Posts by pale.emperor

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What was your favorite video game?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i've never been that big on video/computer games but i used to have a ps2 and my absolute fav game was star wars battlefront ii, released by pandemic in 2005.. you could choose to play as three different classes of soldier and fight for the rebels, the imperials, the republic or the battle droids.

as you played and gained points by killing the enemy, you could unlock a fourth and fifth class of soldier.

you could also play as a hero or villain - such as darth vader, luke skywalker, princess leia, etc.. there was something absolutely awesome playing as darth vader and cutting down or force-choking rebel soldiers on the tantive iv.. .

pale.emperor

Golden Eye on the N64 was awesome. I remember buying it in secret and having to play it with the volume on very low or no volume at all.

Red Dead Redemption. A free roaming Wild West game. I've yet to play the second installment of this as I no longer own a console.

Grand Theft Auto IV. A game my ex-brother in law and I enjoyed while still JWs and used to help eachother out on certain bits but never mentioned it to the brothers in the congregation. I remember even my then-wife used to enjoy going with the hookers then beating them up and taking the money back!

Civilization 4. You start as stone age people on a patch of land then gradually the map grows and your society evolves into modern day. Depending on the choices you make depends on the politics you end up. I once ended up with Facism! (Well, I learned from the best I guess?)

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Hypocritical Tyndale video

by neat blue dog in

at a recent midweek meeting, a short documentary about translator william tyndale was shown.

it begins with this statement about his death:.

"his crime?

pale.emperor

I remember the unofficial idea that Tyndale was, essentially, a Jehovah's Witness. I think in actual fact, he'd distance himself from Watchtower... to put it mildly.

That has been said at meetings, but then say that because they are under law it can not be done.

Yes, there was always some "comedian" JW in the audience who'd comment about wishing they could stone us to death or something.

41

Creepy display

by neat blue dog in

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i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..

pale.emperor

Stephen King got nothing on Watchtower.

18

The Evolution Of The Watchtower Cult

by pale.emperor in

since waking up from the cult i've been curious about where the cult is going and how will it end up?

will it fizzle out or become a little fringe "religion" like plymouth bretheren or the shakers?.

we've already seen the cult evolve from:.

pale.emperor

Since waking up from the cult I've been curious about where the cult is going and how will it end up? Will it fizzle out or become a little fringe "religion" like Plymouth Bretheren or the Shakers?

We've already seen the cult evolve from:

CT Russell being the faithful and discreet slave
Worshiping Jesus and Jehovah
Vaccines discourages, blood transfusions lauded
Rutherford being the faithful and discreet slave
Worshiping only Jehovah
Blood transfusions banned, vaccines lauded
Blood transfusions revised to "fractions" and a conscience matter
The 144,000 being the faithful and discreet slave
Armageddon before 2000
Armageddon within an overlapping generation
The governing body being the faithful and discreet slave
The governing body helpers being around to run the show when the GB are "in heaven"

Of course, these are all passed off as "refinements" or "revised understandings" but really what we're seeing is a "religion" that doesnt know it's ass from it's elbow reacting to the times.

My personal prediction is that we'll see another splinter. Either some GB members will start their own cult or when the GB are dead and the GB helpers get to run things they'll blame the old failings on the current GB of Lett, Morriss and Co.

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What happens to Bethelites?

by rickroll in

so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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pale.emperor

In the 70s - 90s there was a celebrity couple that the entire circuit fawned over because they were missionaries in Thailand and slaved over there since the early 80s. The guys sister was in my congregation so they visited once a year.

Now that they're in their early 70s they've unceremoniously been removed from Thailand and are "normal" members of the congregation. No more fawning, no more special attention. It's a good thing this is the UK and they get a pension. But that's it. No savings, no nest egg, no insurance. I see them on the carts every now and then holding magazines for no one to take.

Very sad in deed. What a waste of a life.

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PIMO Elder with a Dilemma

by xjwsrock in

i haven’t been on here in awhile and this is my second user name because i was busted by my pimi wife on the first one.

i have been basically awake since 2013. i have a super dub wife that i love and don’t want to lose and my sick mom in the hall that is a true believer.

stupid religion has gotten between my wife and i (of course).

pale.emperor

I always think if I knew 3 years ago what I know now I'd simply take a long vacation with my wife. 2-4 weeks. Away from meetings and literature. Away from the cult meetings and propaganda the mind gets time to think. 3 weeks in say I'm not going anymore and simply say I'm going to live a good life and be the best person I can be and be kind to all - can anyone fault you on that?

But yh, as others have said, dont give them the power. Leave on your own terms mate.

50

Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

by Chook in

every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

pale.emperor

I used to put my real hours on there until I was about 20 years old but then one Thursday evening a "local needs" talk was given in which the asshole elder read out a report slip "from young one" that was 4 hours then said a 70yo member of the congregation reported 40 hours. It was a shaming talk.

From then on my report slip was a work of art. Always 10+ hours a month, about 7 books placed, 20-30 mags and 4 return visits or thereabout. I did that for about 10 years!

It was a tissue of lies. And that's just mine. How many others around the world were/are doing that? The boasting reports from Bethel are meaningless.

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Role Call, Number of Family Members Who Have Shunned You!

by The Bethelite in

jw
friends

just one left, my sister.

i haven't talk to her in over 15 years.

the rest are all dead.. i'm not counting my ex wife and all her family.... .

pale.emperor

I'm shunned by:

1 parent (my mother, father died 15 years ago)

2 sisters

3 brothers in law

1 sister in law

4 neices

1 nephew

3 uncles

3 aunts

3 cousins

That's all the family I have. My overly-zealous parents cut off all non-JW family before I was born.

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Unique JW Phrases 101

by Solzhenitsyn in

what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

pale.emperor

Honest hearted ones... someone who doesn’t fact check and just accepts what they’re told.

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Another Doctrinal Flip-Flop As Of Oct 2019 - RE: Locusts In Joel 2

by pale.emperor in

it's seems that even the revised edition of the book revelation: it's grand climax a hand was wrong again.. in the 2019 agm david splane "clarified our understanding of the prophecy recorded in joel 2".

clarified?

you mean he done a 180 reversal.. from revelation: it's grand climax a hand page 143, para.

pale.emperor

It's very easy to attach meaning to anything that happens. Hell, I could read Revelation and attach personal life events to each chapter "symbolically".