Posts by charonsdog

so, i wanted to know if anyone had any good ideas on how too pass the time (i cant just try and listen i fall will asleep and i cant let that happen).. (only got a few weeks before i have to go its going too kill me but i got too do it).

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charonsdog

Thinking back on what I used to do when I was stuck in the boring prison seats...

When I was a kid, I used to put both of my arms on the armrests, pretend it was the command chair on the deck of the Starship Enterprise. I'd blast things with proton laser beams and shit. Then I'd bank right, left, up, down... sometimes it even felt like I was moving. Other times I'd imagine that I was a ventriloquist, and think about putting words in someone else's mouth. Even better, imagining the ability to "ventriloquize" farts, and make other corners of the KH or assembly hall smell bad so I could watch reactions.

As I grew out of that, (who am I kidding? I never outgrew that) I'd play a personal game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill" with the audience. Or stare at the back of people's heads to see if I could make them uneasy. In the large arenas where the conventions were held, I'd look up in the rafters and use my acrophobia to give myself vertigo. Sometimes it really scared me.

As an adult, I'd volunteer for assignments to get out of having to sit in my seat. Anything was better than having to be in the auditorium. Good luck to you.

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Why Do People Oppose Jehovah's Witnesses?

by BlackSpirit in

jesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.

now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

charonsdog

Jesus H. Christ! Trotting out that sad bunch of hooey claiming that the Bible must have been inspired by God or how else would the writer know that the earth was a circle, blah blah blah.

Your organization is so friggin' Eurocentric in its thinking. They really believe that Galileo was the first to discover that the earth was round? There are so many ancient civilizations that were highly advanced in their knowledge of time and space before they went into decline or were destroyed. For all we know, there were just as many peoples who believed in a solar system as there were believing that the globe was being carried around by a turtle.

The lack of critical thinking ability on the part of the JWs is astounding. But, then, that's exactly why we were practically forbidden to get a university education. "Keep 'em stupid."

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LEAKED: Bethel video talk about alcohol [mixology version!]

by Fay Dehr in

https://youtu.be/olfcg8ixvoy.

charonsdog

Got halfway through. Couldn't take any more. Need a drink.

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JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

by Room 215 in

a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

(translated from the italian) .

source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

charonsdog

Back when I was in and still knocking on doors, I would cringe every time I saw a fellow Witness standing on the sidewalk or even just a few steps from the doorway of a house, writing on their pad. It struck me as creepy, and i KNEW what they were writing. I can imagine how it looked to other people in the neighborhood.

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Sometimes it's the little things....

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

the elder called it hyper-bowl.

soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

charonsdog

One of my all-time favorites was when the School Conductor gave a talk on "pro-NOWNC-iation". (now, MAYBE that's the British way, but certainly not in middle-America). He kept repeating the mispronounced word over and over until my brother and I had to get up and walk out because we were about to piss ourselves laughing.

Another time, the WT reader pronounced the word "apropos" as "ah-PROPE-us". Great fun.

And the painful WT study on the courage of Stephen. The poor congregation couldn't figure out if it was "Steev-en" or "stef-un".... one would say it one way, another would contradict. I remember one brother who wouldn't stop changing the way he said it, back and forth, because he wasn't sure. Some regulars quit commenting, or would refuse to say the name, instead saying things like "our courageous brother".

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Consequences for having a non religious wedding ceraminy?

by Addison0998 in

hey i was wondering if maybe someone who is an ex elder or who knows a lot about these things could help me.

my dad is an elder but i need to be cautious with questions i ask.

now that i’ve been woken up from my brainwashed love of this corrupt corporation and from my belief in the bible, and my fiancé is starting to wake up as well, i really don’t want to have the sexist, overused, impersonal talk outline used for my wedding ceremony by some elder who is trying to show off his talk giving skills.

charonsdog

"Personally, I would give you a greater wedding present if I didn't have to go. I never liked the weddings."

That's EXACTLY what I used to tell couples who were thinking of inviting me to their wedding. I was able to skip out on attending those fucking drags from 9/2001 until 2016, after I left the JWCult. I would also volunteer to work on Saturdays at my job just so I could have a truthful excuse not to go. I couldn't stomach watching two people get tied together, listening to that god-awful speechifying before the vows, having to sit next to the woman I was miserably married to myself.

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Job 26:7 “Earth is hanged upon nothing”—proof of inspiration?

by Ireneus in

jws has been saying bible is authored by god because job 26:7 says: “earth is being hanged upon nothing.” and this verse in combination with isaiah 40:22 which says “god resides above the circle of earth” implies that earth is spherical and remains unsupported from above or from beneath.

thus, bible contains the knowledge which science confirmed later.. however, recent understanding of science is that the whole visible part of the universe is only 4%, and the visible exists because of the invisible 96%-- “dark matter 26%” and “dark energy 70%”--which is a fifth and previously unknown type of fundamental force called quintessence, which fills the universe like a fluid serving as a support to the visible universe.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/dark-matter/.

charonsdog

I have thought for a long time that the GB and WTS have always fallen into the trap of reasoning from a strictly Eurocentric point of view. Archaeology and anthropology have shown that many advanced civilizations existed in the past before being wiped out, either by disease or warfare. Is it not possible that around the time of the writing of these scriptures that there were civilizations that had figured out that the Earth was a globe, and that it revolved in space around the sun? It's not like Galileo and Magellan were the FIRST to figure this out. They simply had the luxury of being part of the civilization that endured and wrote the history books.