Posts by punkofnice

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Caleb & Sophia - The Watchtower gets weirder

by Listener in

the latest video release 4/4/22 (lesson 44 'don't give up') in the comic series of caleb & sophia just got weirder.

the plot is about caleb & sophia preaching door to door, caleb with his father and sophia with her mother.

it shows each of them having doors slammed on them four times.

punkofnice

namey - You thought that getting someone you know from school at the door was bad? Try getting one of your teachers at the door.

Both happened to me.

I felt like a right wally.

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Years REALLY DO FLY BY!

by somebody in

jw
friends

i just realized that i was 39 years old when i joined this discussion board.

i remember the morning conversations that always brought me laughter, and i think there were only a but about 9 or 10 regulars back then!

i will now turn 57 years old in a few months.

Just to show how sad I am. When I was first in Toronto, I visited City Hall (or whatever they call it), where the Moving pictures album cover was shot. It smelled of pee. I also saw a bloke having a pee in the bushes down the steps.

Other than that, I love Toronto. We bought ice poles from where Kim's Convenience is filmed outside. Cabbage town I think they call it.

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Disassociation letter

by joao in

i sent my disassociation letter two days ago!

i couldn't stand it anymore!

so many lies, the exploitation of sincere people, the ridiculous amount of rules and all this protection of pedophiles, plus the life of gb as if they were wealthy dictators!

punkofnice

My wife was (and still is) quite moved by my decision because she has been a JW for her entire life. It's hard. It messed up with all she has been taught even though she has also started to see some light

Wait for the ricochet.
You could be in for a really rough ride from here on in.

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Caleb & Sophia - The Watchtower gets weirder

by Listener in

the latest video release 4/4/22 (lesson 44 'don't give up') in the comic series of caleb & sophia just got weirder.

the plot is about caleb & sophia preaching door to door, caleb with his father and sophia with her mother.

it shows each of them having doors slammed on them four times.

punkofnice

Listener - It shows each of them having doors slammed on them four times.

Blimey O'Riley, they found that many people home? That is weird.

They ask their parents if they can have a break but their father talks them into continuing.

Their Dad is a retarded twat.

JW children mean nothing and are worth a laugh at their expense.

Not just children, whom the Watchtower leaders love to abuse, often in the worst possible way, but all the R&F(tm).

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My story

by PimoElder in

hi everyone i’m a pimo elder ex bethelite and pioneer who has been having doubts for many years.

as of late i’ve come to have even more doubts mainly due to the gb pushing the vaccines and acting like salesman for big pharma companies .

i will never take these vaccines even if it meant i couldn’t go to the hall as was previously said but the gb have done a big u turn on this now.

punkofnice

Pimmy - Can someone tell me how to reply to a message?

If you mean like this.....

Copy paste the comment you wish to hone in onto then comment. Go back to the honed bit, highlight it then click on the

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My story

by PimoElder in

hi everyone i’m a pimo elder ex bethelite and pioneer who has been having doubts for many years.

as of late i’ve come to have even more doubts mainly due to the gb pushing the vaccines and acting like salesman for big pharma companies .

i will never take these vaccines even if it meant i couldn’t go to the hall as was previously said but the gb have done a big u turn on this now.

punkofnice

pimster - I have many good friends and I love the congregation

I think you'll find that despite them being good people at heart, their love is all conditional.

They'll drop you like a hot snag from a barbie if they find out about your duplicity.

If you exist in real life, that is.

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What is the harm or downside of being PIMO?

by PimoElder in

what is the harm or downside of being pimo?.

i get all the good things about being in the cong, good social life lots of invites to bbqs and meals out.

lots of interesting gossip 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

punkofnice

Pimmy - What is the harm or downside of being PIMO?

As I said afore:

You can't slave for 2 masters.

In the end the cog-dis will burn you. You will have to decide if you should stay or not.

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My story

by PimoElder in

hi everyone i’m a pimo elder ex bethelite and pioneer who has been having doubts for many years.

as of late i’ve come to have even more doubts mainly due to the gb pushing the vaccines and acting like salesman for big pharma companies .

i will never take these vaccines even if it meant i couldn’t go to the hall as was previously said but the gb have done a big u turn on this now.

punkofnice

Welcome Pimmy.

im still an elder and a very busy one at that. I don’t mind doing all the items at the meeting but am starting to say no to many other jobs at the hall

You can't slave for 2 masters. At some stage you will have to face a choice of being a fake or authentic.

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Can you list the positive points of being a JW as against the negative points of being a JW in your experience ?

by smiddy3 in

i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.

2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?

are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..

punkofnice

Smiddy. It wasn't all bad if I'm totally honest. Mostly bad, but not totally.

Full disclosure, as a reluctant atheist, I go to the odd Evensong and service locally. It is something I enjoy. When a scripture is called out, I can locate it quite easily. There was a sort of scripture finding competition at a local church a few years back. Not for money, just a fun thing. I won hands down. I attribute that to the Jobots.

Also, I felt there were some good bits of advice in the 'family book(tm)'. Not the 'do more(tm)' nonsense.

I believe I'm fairly healthy for a 64 year old due to not smoking. I am guilty of enjoying a drop of sauce though.

Over all, the Jobots are a dangerous, predatory cult. But every cloud has a silver lining.

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The Sanitizing of David

by Doug Mason in

the bible depicts king david as a deeply flawed, unsavory character, the perpetrator of evil acts including: murder, insurrection, adultery, banditry, and extortion.

the sanitizing of david’s character during the following centuries and millennia created an image that idolizes him as the paragon of virtue, closely associated with the promised messiah.

my study identifies the davidic sanitizing process.. https://www.academia.edu/s/390a7ba170?source=link .

punkofnice

Even when I was a 'believer(tm)' I thought David was a bit of a twit.