Posts by Nathan Natas

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Upset and Concerned!

by The Bethelite in

jw
friends

i'm very worried.

i just took out two slices of dave's killer bread out of the bag this morning, to make some toast.

i bought the bread almost 2 weeks ago.

Nathan Natas

The theological implications are STUNNING, aren't they?

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Why Did You Stay In The JW Religion As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

jw
friends

were you so indoctrinated that you just couldn’t leave?

was it due to family pressure?

was it your friendships that you didn’t want to lose?

Nathan Natas

Tenacious, how many apostates invaded you? Did you need larger pants after this, or a larger hat?

I'm just teasing you; I've had 47 apostates invade me, and it was EXQUISITE!

But seriously, thanks for sharing your experience. Isn't it funny how once we wake up we ask ourselves, "How could I have believed that?"

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Why Did You Stay In The JW Religion As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

jw
friends

were you so indoctrinated that you just couldn’t leave?

was it due to family pressure?

was it your friendships that you didn’t want to lose?

Nathan Natas

StephaneLaliberte said, "...What made me change my mind was the realization that a just God would judge the actions rather than the belief."

Here is something you might find interesting; I'm surprised this isn't more widely discussed.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/unsearchablerich/booksonwebsite/©CPC+Why+I+Believe+in+Universal+Reconciliation.pdf

If I ever decided that I wasn't an atheist (which is unlikely because I am SO intelligent), I would probably feel this was my best guess.

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Why Did You Stay In The JW Religion As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

jw
friends

were you so indoctrinated that you just couldn’t leave?

was it due to family pressure?

was it your friendships that you didn’t want to lose?

Nathan Natas

rickroll said, "...a There were few books from former members like Baker Schcnell 30 years a Tower slave."

I think you mean "30 Years a Watchtower Slave: The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah's Witness" by William J. Schnell.

GOOD NEWS! You can read it for (sort of) FREE here:

https://www.scribd.com/book/235006311/30-Years-a-Watchtower-Slave-The-Confessions-of-a-Converted-Jehovah-s-Witness

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Why Did You Stay In The JW Religion As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

jw
friends

were you so indoctrinated that you just couldn’t leave?

was it due to family pressure?

was it your friendships that you didn’t want to lose?

Nathan Natas

I stayed in because I was a child and depended on the wiz-dumb of my single mother to tell me how the world worked. I was baptized at 14.

I was compliant and obedient and massively naive. To this day I am almost shamefully gullible because I mistakenly assume that people usually tell the truth.

As my rational mind began to develop I began to detect the unmistakable aroma of bullshit... I had heard about the "gay boys" at Bethel from Howard Zenke (now dead), a member of the WTB&TS Service Department and the Overseer of the Sunnyside congregation in Queens, NY, and I knew about the gay hot tub scandal in the early 1970s that resulted in the dismissal of A LOT of "Bethelites," but it was when I learned of a pedophile in my congregation who was protected by the elder's committee that my "cosmic egg" shattered and I realized that righteousness in the WTB&TS was only another product of slogan engineering. This was in the late-mid-1970s, LONG before the pedophilia scandal broke nationwide.

I was in my mid-twenties when I walked away. I have not been disfellowshipped because I moved far away and few knew where I was, plus the elders who did know me were dying off. Maybe they'll disfellowship me when they are resurrected.

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The idiots Hollyweird destroys the Bond Franchise

by rockemsockem in

99% of the people who go to bond films want a straight white english bond with a bit of light sexism and some bond girls thrown in.

they do not want a tranny bond or a gay or lesbian bond.

and they do not want a black woman bond.

Nathan Natas

JeffT -

In my opinion Daniel Craig has been a very good Bond. If you have an opportunity on a cold rainy weekend, check out Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and Skyfall (2012).

Like many others, I have zero interest in a trans-species morphodite robot James Bond.

A Jane Bond, however, could be interesting IF she wasn't a "Tugboat Annie" Biker Dyke or an insatiable lipstick lesbian.

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Is there such a thing as true religion?

by Half banana in

“it is the only religion which doesn’t go to war.

we have friends in every country on earth and we all think alike---we have the true understanding of the bible.

we are the true religion which god approves………..” says the jw.. to put jws in the context of the question of true religion, we first have to get an insight into how a jw thinks and these points above are the selected criteria chosen by jws to judge themselves.

Nathan Natas

YES!

Atheism -- "the un-religion!"

Join us at your local Atheist Church! Services every Thursday from 2:16 to 2:18 PM!

Bring your own manna, please.

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What to do if you’re a billionaire religion and a city of your brothers are trapped by a landslide and starving....

by Diogenesister in

..........make a phone call.📞.

yes, that’s what the multi billion dollar corporation, watchtower, claimed they did in the 2019 convention.. devastating mudslides in rural myanmar left thousands of people cut off from food, water and medicine, many of them witnesses.. watchtowers solution?

fly in a helicopter of medics and engineers?