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  My mom and dad told me that I'm an apostate and that they want to 'limit their association' with me!!!

  by Joliette in

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  a series of events led up to an arugment with my parents last night.

  my mom and dad told me that they found my videos that i was doing on youtube, and they told me that i was an apostate.

  they said that they would help me if it was an emergency, but other then that, they didnt want anything to do with me.

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  ColdRedRain

  It might have to come down to a letter like this:

  Dear mom and dad: I'm sorry that you let a religious organization ran by a group of men you will likely never meet in your entire lifetime affect our relationship. We can never speak to each other again. It's clear that you're more loyal to a religion than your own flesh and blood. Despite my well researched criticism of the religion, you decided that the religion was more trustworthy than me. I cannot trust you. Goodbye. Do not talk to me again. You are endangering my mental and emotional health with your conditional love. Any further contact between us will be done via my lawyer.

  Have a nice life.

  That way, you're cutting them off and giving them a guilt trip in return. Including the lawyer angle will further let them know that they screwed the pooch.
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  Watchtower Alternate History

  by ColdRedRain in

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  after the events of 1975, a large section of watchtower believers break away to the dawn bible student movement, turning a once moribound religion into a major church claiming 250k members in the usa.

  the new jw dawn bible students learned from the mistakes of their former church and decide to disavow prophecy.

  however, a schizm forms between the new surge of members and the old guard when the new members clamor for their positions in their previous church.

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  ColdRedRain

  It's not real history, I'm playing around with an alternative timeline to our own. I forgot to put in the introduction. The title should have said "What if there was a larger schizm after the 1975 debacle". But yeah, feel free to play around with Alternate History: JWD style!
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  Watchtower Alternate History

  by ColdRedRain in

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  after the events of 1975, a large section of watchtower believers break away to the dawn bible student movement, turning a once moribound religion into a major church claiming 250k members in the usa.

  the new jw dawn bible students learned from the mistakes of their former church and decide to disavow prophecy.

  however, a schizm forms between the new surge of members and the old guard when the new members clamor for their positions in their previous church.

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  ColdRedRain

  After the events of 1975, a large section of Watchtower believers break away to the Dawn Bible Student movement, turning a once moribound religion into a major church claiming 250K members in the USA.

  The New JW Dawn Bible Students learned from the mistakes of their former church and decide to disavow prophecy. However, a schizm forms between the new surge of members and the old guard when the new members clamor for their positions in their previous church. A few resent their rebaptisms and a schizm is about to form. "Jehovah's Bible Students" form in Southern California. However, the schizm is quickly healed when the DBS movement annonces a new chairman, Raymond Franz. He heals the schizm between the XJWs and the longtime dawnians and accept all baptisms from non-trinitarian churches.

  A religious civil war ensues between the JWs and the DBS. The XJW Dawn Bible students manage to leak a few JW secrets to the media, while the JW movement plays defense and resorts to using lies and espionage on the Dawn Bible Student church. The Dawn Bible Students sue the JW church. The Bad publicity sends the JW religion into a freefall in membership. The JW membership is left with about 500K in the USA alone and 2M worldwide while the Dawn Bible Students have a membership level of about 300K in the USA and 900K worldwide. The Dawn Bible Students become one of the first churches to embrace the internet in the early 1990s, increasing their evangelical reaches further, increasing membership. The Dawn Bible Student Movement then starts making a play for disaffected Christadelphians and members of other cult-like churches, preaching a message of spiritual individualism.

  The Watchtower starts dwindling in ranks and fizzles away by 2030.
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  What Stupid Things Were You Counseled For?

  by minimus in

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  i've always been told that i have a very good personality, that i'm humorous, etc.. one elder called me over and said that i was "smiling too much".

  the other elders talked to the elder who counseled me and he came back to say that i should be like i was .

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  ColdRedRain

  Let's see... listening to rock music, hanging out with the wrong crowd, owning a BB gun, wearing jeans to the KH, wearing a sweatervest or a sweater instead of a suitjacket, playing the electric guitar, going to chat rooms, owning my own website (which was later hacked by some local congregation kids) and watching pro wrestling.
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  Anybody know anything about Scooters?

  by Terry in

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  i have never ridden/driven a motorcycle or a scooter.

  but, i'm thinking about getting one.. in fact, a chinese scooter!.

  they get 100 mpg on gasoline and they are under $900 bucks.. .

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  ColdRedRain

  I ride a 50cc Honda spree. The pros are that 1.45 fills up the machine and it has a range of about 100 miles. The cons are that drivers hardly see you and they're unfamiliar with traffic laws dealing with motorcycles and scooters. You will get your bullies on the road who feel as though you shouldn't be on the road. Don't worry. Learn how to throw left handed so you can throw things like ball bearings or popcorn kernels at their windows if they try to bully you.

  And I see you live in Texas. Unless you live in DFW, Houston, Galveston, San Antonio or Austin proper, I wouldn't buy one. Texas cities are VERY sprawled and the cars there go VERY fast.
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  You have lost your job and your house, your down to your last $1,000. How will you make out at the end of the month?

  by purplesofa in

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  poor people are poor simply cus they cant manage their money, right?

  wrong.

  you have lost your job and your house, you are down to your last $1,000.. how would you make out at the end of the month.. accept the challenge, .

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  3$ for spaghetti sauce!? 750$ for rent!? Which bleeding heart trust fund idiot that wrote this joke?
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  Last Weekend Ever (according to OBVES) Whatcha gonna Do?

  by LostGeneration in

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  obves says the world ends next week, meaning this is the last weekend ever!

  better make it a good one!.

  i'm gonna step out on a limb and predict that i will have at least 1,784 more weekends before my dirt nap starts, so i'm gonna sit on my rear and watch as much college and nfl football as possible.

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  ColdRedRain

  Feel pity for an otherwise functionally intelligent man who based his life on interpreting an anthology whose last book was written 2000 years ago and somehow assumes the book has any other use besides as a vague moral guideline in his life.
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  A question for the economist, roll back the gas prices.

  by jam in

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  the goverment mandate a freeze on oil prices and.

  roll the price back to $2.

  a gallon for two years.. how would it help the economy.

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  ColdRedRain

  OK, I'll bite.

  You can't regulate the price of gas to 2.00 a gallon because the demand for gasoline is way more than 2.00 a gallon. The supply of gasoline in the world doesn't garner a 2.00 gas price. If a product is sold at a price that's markedly below demand, people start hoarding and selling the product at a marked up price on the black or gray market and make a profit. Eventually, the main supply runs out due to the hoarding on the black or gray market and the price goes up as the main supply can no longer support prices at markedly below market prices because demand will eventually outstrip supply and then the price skyrockets.

  You want 2.00 gasoline? Beg your local congressman to start drilling in America. The threat of drilling alone would send gas prices plummeting.
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  Aoirthoir aka Hyghlandyr is back sorta...

  by aoirthoiranbroc in

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  alright so i wanted to catch up on some of my old posts and compare the old wonderful me, to the new wonderful me.

  tried like mad to log in as hyghlandyr and even tried using the email i thought i had subscribbed with.

  but come on, it was like 9 years ago.

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  ColdRedRain

  Hey dude. It's Sponge_Bob_Square_Thong from the old room.
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  30

  by metaspy in

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  hard to believe that i turn 30 today.. i have only been free from the watchtower for maybe 4 years.. it seems so strange to have a birthday party and have people tell me "happy birthday".. .

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  ColdRedRain

  Dig up Jaracz' corpse and then there'll be a behading.