Posts by fresh prince of ohio

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Going to skip this years Memorial for the first time.

by Beta Male in

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i'm already being stalked by the elders, thanks to my wife.

they had a "shepherding call" for three hours while waiting for me to come back to my house.

if they're that determined, i'm somewhat concerned about their reaction to what i'm going to do.

fresh prince of ohio

I don't know your full situation, but I'd say, just lie to them. Lie through your teeth. Yes you believe it's the truth (really you don't). Yes you believe in the faithful slave (really you don't). Yes you recognize the importance of christian fellowship (really you can hardly bear the meetings). You're really going to make an effort to start attending meetings (a stalling tactic that can go on as long as you'd like). You'd like to work with one of them in field service sometime (make an appontment for a specific day, then cancel last second). A home bible study? Sure! Come to my house on Tuesday (more last minute cancellations).

The elders are only human, and they'll get tired of chasing you. Some of them probably resent the degree to which they're expected to probe into people's private lives, and chase after them to go door-to-door selling corny, irrelevant, and often just plain weird literature offerings.

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If someone ask you personally "Are you an apostate?", How would you answer them?

by asilentone in

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I like turtles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

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To what degree due you think "Internet killed the "Jehovah's Witness" radio star."

by Witness 007 in

i remember getting my first crapy computer for $200 bucks and clicking on the internet for the first time....i said to myself: "i may just look up my jehovah's witness brothers on here.....free minds watching the watchtower hmmm .

so the nails in my faith coffin began to be hammered in rip.

so how big an influence was the net in your leaving?.

fresh prince of ohio

The internet is making people smarter.

Because of this and a zillion other reasons, the WTS will continue to slide into ever deeper irrelevance. If that's even possible.

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Sitting on the Fence....to believe or not to believe, that is my dilemma.

by tootie in

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i was raised by a "strong" jw single mother.

she was very very strict but i loved her then and always will.

after the death of my mother i waivered back and forth with my spirituality only because this was my first chance of "freedom" and being in the world to do things that i never really got to do.

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The fact that you don't dare let it be known among your JW acquaintances that you visit "other religious organizations" is something that you might ponder. Why does the organization insist so vehemently on absolute loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, LOYALTY? That's what got to me.

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I need some FaceBook help

by mrsjones5 in

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talked to my dear cousin today (she's a jw).

her hubby (nonjw) and brother (jw) just got her on facebook.

she knows i'm on facebook and wants to add me on her friends list.

fresh prince of ohio

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, there are no privacy settings on facebook that will allow you hide your fan pages and group memberships from people on your friends list. I'd let the facebook 'poztate groups go if you're trying to keep your apostatey-ness private.

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JW C@fe freaking out over NASA report!

by sacolton in

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jw c@fe breaking news.

quake shifted earth's axisjehovah's witness news: breaking newsquake shifted earth's axisjehovahs-witness-news.blogspot.comjpl research scientist richard gross computed how earth's rotation should have changed as a result of the feb. 27 quake.

using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation ...yesterday at 8:28pm share5 people like this.cheryl d. thorne if this is true....will jehovah put the earth back on its axis where he had it?yesterday at 10:52pm reportoghoghome emmanuel omaduvie it surely is a lie, i've checked bbc & cnn, nothing like that.

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Robdar: I feel badly for them and feel like crying.
Baba Yaga: I want to laugh, I want to be entertained by this... but it just makes me sad

Same Reaction. This is just sad! It reads like a parody of cult-brainwashing only it's not!

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Did You "Linger" On As Witness Hoping That All The Pieces Would Fit?

by minimus in

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blueblades/mall cop said in a post that he was "lingering" on as a jw for decades hoping to understand things about the "truth" that were still unexplainable.

(my words, paraphrasing).. i did the same thing for probably a decade, either hoping things in the organization might change or i might finally "get it", regarding some teaching or viewpoint that just seemed to make no sense.. did you hang on to the "truth" much longer than you should have?.

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Yeah, i kept hoping that one day i'd somehow "get it" and become an in-the-in-crowd super-JW. You know, the kind that they interview at conventions to make everyone else feel like shit.

I never was a big doctrine guy, so it wasn't "teaching" pieces that kept me hanging around after things started to smell funny, although that certainly was part of it. What I really, really wanted was to land one of those countless young-and-beautifuls that you see at the conventions. Yep that's what kept me lingering on, lol.

f-poo (formerly DanTheMan)

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Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?

by slimboyfat in

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richard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!

) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).

he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).

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I have a love/hate relationship with Dawkins and his ilk. On one hand, I believe that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming and undeniable, and those who continue to shout through megaphones that "it's just a theory(tm)" or whatever are raving ignoramuses (or perhaps cynical manipulators).

Otoh, I'm a reluctant atheist and I don't wish upon anybody the disappearance of meaning that comes with a loss of faith. The fact that god the idea has been the muse that has kept humanity's collective chin up in what, with blinders off, can only be seen as a brutal and meaningless existence is not a valid argument for said, but still, i don't think that we can survive the demise of the concept as RD seems to. I find that naive.

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