New Worldly Translation

Joined

• started 28 topics
• posted 737 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by New Worldly Translation

• 
  33

  Banned Food

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was influenced by the toy thread, but what were some of the foods, drinks and candy that were banned by the jws (either in writing or hearsay)?.

  black forrest ham (coating is made from blood).

  red skittles (blood used to make the dye).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Country girl - that was the reason I remember being given for not eating red skittles - cos the red dye was made from smashed up insects!

  Taste the bug blood rainbow.
• 
  5

  AMAZING SPACE PICS

  by tijkmo in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  intergalactic gems

  stunning pictures from the hubble space telescope and mars probes take the starring roles in april?s roundup of ?the month in space pictures.

  see the slide show

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Cool pics. I also try and check out http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ whenever I can.

  It's a real shame Hubble might be out of commission soon.
• 
  43

  Attention all you wacky evolutionists!

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  evolution versus creation has been beat to death lately, this isn't another debate thread.

  i wanted to showcase a hugely funny site i found when researching creationists' views.

  note that i don't believe this site in any way depicts the beliefs of most creationists.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Hey guys can anyone help me out. I can't get on the http://objective.jesussave.us/ site at all. When I click the link all it displays is a web1000 ad for domain hosting. Is it just me? am I jinxed or have a gypsy curse?
• 
  10

  Snake with your sugar puffs?

  by Angharad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you thought fingers in chilli at wendy's was bad !.

  omg that poor kid.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4512995.stm.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Yep, I'm with you Evilforce, I call bullshit too.
• 
  17

  Breaking the silence on the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did anybody see the new hitchhiker's guide movie yet?

  i went this weekend.. wow, what a disappointment.

  it didn't "suck", exactly, but it wasn't what it could have been.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  I'm off to see the film this weekend but from what's been said I don't think I'll enjoy it much. Also I've read the book a couple of times and thought it was an ok escapist read but not a classic in any sense. IMO the humour is mediocre, the satire too obvious and for such a short book there's more than it's fair share of dull points. I read some of the sequels and I couldn't take to those either.

  The only saving grace was that other attempts at making science fiction funny like Red Dwarf and Isaac Asimov's humorous short stories were infinitely worse.
• 
  16

  I feel like a leper

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i certainly have had my share of jw stupidity for the day ... and of my family's stupidity today.

  two things happened ... both completely unrelated.

  as a little background, i "faded" from the witnesses almost five years ago.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  It's my hunch that what your mum said was just a misunderstanding. When you said you wouldn't go to the KH service she maybe thought that you didn't want to see any JW's at all and that's why she suggested visiting on the friday with other non-JW friends of the family. I don't think it's worth falling out over.

  My mother said something similar when my grandad died and they were having a memorial at the KH. She asked if I was going to attend or if I didn't want to bother and just go to the crematorium and pay my respects (not even sure how that would work). She asked it in a way that said she thought I had made up my mind not to go and that it didn't really matter to the family anyway. I did go of course and everything was fine in the end. It was just a misunderstanding in that my mother thought that I didn't want to see or speak to any JW's. She was extending the ludicrous JW rule of shunning on behalf of me against them even though I had no personal grievance with anyone and I wasn't even DA'd or DF'd.

  Anyway I'm sure everything will turn out ok.
• 
  43

  Attention all you wacky evolutionists!

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  evolution versus creation has been beat to death lately, this isn't another debate thread.

  i wanted to showcase a hugely funny site i found when researching creationists' views.

  note that i don't believe this site in any way depicts the beliefs of most creationists.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Damn, it looks like the sight has gone. I fancied a good laugh as well. From what's been said about the site maybe jeebus thought it was far fetched and smote them with leprosy and eye jelly warts.
• 
  8

  Wanna Buy the Pope's Former Car?

  by GermanXJW in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  .

  http://ebay.doubleclick.net/click%3bh=v3|326b|3|0|*|n%3b16076832%3b0-0%3b1%3b8693401%3b7194-275|100%3b10112102|10129998|1%3b%3b~sscs%3d%3fhttp%3a%2f%2faltfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/1066-15396-3220-211?id=1

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  Wow, pretty cool. I was hoping it might be the glass Popemobile for sale though

  I always thought it would be cool if they filled the glass Popemobile with water and had the Pope just float around like a religious lava lamp.
• 
  51

  Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have The Reputation THEY Think They Have?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  witnesses believe they are special.

  the publications give many examples of how wonderful a witness was viewed upon by a "worldly" person.

  kms tell of how so many praise the witnesses for being so "different".....what would you say is the real way people view jws??

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  The first thing that came into people's minds when I told them about being a JW was the fact that we didn't have Xmas or birthdays. That thought then triggered the fact that JW's don't allow blood transfusions for their kids. It seemed to me that people felt sorry for us and for our kids especially.
• 
  45

  Things you shouldn't have liked as a Witness.......BUT DID!!!

  by ScoobySnax in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you were a jw can you remember things you should've not liked but did?

  i was listening to some dowloads tonight and heard "happy birthday" by stevie wonder, i remember going to a big family party when i was a kid, and my uncle who had some dj decks put this one on for me as it was my birthday (none of my dads side of the family were jw) i loved it.......good memories still of this song.. i remember getting easter eggs too, and thinking however pagan they were, they tasted bloody delicious.

  better than "ordinary" chocolate bars.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  New Worldly Translation

  I enjoyed doing little magic tricks with cards and coins and stuff. I wasn't allowed a magic set so I used to look at books in the library and try and figure out how to do it. I always wondered at what point tricks became demonised sorcery and if I got really good at complicated magic tricks would I get a tap on the shoulder from Satan saying he could show me a better one but I had to sign my soul over to him or something.