Posts by embalmed

Heh, I love it especially when they feature deforestation. Yeah, this system is so horrible all the rainforests are going to be gone soon and we're helping it along! By publishing thousands of these funny little magazines that will almost certainly end up in the trash at one point or another.

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Song Numbers needed

by Lisa Lefteye in

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does anyone know the first service meeting song numbers for july 14 and 21st respectively?.

lisa

embalmed

Haha, I signed up there awhile back and have gotten two responses. Poor pathetic souls.

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Pulled out of Sex Ed classes

by Nosferatu in

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for those of you who had a jw childhood, were you pulled out of sex education classes?

did it bother your conscience if school surprised you with one?

after being deprived from sex knowledge and since the society doesn't make diagrams, how did you learn about it?

embalmed

Nope. The closest thing I had to a sex-ed class was a month of health. But my mum couldn't care less. You see, HER mother [catholic, not JW] had never told her anything about sex or puberty or any of that, so she wanted to make sure I knew EVERYTHING. Lucky me, eh? I was very confused at first[ I was only 4 or 5 ], I thought sex happened when people were sleeping naked in the same bed, I didn't find out they did that willingly til I was a little older.

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I can't be sure if this is a joke or not...

by embalmed in

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but this website reminds me somewhat of the society.

it's very amusing, particularly the subtitles.

and don't forget the children's page!.

embalmed

But this website reminds me somewhat of the Society. It's very amusing, particularly the subtitles. And don't forget the children's page!

http://objective.jesussave.us/mallmission.html <- reminds me of JWs

http://objective.jesussave.us/index.html <- homepage

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Did you ever feel guilty when you went out in service?

by micheal in

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friends

i'm speaking not about yourself, but for the houeholder.

i would say for about the last 1.5 yrs before i left i didn't want to give a "good witness".

one because i didn't completly believe in it and two, i didn't want the householder to live the same misery i and most others were living.

embalmed

Oooh, yes. As I posted earlier somewhere, when I am forced to go out in service, I slip little notes in the publications to deter would-be JWs.

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Fluff Alert - What's your Blood Type ?

by Trotafox in

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after 57 years, i finally found out today what my blood type is: o negative

so now that we are no longer under the watchtower's ridiculous thumb

trot

embalmed

I'm the universal recipient, AB+. My blood's hardly good for anyone. My mum and sister are the second rarest blood type, B-. Of course they're both JWs too, so there's another waste of blood.

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Did anything a householder said ever make an impression on you?

by Alleymom in

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coming at this as a householder rather than an ex-jw, i'd love to hear from any of you about comments from householders that made an impression on you, back when you were active in the door-to-door work.

since the jw's first knocked at my door 13 years ago, i've done my best to give them something to think about every time they knock at my door.

i always introduce myself by name and try to get their names.

embalmed

An elderly lady was raking her front yard when a small mob of us started talking to her. She looked at me and my sister [we were about 9 and 5 respectively] and ignoring the adults, she said to us "do you really like doing this?" Before I was given a chance to answer, one of the JW women said, "Of course they do!" The old woman had a subtle look of disgust on her face and I could tell she knew I really wasn't enjoying myself.

Another time, when I was maybe 11, I was made to knock the door [despite my socialphobia] and offered the lady inside the magazines. She said, "well, I'll read yours if you'll read mine." I thought that was reasonable enough, and as I was about to accept, the old hag I was with said, "No, we already know enough about other religions." The lady looked a little disappointed, and I thought that was rude of the hag to say something like that. Then when we returned to the car, the hag started boasting how she had "saved" me at a troublesome door. Good lord.

Lastly, I was out with another elderly sister and we came to this door of a big trinity believer. The sister must have spent an hour debating with him and meanwhile, I was standing around kicking the dirt and rocks being bored to death. Finally the man noticed the little girl [me] that was with this crazy lady and said to her, "you even make your kids come out and do this? christ, they're only kids, let them have some fun and stop wasting their lives." At this, the debate was over and I FINALLY got to go back to the car.

Nowadays when I'm forced to go door to door, [when I can't manage to get out of it] I hid little slips of paper in the magazines saying things like "Help me! I'm stuck in a cult!" or "don't fall into the trap, you'll never escape!" Things like that.

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If you could have dinner with any historical person...(top 3 choices)

by Ron1968 in

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if you could have dinner with any athlete, scientist, president, artist, or religious figure what would be your top 3 choices?.

ron

embalmed

1. Salvador Dali OR Crazy Horse [can't pick]
2. Adolf Hitler [Just out of morbid curiousity, I'm not anti-semantic or anything]
3. Charles Manson [again, just morbid curiousity.]