Posts by brizzzy

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I miss Mad Sweeney

by cedars in

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i just wanted to pay tribute to mad sweeney - a valued member of our community who has been away from this forum for some time now.. sweeney is a great guy and i loved his cult free radio shows, which i first started listening to not long after awakening.

my personal favourite was the one where he interviewed paul grundy (jwfacts).. here is the link to that particular show for those who are interested: http://ex-jw.com/web-directory/cult-free-radio-archives-1-6 (scroll down to show #010).

with his down-to-earth and likeable attitude, sweeney proved that apostates aren't all "mentally diseased" as the society insists.

brizzzy

I'm friends with him on Facebook; he seems to be doing well.

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Did you ever have to walk out of/shut off a movie when watching with JWs?

by keyser soze in

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i can only recall one occasion.

it was when my brother and future wife were dating.

they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.

brizzzy

Oh yes, I forgot. My mom pulled my sister and I out of The Life of David Gale and made a big production of stomping out of the theatre, complete with loud, disgusted mutters so that the people in the back row could hear.

I guess extramarital bare boobies and sexy thrusting in Shakespeare in Love were OK, but adulterous standing-doggie-style sexy thrusting from behind was not. It was a couple years later that I finally got to see the rest of the movie.

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Did you ever have to walk out of/shut off a movie when watching with JWs?

by keyser soze in

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i can only recall one occasion.

it was when my brother and future wife were dating.

they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.

brizzzy

We weren't allowed to watch R-rated movies (but there were a few that my parents caved on because *they* wanted to see them).

So we saw The Matrix and Shakespeare in Love, but my parents furtively told us that we were not to tell anybody so as not to stumble them.

Same deal with Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, which were only PG-13, but they were discussed at assembles as "witchcraft". My parents loved them though, so we had to "sneak" to the theatre to see them on the big screen.

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Did you ever have to walk out of/shut off a movie when watching with JWs?

by keyser soze in

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i can only recall one occasion.

it was when my brother and future wife were dating.

they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.

brizzzy

A P.O.'s wife who said Wizard of Oz was satanic because of the "wizard" part.

This same woman turned off Singin' in the Rain while we were watching it and stormed out of the room, upset that I would bring such filth into her house...because of the dream sequence where Cyd Charisse is dancing with Gene Kelly in the green dress. I thought it couldn't possibly get more innocuous than a 1950s musical. I was wrong. That woman was cray-cray.

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Believers, do you believe in evolution?

by everchangingworld in

after leaving, i still couldn't wrap my head around evolution (after the years of seing "intelligent design" in everything around me).. there's a series of videos that give a good intro to evolution and critical thinking.

they've probably been posted here before, but, for any new members, these are worth watching.. evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdddbyilel0.

critical thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6olpl5p0fmg.

brizzzy

Anyway, odd or not, it's an unreasonable question to pose here, since the likelihood of any poster being able to give an accurate answer is infinitesimal. It's a little like asking me how a television signal actually manages to travel simultaneously all over Britain and land inside my TV set just at the moment I want to watch it, and be there at the same time in a TV set of a viewer in, say, northern Scotland. I know this happens. (I also know it would be easier to prove than any answer to the question about the soul, but still...) But ask me to explain the whys and wherefores of a TV signal and why the air isn't jam packed with flying pictures all over the place, and I'm stumped. My guess is most of you are the same, though it's possible there's a TV engineer or scientist out there on this board who could do it. But answer about the soul and when it arrived inside a human? I haven't a clue. Truly, realistically, have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc

*ducks and runs*

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newbe

by emperorslaundrist in

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thank you for this forum.

thank you for your stories which helped wake me up from my delusion.

thank you for letting me join you.

brizzzy

Welcome and congrats!

I agree that you should look into getting a job and/or going to college, even just a JC, as soon as possible. Never too early to start building up experience/life skills and a financial nest egg for yourself, just in case. From a practical point of view, you never know if/when things might go south as you try to bring your husband out with you, and it's good to be prepared.

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list of apostates published on the net--are you on it?

by bigmac in

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https://sites.google.com/site/silence1492/facebook-youtube.

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brizzzy

Yeah; I'm kind of insulted not to be included. How many books and blogs about how much it sucked to be a JW kid do I have to write before I'm counted in the "evil apostate" camp? Who can I contact to get my name added to the list?

Also, it's deplorable that this person is outing people as gay. And labeling such as "known sexual predator" is a serious accusation. Think how that could affect that person's life or employment in the future if he/she is Googled - there might be cause for legal action.

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WT elders school: The elders in our circuit appear to be "trained" quite well

by sir82 in

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more ramblings from the recently concluded elders' school.. see the op on this thread for background: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/242491/5/wt-elders-school-the-wts-has-progressed-from-just-plain-stupid-to-dangerously-stupid.

in part of the video mentioned above showing the "goofus" elder trying to handle the situation with the crying sister:.

the "goofus" elder went into the kingdom hall library alone with the sister when she left the auditorium.. you could hear literal, audible, gasps from the 100 or so elders watching the video.. a few moments later, as the sister was crying, "goofus" put out his hand and touched the sister's hand.. again, literal, loud, audible gasps from the audience.. they darkened the room while the video was playing so i couldn't see him, but i have to imagine the co was quite pleased that the audience grasped the "mistakes" that elder goofus was making.. .

brizzzy

I wish there was a way someone could leak these videos (or even the whole training session). Could someone who hasn't yet had their training use a pinhole cam or a button cam or something? o.O

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