I started replying to friends who mass-forwarded crap to me with one word: "Unsubscribe". It seemed to do the job.
fizzywiglet
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Wow, the crap that they will believe....
by okage inabout a week ago, i posted that my sister in law believes the earthquake in china is proof that there are more earthquakes today than before.
i posted the details that i sent her that show hands down that there is no increase in earthquakes.
and i also posted that she never replied.
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Wow, the crap that they will believe....
by okage inabout a week ago, i posted that my sister in law believes the earthquake in china is proof that there are more earthquakes today than before.
i posted the details that i sent her that show hands down that there is no increase in earthquakes.
and i also posted that she never replied.
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fizzywiglet
My JW little sister is like that. She would forward EVERY chain-letter, EVERY "joke" email, EVERY hoax, etc. To her ENTIRE email list - everyone in the congregation, her family, friends, coworkers, etc. Not to mention those JW "experience" and "urban legend" emails.
It all came to a head when she forwarded a couple hundred people (including me) that incredibly stupid "Microsoft will pay you $245 for each person you forward this email to NO REALLY IT WAS TOTALLY ON THE NEWS!" chain email. I sat her down and was like, "This is Snopes. You need to check Snopes. You need to stop spamming people with everything. It's rude, and irritating, not to mention what you sent them was completely false. You need to JUST STOP. Seriously, you're 22 years old; how could you possibly believe this is a real thing? You should apologize to all of the people you just forwarded this hoax to. You do not need to auto-forward everything you receive to everybody you know."
Yeah, she got hysterical and started crying and screaming at me. She did not apologize to anybody. She kept forwarding hoaxes and chain emails and pyramid schemes. And then she got scammed by somebody in Nigeria who wanted to buy a desk she listed on Craigslist, and all she had to do was cash his fake money order and send him back the difference and the desk...(no, lest you ask, she did not question why somebody in Africa wanted to buy a cheap mass-produced Ikea desk from L.A.)
You get the picture. They're gullible, and often kind of crazy. And they don't take constructive criticism well. The trifecta.
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Awake 1980- Movie "The Exorcist 1+2 will cause demonic attacks and murders!
by Witness 007 inawake 1980 had a mission.
attack these two movies!
voted: "the scariest movie of all time," this is what was said about "the exorcist" and the sequel.. awake 1980 12/8 p.11 "since the release of "the exorcist some years ago, many reports are on file of the adverse effects it had on many who saw it.
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fizzywiglet
Another Urban legend:
Chris de Burgh was playing on stage and lulled into the mic: "If there are Witnesses in this jam-packed concert hall, please leave otherwise my guitar demon will play very badly or not at all and I can't afford to pay the tickets back to thousands of people."
Or something like that. Chris de Burghs guitar-playing demon. Nice. Idiots.
I was told a similar urban legend by my mom, except it was John Denver. And there was no demon; he just hated Jehovah's Witnesses and allegedly invited any JWs in the audience to leave at the beginning of every concert (suuuuuuuure he did).
The legend continued that he was on the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson ordered him off the show because he had JWs on his staff (never happened, of course).
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Awake 1980- Movie "The Exorcist 1+2 will cause demonic attacks and murders!
by Witness 007 inawake 1980 had a mission.
attack these two movies!
voted: "the scariest movie of all time," this is what was said about "the exorcist" and the sequel.. awake 1980 12/8 p.11 "since the release of "the exorcist some years ago, many reports are on file of the adverse effects it had on many who saw it.
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fizzywiglet
My JW mom told me that at the premiere of The Exorcist, the movie screen burst into flames, indicating demonic approval (I can find no news sources to back this up, of course, lol). Am I the only one who ever heard that story? I assumed it must have been some JW-specific urban legend, like the Smurf thing.
Still have not seen The Exorcist, though. I like ghost movies like The Ring; but even though I'm now an atheist, I still can't stomach movies about demons.
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fizzywiglet
I know, right? You're on the board of an organization that claims they want to "help" JWs and exJWs. Yeah, stunts like that won't feed the persecution complex at all. When the "mainstream media" you claim to be courting asks you what wonderful things your "remarkable" organization has achieved thus far, you can tell them that you started a Facebook photojournal of people flipping off Kingdom Halls. So subversive and daring. While you're at it, how about you chain yourselves to the Kingdom Hall fence during the Memorial and spit on their cars as they enter and exit?
But gay people? Oh, my stars and garters, we wouldn't want to touch that subject with a ten-foot pole.
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LMAO I guess their board members and administrators are only OK with completely inoffensive pics like this (That's Bo Juel Jensen. He started a "Flip the Bird at Kingdom Halls" photojournal project a couple of days ago and has asked for/received several more submissions. Eesh, let me know how that whole "we're totally a religiously-neutral not-a-hate-group human rights organization" thing goes for ya.)
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MUST READ: Books for Young JWs - a Required Reading List
by Oubliette ini've been contemplating a list of works of fiction that should be read by every young jehovah's witness, (12 - 18 years old).
the goal is to plant seeds of truth and critical thinking skills which could ultimately invoking cognitive dissonance and help them wake up to the truth about "the truth" (ttatt).
my idea is an adaptation of steven hassan's approach of not attacking a cult members beliefs directly, but rather indirectly by getting them to look at other similar belief systems and social structures, in this case fictional ones that mirror many of the destructive, oppressive features of jehovah's witnesses.
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fizzywiglet
I, Lucifer by Glenn Duncan
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
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How to Take Down the AAWA! (For those that have been hurt by that org)
by HintOfLime in(if you're tired of aawa threads, please be aware, this is an aawa thread.).
sadly - there are people who have been negatively affected by the aawa, and like other organizations, the aawa made protecting it's name and reputation a priority over helping and protecting the people it should have been trying to help.
like other organizations, they won't discuss the issues publicly with the community, insisting instead on discussions behind closed doors and "getting the names" of people expressing concerns.. .
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fizzywiglet
@dazed You're a terrible person. *scrubs brain with bleach and lye*
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did any of you jW read orwells 1984 or Animal Farm
by nonjwspouse inread them while you werre still active and didn't know ttatt yet?.
i am wonderiing about your thoughts, and did you read, recognise, anything that disturbed you, familiariaties.
did you notice them?.
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fizzywiglet
Yes, and also Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. There were little things I noticed and they were among the first books that inspired critical thoughts towards the organization. But I was younger, in my early teens, so leaving the JWs was not even a consideration at that point. It took a while for it to really register.
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How to Take Down the AAWA! (For those that have been hurt by that org)
by HintOfLime in(if you're tired of aawa threads, please be aware, this is an aawa thread.).
sadly - there are people who have been negatively affected by the aawa, and like other organizations, the aawa made protecting it's name and reputation a priority over helping and protecting the people it should have been trying to help.
like other organizations, they won't discuss the issues publicly with the community, insisting instead on discussions behind closed doors and "getting the names" of people expressing concerns.. .
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fizzywiglet
LMAO. That South Park bit is exactly what I thought of first when Lime referenced BP. And then a horrifying moment of envisioning Cedars naked on a bearskin rug.
