NotFormer
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The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
by nicolaou inhttps://youtu.be/on-y9pv-cja?si=lr1dar4yshvymk7a.
just a song i really like.
it don't mean nothin' .
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Discouraging JWs From Calling
by NotFormer ini was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
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NotFormer
Scully, an actual teacher acting that way towards a ten year old girl?? What the actual...? 😳😱😡
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Discouraging JWs From Calling
by NotFormer ini was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
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NotFormer
"I remember in my early teens a man answered his door holding a frying pan with his breakfast in it, it was on fire" 🔥
😳 How did you and your offsider react to that? Did you say something like: "I can see you're busy with other things. We'll call back another time".
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Discouraging JWs From Calling
by NotFormer ini was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
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NotFormer
These are all very good answers.
I'm not actually trying to discourage them from coming to my door. The posters on Reddit believed that their over the top theatrics were capable of frightening various religious door-knockers away.
The question isn't really asking advice about keeping them away. I only have to open my mouth and they'll usually scarper 😁. (Although admittedly the last time I wasn't feeling it and politely said "No thanks" and closed the door slowly.)
It's more: did anything the householder did to try and frighten you away actually frighten you away? For example (from the Reddit post), you knock on the door and it is answered by someone pretending that they are about to offer up a black mass and you are their sacrifice. Do you freak out or do you roll your eyes and bid them a good day as you walk calmly away*?
I'm genuinely interested in how centred you all were when you were in. I doubt that any exes here were frightened bunnies who fled at the mere mention of the word "Wiccan". Or that someone in minimal clothing would freak you out.
Didn't you used to have meetings where you would roleplay various scenarios for practice? Did they cover difficult contacts and people who were obviously trolling?
*Obviously if they're wielding a knife in a threatening manner, it's different than if someone is just trying to trigger you with BS that they think must scare you.
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Why are the Governing Body Members always in-house New York Bethel members?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | february 2024.
''we are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: brothers gage fleegle and jeffrey winder.
both brothers are anointed christians who have a long history of loyal service to jehovah.
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NotFormer
https://youtu.be/o0OW8RZc8i4?si=nUJN8LnFq0YfcFfv
Fleegle bringing the meeting to order 🙄
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The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
by nicolaou inhttps://youtu.be/on-y9pv-cja?si=lr1dar4yshvymk7a.
just a song i really like.
it don't mean nothin' .
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Discouraging JWs From Calling
by NotFormer ini was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
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NotFormer
I was reading an anti cult Reddit post where a woman (ex Mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the Mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back. A few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.) which they claimed would have the Mormons and JWs running away as fast as possible.
Somehow, I doubt it. Even if now you believe it not to be true, you were probably in for some time and you didn't come down in the last shower 🚿. Did that sort of thing have you running for the exits, or was it more the sort of thing that made you roll your eyes?
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Memories of Excessive Laughter
by Sea Breeze injw's are not known for laughter.
there are the rare exceptions.
they are more known for their fear mongering and doomsday scenarios where "the dead shall come to be as manure on the surface of the ground from one end of the earth clear to the other".
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NotFormer
As Ecclesiastes 3 says, there's a time for everything. I remember the excessive laughter of the Toronto Blessing in the 90s, where entire congregations would be collapsed on the floor, laughing so much that they couldn't get up. You'd think 6 years of Pentecostalism would have prepared me for that, but there was something in that excess that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Sometimes a joyful attitude 😊 is a good thing. At other times, quiet and sobre reflectivity 🥺 can be helpful. All things in moderation. 👌
But you're right that being happy is a good idea, SeaBreeze. The second half of the proverb you quote says: "but a broken spirit drieth the bones". In this context, a merry heart is better 🙏.
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Reddit thread: ‘This Cult is Dying and it Brings Me Joy’
by LongHairGal inthis is an excellent thread to read that i saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well.
he is really knocking pimi witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. he says he hopes at this point that they never wake up….
i am inclined to feel the same.
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NotFormer
"Well at 97 she went to a senior home and not one of them came to see her. At her funeral a jr elder did her service and not at their hall either. I asked why they said because she was inactive."
97 and in a senior home could be almost anyone's definition of inactive, not just the WT's. What heartless SOBs! 😞
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Reddit thread: ‘This Cult is Dying and it Brings Me Joy’
by LongHairGal inthis is an excellent thread to read that i saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well.
he is really knocking pimi witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. he says he hopes at this point that they never wake up….
i am inclined to feel the same.
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NotFormer
Even if we never see its eventual demise, we've actually seen it in a form. Its founders would not recognise it today, and to a certain extent it refuses to recognise them. How often do they reverently refer to Rutherford? It's changed so much that it is unrecognisable, even from LHG's time in. So in a certain sense, it actually IS dead.