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  Look at this funny cartoon spoof of the WT study -- Tell me what you think?

  by MarkedFragile in

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  this clip is one of many cartoon spoofs of life in jw world.

  this particular one is a cartoon play on the wt study.

  one of my favorite parts is where the man is flipping pages in the bible, trying to find the scripture being read, and when he finds it, the person is already done reading it (which always used to happen)!

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  Look at this Charlie Brown clip--What parallels do you see?

  by MarkedFragile in

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  i watched "the great pumpkin" episode of charlie brown tonight.

  linus and sally stay in the pumpkin patch all night waiting on "the great pumpkin.

  " what do you think of the parallels between this clip and the organization?

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  Did you get token invites to witness gatherings?

  by truthseeker in

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  i was pretty much a loner the whole time i was in my old congregation, and it wasn't for lack of young people - there were plenty of "young ones", but because of various situations that went unchecked, rumors and just plain nastiness, i did not have any friends.. some of you might relate to this.

  you feel like you don't fit in either camp - the world and the congregation - a rock in a hard place.. on the rare occasion i did get a token invite to a jw gathering, it was usually a video evening, as we called them in the uk.

  since i had no social life to speak of, i would attend these rare and "exciting" events but it was always a let down.. you see, unless you have shared history with these folks, it's pretty much a non event.

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  The Truman Show, a movie that JW's must hate.

  by moshe in

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  the truman show is on tbs tonight and i know, it's been mentioned before here, but it has to be a movie that gives jw's the creeps.

  jw's know something is not right in the wt fantasy land, but until they have that epiphany, that the wt has lied to them, the jw is just left with a niggly feeling of "something is just not right" in the back of their mind.

  now when jim carrey- truman burbank- figures it out and becomes self aware of the lie, everyone around him tries to redirect his focus away from his epiphany , then convince him he is the only one who see's a problem.

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  Did you ever play this legalistic JW game?

  by no lies please in

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  i remember years ago playing a game at gatherings wherein the object was to get into the new system.

  they would hold up a nwt or a knowledge book (or similar)and after clearing their throat would state the name of the book that they were holding and state that if you read it and apply it you would get into the new system.

  after which you were told whether or not you made it into the new system by precisely repeating what you had heard.

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  I'm new and wanted to introduce myself

  by MarkedFragile in

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  hello everyone.. i'm new to this forum.

  i left the organization several months ago, and am on a new path now.

  though i didn't grow up in the organization, i have basically lived a life of pretending to be something i'm not, sheltering my feelings from everyone, and not feeling "enough" to anyone.

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