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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  iwantoutnow

  Tell you all you need to know about the odious man in orange that he would attack a child who is just speaking out about a completely obvious existential threat to our civilization.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

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  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  Muddy Waters -

  My spiritual “high” of being “invited” to be on an assembly part

  That is part of the strategy in general.

  I knew the WT was a cult, and that the bible is crap, but I was giving the top DC talks, elders school talks, the Memorials, Funeral, yada yada yada.

  Being a great motivational speaker (though I completely morphed my talks to be about love as much as possible), kept me in longer than I should have been.

  It's like Crack, you get hooked, and kept in line to do what ever the WT asks.

  
  
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  OMG!!!!!

  How many times did we hear "a friend of a friend" has this occasion happen to them where a JW woman called on a rapists door but he left her alone because he (allegedly) saw "two big men standing with her" who were "obviously" angels?

  MY FATHERINLAW ELDER told this OVER AND OVER!
  

  I would ask him - so how did the sisters find out he was a Rapist?

  And did the Rapist tell the Police - oh there were these 2 women at my door but I DID NOT Rape them cuz there were 2 men next to them?
  

  Did the Rapist confess to OTHER things he NEVER DID?
  

  "Oh officer one day I went to the bank and I did not Rob it because the money was in a safe"

  SO FUCKING INSANE!!!!

  
  
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  punkofnice- it actually NEVER HAPPENED.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  How about how Johnny Carson had John Denver on who said something bad about JWs and then Carson said you dont like JWs - well my camera man is one, and this guy is one and this guy is one, and told Denver to leave.

  What do you expect I guess when you grow up believing in a bad fairytale and the power of the GB.
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  Mathematical Challenges to Darwinism

  by Sea Breeze in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=678&v=noj4phmt9oe&feature=emb_logo.

  these scientists all seem to agree that the traditional view darwinism cannot possibly be true.

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  iwantoutnow

  How do you say it - TotalBullshit.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  Every hear the one about a Kid skipping a evening meeting playing sick - and instead went out (to do something unchristian of course) and then getting into a car accident.

  He hit his parents car - and depending on who tells it - the kid dies - or the parents do.

  See you should always go to meetings.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  iwantoutnow

  MY "Experience" BS Detector woke up before I did.

  I know of MANY assembly and yearbook experiences that were ALL BS.

  I even experienced it myself.

  I have given many District Assembly Talks, and my last one had an interview about "coming into the truth" (i cringe using that word.

  So I had someone I studied with who had a "great" experience that fit perfectly into the instructions.

  I had to send the CO the experience as it would be spoken for pre approval. (there was a rehearsal snafu).

  The CO called me up and ordered me to make changes to this person's REAL experience.

  He wanted things cut out and things added, and I was told, this is the way it needs to be.

  The "brother" was so saddened when I told him. I let him know if he didnt want to do it, it was fine with me.

  He wound up doing up, but on Stage with 4K people watching, he was as animated and excited as a stalk of celery. And I didnt blame him one bit.
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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  iwantoutnow

  Iownmylife - that was not the experience in any hall I went to.

  Sisters did the bulk of the answering.

  Elders would always be talking about how to get brothers to answer more, including Elders.

  The sisters walk a fine line between getting in trouble for not answering enough, or at all, and getting in trouble for answering too much.
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  What if .... some thoughts

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
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  ok, to start, i no longer believe the scriptures are inspired.

  may be some writers were influenced but that does not mean all what they wrote was correct.

  does this mean there is no creator?

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  iwantoutnow

  We should always be vigilant of trading ONE FAIRYTALE for a NEW FAIRYTALE because we need to explain the unexplainable.