Topics Started by wobble
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I saw a sad sight yesterday.
by wobble ini was strolling up our high street, trying to avoid the sally army chuggers, when coming towards me was an elderly lady, she suddenly approached a young lady and offered her a tract, the girl refused.. the old dear was weirdly dressed in very old-fashioned clothes that still screamed "pioneer",they can't have been exactly fashinable when they were new, she must have been in her seventies, but was weird looking, not helped by bright orange hair and very red lipstick, i checked, and she was holding the tract "you can trust the bible" (oh yea??).
i have not seen anyone doing street work for ages in our town, even she was not that dedicated, she dodged in to a charity shop and had a look at what was on offer,still counting her time i guess.. i thought of engagng her in conversation, but then i thought no, better to leave her in the cult, she will do more harm reinforcing the impression that jw's are a bunch of weirdos by her desultory street work than she would if she woke up and left the dubs.. years ago we used to get a bunch of young people together and we would all go in street work, and to the markets etc.
we used to make it fun, as much as we could.. now all they have as the public face of the jw's is a sad, weird old lady.. i think we shall see this more and more, the glory days are gone for the wt.. good..
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Has anyone here ever attended the WT's Annual General Meeting ?
by wobble inmy sister has been invited this year, i would be interested to hear first hand experience of what she may expect, the kind of (boring) stuff that will be on the agenda, and anything else.. why invite someone like her ?
i guess a kindly c.o has identified her as a loyal wt drone who has had no recognition.
she has been in full-time work for the wt for over forty years, most of those as a special pioneer, she never married, totally devoted to the religion.. nice that she is to be acknowledged, of course she will have to pay for her flight (from europe) and other expenses, and god, sorry, i mean the governing body, (the wt god), will not know who she is, or that she is there.. i can imagine that when she returns home ,she will be feted as a celebrity for getting so close to god , oops, done it again, the gb, and people will be under the impression that she is privy to some new "light".. what is the reality of this farce ?.
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None of you missed me !
by wobble ini have been off line for a few days, my old steam -driven pc went kapput!!!!.
so i have had to go and buy one of those new-fangled lap-top things.. i can now post my silly comments again tee hee.. good to see you are all still here, and still fighting, well,not really, the board seems to have gone a bit quiet and boring lately,no spats and insults, or can you direect me to a thread or two i may have missed that are worthy of the title "a good punchup" ?
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None of you missed me !
by wobble ini have been off line for a few days, my old steam -driven pc went kapput!!!!.
so i have had to go and buy one of those new-fangled lap-top things.. i can now post my silly comments again tee hee.. good to see you are all still here, and still fighting, well,not really, the board seems to have gone a bit quiet and boring lately,no spats and insults, or can you direect me to a thread or two i may have missed that are worthy of the title "a good punchup" ?
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GREAT BOOK ! May free your JW loved ones.
by wobble ini have just finished reading a great book entitled "believing bullshit" by stephen law, published by prometheus books of n.y. www.prometheusbooks.com.
in it the author outlines how we come to believe total claptrap most often because of the dubious methods used by the promoters of these ideas.. he does not set out to debunk the ideas themselves as the main purpose of the book, though in passing he has to do so with some .like alien abductions, christian science and homeopathy etc.
his main purpose is to expose the methods used to get people to believe,,and how even if the idea being put forward may be good, or a truth, to use such methods is not justified, and leads one open to being sucked in to an intellectual black hole if you are duped by them.. if this book is read by an active, believing jw they will not smell any rats, but by the end of it, if they are honest with themselves they will see the methods used by the wt as totally dishonest and reminiscent of snake-oil salesmen.. it may just free their minds enough.. i cannot praise it too highly, it is a valuable read for anybody, and shows why even college educated, intelligent people can be fooled by bs..
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The Great NORM
by wobble ini was moved to go back in the archives and read some of the posts from the great "norm" who used to post here up until about 4 years ago.. norman hovlund comes originally from norway i believe, so he occasionally writes as he speaks english, but his writing is wonderful in his posts.. he also set up a web site: http://home.c2i.net/norman/index.htm which looks as though it hasn't been updated recently, but read his letters to the gb, hilarious, and he maintains they actually got to read them !
lol.
go and look at some of his posts on here, marvellous..
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How do I explain how I feel ?
by wobble inmy niece, a very sweet girl, an active jw, e-mails my wife from time to time, she lives in another country so she only gets to the u.k once a year at best.. she e-mailed the other day after returning from the jw wedding of her niece, my great niece.
she expressed the feeling that it was sad for her that we were not at the wedding ,and that our relationship has changed.
we were not invited to the wedding, and only knew when it was being held by deduction, nobody told us for sure.. i want to tell her how i feel, so i tought i would let her know that we are still the same people, we still love the family, and especially her, as we always have.
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What say you Christians ???
by wobble init seems to me that most, if not all christians are really hung up on sin and redemption from sin and how naturally evil we all are.. my question, and observation is this : i had nothing to do with whatever you say adam and eve did wrong, i have always, throughout my life, treated whoever i came into contact with compassion, respect and love.. i have lived by the golden rule.. not many people, hand on heart, can say that, i can.. so, is your god going to judge me for the "sin" of some mythical forebears of mine ?
is he going to say that , because i did not believe in him, i willl be judged adversely, even though i lived by the precepts he is supposed to support ?.
all i can say is, if your god is like that, i refuse to worship or acknowledge him.. and i certainly do not want to get to know him.
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Am I being paranoid ?
by wobble ini have had a friend request on fb from a sister in my old congo.
fair enough i suppose.
but it looks like a very new page she has, it just mentions her name, and the school she went to, there appears to be no friends on there yet.. suspicious ?
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Got the personal Memorial invite last night.
by wobble inwe were sitting on the patio out the back of the house having acouple of drinks before we went out for a meal, i can't eat on an empty stomach, have to have a drink first !.
the doorbell rang, i answered it, and it was a "sister" i have known all my 61 years of life, with a mem.
invite in her hand, i told her to keep it, we already had one.