Wow!!! Really!?!? Lol that is hilariously sad of the WT to publish. They are now making Pixar style movies? These movies are a bit scary to watch since it shows the reality of brainwashing.
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What'd I miss?
by fade_away ini turned my back on this site for one day and when i come back everyone is saying sparlock this and sparlock that.
what is a sparlock?
i can tell it's a wizard character but is it a toy or a cartoon that the wt is bashing?
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What'd I miss?
by fade_away ini turned my back on this site for one day and when i come back everyone is saying sparlock this and sparlock that.
what is a sparlock?
i can tell it's a wizard character but is it a toy or a cartoon that the wt is bashing?
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I turned my back on this site for one day and when I come back everyone is saying Sparlock this and Sparlock that. What is a Sparlock? I can tell it's a wizard character but is it a toy or a cartoon that the WT is bashing? Is it the next Smurf?
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new here but old
by mattishere inhi everyone, it's me, matthew hill.
long time, about 6+ years........ .
used to post as revmalk.
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Well, welcome back! Do share what brought you here again.
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latest JW chain email
by fade_away ini got this e-mail from my family members (along with some heavy preaching and guilt trips).....it always baffles me how gullible they are and it's sad to see them stumble around in the dark bumping into each other.
according to some wishful thinking jws, "babylon the great's end is coming soon".... september 2012 to be exact.
yes that's right....another prophecy.
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Lol! Yup. Armageddon wil now be in Ireland and not in Megiddo like the Bible says. It's new light!
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latest JW chain email
by fade_away ini got this e-mail from my family members (along with some heavy preaching and guilt trips).....it always baffles me how gullible they are and it's sad to see them stumble around in the dark bumping into each other.
according to some wishful thinking jws, "babylon the great's end is coming soon".... september 2012 to be exact.
yes that's right....another prophecy.
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I thought "first of all, whatever happened to the UN and the world's government bringing religion down? Why do they now think a handful of protestors with no affiliation to any government will bring down the titan religion?" Is it new light? Well it can't be cause the WT is silent about this news article. What a waste of time and energy for my family to get so worked up over this news article that isn't original or unique in any way.
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latest JW chain email
by fade_away ini got this e-mail from my family members (along with some heavy preaching and guilt trips).....it always baffles me how gullible they are and it's sad to see them stumble around in the dark bumping into each other.
according to some wishful thinking jws, "babylon the great's end is coming soon".... september 2012 to be exact.
yes that's right....another prophecy.
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I got this e-mail from my family members (along with some heavy preaching and guilt trips).....It always baffles me how gullible they are and it's sad to see them stumble around in the dark bumping into each other. According to some wishful thinking JWs, "Babylon the Great's end is coming soon".... September 2012 to be exact. Yes that's right....another prophecy. But it isn't coming from the WT. It's just a few over zealous JWs who are tired of waiting for the end to come...so, they make up their own expectations of future events.
Apparently, a protest is going on in Ireland where a handful of people want to bring the Roman Catholic church to justice for a long history of crime against humanity including rape, torture, and child molestation. I'm thinking "this isn't news, people have been protesting the catholic church and just religion in general for as long as I could remember." But some JWs refuse to look at that fact and prefer to pretend this is the first time it's happening...therefore, the end of false religion is coming SOON!! I personally would love to see the end of all religion including JWs, but I don't get all delusional and send pathetic e-mails of old news that I twist to fit my beliefs.
Anyway, here is the link they sent me via e-mail titled "The end of Babylon the Great....SOON?"
http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/catholic-changes-ka.php?utm_sou
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Anyone else have (or used to have) their DCs at Hawthorne Race Track in IL?
by outsmartthesystem inremember the gold cup room and the "barrel seats"?
boy....talk about brotherly love.
when i was a kid, i worked in food prep for our hall.
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Oh Wow!!! I had no idea so many people here are from the town I grew up in! Yeah I sure do remember Hawthorne racetrack, the horrible dreaded Whitesox stadium and Dekalb...all during the 90s. It was during my childhood/teenage years. Oh and those wonderful Gold Cup rooms and the comfortable red pivoting chairs! I got the privilage to sit there once. To think, everyone in this thread including myself were probably attending the same DC assemblies....all of us future "apostates" lost in the same crowd. Wish I would've known.
