Posts by Slayerbard

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Newbies or folks who have Been Here the last 2 years - How is your Fade Going?

by flipper in

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Slayerbard

went well, I'm completly out now. I guised my exodus as moving out of state for work. So far so good. I have family in, and they still think I attend. Thankfully Blonde (bless you, yup I said it!) posts the watchtower comments. which is REALLY appreciate to make chit chat about the meetings. Also another sister I knew feels the need to spam my inbox with watchtower propaganda, oddly enough. That also helps.

I was a born inner.. and can't believe I hung in as long as I did. It got to the point where I just WANTED to beleive. But couldn't, cause I saw it was all BS. Then I was rather depressed cause I felt good didn't want me. since all we hear is that Jehovah's draws people. Well I wasn't being drawn obviously..so that much mean he didn't want me! After trying, adn studying, I still thought it was all crap. And honestly the only ones with veils over their eyes are the ones in the organazation! Cause they can't see the man behind the curtain, they only see the Wonderful Wizard of Jehovah..

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How to place your magazines without leaving home

by St George of England in

i have noticed a growing trend for jw's to advertise current magazines and books on the internet using ebay.

they are advertised at 0.01, as you cannot start at 0.00 and the buyer is told not to pay when they win the item.

if someone else bids on the item then they are told not to put on another bid but to e-mail the seller or wait for another copy of the magazine or whatever.

Slayerbard

I know some sisters in my old hall who used to shove them through cracked car windows in parking lots. No joke. She "placed" a 100 magazines a month or more doing this. She would also roll them up like a baton and see someone walking by on the sidewalk when driving and stop and hand it to them...then drive off. LOL

Wow that person "selling" on ebay is going to go broke putting out all the shipping money on that. Oh well.

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Something a JW Told Me A While Back

by mentallyfree31 in

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a jw told me a while back as i was leaving - "you will never find friends in the world that are like those in the organiation".. i smiled to myself and thought "god, i hope not".

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lol.

Slayerbard

LOL I know some of the "friends" used to tell me "oh we missed you at the meetings". When in fact THEY were the ones that missed the meetings. Of course this was also the same sister who told me I was pronouncing my name wrong....

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What Would Bring The Watchtower Down?

by metatron in

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randy/dogpatch has posted some interesting material about troubles in the organization.

this info generated a lot of skepticism about the possibility of watchtower fragmentation.

frankly, it is very easy to be skeptical considering everything that ordinary witnesses are willing to believe or put up with.. i think it would be useful to realistically consider what sort of event(s) would bring the watchtower down or cause its fragmentation?

Slayerbard

I think getting rid of the C.O.'s will be a HUGE problem. Lets face it, the main reason congretions get visits is so the Socitey can make sure they are getting their cut of donations. With out these guys going over the books, the greedy congregations elders will be lining their pockets even more...

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Every publisher must pay for assembly costs???

by sacolton in

just saw this posted on watchtower uncensored .... .

want to hear the latest debacle?

the po in my mom's congregation told them that at the next 1-day-assembly it will be the responsibility of every publisher to put 3 in the box towards the running costs at the assembly hall.

Slayerbard

Edited cause I did my math with a 6 family person. Ok so for a 6 person family. that Mom Dad, and 4 brats all publishers. which were pretty common in my home congregation. mostly by elders oddly enough so that's 30 bucks per person large family! 5 bucks per pub with a 100 plus publisher congregations, is 500 atleast per congregation. Atleast 10 congregations meet sometimes more for the assemblies. (I know they totally redid ours to FILL the assembly hall. We were jammed in like sardines, and people had to eat in their car, cause there was no room in the caf for everyone. So 5,000 Maditory.. Not counting everyone tossing in a few extra, and then bragging about it making you feel bad for not doing the same. Also EVERYONE comes out of the woodwork for these so that more money going in. Taking into account 5,000 for one day EVERY weekend.. so times 2 (cause we KNOW the next group is their Sunday) is 10,000 for one WEEKEND. and 72 weeks in a year. so that's like on average 720,000 a year off just assembly days. not counting 3 day district conventions.

