Posts by daringhart13

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Are you now ashamed of how gullible you were as a JW?

by biometrics in

now that you realise how idiotic some of the jw beliefs are/were, do you feel ashamed of how gullible you were to believe them?.

if anything my past as an adult jw makes me understand how easily manipulated people are by the people and environment around them.

and that even intelligent people can be influenced beyond what is rational..

daringhart13

I'm very angry inside for my mother. She never remarried, she loves animals and she thinks Paradise is any day now. Aside from we 3 kids, she is alone.........never experienced so many things in life because she was waiting for Paradise.

That is when my anger get red hot.

Ashamed? Only that I was a high and mighty elder and DF'd people. That disgusts me......I knew it was wrong while I was doing it.

Otherwise, I LOVE...and I do mean LOVE laughing at this crazy cult now. I had a thread on here a month ago where I admitted my visit to Chuck Russell's grave was one of the funniest experiences of my life.

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Meetings to Continue forever! Another reason you DON'T want to live in the NEW ORDER

by LostGeneration in

pulled this gem from the 2013 calendar.

well, at least you get to have outdoor meetings in the mountains of south america with touchans flying around.

no more windowless kingdom halls!

daringhart13

All this time I thought I paradise consisted of beautiful women in corsetts and stockings......

I stand corrected.........more review of the Daniel image...... right down to the toes, right??

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How many went from christian to something else?

by Satanus in

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friends

i noticed some posters who used to argue along christian lines, but don't do so, anymore.

granted, it's a tough line to keep to on this forum.

i would be interested to hear (read) of people who came here as believers, and then transitioned to unbeliever, and the reasons for that.

daringhart13

I was essentially a born in JW....became an elder that was used at the District/Circuit level...... no one would have guessed I would leave. They'd list me as LAST to leave.

Now?

I would probably say agnostic.........HOWEVER........I cannot wrap my mind around the concept of a God that would watch his precious children tortured, slaughtered, in misery and agony for a supposed 6,000 years............all because he's concerned about how 'his name' looks to a bully.

I'm an ENFJ and a hardcore Idealist...... and candidly, if that's the God I'm supposed be intimately drawn to.....to worship and love....... it just isn't going to happen. If that Fred Franz, Universal Sovereignty concept is the 'truth'..........then He isn't worth worshiping.

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The BEST way to "wake up" a JW

by Phizzy in

we have debated this over many years and in many threads, as all of us have family and/or former friends still in.

it seems that there is no "best" way to wake up a jw, it is as elusive as the "true" religion it seems.. but a comment made by poster "emery" on another thread stood out to me, he/she said :.

"what i have gathered is that most witnesses seem to be in it for emotional reasons.

daringhart13

They only wake up if they WANT to

OR

They are treated so terrible, it forces them to take a harder look

Most of them LOVE being sheep...........they just want to be told what to do

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A picture so outrageous, it deserves its own thread...

by cedars in

i mean no disrespect to sd-7 or his fine thread on which this picture has already featured, but i think it is just so ridiculous that it deserves a thread all of its own.. lurkers and apologists, this is how your precious organization views itself.... behold the madness.... .

.

cedars.

daringhart13

Hey .....look at that...........an excellent example of Psalms 146:3 in action......right?........RIGHT????

And millions of 'publishers' won't even notice.

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WHAT ARE YOUR MOST VIVID, ODD, or FUNNY Memories of Conventions and Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Balaamsass in

share with us memories of the bizarre, funny, strange, what you hated, what you miss...we all have them.

(question..why the big to do between terms- convention and assembly .

daringhart13

Hands down: Cheese Danish

Close second: girls! We would wait all year to see new sets of legs in heels.

I'm just busting up laughing all of these posts. How did we ever endure all of that insanity???

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The January 1st Watchtower Admits That JWs Have Been Wrong As To Their Expectations Of The End!...but

by minimus in

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friends

they excuse it by saying, it's ok since at least they were on the watch.. i believe they should think about god's view of watchmen who constantly gave false pronouncements.

they would be judged accordingly by god!.

daringhart13

Can you post the paragraph from the article?

Thanks!

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Just Sharing: I Visited Chuck Taze Russells Gravesite

by daringhart13 in

just nothing more than a 'share'..... i was in pittsburgh on business and took a day off and paid a visit to russells grave.. i haven't stopped laughing since.

i'm worried i'm going to break ribs.. had i seen this as a young kid/adult.....i surely would have thought "wtf???".

folks...if you ever needed confirmation this whole thing is a laughable cult......make your way to pittsburgh and see chuck's resting spot.......its worth it just get pictures with his pyramid.. lol.

daringhart13

I can't recommend enough that if you have a chance....go see this....its so damn bizarre.

There is just no hiding something like this. Its unbelievable that so many don't know about it.

LOL......smoking a bong in front of it??? That's awesome!!!

I just couldn't stop laughing ......all those years as an elder.....and only now seeing the Laodicean Messenger.......LOL LOL!!!

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Just Sharing: I Visited Chuck Taze Russells Gravesite

by daringhart13 in

just nothing more than a 'share'..... i was in pittsburgh on business and took a day off and paid a visit to russells grave.. i haven't stopped laughing since.

i'm worried i'm going to break ribs.. had i seen this as a young kid/adult.....i surely would have thought "wtf???".

folks...if you ever needed confirmation this whole thing is a laughable cult......make your way to pittsburgh and see chuck's resting spot.......its worth it just get pictures with his pyramid.. lol.

daringhart13

Thanks gang.....YES....it was a fantastic highlight to my glorious exit from the insanity.

It doesn't surprise me that so many haven't heard of this.....they have gone out of their way to cover it. Imagine how surreal it is to hike through a lonely, quite cemetary.....to supposedly find this......on the site of the man God....er, Jehovah.....chose to lead his people in the modern era.

I was laughing.....and...at the same time wanted to kick my own ass! LOL

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Just Sharing: I Visited Chuck Taze Russells Gravesite

by daringhart13 in

just nothing more than a 'share'..... i was in pittsburgh on business and took a day off and paid a visit to russells grave.. i haven't stopped laughing since.

i'm worried i'm going to break ribs.. had i seen this as a young kid/adult.....i surely would have thought "wtf???".

folks...if you ever needed confirmation this whole thing is a laughable cult......make your way to pittsburgh and see chuck's resting spot.......its worth it just get pictures with his pyramid.. lol.

daringhart13

....and yet another.....you can see I was in one hell of a mood.......my face hurt from laughing for a week.

If you're a JW and looking at this.......do your homework. Pull out that lovely DVD they gave you at the District Convention a couple of years ago featuring Chuck and Joe.........these guys were nothing more than whackos......at least Rutherford found a way to steal millions of people's money........