Posts by Captain Blithering

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Just realized I hadn't posted my story here yet

by Newly Enlightened in

i've been so busy on other subjects and other people's interesting stories that i had not noticed that i had not posted my story on this forum yet.

kind of boring.

the usual.

Captain Blithering

Heya Newly Enlightened,

I've just watched ALL of the video you posted, just wanted to say well done for maintaining your cool through that unfounded interrogation, and well done for having such a great family that made such a good defense for you!

I was watching it thinking 'Just a year ago I would've been thinking this was justified', NOW I'm thinking how UTTERLY ridiculous it seems! Funny how we change eh? (or become normal).

Really pleased you've got your family with you, it must be so much easier taking a stand side by side.

Good work!

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NEW video on Youtube MUST SEE! the elder's meeting is ridiculous!

by Newly Enlightened in

brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.

both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.

thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.

Captain Blithering

WHERES CALEB -

It's easy enough to say 'be smarter than them', but I just arent! And in confrontation or having to argue, my brain just refuses to work. Sure, after the event, I can come up with ALL sorts of argumentation/reasonings, but it's too late by then!

I used to be an elder, I just went by the book and did what I was told (largely), but I HATED the judicial side of it all, I felt I shouldn't have been there, shouldn't have been privy to these deep personal aspects of people's lives that they'd confided to us or we'd had brought to our attention.

And some of the problems were the type that needed COUNSELLING, proffessionals should've been involved, not just some idiots with a pre-written 'do more praying/service/study' mantra.

I WISH I could run rings round the bullys, as was shown so very well in the OP video, but I'm just not that kind of person with that kind of brain!

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Ripping a persons faith away, a heavy responsibility?

by Seraphim23 in

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Captain Blithering

STILL THINKING,

cheers buddy, i am INDEED here!

but my point was that I might have been here years ago if I wasn't (admittedly closed-mindedly) insulted by some of the speech I read on here in my research.

I'm not having a go, I'm purely telling it from my point of view, how I felt at the time. It was an immediate turnoff, like I could justify research, but not insults.. I CAN tolerate them now though, so insult away!!

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Ripping a persons faith away, a heavy responsibility?

by Seraphim23 in

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Captain Blithering

I can only go on my own experience, I'd visited this board a few times in researching talks when the scriptures were being discussed on here and showed up in google. I didn't mind reading others opinions, others research, others ideas, but as soon as the tone turned nasty, abusive, Insulting, i would click away from the site.

I could justify scriptural discussion no matter the source but i couldn't justify people slagging off my belief system. A PARTICULAR turnoff was people insultingly changing jehovahs name, or calling the Bible the lieble, or such..

I realise now how closed minded I was but, that's the way we're indoctrinated I guess. I can't help but think that if there was no ridicule, no insults, other lurkers might expedite their fading as I might have... I know that's not reasonable knowing how some of you have been treated..

Anyways, gotta go study my washtowel for the fleecing this morning! :-P

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The story of Punkofnice. It was the 'Overlapping' that finally got me out!

by punkofnice in

why i am now a faded apostate after the ridiculous overlapping teaching!.

i was raised in the trooooooooooth and both my parents were pioneers.

over the years i pioneered, was an ms and finally an elder.

Captain Blithering

Aww Bummer man, sorry to hear it's not worked out so well.. Maybe things will turn around for ya, I hope so.

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HA! Take that Watchtower! One less Borg for you!!!!!

by Gojira_101 in

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last week a friend of mine contacted me out of the blue asking if we could have lunch together.

my friend has been studing with the jw's on and off for about 11-12 years i think.

she has told me everytime i see her that she can't wait for jehovah to end this evil world...she can't wait for the new system...the end is so close....etc.. i sent her a message back telling her that i left the jw's and asked her if she had heard that.

Captain Blithering

Brilliant thread, go gojira!

They taught you too well, now that education is biting them in their posterior!

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Maybeso

by MaybeSo in

im very sad, upset and disappointed all at the same time.

why couldnt i just stay away from this dam forum and live my life and blindly dedicated it to the borg.

now i know ttatt, i cant ignore all the facts and all the stories of the great people in this forum.

Captain Blithering

Hey MAYBESO, thanks for posting this thread, saved me a whole lotta typing (in secret, on this tiny phone keypad) and I get to read all the responses as if they were to me! Aces!

I think we're probably at the same point in our journey. Let's hope it all goes swimmingly eh?

Cap'n Blithering

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Establishing the Premises Regarding "Jehovah's Channel"

by Ding in

typically, when the topic of new light arises in discussions with a jw, it come about this way:.

1. wt critic cites discarded doctrines or false prophecies to the jw in order to undermine his faith in the gb.. 2. jw counters by citing proverbs 4:18, saying that changes are fine because the light gets brighter and brighter.. 3. wt critic gets frustrated because any sort of nonsense can be overlooked via that type of thought-stopping "logic.".

perhaps a better approach is to start by asking the jw to explain how the "jehovah's channel of communication" process works.

Captain Blithering

This is brilliant, thanks for laying it out so clearly.

We should start a new section on the forum 'apostate ministry school', ways to convey the message ever more clearly!

(work on gestures, i didnt see ONE!)

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The story of Punkofnice. It was the 'Overlapping' that finally got me out!

by punkofnice in

why i am now a faded apostate after the ridiculous overlapping teaching!.

i was raised in the trooooooooooth and both my parents were pioneers.

over the years i pioneered, was an ms and finally an elder.

Captain Blithering

Good to read mister punk, i know some time has passed, but i dont know your current situation regarding your wife... We have travelled similarly parallel paths, I'm hoping it doesn't necessarily go the same way with my missus....

Thanks for posting. Always a right rivetting read.

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Skydiving/Parachuting. A disfellowship offense?

by stealthmode-brazil in

i'm an active witness from brazil (who would leave if it weren't for my family/friends inside) and always dreamed about practicing skydiving.

but as radical sports are a no-no for witnesses... i wonder if any elder or ex-elder on this forum knows if an active jw, practices skydiving/parachuting once and/or regularly, can he or she be disfellowship on that basis?

i'm considering secretly jumping but afraid if someone finds out.

Captain Blithering

If you do go, don't tell anyone you're doing it. For your sake AND theirs.

I knew a young brother who'd done loads of jumps, he eventually died when his chute didn't open. Not long after, all his mates (brothers in the local congs who DID know about his jumping) got a right grilling and even a local needs talk about covering over sins of someone else... You wouldn't BELIEVE how insensitive that was. Oh wait, yes you probably would.