I was obedient and wore it on site but not on the way there or back. Having parts on the District convention dictated I wear it. Now I don't attend anything WT related.
Wasanelder Once
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when you went to an "assembly" did you wear a badge?
by greenhornet init embarrassed me.
when i was young my folks made me wear one and i opened it up and took the paper out making it look like it fell out.
after my folks ask what happen i said i dont know.
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Trying to use facts to reason with a Jehovah's Witness
by Watchtower-Free inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_is6wqnaa.
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Returning
by Doubtfully Yours ini was a member of this community a long time ago and have lurked for years.
well, i am back and still thoroughly conflicted, with my heart/loyalties as divided as ever.
please welcome me back, hear me out, and make me feel as welcomed as before.. the wtbts has changed so very much in recent years that i feel trapped in a completely different religion altogether.
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Happeanna, you certainly elicited some interesting responses. The advice ranged from remaining passive to being yelled at to "Man up!". I would love to send a DA letter telling them to shove it but it isn't pragmatic at this time for me. I have made a happy fade and care not what the org tells me to do. I hold to some habits, no longer beliefs, such as not celebrating Xmas etc. simply because I do not have any reason to. Only one family member active but she is a true believer so its easier for me to fade. I celebrate your return here, it says something about your level of frustration and disgust. Just remember that stress of that sort eats you inside and makes you physically ill. Do what you need but have a strategy to remain healthy despite the mental illness you choose to surround yourself with. Good luck friend. Keep posting. -
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Don't know what to do
by looter ini'm in a crazy situation.
about a year ago, i was going to get baptized.
it was all planned and arranged until ttatt was learned.
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Stop, Drop and Roll! Best advice thus far was to go to a school counselor and ask for alternative living arrangements if he kicks you out at 18. Be ready. At 18 you are considered a legal adult but we know that you are still a teenager technically so its a bit daunting. Talk with your employer to see if he can help you with more hours so you can afford to find a new place to live. Its possible a friend at school has a loving family willing to help. Of course if you've been a good witnoid you have no friends other than Caleb and his sister in the cartoons. The elders will simply back him up I fear, but then again maybe they will tell him its better to give you a choice of meeting attendance for a year or so while you make up your mind. Take that time to make friends with worldly people and to find work or financing for school. Things have a way of falling in place so long as you actively seek to improve your situation. Reasoning with your dad may not be of any value, but don't rule it out. Its worth a try. Just don't get on board the Titanic by getting baptized, its going under! -
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Why I like the Mormons and why they are so much nicer then the JWs.
by new boy ini never really knew any until recently.
as a witness we all thought they were weird.
but the two faiths are a lot alike, except the mormons are really so much nicer than the jws!.
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Mormons are taught they will be gods one day. My experience is that they aren't waiting till they die. They are the most pompous and elitist self righteous bunch of bastards I have ever dealt with. Witnesses are a close second. -
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David Robert Jones [Bowie] ; 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016
by AFRIKANMAN indavid robert jones; 8 january 1947 10 january 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymclz5pqvw&feature=player_detailpage#t=205.
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David Bowie was on the NPR show Fresh Air with Terry Gross some years ago. She made an ass of herself and I lost all respect for her as a journalist. She almost seemed to hate him and to annoy him on purpose. He wasn't interested in talking about his glam years and the androgynous period he went through but she kept sniping him with questions about it totally out of context. He kept repeating he had outgrown it but she wouldn't let go like a dog with meat in its teeth she kept trying to tear him up. I stopped listening to her show for that reason. What a bitch.
Who can forget this song? Man what a hero.
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David Bowie
by smiddy ini just heard the news david bowie has died ,so sad .
rip d,b, .
smiddy .
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I was just reading about his album released this week, Black Star. He looked pretty rough in the video for the song. I will watch it again now that I know he was terminal when he made it. That should give insight I didn't have before in regards the images. I adored his music, so diverse. This video of Rebel Rebel is so glam. I hate to say it but he reminds me of Linda McCartney here with that silly hair and outfit. Loved her as a person by the way. Bye bye Bowie, so glad you met John Lennon and made music together...
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Has anybody seen the movie "The Danish Girl " ?
by smiddy ini watched it today and i truly enjoyed it .to me it was truly an emotional journey for what this young man went through .. i had tears rolling down my face for half the movie which goes for 2 hours.
eddie redmayne deserves an oscar for his performance and so does the woman playing his wife alicia vikander , based on a true story.. in my heyday as a witness i probably would have turned it off and banned it from my home .. it`s an amazing journey life takes you after exiting a cult religion .. smiddy.
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Smiddy, I agree scripts are an adaptation to the format available. The "Imitation Game" is a notorious example of "Poetic License". Alan Turing was a fascinating person but not the antisocial, brooding loner depicted, neither did he create the enigma deciphering computer all on his own. I thought it was a good movie but once I knew the reality I decided it was a lousy biopic. I wish people knew the truth about Alan Turing and his genius, that his wife was aware of his homosexuality and he was rather well liked. The man depicted in the movie is the polar opposite of Alan Touring. It made a great movie, just not an accurate one. It is a disservice to the man's legacy. -
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Galling Meeting Today! Truly Nauseating!
by Nicholaus Kopernicus infirst scripture used by the public speaker was jeremiah 31:34 - "and they will no more teach each one his companion and each one his brother, saying, know jehovah!
for they will all of them know me, from the least one of them even to the greatest one of them, is the utterance of jehovah.
for i shall forgive their error, and their sin i shall remember no more.immediately, i was distracted.
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Let's take your complaint to the next level. A convicted but repentant pedophile can go door to door, comment at meetings and so forth. Do you think that its right to forget that sin? No way buddy. Odd how backwards they have everything. -
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What are the new songs that people are talking about?
by dogon ini have heard that there are some or at least one new song that is way out there.
what number is it or a link to it on youtube.
thanks.
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This is the one that is making all the playlists of the hip JW these days. Song 142: "Preaching To All Sorts of People." Some say its a combination of Jurassic Park and The Lion King. I heartily agree. Comical really. Try to sing to that beat Brother Shy or Sister Off Key!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZOCnG-IXI
Compare to 1:29 forward of Jurassic Park theme: