it's that time of year again .
in the words of the bard ( noddy holder ) " it's christmaaas " .
merry christmas everybody .
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A bunch of Ubers and Pioneers in my hall are planning a social gathering on the Dec 25, with the excuse they all the same day off work.
My son has to sit in the corner at school like some social lepers, while these assholes get to do whatever they want. It pisses me off.
a post from another exjw site, shows how throughout the years, in a regular, systematic fashion, the watchtower has influence thoroughly; an ideological point of view, in the minds of it’s members by using bible scriptures and examples, to get the members to do the unthinkable, even if it clashes with modern ethics.
february 2016 watchtower, paragraph 3 of the article titled .
"learn from jehovah’s loyal servants".
I remember the whole " Remain Loyal convention " about 6-7 years ago, was shortly after the new understanding of the faithful slave.
A general rule of thumb when dealing the WTS is whenever you see the term Loyal , it is usually a dogmatic flip flop just happened or someone is getting arrested.
michael moore writes:.
a cult is an organization that enslaves minds and destroys families using cult mind control.
cult mind control involves orchestrated deception, social pressure, psychological abuse, and repetitive indoctrination (brainwashing) centering around an unchallengeable ideology enforced in a totalitarian way in a closed socially-separatist community setting.
I used to follow the evangelical view that theology was what made a cult. If you didn’t believe in the basic tenants of the Christian faith like Trinity or hell are you were in a cult.
later in life, I got to know some Mormons and it was kind of a high opener. Even though I think Mormonism is kind of silly, they are really, really nice people. There’s really no sanction for leaving or calling the book of Mormon a piece of fiction.
Would you believe has really nothing to do with being in a cult? It’s just how you act as a person. Cults destroyed lives and families. They waste your time and destroy your potential. They emotionally blackmail you when you try to leave.
as someone who never grew up in the shadow of the wt, i love reading accounts of people who began to wake up and think that the wt wasn't all that it represents itself to be*.
and especially when they see that the things that they were told to avoid were harmless at worst, and quite often fun.
christmas is a prime example.
Every time I watch a Christmas Carol, I always think of the Governing Body being visited by three ghosts.
" Turn back, there is still time, You can change Ebenezer , you can now grow a beard ".
LoL
Assholes.
as someone who never grew up in the shadow of the wt, i love reading accounts of people who began to wake up and think that the wt wasn't all that it represents itself to be*.
and especially when they see that the things that they were told to avoid were harmless at worst, and quite often fun.
christmas is a prime example.
My first Christmas outside of the borg, I drank goat blood, worshipped a statue of Moloch , did Heroin and covered myself with human feces while playing Venom and King Diamond at full blast waking up the entire the neighborhood.
Oh wait.
That is what they told I would be doing.
I think I just watched a Christmas Carol and Die Hard and drank some Baileys and Cream.
Yipee ki yay MF.
just heard from a pimi cousin who recently attended a convention, and remarked about the low attendance.
peak was about 500. i remember that circuit, in years past, had attendances of 1000+.
it's been over a decade now since i last attended a jw convention.
At the assembly this summer, there were people who were travelling 700 kms to attend. I am not too sure if it by choice. Some of the ubers do the whole summer tour, like they are following the Grateful dead . My province didn't even have a summer assembly this year.
the watch tower society of pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on september 3, 2024, naming as defendants the russian federation, the russian ministry of health, and the almazov national medical research center.
unfortunately, i can't access the case documents, including the complaint.
i would appreciate if someone with an active pacer account could make them available.. anyway, it is enough to know the almazov center is one of the entities sued by the wts to say what this case is about.
I use to work in the account receivable in the construction industry and the first thing I learned from the company lawyer is if you couldn’t collect that bill, don’t waste your time. The legal process takes so much time and money and most importantly emotion that it isn’t worth it.
The idea of suing the Russian government is nothing but a dog and pony show and a terrible waste of your donations. If you wanna do something useful, why don’t you try and help some Russian or Ukrainian refugees out? I have no respect for nonsense like this.
yesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.
we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.
both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.
history is full of examples of governments disarming their citizens , only to be brutally betrayed.
what follows is a litany of blood that happened after disarming citizens.
1911: turkey; citizens disarmed – 1.5 million armenians were slaughtered.
All the horrible things you were mentioning are more to do with the erosion of democracy, then gun rights. We really need to lose the fantasy that’s civilians need military style assault rifles to protect them from cartels or invading North Koreans or some shit like that. The more likely outcome is some lunatic walks into a school or Walmart and starts blasting people. I have plenty of shotguns and rifles, but I don’t need a gun that could kill dozens of people in a matter of seconds.
yesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.
we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.
both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.
Did any of you filthy animals ever do door to door Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
