I could not hav e a Sega Genesis because it was a video game system that had a book of the bible in its name. She said it was an attempt to make a m mockery of God's word.
silentbuddha
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Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?
by pale.emperor inwe all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?
mine did.
my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.
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Best Bethel stories
by optimisticskeptic ini temped at bethel 3 times for varying lengths of time and found working there to not always be the rosy picture some would paint.
not a surprise really, but i think one of the things that surprised me the most was how a lot of the permanent bethelites (especially older ones) were so impersonal to temps.
they acted like you weren't worth investing their time in since you weren't permanent.
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silentbuddha
My favorite story is from when I worked in the recycling department and they found books from a gb member who died personal library . They sent them down to the recycling area I worked in. They sent 4 brothers down to WATCH me shred them to ensure none of the books got out ROFL.
Anyway they were in huge boxes and I dropped a book on the floor. They made me stop... get up from the industrial shredder and proceed to explain to me that if I purposely did that in an attempt to keep the boom they would immediately send me home. I hated Carlos West.
Then there are all the stories of the JC assembly hall overseer letting worldly people use the assembly hall for personal / worldly escaped.
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1975... the year that keeps on giving.
by silentbuddha inso i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
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silentbuddha
I must admit it was entertaining to hear all of this and learn "the truth" about our situation now that I am 40. My parents are still alive but they literally refuse to speak to me, they hate my wife, ignore my children and I am actually kinda of happy about it because they are so deep in the JW world that they are literally crazy.
I love them, I just cant be near them
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1975... the year that keeps on giving.
by silentbuddha inso i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
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silentbuddha
Touche Good sir.... Touche LOL
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1975... the year that keeps on giving.
by silentbuddha inso i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
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silentbuddha
So I recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the South. It was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up North in the early 1970's. When we lived here times were very tough financially and I was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there. In total they lived there for 12 I was born there and left when I was 8.
I had one friend that I remembered, but here but he has since moved away. We were best friends and his mother and mine were very very very close for a while then they stopped associating. Well, I decided to look this 70-year-old woman up, and I actually found out she lived just a few miles away. So, I went by and believe it or not she instantly recognized me after 30 years.
IT GETS INTERESTING HERE
After talking about how nice the old town was she asked me about my mom. I told her that I wanted to let her know I no longer was a witness and my mother no longer spoke to me so I wasn't really sure. SHe proceeded to laugh and say, "I am surprised she still is! When did she go back?" I said as far as I know we always were. Then the floodgates opened. I discovered things about my family and the lies they told and still tell.
My mother repeatedly told us that there were a few who believed '75 was the end but the brothers never said that etc... etc...
Well this woman told me that my parents told her the reason the moved away from the city in 1973/4 was because they new the system was ending in 1975 and that they:
A. wanted to serve were there was a greater need in the FINAL MONTHS of this system.
B. Didn't want to be in a big city during the great tribulation because it would be unbearable with children
My jaw hit the floor... I have been lied to for years. But the story just got worse. When my mother arrived she pioneered. Then as the months came and went and so did 1975 my parents were very angry and STOPPED ATTENDING. She even told this woman that she put off having more children because of this prophecy and once she realized it was not going to happen that they decided to have another child... which was me a few years later.
W................................T................................ENTIRE.....................................................................F
They then became inactive and refused to go back. There was also a huge scam that took place with a rather prominent Elder who later became a C.O. and is now a D.O. which I may have to explain later as that story is one our family does still talk about.
Anyway, when my parent's finances got too bad and had to return to their original location after having watched the borg fail in it's predictions, they were forced to go to meetings if they wanted to acquire work with a brother that they knew who would only assist them if they "returned to Jehovah"™.
We shared a bunch of other tidbits and I learned a ton about my parents earlier years that they have totally lied about to all of their children for years. It seems like this magical year of 1975 just will never fade away. It continues to haunt people linked to this deceptive organization.
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Even Ron Jeremy Is Accused of Sexual Abuse
by minimus inwhat is this world coming to?.
it seems like everyone is being accused of sexual improprieties!
even porn stars like the hedgehog “.
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silentbuddha
This reminds of the video of the young woman who wears tiiiiiiiight pants and a tight shirt that is extremely well endowed in both areas and walks the streets of New York looking angry
The sole purpose of her doing it is to shame the men who catchall. It just seems like everyone wants to make someone else look bad or "rapey" just to do it
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not a new topic - really a pet peave
by Moster inmakes me crazy:.
there: go over there!.
their: they own it; belonging to etc.. for the love of pete - use them correctly!.
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silentbuddha
I hate people who complain about grammar and proceed to missssssssspelllllll thangs.
O my bad.
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Even Ron Jeremy Is Accused of Sexual Abuse
by minimus inwhat is this world coming to?.
it seems like everyone is being accused of sexual improprieties!
even porn stars like the hedgehog “.
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silentbuddha
I can imagine owing it then they call the police on me ROOOOOOFL
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Even Ron Jeremy Is Accused of Sexual Abuse
by minimus inwhat is this world coming to?.
it seems like everyone is being accused of sexual improprieties!
even porn stars like the hedgehog “.
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silentbuddha
I got called a pervert a couple days ago because I held the door open for a woman. She accused me of being a pervert and holding the door so I could look at her ass. Gotta love overreactions...
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Faded for almost 10 years and still getting random calls
by ctrwtf inhi all, just wondering if anyone is in the same boat.
wifey and i dropped off the face of the jw planet almost a decade ago and still get 3 or 4 visits a year mostly when we are not dressed or expecting visitors.
it's really annoying because we are both wondering why they don't get the hint already.. we don't want to move because we really enjoy where we live and both have careers that keep us in the area.. i've asked politely that they stop calling but like the "godfather" they keep "pulling me in.".
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silentbuddha
Tell them u r no longer one of jehobro’s widnesses