I personally love hearing what they have to say about me. It always makes me laugh.
FifthOfNovember
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J-Dub Gossip: How Do/Did You Handle It?
by DarioKehl inperhaps the biggest fear i have of leaving is the ensuing gossip that will follow.
i know it's stupid to worry about what will be said about me once i'm "out," but it kills me inside.
of course, that doesn't mean that i don't already deal with my fair share of gossip as it is while still "in.
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JW recieves $55,000 for being ordered to wear santa hat.
by FifthOfNovember inhttp://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/18/woman-who-says-she-was-forced-to-wear-santa-hat-gets-55000/?iref=allsearch.
ridiculous.
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Anonymous attack on the Watchtower?
by Nickolas inhave you ever heard of anonymous?.
anonymous is an amorphos underground collective of internet activists - interactivists.
many of their activities are illegal, or at least reside in the grey area of legality.
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FifthOfNovember
Anonymous won't attack the Watchtower. The Watchtower is no where near as threatening as Scientology or Westboro. I personally think Anonymous isn't concerned about the Watchtower at all and has no desire to cause them harm now or in the future.
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An interesting weekend. :D
by FifthOfNovember inon friday it was about 70 where i live, so my cousin (who is an unbaptised j-dub) and i decided to play some tennis.
as we were walking out of a store (we were looking for tennis balls) i see two older j-dubs driving by, staring at us.
i havn't been to the meetings in months and i think they were shocked to see me with a beard.
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FifthOfNovember
The older J-dub I saw on Friday told my cousin at the last meeting that he "wants to see me to talk with me as a friend".
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An interesting weekend. :D
by FifthOfNovember inon friday it was about 70 where i live, so my cousin (who is an unbaptised j-dub) and i decided to play some tennis.
as we were walking out of a store (we were looking for tennis balls) i see two older j-dubs driving by, staring at us.
i havn't been to the meetings in months and i think they were shocked to see me with a beard.
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FifthOfNovember
"Good for you! I'm surprised you haven't been df'd yet."
I'm not baptised. I was an unbaptized publisher for about 7 years.
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How will the "new earth" be cleaned up ?
by man in black ini remember reading about the after effects of armageddon throughout the years, how the birds and beasts will ,eat their fill of the dead bodies.. pictures in the books and magazines showing how people will be destroyed by fire, weather, and earthquakes.
then reading a real insightful post somewhere on this site which was titled something along the lines of "diary of an armageddon survivor".. but now that i have left this religion, i have never really understood accurately just how the wt society believes that the earth will be cleaned up right after the big a.. when the witnesses were studying with my parents back in the mid 70's the po had the idea that god would somehow use matter/antimatter to clean up all of the bodies.
animals eating them all was another point, and the one where survivors would actually have to go around and bury them all was just totally bizzare to me.. (watch the series band of brothers, episode titled "why we fight" this is where the soldiers find a concentration camp,,,, it is a very frightening thing to watch to believe that god would make rightous survivors spend time doing this in the paradise cleaning up without looking for survivors.
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FifthOfNovember
"back in the mid 70's the po had the idea that God would somehow use matter/antimatter to clean up all of the bodies."
Ugh! It drives me crazy when they try to sound scientific when they have no idea what they are talking about.
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horseman in Egypt
by man in black inwatch from 1:22 on,,,,.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqkoj9sxkg&feature=related.
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FifthOfNovember
Looks like it was edited in.
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An interesting weekend. :D
by FifthOfNovember inon friday it was about 70 where i live, so my cousin (who is an unbaptised j-dub) and i decided to play some tennis.
as we were walking out of a store (we were looking for tennis balls) i see two older j-dubs driving by, staring at us.
i havn't been to the meetings in months and i think they were shocked to see me with a beard.
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FifthOfNovember
On Friday it was about 70 where I live, so my cousin (who is an unbaptised J-dub) and I decided to play some tennis. As we were walking out of a store (we were looking for tennis balls) I see two older J-dubs driving by, staring at us. I havn't been to the meetings in months and I think they were shocked to see me with a beard. We got into my cousin's car and as they turned down the street (they could still see us, and they were still staring) I started waving frantically and my cousin waved too, and they waved back. :D
And on Saturday morning, I was laying in bed reading "The God Delusion" when I thought I heard some voices in my kitchen. So I opened my bedroom door and heard two J-dubs talking to my mom. One was an elder. So I put on some sweatpants, went to the bathroom quick, and made my way to the kitchen because I figured this could be interesting. Anyway, I get out there and make some small talk about the weather, and then the elder was like "We were placing these books today, you might find the chapter "Does science prove the Bible wrong" interesting." Then he mentioned (didn't offer) about the magazine on atheism and said it had some interesting articles too, but I read that one before anyway. So I took the book, they left, read that chapter, and could argue against pretty much every "proof" of creation and the flood in that chapter.
But the reason why they left me that specific book was because I explained to them a few months back how I don't believe in creation and that I believe science makes much more sense than the Bible. And I'm sure my cousin has told them I don't believe in god anymore so that's probably why the magazine on atheism was mentioned. I used to be paranoid about witnesses just stopping by/seeing them in general and now I think it's the funniest thing ever. :D
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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!
by coffee_black inok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.
here are a few of the things that happened:.
about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.
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FifthOfNovember
There is a logical explanation for everything. Just because something can't be explained doesn't mean there is a supernatural cause. I think you may just be causing yourself unneeded paranoia. :)
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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?
by flipper inbeen thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.
also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.
so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".
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FifthOfNovember
I stopped all at once. I was having doubts for months and missed one meeting (even though I skipped quite a bit) for whatever reason a few months back. Skipped the next meeting, said I'd go to the next one, skipped that one, said I'd go to the next, etc. My mom (who is not a JW) asked if I was quitting and I never really answered her for a few weeks. Then she asked again and I told her that I didn't have any intentions of going back and I was atheist. She was surprised at first but didn't really care. I think she was just surprised because everyone always assumed I would be going to the KH for life. Now that I've stopped my life has been great!