Well, yeah. When you go on and on about your "transparency" in your mission statement, of course explanation/justification for your behavior is implied/expected.
fizzywiglet
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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fizzywiglet
Oh, Richard Kelly ("interim president") is also getting flak in the comments section of their main homepage for calling JWs "brain-dead" ("mentally diseased", anybody?) http://aawa.co/about-aawa/
They forget that they used to be JWs, too. We all did.
They're just far too histrionic and knee-jerk to ever be a good public representative. Not a shred of diplomacy, tact, or forethought. They're doing a brilliant job lending credence to the "rabid apostate" stereotype, though.
"We're sooooo religiously neutral! We want to meet with the leaders of you brain-dead sheeple . You know, for reform and stuff! What, you don't believe in our sincerity? *flips off a Kingdom Hall* Well, that just shows how brain-dead you are!" -
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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fizzywiglet
Yeah; would have been easy enough to say "We didn't realize; sorry! It won't happen again!" But instead they're shredding people in the comments. Lovely. Truly, they excel at the sensitivity and delicacy required to publicly represent an entire community. Beacons of wisdom and healing for us all.
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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fizzywiglet
It's historically used to mock the way Asian immigrants speak. It's kind of typically grouped with yellowface, Mickey Rooney playing a "Chinaman", and words like "gook" and "slanty eyes".
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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fizzywiglet
It's not the Sparlock thing. It's that there's a recurring column called "Engerish Prease?" It's a racist phrase used to mock Asians and was an insensitive choice, at best. Would be easy enough for them to go "Oh, crap...our bad. Sorry." But nope. Instead they gotta berate people who point it out. Nice.
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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fizzywiglet
I love the typical knee-jerk response in the comments section of berating their readers instead of going, "Huh, OK, you might have a point there...we didn't think of that; we'll fix it." Instead it's "If you don't like it, don't read! You're not our demographic, just move on! You're not allowed to criticize if you see something you don't like; that's our job alone! You know what, we're not even READING your concerns! Go ahead and write 200-word-posts; you're just trolls and we're not even READING your responses!"
Great way to make people feel like you're a sympathetic ear. Or, god forbid, a professional taking into account the feelings of those you claim to represent.
"Waaaaaaaaaah, nobody told us that being a public organization means people are actually going to look at the things we post and maybe criticize them!"
But, you know, what are you expecting from the people who take pictures of themselves flipping off Kingdom Halls and call it "activism"? Yeah; these are the people who should be the voice of ex-JWs in the media.
I also find Cedars' departure after all that crazycakes kerfuffle, after he did the flounce off JWN and trashed everybody who dared criticize AAWA's actions...so very hilarious.
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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
I started replying to friends who mass-forwarded crap to me with one word: "Unsubscribe". It seemed to do the job.
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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.