35 - which may explain the normality and humility of some, after all they didn't ' self diagnose' . The other was the stern and vigilant wife of our p.o., a women who outshone her elder husband in the mental faculties by some measure.I believe her ' anointing' by and large a way for her to cope with the injustice of her situation, subject to her inferior mate only by virtue of her sex.

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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

by wifibandit in

in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

now, on with the leaks & releases!

first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

Diogenesister

Zeb This sell up and do it small thing clashes loudly with the palace that's going up in NY for the gb to reside in.

THIS, THIS AND THIS ( in shouty voice)

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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

by wifibandit in

in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

now, on with the leaks & releases!

first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

Diogenesister

Arrrgghhhh...this makes me want to scream...we sold our house ( the one asset that may have saved them from the penniless retirement they have to !took forward to). So what happened to the money? OK they didn't actually SAY that they gave it to the org and they may have used it to finance further pioneering BUT since they were already managing to pioneer the inference is that they did indeed give it to Jehov..er the Borg....and were rewarded with a shitty course not even bloody Gilead they would have got back in the day.

I like the way Shelly is only thanked as an after-thought for her " supporting" role even though she's battling her way through crowds of violent looters and rioters AS WELL.

And what is it with the org and people with prognathism....or GIANT JUTTING OUT JAWS. Is this reverse evolution working on these atavistic morons???

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Would we exist if Adam and Eve didn't sin?

by truth doubter in

my son asked me 40 years ago.

should we be glad adam sinned?

because if he hadn't, we would not be the person we are.. any opinions?

Diogenesister

Hey truth doubter! Well, you certainly got some interesting replies...which is what I think you were aiming for..a very good question for a JW kid, which just goes to prove that if we thought more like your average kid, cults would have a very hard time indeed!

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Inside NYC's Social Club for the Former Devout!

by truthsetsonefree in

i am very proud of this video and article.

this marks the going public of a community that i co-founded with my friend todd kadish that is very important in new york city, indeed for everyone.

especially for those who have escaped from some very controlling organizations a chance to integrate into the real world while still feeling validated and avoiding bitterness.

Diogenesister

Love your Avatar truthsetsonefree , as a forty plus year old mum of young twins I share the sentiment entirely!

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Inside NYC's Social Club for the Former Devout!

by truthsetsonefree in

i am very proud of this video and article.

this marks the going public of a community that i co-founded with my friend todd kadish that is very important in new york city, indeed for everyone.

especially for those who have escaped from some very controlling organizations a chance to integrate into the real world while still feeling validated and avoiding bitterness.

Diogenesister

Fantastic...for SO many reasons, not least given the threat from fundamentalists at present in the world

Just wondering if Mr Issac Carmignani was one of the ones outed in the Facebook debacle that Cedars was so ambivalent about. Shocking. He was outed in 2006 apparently whilst an elder.

Would LOVE to start one in the UK...Cofty Katewild Jookbeard Loveuni Stanlivedeath YOU UP FOR IT?

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I think my Sunday speaker is awake

by Yondaime in

hi guys and gals,.

its been a long time since i've posted here, i've been caught up with school and work so i've never had the time to post on the forum, but i've still been reading through some articles on here.

now that finals are over i have some time to breath.

Diogenesister

Juan Viejo2 It's all very scripted. I still can not get over the sing-song style that most JW speakers use now - far too practiced and rehearsed

Hell yeah! It drives me mad, I don't know how the modern witnesses can stand it...talk about a witnesses being a culture...its almost become an actual JW " dialect"

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I think my Sunday speaker is awake

by Yondaime in

hi guys and gals,.

its been a long time since i've posted here, i've been caught up with school and work so i've never had the time to post on the forum, but i've still been reading through some articles on here.

now that finals are over i have some time to breath.

Diogenesister

Awake for sure....ask the elders the name of the talk and if he's coming back, how much u enjoyed it etc and see their reaction....that should tell you all you need to know!

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a unique situation

by stuckinthemiddle in

jw
friends

i think i have a unique involvement with jws.

i'm not a baptized member.

my mother has been devout for over 20 years.

Diogenesister

Stuck in the middle never found any truth in them and truly dislike them for their involvement with the mistreatment and attempted genocide with my native race, the trauma and intergenerational effects they bred in us

I don't know what tribe you are from, I am english but am very interested in the history of your people , I have read many books of the history of First nation peoples in the Americas - the trail of tears, chief Joseph and the Nez Perces, the Modocs, the story of the Quahada Comanche's Ten Bears and Quanner Parker, the Kiowas and Satanta, the Oglala Sioux and Chief Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and the many eloquent orators whose speeches reduce you to tears when you read their love of the land and their people and the deep regret and sadness at what the europeans wrought. I can totally empathize with what you are saying. It truly was a horrific genocide equal to any this world has seen...and as you rightly say the damage continues down the generations...I am truly sorry.

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Armageddon comes and you have 5 minutes with Jesus

by pleaseresearch in

so the big a comes, your third in line to be judged by jesus.

he wants to know why you left the organisation.

he also wants to know why jws remained with the org.

Diogenesister

Love the poem Zeb!

I would say Jesus, I love you and I'm so relieved you exist and that there is a heaven for those who died too young, those who died in war or violence, those who died of horrific diseases, those who were raped or abused as kids and committed suicide because of the agony of living....I don't care what you do with me ...PS what happens to the other hominid species? Or the poor animals??