I find that WT and Asleep magazine are very poor for lighting fires. They just don't burn. We had loads that we saved up for winter, but they were useless. Even once the fire was going well, adding them only put the fire out. They're no good for puppy training either, not big enough, and the ink sticks to the tiles. Has anybody seriously found a good use for them at all?
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The Watchtower is now the world's largest magazine!
by life is to short innewsmaxs magazine just published an article that the watchtower is the most read magazine out there it evens surpasses time.. i have never heard of newmaxs but i just was emailed this and thought you might find it interesting.
i am sorry i do not know how to give the link so i am cutting and pasting.
if someone can do the link it would be great.
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how fast is your internet connection?
by Dogpatch inverizon fios is killer!
we have 5 roommates so can split the faster speed cost ($15 more).. using: http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1.
anyone get figures like this?
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Mine is D/L 4.48, U/L 0.40, Ping 36ms.
Pretty poor. My SP is billed as the best in the whole country! I live in a rural area, 10 KMS from a major city.
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Another LIE in December 8th Awake page 28
by Sherilynn inonce again that mysterious 20 years pops up in jw chronology forcing the 607 date for the 1914 date, blah, blah, blah.
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=qryqcsvrgznt partial quote below from page 28: .
those prophecies of destruction were fulfilled in 632 b.c.e.
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'...But it is not a lie to express a conviction...'
My arse can play the banjo.
Am I lying?
It is my conviction. How dare you call me a liar?
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Top 10 reasons why JWs don't have the truth - please contribute
by oldlightnewshite ini thought it would be an interesting exercise to ask everybody on here what their 'top 10 reasons why jws don't have the truth' actually were.
maybe we can see some correlating views/patterns/ideas that may help us de-programme the newbies that come on this site.
if eventually most people have an outstanding gripe/concern it'll help everybody understand the ex-jw mindset a little better.
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Hey Coffee, Sorry about your dad. I've often thought about that change in policy on transplants and whether many people had been affected by it. That's gotta make you choke when it was just 2 years after. That's one thing I vowed to change once I finally left. I am now the proud owner of an organ donor card. The 'No Blood' card went in the bin years ago. Somebody should maybe start a thread on here about encouraging everyone to consider signing up for one. In the UK when you sign up, it goes straight on the national health register so they can get to know straight away if they need to take something.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far. Seems like most people's 'Spidey Sense' gets going with the prophecy BullSh*t and lack of love.
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"A Day for a Year": I Need a Beer
by Farkel ineveryone wants to find meaning and purpose in their life.
people who have been taught to believe in the bible seek stuff in the bible to give them meaning in their life.
some people make up stuff supposedly based on the bible to give them meaning in their life.. the watchtower society goes one step further: they make up stuff supposedly based on the bible to give their corporation meaning and importance in life.. far too many true believers have a difficult time accepting what should be obvious to any rational human: the bible meant exactly what it said.
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Farkel's analysis is excellent, some good comments too. I remember having several bible studies over the year, and asking the conductor "What?" "What?" "I just don't get it..." In the end my brain started to bleed. Then later on, when I had bible studies of my own, and we came to the Day for a year bullshit, my brain started to bleed again trying to explain it to somebody else who clearly thought it was drivel.
This is a good thread to keep alive. One day that Farkel might make Circus Oversneer!
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The funniest/weirdest/dumbest Disfellowshipping offences.....Share!
by oldlightnewshite ineverybody must know of a funny/weird/dumb disfellowshipping offence.
here's mine:.
i moved to a new congregation and was related this story by a sister with the most deadly serious face.
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Everybody must know of a funny/weird/dumb disfellowshipping offence. here's mine:
I moved to a new congregation and was related this story by a sister with the most deadly serious face. She said ......