WOW

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What music did you have to throw out when you was still in your teens?

by BlackTwisted in

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i was always curious lol.. .

well, i remeber i had to, wel lhonestly, i didn't listen to music too much when i was younger, just on the radio, and i had no choice ( i didn't have a computer then and i was about 11 at that time) so we got a computwer when i was about 13 (i am currently 15..wow..i make myself sound old lol.

) and i remeber i was listemning to 3 6 mafia (a huge mistake) and my mom liked the instrumental.beat of the song, but i was playing it soo loud, she even heard the lyrics, and she told me to switch it to another song..so i did..i switched to cascada's everytime we touch..o_o.. .

Slayerbard

Back in my day we had cassette tapes. and I would make a mix tape of all the acceptable music...on one side.. and the other side was all my music. I had one of those Cassette player with a "play other side switch" so if she ever asked to listen I would just hit it as she would be greeted but lovely happy witness OK music.

Of course I learned this trick after having her toss my Roxette tape cause she didn't like the song "How do you do?" cause it had a line about undressing.. No joke. Funny thing is, sitting right next to it, was the cassette single of Goddess "Let's get Sexual". How she MISSED THAT I'll never know. But yeah, thankfully I was ALOT smarter than my parents who like most witness parents are techonology backwards. I made copies of everything.

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Legitimate question maybe a lesbian could answer for me?

by WuzLovesDubs in

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up front and first off....some of my bestest friends on the planet are lesbian and i love them to death so this has nothing to do with acceptance or not of it.

im all over same sex marriage and respecting all human beings' rights to live their lives as they see fit.

i was wondering...and i have wondered this for awhile....why some lesbians, who obviously dont like men, then choose to dress in men's clothes, have men's haircuts, wear men's shoes, flatten their chests, wear no makeup and look and act like men.

Slayerbard

I know some lesbains who are VERY girlie, and dresses adn all. some who are the "sterotypicial" flannel wearing ones. I know what your saying. But they don't see that as being masculine. anymore than a straight woman wearing a slack suit for her business job feels like a man wearing. It's just a style choice of what they are drawn to. maybe they are wired to think more "man". I honestly have a some straight friends that if I didn't KNOW they weren't gay I would think they are by their dress and decor choices. I see alot of straight women wearing flannel type shirts, I think it is more how they carry themselves that gives the "man" impression than what they are wearing.

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She whispered into her ear, "I have a demon"

by dissed in

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some of you may have remembered me describing my wife's sister having serious mental problems.. its been a source of great discouragement to the entire family because her husband (a devout jw) has refused to get her help.

in fact, blaming it all on the demons, and we being the ones who introduced them, because of our leaving the wt.

well, to everyons surprise on friday, they came to a family dinner, this is very rare.

Slayerbard

my father says this alot.. also a witness. I often ask him WHY he think he has a demon after him. He never answers. Says he doesn't hear voices or anything. I don't nkow. But I worry. Is it me or are most witness a bit wacked in the head?

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JW views on Mental Health & Counseling

by Confuzzled in

i am considering getting couples counseling for the jw boyfriend and i. he's open to it.

he got help himself for an issue recently, but it was in the short term, and it went well for him.

i want to know if we started going regularly, and his mentor got wind of it, what are the jw views on mental health help?

Slayerbard

When I was sucidal I saw a therapist. But I was told to keep it hush, hush so no one in the congregation new about it.

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CONJURING at the Watchtower (Old Dogs with their New Tricks)

by Terry in

i've known two professional magicians in my lifetime.. one was a friend and the other was a very close acquaintance.. both would discuss magic with me at different times.

each was devoted to protecting the secrecy necessary to maintain the brotherhood of illusion.. however, i am a curious person.

i am challenged by the unknown.

Slayerbard

HAHAHA I always did slight of hand tricks. Once I was out in door to door, and actually got into a really good discussion with someone. I was trying to prove some lame point about how satan can trick us and blind us to what is really happening. I saw they had a can of soda in a in a cooler. So I did the quater through soda can trick. Well I sold my point..and my door to door partner about had a stroke. It went as far as to meet with an elder..adn SHOW HIM THE TRICK..UGH then got a lecture that we don't do magic. I EXPLAINED that the proper term is Illusionist these days. Hence it's an ILLUSION AKA not real. The whole thing is REALLY funny now, but I remember being REALLY ticked at the time.