Tempest in a Teacup

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  and Moses came down the mountain on his....DUCATI

  by snare&racket in

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  worst day in the last ten years, was the day i hit 0.00 with one and a half years of university to go.

  nobody to turn to, nobody to ask for help.

  i was 32 and as an ex jw had two family members in contact with me.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Refreshing post!
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  What did you think of the ones that married, “Out of the Truth” but would still defend the WT Teaching?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i conducted the wt study and the article was on marrying only in the lord, it seemed that the ones who commented the most were persons who married a non-jw.

  in fact, they were the ones that always told the young single jw girls to pioneer and never marry a worldly person.

  "because i know what its like and believe me it's no fun" .

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  I thought that it was what every single jw does: cherry picking. The bad becomes good when I am the one doing it.
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  Some common words that are applicable in practical use with the Jehovah's Witnesses Organization

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'll start the ball rolling .... .

  coercive.

  pretentious.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Obscurantist

  Perfunctory

  Intrusive

  Scurvy

  Overbearing

  Snide

  Toxic

  Niggling

  Backward

  Small-minded

  Picayune

  Shoddy

  Despotic

  Shameless
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  I Felt Proud Telling People That Michael Jackson Was Raised a JW

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just remembered this thing this morning:.

  sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.

  we were not in america or anywhere close by.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  Am I the only one here then?!
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  I Felt Proud Telling People That Michael Jackson Was Raised a JW

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just remembered this thing this morning:.

  sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.

  we were not in america or anywhere close by.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  and there he is doing that.

  I don't know what but there's something funny in how you say this. LOL!
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  I Felt Proud Telling People That Michael Jackson Was Raised a JW

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just remembered this thing this morning:.

  sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.

  we were not in america or anywhere close by.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  He was an unbaptized publisher. Never got baptized nor df'ed.
  
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  I Felt Proud Telling People That Michael Jackson Was Raised a JW

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just remembered this thing this morning:.

  sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.

  we were not in america or anywhere close by.

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  I just remembered this thing this morning:
  

  Sharing the same faith with the King of Pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised. We were not in America or anywhere close by. So it came as a real shock to many that the Michael guy used to go to field service.

  It kind of gave me some type of social importance.

  It was always a hit with my high school mates and kind of kept them off my back or at least reduced the mockery. I anticipated and relished the effect on them. lol

  Did you also experience the same feeling, or used it as a way of showing people that this was also the religion of some "important" people?
  
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  Will they jump of the building?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.

  many people are very fragile creatures.

  if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  But...That'S all they're waiting for!!!

  They will say that it's the great tribulation starting and they'll be more than ever united, even if they can't hear from their mother organisation!
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  Do JWs Try To Convert Believers Of Islam?

  by minimus in

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  or do they regard them as they do ultra conservative jews and not waste their time with them, since as a people, they willfully abandoned jesus christ?

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  @T in a T - my willingness to doubt it comes only in part from the media.
  It is also due to jwleaks' thread about the removal of the section in the Reasoning book on preaching to Muslims.

  Did they also call back all publications destined to preach to muslims and ask their members not to preach to muslims?

  So if I understand you well, you can doubt that there many countries with muslims and others living in peace just because the WT Society removed something from its website!?!?

  The worthy question in the OP was Do JWs Try To Convert Believers Of Islam?

  I DID answer THAT question. YOU then picked something that I said and started a different debate altogether.

  Why didn't min ask 'do JWs try to convert protestants/catholics/gays/atheists, etc?'

  Ask Minimus!

  kenyaaa???!!! - 'TV and newspapers' told me about the recent student massacre at the hands of Al Shabaab. Did the media get this wrong?!

  TV and newspapers tell me about massacres of thousands of Americanss in the USA carried out by extremist muslims. Are the people living in the USA out of their minds for that matter?

  Its starting to feel like I'm wasting my time now. It is my wish that you get the opportunity to travel. I truly wish you all the best.
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  Do JWs Try To Convert Believers Of Islam?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or do they regard them as they do ultra conservative jews and not waste their time with them, since as a people, they willfully abandoned jesus christ?

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  Tempest in a Teacup

  -What I think about that is that "exceptions confirm the rule".

  -I also think that some people live far away from a certain type of reality and are fed with too many misconceptions on which the media thrives. I believe they are the ones who make this type of utterance: "Who in their right mind would want to be a Christian living in Mogadishu, or, for that matter, in neighbouring Kenya?

  kenyaaa???!!!

  -I also think that too many people get upset when their media-fed misconceptions about certain places get crushed by people who were born in, and live reality first-hand in those places.

  -I also think that many countries prohibit the import, export and sales of drugs, yet...

  -I also think that an objective and intellectually honnest person doesn't hand-pick a few items on a list to contest the validity of some facts.

  -Finally, I think that travelling makes one aware of what is *really* going on on other continents.

  Yes, I (and I'm sure you too) live in a country where there are muslims who peacefully cohabit with others. It is so, I believe it, because I grew up in such reality.

  My willingness to accept it comes from my day to day living experience and reality. Your willingness to reject/doubt it comes from what you've been told about it on the internet, TV and in newspapers.