Tempest in a Teacup

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  What I Like About This Forum...

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  ...is that it gives me insight into jw circles i'd otherwise never know.. my mother loathes gossip and derives a personal pleasure in shutting jw gossips up.

  as a family, we belong to that boring side of the congregation which never hear any of the juicy stories on the going-ons in the hall.. this forum however makes it possible to have a real panoramic view of the whole thingy.

  from the gb to bethel, to the elders and their families, to the ninja-pioneer army, and many other cliques in the congregations.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  ...is that it gives me insight into jw circles I'd otherwise never know.

  My mother loathes gossip and derives a personal pleasure in shutting jw gossips up. As a family, we belong to that boring side of the congregation which never hear any of the juicy stories on the going-ons in the hall.

  This forum however makes it possible to have a REAL panoramic view of the whole thingy. From the GB to bethel, to the elders and their families, to the ninja-pioneer army, and many other cliques in the congregations. Over here there's always someone 'representing' each of those classes in the hall.

  It's amazing but at the same time, it's such an obvious rule of life. If you want to have a wholistic view of something, be willing to take a few steps away from it.

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  New Marriage Arrangement Rumor?

  by Thoughtless in

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  so, i haven't lurked here in a long while however, i have been checking up more frequently and i saw that there is a rumor going around about getting barred from marriage if the brother not appointed by the time he is 23. is that true?

  if it is, i am so screwed haha.

  proud fader present within college.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  One night this senseless rule came out of a smelly person's reflections on life.

  At the other side of the planet, a "zealous and spiritual" , well meaning sister will meet a brother who doesn't fit this temporary-only-apply-it-to-others criteria. She will ditch him, convinced that she's doing the right thing.

  She'll go marry somebody who'll be a mismatch to her, but she'll see him as okay because he falls under this 'good brother' category.

  She'll end up regretting her decision when she'll see that people who invented this rule are letting their own kids marry whoever they want.

  And life will go on in jw world with bitterness...

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  JW Romantic Approach Techniques

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  of course these can differ from one culture to the other.

  but some are found exclusively on jw planet.

  like..." sis/bro, do you mind preaching with me on saturday?".

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Sure bro Sir. Just so you could catch a glimpse of what a submissive, caring and spiritual spouse I'm gonna be for you
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  JW Romantic Approach Techniques

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  of course these can differ from one culture to the other.

  but some are found exclusively on jw planet.

  like..." sis/bro, do you mind preaching with me on saturday?".

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Lol. Consider that as an official engagement!

  You're just trying to keep it clean. You must be a really determined specimen to be able to extend your arm accross those 15 people in between you just so you could brush those boobies.
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  JW Romantic Approach Techniques

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  of course these can differ from one culture to the other.

  but some are found exclusively on jw planet.

  like..." sis/bro, do you mind preaching with me on saturday?".

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Of course these can differ from one culture to the other. But some are found exclusively on JW planet. Like..." Sis/bro, do you mind preaching with me on Saturday?"

  Btw, in the case of 'seriously searching sisters', if she likes you, you can be sure that all the 'wedding' details will be thoroughly mentally processed even before that Saturday preaching

  Do you know of other methods?

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  Why are extraterrestrials pictured in ugly form in movies?

  by abiather in

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  humans have produced many movies on extraterrestrials.

  yet all of them are shown in ugly form.

  why cant we depict an et more beautiful/handsome than humans.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  all of them are shown in ugly form.

  I think all they do is to imagine creatures that look different from humans. 'Ugly' is a judgement we pronounce on them using human standards and beauty criteria.
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

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  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Still in too. In my hall there's one bro I strongly feel is an undercover agent :) . I feel so due to the nature of his comments, how he presents his TMS parts and how quick he is at picking on jw behavior.
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  Have you met people in the "world" who are more commited to their christian believes than JWs?

  by nevaagain in

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  i met a coworker at my work who was even more commited to his religion then almost anybody i had seen in the jw mids yet.

  whenever we went for lunch, he would do a little prayer first, he didnt care if anybody would take notice of him.

  he does not curse, never!

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  I do. I must say it's a cultural thing in my country. People take religion really seriously, and I mean that they LIVE their religions with every breath.

  Over here jws are just one of many...
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  The Watchtower organization's crime against humanity

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  who are the real heroes of society?.

  are they not the people who are doctors and nurses and teachers and firemen and policemen and counselors and humanitarians?.

  because of the watchtower organization, we are missing generations of those kinds of heroes who will not exist (but could have) because jehovah's witnesses destroyed them by convincing millions of it's members those professions are meaningless and unimportant for them to pursue.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  ...deliberately ignorant people of no use to themselves, their families or mankind.
  What is such a person capable of except Kamikaze ethics?

  Words like these keep me going. Sometimes you live a certain reality but you sort of re-discover it when it's translated into appropriate words.
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  JWs and the making of many books

  by Magnum in

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  ecc 12:12 - "to the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh.".

  i just never could keep up with all the jw reading material.

  as a zealous jw, it was my desire to read every word published by the org, but i just couldn't do it.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Ecc 12:12 - "To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh."

  
  

  Throughout last year, this verse was routinely used to berate higher education. I'd just think to myself: LOOK WHO IS TALKING?!!?

  There was this witness I used to discuss the stupid education policy with, who called me after an assembly, excited to discover a bible verse 'supporting the GB stand on education' and quoted it.

  I asked her if it was logic that a non-stop-book-oozing-organization was even allowed to use that verse against anyone else, and that THE WT SHOULD BE THE LAST ENTITY ON EARTH TO QUOTE THAT VERSE.

  Because even big book publishing companies and newspapers do not forcefully impose on their readership to continually "study" the material they publish the way the WT does.