Vidiot

Joined

• started 27 topics
• posted 20,804 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Vidiot

• 
  24

  What is is your favorite REDICULOUS JW falsehood? :)

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.

  ) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.

  what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  Diogenesister -

  “… JW adult: 😶 [crickets]…”

  I have a minor revision to the script, if you don’t have any objections…

  JW adult: 😶 [crickets], then angrily: “Go to your room!” (translation, embarassed: “You made me feel stupid!”)
• 
  24

  What is is your favorite REDICULOUS JW falsehood? :)

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.

  ) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.

  what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  re. Diogenesister’s post…

  Ugh, jeezus… “perfection”…

  …perfection was my carrot.

  As a kid, I always felt super-embarrassed whenever I got something wrong or made a mistake (especially if it resulted in mocking or scorn), and the JW grownups in my life would always say “we all make mistakes, we’re imperfect” (emphasis mine), so I naturally grew up thinking that “perfection” (i.e. the opposite of imperfection, obv) meant never getting anything wrong or making mistakes, and therefore never having to feel embarrassed again…

  …or, really, never having anyone be able to mock or criticize me and make me feel bad anymore (and also, be smart and really good-looking, because I thought those things would keep me from feeling bad, too).

  This, plus a handful of other reasons, basically (mis)led me to grow up thinking that I was somehow more “imperfect” than the majority of other people (seriously), which in turn made me quietly desperate to be “perfect” some day…

  …i.e. my carrot.

  This idea lasted well into my 20s, until three things happened…

  …first, the shocking realization that in the adult world (the one that actually counts), the vast majority on people are not the sociopathic assholes I’d had to go to school with for the previous decade-or-so, and therefore, not looking for every available opportunity to pounce on my “flaws”, broadcast them to the world, and make me feel like hammered shit over and over again…

  …second, my father explaining to me that the “perfection” promised in the New System was actually “spiritual” perfection (whatever that meant), as opposed to being, for all intents and purposes, Superman (this was a very dismaying moment at the time, needless to say, because how the fuck was that supposed to help me not feel bad?)…

  …and third, a semi-related conversation with a fellow I’d known a while, wherein he happened to mention how he happened to view “perfection” (hint: not like me)…

  …all of which, together, led me to the gobsmacking conclusion that “perfection” (whatever it was) was so subjective that, for all intents and purposes…

  …there was no such thing.

  Once I got over that shock, I (surprisingly, at the time) actually felt better… or at least, relieved, because I no longer felt burdened with hoping and wishing for something that simply didn’t exist.

  (Note: there were other things that helped, too, but that’s another story.)
• 
  24

  What is is your favorite REDICULOUS JW falsehood? :)

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.

  ) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.

  what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  @ ThomasMore…

  Don't kid yourself.

  These days, when they say “we don’t know”, it’s never actually a display of humility or an admission of ignorance …

  …it’s to cover their asses after decades of extra-Biblical policies and ideas that turned out to be consistently, embarrassingly, and hilariously wrong.

  Honestly, it seems like two-thirds of anything they say now is an attempt at damage control for shit they used to say then.
• 
  27

  LEAKED 2024 USA SERVICE REPORT

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/lov1gsxj4tg?si=ze-fdc8yswirahwx.

  this is a mini report on usa that includes an update on ramapo as it was delivered during the british bethel inauguration few days ago....

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  I’ve never found the Service Reports anything to get excited about.
• 
  24

  What is is your favorite REDICULOUS JW falsehood? :)

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.

  ) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.

  what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  TonusOH - “…Don't they still believe that every animal will become an herbivore in the new system?”

  These days, when an older idea they liked has clearly become untenable for whatever reasons, they say “we just don’t know”.
• 
  24

  What is is your favorite REDICULOUS JW falsehood? :)

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.

  ) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.

  what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  All of the Genesis-as-literal-history stuff that was either officially or unofficially promoted…

  …almost all of which turned out to be cribbed from “worldy” creationists. 🙄
• 
  16

  JW (?) murders wife and mother-in-law

  by Chevelle in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  according to several spanish ex-jw youtube channels, this is a jw family... but i'm still trying to confirm... .

  https://www.fox29.com/news/mom-daughter-found-stabbed-philadelphia-basement.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  “…being destroyed at Armageddon if they remained out of the Org when it happened…”

  I don’t remember if official WT doctrine ever stated this explicitly, but the second-hand rhetoric absolutely emphasized it… my parents raised me believing it.

  What really gets me is when self-styled theologians craft or condone ideology like that and then actually seem surprised when shit like this inevitably goes down.

  You wanna yell at them: “WTF did you think was gonna happen???”
• 
  12

  Constant Pleas For Money

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it comes up from time to time: that the wt's "constant pleas for money" signifies their precarious financial state due to the pressure of the csa settlements.

  is there any way of demonstrating that to be a fact?

  i ask because i've always been under the impression that "constant pleas for money" is the default state of the organisation, possibly going back to rutherford's time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  The pinch is painfully obvious when you know to look for it.
• 
  15

  NEW YORK TIMES 10TH MAY: HOW THE JWS COPY THE MORMONS

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.

  skip to main content.

  jw updates.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  One of Evangelicalism’s dark alters, obviously.

  😏
• 
  15

  NEW YORK TIMES 10TH MAY: HOW THE JWS COPY THE MORMONS

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.

  skip to main content.

  jw updates.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Vidiot

  Wicca/Paganism… Catholicism’s old hippy-chick next-door-neighbor-slash-frenemy (and former occasional late-night bootycall who called it quits after one too many drunken rants).

  Sikhism… Hinduism’s ambitious younger brother.

  Zoroastrianism… everybody’s late great-granddaddy who’s rarely talked about, but never disrespected.