Wasanelder Once

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  Suggestions for a JW Apostate logo

  by Chook in

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  if you can't upload one vote on others suggestions.

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  I know this is meant to be whimsical and entertaining, but I'm glad there isn't a logo for apostates. Then our individuality would become some plot against the organization that is as impersonal as JW .org is. Plus, I don't agree with everyone's gripes against the Org though I share the same goal, shut it down!
  
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  The saddest song of all time?

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  i would pick this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2w6oxx0kq.

  i don't know how so many are happy or fine if thinking this life is it.

  haven't lost parents yet, but when with them, sometimes i'll think of this song.

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  I'll agree that your commentary on Dust in the Wind is quite sad.

  This is the saddest song in my experience. John Lennon wrote this and made the demo shortly before he was shot. Thinking of what would become of him it makes the lyric so ironic. It sort of emphasizes the truth of Bad_Wolf's choice. This song brings a tear to my eye every time I think of John's demise.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0R8D6WTIlA
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  For all in the USA - Happy 4th of July!

  by ttdtt in

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  it's nice to say that:).

  i am looking forward to a 4th party with "worldly people" and fireworks!.

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  I like the British. I guess the revolution is old news anyway. Fireworks are outlawed in my area of California, even the "Safe and Sane" ones. Fire danger is too high here for such frivolity. I will be watching a movie and drinking some sort of cold drink of the nonalcoholic kind. Health won't allow anything else.
  
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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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  Wasanelder Once

  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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  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

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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

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  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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  Wasanelder Once

  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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  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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  Wasanelder Once

  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.