Posts by Dunedain

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American accents, Bette Midler, Clinton, Rick Fearon, Strathclyde, Morningside

by slimboyfat in

i used to enjoy being able to distinguish different local accents, but for some reason i've got worse at it.

i was thinking about this today when i was listening to bette midler on the scottish radio.

i thought to myself i quite liked her accent and also that it reminded me of someone else.

Dunedain

Anywhere i go in America, and even outside the U.S., everyone can usually tell that I am from NYC/NJ area. I have, at least to the rest of the country, a distinct Brooklyn/Italian, NYC accent. Its a "localized" Staten Island/Brooklyn accent.

In fact, when i am in New Jersey, which is where i live now, New Jersey people can actually tell that i am from Staten Island NY. I sound different, and specific, to them, but to people from other parts of the country, I just sound like an Italian American from NYC.

Where i am from, Staten Island/Brooklyn, there is really no other group that sounds like us. We are distinct, NY accent, all by itself. It is, probably, do to an isolated population being "trapped" on a single "island", and one specific national group, Italian American.

In fact, even the Italians that came to NY, directly from Italy, and still speak mostly Italian, have their own Italian dialect. It is not spoken ANYWHERE else in the world, except Brooklyn/Staten Island. It is a mix of mostly Italian words, mixed with English "slang" words, and expressions, unique to NYC. One of my ex-girlfriends father spoke it. Italians coming directly from Italy, could NOT speak this form of Italian/English. It is just spoken by Italian speaking, "old timers", who have been in America/NYC, for years, but never fully learned English.

Now, back to my NYC/staten Island accent. To most New Yorkers, i actually have a very "mild" accent, but to the rest of the world, they know i am from NY when i speak.

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Beards

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i have a beard.

i spend a month on vacation with no worry from the congregation overseas of course.

i grew a full beard now and with glasses i finally have posted my picture on facebook og me... next to half life 2 cover showing i look like gordan freeman lol.

Dunedain

BTW, i LOVE my beard/go-tee. I have been rocking it since leaving the cult, and that was over 20 years ago. Interestingly, enough, i left the cult in my early 20's, so i did not even know if i could grow a beard, until i left for good, lol. Fortunately for me, i can, and i have been growing it since, not continuously of course.

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Beards

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i have a beard.

i spend a month on vacation with no worry from the congregation overseas of course.

i grew a full beard now and with glasses i finally have posted my picture on facebook og me... next to half life 2 cover showing i look like gordan freeman lol.

Dunedain

Do elders in Europe have beards? Thats interesting, i didnt know this.

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Boredom at the Kingdom Hall meetings

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

put aside all the stupid rules,beliefs,doctrines and practices of the jehovah's witnesses.this is one of the main reasons why i stopped attending all meetings!

boredom.

monotone speakers.

Dunedain

One of my oldest, and best friends, used to "navigate" the meetings PERFECTLY. His family came in the "truth" when he was very young. From the ages of 5 to 12 years old, him and his brother, would literally fall sound asleep right after the opening song, and snore all the way thru, until the closing song.

It didnt matter if they were sitting in the back row, or dead front, and center. They were out cold, snoring, and counting sheep, at EVERY meeting, including the CO visits, lol.

Needless to say, they were never considered spiritually "strong", and their Father, who was a great guy btw, was always looked down on, for not waking them up. He was probably smart enough to know, that it was "safer" for them to be sleeping, than awake, lol.

My friend who slept thru every meeting, is still to this day, 35 years later, one of my best friends. I havent talked to anyone else from my old Hall, except him, lol.

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Haha! New employee has one neighbor who's a "jerk." No surprise here

by stillin in

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the neighbor blows his leaves over onto my employee's yard, then denies it.

the neighbor's wife calls the police about anything and everything.. of course they're witnesses.

.

Dunedain

It makes sense, i mean most of the hardcore JW's i knew, were the biggest assholes EVER, so its only logical that they would make the worst neighbors too.

The problem with your average hard lined JW, is that they truly believe they are better than everyone else, and especially "worldly" people. They look at ALL non-JW's, as not even being "worthy" of common courtesies, or respect.

They have already pre-judged all worldly people, including their neighbors, as being bird food at armageddon, so why would they even care about their neighbors lawns, parking spots, children, or any common courtesy.

At work, JW's are usually the same way, too. They have no respect for fellow employees, and walk around with an "air" of superiority. Most of the times, they even will look down on their own employers, too, and just think of their work as a neccesarry evil, in this system. They will not give an extra minute, or bead of sweat, than they have to, and usually many JW's cant keep jobs too long. They will either become pioneers, work for other "brothers", or try to start some BS business.

The shame of all of this, is that the worst "witness" to the organisation, are the MEMBERS themselves. Most hard lined JW's do not even realize how their actions come across, and how ridiculously horrible the look to other people. They learn nothing about being a TRUE Christian, and applying the fruits of the spirit, to EVERYONE.

NOPE, instead, most JW's are weirdos, social misfits, who have NO business thinking they are better than anyone. They are one of the most uneducated, religious groups in America, yet they act like they are at the top of the food chain, but nothing could be further from the truth. They are indoctrinated, and living in a delusional world, that is full of unloving, weirdos.

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Does Jehovah Intervene - JW Teaching

by thedepressedsoul in

i have been a jw my whole life and i have never been able to get a clear answer on this question.

jw's do not believe that jehovah will intervene if someone is sick, dying or stopping a car crash.

they feel that jehovah is letting "this world" play out before he solves all of these problems.

Dunedain

I actually remember, about 10 years ago, there was a story on a show, i think? it was Dateline, and it was about a JW family. The story was following them during the families ordeal where one of the children had cancer. If i remember correctly, it didnt even focus that much on the "blood" issue. It was more about how a very religious family goes thru an ordeal like this one.

