Posts by exwhyzee

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Are you at the point of your life where you speak out boldly with JWs?

by jam in

jw
friends

what a wonderful feeling.

they think i am nuts.

lol.

exwhyzee

You know you've made progress when you pass the stage where you feel the need to speak out boldly with JW's. You realize that what they think or beleive no longer matters to you or anyone else.

It's a great thing to be able to smile knowingly when you hear them spouting their skewed JW'isms and see the puzzled look on their faces as they wonder why you are looking at them with such pity and understanding. Much more effective than giving them justification for treating you as an apostate.

I know a former married Brother and Sister who left on their own yet were being shunned by their former JW friends as if they had been DF'd. One time they saw a snooty Sister who snubbed them when they came face to face in the supermarket. The former brother said loudly to his wife " Hey KAREN....LOOK AT WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN " Seeing the expression on her face as she scurried away was very gratifying for him in the moment but he realized later that he probably could have handled that situation with more grace and style.

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What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!

by megaflower in

jw
friends

"we should be mindful".

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

exwhyzee

Stand if your able, and sing song number.....

Boy....we certainly do need the new system don't we ?

Todays Wt Study was surely spiritually edifying.

Be sure to look up the scriptures for your own spiritual edification.

Certainly Brothers, this would behoove us to.....

In view of the foregoing we can see that....

Oh how this gladdens Jehovah's heart

...and a study was started.

Time is rapidly slipping by so we'll dispense with the reading of each paragraph. (this was always good to hear)

The next subheading in our article is called.....

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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 .

exwhyzee

At an assembly in Portland Oregon that was held in an outdoor stadium, I noticed a bunch of young sisters looking at something through binoculars. They were looking at the tennis courts adjacent to the stadium where there was a bunch of guys playing tennis naked ( I assume they wanted to rattle all the religious fanatics up in the stands) Pretty soon the whole stadium had caught on to what was happening and no one was looking in the direction of the speaker.

In Vancouver Canada, there was some problem with the plumbing or maybe there weren't enough restrooms available. Anyway every restroom had lines a mile long of people waiting outside of them. At each restroom there was some poor brother or sister given the task to shout to the crowd every few minutes.... " FLUSH B.M ONLY !!! I remember being so embarrassed for them.

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the Service Meetings didn't prepare me for this

by stillin in

naked ladies at the door!

various stages of undress, including absolutely nothing on.

my response was to be cool, go into my presentation and sneak a peek when i thought it wouldn't be noticed.

exwhyzee

I had a middle aged lady answer the door naked. She accepted the magazines even though in my nervousness I said something about my being there to share the naked truth of the Bible with her. As she turned to get the money out of her purse, I noticed she had a tattoo on her rear end that at one time was probably a small butterfly but at this stage in her life had become the size of a Condor.

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What being cheap costs us.. Fatal accident involving bus full of JWs

by pubtruth in

jw
friends

this happened about last week here in florida.

a bus carrying 32 jehovah's witnesses driven by a hired bus driver got lost on the way to west palm beach and crashed at the entrance of miami int'l airport.

dozens were injured and 2 passed away.

exwhyzee

To me they are sending mixed messages when they say the words shown in Blondies comment above but then print pictures like this that are meant to give you the opposite impression. The impression that mighty angels are standing at the ready to protect you against harm so long as you are holding a publication in front of someone.

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What would Jesus do?

by Christ Alone in

jw
friends

let's not get into an argument over if jesus was historical or not.. i'd just like to know how you think the jesus of the 4 gospels would act and do things in our modern world.

who would he talk to?

what sorts of miracles would he perform?

exwhyzee

He'd start a line of low fat/ low calorie gluten free unleavened bread called " I Can't Beleive It's Not Jesus "

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Calling all posters! What are YOUR questions for Candace Conti, Rick Simons and Kelly Kraetsch?

by cedars in

i am pleased to announce that candace conti, and her key lawyers rick simons and kelly kraetsch are planning a youtube video to answer any questions that people in our community may have regarding the recent conti v watchtower lawsuit.

i have offered to coordinate the gathering of these questions, and i thought it might be fun to do it in a "competition" style jwn thread, with the best answers being chosen by kelly, rick and candace to be addressed in the video.. as you can imagine, there are some provisos to this.... this is an active lawsuit, so for obvious legal reasons kelly, rick and candace will have the absolute and final decision as to which questions are answered and how much information is divulged when they are answered.we need the answers in the next 7 days, so the "cut off" for this competition is exactly 7 days from the time this thread goes live on jwn.we kindly request that all questions are asked in a respectful manner without any malicious or offensive intent.

any inappropriate questions will obviously be discarded and ignored.

exwhyzee

In view of the residial fear and guilt those of us who leave the Watchtower have to overcome, how does it feel to be someone who suing the organization you one time thought was the true religion?

Do your former friends and family now shun you for speaking out ?

If they are shunning you, do they say they are doing so for some other reason besides the lawsuit?

Do you think winning your lawsuit and payment of the settlement by the Watchtower will cause or lead to the eventual collapse of the organization?

Is there a possibility that part of the ruling, if you win, will be that the Watchtower must make a announcement outlining the details of this case to their members as well as an appology to you?

How long do you see the whole lawsuit process taking?

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Why does the WT bother with their new country farm if ...

by mP in

jw
friends

they can simply fire all those dumb sods and release ebook versions of all material printed there, saving money where all contributions are profit..

exwhyzee

Maybe they'll eventually have Bethelites start producing and assembling low cost electronic readers so the masses will have low cost devices to download and read their literature on. The regular Witnesses could start going from door to door selling presenting them to the public on a donation basis. They could keep on boasting about how progressive and efficient and cutting edge their organization is.

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What is up with the influx of electronic readers at the Kingdom Hall

by wannabefree in

jw
friends

crazy!.

the local publishers seem to be jumping on the e-reader bandwagon.. sisters even in their 70's are showing up at the hall with ipads loaded with publications for the meetings for crying out loud!.

a couple of these elderly sisters are having me get theirs ready ... should i add coc and captives of a concept ... perhaps studies vol vii ... to the library for them.

exwhyzee

One Sunday I saw a blonde sister with an e-reader who was using a highlighter to underline all the answers during the Watchtower Study.

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After leaving the WTS have you been left with a phobia about being happy?

by Xanthippe in

after reading flipper's thread about steve hassan's latest book it got me thinking about the stuff on phobias he mentions.

apparently cults deliberately instill phobias in you to cut you off from the real world.. we were constantly being told if we were struggling it showed we were doing everything right because the devil only persecutes those that are doing well.

if i ever said to anyone i am thinking of taking up a hobby or doing some exercise or (very rarely) planning a holiday they were instantly critical.

exwhyzee

It takes time after leaving the Org. to stop waiting for the other shoe to drop and to realize it's OK to enjoy your life in the present. Eventually you realize that if something good happens to you, it's not Satan tricking you into staying on the broad and spacious road to destruction. The overly religious have always felt more virtuous when they are suffering. Some even think that if you are doing a job and enjoying it, you must not be working hard enough. It's that old Judeo/Christian martyr complex.