Posts by Pete Zahut

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In your opinion: What would a teacher of the English language say about the way Anthony Morris III speaks?

by LogCon in

considering the language, wording and grammar of anthony morris iii, if a teacher on the english language, at a prestigious university were to analyze anthony's public speaking, what comments and conclusions would they come to?

i say public speaking, because i would assume that an individual would be more careful with their words when spoken in public, than in private.

serious comments would be appreciated, however, i realize that outlaw and a few others are probably on a page of their own.. .

Pete Zahut

I can forgive his grammatical errors and colloquialisms but I can't get past his puckered in mount, the sour puss expression on his face as he speaks and the overall curmudgeonly way about him . Where is his joy??? I've never heard him say anything positive or radiate any sort of contentment. He seems to be bitter and resentful and uses his position to scorn others and suck the joy out of everyone within earshot.

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What would happen if you drop a fake check or bill in the donation box?

by StarTrekAngel in

what would happen if we started dropping fake check or bills inside the donation box of an assembly?

i know, is a crime, but so is pushing someone to not accept blood and die.

would it help skew the numbers enough if enough of us did it?.

Pete Zahut

A Bank Deposit envelope packed full of Watchtowers cut into the size of dollar bills would get their heart racing until they opened it up....waaah waaah

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convention this weekend

by zeb in

jw
friends

my wife has just left for the convention.

i dread it.

she will come home tired and cranky as always.

Pete Zahut

Arrange not to be home when she gets there. Leave a note saying that it has been your experience that these assemblies, instead of being uplifting, leave her tired and cranky and you don't wish to be at the receiving end of it anymore. Check into a hotel or go on a fishing or camping trip.

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Plastic Surgery?

by John Aquila in

in my area, a lot of the young jws, especially girls are getting breast implants, nose jobs, chin implants.

asian jws girls get eyelid surgery, and one girl even got her legs lengthen 5 inches making her about five feet nine inches tall the male jws are getting hair transplants and nose jobs.

and nobody in the congregation says a word, including elders.

Pete Zahut

Lots of nose jobs, breast implants, lip augmentation, tattooed on make-up, spray-on tan's, laser skin procedures, artificial nails and hair implants over the last 10 years in our area. JW's want perfection and are tired of waiting for it. I'm half expecting people to break down and start buying the pet Lions and Pandas they were promised as children long ago.

FayeDunaway: What happens in paradise, their noses go back to what they were?

Noses growing back will be the least of these medical problems. People with dentures, artificial hips, knees, pacemakers and heart valves will have to stay alive while they grow perfect again. What's it going to be like to eat when their teeth start growing back and they can't wear their dentures or what will they do with the metal hip joint that's bolted to their pelvis when their hip bone starts growing in ? What if you had a terminal cancer when the tribulation started and you somehow survived into the new system but died 3 months later before you had grown perfect?

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Why did Jesus come to earth? Invite to a DC

by Simon in

i just had an invite to a district convention later this month in calgary (i guess they get to clean up the saddledome before the stampede, lol).. they gave me a leaflet asking "why did jesus come to earth?

" so i asked them "so why did he come?".

"well, he came to save us".

Pete Zahut

"it's ok, I was brought up as a witness. I know it's all bullshit"

Love it !!

You made them think but at the same time were kind and gave them an out....brilliant !

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Scottish Humour

by The Searcher in

a scotsman's cell-phone rings when he's sitting in a cafe with his wife.

when he answers, he says, "aye", and for the next few minutes he just keeps responding to everything the caller is apparently asking, by saying "aye".

the other customers are puzzled by the conversation taking place.. when he ends the call, his wife stares at him inquisitively.. "what's wrong?

Pete Zahut

What's wrong?", he says, it's an "Aye 'phone!".

If that's what happens when he uses an iphone , I wonder what happens when he uses a Wii ?

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OMG, I’m gonna get Old and Die.

by John Aquila in

when it finally clicked,.

and you realized there was no 1914, there was no generation that would see the end of a wicked system, there was no paradise around the corner, .

what went through you mind?.

Pete Zahut

I could have been born into many different families. Each child must grow up, learn, and decide what to do with their life.

I hear what you're saying but in this thread, we are talking about our own experience within the JW framework . There are worse things that could happen to us of course, but there are also better things that could have happened as well. To compare ones unfavorable experience to someone who has or had it worse is a way of rationalizing things and was what many here did and as a result they prolonged the inevitable. It's sort of like pointing out the much more difficult plight of a blind and deaf person, to teenager with a missing arm who is angry at his parents for not telling him that he could have had a prosthesis all these years. "see....you could have had it worse"

So many people in the past are gone, and that's one thing I wanted to do in the new order, meet EVERY one who had ever lived, ask them about their lives, find out what REALLY happened in history. Now? I can't.

Who say's you can't...if there are good things in store for mankind in the future, there's no reason you or I won't be part of it !

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OMG, I’m gonna get Old and Die.

by John Aquila in

when it finally clicked,.

and you realized there was no 1914, there was no generation that would see the end of a wicked system, there was no paradise around the corner, .

what went through you mind?.

Pete Zahut

Matt 16:25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

As I began awakening I went through all the stages of grief. It started out with waking up at night with slight panic attacks and the feeling of OMG I'm X years old and I've got a wife and kids and a mortgage, I've stuck with a boring job because I thought the end was so close and here I am still thinking I'm not going to die in this system...but it looks like it's probably going to happen. Weren't we supposed to be perfect by now???

