20yearfader

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  The Venting Thread

  by minimus in

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  this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

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  i hate it when people cut me off when i'm driving my 18 wheeler.they have no idea that i can't stop on a dime and they also fail to realize the destructive power of a heavy truck i will slice through that little fiberglass car like a hot knife through butter and trust me you aren't walking away from that type of accident
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  What are your favourite movie lines/quotes????

  by karter in

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  ''well there's one thing you got ta ask yourself punk....you felling lucky...well do ya punk".....clint eastwood dirty harry.. "it's life jim but not as we know it" capt kirk star treck..

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  i would say devil's advacate when al pacino is playing the devil and he says god says look but don't touch,touch but don't taste,taste but don't swallow...i'm a fan of man
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  How would you define RELIGION, and why?

  by Fernando in

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  "judge" rutherford defined or classified all religion as "a snare and a racket" in his books "religion" and "enemies".. after rutherford's death in 1942, his protege, watchtower vice president, and aclu darling, hayden c. covington, in the early 1950's, for reasons of legal expedience and supremacist aspirations, suddenly converted the watchtower into a religion.. this was done alongside one of the most audacious, spurious and longstanding swindles of the us legal system.

  this involved twisting philippians 1:7 and misrepresenting the watchtower's true nature, objectives and activities.. .

  this meant that it became necessary for the watchtower to suddenly reclassify and redefine religion (w51 1/15 p. 43 new legal booklet well named; w51 8/15 p. 511 questions from readers; yb75 p. 161 part 2 "for gladys bolton...").. two new watchtower classifications were suddenly created: "true religion" and "false religion".. now "true religion" meant "true beliefs" whilst "belief" in ever changing watchtower doctrine was equated with the one "faith" of scripture.. all this while the watchtower increasingly and maliciously truncated, obfuscated and hid the liberating full "good news" (or unabridged gospel) of scripture, which it lyingly claimed (in court) that it was actually "defending and legally establishing".. how would you have defined religion before learning ttatt?.

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  religion:designed to hold mankind back.belief in invisible creatures that somehow influence daily life,for the weak or those that choose to hide their head in the sand and not deal with reality
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  What is your biggest gripe with the WT and it's teachings?

  by FL_Panthers in

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  as the title says, please list what you find annoying with the organization..

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  20yearfader

  everything

  even the one holiday we celebrate sucked

  talking snakes.....please

  talking donkeys...unreal

  shunning...this one really gets my goat

  1914 teaching....have seen so many of my relatives die believing in this pipe dream

  demons are everywhere.....caused a couple of my family members to lose their mind

  elders are future princes.........if those people are to be the princes where do i sign up for the revolt?
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

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  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  it was only nice cause i was a kid and didnt know any better but even as a kid it was too restrictive

  i hated field service

  i hated the ministry school

  i hated celebrating absolutely nothing and never getting anything

  i hated out of a class of 5 witnesses being the only one ever freaking year that had the balls to speak up and tell the new teacher what we did and didnt celebrate

  i hated the bible based butt whippings i use to get

  so you see i would have left anyway no matter how fun the district conventions an dramas back then were
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  How old were you when you left the Watchtower - SURVEY

  by usualusername in

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  i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .

  i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .

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  0-15 baptized left at 17
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  What happens after you get the registered letter?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.

  she's in her early 20's.

  she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.

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  man this is a sick sick cult there like getting herpers or something they just dont want to leave you alone.sending letters in the mail unreal surprised i never got one.
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  In your memory, what was the nicest day you had out in field service?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  for me, that happy day was in morro bay, calif. it was the fall, oct 1958 or 9. gorgeous weather.

  the sun was shining and the wind was coming off of the ocean.. at that time, morro bay was unassigned territory.. talesin on another thread was talking about a lovely day she had, going with her grandfather, talking with a mr languages.

  lol.

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  The day i stopped going
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  I am on the edge of a freak out ..... I think???

  by DATA-DOG in

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  so the rc really sucked, but i made it through.

  the propaganda was mind blowing.

  i don't know if the crap will be available on the official website or not, but hopefully it gets leaked somehow.

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  hey data dog i have always enjoyed your post and this one this one would be so so comical if it wasnt so true i can feel your pain, i look at my parents an consider them a lost cause same might be true of your wife,but your daughter is young please please hang in there dont let her childhood get stolen like so many of ours

  You started a new job is it possible to relocate to another city with that job perhaps they have openings in other cities or at the very least a time schedule that interfers with meeting times.

  In the meantime get a drink and relax i hate seeing someone's back against the wall because of this destructive cult
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  i would say the conventions at the capitol center in landover,md in the early 80s were fun seeing all your family and friends getting those food tickets to buy cheese danishes mmmmm the good ole days