"Cards Against Humanity?" You are definitely not participating in upbuilding conversation, sister!
(By the way, spell-check flags "upbuilding" whenever I type it. Must be another bogus JW word...)
Captain Schmideo2
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Oh My God, we associated with "worldly people!"
by ToesUp inand the outcome....we had a blast!
guess what?
no sex on the table with the other mate (swapping), no cocaine snorting or weed smoking.
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Well written, scathing article that summarises first 3 days of RC hearing.
by Pants of Righteousness inthere's been quite a number newspaper articles quoted over the past week, but i would recommend this as a good summary of the first three days of the royal commission hearing in australia - complete with some scathing commentary.. apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but have not seen this posted previously.. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2015/08/01/royal-commission-examines-jehovah-witnesses-cover/14383512002194.
just one thing that is not quite right is that the article refers to joe bello as a narrogin elder.
the assualts took place while the victim was part of the narrogin congregation.
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Captain Schmideo2
"This commission has given us a dire procession of men – and it is almost always men – whose graceless and immodest authority is finally being tested. Priests, pastors and principals. Community elders who wore their stature proudly, while poisoning their fiefdoms. Men who demanded fealty from women and children, but allowed them to be abused. Men allegedly anointed by the Holy Spirit, but who farmed rapists.
And it is now these men – senior administrators and community leaders – who profess serial ignorance. Men who demanded respect, but who now ask for simple questions to be repeated. Solipsists who qualify their transgressions and disavow their catastrophes. Men who are both verbose and inarticulate. Repeatedly in these hearings we have seen men who must make a strategic choice to portray themselves as either bumbling or mendacious. "
Love it!
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Big Concepts That JWs Won't Even Allow Themselves To Consider
by JW_Rogue inbecause of the belief that the bible is quite literally the word god jws must shut out many logical concepts and theories.
it's not just evolution although that is a large one.
i know when i was in there were certain concepts that made sense to me but i would try not to think about them too much.
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Captain Schmideo2
You want to talk big?
Okay, let's talk about Big Jobs!
The day After Armageddon, there's going to be more than dead bodies to clean up. I would suppose there would be the job of cleaning up the wreckage from all that equipment piloted by those evil worldly people, such as jetliners, huge shipping vessels, and what not.
I just watched on Nova, the PBS TV show, about the salvaging of The Costa Concordia, the passenger cruise ship that wrecked off the coast of Italy back in January, 2012. The operation was a complex job, involving the engineering and building of a surrounding superstructure, special custom made steel rods, inflation gear, concrete supports, and hundreds of specialized laborers. It took almost a year and a half to raise to a vertical position, and almost another year before they could float it out of the area. And the operation has cost a mere $2 Billion Dollars.
Now, multiply an operation like this by the hundreds, and think on how many of the "brothers" are high end engineers, architects, scientists, and the like.
I was at an assembly last summer, where all that had to be done on the last day was arrange for shuttle buses to get a few hundred to off site parking. It was a Mongolian Cluster F***. We ended up hailing a taxi and sharing with others that were stuck there 2 hours later than planned. Leaving a very large group behind still waiting. If they can't get a simple task done like this, under relatively stable conditions, how the hell are they going to do major restoration? Hand everyone a broom and pail? Judging from what I saw that Sunday evening, everyone who survive Armageddon will die within a week if left to the care of "those in charge."
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Band Green Day and JWs
by hardtobeme ina few years ago i heard of a story about two jw's being at a green day concert.
i think that the witnesses were bethelites.
the person that told me that story said that the band was about to play but they couldn't.
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Found this on the SNOPES discussion board:
"The way I heard it was that Bob Denver was doing a TRIBUTE to John Denver (you know how much they looked alike, and Bob strummed a mean guitar) and one night when the crowd got all inflamed by a ragin' version of "Stairway to Rocky Mountain High," somebody threw a JW onto the stage and Bob bit his head off. He said later he thought it was a rubber JW, though."It's funny on so many different levels.
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"God by the Neck" short film
by wolfman85 innow you can see the full short movie online.
storyline: its sunday, and pablo, 8 years old, has an invitation to a very special but also forbidden birthday party.
its sunday, and for the first time, pablo is going on a door-to-door preaching with his mother.
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"Jehovah's Testicles". You don't know how many times I have said that in my mind with my poor Spanish...
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Statement in today's WT
by stillin inparagraph 14.
"the majority if unmarried youths who lose their virginity say that they regret what they did.".
where do they get this stuff?.
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"Davey and Goliath" contrasted with "Sophie and Caleb's" indoctrination. 1950s and 1960s Sunday Christian TV vs the Cult.
by The1975Blues in"i do not mean by a christian any person who tries to live decently according to his lights.
i think that you must have a certain amount of definite belief before you have a right to call yourself a christian.
the word does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning now as it had in the times of st. augustine and st. thomas aquinas.
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For a more realistic approach to how religious devotion can affect the mental abilities of a child, I give you..Moral Orel.
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Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible
by Captain Schmideo2 ina friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
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Some millenniums, he can be a right cranky bastard!
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Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible
by Captain Schmideo2 ina friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
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Great Defense Strategy:
Q- Why did you participate in barbarities such as slaughter, rape, theft, arson, and pillage against a rival tribe?
A- Because it wasn't barbaric at the time? Actually, your honor, in my defense, the term "Barbaric" is derived from the Latin root word for "bearded ones", and, since Latin wasn't invented yet, I cannot be tried for "barbarism", since such a term did not exist in my day.
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Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible
by Captain Schmideo2 ina friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
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A friend linked this on his Facebook page, sharing:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/
One quote that stood out for me:
"Granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that I call bibliolatry, and Bible worship can make a person’s moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the Iron Age tribesmen who wrote the texts. (I once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses rationalized the Old Testament slaughter of children with the same words Nazis used to justify the slaughter of Jewish babies.)"