A couple of years ago this guy got DF'ed because while his JW neighbour (two doors away) went out to the meeting, he stayed home and decided to rob that person of their brand-spankin' new coffee machine. The DF'ed brother broke in, lifted the shiny new machine up and away he went. A couple of hours later, he got a knock on the door. He opened it and found the neighbour Sister with a couple of elders and they didn't look too happy. He said 'what's up?'. They glared at him and pointed to the floor. There was a trail of coffee grinds from his house to the sisters house and her broken window. You're thinking... What a tw*t! -right?
After the story I laughed my arse off, but the sister who told the story was stony faced. Apparently SHE was the sister with the coffee maker, and the DF'ed guy was her brother-in-law. Don't tell anyone I told you, because it's a bad Witness and stuff like that doesn't happen in perfect JW land!
...god, we are bad people
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Those Awkward Moments
by JustKeepLiving inokay, here's the story.
i have very recently been declared da'd publicly.
we all know what that means.
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Just be normal and smile. It's normal to be normal. You aren't a JW anymore, so show them what normal is! I still smile to people that have shunned me, even though I haven't officially disassociated myself or been DA'd by the congregation. For me, 7 times out of 10 I get a good response. Even though it's doctrine, I think they all secretly detest having to be obnoxious. While I was 'in' I always used to say hi to DF'd.
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Did you feel you missed out as a JW kid/teenager?
by BlackTwisted ini am not gonna lie, i know i did somewhat, and here's my story of it.. .
i remember my mom and her girl-friend (yes, she was bi-sexual, her gf was a lesbian.
) and my mom's gf..um..let's call her jill (not her real name) was very..well, not very but was somewhat strict almost over everything, i remember i couldn't evfen watch that 70's show!
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I certainly didn't miss out. All the kids knew me as the Jehova boy who won't punch back if you hit him. Aaaaaah, we'd all laugh at how Jehova boy got tripped up and his books all ended up in a puddle and his trousers had big holes in the knees and blood etc. The kids would all talk about the funny stuff they saw on TV, which Jehova boy couldn't watch because it was worldly and had swear words in it. Jehova boy was so shielded that he didn't know the difference between Birthdays and Christmas. Jehova boy was bright though, he got to do all the other kids' homework or else he'd end up in a heap of blood and snot. Jehova boy grew up and learned to hide the bitterness, and he felt good, coz he knew that his tormentors would soon be bird-food. Except that what he believed was a crock drummed into his soft brain by his softer-headed mother.
It WAS character building, I have to say.
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Odd Deconstructive Moment in the Dec 2010 Awake
by Cadellin inwhen i saw the article, "more major earthquakes expected" in page 20, my first thought was wtf?
haven't they learned their lesson about predicting increases in earthquakes?
then i read the article, which shies away from any explicit claim that seismic activity is on the increase.
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Lol @ Hamsterbait, that was funny, dude.
They could try 'More wars expected'. Guess what? They'd be right!
I don't know if it does me any good being on these sites... reaffirming what a complete arse-hole I used to be for falling for such bollocks. It doesn't do my self-worth any good, just like those old pics of me with flared trousers.
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1975 - Lest We Forget
by GetBusyLiving ini find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.
do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?
with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?
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I was 6 in 1975, but remember my mum frantically trying to give up smoking so she could get baptized and 'save' all us kids (we'd be sanctified by means of her, and not destroyed). Then after in 1976 they started spouting stuff about it was apostates within the org that promoted the thought of 1975 being the end of the 6,000 years. My mum has utterly wasted her life living a lie, indoctinated her kids good so that they have too, except for one that woke up. Who knows how much time she wasted bashing the paint off of folks' doors? She could've spent time with her kids, learned to love her husband instead of living a lie and despising him for not conforming to the JW$. An utterly wasted life and a waste of organs. A good message to any lurkers out there:-
Your Governing body has artfully airbrushed your religion's history. What you need to ask yourself is, 'what will I be doing in 30 years time?' Picture it with your mind's eye. My mum thought she'd be playing frisby with a tiger and eating tropical fruit in an alpine glade with a bunch of peruvians playing pan pipes.
For god's sake reach for the smelling salts and WAKE UP!
... oh and, happy anniversary, apostates!