Posts by silentbuddha

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

I wish they would just follow the direction of the borg and treat me as a full apostate already... its been years. ROFL

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

"If I could diagnose that $h!t, I'd say your mother has bipolar disorder."

Under normal circumstances I would agree with you. But I do not believe she is bipolar, I think it is bordering on plain crazy...

She has been this way since forever with this JW stuff. For instance, she has three kids and a husband. There are literally 5 pictures of me from birth till my current age of about 40. Only 2 of them are out... my baptism photo and a photo of the first time I saw my bethel room. THere are 0 of my sister and literally about 20+ of my Brother who is as nutty as she is.

The walls have every single photo of every month of every JW calendar since the 1960's IN FRAAAAMES. Those cheap paradise photos that everyone was buying in the late 90's and one wall that is an enormous bookcase of all the publications she has.

She is probably one of the only people I have ever met that can fully explain every change in the generation doctrine 1914 and so on.

Her talent at every JW talent show is that she can recite the books of the bible forwards and backwards at a speed that is crazy and she has memorized huge chunks of the bible...

I do believe had shge devoted her time to a real education should could have done something amazing with this fanatical mind but alas it is all devoted to every nook and cranny of a crack pot religion.

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

I have to say it doesn't really bother me per se. After all these years she has accused me of the most vile shit so this is more comedy than anything else at this point.

She has always been like this in regards to jw stuff. Demon possessed glasses, throwing out expensive gifts in fear of demon attacks. She has saved a d laminated every assembly program since the late 50s.

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

She has never drank in her life. She is just one of those people that is literally so deep in the morass of the organization it is as if reality does not exist. She isn't diagnosed as crazy... which I am sure at this point she could be. But she has always been like this in regards to anything connected to this organization.

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

I almost cant believe she is this worked up. My brother as you stated is a friggin tool. Always has been and always will be...

I am more disturbed that she is literally worried about Freddy as if the 144k hold grudges loo

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My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

by silentbuddha in

so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

silentbuddha

So last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching Netflix and my cellphone rings. I didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me. I decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad. At the same moment my house phone rings, so I am definitely expecting the worst with this level of urgency on her part. I wait a couple of minutes and then call her back on my cell.

She doesn't say "hi" or greet me any anyway, just frantically says "when is this nonsense with you and Satan's world going to stop? It has been far too long..." etc etc etc. I am thinking to myself what the hell is going on. She is literally yelling for close to 30 seconds and she blurts out "do you not remember the promise you made to one of Christ's brothers to always stay close to Jehovah??!?! You are acting like that means nothing! Are you willing to face the consequences for that?"

It was at this point that I recalled when I was in high-school and my brother was in bethel. Fred Franz was in the Bethel infirmary and my brother called us on Thursday night and asked my mother if we wanted to see Freddy in the Infirmary. I guess he felt he had some connections. At the time I had no clue who he really was, but there were about 8 of us in his room and he was undercover laying flat on his back but talking. Everyone's eyes were focused on him like it was Jesus himself and he was saying stuff... i don't even remember because I was a teenager and I was more occupied with the fine black nurse that ushered us to his room.

At some point in the conversation he asked me how old I was, what my goals were, etc.. it freaked me out because he was fucking blind and not looking directly at me. Shit was weird. Anyway he said promise me young man you will always keep Jehovah in your heart and never stray from him. Of course I was like yeah and like 10 minutes later he left.

Anyhow, my mother kept referring to how I will have such a serious price to pay for lying to one of Christ's Brothers... she was literally yelling. She says how she sometimes wishes I would never have gone that day because I made such a huge promise that I had no intention of fulfilling etc...

Then she abruptly hangs up the phone. I called back, no answer. Then this morning I get a call from my loser brother who says, "I think it would be best if you cease talking to mom because you are making her and dad's health worse", then he hangs up. It seems like it is time to change my phone number AGAIN...

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Atheists - How Did You Become An Atheist After Waking Up?

by pale.emperor in

i consider myself an atheist.

and right now i'm reading a lot on atheism in general (books written to answer creationists).. i'd be interested in knowing how you became an atheist after leaving the jws and how long did it take?

was it instant or did your belief in a deity gradually decline?.

silentbuddha

I reasoned that my ancestors were not on bible gods radar until he decided to enslave them in America...

Seriously god did not care about Asians, African, etc... for millenia. That ruled out the bible. That also meant that every other holy book that focuses on singular groups we

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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 6, Brooklyn tunnels

by neat blue dog in

here's some pictures of the tunnels that used to connect the various bethel buildings after they stopped being used, as well as a diagram.. .

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silentbuddha

It makes me think of fish duties... and then the install of those atms

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Bethelite statistics

by john.prestor in

hey guys, i'm working on a paper about exploitation amongst jehovah's witnesses ( i'm also preparing a book about jehovah's witnesses and interaction ritual theory, and another paper about jehovah's witnesses and discrimination against women).

i'm trying to calculate as exact figures as i can concerning how much bethelites are paid.

does anyone know the monthly stipend as of now?

silentbuddha

In 1996 - 1999 I was getting 95 a month...

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Nephew’s JW Fiancée Begins Conversion to Judaism Due to Passover Date

by Rabbi Midge in

it’s been a while since i posted, but for those who remember, i came on here to get some information about jehovah’s witnesses because i have a nephew who was getting engaged to a girl who was a jehovah’s witness and, along with some other sites, i was recommended this one.. since then we’ve been busy with passover and jehovah’s witnesses have had something they call the memorial of christ’s death (i believe i have that right).

this clashing of the two observances apparently did more for this girl than anything else i ever saw in our months of conversations with her.. respectfully, jews do not proselytize.

these are people who, of their own desire, “join the tribe” after some years of study and practice--something this girl has just begun to do.

silentbuddha

From frying pan into the fire