Posts by Dissonant15

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Never had a crazy JW-related dream until today

by onightdivine in

in my dream a while ago, the wt had already started "encouraging" everyone to contribute 30. either it meant at least 30 hours of "preaching" or 30% tithe.

the next scene is when we all stood up for the opening song at the kh, and lo and behold - the opening lyrics went on like (this is vague but you'll understand the context anyway):.

what a privilege it is to serve the kingdom.

Dissonant15

VI, I just recently used those lyrics to describe JW life.

NBdog, yes I've had many a naked at the meeeting dream. Also naked in a judicial meeting dreams, which are even worse.

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Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

by Dunedain in

there were always all types of speakers in the org.

myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

Dissonant15

Someone was praying and said, "Please bless the congregated thongs" (meant throngs).

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Circuit Assembly Program

by molybdenum in

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Dissonant15

Lmao this is awesome!!

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How many of you left the Org since 2015?

by Paul Bonanno in

jw
friends

i have noticed that many lately have left the org or are in the process of leaving.

how many of you have left since 2015?.

this month will be my 21 years out of the org into the road of freedom.

Dissonant15

Stopped service late 2014, stopped meetings earlier 2015 over here.

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The canonised Old Testament is no different from the Apocrypha except with more scary fables and mythology

by fukitol in

the apocryphal books are accepted by catholics in their douay version as inspired of god, but rejected by the rest of christianity?.

why?.

when you examine the reasons for and against acceptance of the apocrypha as divinely inspired or not, it dawns on you that the traditionally accepted 39 books of the hebrew scriptures are nothing but the same sort of stuff as the more recent apocryphal books are, with the only difference being that the 39 much older ot books contain a lot more scary stories, fables and mythology invented by the ancient jewish priesthood to frighten their followers into fear and obedience and continued giving of meat sacrifices for the priests to eat.. ultimately, the ot can be summarised as nothing but a mixture of relatively accurate historical jewish war histories and genealogies, such as the aprocrypha is, mingled with scary stories made up by the ancient jewish priests and scribes..

Dissonant15

Interesting observations. I have not read the apocryphals through, but I often wondered what makes humans so arrogant and sure that they dont belong in their "holy" collection of canon.

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Pioneer Service School Videos

by wifibandit in

first, i'd like to give a big thank you to the anonymous person who provided me the files.

second, if you have the rest of the english videos, or anything else you would like to leak, please pm me.. download links in the descriptions and here.

english:.

Dissonant15

This is so stupid and simpleton. And to think I wanted to go back to PSS a second time. "Dimming as Deceivers" should be the title of that useless book.

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Should I be mad?

by kairos in

jw
friends

i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

( just "serving" napa ).

so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

Dissonant15

Cognitive dissonance, anyone?

I recently learned that while my sister was df my mom would regularly call her and say, "I only have a few minutes while your father is out. I love you and I miss you. Ok, gotta go, don't tell anyone we talked! " ...SAD.

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When did the Great Crowd start forming?

by Vanderhoven7 in

i realize that rutherford received a flash of light regarding the identity of the gc in the year 1935, but that does not tell us when the crowd began to form.

what would be the earliest date?

any ideas or quotes from wt literature?

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I remember old ones saying how "relieved" they felt when it was announced not everyone is going to heaven because they personally didn't want to go to heaven.

I just don't want to go anywhere, if they're there!

... And we got SW tickets to the 3rd show time ( why is that a part of this thread?).

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We missed you at the meetings

by punkofnice in

a vomit inducing comment.. i asked why do they have to specify 'meetings'?

they never miss us in tesco or the showcase cinema bar.. in their defence, a friend of mine said: 'that's because the meeting is where they normally would see you.'.

well, if they want to see you they can arrange a meal out or something.