Posts by schnell

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Quite Possibly The Most Sinister Speaker Ever?

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.. "brother" jose is quite possibly the most sinister speaker i've ever seen or heard.

and i've seen/head a lot of cults in my time.. he's over the top with his voice tone and gestures.

i see a future governing body member in the making here:.

schnell

My wife says, "Dear god.... They needed someone to scare us shitless."

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Quite Possibly The Most Sinister Speaker Ever?

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.. "brother" jose is quite possibly the most sinister speaker i've ever seen or heard.

and i've seen/head a lot of cults in my time.. he's over the top with his voice tone and gestures.

i see a future governing body member in the making here:.

"Well, Brother Jose, you seem to have gotten those gestures down pat. Um... You might notice that half of those in attendance took their kids out to the back, because you were scaring them. You're creepy, Brother Jose. You're just, just so creepy. Maybe dial it down a little, or dress in black and take up a new name, because you're perfect Church of Satan material. Thanks. Onto our next speaker..."

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Quite Possibly The Most Sinister Speaker Ever?

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.. "brother" jose is quite possibly the most sinister speaker i've ever seen or heard.

and i've seen/head a lot of cults in my time.. he's over the top with his voice tone and gestures.

i see a future governing body member in the making here:.

schnell

Well.... They need somebody to play the voice of Satan, right?

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You know it's time to give up the JW religion when your route call tells you to

by jambon1 in

jw
friends

lasting memory of the latter period of time in the organisation:.

i had a route call with the magazines whom i'd called on for a number of years.

eventually when i become a parent i became consumed with negativity, doubt (blood issue) & depression.

schnell

If you deny yourself for so long, you are in for a psychological crack, a nervous breakdown.

If you love science, how long can you sit there while a brother at the hall comments that evolution is a false teaching? That he doesn't know where all those dinosaur bones came from?

If you love art and beauty and expression, how long can you sit there without expressing yourself? You think nudes and violence and bad language are wrong? At least they're honest.

If you love someone you're told you can't love, what can you do about it?

If you're told to put off everything and keep your head in the future, how can you ever be present here and now?

If your psyche is a piece of embroidery, and everything you deny is on the underside (your Shadow in Jungian psychology), I'd really hate to see the chaotic mess that lies beneath that of a long time Witness.

Now, to be fair, we do have to deny ourselves. We live in a world of consequences and we have to act appropriately. But a religion that demands you sacrifice so much of yourself is not at all necessary.

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Awkward exchange with my JW sister in law regarding the circle of life

by TTWSYF in

so we were at another family members home for a random celebration when the nature channel showed a killer whale eating a seal and my sister in law was horrified.

we made a joke about the circle of life and i said something along the lines of 'everything that lives must die, the bible says every king must die, so even jesus wasn't immune'.

after that comment there was an awkward silence with our jw family whispering to each other about my comment of dying.. once upon a time i asked my uber elder jw brother if he thought that he would not die and he asked me if i knew when god would start armageddon.

schnell

If you can get a strong enough dopamine release from an idea that offers release from the stress of the world, you can addict millions of people and make billions of dollars doing it.

That's part of human nature, too.

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That One Defining Moment That Changed Your Life.

by new boy in

it seems that many times in life there is a moment or an action that changes your whole world.

it could be just a look that someone gives you.. many times it can be something rather small.

something hardly noticeable by anyone but you.

schnell

When I learned what evolution really is.
When I met my wife for the first time.
The skeletal look in my father's face as I went with him to his last chemo and drove him home. I knew I had to take care of myself and my mom.
When I realized I'm pretty damn good at driving a truck.
When my father passed away.
When I was taken in the backroom to discuss my relationship with my unbaptized girlfriend.
When I broke up with her to keep my hope for "privileges" that I never got, and some other sod went in for her.
When she broke up with him (quite literally to "You Give Love a Bad Name" I must add!), and I was told by her mom to just talk to her as a friend. She needed it.
When she said yes, because things went from there.
When I lost my job.
When we moved and both started working for Witnesses and realized how terrible it was and unhappy we were to work for them.
When my brother got a miserable miscarriage of justice at the hands of the elders. Is this the kind of system I wish to expose people to if they show interest at the door?
When I could no longer rationalize about evolution. I accepted it for what it is and began reevaluating all the claims the WTBTS makes about our world from 4026 BCE onward.

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Sanctimonious, "WE'RE Thankful EVERY day."

by stillin in

thanksgiving is really just a nice, traditional, family-oriented day set aside on a national level.

no babylon the great.

give me a break with the holier than thou, "we don't celebrate thanksgiving.

schnell

FanTASTIC point, millie210!

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Sanctimonious, "WE'RE Thankful EVERY day."

by stillin in

thanksgiving is really just a nice, traditional, family-oriented day set aside on a national level.

no babylon the great.

give me a break with the holier than thou, "we don't celebrate thanksgiving.

schnell

They're thankful for the day off. And the sales.

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Witnesses illusion that they have their OWN conscience!! What a joke! Examples.

by Witness 007 in

witnesses always claim to have a "bible trained conscience" yet they are really just watchtower robots who cant piss without checking with an elder or watchtower.

an elder who cuts hair was scared when i asked for a bald buzz cut since my hair was receding and grey.

he actually rang a bethel elder to see if this was okay watchtower wise!

schnell

Hey, it's called submission, guys. Faithful submission in recognition...

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Official Increase in the Number of Jehovah's Witnesses You Shouldn't Trust

by David_Jay in

reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.

this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.

what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.

schnell

How do the anointed know they're anointed? They just know. They know they're going to go to Heaven to marry Jesus and help kill people in Armageddon, and then watch the paradise earth beneath them as all the blasphemous thought-criminals get picked off. They just know.