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  Bathroom too close to the bookstudy?

  by i_drank_the_wine in

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  did any of you ever have the bathroom for your bookstudy too close to where everyone was sitting?

  i had one bookstudy like that.

  i never used the bathroom there except for one time when i intentionally went in there to make as loud of a poop as possible as an act of rebellion.

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  So... I got the 607 defense articles sent to me...

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  ...by a family member who recalled that this is one of my major apostate beefs.

  the articles themselves are disgusting pieces of mis-information and require some serious mental gymnastics to actually believe.

  however, they're so damn long-winded and waste so much time on pointless stuff like the 2 pages on the jw's beliefs about the 70 year period, that i am debating on whether or not to write the loyal j-dub family member back on it or not.. it shows just how brainwashed that family member is in that they know that 607 is a problem date, yet happily forward the articles as soem sort of proof while never once reading anything on the topic with an iota of thinking.. after years of having everything i've said on these topics ignored by everyone in my family that i've tried contacting over and over again, i really feel like taking the time to pick through their trash is going to be a big waste.

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  New career at 30 - suggestions/ideas?

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  i'm in need of a career change, or at the very least a new job that i can make money at while i continue to work on computer related side-projects.

  i'm burnt as hell at computer programming, and being that i am self-taught and have very little corporate experience i am not looking into doing this anymore as it's all i've done as a career for the last 10 years.. long story short, bad money crunch, no degree of any sort, a gamble to try and make my own business failed - so i need to find a new career or job.

  searching the papers is somewhat dis-heartening so far.. any ideas, suggestions, or advice for this daunting task of trying to find some way to keep from going bankrupt with a new job.

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  WTBTS impact on the environment nubmers, repost from another jw site

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  taken from: http://www.thebroadroad.com/forum/#topic/bring-to-ruin-those-ruining-the-earth-trees-wtbts.htm.

  i never found statistics on the amount of paper the wtbts wastes, but i think they're might be a little hypocritical by parading the "he will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" verse that they always quote.

  it got me curious and i decided to crunch some numbers.... they print 42 million washtowels a month, more than any other magazine in the world (http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/wp_e_20110501.pdf).

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  Things that made you cringe at "the meetings"

  by i_drank_the_wine in

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  i always cringed so hard when a "brother" or "sister" would make some overly heartfelt comment about jehovah-something, usually related to a personal experience of theirs, and get all teared up and/or start crying.. once this fringe dude that's been df'd twice now was giving a talk and kept having these long awkward pauses where he looked like he was real stressed out, then he would start up again, stutter, slip up, and repeat the process until he looked down and went "i, i just can't do this" and walked off the stage and left the hall.. it also made my spchincter pucker when a young person would give some super devotional comment on how much they love big j and whatnot, which would make the congregation all smile in their hearts and wag their heads in approval..

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  JW's? or GW's?

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  it seems quite obvious now that the governing body is really in the "god" position of the entire organization.

  jw's claim to go only by the bible, however you cannot become a jw without using wt literature.

  the governing body claims to be almighty g*d's sole mouthpiece (yet they deny being inspired like the prophets of the b*ble somehow).

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  Could the JW's survive another 1975?

  by i_drank_the_wine in

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  the only years that i'm aware of in recent history that the jw's lost numbers was after the 1975 debacle.

  someone posted on another thread about the damage control they're doing with the new "generation" nonsense with an assembly part where one person explains the "new light" to another that isn't too sure of it.. if they're having to do damage control like this over something relatively minor in comparison to 1975 (just some more "new light" as always), how do you think they would hold up under another 1975-level "oopsy"?

  people seem to get less and less willing to be locked into religious systems that just don't conform with the modern world as it is.. if the internet was around, how many more people do you think would have google'd "jehovahs witnesses" at some point in 1976, perhaps while alone on the computer after the world didn't end?

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  How many of you haven't fared too well since your exit?

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  i know that i've had a hard time piecing things back together after losing my wife and family a couple years ago and haven't really gotten the ball rolling to say the least.

  just curious to hear if anyone else is in the same boat, or was in the same boat and how long it took them to get a "new life" figured out and going..

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  What was your favorite convention beverage?

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  there's so many good choices, i can barely pick!.

  dart?.

  shasta cola?.

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  Good movie, totally creeped me out to see what Jesus would have been like today

  by i_drank_the_wine in

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  apologies in advance to any fellow ex-jw's that personally believe in christ.

  we all have our own beliefs now, whatever works for you and isn't jw's - i am all for it.. i watched a netflix streaming movie yesterday called the encounter.

  http://movies.netflix.com/wimovie/the_encounter/70184203?trkid=4213507.

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