Greetings Pleasuredome (and fellow Depeche Mode fan) if anything, your post has made me even happier that I have not attended a District Convention in some time. I find it hilarious that this is a religion that claims to be identified by love, but which is bound by so much mistrust. Then again, JW's have a miserable PR record, and this shows what they truly think of non-believers (you'd need a pair of binoculars, but only to pick out the lone good samaritan from the crowd). Truthfully, I never understood the whole paranoia of apostates at conventions.If they had the truth, what would prevent them from believing otherwise. Apparently two suspected apostates did the trick. That just shows you were there priorities are. Interestingly, before you post I alway thought the Conventions to have very poor security. With what you described, it sounds like anyone would be lucky to take a piss without three people looking over your shoulder. Cheers!
Preston
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WTS Secret Police
by Pleasuredome inheres a story of what happened to me at a district convention this year.. an unbaptised publisher and i travelled to wolverhampton district convention in england.
this wasnt our district but id been on holiday and had missed my own district convention (how unspiritual of me).
so me and this friend decided to go to this convention and was also hoping to meet a friend there.. on the saturday morning we were delayed in traffic and we eventually arrived at 11.30am, paid our 3 for parking (i wonder if they had the use of car parks for free?
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OMG What have i done!
by Shytears in.
hey everyone.i know im in trouble now deep deep shit !i went to my highschool football game last night,its like the biggest game of the year,well yall all know im a witness and im baptized.i meant up with some of my friends from school and the guy i like and his friends.we walked around and talked and you know goofed off,me and him went to his friends car,we ended up having sex.omg i cant believe i actually did this,but we used protection.only thing is i feel kinda bad but then i dont,whats the deal,im think im going to get disfellowedshipped oh well.please anyone help me!!!
laura
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Preston
It pisses me off whenever I read about someone here who feels guility over getting it on (I'm not angry at you Shytears). Unfortuantely, it's the 21st century and even a kid gets villanized by the elderhoos even if they have a Playboy under the mattress (when I was a kid I had copies of GQ with all the ha-ha-HOT pictures of guys in tight briefs). I think it's about fawking time for the "governing-body-of-stay-the-fawk-out-of-my-business" to step off....
Oh yeah, and as other people have said shytears, I think it's unfortuante that you feel guilty over sometthing that people do all the freaking time. I mean, If I had to confess for every time I got laid I'd have to spend half of my life in a room with a bunch of grumpy old gruffs who don't have the decency tolay off of who I can date. IMNSHO, I think it's clear that it is the WT that has the problem. Hopefully, you'll feel less guilty about it in the long run.
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What really irritates you?
by SpannerintheWorks inthe following is what really irritates me:.
i'm just about to tuck into a $100 meal when some ignorant b*****d lights up.
when nobody lets me out of the side road onto the freeway.
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Preston
You know those old "philosophy" people? Like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle? They're full of crap. Ohhhhh, sure! They spent puh-lenty of time musing about "the meaning of life, love and our purpose in the universe." However! They were just sitting on their fat toga-draped patooties when it came to answering the most important question of all: "Why are those people so STUPID?"
Frankly, I don't give a holy handshake about my "purpose." The way I figure it, I'm just here to fawk some shit up! And while that may be noble, it's hard to do when I'm preoccupied with wondering, "Why are those people so STUPID?"
And you know the people I'm talking about, right? Those idiots in the grocery store who park their big-ass carts in the MIDDLE of the aisle. Or those people driving in front of you at a creeping 10 mph, unable to decide if they should turn on this street or the next one.
Yeah, it's those kind of people.
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The "faithful slave" truth or lie?
by apocalypse inso then, as we examine the context of these verses we ask the question "when?".
42 "...you do not know on what day your lord is coming.
44 ...at an hour that you do not think to be it, the son of man is coming.
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Preston
I enjoyed your article apoc. It's the best statment against the "faithful slave" doctrine I have read in a long time.
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Kangaroos and the Fossil Record
by Gedanken increationists like to attack evolution by attacking the "fossil record" as being incomplete; i.e., if something existed, for example, transitional states, then we should see evidence of them in the fossil record.
so, their argument is that if something existed, then we should see it in the fossil record.. let's take a look at the case of kangaroos.
we must assume, if we accept the notion of a global flood, that noah collected two kangaroos for his menagerie in the ark.
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Preston
The problem with trying to analyze the religious angle is that you cannot, or very rarely anyway, approach it using logic and reason. It's like trying to use physics to explain how a man could make the sun stand still in the sky or how the red sea could be parted or how a man could ascend to heaven without an aircraft. You can't because the spiritual transcends the natural and the scientific. With the creation argument that you raised, God could have transferred the entire marsupial population from Asia to Australia using whatever means possible he had at his dispoal. He could have made a gigantic raft and made all of the marsupials get on it and have them transfer to Australia without there being a hint that kangaroos existed in the region where "Noah's Ark" supposedly landed. Who said it would require the natural processes that we are familar with? If God is all knowing and all powerful then he could do anything. And that's why it's impossible having any sort of debate with a devout Creationist. You just can't win...
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What is your favorite Simpsons moment?
by gilwarrior ini would have to say my favorite moment is when bart goes to the comic book store and has this conversation with comic book guy:.
(bart lays $8 on the table).
bart: "can i have this comic book here?".
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Preston
(From the "Beer Barron" episode) Homer: Caulk...delicious caulk.....
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Girl dies for her beliefs
by terafera inhundreds pay tribute to jehovah teen who fought against blood.
transfusions.. by licia corbella, editor.
do not mourn me for i'm not dead.. i lay asleep upon this bed.
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Preston
at least she thought she knew what she wanted.
It's not a good outlook for one to have if you're dying for a false teaching. I agree, she was a brave person since it does take a lot to die for one's beliefs. Unfortunately, she didn't truly know what she was doing, no matter how brave of a person she was. Personally, I'm glad I matured without having to have this decision set before me because if I was her age when I was a Witness and in her situation, I very well would have died for a false hope. I hope the governing body are proud for what they did to this girl, I hope they burn in hell...
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Male & female
by A Paduan ini wanted to think out loud and ask for input into the male / female aspects of being.
i've been a bit mixed up on gender - recently in a post to j. alward i wrote that biblically speaking spirit was male - sorry about that ja - i shouldn't be so sure.
the holy spirit is the helper , and the comforter, so does the holy spirit have gender?
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If only you just wouldn't CLAP so hard....
by PopeOfEruke inwhats with the jw's and that insane clapping that goes on at assemblies?
can you all remember it?
not just at the conclusion of a talk (which is somehow expected and simply courteous), but the intra-talk claps where sometimes no-one know if its a clap-moment or not..... so the speaker drones on and on, and then comes the voice inflection change, either louder ot higher-pitched, and then you know its coming: another clap-moment......*groan*.
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Preston
How we ever sat through all that clap crap I just don't know...........
Preston: *APPLAUSE* oops...
Pope: (looks confused)
Preston: (jumps on stage unexpectedly and steels Pope's hat to deflect attention)
Pope: Hey!
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How were you perceived .............. as a jw
by A Paduan in.
as a continuation of minimus' thread.. how do you think people perceived you - when you were a jw?
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Preston
Like I am now....Gay!