I remember, that the whole family, from Mother, Father, and a few children, including of course the child with cancer, were all in the "truth". They were a black family, from America, but i forget what state they were in.

Dateline? followed the family while they were getting diagnoses from doctors, getting care, preparations, and surgeries for the child with cancer, and all the while how their "faith" was involved, and affected during this ordeal.

The thing that stuck the most with me, and is the point of this post, was that the family during the "show" was CONSTANTLY praying to Jehovah for "help" for the child. The family was praying out loud to Jehovah, right before the child was getting her surgery. They were praying to Jehovah that he would "cure" the cancer, that he would fix the illness, and so on.

As the episode progressed, and i remember the JW child WAS eventually cured, and all treatments, and surgeries were successful, the family was ALWAYS thanking Jehovah, and praising Jehovah, out loud, and in front of the camera for all to see.

I found this very interesting because, you know, the GB had to be aware of this, and that a JW family was doing a very "public" TV show, and showing "sensitive" info for the world to see. So, this JW family was "allowed" to ask Jehovah to help/heal/fix their child, and get them thru the other side of the care, healthy and well. Also, that the GB even allowed the cameras, and the family to do this, was interesting. What if the child DID die. It would have REALLY painted a bad picture for the WTS's God, but the GB rolled the dice and "won" that one.

Does anyone else remember seeing this episode? Again, it was either Dateline, or definitely a show like Dateline.

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WTS Throws Hail Mary Pass with Major Paradigm Shift

by Socrateswannabe in

let me begin by stating that i have no insider information, this is merely my observation.

i believe that some time ago in watchtower land, somebody at hq posed these questions (probably an outside consultant because i don't think the gb is this hip): .

what would happen if we cut in half the average age of the responsible brothers in the organization?

Dunedain

If this is/was their game plan, well its doomed to fail. As others have said, they are having a HUGE problem finding younger "qualified" "brothers", to even pursue privileges, let alone become Elders.

The WTS is doomed. They are swirling the rim of the toilet, as we speak. The possible younger, intelligent, born ins, that would have been the perfect age NOW, to be stepping up and filling in all the needed positions, were kicked out, or DF'd YEARS ago, in the mid to late 90's.

The mid to late 90's, had a very hard lined, heavy handed, organisation. The WTS was told from the top, to "purge", and the numbers spoke volumes. Thousands of "born-in", from the 75 generation era, were reaching their teens, and early 20's, at that time, and they were DF'd by the thousands. In thru the front door, and out by JC, thru the back door.

The BORG, is suffering NOW, for their FAILED policies of intolerance, and lack of forgiveness, to their own members children. The potential "cream" was pushed out, and have never looked back. The ORG was left with the, bitter, older parents of these DF'd children, and a whole missing generation of potential.

Many of us here, on this board, right now, were "victims" of the harsh, judgemental, policies of those days. Looking back, they DID us all a favor, for sure, but it was still very hurtful. The WTS, is now 20 years removed from that, and have been in decline, since then. We are now witnessing, its end.

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New TV gadget

by Dagney in

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friends

so today i did it.

i cut my dish network programming to basic....$20 a month ty very much.

instead i have $60 streaming device that gives me everything i need.

Dunedain

This sounds similar to NetFlix in the U.S. Netflix has a ton of movies too, including hard to find ones, and even some original series, also. I got NetFlix because my cable bill is $250.00 bucks a month, U.S.. Thats with the phone, computer service, and literally EVERY channel imagineable, but its so expensive.

Anyway, i figured i would try NetFlix to see if it would be "good enough", and i wouldnt need to spend so much on cable. Well, now i have NetFlix, AND still kept my cable, lol. I guess when you got a 70 inch Sony flat screen, you have to have EVERY channel, or at least, i do, lol.

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Battle over contamination at Watchtower site in Warwick

by OrphanCrow in

http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.

battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.

by hema easley .

Dunedain

I dont understand what kind of money they could possibly be sueing for? Didnt it cost exactly NOTHING when Jehovah, magically waved his hand and cleaned the property from all its contaminents? That is what happened, right? Why would the WTS have to pay anything to clean it, didnt they just pray to Jehovah for that, OH WAIT, why didnt they just pray to Jehovah that they didnt but contaminated land, in the first place?

Something is not adding up here. . . . . . . . .

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"And Your Little Dog Too...." WTS not content with taking kids' ice cream money, now they want them to give up their puppy dogs too.

by sir82 in

don't know if anyone else caught this subtle but malicious photo from the 12/13/15 wt study article.. not sure how to post pictures here, but the photo is on the website's copy of the article, just below paragraph 12:.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20151015/give-us-more-faith/.

note the 3 pictures in sequence tell a "story":.

Dunedain

You all are missing the point. Its not that they are losing a dog. The loving GB is showing how the family will GAIN pet roaches, poisonous snakes, bot flies in their skin, all manner of stomach worms, such as tape and roundworm. Dad, and son, will gain little pet fishes that will swim up the urethras in their penises. Dont forget lice for EVERY family member, and the mosquitoes, oh the mosquitoes!

The mosquitoes will bring the joys of malaria, and yellow fever. Please, also, let us not forget that the family will gain all forms of bacterias too. From flesh eating, to intestinal bacteria, they will keep you busier than any old pet dog would.

Then brothers and sisters, if you are just blessed enough by Jehovah, on a preaching run with the family, deep into the jungle where few have gone, you may receive the best pet of all. Thats right, you could just gain a predatory jungle cat, both exotic, and terrifying. And, if you are lucky enough, it may just eat one of your children.

Do you see how Jehovah blesses those who sacrifice for him. No brothers, you are not losing a dog, you are gainin g SOOO MUCH MORE.