Posts by smiddy3

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2021 CHRISTMAS CARD EXCHANGE

by garyneal in

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since blondie is not here anymore to do this, i will volunteer to coordinate this for this year.. if you would like a card sent to you or send a card, pm me your mailing address and a name the post office will deliver to.. i was thinking that the cut off date should be december 10 (or the 15th at the latest).. do you want it pm'd or e-mailed?

(if emailed send your email address instead of, or in addition to, your snail mail).. i know that cards going overseas can take longer.. i will start sending out the list on the 10th to everyone via pm..

smiddy3

Hi Gary ,i looked back at Xmas card exchanges i did a couple of years ago ? and have found 8 that I am going to send out tomorrow ,2 cards envelopes I have but with no user name or address to send to ,one was from Berlin ?and I don`t know who sent it. Another envelope was from Milwaukee who I have no idea who it was from.

If anybody wants to send one to me that hasn`t recieved one from me in the past your welcome to do so .

Just remember to also put your address details down and how I can recognise you from this forum .

Your on my mailing list Gary .

I have a photo of two lovey guys on a card that might have been from the Berlin envelope but no user names and no address to send back. Both had beards and could be Spanish / Italian ,I have their names and if it was you pm me.

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Funniest insults

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, i was wondering what are the funniest insults i've heard/been called.. the woman who taught me the arabic alphabet did a lesson about insults in colloquial palestinian arabic.. the one that stuck out to me was iniqbir or ini'bir.

literal meaning: bury yourself.

"go and bury yourself".

smiddy3

Dago ,Wop , black bastard ,(cringe) were targeted for the Greeks or lebanese , whereas Dago and wop for the Italians that migrated to Australia ,at least where I lived in Melbourne .

Asians were slope eyes or slit eyes.

I was an ignorant street kid then ,my apologies .

An Elder who I sometimes worked with in FS would say as he left a householder "I hope all his chickens die off "

or some such thing.

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Demons. Afraid or not?

by punkofnice in

when i was a jobot i had the fear of demons rammed down my throat.. now i am without any faith, i don't have that fear because it seems irrational.

a fairy tale from the minds of some weirdo.. now i don't have to worry about buying stuff 2nd hand.. it always amused me how some jobots would pooh pooh charity (goodwill to my american cousins), shops or 2nd hand shops in case demons inhabited a jumper or a chest of drawers.

yet at the same time they'd buy a 2nd hand car.

smiddy3

God ,Angels ,Satan, Demons ,Superstitions ,all relate to how much and how deep you believe in them and it affects how your brain operates and plays tricks on you.

IMHO

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Consumption of Blood

by MikeJH in

i am new to this and recently converted, so please forgive my ignorance.. i am trying not to sin and don't understand something.

it says in leviticus that you cannot consume blood, so no blood transfusions.

i understand this.

smiddy3

Welcome to this site MikeJH please tell us a little about yourself ? Why did you convert to Jehovah`s Witnesses ?

What appealed to you ?

Are you open minded enough to examine the past history of Jehovah`s Witnesses ? and reason on why they keep changing their interpretations of scripture, when what they have claimed doesn`t come to pass ?

Don`t be afraid to examine your new found beliefs .

Take care .

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Yesterday I applied to join FB ex JW in Australia

by smiddy3 in

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friends

today i see that my application was declined with no explanation or if i could review the decision ?.

or even ask why ?.

any aussies on this forum members of fb australia ex jw`s ?.

smiddy3

Dio ,I`m not sure what your referring to ?

And apparently my second attempt to join this site has met with a refusal also ?

Well all I can conclude is , it`s their loss not mine .

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Hang out with the other sex

by Renee86 in

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friends

can we hang out with someone of the other sex even if the other has a boy- or girlfriend or is married?.

smiddy3

You can do whatever you want to do Renee86 ,you don`t need to get permission from old farts of the GB ? or anybody else ,unless you want to live your life being controlled by others.

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Demons. Afraid or not?

by punkofnice in

when i was a jobot i had the fear of demons rammed down my throat.. now i am without any faith, i don't have that fear because it seems irrational.

a fairy tale from the minds of some weirdo.. now i don't have to worry about buying stuff 2nd hand.. it always amused me how some jobots would pooh pooh charity (goodwill to my american cousins), shops or 2nd hand shops in case demons inhabited a jumper or a chest of drawers.

yet at the same time they'd buy a 2nd hand car.

smiddy3

Before I became a JW, I was never in fear of Demons though brought up as a Christian going to Sunday school as an Anglican and Congregationalist and not being a practicing one once I became a teenager .

As a JW I was indoctrinated to have some fear of Satan and his Demons ? { How would a God of love allow such creatures to wreak havoc on his creation beats me }

After leaving the JW`s I`m back to not having any fear of Satan or his Demons .

Come to think of it ,the Bible has never instructed the Jewish people or Christians to be in fear of Satan or the Demons ? right ?

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Watchtower Study on 5th December.

by Lost in the fog in

the wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.

in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".

however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.

smiddy3

Welcome CJ Asher just take things slow and easy ,especially be careful what you say to "friends" still in the religion.

Take care.

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Liberals really are so stupid

by mickbobcat in

so the liberals and their useful idiots, want to ban guns but then do the dumbest crap like letting rioters go and just glad handing criminals.

now crime is being helped along by the left and people are afraid the police can not protect them and the public's desire for gun control is at an all time low.

they the liberals are dumb as dog shit.

smiddy3

When you see what is happening now in Australia with detention camps is every reason there is never to give up your arms.

Sorry Simon, but that is a ridiculous statement to make and a complete misunderstanding of the situation here in Australia.

People ,whether they are black or white are required to isolate themselves away from the rest of the community if they are infected to protect the wider community and stop spreading the disease.

By far the majority abide by and respect that requirement and have no problem complying ,however there is always some idiot who doesn`t care if they are a threat to the health and well being of their fellow man ,and don`t care if they spread the virus.

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Did you at one time Believe-that you were not going to die. Does your still in JW spouse still believe?

by pistolpete in

this magazine says it all!.

and many of the older jws believed at one point in their life that they would make it through the great tribulation and into the 1000 year reign of christ without dying.

which is why so many jws stayed in so long.. is the main reason why jws ignore all the child abuse, the end of door to door service, and the closing of kingdom hall for almost two years----because they still believe they will not die?.

smiddy3

Of course we both did at one time ,but thankfully my wife and I are well and truly out as are other members of our family that I was instrumental in getting them involved are all out now.

Except for one niece who shuns us all.