I think when one of my parents (for whom I have absolutely NO feelings) dies, I will go to the "memorial service" (Why the hell can't they say funeral?) for three reasons: 1. To comfort my brother and sister. 2. To show them what TRUE love really is. 3. You never know if you might get a chance to plant some anti-Witness seeds.
Wolfgirl
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Would you go to a funeral at the Kingdom Hall?
by Dustin inso my brother and i have been having talks about what will happen when our dad passes away eventually.
most of his brothers and sisters have died in their 50's or early 60's.
i flat out refuse to attend any part of the service that would be done at the kingdom hall.
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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They have no choice. They're all boring.
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Longtime JWs: Can you recall the path of JW doubts throughout your life?
by ithinkisee inhave any of you who were ever "raised in the truth" really traced your doubts back to as early as you remember?
i would be interested in hearing what they were.. i started tracing my path of doubts.
doubts as a child:.
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Being interested in wildlife and archaeology caused some niggling doubts in my mind. Like why were predators created with sharp teeth if they originally ate vegetation? Or what was the purpose of dinosaurs? Why would God create them and then allow them to become extinct? No one could explain that one, although one person tried. He said that somehow the dinosaurs helped get the earth ready for us. *rolls eyes* I thought, "If God is all-powerful, why would he need dinosaurs to do it? He could just THINK it, and it would be right."
I could parrot the Society's explanation for not celebrating birthdays, but it never made sense to me. I thought, "Bad things happened at the only 2 birthday celebrations in the Bible. So what? Bad things happened when a woman tried to help someone she thought was sick, and she got raped by him. Does that mean we shouldn't help someone who is sick?"
Everyone knew that a friend of mine at our hall was being abused by her husband. The elders knew it, and his only punishment was not being allowed to serve as a MS anymore, and they even said he was stepping down for health reasons. He continued to hit her, and no one did anything. All 3 of her kids left the "truth" because of him, and somehow she got looked down on.
Being told by the elders that I should stay with my abusive husband; that I didn't have Scriptural reason for a divorce. Being told that they could do nothing to him because there weren't two witnesses. Um...yeah, what kind of abuser rapes someone in front of an audience?
The elders telling my father that he did not have to step down as an elder when he admitted to sexually abusing me and lying about it for 25+ years. They told him he could still be an elder because it had happened so long ago, and supposedly only before he became a Witness. Never mind that he did it and lied about it all that time. That's OK. He could continue to give talks about how to be a good father. *gag* (He stepped down anyway.)
When I had genuine questions post-DF, and wrote a letter to the elders in my congregation asking them these questions, things that turned out to be doctrinal faults, they refused to answer me. This despite telling me that if I ever wanted help, to contact them, and despite me saying that my decision on whether to try to get reinstated depended on their answers. I waited for ages for a response, and pestered my sister and mother into asking them about it. They told my sister that I "sounded argumentative" and so they were not going to answer. So I had to go looking for answers elsewhere.
My long-DF'd aunt found me online, and directed me to this site, pointing out the UN info specifically. That was when I was 100% certain I would never return.
There are other things that my husband (athiest) showed me, and finally seeing through all the crap to realise all the prophecies they had made that hadn't come true showed them to be a false prophet, that made me certain I had made the right choice. -
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How can one poison a goldfish?
by slimboyfat in.
...with inconspicuous amounts of a household substance?
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Why would you want to? That's sick. If you're asking how a goldfish could have died without any obvious signs of distress, I could tell you. But I'm not going to help you kill a living being, however small, if that is your intention.
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Explosions London Buses & Trains
by Crumpet ini can';t get through to any of my friends at liverpool street including my ex.
am really worried!
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Wolfgirl
My husband left the station 5 minutes before the explosion. He sent me a text message before I even knew anything had happened, so luckily I didn't have to experience the panic. He was very lucky. Of course, none of my JW relatives have called or emailed me to see if he is OK. All my non-JW relatives and non-JW friends did, though. "By their fruits you will know them."
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MY ADVENTURE AT THE ASSEMBLY......
by Mary into start my day with: as i was walking down the street towards hell the assembly, i went to cross halfway across the road when a cheese and cracker brother told me that i should "cross at the light so that others can see that jehovah's people are law abiding citizens.
stick my lapel badge up his ass sideways make a good impression so i waited until he was distracted by other jaywalkers and then dashed across the road complied with his suggestion.
once in the building i managed to find a seat next to a guy who looked remarkably like fat bastard was a bit on the plump side.
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Wolfgirl
That was really funny...thanks for the giggles! :)
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silly ? for Brits
by carla inwhy on the decorating shows from the uk do they not use paint rollers?
they often show them painting an entire room with small brushes.
just curious.
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Wolfgirl
I dunno which program you were watching, but I see people using rollers all the time on DIY shows. :)
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Name Some Trivial Things That Are Big Deals To JWs
by minimus inso many things come to mind to show how silly jws sound in reality.
for example, being allowed to pass the microphones is a big deal, especially to a young brother.
or being given the "privilege" of cutting the grass or working on a "quick-build" is really something special to a jw.
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Whether or not the slit in my floor-length, hide-any-hint-that-I-have-legs skirt is above my knee or not.
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Music that debases
by katiekitten inwhich albums did you throw out after that landmark talk at an assembly round about the mid 80's?.
i got rid of:.
elo (widely regarded as having back tracking on one song).
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My father never made any sense. I bought an En Vogue CD, and he told me I had to get rid of it because they looked like "prostitutes from the 20s", but he himself bought me a Mariah Carey tape where she was wearing a low-cut micro-mini. *shrugs* Oh, and my mother made me get rid of Enya stuff coz she said she was a witch. Our music was tightly monitored, so I only had tame stuff.
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What is the dumbest reason you where taken to the back room?
by skyman inmine was for giving a sister that i grew up with the watchtower that dealt with birthdays being on the same level as anniversaries.
she quit going because she could not understand the societies position on birthday's.
the elders were mad because i knew how she would react and they thought i did this to cause problems.
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Wolfgirl
For picking a piece of lint off the shoulder of my best friend (male). Was told it was inappropriate touching, and it was flirting. Apparently some elders' wives were pissed at me because I have bedroom eyes. *rolls bedroom eyes* Seems they felt their husbands were "distracted". So this is my problem? I wasn't interested in any of them. Can I help it if they weren't happy at home? Hee-hee!