Posts by mummatron

http://www.smurfhappens.com/ they look like the avatar in miniature.. do you think this time around jws will be able to see it, or are they still considered demonised?

will there be a new generation of kids hearing about smurfs running out of kingdom halls, and will they be told about it by the overlapping generation?.

mummatron

The Smurf thing never happened in the UK. They were just used to advertise a brand of Petrol. oh and Father Abraham sang a stupid song with them. They were certainly never mentioned among the witnesses as demons!

Yeah, I certainly don't remember any furore amongst the dubs here in the UK either. As an elder's daughter I was allowed to watch it, only it was dubbed into Welsh: 'Y Smyrffs'.

I was also allowed to watch Care Bears. My mum wasn't so keen on me watching He-Man or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles though, which is daft considering there was far more violence in an episode of Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes.

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Eve and Her Daughters Whats wrong with this picture?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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eve and her daughters whats wrong with this picture?.

today i loaded to my blog a new article that shows a set of illustrations from one publication by watchtower that lead to a question.

my article is titled eve and her daughters whats wrong with this picture?

mummatron

They're fully clothed. In theory the daughters of Eve in paradise Earth should be perfect and free from sin and so shouldn't be ashamed of their nakedness. It's daft really but I guess the WTBTS was pandering to 1940's culture. Naked = bad, fully clothed = wholesome, modest.

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What's The Longest You've Been In A Relationship?

by minimus in

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and if you were dating someone "seriously", how long did that last?.

mummatron

Just over 6 years with my ex-husband (we were married for 3).

I have been with my current partner for 4 years now. He is my best friend.

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Love and Only Love will Endure - Hate is Everything you Think it Is - Listen

by flipper in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7gyqvqlxo&feature=related.

mummatron

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around - The Prime Minister in 'Love Actually'

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Who has NOT read Combatting Cult Mind Control or Crisis of Conscience?

by Mad Sweeney in

a lot of people here have read and highly recommend ccmc by steven hassan and coc by ray franz, myself included.

i don't know how i would have handled leaving the borg without that knowledge.. so thinking that got me to wondering, who here has not read them (or has read one but not the other), and how are you coping with exiting the borg?

did you get counseling?

mummatron

I've yet to read either of them. Although I've been mentally out for 12 years and physically out for almost as long, I think it would be beneficial for me to read CCMC as my early life as a born-in still affects me to some extent. I'm interested in reading CoC for the historical perspective. I prefer to read a traditional book made of paper rather than a .pdf. CoC is quite expensive on Amazon.co.uk, so I'll probably get CCMC first.

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It's could've damn you! COULD'VE!! Not "could of". Aaaaaaargh!

by nicolaou in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0cd2cocs.

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mummatron

Hahahaha! I remember this. I also love watching Mitchell & Webb in Peep Show.

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After leaving Jw's did you go into another religion or serv. god ur own way?

by average joe in

i am just curious if you guys left jw's and now worship in some other relgion or worship in your own way?

have you sworn off organized religion ?

if you have not sworn off organized religion then i wonder what relgion seems to be the right one for you guys?

mummatron

Not really. I got into Wicca for a while but I don't really like the idea of worshipping any deity. I try to live my life by following some Wiccan and Buddhist principles, 'good will to all, and harm to none' (law of 3/karma), respect for children, nature and animals, that kind of thing. I'm a pragmatic agnostic - you can't put a label to my faith but I'm open-minded and might accept something if sufficient evidence [scientific] were presented.

Last year I spent a month working at a Catholic school. Although I didn't get involved with any of the religious aspects of the school day, it certainly helped me to become more accepting of other Christian faiths - something that JWs aren't too good at practising.

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The Witchtower, Online Edition: How Can You Defend Against Immoral Offers?

by processor in

finally a new article (translated from the german "unser kurbisreichsdienst" 09/2008):.

http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2011/06/how-can-you-defend-against-immoral-offers/.

mummatron

No need for dung. Just wear trainers day-in, day-out for a few months. There's little more off-putting than smelly feet!

ROFLMAO @ Keren Happuch!!!!