Ok. Let's fast forward this wonderful experience just a bit. The bus driver starts attending meetings with his family and is treated like a rock star. He and his wife get baptized and their experience is shared at the end of every convention with lots of tears and bursts of applause. The wife decides to become a regular pioneer and kids become home schooled. Wife and MS pioneer make return visits to a local motel and get reproved. Bus driver husband starts to doubt the religion and all the hypocrisy, speaks to close friends about his concerns. Friends turn him into the elders and he gets bullied. Still attends the Kingdumb Hell to try and keep his family together, and gets the cold shoulder from all of the A-Listers. One daughter marries an 18 year old pioneer who cleans doctors offices part-time. The other young daughter marries a 60 year old elder who's wife died 6 months earlier. The bus driver decides to ram his big city bus into the Kingdumb Hell . . . . .
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Let's Watch How We Walk (A jw email I just got today)
by Tired of the Hypocrisy inis it based on anything else out on the net and redone to fit the jws?.
good example of how our conscience should be trained by jah!
let's watch how we walk.
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RebeccaChi
Ok. I'm not gonna lie. Billy The Ex-Bethelite's comment almost made me pee on myself!
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Smile and pretend you don't want to die.
WTF are wrong with these parents? Do they really think that this will make the religion look good? It just shows how out of touch they are with reality!
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Most pathetic Special Needs Talk
by RebeccaChi inremember all the stupid special needs talks?
i remember one that was about a kid picking up a $5 bill outside of the kingdom hall.
he looked around to see if anyone around him lost it, and when no one did, he decided to keep it.
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Remember all the stupid Special Needs Talks? I remember one that was about a kid picking up a $5 bill outside of the Kingdom Hall. He looked around to see if anyone around him lost it, and when no one did, he decided to keep it. Hence . . the need to discuss this situation for a half-hour with the congergation and make the kid feel like shit. The freak elder who gave this talk reminded me of the old school Kermit the Frog reporter on Sesame Street. This guy stressed words and even scrunched his face like Kermit. Anyways . . . he said that if we ever find money on the ground (anywhere, not just outside of hall) and don't plan on finding it's rightful owner, or donate it to the WTS, we need to leave it on the ground. Otherwise it's just as bad as stealing from someone's pocket! LOL!
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Remember when assemblies were fun?
by Aphrodite ini just remembered when i was a kid and we would go to the assembly, it was fun because we got to buy new clothes and put extra effort into looking good.
when we would get there you could save your seats and even save some for your friends, then go off looking for them.. i used to love our circuit assembly because of the food.
it was at the assembly hall and there was a big kitchen, some of my favourite brothers worked in that kitchen, sometimes i was allowed to go in and help.
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It's funny that no one really talks about the "talks" given at the assemblies! I would spend the entire day trying to figure out how to make the day go by quicker. I would scan the audience for people I knew. Count the mum pots lining the stage. Pick out my favorite color of the mums. Stare at the baptism pool and imagine having a normal life swimming in a backyard pool with kids from school. Critique outfits worn by "sisters" walking past stage. Decide what time would be a good time to get up and go to the bathroom. (stretch time) Sneak a peek at my watch without others knowing I was checking the time . Decide if I should have the bean buritto, chicken patty, or Italian hoggie. Lemon-lime Shasta or cola Shasta. Vanilla Swiss Miss pudding or chocolate. haha! I really hated the assemblies!
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Are JWs attracting more and more off-center people?
by undercover inthis thread is prompted by the thread about a jw woman who disprupted a funeral.
i don't know the details as i can't view youtube from work, but it did get me to thinking.... over the last couple of decades, at least, i've noticed that more and more 'fringe personalities', for a lack of a better term, have infiltrated the ranks of the everyday jws.
true, jws are themselves a fringe element to normal society, but even within their own communities, there used to be a sense of normalcy, or at least seemed to be.. has the cultic message of the wt society started attracting people with different thought processes over this time period?
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Think about it - I have been out for about the same amount of time and I'm sure things have to be pretty much the same. Maybe just more inbreeds.
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Are JWs attracting more and more off-center people?
by undercover inthis thread is prompted by the thread about a jw woman who disprupted a funeral.
i don't know the details as i can't view youtube from work, but it did get me to thinking.... over the last couple of decades, at least, i've noticed that more and more 'fringe personalities', for a lack of a better term, have infiltrated the ranks of the everyday jws.
true, jws are themselves a fringe element to normal society, but even within their own communities, there used to be a sense of normalcy, or at least seemed to be.. has the cultic message of the wt society started attracting people with different thought processes over this time period?
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Have you noticed ? the GB's purposeful Tone while speaking??
by freewilly01 inafter being absent for years from the borgorg i really noticed the purposeful fake tone of the voices of the gb.
i was just surfing cults and cult leaders and found an interesting link with the gb and cult leaders...... in the satirist:.
the article was:.
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I also noticed the creepy way the GB and other freaks in bethel talked. "Geeeeehoooooooeevahhh!!" Gosh were they weird!
As for the KoolAid, the JDubs would have to bring their own to the convention in a big cooler. They will then have to stand in line to get their packet of cyanide after the discourse, with the option of dropping a donation in the tall cardboard donation box.
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Worst Kingdom Melody lyrics- your votes?
by JimmyPage inmy votes for worst kingdom melody lyrics: song 125- "jehovah is on my side" (try singing these lyrics without laughing like beavis and butthead): "i know that in this crucial hour my faith will yet be tested/ around me swarms the devil's crowd like bees that were molested/ but i can ever beat them off beneath divine protection/ on those who love to bear his name god sets his deep affection.
" or how about song 201- "rejoicing with god's nation" (grab your thesaurus for this one): "in a land so good and spacious/ free from strife and things vexatious/ look!
a happy crowd vivacious/ in god's service that is efficacious.
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Ok . . . We need to keep this post going. It's a win in every way . . .
"Young brothers, young sisters we urge all of you . . ."
"Those we keep inviting . . . to the Kingdom Hall!"
"Loyal love . . . God is love . . . ."
"Theoooooocratic order . . . we must all OBEY . . ."
"Sing, sing, sing, Jehovah now is king . . . ." (I always thought that was Jesus.)
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Life On Hold: The CO Visit Week
by sacolton indid anyone have to cancel a vacation trip because it was on co visit week?
i still don't get why the co visit was as if god himself was in town.
is it kinda like if the pope were to visit with catholics?.
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I would get a kick out of seeing everyone acting so fake during the CO visit. Everyone would get there 1/2 hour early, the Kingdumb Melodies would be blasting early on. During the song everyone sang loud and proud, especially those on the podium who looked like opera singers. Ohhhh, and the intense 20 minute prayers . . . . . You would have to open your eyes every once in a while to regain your balance.