Posts by Xanthippe

It's true if you quit spending all your time believing in a fantasy hope you can then start living and learning about reality. We have to work with what's real and what we have rather than pretty dreams.

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Jehovah Misses Me

by Phoebe in

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friends

made the mistake of opening the front door today...i was expecting someone to service our central heating...oh dear, it was a sister instead :(.

she tells me jehovah misses me.

it seems god only sees me if i go to the meetings.

Xanthippe

Jehovah misses me

Poor thing, doesn't he have any friends. He's a jealous God that's the problem, can't stand any competition, makes him lonely.

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They've given themselves a out for refusing to give you your data if you ask for it

by purrpurr in

from the jw.org global data page.

"upon receipt of your written request, after you provide sufficient evidence of your identity and enough information to permit us to identify your personal data, the applicable data controller will fairly consider granting the request by balancing the interests of the individual in gaining access to data or correcting or deleting data against the legitimate interests of the organization, including whether granting the request would endanger the organization’s right to religious freedom and practice.

we will also notify any third-party recipients of the necessary changes.. please note that your data may not be erased if processing is required by law or if the data may be kept on other legal bases.

Xanthippe

The GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation that comes into force in the EU on May 25 is the biggest change in data collection and storage for many years. My experience in local government is that most organizations are shitting themselves about this because the fines for failing to hold data correctly are enormous.

Really, I can't give you the details but it's getting beyond a joke the lengths we are going to in my department to prepare for this. It's about being fined an arm and a leg for failing spot inspections after May 25, 2018. I think this is all it's about with the WTS in Europe.

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The older I get the more angry I become!

by Sour Grapes in

i did some self-reflection today trying to determine why, with every passing day, i become angrier against the watchtower company.

i am in my 70's and my health is failing.

at first, i thought it was because "worldly" people couldn't care less about jdubs and the little world they live in even though the witlesses think that the earth revolves around them and their desert god who was originally worshipped by the cainites.

Xanthippe

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Matthew Arnold

It's no small thing to learn to enjoy life after our past, it's a victory! It's a victory for honesty and integrity. Live light in the spring sour grapes. Enjoy the sun.

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Where is Jehovah?

by sinboi in

many years back, my younger brother and i were the most mischievous kids in the kingdom hall.

we would mischievously take away things like the bible , study magazines, etc from meeting attendees.

soon, they will suspect us if anything went missing.. our parents were annoyed with our conduct and behaviour.. they requested an elder to talk to us.

Xanthippe

Haven't heard that one before sinboi, made me laugh, thanks.

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The older I get the more angry I become!

by Sour Grapes in

i did some self-reflection today trying to determine why, with every passing day, i become angrier against the watchtower company.

i am in my 70's and my health is failing.

at first, i thought it was because "worldly" people couldn't care less about jdubs and the little world they live in even though the witlesses think that the earth revolves around them and their desert god who was originally worshipped by the cainites.

Xanthippe

Seems a shame to waste our one moment on earth feeling angry and regretting our lives. Life's a bitch and then you die but in the meantime ........

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Christ's sacrifice

by dogisgod in

so, i am having lunch with a group of women with varying backgrounds.

i asked the circle how many believed in the story of adam and eve and the snake.

no one believed it literally.

Xanthippe

Always struggled with this teaching as a teenager. It's very monetary isn't it, Adam lost perfection, Jesus died to get it back. Very legalistic. I always though it was weird we had to be grateful to God for torturing his son to death when he made the wacky bargain anyway. He was living by his own weird rules.