In 2001 the straws nearly breaking my back were getting piled very high. The last one came during a Public Talk that was aimed at the youths ™ in attendance, and one particular point of counsel left me gobsmacked. The bro started going on about how much math is appropriate for Christian Youths ™ to take in school. I just sat there smh, and i knew on the drive home that i'd probably never attend another meeting. And I haven't.
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Can you recall the event, the time when you boldly proclaim, I,am not taking this anymore.
by jam inin my case, i was df, my nephew from bethel was in town,.
he came to visit my family.
he knock at the door, i answer.
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Who's Your Favorite Comedian?
by minimus ini love people like jackie mason, larry david, chris rock and others that make you think about the absurdities in life.. who do you enjoy?.
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Saw this guy in Columbus Ohio just a couple of weeks before he died. He was so foul, and so funny.
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How Did You Deal With God Destroying Non-Witness Relatives that You Loved?
by DNCall instartfragment.
so many of my non-witness relatives were, and are, good people.
i had to do something to deal with the likelihood of their being destroyed.. those i was close to in the faith, and i, had the hope that, sometime before the end, some issue would arise that would wake up our relatives and other loved ones to the realization that they had to come into the fold.
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For most JW's, the ever-imminent Destruction of the Wicked isn't something they think about much in real world terms, if they believe it at all - it's just kept in their religio-fantasy mental compartment. I think i was like that.
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Another newguy here
by shakyground inhmmm where do i start?
well, i have been lurking on here for about 6 months.
i was raised around the witnesses all my life.
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" What if Armageddon comes and the last thought that goes through my head is damn....you blew it, you could've got to see dad again"
'What if Armageddon comes' - a sort of vague yet terrifying thought thought that has a firm hold on many JW's. But think about what Armageddon would mean in real-world terms. Are fiery meteors going to come hurling down from the sky and pick off all the non-JW's who, by JW reasoning, willfully rejected The Truth and are therefore deserving of a violent death? Will cracks open up in the Earth, all over the world, from Alaska to Zimbabwe, into which all the people (and all sorts of other creatures) will fall in and somehow die, either of falling too far or hitting lava at some point or something? lol
Think of all the non-JW people that you have known in your life. Are they willfully evil people who really know all about Jehovah and the Truth and who just felt like, pshaw, i know those ol' JW's may be right but I want to PARTY and be a BAD WICKED PERSON - ? I mean, seriously. Armageddon is just a nondescript monster-under-the-bed. It isn't real.
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Led Zeppelin/ Robert Plant / Jimmy Page -Fav. Songs ? U-Tubes Welcome !
by flipper in.
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/babe-im-gonna-leave-you-jimmy-page-and-robert-plant-live-in/dce5e2fd2b694a80d19bdce5e2fd2b694a80d19b-960291931640?q=you-tube+robert+plant+babe+i'm+gonna+leave+you&form=vire6.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otp4N38ABC0
I knew Robert Plant as some guy who h
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A short description of yourself
by acolytes inbro dan ....recently started a thread about sending in our photos.. is not the fruit inside the shell more important?.
who are you?...........................i dont have the guts to start!!.
acolytes.
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From Ohio, obviously. Currently a low-level operative in the Russian mob.
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3/15 WT " Do Not Deceive Yourself "- WT's Excuses for No Armageddon
by flipper inwith the new " overlap generation " theory that the wt society is pushing onto rank and file jehovah's witnesses since last year this article i found really heavy hitting in the jw version of the wt.
the wt society is leaking oil in that confidence is low among jw's in not really buying into the " generation overlap " theory as many younger jw's are exiting the organization.
so what better way to try reeling members back in by giving them an article entitled " do not deceive yourself with false reasoning " !
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We could ask ourselves, ' Should it surprise me that this wicked system of things has LASTED LONGER THAN I EXPECTED ? '
Or, conversely, we could ask ourselves, after hearing this sort of manipulative tripe year after year after year after year, 'Are the people who write these articles completely full of shit?'
I did!
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What was the first single you ever bought, and what are your memories?
by lifelong humanist insome light relief!.
even now, i can vividly recall buying my very first 45 rpm single in 1967.. i was only just 15 years old.
i worked as a 'paper boy', delivering newspapers to people living nearby.
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Celebration by Kool and the Gang. I drove my poor family nuts by playing it over and over.
When I was a really little kid I inherited a bunch of 45's somehow, among them Frankenstein by Edgar Winter. My sister and I would put it on, and then turn the lights on and off really fast for a strobe effect to accompany the music, LOL.
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So has the wt given up on prophecy altogether or what?
by agonus infor decades they've produced massive tomes on their own peculiar brand of wt-centric prophecy, but it seems like the production of prophecy-related material as of late has slowed to a trickle, their last prophecy-related book that i can recall was the minor-prophets book released a few years back.
however that book if i recall was very vague in its exposition, focusing on daily life application rather than eschatology.
and yet the armageddon-end-times-obedience-"generation" drumbeat grows faster and louder with less and less exposition as to how or when exactly any of this is supposed to play out.
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Edited as wannaexit wrote pretty much the same as what I did.
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The Gloves Are Off - Its Official Round 1 has just taken place .. !!!!
by sleepingbeauty ini woke up today a right grumpy basket case.... not a good day for the jehovah's witness to call on me to do there usual shepherding call, bringing me the usual mags of shite!
i stood there on the doorstep in my pj's, care free and all fired up.
i was asked how i was doing & then informed that they had my latest mags.
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He carried on saying time will tell, Armaggedon is coming
This is the part where you get out a megaphone, point it towards them, and shout into it: "THE MIND-CONTROLLED COLLECTIVE THAT YOU ARE A MEMBER OF HAS BEEN SAYING THAT FOR 150 YEARS NOW!!!!"