Oh, has anyone suggested...
'YOUR Religion is s snare and a racket'
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Abaddon
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Banners for London Protest
by Farmer Jim1 inhi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.
i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.
has anyone got any ideas for more?.
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Banners for London Protest
by Farmer Jim1 inhi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.
i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.
has anyone got any ideas for more?.
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Abaddon
There is a good and happy life outside of the Watchtower
Cheer up, at least you're not Scientologists! I mean, they're not
20% of you reading this sign would leave in the next five years if you could do so without being shunned by your family and everyone you know.
Truth need not hide from critical examination.
If it's silly not to buy a car from someone who won't let you talk to previous owners, why is it sensible to be in a religion which won't let you talk to ex-members?
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Since You Left The Organization Do You Celebrate National and Religious Holidays?
by minimus ini know of people who were disciplined because they observed the fourth of july fireworks celebration.
and i know many people who celebrated thanksgiving but just didn’t call it that because they could get into trouble with the elders.. do you now celebrate birthdays and other holidays or is that something you really don’t care about?
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Abaddon
Oh Darwin's nuts! Minimus!
Thought I would check in as its been a few years - good to see you're still going.
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Blast from the past...
by Abaddon inhi people,.
just dropping by at random to say hi.
i used to be here a lot, from the really early days of jwd up until 2007 or 8 i guess.
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Abaddon
Hi people,
Just dropping by at random to say Hi.
I used to be here a lot, from the really early days of JWD up until 2007 or 8 I guess. Picking fights with idiots mostly. Kinda grew out of it.
So what's the gossip? Who's still around?
All the best.
Abaddon/Gyles
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Britain: Freedom Gone?
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480676/approved-closed-doors-curbs-end-centuries-press-freedom.html.
very sad...... .
metatron.
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Abaddon
Yes, and you would believe an article by one of the papers most opposed to regulation for what reason? Come on Metaron, you read the WT and A! long enough to pick up on the loaded language, surely?
And let's make no mistake, by regulation we are talking about (for example) making newspapers more laible for unwarranted intrusions into people lives. An example is when the some of the British press systematicallym over several years hacked into the voicemail of celebrities and private individuals who had come to the attention of the press - like a 14 year-old girl who was abducted and killed and whose parents were given false hope when their daughter's voicemail was picked up (as they thought it was her, not some gutter-rat scum sucker).We are not talking about any real restrictions on newspapers reporting real news. We are talking about protecting members of the public from tabloid newspapers who don't care whose lives they wreck if it sells some copies. And make no mistake that newpapers couldd still publish what they wanted... they would just be more accountable for their actions, and people wrongly slandered by the press would be more likely to see some justice.
The newspapers would rather self-regulate, which is a bit like sharks self-regulating if it is bad to eat people.This article is slightly more intelligently written, but then the Guardian is a proper newspaper, not a hate-rag:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/30/press-regulation-royal-charter-approval -
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Jehovah's Witnesses Shunning at it's very best! SHOCKING Jw.Org
by BlindersOff1 infound this on youtube fyi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.
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Abaddon
Farkel;
Then why did you do what was unnatural and even disgusting, you twit?
Hehehe, why is there no 'Like' button?
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Jehovah's Witnesses Shunning at it's very best! SHOCKING Jw.Org
by BlindersOff1 infound this on youtube fyi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.
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Abaddon
Can we have a little less misogyny please? You can take the boy out the cult, but you can't take the cult out of the boy...
Maybe you would make comments like that if the person involved was a man... I doubt it, but I'll give you the maybe. Then you're just being unnecessarily rude.I think the most noticable thing about her face is the SADNESS in it; she looks like she wants to cry. Given her story it is pretty obvious why.
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Sparlock and The Simpsons
by Honesty inhttp://sparlockthewarriorwizard.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/sparlock-and-the-simpsons/.
if rumors are true, and they generally are, then sparlock the warrior wizard is set to make a special guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the simpsons.. .
according to matt groening, the shows creator, sparlock will feature in a simpsons episode to air on thanksgiving day.
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Abaddon
Very nice, Onion stylee...
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Abaddon
Apostate!
Firstly their divine marshmallosities are plural. None of this single god or fire-sale three for one silliness.
Secondly, you speak of toasting them? Does not the First of Candy state, "So as they wish it be done to others so shall it be done unto them with knobs on"?
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Abaddon
Wow. Same shit different decade.
I have not looked at a Flood thread in a long time. And they haven’t changed from the days when I used to play with the science deniers.
The same old tactics are in evidence; sheer mind-boggling ignorance, extraordinary claims without the evidence to back it up, massive arrogance and and idolatrous level of self-satisfaction about their own opinions that means they don't need no stinkin' facts.
Bit like racists and homophobes, except these people's bias is directed towards knowledge rather than other people (well, scientists get caught in the fall out but fighting ignorance is kind of the job of sceince, so...)
I've been to Egypt and seen buildings that magically survived 'the Flood', which musta kinda been a stealth 'Flood' as the Egyptian's quite literally went on eating, drinking and marrying when it was happening, and forgot to mention it.
Just like the dead rising from the graves around Jerusalem was forgotten about aside from one scripture that says this happened when Jesus was resurrected.
If Egypt’s too far for y’all, there are trees alive in California today that were growing on any possible date for the Flood, that could not have possibly survived it.
Add that in to the absence of any credible geological support for the ‘Flood’, the fact, as Terry points out ‘da maths don’t work’, the fact that any the Ark would have suffocated its occupants and been unable to cope with the mountains of shit even a modest estimate of the number of ‘kinds’ that would have been aboard let alone carry the required fodder… all ignored, or magiced away with god didit, even if they have to make claims not made in scripture, which Revelation expressly forbids people from doing...
Even the bits which kind-of show it was a STORY (survived the flood, first thing Noah does is KILL SOME ANIMALS FROM A VERY LIMITED STOCK TO SYA THANK YOU TO GOD, conservationist EPIC FAIL) are ignored.
Special pleading and extraordinary claims are deployed (the Himalayas grew in a few centuries, magic atmospheric layers the water could exist before the ‘Flood’ if you don’t engage with the laws of physics too strongly, etc..) but these people’s paradigms of belief mean that as they reached their beliefs without the benefit of scientific reasoning scientific reasoning will not persuade them to change their beliefs. It is like explaining algebra to a duck. Pointless, frustrating, and annoying.
From experience those that lurk and are not quite as bat-shit all out to not use their supposedly god-given mind are the ones who do benefit, not the ones who defend Biblical bullshit. They actually do take stuff on board.
Some even realise the irony is that people who supposedly want to worship god actually end up worshipping a book. But that book gives them closure and certainty, which is more important to them than updating their version of reality to allow for a belief in god and science, which loads of people have.
And by doing so they start to worship their own opinions rather than reason.
By way of example I can assert that giant marshmallows ruled the Earth 3,000 years ago and will return to take all true believers to candyland.
I know this by divine marshmallow revelation and am writing a holy book on iPads (with a crayon). Yes, I know other people claim divine revelation that contradicts mine but they are wrong. I know there is no evidence, but marshmallows do not leave fossil evidence and after they left there was a conspiracy to write-them out of history.
See? Come up with some bullshit and just explain away anything that contradicts it.
Another good example is provided by djeggnog: he ends up by claiming that the fact we are here proves he is right.
No mate, the fact you are here proves we really do share a common ancestor with primates.