Posts by mynameislame

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How Do Cults Function, Interesting Article We Know Too Well.

by RottenRiley in

i thought this artice might be a good read for our friends on jwn, do you see any of the tactics used by the watchtower?

good day!.

..... cults, wonderful on the outside but on the inside are very manipulating.

2014 April Our Kingdom Ministry

by WatchTower87 in

2014 april our kingdom ministry.

pdf version : press next and download.

http://adf.ly/dr101.

mynameislame

So many reminders on how to behave at the convention.

Shouldn't the only true religion guided by God automatically be doing these things?

Just goes to show how so many of the things they do is for show and not an integral part of their personalities.

At least they remind the cheapOs to leave a tip although they don't say a tract is not a tip.

Here's a couple of my faves:

Please Follow Up (S-43) Forms: A Please Follow Up form should be used to provide information regarding any interest found through informal witnessing during the convention

music will begin at 9:20 a.m. all three days.

At that time, all of us should go to our seats so that the program can begin in a dignified manner

When the doors to the facility are opened each morning, please do not rush to the seating area of your preference as if competing with fellow attenders

International Conventions: Some areas will host international conventions. Keep in mind that the branch office has invited specific congregations and foreign delegates after carefully calculating the number of seats, parking spaces, and hotel rooms available.

Overcrowding may occur if publishers attend an international convention to which they have not been invited. If circumstances require you to attend a convention other than the one to which you are assigned, you should not choose an International convention

I say we all show up at an international convention, but instead of protesting we rush in and save hundreds of seats.

Then walk around looking slovenly all day with fake badges on.

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Inserting pictures from Flickr

by Etude in

can anyone provide steps for inserting a picture here from flickr?

i can get the image url from flickr but when i try to insert it here, it will not display.

as far as a i know, the image is set to public, but i'm not sure how to check.. thanks.. etude..

mynameislame

Etude, If you can't see my plant picture in my first post then I'm not sure what the problem is.

At least it does not sound like something you are doing wrong.

Here's the link to the actual picture you posted the link to above.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/12182510786_057a78af5e.jpg

Thanks Dis-member, it's my wife's plant and yes it is growing in just water.

Nice part is you can start it from just a single stem and in a short time have your whole house filled with them if you like.

In my case it is where I get replacments for the ones I plant in dirt then forget to water :-)

The picture was just me playing with HDR photograpy.

You take a dark and a light photo of the same thing and merge them (that was the only time I really ever attempted it but it came out quite nicely)

Here are the two originals.

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Argument with my Child "Why did I stay in the Organization so long?" Anger and Bitter Feelings.

by RottenRiley in

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last night my third oldest child wanted to know why we stayed in the organization so long.

child is a third year college student enjoying all the classes this "wicked system" has to offer, the insatiable appetite for learning makes him want to argue and debate, i don't have the energy to debate because i don't feel good with all life has thrown our way.. .

"the only reason i went to meetings so long was because grandma and grandpa needed somebody to take them to meetings and cobe aunt and uncle and secretary aunt and uncle refused to talk to grandma for years, otherwise i would have stopped attending the kingdom hall because the kids were assholes and i was always the one who had to make "first contact", "i was the one who had to go around and meet and greet newbies while the regular jw wall-flowers (calebs) ignored all the visitors and new persons visiting our kingdom hall.

mynameislame

He’s in college and average college age, I assume. Isn’t it his job to do a bit of rebelling at that age? That is exactly why the dubs don’t want you going to college in the first place. I’d pat him on the back and say, when your kids are in college you can come back and tell me what a great job you did. Until then just know I did the best I could with what I had. I don’t think you owe him any sort of an apology over and above that and you definitely don't need to feel guilty. He should feel lucky he got out in time to take control of his life.

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The music that moves you....

by FlyingHighNow in

once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.

he named each song after a person in our family.

this is the one he named heather.

mynameislame

No love for embeded videos for lame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwxUgefMStM

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Syncis....sounds like another MLM scheme

by whathehadas in

my sister who is 26 and a jw, recently quit her job to join this "company" that helps people invest for retirement.

she has a masters and was working in education.

now she's sold on syncis.

mynameislame

Looks like the one I stuck my toe in when I was a dub (Melaluca) is still around and doing resonably well. I remember liking at least a couple of the products. Don't think I ended up selling too much of the stuff.

Little did we know it was run by a Mormon. Wonder if that would have mattered?

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Syncis....sounds like another MLM scheme

by whathehadas in

my sister who is 26 and a jw, recently quit her job to join this "company" that helps people invest for retirement.

she has a masters and was working in education.

now she's sold on syncis.

mynameislame

Found one bad review

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Syncis/Select-StateProvince/Syncis-Inc-Commission-only-scam-Woodland-Hills-CA-California-1095161

Even the good reviews sound sketchy

http://www.trademarkia.com/syncis-85721266.html

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UN vs. The Vatican - Ex-JWs, are you sure?

by gold_C in

so about a few years ago, thanks to this site i became convinced that everything that the jws have been saying is a bunch of nonsense and that i shouldn't worry about it.

it gave me some comfort, since there are several things i disagree with when it comes to the way one has to live in order to be a witness.

however, this business with the un attacking the vatican seems a little too much like what the witnesses have been preaching about to simply ignore:.

mynameislame

When I was a JW i tried my best to be a good JW. I wasn't perfect but I know I was sincere. I got no help from Jah, the elders or anyone.

So I came to the conclusion that if the JWs were right and God wanted to kill me because I wasn't one of them then I didn't want any part of him anyway.

If the JWs are the one true religion then god is crazy and you are better off dead than living forever with that dysfunctional JW family.

That is what comforts me when I see some prediction of theirs that seems to have some validity.

Honestly I feel a stronger spiritual presence in my life after leaving the JWs and I'm not even a believer in god or at least the bible.

I am open to god leading me back to him but it will need to be a very spiritual experience.

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1914 - "A Turning Point In History"?

by Bobcat in

the february 2014 public wt has a cover series of articles dealing with world war i, and by inference 1914. the articles describe wwi as 'causing the world to be changed' and as "a turning point in history.".

setting the wt's defective 1914 chronology aside for a minute, how do these statements about wwi coincide with the view of the nt?.

certainly wwi was a big war.

mynameislame

I'm not directly affected by anything that happend in 1914 at least not any more than I am by other events in history. Of course 1914 has some sort of effect on us today but no more than any other historical event. 9-11 was the turning point in history for me. Maybe in a few years that will be the new light and it will be that generation where millions now living will never die.

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Marriage Consummation - emailed question has me stumped

by jwfacts in

i received an email from a jw that got married, but the wife never had sex with him.

they were together for a period of years.

he told the elders, but they said there was nothing that could be done.

mynameislame

I consider his situation a win win, rid of a cold wife and out of the cult.

If he wanted to stay he should have cheated for the legitimate divorce then repented after marying the new woman.

His wife was the one that wasn't giving her husband his due, no elder in the world would hold that against another man.

Although I knew a sister who's husband cheated on her and ended up getting remarried. She protested his being reinstated because she forgave him and that meant he was still scripturally married to her.

Not sure how that one ended up working out, he never came back to her but I don't know if he got reinstated or not.