Wordly Andre
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Found an old picture of me
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i left the jw's back when i was 15, i found an old picture of me during that time so funny to look back, i thought i'd share with you what a little apostate looks like he he he.
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i wonder why i was labled bad association for the youth?
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Apostate Talk
by Wordly Andre inwhy is it that jw's are so afraid to talk to anyone who questions the beliefs, or in general says anything bad about the org.
case in point here i have a friend his family are all jw's not the best of the crowd but they are trying, anyway his brother and i were talking and i was telling him about how some of my cousins have left the org, and even showed him a funny picture of all of us wearing jehovah's witness protection program t-shirts there were about 7 of us in the photo.
he ended the converstation very rapidly and left.. i was not really telling him anything that bad, and i was just mostly joking with him, honestly i didn't think he was all that much of a jw, before he got married he lived with his gf, i have heard he likes to party, and for the most part you'd swear he wasn't a jw, not even baptized.
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JW Conscientious Objectors Service or Service
by Wordly Andre inmy other post got me thinking, can conscientious objectors serve in some way and say out of jail?
here is a story of a man who served in wwii and recieved a metal of honor.
i can remember hearing stories when i was a kid about how these brave brothers didn't serve in the military and ended up in jail, i always thought that if it was up to me i'd rather serve, why can't jw's serve if called upon if not as a fighter why not as a nurse or in some other way?
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Purple Triangle
by Wordly Andre ini was watching a documentry last week and it was about concentration camps, i was not paying much attention because i was on my computer at the same time, however they were talking about the different badges of shame that were put on the prisoners shirts.
when they got to the purple triangle it was said that, that meant the prisoner was a religious fanatics, now growing up the jw's always said that the purple triangle was for jw's, i am not saying they were not in the camps but, there were other religous groups that the members were taken by the nazi's because of their religious beliefs not just the jw's.
not too long ago i was talking to a jw about this same topic, he said the purple triangle was only for jw's and went on about the abuse and killings suffered because the nazi's targeted jw's.
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Any Plans for the 4th?
by Wordly Andre ini'm going to the city celebration where i live, they put on an awesome show.
what about you?
will any of you celebrate for the first time this year?
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Crazy Street Preacher in San Francisco
by Wordly Andre inhey guys i was in san francisco this past weekend went up to san jose also to the winchester house, did the friday the 13th 1am tour, that was pretty cool.
when we arrived in san francisco we were waiting for the cable car and i heard this guy shouting about god.
when i saw his sign i knew i had to post it here.
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Warning!! Fake Lotto Scam
by Wordly Andre inmy grandma has been getting these letters in the mail that she won some kind of canadian lotto, yesterday she received a check in the mail for $3,900.00, looks like a real, official check however the letter then goes on to explain that she must pay international tax of $2,000.00 and gives instructions on how to wire the money to pay the international tax, and if she does the full ammount of the winnings will be sent to her.
thank god my grandma called be just before she went to the bank, it took awhile to convince her that it was a scam because she said the letter looked so official and she even called the phone number listed on the letter, i told her that if she deposited the check in her account it will take a few days for the bank to catch it but the check will be returned and she will have to pay back the money.
please let all your older ones know about this, i looked it up online and it's called the canadian/ spanish lotto scam.
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Mormons
by Wordly Andre inawhile back i saw a map of mormons around the world and there were only 3 churches in africa, and one only since the 1980's the rest were in the early 2000's, i heard it was because mormons think people of dark skin are cursed by god.
is there any truth to that?
what other weird mormon beliefs do you know of?
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Minor changes to Billy Joel's MY LIFE
by Wordly Andre ingot a call from an old jw friend.
we used to be real close.
said he couldn't go on the jehovah way.
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JW's and Military Service
by Wordly Andre inwhen i was a kid my parents would try and scare me, that if i didn't get baptized and i turned 18 i could get drafted and go to war.
funny thing is, when i was a kid i used to want to join the military i wanted to either join the navy or air force, when ever my parents would try and scare me about the whole "they can draft you and the elder would be helpless to try and keep you out of the military because you're not baptized" i would just be like well thats the chance i'll have to take.. fast forward, i just turned 17, i walked down to the armed services recruiting center in my town, i signed up to take my asvab test, did very well on it, went home and told my parents of my plans they all freaked out, however i didn't do so well on my health exam, my mom said jehovah was saving me.. i wasn't able to join up, it was something i wanted to do since i was a kid.
anyone else that grew up in the org also want to join the military?.