Posts by OneGenTwoGroups

ok, 4 questions sprang to mind in light of the recent elders letter.. if you get to the kingdom hall and its on fire, brother a says he saw brother b set it ablaze purposely, .

who do you call first and why?

if you get to the kingdom hall and the sound system has been stolen, sister a says she saw brother b loading it onto his van,.

OneGenTwoGroups

What if your house ... your family ...

WHAT IF YOUR DOPE WAS ON FIRE??!!!??

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Suffering with "Bridge-over-River-Kwai-syndrome" while fading

by OneGenTwoGroups in

i've never liked being late for meetings, 10 minutes early has always been 5 minutes late for me.

i'm a very punctual atheist at the meetings still.. when someone asks a simple question from the platform and not one dummy raises their hand, i still feel the need to raise my hand so that we don't all look like idiots.. my shoes still need to be clean and polished, my suits and ties match and are in good shape.

i never wear them anywhere else.. i still feel like saying hello to people that are obviously being ignored by everyone else.. people not singing out still bugs me, lol.

OneGenTwoGroups

Do you ever ask anyone to pull your finger when it's quiet?

It's on the list now. LOL

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Suffering with "Bridge-over-River-Kwai-syndrome" while fading

by OneGenTwoGroups in

i've never liked being late for meetings, 10 minutes early has always been 5 minutes late for me.

i'm a very punctual atheist at the meetings still.. when someone asks a simple question from the platform and not one dummy raises their hand, i still feel the need to raise my hand so that we don't all look like idiots.. my shoes still need to be clean and polished, my suits and ties match and are in good shape.

i never wear them anywhere else.. i still feel like saying hello to people that are obviously being ignored by everyone else.. people not singing out still bugs me, lol.

OneGenTwoGroups

Answering questions, giving talks--hell, just showing up--has the potential impact of inadvertently helping recruitment and retention. You are another person that others look to as an example of a happy JW.
Go and build a life worth living.
Polish your shoes and wear your suits out to dinner at a nice restaurant. Give talks at Toastmasters. Say hello to the ignored people at atheist meetup groups. Join a choir. There. I just replaced all of your positive jw activities.

I sometimes wonder what's worse, fading from NAMBLA or fading from the JW cult.

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Suffering with "Bridge-over-River-Kwai-syndrome" while fading

by OneGenTwoGroups in

i've never liked being late for meetings, 10 minutes early has always been 5 minutes late for me.

i'm a very punctual atheist at the meetings still.. when someone asks a simple question from the platform and not one dummy raises their hand, i still feel the need to raise my hand so that we don't all look like idiots.. my shoes still need to be clean and polished, my suits and ties match and are in good shape.

i never wear them anywhere else.. i still feel like saying hello to people that are obviously being ignored by everyone else.. people not singing out still bugs me, lol.

OneGenTwoGroups

I've never liked being late for meetings, 10 minutes early has always been 5 minutes late for me. I'm a very punctual atheist at the meetings still.

When someone asks a simple question from the platform and not one dummy raises their hand, I still feel the need to raise my hand so that we don't all look like idiots.

My shoes still need to be clean and polished, my suits and ties match and are in good shape. I never wear them anywhere else.

I still feel like saying hello to people that are obviously being ignored by everyone else.

People not singing out still bugs me, LOL. Hey, we're supposed to be singing!

Recently I've thought about re-joining the school, but limiting myself to just Bible readings, why? boredom?

Not sticking around to talk afterwards still feels bizarre, even though I usually leave earlier now than I used to. I would lock up many times not too long ago.

I still talk fondly of LDC (formerly RBC) work, and may do some more before my fade is through.

Not sure how much more of this "Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson" I'm going to generate for myself.

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Reinstated and then fade

by Zeds Dead in

i'm a man - d'fd for 2.5 years now and divorced.

find it hard to date girls out here only due to always having this secret i carry with me that i was once a jw and the thought of telling a girl one day why my family don't acknowledge me as even alive.. recently been thinking of trying to get reinstated and then do a quick fade as i cant go back to the whole jw stuff.. easier said than done and was turned down twice by elders after an immediate attempt 2 years ago.. my motivation for trying would be 1.

) to see if family make contact and 2) play the last hand in their game and give the middle finger.. interested in viewpoints?.

OneGenTwoGroups

It's so strange, everyone I tell that I'm an ex JW find it endearing. They find it interesting and cool. And no big deal.

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"Belief" and "Faith" are Simply Emotional Terms for Ideas and Opinions (long post)

by xjwsrock in

this is my current bottom-line conclusion after starting to see through the jw game 3 to 4 years ago and going through my own process of waking up.

it helps to write it down and put it "out there".

i hope it helps or resonates with you in your own personal process.. basically if i were given 10 seconds to say something to an active jehovah's witness that i cared about it would be the headline above.

OneGenTwoGroups

Dear Perry,

There is no need to accept any model of autobioenesis in order to realize the Bible is a pile of crap.

I agree with Cofty's summation of Yahweh's character (I may express it a little differently), now you've met two of us.

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Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

by notjustyet in

while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

OneGenTwoGroups

Kudos for thinking of this for an OP!

So damn true!

I'm gonna retain this point in the memory banks.

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How to Fade - The Basics!

by The Searcher in

jw
friends

this really works.

i've already applied the basics of this with one elder who "offered" us a shepherding visit.

we've been totally ignored since!!!

OneGenTwoGroups

"right now"

Those simple words, make all the difference.