Posts by DuvanMuvan

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Need advice for asking a girl out

by DuvanMuvan in

well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.

DuvanMuvan

Oh you know what the problem was? I didn't ask to see her aquarium first.

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What was the most rebellious thing you did while you were a devout jw?

by DuvanMuvan in

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i was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done.

well i know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw.

i'll start it off.

DuvanMuvan

I was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and Satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done. Well I know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw

I'll start it off. One time, I dropped a whole roll of toilet paper into a toilet. Yeah ik I'm a badass

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Will the 2014 Memorial partaking YOUR last?

by prologos in

possibly yes.

many wt doctrine dissenters have privately taken the bread&wine on that night for years.

one reason is that the new covenant is not for heaven, but for forgiveness of sin, and jesus served the emblems to those with an earthly hope.

DuvanMuvan

Sadly I think I'll have to go. When I stopped going I promised my mum that I would still go to the memorial and I'm really not looking forward to all the love bombing because I haven't been in a while. I also told her that I'd go if she had a "talk" which is a couple weeks before, they're gonna think that I'm coming back in and be even more pushy and annoying

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For those who still attend- When was the last time you had a Congregation Picnic or Get together?

by BU2B in

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it seems that in my neck of the woods there is no social interaction between jws outisde of fs and the kh.

the last get together was 3 summers ago.

other than that there is no bond.

DuvanMuvan

In my congregation they always had something on for the "young ones" (anyone between 3 and 22) like every other month or some kind of dinner party. I always disliked going to them and I could never say no because i felt bad. They were always pretty boring and sometimes me and my friends in the kh would organise a sleep over on the night of a get together to get out of it.

While I was on my way out of the religion (not that long of a story but I couldn't be bothered to post it here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/275610/1/Life-for-me-as-a-jw-not-really-teenager#.Uy2hOScgGSM) I mentioned to my mum once how it was annoying that you can never say no when a jw asks you to do something because you just feel guilty. She tried to convince me that I don't have to do anything I didn't want to but it didn't work.

Well earlier this week my mum was invited to a dinner party hosted by a brother and his wife or something and has been trying to get out of it. Luckily I'm out for good so I don't have to go. Well a couple of hours ago my mum got a call from the brother. She tried to get out of it by pulling a sickie but in her words he "insisted" that she'd go anyway.

I'm not sure if that's dramatic irony, situation irony or what but it's pretty damn funny

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this is how witnessing is being done nowadays

by losingit in

i have a non jw friend that knows about jws only bc i related toher my experience leaving this abusive cult.

anyhoo, she went to starbucks yesterday and there was an older man on his laptop.

she sat next to him while she did work on her tablet.

DuvanMuvan

I'm guessing she was logging onto her email and it showed up on the screen like when I log into gmail or something.

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

DuvanMuvan

Well if they can't use the biblical account for the core of they argument then I don't think Moses did a very good job at writing it. Especially since there was so much detail in the book of the numbers for example, you think he could at least have put all the "god must have"s into the account without leaving so much of it to interpretation. (I guess he was busy while writing genesis?)

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Need advice for asking a girl out

by DuvanMuvan in

well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.

DuvanMuvan

TD I'm 15 if that's what you're asking

oh I forgot to mention that i was a lot less nervous asking her out than i normally am when I talk to her. Like a lot less.m

Still dont know why

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What happened to the "Witness" part of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by donny in

i just got back from my afternoon walk/run and about a block from home i saw two sets of jw's going door to door handing out invites to the memorial.. the first pair walked past me and only said "good afternoon" as they passed.. about two minutes later the second pair approached me and handed me an invite to 2014 memorial on april 14. i asked them why they chose the jw's as their church of choice and was told "we'd like to chat more but we have a set number of invites we have to get out before the memorial.

if you contact the kingdom hall listed here, they will tell you more... on how god's kingdom will rid the world of satan and the evil associated with him.".

i replied "you can't talk now?".

DuvanMuvan

@mynameislame for the past 8 years that i was actually going to meetings I always remember how they loved to go on about pioneering in the memorial season. (Also if you didn't know there's a memorial season)

In my kh we always had at least 60 more people turn up on Memorial Day than normal and this spike in attendance usually only lasts for a couple weeks the. It goes back to normal

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this is how witnessing is being done nowadays

by losingit in

i have a non jw friend that knows about jws only bc i related toher my experience leaving this abusive cult.

anyhoo, she went to starbucks yesterday and there was an older man on his laptop.

she sat next to him while she did work on her tablet.

DuvanMuvan

the sad thing is this seems too bizarre to be a spontaneous, one time thing.

He's probably done this before and it's either working or in his weird little mind, he thinks it's working and both options are just as worrying

weird that he called it doctrine though. In my old congregation the word doctrine was always associated with Christendom (usually the trinity) and if you even thought about calling anything taught at the kh doctrine you'd be in for a serious talking to at the back of the hall by an elder I'll tell you that much

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Need advice for asking a girl out

by DuvanMuvan in

well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.

DuvanMuvan

You wanna hear something weird? This guy at my school made a really cheesy music video for a project and the song is called "moving on" and it's been stuck in my head all week and earlier today someone was playing it on her phone and it was all I could think about for the next 20 minutes on the bus ride home.

after that I was just trying to figure out how campers on mw2 can look at themselves in the mirror without punching it