Posts by Xanthippe

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I know this shouldn’t bother me...but

by MTSman in

so i woke up this morning with nothing planned for the day.

i rolled out of bed around 9am and went to local mcky ds to get some breakfast, and lord and behold there was a group of jdubs sitting around eating and sipping on coffee, probable counting time.

anyway, i glanced over and recognized all of them and they glanced back at me.

Xanthippe

Is there anyone else that gets annoyed by people who act self righteous even though they really shouldn’t?

Yeah my brother did this to me at my uncle's funeral. My siblings ignored me at the crematorium but when we went back to my aunt's house I went in to the kitchen to help her of course while the JWs sat on their bums as usual. Did they expect her to feed them all on her own after her husband's funeral?

Anyway she kept asking me to go in and ask them what they wanted to drink and then what sandwiches they wanted, then what cake. My brother, the elder, looked at me as though I'd crawled out from under a stone. He didn't want to speak to me but seeing as I'd been put in charge of food what could he do!

He was getting angrier and angrier and redder and redder. I tell you it was all I could do not to laugh my head off. You've just got to enjoy their craziness. I thought he was going to explode! So funny!

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Christmas Eve Best Wishes To ALL of you .

by smiddy3 in

jw
friends

it`s christmas eve here in australia today and i wish all of you a very merry xmas simply because i can without being zapped , or hauled into a jc committee.. it doesn`t matter whether you are religious or not , i`m not now , however i can appreciate and respect those who do.. so whatever your views on the matter have a great day and enjoy the holidays in whatever grabs your fancy.. and if jw`s do come knocking on your door as they do this festive season wish them a merry xmas and anti-witness to them ..

Xanthippe

Happy Christmas to you Smiddy xx

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Encounter with a long time elder. (Jehovah's happy people)

by freddo in

jw
friends

so i'm at work and go to my vehicle parked outside the empty property i'm working at and an elderly man comes out of next door and we recognise each other from when we were elders in the same circuit.

he is early 80's in age, a jw since the 1960's and so the next generation in age up from me.. he's an outwardly jolly sort and asks how i am etc.

(knows i'm not an elder but thinks i'm pimi) and asks if i want a cup of tea so i go in and sit in his kitchen for my lunchbreak and have a chat.. i have a little fish around and ask about how jw's in his hall are.

Xanthippe

I see this in my siblings and a friend who got in touch a while ago. One sister has type two diabetes, the other has fibromyalgia and ME and my brother has piled on the weight and looks very depressed.

The friend, her husband is blind in one eye from neglecting glaucoma for a year and is still driving to do his work! She's struggling with doing housework for a living. They're both in their sixties.

All crying out for the new system, just living day by day waiting for J to put an end to their trouble. Yet I'm convinced all their illnesses are caused by the sheer exhaustion of following that religion! The solution is to quit the cult and live their own lives. Concentrate on looking after their health, earning a living and enjoying life as much as they can.

This religion creates problems for people so that it can then present them with a solution. Only without the religion there wouldn't be half the problems and they wouldn't be looking to the fantasy solution which never comes.

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A Former Jehovah's Witness shares her me too story

by LisaRose in

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/16/a-former-jehovahs-witness-shares-her-metoo-story/.

when i was 23 years old, i started dating a (jehovah’s) witness boy and we’d go out to some dance clubs.

there was a night in particular where i had too much to drink.

Xanthippe

Evolution has such a long way to go before we are a species of civilized beings - OrphanCrow

Indeed it does, but I still hold out hope that humankind will make it.

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Welcome me

by natasha in

jw
friends

hello brothers and sisters am new here , what is the website all about ?.

Xanthippe

Hi Natasha and welcome to the forum. What is it about? Well I remember hearing years ago in a talk that a person's religion is very often an accident of birth. In other words where in the world you are born and which family you are raised in affects what you usually grow up to believe.

I often used this in field service to encourage the householder to examine their own religion. This is a forum where many that were raised in the JW religion do just that, freely and without censure, examine the beliefs they were raised with. Ask as many questions as you like. Enjoy!

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A Former Jehovah's Witness shares her me too story

by LisaRose in

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/16/a-former-jehovahs-witness-shares-her-metoo-story/.

when i was 23 years old, i started dating a (jehovah’s) witness boy and we’d go out to some dance clubs.

there was a night in particular where i had too much to drink.

Xanthippe

Thanks for sharing this LisaRose. I do feel so sorry for that poor young woman. The thought of what she'd been through and then those stupid old men disfellowship her.

Growing up in a congregation you’re always aware that you are seen as a lesser being, that you have a position underneath men.

I have said this many times and I would like to point it out again that right from birth you are a lesser being in this religion despite a very vociferous poster who keeps insisting that women have an easy time of it.

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Do you have a place to get away from it all?

by compound complex in

jw
friends

is your retreat .

an actual location, or simply a quiet place in your mind?.

i attended a concert on sunday, a featured piece having been commissioned by a composer who lives in the city but retreats to an island in the puget sound (usa) to write his music.

Xanthippe

I like to walk in the woods on my own

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Aliens

by Jayk in

i thought i was weird that i believe in aliens.

until i remembered that people believe there is a god..

Xanthippe

In his book The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins has a chapter, Are We Alone? where he speculates what kind of bodies aliens might have. Stephen Hawking thinks it's dangerous to send signals into space to attract alien civilisations because he thinks we don't know what we might be getting ourselves into. Serious scientists take the probability of alien life seriously.

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Strange

by Jrjw in

a couple of times at the meetings this year we've been told that in the future we might get some strange directions from the society that might not make any sense to us.

then they've said will we show our loyalty to jehovah by still obeying?

seems a rather unusual thing to say.

Xanthippe

All of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not

We all presume and indeed hope this is all GB bullshit to soften the r+f up even more into absolute obedience and 'voluntary' contributing. It does sound very sinister every time I read it but I suppose old men living in luxury are not suddenly going to force everyone to run for the hills. Where would their income be then?

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So here is my long winded story....

by GTSfromSY in

thanks for the warm greetings all.

wow!

i am very moved, really.

Xanthippe

Great story Gabe. Good reminder that we should at least try with JWs at our door or on the carts, especially the young ones.