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  DF'd can sit anywhere not just at the back?

  by Pubsinger in

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  just spoke to someone who has recently been df'd and they told me that they can sit anywhere instead of just at the back.. when did they change this?.

  or is it just a local quirk?.

  i've not heard this one before .

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  Scully

  No official rule, just a practice in many areas - it allows for easy entrance and exit for the DFd person, minimizing their ability to communicate with others, and prevents JWs In Good Standing™ from even having to see the DFd person.

  Oddly enough, families with small children choose the back row for the ease of exit.

  It just occurred to me that there are also no rules against a DFd person associating with unbaptized children of JWs or non-JWs attending, yet these also participate in the shunning of DFd people.
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  Were you made to rehearse what you would do/say at Armageddon etc?

  by highdose in

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  2. experiences

  i remember my parents went through a phase in the 80's of rehearsing what i would say in court if they were trying to get me to have a blood transfusion.

  i remember the key comment they wanted me to say was that it would be like being raped, and then i had to be able to descripe what rape was.... i was about 7 at the time...(!).

  i also remember having to rehearse a nazi style interrigation senario, as they thought i might need this at armargeddon when the nations "will turn on us!

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  I also remember having to rehearse a nazi style interrigation senario, as they thought i might need this at armargeddon when the nations "will turn on us! and we will be taken away from you! and you will have to stand up for Jehovah by yourself!

  At around age 9 I was part of a platform demonstration with an older Sister™ showing how to disguise ourselves while going Door-to-Door™ in the event of a Nazi-style government that wanted to ban the JWs (this was when the persecution in Malawi was the big topic of conversation among JWs).

  After the Book Study™ every week our group would read a couple of pages together from the 1972 or 1974 Yearbook that had all the Nazi Germany stories - they made us kids sit on the floor and listen as if it were the most awesome bedtime story ever. I think that's when I started not being able to sleep from being scared $h!tless that the police were going to bash down our doors in the middle of the night and haul us all off in chains. This wasn't too long after the FLQ crisis in Quebec, and we'd only been living there for a couple of years, and my family was still very New In The Truth™ and believed absolutely everything that the WTS, the Elders™ or any other JW said, as if it were gospel.
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  If an 89 year old woman can pioneer, why can't you slackers and bums do it?

  by miseryloveselders in

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  what's wrong with you slackers?

  huh?

  enough with your excuses!!!

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  Scully

  The question isn't about "can" I Pioneer™ at all. It's I WON'T Pioneer™.

  And if they actually give a $h!t about why, I'd tell them that I'd rather poke bamboo skewers in my eyes and under my fingernails and either get them all wet or set them on fire before I ever associate any more closely with those arrogant, ignorant, obnoxious, full-of-themselves @$$hole Pioneers™ formerly of my acquaintance or am even associated with them by bearing that idiotic label. Each and every one a living breathing specimen of the worst kind of pride and the worst example of humility I've ever been unfortunate enough to observe.
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  To my fellow atheists:

  by NomadSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

  just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

  1. learned that evolution had credibility.

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  Scully

  Having been raised in the JWs from early childhood, what I knew about evolution was what the WTS wanted us to know about it.

  Once my faith in the WTS was shattered and I came to the realization (after many years) that I was an atheist, I felt that evolution was probably true, but I really didn't think about it too much until the last couple of years. My knowledge of it was still limited to what the WTS taught about it, and when I realized that I figured that I owed it to myself to go to reliable sources for information about the process of evolution. I'm so glad that I did, because not only did it prove, yet again, that the WTS completely misleads people regarding the teachings of evolution, but I learned about the scientific evidence for evolution and the various means that are used to date fossils, locate them and predict what fossilized remains should look like for given time periods and rock formations.

  I still have a lot to learn, but I have far more confidence in the evidence for evolution than I ever did for any so-called prophecy that the WTS attempted to explain.
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  Hey, Does My (Successful) Diet Prove Evolution?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so the doctor tells me about diet 'cause i have cholesterol/trigylcerides/ and some weight issues.. so, i have come to respect vegetarian meals, so i drink v-8 and orange juice and fruit and rice and stuff.. i'm descended from perfect humans who ate pretty much the same way....................??????????.

  result?

  no weight loss.

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  Scully

  My doctor recommends eating every 2-3 hours, and a target calorie range of about 100 less than your basic metabolic needs. Protein at every meal. Minimum of 30 minutes daily of cardio (walking) and 30 minutes of strength training three times a week.

  Within 6 months I dropped 35 pounds. A friend of mine lost 70 pounds in the same time period,

  The absolute bummer for me was weighing and measuring and documenting everything. It felt like I was developing an obsession, and I really didn't like that feeling once the weight loss started to plateau and I had some time for introspection. Plus, Mr Scully started following the same plan and he expected me to do all his weighing, measuring and documenting for him too. So I decided "Screw it! I'm not doing this."
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  Has anyone else tried the crazy approach to fading

  by will_the_apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  during my fade i started acting more and more bizarre (not brushing my hair, clothes that did not match, sleeping during meetings, non-sequitur answers) and i found that it really helped because most of the rank and file just thought i was bat sh*t crazy, and the elders were kind of happy not to have to deal with me.

  so has anyone done something similar?.

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  Scully

  Having actually suffered from a severe bout of postpartum depression (along with scary as hell panic attacks) just prior to my decision to quit attending meetings, it kind of feels to me as a mockery of the real suffering and anguish that people and their loved ones experience with mental illness to attempt to fake it to facilitate a fade from the JWs. But, I suppose, whatever works for you... *shrugs*
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  "Johnny The Bethelite" FRAUD!

  by IMPOSTORS ARE DOOMED in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was just over on topix.com, when i see this to a "rick fearon"(?

  ) kool-aid man thread.

  someone noted that rick fearon lost all credibility over his "johnny the bethelite" nonsense.

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  lol @ shamus
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  JW recieves $55,000 for being ordered to wear santa hat.

  by FifthOfNovember in

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  2. friends

  http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/18/woman-who-says-she-was-forced-to-wear-santa-hat-gets-55000/?iref=allsearch.

  ridiculous.

  >.>.

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  Scully

  The jury found in favor of the EEOC, awarding Gonzalez $396,000 and Owen $390,000 in damages based on their lost wages, benefits and compensatory damages.

  I'm betting that beyond lost wages and benefits the balance of that almost $800,000 wound up in the WTS's vault. Holy effing crap.
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  8 Is there a “secret” formula for moving ahead with the organization?

  by fadinfast in

  1. social
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  [the last paragraph is of interest to all] but there is a basic thing we must have.. obediencethebasicfactor.

  wt 6/1 1967 p337.

  ] often the very best and most beneficial studying you do is that done when you read a new watchtower or awake!

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  Scully

  It's not really a big secret:

  1. kiss the Elders'™ asses
  2. kiss the Circuit Overseer's™ ass
  3. write out big cheques for the Contribution Box™
  4. turn in big Field Service Reports™
  5. and most importantly, have a penis
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  Are You Going To the Memorial?

  by headisspinning in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't see myself not attending.

  i would feel horrible not to go.

  i don't know where i'm going to land and if i had to look back and think i didn't go... well, i would feel awful..

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  Scully

  Oh hell no.