Posts by mynameislame

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The difference in JWs in the cult

by mickbobcat in

i have been in several congregations over the years.

the hypocrisy was staggering.

so many of these idiots were fake jws.some were strict followers and were as annoying as could be.

mynameislame

I can think of a couple reasons to be a half assed JW.

PIMI family that you aren't willing to lose.

Cheap semi-honest laborers.

Saving money on Holidays.

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

mynameislame

You'll never convince me that there isn't something going on against black people.

I still remember and evening I was out with a family of black friends. We were leaving a convenience store and got pulled over for 110% nothing. That is unless you consider driving too carefully to be a problem. This dude literally was driving like a 70 year old man. The police didn't even offer up a pretense of why they pulled him over.

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Why Do People Loot and Destroy When Someone Gets Shot?

by minimus in

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friends

someone gets shot and or killed and hundreds of people decide to loot and destroy businesses or whatever else is in their path.

what does this do to make things better?

i really don’t get how they think it makes things better or solves anything..

mynameislame

It wouldn't bug me so much except they seem to be doing it to people from their own neighborhoods.

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Do You Tip At Eateries?

by minimus in

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friends

if you go to a restaurant, do you tip and typically how much?

if you were given a 90 minute time frame to eat at a restaurant, would that restriction limit your tipping to the waitress or waiter?.

also if you order a coffee and donut and pick it up, do you contribute to the “tip jar” that’s on the counter?

mynameislame

True Story.

One time I went out with about 10 of my rowdiest friends where we drank and ate like kings. Our well off friend offered to pay the bill (we all drank to that). As we were about to drive off from the restaurant the waitress came out and exclaimed: "Thanks for the great tip!". All of us turned to our friend and asked "WOW, how much did you leave her!". His reply: "I didn't leave anything. I paid the bill you guys were supposed to leave the tip"

Needless to say we went back in and gave her what was likely the best tip of the night.

She thanked us for restoring her faith in humanity.

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Sincere Jehovah’s Witnesses vs. Insincere Jehovah’s Witnesses

by minimus in

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friends

as far as i know, sincere jws are always welcomed here.

even though this site is not pro jw , if someone wants to ask a question or try to understand a point of view, there are many here who over the years have tried to help sincere witnesses.

if i believe someone is here just trying to push buttons, i will either ignore them or actually question their motives.

mynameislame

Whatever the reason they are here it's a chance to help them wake up. If they are here I assume they have questions, even if they go about asking them in a somewhat unorthodox method.

I would never have purposely come to a site like this when I was a JW. I would have been one of the button pushers if I did. Instead I spouted my BS in some agnostics chat room where I got schooled. No doubt it was because most of them had read something other than the Creation book to back up their claims. I chose the agnostics because you could have a discussion where the atheists seemed just about as dogmatic as the JWs which turned me off.

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How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

by pistolpete in

remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

mynameislame

When I saw the children's version of the story of Sampson, it dawned on me that the story is really best suited to a comic book. The drawing of Sampson running up a hill with the city gates stuck to his shoulders really hit that home.

That was a while after leaving though. When I was in I didn't really give much thought to whether or not things made sense. I also feel like my reading comprehension went way up after leaving.

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2021-March-20--Zoom Guidelines for Meeting Assignments!

by Atlantis in

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friends

zoom guidelines for meeting assignments.. 2021-march 20.. .

meeting attendant--page 2. .

5. at around 25 minutes into the meeting take an attendance count.

mynameislame

That seems to use a specific person's name several times. Is that going to possibly get someone in trouble that isn't ready to be in trouble?

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Do You Tip At Eateries?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if you go to a restaurant, do you tip and typically how much?

if you were given a 90 minute time frame to eat at a restaurant, would that restriction limit your tipping to the waitress or waiter?.

also if you order a coffee and donut and pick it up, do you contribute to the “tip jar” that’s on the counter?

mynameislame

I think a lot Europeans tend to look cheap when tipping in the US When I was there the tip was pretty much rounding up the check. So having to give someone doing their job 20% to do it doesn't make sense.

I hate tip jars at fast food places. They aren't doing anything but putting stuff in a bag. Usually I still tip depending on my mood.

Pretty much 20%+ for reasonable service or better at a restaurant. A time limit probably wouldn't change that.

I've left low or no tips a couple times for terrible service.

i.e. nobody came and asked if I needed anything, I had to get up and go get something for myself.

Usually this happens at the type of place where they split jobs. Someone takes your order and someone else brings it. I tend to tip lower at those types of places in general because I don't know who I'm actually tipping.

I try to leave tips in cash when I have it.

One place I frequent told me that the bartender gets tipped on your drinks whether or not the wait staff got tipped. So a zero tip might cost your waitperson some money.

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Wanting articles on statistics for the incidence of csa between the Catholic Church and JW

by joe134cd in

had an ultra jw relative say to me the there are only a few examples of csa in the jws.

the catholics are significantly worse.

i’m after statistical information that proves him wrong.