Posts by jp1692

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Another day, another run-in

by john.prestor in

so a couple days ago i ran into a colleague of mine coming back from the mall, let's call her lianne for the story.

we started talking about our research and when lianne asked about what i'm working on these days i told her about a paper i'm drafting where i argue the culture of jehovah's witnesses is collectively narcissistic, which just means they (typically, most often) think they're special and that their faith is better than others, and i cite a lot of evidence to that effect, things witnesses said to me in conversation, videos i watched on youtube of antiwitnessing, study articles and book chapters, things i heard cos say ("this is the greatest organization in the universe") so a lot of data from a lot of different places that really drives the point home and shows i didn't just invent this after some cranky old man went on a rant one day in when they commented in the watchtower study or something.

lianne seemed interested, i kept it brief, but i noticed this older woman across the aisle staring at me, not glaring, just sorta staring at me blankly or almost in surprise, and lianne and i moved on to another topic for a couple more minutes and then went back to reading our books, we each had one on us and put it down to chitchat for a few minutes, it was nice running into someone i knew, i got the same vibe from her.. after i read a few pages the older woman got my attention politely and said something like, i wanted to tell you that i'm one of jehovah's witnesses (i wondered that when she started staring at me) and i don't agree with what you said, and i'm wondering where you got your information.

jp1692

Interesting experience. Yeah, JWs are notoriously dishonest about a lot of things when it comes to their beliefs and policies. You should know that most JWs lie to themselves about these things too -- the cognitive dissonance is too great to deal head on with all of the contradictions and inconsistencies of WT "theology."

Thanks for sharing.

Just an aside, it would have been a whole lot easier to follow your writing if you'd mentioned you were on a bus in the beginning of the story and not keep us guessing where this all occurred until the fifth paragraph.

jp

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Atlantis--Do You Have This File?

by Atlantis in

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friends

atlantis, do you have the: [ i pledge file ] in a download?.

hi becky, sure.

it's the file on the national federation of the blind and so forth.. .

jp1692

Is there some connection that I am missing between the NFB and jw.org?

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Old Goat

by vienne in

some of you may remember old goat who used to post here.

he died last night in his sleep.

he was 92 years old.

jp1692

I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing about your relationship.

"Each and every tear is a memory. And when you feel so intensely all that you have lost, you are also remembering everything that you have had. And that is beautiful ...” - Daniel O’Brien

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Just wanted to share my little bit of good news.

by nicolaou in

i haven't been posting here much lately, i think i only created one topic in 2018!

but this is worth it.. i am a grandfather 😊.

it happens all the time but damn, it feels good.

jp1692

Congrats!

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Flawed Website

by pinkpizza in

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friends

when i first seen this website i actually thought it was a jw website hence the home page and not an ex jw website and i posted a topic thinking people were real witnesses then i quickly discovered it was not and all these people were commenting and embarrassing me and i couldn’t even delete the thread.

then i asked the admin to delete it and i said it was very misleading saying it’s a jw page and he’s like are you serious i deleted your topic and now you are attacking me and it clearly says ex jw page.

he was very rude and btw no where does it say ex jw and you should be able to delete your own threads you start.

jp1692

Here, from the top of the home/landing page for anyone that can read:

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New JW phrase: bouquet of truth

by ohnightdivine in

i heard it from someone who attended the latest wt study, and quickly posted it with - you guessed it - a picture of a lovely flower bouquet.

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"how big is your bouquet of truth?".

jp1692

Image result for dead flowers

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Armageddon has started in Astoria, Queens

by ShirleyW in

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friends

now we know that the con ed plant in astoria, queens had an explosion, but before anyone knew what the heck was going on, so many people were posting on social media their pictures of the "strange blue circle light" that was in the sky this evening,usually st. johns which is near me has a fireworks display after a game, i thought this doesn't look like fireworks, much brighter and no sound, it actually looked like it was 4pm in the afternoon right before the sun leaves the sky.. i live in the jamaica section of queens (just up from trump's foot dr. if you saw that article in nytimes.

com the other day) and haven't lost power but laguardia is dark now, no flights in are out.

just wondering how the old school dubs that saw the lights outside window, thought "finally, the big a is here" !.