Pika_Chu

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  The Writing Department's use of "Exclamation Points". Anybody else find their use cheesy? Or motivating possibly?

  by miseryloveselders in

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  something i've been meaning to ask for a while since coming here, is wsup with the writing department's use of exclamation points?

  i'm no literature buff or anything, but to me personally, the exclamation points cheapen whatever they're trying to get across.

  here's some examples from the new jeremiah book.. how thankful we can be for the teaching done by christian shepherds!.

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  I didn't think they motivated me, per se, but they definetly tug on your emotions.

  Whoa, I just realized they put exclaimation marks in the Awake! Title...Anyway, like others have said, it's all about emotions. Like so:

  Fear: Armageddon will not delay! Satan rules this world! Apostates want to destroy your hope for salvation!

  Happyfied-ness: How grateful we should be for the Faithful and Discreet Slave! What an exciting prospect of living forever in paradise! No doubt, you were overcome with joy when you first learned Bible Truth (TM)!

  Sense of justice and sense of safety (kinda): Of course Jehovah longs to abolish wickedness and restore the Earth to paradisiac conditions! Jehovah will right all the wrongs! He provides us with an Earthly organization guided by holy spirit today!

  Sadness/empathy (or lack thereof): Jehovah weeps when a loved one turns away from him! How sad he must have been when Adam and Eve disobeyed! We do not weep over the dead, for we have hope! We should feel the satisfaction one gets from knowing a criminal is executed!

  It's some scary-ass stuff, Misery...gulp
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  The meetings used to make me physically sick.

  by FifthOfNovember in

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  it's 9:10 sunday morning.

  i'm dressed already, and just finished rushing through my watchtower a few seconds ago.

  now i need to wait for my ride to pick me up (i couldn't drive yet).

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  Yep. Lots of freak-out panic attacks, sometimes I would get so distraught I'd get sick to my stomach.
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  Are You Surprised That Certain Witnesses Are Still Associated?

  by minimus in

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  i am.

  i know some pretty sharp, critically minded people, and i am surprised they still are active witnesses.

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  I'm surprised some are, but then, you never know if those people will make it out. Some are more liberal-minded and this is good to say the least. Sometimes, it's those kind of people who wake up. I think many of us who are out now kind of thought like that before we left.
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  Gratitude

  by laverite in

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  i am grateful for this website.

  thank you to simon and everyone who makes jwn possible.

  it's hard work.

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  Pika_Chu

  Agreed. Thank you Simon!
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  How Many of Them Do You Know About?

  by clarity in

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  2. child-abuse

  after flipper's thread about the wt child abuse cases, i started to think about how many children i know of personally who have been sexually abused by a jw!.

  as someone who is not especially 'in the know', it's amazing that i do know five of them.

  one who was a small baby, at the time!.

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  I never really knew of any, accept this one crazy guy who molested a girl. He wasn't a higher-up or anything though. Of course, maybe I'm just not in the know.
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  Is this a forum for JWs or a place where crybabies complain about people complaining

  by Pika_Chu in

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  2. beliefs

  so...i've noticed there are so many topics that don't have to do with jw-related things, like recent ones where someone complained about this very thing, not realizing that his own thread is, by existence, just a complaint with nothing relevant to any of our lives as jws..

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  So...I've noticed there are so many topics that don't have to do with JW-related things, like recent ones where someone complained about this very thing, not realizing that his own thread is, by existence, just a complaint with nothing relevant to any of OUR lives as JWs.
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  Is this a forum for JW issues or a poorly designed political and celebrity site?

  by Band on the Run in

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  it appears to me that even in the few months that i have been here there is less and less emphasis on jehovah's witnesses and anything remotely related to jws and more very poor posts about politics, foreign affairs and celebrities.

  i can't omit the juvenile sex ones, which i find lacking in erotic nature.

  it seems the 6th grade boys are meeting in the locker room.. the posts that involve jws have a very different tone from the drivel posted on others.

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  Well, here's the thing. It's a forum for JWs (really exxers), and we just have more to talk about than the WT screwing us over sometimes. The universe offers us many topics for discussion other than Dubworld, it's just that the people on this forum have had INVOLVEMENT with the WT and want to meet up and socialize with others who share that in common.
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  Name some "great" bands/artists you detest

  by keyser soze in

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  musicians that are considered iconic, that people look at you funny when you say how much you hate them?.

  personally, i've never been able to stand ac/dc.

  besides the lead singer's whiny, annoying voice that sounds like nails on a chalk board, there's nothing at all to the music.

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  Did anyone hear about how they walked off the stage during an outdoor show because pigeons kept crapping on them? Sounds like the birds are great critics. Hilarious!

  Their music's for the birds, man.
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  Name some "great" bands/artists you detest

  by keyser soze in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  musicians that are considered iconic, that people look at you funny when you say how much you hate them?.

  personally, i've never been able to stand ac/dc.

  besides the lead singer's whiny, annoying voice that sounds like nails on a chalk board, there's nothing at all to the music.

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  Silly hippie, jam is for toast.

  You are wrong. Jam is for smoking in a bong.

  Let's see...who do I hate? I hate a lot of the new pop-rock/hip-hop stuff. And I kinda hate Kings of Leon. So much suck. Even rock, where ever the heck it is to be found these days, isn't even that great now. Almost everything I listen to is from the 70s, 80s, or 90s. The metal, anyway. AC/DC is okay, they have some good songs, but I don't like the guy's voice. Same thing for Guns N Roses. It's not so much the music, it's the voice. And I like the Scorpions, but all of their songs sound the same. They just sound good, so they all sound like the same good thing. And mudvayne is the same way. I don't really care for Megadeth. They're okay, but Metallica's better. Still, Metallica is only good if I'm in the right mood.
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  Memorial - How many on here went and how many didn't?

  by IMHO in

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  feel free to add why/why not?.

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  I didn't want to really, but I'm obligated by family