Posts by Lore

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Tying Your Shoes With Modesty and Soundness of Mind

by Franklin Massey in

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the lack of intellectually stimulating material within the jw religion right now is astounding.

there is clearly a lack of spiritually dense material and a surplus of ridiculous, childish babble.

the regular "food" that jws are being fed is illustratively equivalent to pureed baby food.

Lore

Here is every subject ever discussed in a simple easy to browse list:

How to be nice to each other In the Family

How to be nice to each other In the Congregation

How to be nice to each other In School or the Workplace

How to be nice to each other In Your Recreation

How to not fornicate In the Family

How to not fornicate In the Congregation

How to not fornicate In School or the Workplace

How to not fornicate In Your Recreation

How to preach all the time In the Family

How to preach all the time In the Congregation

How to preach all the time In School or the Workplace

How to preach all the time In your Recreation

How to not listen to apostates In the Family

How to not listen to apostates In the Congregation

How to not listen to apostates In School or the Workplace

How to not listen to apostates In your Recreation

Aside from item 1 on the "How to not fornicate" list, these same topics are all discussed pretty much weekly and almost exclusively. Every other topic discussed is just a subsection of the above.

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My fathers weekly visit from the witnesses

by Igot2bme in

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my father who has never been a jw had a visit from a brother in a congo in his territory.

he usually comes over at least one time a week and places magazines and shoots the breeze with him about different issues.

this last visit though left a sour taste with him.

Lore

That's kinda bizzare.

An openly racist JW sharing his political opininions . . . ? Did he say he was going to burn in hell as well?

Maybe he just got back from donating blood and was a bit groggy.

Seriously though, that's a pretty odd thing for a JW to say.

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New arrangement

by DagothUr in

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i don't know if anyone has already posted this since i was in corfu island in the last 2 weeks.

it's from the jwn forum:.

september 2011 km says, "publishers auxiliary pioneering during march 2012 will have the option of working toward a 30-hour or a 50-hour requirement for the month.

Lore

I wonder how many of the people who volunteered in April actually failed to get their 30 hours in. Would they have been included in the figures?

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New arrangement

by DagothUr in

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i don't know if anyone has already posted this since i was in corfu island in the last 2 weeks.

it's from the jwn forum:.

september 2011 km says, "publishers auxiliary pioneering during march 2012 will have the option of working toward a 30-hour or a 50-hour requirement for the month.

Lore

It won't be nearly as popular the second time around. I doubt they get half the response they did in April 2011.

Everyone wants to jump in and try the new thing, but once it becomes the standard nobody cares.

A lot of people in April thought 'this is my only chance' and so they did it. Now they know they can put it off till next year, so they always will.

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i was just thinking about this very question.. i now havnt been to meetings for a long time and i have received no calls since telling the elders to leave me alone 3 weeks ago.. the past 3 weeks have been a lovely, peaceful, enjoyable, stress-free 3 weeks - no doubts there!.

but why is it that i can feel a part of me that wants them to call me?.

why do i feel that i want someone to stir something up so i can tell them to get lost?.

Lore

You want confirmation you've done the right thing.

When they call you, you'll probably ask them some logical question about their religion, they'll be stumped and thus you'll feel better about your decision.

I'm sure you've run the imaginary conversation through your head a hundred different ways, thinking: "and if they say X I'll ask them Y" that way when they call you'll be prepared and will be able to watch them struggle to keep up with your intellect.

You want to test your ideas against theirs to make sure yours come out on top.

Yeah it's pretty self-centered but we all do it. (I think we all do it anyway, maybe it's just me.)

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Potiphar's Brazen Hussy of a Wife :-<

by snowbird in

http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/jasher/44.htm.

no good, conniving, lying heifer!

syl.

Lore

I once read that women that have bisexual tendencies like men with beards, for obvious reasons....

Sorry, the obvious isn't so obvious to me. What's the connection?

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How important are God and Jesus to you?

by Nickolas in

i ask this question because it goes to:.

- how disposed to objectively considering contrarian evidence you are, and.

- how much i might be messing with your life and happiness by helping you see things the way i do.. i read the posts of many people on this board who are apparently happy, even deliriously happy, with their theism.

Lore

Would your life implode if you lost your faith? Should athiests just back off and not try to mess up your good thing, if only to keep them from wasting their time?

It's like those guys that say they can't imagine how atheists could be moral, because if they didn't believe in god they'd have nothing to hold them back and they'd just run around killing and raping people. . .

If that's true, maybe I shouldn't try to convince them they're wrong.

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Frak & Frakking

by IMHO in

fans of battlestar galactica may know that those two words are used a lot in the series.. how did they get away with it when it so obviously just another word for f**k?.

it's also used a lot on this forum but that's another topic..

Lore

How did they get away with it when it so obviously just another word for f**k?

Because there's no rule against using substitute words.

Red Dwarf made up 'Smeg' which they used in place of pretty much every other expletive.

Recess made up the word 'whomp'. Which if I recall correctly, the kids in the school made it up, but then when the principle found out it was a fake curse word he tried to make them stop using it.

Spongebob makes up a bunch of them. 'Halibut' in place of 'hell'. 'Barnacles' in place of various other words.

Friendship is Magic uses 'hay' instead of 'hell'

The whole idea of vulgar words is pretty silly when you give it any kind of thought.

I don't know who the halibut shoud give a smeg about some frakking fake swear words when the whole fucking idea of 'offensive words' is a whomping load of barnacles.

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Is immorality escalating?

by jworld in

i got the convention update from my mom, who attended this past weekend.

sounds like the society made the claim that immorality is escalating at a faster clip.

is that true?

Lore

Depends on how you define immorality.

Darnit, that's what I was gonna say!

If acceptance of sexual differences, other religions and other races is immoral. Then yeah immorality is escalating.

But what some people think is evil, others view as good.

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Please give me your ideas to beat the cost of internet/phone/cable package...

by FlyingHighNow in

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friends

damn comcast .

please tell me how you beat them and the pros and cons of your ideas.. i am thanking you in advance and will be forever beholdend to you.

i know we have had threads like this in the past, but technology marches on and maybe there are new things to use these days..

Lore

You don't need phone and you don't need cable. You just need high-speed internet.

This applies to EVERYONE on the fricken planet!

You can replace cable with Netflix streaming video and torrents. Trust me it's WAY better. I wouldn't use cable anymore if it was FREE. Stinking ads every couple mins, stuff not on when you want to see it. It's crap.
Netflix and the piratebay.org can eleminate ANY need you may have for Cable. Unless you're into sports. I'm not, so I never researched it, but I'm sure there are other options besides cable for watching live sports via internet.

Phone is not needed. You can set up a skype account, get a cell phone, etc. I reccomend geting a tracfone, piling a bunch of minutes on it and using it as your home phone. I dunno how much you talk on the phone but there's definately an online service that's better than the crappy comcast bills. Buy a magicjack.