Posts by exwhyzee

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Letter from and to my JW Niece

by Nosferatu in

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my niece is on fb.

she's a very creative and lovely person, but she's the only other family member i have who's a jw.

her mother got booted out for smoking, and her brother just seems to know it's a bunch of crap.. on fb, i posted a funny status update that went something like this: "my mother brought me up and hoped that i would grow into a career that would fulfill her dreams.

exwhyzee

Hey Uncle Ben.

You can sorta' see where she is comming from. If you post these kind of comments, knowing how seriously JW's take themselves, you have to expect that they will take it as a personal put down. I think I might have...or at least I would have known you were making a jab at something I still valued.

If you had former co workers as facebook friends and posted a comment such as " Glad I was able to find a real job after working for a go nowhere company for so long" , your former co workers who still work there might be offended or at least feel worse about their jobs than they already do.

It seems like your Niece was reasonable though, she mentioned wanting to see you soon. If you haven't sent your reply already, I wouldn't. It might be best to simply say, " Oops....didn't mean to offend anyone, humor, in part is how I got myself through a difficult time period in my life"

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Email from Dad

by nicsfreedom in

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although it is far less rude than the correspondence i received 6 months ago i just received this email from my father.

i have not responded.. "mom and i would greatly appciate it if you would return all the family pictures.

you can of course make copies if you wish, although it doesn't appear its necessary.

exwhyzee

The cheese may have finally slipped off Dad's sandwich.

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Do You Suffer From: Bitchy Resting Face

by frankiespeakin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v98cpxnisk.

exwhyzee

My Wife's bossy dissapproving oldest sister has this. I call it "JUDGIE FACE"

Rene Zellweger has this malady too. (click here and scroll down)

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My former JW Niece posted this on her facebook.

by exwhyzee in

i can only imagine what the impact will be from her remaining jw family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjx2owzqopk.

exwhyzee

I can only imagine what the impact will be from her remaining JW family. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJx2oWZQoPk

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Former Long Time Elder, part 3

by James Jackson in

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to answer some of your questions.

i phone my son on thursday and was able to help him get his paper work in order for, get this: "college".

we're good.. the wife and i have about 10 family members that are jw's as well as over 12 close friends, 100's of friends in 5 states.

exwhyzee

They can change the meaning of the word "Generation" they can allow Blood Fractions, they can wrongly predict the end of the system in 1975, they can require you to shun your family members but if they were to ban watching Football, there'd be a mass exdous from the Organization...and "they" know that.

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Religion vs Technology

by Suspicious in

jw vs technology.

ive been doing more and more research in regards to the history of jw.

the more i find out the more shocking it is.

exwhyzee

As long as there is a market, there will always be a product. If not the JWs, then some other cultic movement will fill in their shoes.

If you build it they will come. For instane, no matter how ugly of a car Detroit builds, someone will always buy it so long as it goes to market. The majority will walk in the opposite direction but there will be a certain cross section of the population that will for their own reasons see something that no one else does and they'll defend their choice to the bitter end.

Some people would buy a whitewashed grave if it were presented to them convincingly enough.

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Why I wanted to Live in the New System so much.

by exwhyzee in

as a kid i didn't care about living forever since getting old and dying was a far away and an uncomprehendable eventuality.

i wanted to be around, near and with wild animals...all animals and to this day, i wish somehow they could be a part of my life.

when i see stuff like this, i still hope somehow it will be a reality someday.

exwhyzee

As a kid I didn't care about living forever since getting old and dying was a far away and an uncomprehendable eventuality. I wanted to be around, near and with wild animals...all animals and to this day, I wish somehow they could be a part of my life. When I see stuff like this, I still hope somehow it will be a reality someday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74Qqfv2ESQ

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2014 means nothing

by konceptual99 in

i know there have been many comments over the recent past about 2014 being potentially a key point in time for the wts as it's 100 years since 1914 but my view is that it means absolutely nothing.. people are people and history shows the psychological hold that organisations like the wts has just carries on captivating people.

the org survived the 1975 debacle and they will potter on for years to come regardless of things like 100 years since 1914, especially since this is something the wts are simply not talking about.

it means nothing to anyone other than people looking for something to bash the wts with.. it's not mentioned in the literature and is unlikely to be anytime soon - why the heck would the wts want to remind people of the length of time?.

exwhyzee

Little JW children will still be told they can look forward to having a pet lion someday. 2014 will come and go without any significance to them as they weren't around when all the previous dates failed. They will continue to trust that the all adults in the limited JW circle that their parents associate with, know what they are talking about.

Teen and young adult JW's will continue to secretly hope the end doesn't come just yet because life and it's newfound freedom is still fresh and fun. They have one foot in the idealistic world of the very young, where childhood notions and adult realities haven't quite clashed yet. 2014 will come and go and will mean little to them, just as 1925 meant little to us who saw 1975 come and go in our own youth.

Older JW's , mostly out of habit, will still carry the hope that the end will come before they die. Even though they've spent decades convincing themselves it will happen, on some level they've known all along it may well be just a fantasy. At this point in their lives, they are too tired to care or change. 2014 will come and go but they'll ignore the voice in their head that is telling them they may have been duped. To some this may be a relief since they no longer have the energy anymore to keep up the urgency of the times routine. Facing this reality is not something they can easily walk up to and wrestle to the ground. They'll continue on as they have and rationalize it all by saying "oh well, at least it was a good way to live if nothing else".

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Who the hell are the Ninja Witnesses who keep...

by sooner7nc in

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...sneaking into my hospital while i'm there and leaving magazines in all my waiting rooms?.

it's like they have predator suits or something.

pesky boogers.. by the way, if the person or persons who are doing this ever read on this site please know that i pick them up within 30 minutes of your leaving them.. .

exwhyzee

It could be someone who works of volunteers at the hospital that sort of slips the magazines out of their pocket while going about their normal routine. Could be a custodian who has access to the whole place and a cart to stash the literature in.

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Jws and urban myths!

by Julia Orwell in

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jws sure love urban myths.

the jws have their own collection built up over many years, part of their own unique worldwide jw culture.

i've come across the same ones in america that i've heard in australia, and they pass from legend to myth and finally reality as quoted from the platform.

exwhyzee

Along with the Sister Paine in the rear legend / joke, there was the legend / story about the "brother" saying a concluding prayer at a meeting and asking Jehoober to forgive our "falling shorts".

We DID have a Sister Payne, in our Confregation and every Pain/Payne remark possible, was made including the Payne in the rear joke. in fact, she "Payne-stakingly" made a point of not sitting in the back of the hall for that reason.

We've all heard the one where supposedly after the Sunday talk the Chairman said " Thank you for that fine talk Brother Jones...and now while the microphones are being set up, we'll have a five minute intercourse" (he mixed discourse and intermission together and came up with intercourse)

I've told the story of how my Mother used to be the Piano player at our Hall. For that reason we always had to be to the meeting on time. One time she was in such a rush to get dressed that she put her coat on right over her slip. She dashed up to the front of the Hall as soon as we walked in and it wasn't until she had her coat part way off that she realized she wasn't wearing a dress. We never let her live this one down.