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  JW Jokes - Post Your Favorites

  by awaken2004 in

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  a man arrives at the gates of heaven.. st peter asks, "religion?".

  the man replies, "methodist.".

  a third man arrives at the gates.. st. peter: "religion?".

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  So, after I laughed my butt off,

  by John Doe in

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  i asked myself if this was cruel.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9kdr5-teio.

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  lancelink

  Boy,,, the scene where the cat realizes that the water is coming up from the floor is really funny!
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  Switching congregations

  by EmptyInside in

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  did any of you start going to another hall if there were problems in your last congregation?

  it happens a lot now.

  when someone has an unresolved problem, they decide to go to a neighboring congregation..

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  Nope, My wife and I always stayed in one hall, we toughed out all the BS and backbiting that happened when a major problem happened.

  But the downside to this was we s- l- o- w-l-y developed a major case of burnout.

  After years of doing our best to support our local congregation, a long stretch of new crisises(is that a word) began to snowball together

  and we quickly began to doubt why we kept trying to be supportive.

  Flameout, and now we are both gone
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  Amway

  by bobld in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  everybody has heard of amway but few are joining.everyboby has heard of jehovah's witnesses but few are joining.both use deceptive tactics to recruit new members.. bob.

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  lancelink

  WOW,

  My Dad was really into amway for several years back in the 70's, and then he progressed directly into becoming a JW with no problem.

  what a messed up time that was, good grief !
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  Missing a big part of life

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i celebrated christmas for 17 years before my parents became jw's.. when we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of christmas decorations.. my grandparents came over from austria during ww 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.. the tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking.

  took over.. now that i am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, we will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.. .

  shopping at target last night i fully realized what my family has lost.

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  lancelink

  I celebrated Christmas for 17 years before my parents became JW's.

  When we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of Christmas decorations.

  My grandparents came over from Austria during WW 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.

  The tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking

  took over.

  Now that I am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, We will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.

  Shopping at Target last night I fully realized what my family has lost. Decades worth of memorable decorations were disposed of in

  line with jw teachings.

  I feel that a huge part of my youth is gone,with no chance of getting any of it back.

  Yes, we could start over, but decades worth of those memories would have been nice, what a waste !

  Did any one else have an awakening like this ?
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  Horrid Perfumes and Nasty Nairspray

  by Elsewhere in

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  why do people wear these things?.

  don't these people know they make everyone else sick?

  for those who wear perfume: please do not spray it directly onto yourself.

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  Those feminine hygeine spray smells take me back to the KH when I was a young person Akkk !
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  "Lovers of Freedom" Convention

  by White Dove in

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  did anyone feel kind of perplexed as you read that title?

  did it do a somersalt in your head while you tried to grab hold of the message it was supposed to convey?

  when i read that some summers ago, my mind struggled to make sense of freedom while a jw.. i couldn't do it.

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  I would get the feeling such as when an acute case of the flu hits you like a hammer to the stomach.

  Then a massive headache as I tried to grasp the concept,,, never worked.
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  chaperones

  by rockmehardplace in

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  2. friends

  saw a topic on dating earlier.

  made me think of chaperones.

  i always hated having someone with us when we went to do anything.

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  i ended up selling the two tickets and buying three to take a chaperone with us and the seats were horrible. the first seats i had were very close to the stage. the couple we sold the tickets to were in our congo and to this day, they still talk about how they were the best seats they ever had.

  MY GOD MAN !

  what the He** were you thinking at the time, and who did you go see ??
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  Things you would like to do that you havent yet done

  by carpediem in

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  2. friends

  as i am new this may have been asked before.

  but it is something i have been thinking about since i left the religion.. .

  things i havent yet done but would like to do include:.

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  graduate from college
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  WT Hypocrisy: Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor

  by metatron in

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  from the dec. 15 "let's take a swan dive off the temple mount in regard to employment" issue, page 28.

  "teenagers have experienced opposition from unbelieving parents.

  some have even been ordered out of the home, but they were taken in by kindly witnesses.

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  I know a witness who had his daughter leave the religion, and live on her own with nothing to do with jehovah!

  The dad just cannot get his mind around the fact that he cannot even speak to his daughter.

  Hopefully he will wake up in due time.