Even Jesus wasn't born wearing magical underwear - he wasn't a Mormon after all.
Seriously, it's quite telling that violence is considered more acceptable than a nude human, or a couple having consensual sex.
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Films with nudity
by neat blue dog ini guess every jw has a different conscience on the matter, and i don't believe any jw publications have ever specifically mentioned nudity in film as being off limits.
of course genitals are out of the question because that's usually relegated to r movies which most good jws don't view.
female toplessness is condoned but not spoken about, as most jws i know have seen titanic and many own it.
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It's My Birthday Today
by pale.emperor intoday is my 34th birthday.
or, my 3rd birthday that i've actually acknowledged seeing as i was raised in the cult.. i woke up this morning to my 4yo running into my room and wishing me a "happy birthday daddy!".
i got a card from my ex-jw brother and i bought myself a birthday gift - a new 50mm lens for my nikon camera (photography is a hobby i took up since leaving the cult).. i dont know about you guys, but birthdays is still something i have to make a conscious effort to acknowledge and enjoy.
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amiable atheist
Happy Birthday to you, P.E!!
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How do you determine whether any religion is good or bad since...
by TerryWalstrom inso, yesterday whilst playing chess i had a discussion ranging widely topically in which my chess opponent asked me, "how do you determine whether any religion is good or bad since there is so much basic disagreement on interpretations of text?
"i replied this way:"does this particular god need to be treated like an adult, or as a spoiled child with a churlish temper?
that's a good place to start.
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amiable atheist
TerryWalstrom -- That's a good point: Being a perfect human according to the bible doesn't imply the ability to discern the concepts of Good and Evil, after all.
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Tag teams of Cart Sitters
by days of future passed inone sunday, we took our dad out for lunch.
since it didn't open till 12:00, we were going to have to kill time.
this restaurant is situated with other businesses around a small park and when we parked, we noticed there was a cart to the right in the park.
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pale.emperor — Just standing there holding a magazine to their chests cover facing.
That's "Old School" Street-Ministry. In the 60ies and 70ies we did it this way. As a kid I always tried out, how many magazines I could fan out without dropping them.
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Tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
by StephaneLaliberte ini just watched the movie apostacy and thereby, visited an ancient feeling of mine.
there were various moments where you could tell that the mother and even the “faithful” daughter were bottled up inside with many thoughts and feelings left unsaid.
their basic, normal, human morality immediately tells them that the proper way to act is not that of the wt.
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And get them when they're young. The "Caleb & Sophia" videos are the epitome of FOG BITE.
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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction
by George One Time inon tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.
he mentions health and viewing pornography.
those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.
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amiable atheist
"Those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply." Which of course, translated into JW logic means: If you don't apply for special assignments, you are obviously a drooling porn addict. -- LMAO
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Oh the irony!!!
by stuckinarut2 injust wanted to share this funny thing.. so we have just been invited to a neighborhood xmas party to be held in the house of a lovely couple around the corner from us.. they bought the house a short time back from a jw who built it and lived there!.
so, we get to enjoy one of our first xmas parties as a couple, in the former house of a jw!.
now, that made me giggle.....
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amiable atheist
@neat blue dog -- If someone is mentally in a destructive cult, they cannot help devaluating everything that's not cult-leader approved. Sad, pitiful, pathetic guys.
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Elders' new direction.
by lastmanstanding inthere's been a change.
a rather big one.
and the kevin bunkers of the world beware.. jw elders no longer need to "turn the other cheek".. in the governing bastard's desperation, they have given a new directive to elders.
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They should extend that -- not so very -- new rule to JW children, who are bullied at school, and allow them to defend themselves if they are physically attacked. But that's never gonna happen; for them it's apparently better to feel miserable and rejoice being beaten up, thus getting accustomed to surrender as a preparation for being used and abused in the future as the organisation sees fit.
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Did they mean to say the F word here?
by ILoveTTATT2 inthis is from the golden age, august 5, 1931. it is related to an article denouncing the entire medical profession.
i wonder if they meant to say the f word but didn´t dare to.. fudge!.
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amiable atheist
There's a typo in this Golden Age snippet. The LEFT-DOUBLE-TOP-QUOTATION-MARK is missing before:
children of the Sun
It should rather read:
[...] These readers know the truth about the politicians, who also descended from the same line of “children of God” or “children of the Sun” [...]Typos are extremely rare in Watchtower literature. So, I chime in with Jhine, asking -- Is it verified and correct?
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The paranormal.
by Lost in the fog ini know that a lot of the people on here have turned their backs on the idea of a deity deciding that god does not exist.
but what about the unseen spirit world generally such as poltergeists, jinns, voodoo, etc.
if you have become agnostic, atheist, or just don't care since leaving, do you think that there are spirits out there or have you decided that is also hokum?
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Ex-JW Annoni Mowse on "Superstition, Demons & Jehovah's Witnesses"