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  Keys to understanding the Book of Revelation

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  · the whole book of revelation is one letter.. · that letter was to be taken by a courier and read out aloud in churches along a road that ran from ephesus to laodicea.

  the author was very familiar with each of the churches.. · those christians were experiencing intense persecution.. · the letter was designed to encourage these first-century christians to “overcome”.

  it told them that the end was imminent (“soon”) and they had to remain faithful, to the point of being prepared to losing their lives.. · john had gone to patmos in order to compose (“receive”) the message.

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  pale.emperor

  Great insight. Love reading posts like this.

  what is your take on Babylon the Great and her whoring herself to the governments and merchants?

  Thats a prophecy about my PIMO sister.
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

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  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Is this for real?

  I have found the 142nd Gilead Graduation on JW TV, but not the 143rd. Just wondering.

  George

  Unfortunately, yes, it's legit. I found it on one of Lloyd Evans' posts on Facebook. He had uploaded it onto some sort of Russian tube site. I imagine it'll be on JW Broadcasting soon.
  
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  Did You Know “Weird JWs” When You Were In The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  it could be argued that all jws are weird.

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  i’m referring to really weird odd witnesses.. most of the oddballs that i remember were elders..

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  pale.emperor

  When i was a JW i used to openly say "this religion attracts nutters".

  Here we go:

  • The never-married old sister who hated absolutely everyone and would answer the rhetorical questions the speaker would ask with a sarcastic answer. She never sat down. Always stood at the back of the hall with a HUGE magnifying glass because she refused to wear glasses and "it's the society, they're printing the words too small". Also refused to wear a hearing aid so she'd constantly shout at the sound desk brother during the meeting to turn the sound up.
  • The elder (COBE) who demanded every speaker on the platform to wear a white shirt. And kept a spare white shirt in the 2nd school in case, horror of horrors, a visiting speaker turned up in another coloured shirt. One visiting speaker refused to change his shirt and was actually told he couldn't give his talk. Only the CO was given leeway, and even then that was because we had a hard-ball ex-military CO one time that told him where to go.
  • The old lady that was disfellowshipped that wore WAY to much make up, had no teeth and would turn up to the KH with a broken old pram with a black plastic bag of rubbish (trash) in it. One time she turned up with two smashed porcelain dolls wrapped in rags.
  • The brother who was "anointed" even before the changes that came in that would have qualified him. He took his platform mic duties so seriously that one time he was in the toilet and a new speaker got up onto the platform, the speaker asked me if i could adjust his mic so i did. This brother stormed all the way up to me and said "dont you ever touch my microphone again!"
  • My ex girlfriends dad believed he was anointed. But sometimes he wasnt sure if he was. So sometimes he didnt partake of the emblems and other times he did. He also suffered from that illusive illness a lot of JW's seem to have... "M.S.". Yet still played cricket every Saturday evening and football with the brothers every Sunday as well as fulltime pioneering.
    
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Do you think the Bethel handlers have told them to sway and smile like that? If they're doing it naturally then it's quite creepy.

  The Asian sister in the front row is particularly enjoying it.
  
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88RstV6o
  
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  "The Satanic Panic!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this thread is inspired by the great thread pale.emperor recently featured here on the forum about the things our overzealous parents banned while we were young.. seth andrews (a former fundamentalist christian broadcaster - now host of 'the thinkingathiest') just released this great talk!

  so many things he speaks of will sound familiar!

  we were not the only strange religion it seems..... enjoy!.

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  I dabbled in Satanism for a good while after leaving. It's basically just atheism but with rituals to make a mockery of religion. What i think is funny is that by Watchtower standards my home should be filled to the brim with demons by now. Yet i've had not a single encounter, funny noise, doors opening on their own or anything... nothing, nada, zilch.

  From Feb 17-Oct 17 i've done the following things without anything bad happening:

  • Collected Hindu idols and displayed them in my home
    
  • Made a Ouija board and used it
  • Bought tarot cards and messed around with them

  Here's my friend Jasmine, a witch i met and befriended via North West Satanists:
  

  

  Last time i saw her she burned a bible and "cursed" Anthony Morris III
  

  I almost wish something would happen so i would have a reason to believe in the supernatural.
  
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  Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

  mine did.

  my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

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  Scully:

  Really got $h@t upon when I accepted a referral from my family doctor to see a specialist to treat severe post-partum depression. "Don't tell the shrink you're a Witness™ or he'll think we're all crazy!" "They'll get you to leave The Truth™!!" and the straw that broke the camel's back: "If you turn your back on The Truth™, your three beautiful children would be better off if you took them out in the back yard and blew their heads off with a gun. That way they won't go down with you at Armageddon™ and will be Resurrected™ in Paradise™."

  Scarey stuff, and not an isolated incident either. First off, depression seems to be part and parcel of being a JW these days. And more and more are taking herbal remedies to try and treat it rather than seeing a professional (my mum's cupboard was full or St.John's Wort). And as for this "blowing the kids heads off" thing. I've heard similar things like this before.

  How very... Jonestown.......................
  
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  Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

  mine did.

  my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

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  pale.emperor

  "Now That's What I call Music" albums as the artists looked worldly!

  WTF?!! haha!!

  Neighbours, Home & Away, Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Take The High Road, Eastenders

  My parents fluctuated on this. They'd ban them, then lift the ban when there was a major storyline, then get hooked again then the CO would come and it'd be banned again. I used to like Home & Away. I genuinely believed that there were no ugly people in Australia.
  
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  Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

  mine did.

  my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

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  Well wernt we all just weird little kids? Glad i wasn't the only one.

  I remember one time my older sister reported my Super Mario game to my parents because in one of the levels there's ghosts. That was the end of that game.

  This is what she was referring to:

  
  
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  Making real friends

  by KindEyes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hiya, firstly i’m new to this website, so sorry if this topic has been covered before.

  i have been out of “the truth” for almost one year.

  i live with my non-witness mother, have an amazing boyfriend, work and am in college.

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  pale.emperor

  I signed up to an art class that was held on Sunday evenings. Met lots of likeminded people there. Also, take a look on meetup.com and join groups there that have the same hobbies/interests as you. The majority of my friends came from there.