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  Last Memorial Experiences

  by NoviceLocs14 in

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  i'll share mine first.... i had never missed a memorial for at least a quarter of a century of my life.

  i was kind of raised to believe that missing the memorial was a sin in itself.. by 2013 memorial season, i was missing most of my meetings (even though i was still technically part of my foreign language congregation), and i had just come off the pioneer list.

  i still made plans to attend the memorial (god forbid if i missed that lol).. i knew that typically our memorials were around 9 pm, since we usually got last priority (being a foreign language hall and all).

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  It was at least 12 years ago. Being a doctrine wonk, (I really devoted myself to understand the ins and outs of WT doctrine) it became clear to me that the memorial was for anointed ones. The "Great Crowd" came because it was "appropriate" for them to be onlookers. Since no covenant was made with me as a GC member, I had no guilt in not attending. It was no longer appropriate for me as a non believer.
  
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  I Just Heard a Birthday Song...

  by Saename in

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  so i'm sitting in public area, reading the end of faith (it's pretty clear sam harris is making a case against faith and not some generalized version of islam, so i don't get all those misplaced objections...), and i just heard a group of people sing a birthday song.. i was surprised.

  but not because someone was singing a birthday song.

  i was surprised because of my reaction.. i wish i could say my reaction was normal, but it wasn't.

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  Happy birthday Saename! No time like the present to make up for lost time!

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  The spinning blade of a Sword and the 2 Angels guarding the gate....

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. bible

  for some reason i found myself shaking my head once again in disbelief at the story in genesis.. amongst all things, the very concept of a "flaming sword" spinning around and blocking the "entrance to the garden of eden" is so stupid!.

  do people really believe that as a fact?.

  seriously, swords were not even invented at that time!

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  A nonexistent sword for a nonexistent garden with two nonexistent people. I can buy that.
  
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  Islam terrorist finally gets it right

  by _Morpheus in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4642504/amp/isis-suicide-bomber-kills-12-comrades-wishing-luck.html.

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  Wasanelder Once

  I don't know if this is an old thread or that it happened again. My browser is getting wierd and doesn't put up when the thread was started. This happened in 2014 and was covered by the NYT.

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  Suicide Bomb Trainer in Iraq Accidentally Blows Up His Class

  By DURAID ADNAN and TIM ARANGOFEB. 10, 2014

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  BAGHDAD — If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives.

  In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration early Monday for a group of militants, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, army and police officials said.
  
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  Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
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  had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.

  i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!

  im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.

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  Butterflies corrupting the youth! How insidious! The master plan is underway. Whenever these wee ones see a butterfly they will grab their book bag, a quarter and beg to go to the Meeting. Its madness I tell you, madness!
  
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  Some prayers really annoy me

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i realize that prayer is a really personal thing, but representing a group in prayer has become so full of cliche's that i just want to vomit sometimes.

  co week almost every prayer has the phrase "special week of activity" in it.. then there's "please look after the sick and afflicted.".

  not so much anymore, "please bless this food and the hands that prepared it.".

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  Many ended their prayers this way: "We ask these things through the merits of your son, our ransom, king and redeemer Jesus Christ." I could count on it being said verbatim by several. I stopped saying amen long before I left the cult.
  
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  What is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  we all need to earn a living.... so just curious, what is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?.

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  I tried the whole "clean and scrub store floors all night'' to support pioneering. I knew very soon it was madness. I was eternally tired, miserable, sick from the propane fumes the buffer put off and generally hated life. The Presiding Overseer as he was called then was the boss and he really held it over your head. I learned to hate the slave driver who had the new house, new car, beautiful family that he never studied with even though he took all the family study parts on the meetings and Circuit Assemblies. What a fraud. Karma's a bitch though. His trophy wife dumped his ass, his son married and his wife cheated on him leading to divorce, the other son was in Bethel and was kicked out for fornication which he hid in the home congregation before he even left for Bethel.

  I went to landscaping on my own and slept better and made better money. Best of all I didn't have to deal with that fraud.
  
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  Bible pssssges that are immoral - Lot offering his virgin daughters to be gang raped by homosexual males

  by jambon1 in

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  tell me me more about your just & loving god..

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  Of course we are talking about the structure of fictional story, not true events. If they are stories with noble ethics no wonder the world is so screwed up. Created in his image is right.
  
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  They should show this 2 minute video about 1975 at the convention

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  if only there was a way to hack in and play this.

  :).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bmca1qdhho&feature=push-u&attr_tag=3yku113wrp-khxdt-6.

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  Hey Bunji, just wondering if you were in the Borg back then. In our congregation there were a greater number of college educated people. I think it made a difference for them. These generally didn't fall for it. Most all others did. I suppose everyone on some level had their week of two of wondering, but on the whole our hall wasn't so gullible. As I look back, vary few are still Witnoids. Was your hall all in on the fiasco?? 1976 we had many, many go inactive. I did, but not because of disappointment, it was because I knew they were full of crap all along. The way they treated the people who put their hopes in the baseless prediction and made such ominous sacrifices, was shameful. I gave them the finger and left.
  
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  What is your happy or comforting memory from your childhood?

  by MissFit in

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  2. experiences

  when i think of my childhood i tend to organize my memories based on the houses i lived in.

  the house i remember the most was the house on the hill when i was 6. i can still picture it in my mind.

  it had a big porch with a porch swing.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Whenever I did something outrageous and funny as a boy, my mom would say my name followed by "you idiot". She never said it to me without a laugh. She actually did that all my life. After she died I wondered why I would say it to myself on occasion. I came to realize it wasn't negative, it was a source of comfort because it brought back my mom to me. I would gladly be her idiot if she were here with us once again. I have a feeling I have just opened the floodgates of posters calling me "you idiot". Oops.