I'd pull myself together and press on, thinking that if I built up my faith more, I would see things differently. I turned to the literature for guidance and comfort only to find that the subject matter, horrific pictures and ridiculous logic contained within their pages, only made things worse. I followed the advice one elder gave me, to read the book of Job and find comfort in how Job was tested and how Jehovah rewarded him in the end. In my mental state, this was the worst thing I could have done. To think that Jehovah's solution to Job losing all of his children, was to simply replace them with new ones, was even more horrible that I had remembered. How could a loving father to whom I was desperately praying to for help, think that this would be enough to make up for the horror of having all of your children crushed under a collapsed house?

Then I began having panic and anxiety attacks at meetings and assemblies to the point that certain Kingdom songs would start me blubbering like a big baby (so embarrassing). It got to the point that I couldn't go out at night, watch the news, or see a movie that had any kind of violence and especially one that had any kind of religious or futuristic theme. I was a wreck....barely able to go to work. Out of sheer determination, I'd make it through the day but would go straight to bed as soon as I got home at 4 pm. I couldn't bear to be awake one minute longer than absolutely necessary. No one could figure out what was wrong with me. I had a lovely wife and kids, a nice home, good job no dept, etc,but I was acting like someone who had the weight of the world on my shoulders.

This went on for years. I had good medical benefits at work but spent thousands out of my own pocket on medical Dr's and Professional Counselors and different medications. Nothing worked....I couldn't tell them what exactly was wrong with me because A: I was still in denial and B: I didn't want to bring reproach on the Organization or Jehovah's name. More than one professional told me that I had the symptoms of someone who had been raised in an abusive or alcoholic family or had been through some sort of psychological abuse as a child.They told me that I should commend myself for being so strong because most people who were suffering at the level I was for this long, would be divorced, drug or alcohol addicted and jobless. Somehow I managed to keep it together for the most part but it took everything I had. At this point, I sort of attributed my strength to "the truth" and Jehovah but I was beginning to question that too.

As I said, this went on for years. I managed to eke out some fun times and have a happy family life and I managed to keep the show on the road, but inside I was sick at heart and my stomach was in knots, even though on the outside I was able to mask it.

Long story short...a series of back to back JW related disasters happened to several family members that became a perfect storm of undeniable proof the what my body had been telling me all along, was in fact true. I received an email from a long time JW friend that was meant to be encouraging. That email was about Beth Sarim and how interesting it was to see the early history of the Organization and how much the Society has progressed since then. I was shocked....how could I have been a lifelong JW and a former Bethelite without having heard of this before?? I suddenly realized that I was up to my ears in a huge and cruel HOAX and my body had been telling me so for years.

It took a few more months, but I finally stopped going to meetings and having anything to do with JW's and JW related activities. I admitted out loud to my wife that I no longer was a JW. She, thankfully was reaching the same point herself. A week after my last meeting, the anxiety was gone....vanished like snow off a ditch and hasn't returned since. I realized that what was happening these past few years was that I was coming to grips with my own mortality. I had been deceived into thinking that I was never going to die and that I had all the answers to life's big picture questions. What a rude awakening I had...instead of coming to grips with my own mortality over a lifetime, I had done it all at once ! The scripture quoted above started to make sense to me. I had come to a point where although I didn't want to die anytime soon, I was no longer dreading it. I had more peace of mind than I've ever had. I realized had gained my life back because I was no longer afraid of losing it, which is a very freeing thing to happen to a person.

I stopped going to those weekly funerals called meetings, at the Kingdom Hall and immediately improved. I still had some residual JW worries and wondered if my life would fall apart without Jehovah's favor. Instead, within a short time, I got (and still have) the best job of my life. I even sort of wondered if maybe Satan was helping me but thanks to this site, I've seen behind the curtain that was intentionally kept in place to keep trusting people like me, shielded from the real truth.

There is much much more to this story but I hope the part I've shared here will help anyone who is going through what I did. I'm living proof that one can survive the desperate upheaval one often goes through when leaving Jehovah's Witnesses. I have no social network or friends with whom I share a history with and I miss that but I'd never go back to the living hell that I was once in.

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Newspaper article: 'Rise of ISIS and earthquakes are WARNINGS before ARMAGEDDON destroys Earth'

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/581439/rise-isis-earthquakes-warnings-before-armageddon-apocalypse-end-destroys-volcanoes-earth.

the "end" of mankind, which has been long predicted by jehovah's witnesses, could happen as soon as this year - according to latest announcement from the christian religion.. in the latest edition of jehovah's witnesses monthly publication watchtower, an article translated into 700 languages - urges people to join the religion or face certain death when god sends his forces from the heavens to "remove all world leaders," "exterminate his enemies" and "rid the world of satan".. critics have lambasted the warning of a coming armageddon as yet another "failed prediction" by the religion, which has previously delivered similar alerts such as a foretold apocalypse in 1975.. indeed, jehovah's witnesses have been warning people of the need to recognise jehovah or face certain death when the "end" comes for more than 100 years.. the christian-based religion was founded in the 1870s by charles taze russell in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, us, as an offshoot from the bible studies movement.. today, there are 8.2million jehovah's witness evangelists, while 19.9 million celebrated their annual memorial festival marking christ's death - worldwide in 2014.. followers do not believe in military service and will not accept blood transfusions.. in a new eight-page article, watchtower said jehovah's witness leaders are now "convinced" humans are in their "final days" before the armageddon.. they cite an increase in global armed conflict, such as the rise of the islamic state terror group, as well as natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes.. the lengthy article, written by an unnamed author, said: "will god let humans continue to dominate one another and threaten the future of mankind?

no, as we have seen, he will step in and bring an end to centuries of misery and oppression.

Pete Zahut

Witnesses think these two who have been preaching about the end of the world for decades, are raving lunatics but do you see the similarities to these people, their message, dress, odd speech patterns and studio set up, and what we're seeing on JW.org ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZfjpX8zSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Nk7cvwrPE

http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODStudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_VIDEO

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