Posts by Muddy Waters

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Work Colleague Went To a JW Funeral - His Experience

by pale.emperor in

so the guy in my office on the desk next to me has just got back from the funeral of his wifes sister.

this was his first time in a kh and full on exposure to jwdom.. bit of background: the deceased jw was not a born in, she was a convert when she was in her teens.

she died last week at the age of 82. the poor old dear was still zealously knocking on doors while in ill health.

Muddy Waters

Yes, maybe in time they will learn to respect people for the unique people and personalities that we are and that bringing appropriate honour to us also brings honour to the Creator/God/Great Spirit/Allah/Universe/Energy/Love Source from which we sprang....

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Unprivileged

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

something just dawned on me today as i processed my assimilation into the real world (thanks to our new poster, @jester, giving me a major throwback to my first post).. when you're a jehovah's witness, you really are in some sort of la la land.

things which are perfectly normal are acts of eating from the table of the demons.

things which are horribly grotesque and extremely unjust are branded as "righteousness".

Muddy Waters

That was an awesome post, JoHo..! It really is like peeling back layers from an onion to see how indoctrinated and controlled we were.

You don’t know what you don’t know...

I’m about 5-10 years out, and it really has been a journey of awakening and insights and “revelations”, which are still happening and which still amaze me.

Your thoughts about “privileges” vs. “rights” is so Orwellian (have you read “1984”??) and is such an example of black-white thinking and the cognitive dissonance which occurs when one tries to explain or justify it. (Freedom=slavery, war=peace <—-Orwell, “1984”.)

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Romans 2:21,22 Matthew 23:3 and the hypocrsity of the November 2017 Broadcast!

by stuckinarut2 in

hypocrites!

i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.

please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.

Muddy Waters

I looked up these scriptures in the new NWT:

Romans 2: 21, 22 - “21 do you, however, the one teaching someone else, not teach yourself? You, the one preaching, “Do not steal,” do you steal? 22 You, the one saying, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You, the one abhorring idols, do you rob temples?”

Matthew 23: 3 - “3 Therefore, all the things they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for they say but they do not practice what they say.”

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Your donations at work: WT Farms “inspirational” corn maze

by betterdaze in

“best life ever” is displayed at watchtower farms, near pine bush.

the jehovah’s witnesses' maze is a work of devotional art, and not intended for exploration like the pagan ones made for hudson valley tourists every halloween.

source: lohud.com.

Muddy Waters

Ha, I missed seeing this the first time round. But I can see that it’s supposed to be a man in a tractor, and he is waving... the two large circle things near the bottom of the picture are the tractor wheels. And you can see the barn (much smaller than the giant tractor) on the right, and rolling hills or plowed fields on the left, with some sort of fence on the left. I guess the best way of life is.... farming...?

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Convention “Highlights” - bwhahaha!

by Muddy Waters in

jw
friends

taking a walk down memory lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions... .

(boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!).

but what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?.

Muddy Waters

Taking a walk down Memory Lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions...

(Boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!)

But what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?

...

I remember:

- taking endless notes

- shifting uncomfortably constantly

- walking aimlessly around the coliseum till you spotted somebody you knew and then it was a big deal to say hello and find out where they were sitting so you could resume walking aimlessly around again...

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Rock band titles from JW history / culture

by sir82 in

jw
friends

on another thread, undercover suggested "adam and the dinosaurs".. i came up with these:.

green bible dinosaurs.

jezebel and the fornicators.

Muddy Waters

The Pretenders (ha! Didn’t even have to change that one!)

The Comely Feet

Collective Soul-Stealers

Insane Crowd Possibilities

Sister’s Casseroles

KISS the Son Lest He Be Angry

Babylon The Great & Her SuperTramps

The Tragically Unhip

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Rock band titles from JW history / culture

by sir82 in

jw
friends

on another thread, undercover suggested "adam and the dinosaurs".. i came up with these:.

green bible dinosaurs.

jezebel and the fornicators.

Muddy Waters

Pink Tight-Pants Floyd

knocking on The Doors

The Glorious Ones

The Rock & The Heavy Crag

Salt Pillars of the Earth

New Riders of the Purple Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen

The Flying Lizzards of Warwick (and their hit song, Money - That’s All I Want)

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Rock band titles from JW history / culture

by sir82 in

jw
friends

on another thread, undercover suggested "adam and the dinosaurs".. i came up with these:.

green bible dinosaurs.

jezebel and the fornicators.

Muddy Waters

Hurling the Great Serpent

Pharoah and his Armies

Jonah and the Wailers
...
I want to add something about garlic bread or sad garlic bread, or bread overlapping with garlic, but can’t figure out a “band name” for it, lol.
...
The Mental Regulators
Love Bombers
Grand Funk Railroaders
....
well running out of steam....

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