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trololololololololololo
by lancelink in.
one of the funniest/weirdest things you may ever see .
http://trololololololololololo.com/.
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Elder rules regarding young children
by lancelink inthis afternoon i was talking to one of my sons (25 yrs old) and he was telling me stories about how he felt as a young jw.
some of the stories were pretty sad.. it got me thinking ,, the elders were real "micromanagers" when it came to young kids at the meetings.. we were not allowed to bring books outside of the wt, no alphabet, picture, or counting type books .. also food was a big no-no.
when my kids were toddlers, we would bring cheerios, small stuff like that.. the wizards would bellow from the stage, "you should not feed your kids, take care of that before the meetings.. after that time, i still brought food with, we just made several trips down to the basement during the meetings.. out in service on a 95 degree day no shade, kids and parents were advised to keep your tie on.
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Pick and Choose your beliefs
by lancelink inwow, my head is still spinning.
let me start from the beginning.. i got baptized in 1978, my sister in 1982. she ended up getting df'ed for fornication after one year (going out and living with a guy at 18 years old).. so according the the org.
belief system, there has been hardly any contact with her all these years.. ok, now fast forward, my wife and i da'ed ourselves one year ago.. now i find out that my dad keeps in contact with my dfed sister, yet he ignores my family and my other two sisters (who never became witnesses, they say all the dysfunction over the years).. i find it funny how he picks and chooses what to believe.. because i have left the jw's,,,, i'm basically nobody.. but my sister who left in a blaze of glory by smoking, fornicating, and turning her back on the org.
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watchtower site on Facebook, ,,is this stuff for real ?
by lancelink ini was looking over the watchtower site on facebook this evening, and was just mesmerized by many of the posts.this stuff can't be real (can it)?
nelson birdwell ?
it's like something out of mad magazine, or better yet the onion !.
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JW Tall Tales
by lancelink inrecently i was cleaning my bookcase and found an old book that i enjoyed as a child.
it had stories in it such as paul bunyan, pecos bill, and john henry.
while these stories are fictional, i enjoyed them because they were entertaining, and easy to understand.. fast forward to the late 70's when i was a teenager sitting at the ca hall in janesville wisconsin.. the speaker was explaining the great sacrifice god made in sending his son down to earth to die for all mankind.
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Facebook site
by lancelink inthis afternoon i was wasting time just looking at different sites on facebook.. i ran across this ,,,,, jw friends.. .
on the comment section for 12/24 this comment was made:.
nice book to offer on december 25 would be the greatest man book.. lets all get out in service on that day, make jehovahs heart rejoice.
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religious expression at work
by lancelink ini saw this on msnbc, thought many of you might find it interesting ;.
religious expression often frowned on at work .
bias claims on the rise; fitting into company culture also important.
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Dealing with reality after leaving the witnesses
by lancelink inthis afternoon i was reading newsweek, and smithsonian magazine online, and there were two video's on the sites that really caused a massive conflict in me.. one video was about the 3rd and 4th generations of children living in viet nam who had grandparents, and great-grandparents who had to deal with agent orange back in the 1960's.
sorry i can't find the video now.
then i was reading the smithsonian magazine and there was a vidoe about illegal wildlife trade in the world:.
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bullfighting
by lancelink ina friend of mine recently returned home from a trip to spain.. one day he went to a resturaunt down the street from an arena where they have bullfights, the "plaza de toros".. in the menu were bull testicles, so feeling somewhat adventurous he tried them, thought they were a little tough and had little flavor, and another.
thing, they were big, almost the size of a pear each !.
he ate two and left.. .
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Missing a big part of life
by lancelink ini 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.