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A death in my family (JW funeral)
by fade_away infor the first time in my life i have lost someone close to me that i loved very much.
my brother died last week of an asthma attack.
i just got back from the funeral that was held yesterday.
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Thanks guys...Billy, you are so right in your last paragraph. Just like my brother did, I have to live life as it comes at me one day at a time and live it to it's fullest. I'm glad my brother enjoyed every minute of life before he left.
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A death in my family (JW funeral)
by fade_away infor the first time in my life i have lost someone close to me that i loved very much.
my brother died last week of an asthma attack.
i just got back from the funeral that was held yesterday.
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For the first time in my life I have lost someone close to me that I loved very much. My brother died last week of an asthma attack. I just got back from the funeral that was held yesterday. He died at 36. Even though he was an elder and the holiest saint of all of my parent's children, I got along with him so well! Him and I have SO many memories. He lived his life so well and had so much fun while he was here. We had play fights as kids and after growing up, we went to so many places and did so many things. He was absolutely the best human being I could imagine and I'm not just saying that cause he is my brother....everyone and I mean EVERYONE loved him! He had no enemies whatsoever! Everyone at the hall, everyone at his job, every JW and worldly man, woman and child loved him. That's because he was always a happy man with many jokes to tell and an amazing personality....always very selfless and a giving person. Always volunteering to help in anything he can. He was amazing enough to make his death especially tragic and extra painful to endure.
Since he was an elder, I knew I was in for a JW propaganda funeral. When I stepped foot in that funeral home and saw him lying there, I broke down and cried like I've never cried before. It was such a surreal feeling! I never imagined to see him in a coffin that young! I imagined this day in the distant future when he would be in his 70s, but not now. Soon, the JW sheep and sheep herders walked in and started their usual preaching/consoling of words. You know, the whole "He is only sleeping" and "We'll see him soon". Even as I write this my facebook JW friends are messaging me these Watchtower scripted condolences. One sister was taking pictures of everything and everyone telling me that maybe if these pictures and videos survive armageddon, we could show him when he resurrects so he can see how many people cared for him. Another brother who knows I am inactive told me "You know what you need to do if you want to see him again right?"
Then came the 30 min talk. It spoke of all his accomplishments in the cult...his service hours, his baptism, his status promotions from publisher to ministerial servant, to elder and all his public talks, and how the Bible speaks of death as a deep sleep that only God can wake him out of. I wanted to knock out the next person who told me that the day of his death is more important than his birth. That doesn't make me feel better. Another thing that bothered me was how people were more concerned about my beard than they were about my brother's death. I had to end up shaving the thing to avoid embarassing my parents. My mom was all concerned about my beard, sister so and so's skirt two inches above the knee, an "evil" pentecostal couple paying their respect, a worldly cousin wearing a cross on his neck and all this BS that had nothing to do with her son's death. Don't get me wrong, she was in tremendous pain, but it seems that no matter what the occasion is, there's always room for judgement.
All this was making me uncomfortable since I am leaning towards atheism. I know that the hope of resurrection and/or heavenly afterlife is just wishful thinking of primitive men to help them cope with the pain of losing a loved one. It's times like these I wish I believed in God because it would certainly numb the pain greatly! My dad whole heartedly believes he will see him again so even though he was sad, he didn't shed many tears. I envied his numbness. I was in real pain. I don't blame anyone for their delusional belief about a resurrection/afterlife. If it helps them cope with tragedy, why not? Now I wish I hadn't done so much reading on science and the origins of life and the nature of all things and the history of culture, religion, tradition, humanity and its psychology. It was all this reading that killed God for me. It proved he can't possibly be real. So far I have seen tons of proof that the Bible is a fairy tale book and no proof that it isn't. When the Bible is revealed to be false, God dies. The reason I wish I hadn't done so much logical and scientific reading is cause believing in God would reduce the pain of death. But what I learned can't be unlearned....unless you show me hardcore, undeniable proof that the Bible is entirely real and God does exist along with a future hope of resurrection. Proof without the whole "have faith" and "because the Bible says so" reasoning.
This thread is asking athiests what's the best way for us to deal with death? The afterlife and resurrection fantasies are nice wishful thinking, but the real world needs something just as comforting.