Posts by No Apologies

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Sitting Still at Meetings has Become an Impossibility

by venusinfauxfurs in

since i know the truth about jw, and still have to go to meetings for family reasons (and because i don't want to leave my friends, either) i get so sick in my chair in the hall.

i can't pay attention, i can't sit still knowing it's all such a waste of time and a big fat lie.

i get weird symptoms like: the feeling that i'm going to almost pass out, very sweaty or very cold, and weak legs though i'm sitting down, and the urge to get up and run away.

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Just quit going. Thats what I did. My family eventually got used to the fact I wasn't in their little club anymore. If your friends don't want to associate with you anymore, well, then were they really your friends? Besides, with 7 billion people on this planet, you can easily find new friends, real friends who don't care what church you go to or if you even go or not.

Why be miserable and unhappy? It's your life, you only get one, make it the best you can. Yes there can be some pain in making this adjustment, but better to get it over with than to be miserable the rest of your life trying to do what other people think is best for you.

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Even what they printed a couple of months ago is old because Jehovah is moving so fast! From last nights letter on Gilead.

by life is to short in

the gilead letter was read last night at the meeting, i had to listen in as they have reinstated my phone line, whatever.. so anywho the service overseer gave the part and he said that jehovah's organization is moving so fast that even what they have printed just a few months ago is now old and they just received a letter from the fs that was to be read tonight from the fs!.

the way he read it, he made it very exciting and like jehovah's chosen religion is moving so fast that it can hardly keep up and the letter was just proof.

the way this elder read the letter it made it sound like the married couples school is going to be so wonderful that it would suppress gilead in wonderfulness.. the elder doing the part then went on and on about how our educational programs are so much, much better than anything out in satan's world.

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Ok I haven't been following all the latest goings ons, can someone fill me in on what was printed a few months ago and what was in the letter? I had heard that Gilead was no longer going to be training missionaries, but instead new students would be those already serving as elders, pioneers, etc and would be used after graduating as "troubleshooters". And that there was some new school for Married Couples, not sure what the purpose of this school was.

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Do you know the oldest Kingdom Hall personally that still exist today?

by Iamallcool in

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this kingdom hall was built in the 1960's and they still meet there.

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Not to derail this thread, but I recently got to revisit my home town's former Kingdom Hall. After it was replaced in the late 70's with a new Hall, it was converted into a house, I've always been curious about how they remodeled it into a house. So it was a little surreal walking into a building I had not been inside of since I was a kid.

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Camping ''bewildered'' and ''mystyfied'', but check who is taking blame...

by Aussie Oz in

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http://www.670kboi.com/rssitem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29671679.

new york) -- harold camping is "mystified" and "a little bewildered" that the rapture did not go as he predicted, an associate of the california preacher told abc news.. .

tom evans, a board member of camping's family radio international, said that camping's wife told him her husband is at their home in oakland and has no intention to speak or issue any statement on sunday or monday.. .

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Yeah I haven't heard of Camping DFing anyone who changed their mind about following him. So that puts him at least one step above the Watchtower.

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184

most depressing song ever

by will_the_apostate in

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whats the most depressing song you have ever heard?

i would go with either johnny cash - hurt or gary jules-mad world.

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Gotta go with Alone Again, Naturally. I've always said that's like the most depressing song ever.

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"Recruiting the Deaf" a new "Freeminds" article by Barb Anderson

by Dogpatch in

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the worldwide recruiting attempt of jehovah’s witnesses to bring their religious message to the deaf using sign language can be viewed as something of a mixed bag.

while they strive to communicate it using the right methods, they convey an illusionary message that is detrimental in countless ways.[1].

jehovah’s witnesses international “deaf ministry” as directed by the watch tower bible and tract society, inc., is no small feat because there are over 200 distinct sign languages in the world.

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By and large, the methods for hunting down deaf people is a waste of time. You will literally spend hours driving around, knocking on doors, harassing businesses and writing letters to schools with nothing to show for. Not to mention how much gas you have wasted driving all over.

And this is different from the regular field ministry how?

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Star Trek was pivotal to me growing up and here is the best of it, imo

by sabastious in

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friends

i saw this episode when i was a little kid and it has stuck with me since and will so until i die.

i highly recommend taking the 42 minutes out of your life to watch it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5djw1kzcki.

-sab.

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The Inner Light may be the greatest episode of Star Trek ever produced. I remember the first time I saw it being completely blown every time they came back from a commercial and Picard had aged another 10-15 years. I was like WTF?!?!!!

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Conservative Catholic Bill Donohue Regarding Priest Child Rape: "They Weren't Children And They Weren't Raped"

by Justitia Themis in

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...they were adolescents and they were just touched.

his writing is eerily reminiscent of jw apologists.. .

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2fc%2fa%2f2011%2f04%2f12%2fddue1iuco1.dtl.

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I saw this in the news, this Donohue guy sounds despicable.

Its infuriating to see how they can minimize and condone truly vile and abhorrent acts, and somehow paint the perpetrators as victims!

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How can the WTS be short of money ?

by the max in

so the society have a hedge fund, some(50%) shares in a usa company who specsialise in weapons delivery systems , has a shares portfolio that includes cigerettes.it buys up real estate in one of the worlds most lucerative locations ny,uses free labour to refurbish these properties along with its tax free status and then sells them on at a profit.it further extends it real estate portfolio by lending money at intrest ,for the building of more kh, again built with free labour and tax breaks, which are never owned by the cong,s who built them, but belong wts.

i am not an economist,though i would be hard pressed to come up with a better economic model than this, also it purports to be politically nuetral, so hopes to operate globally without restrictions, infact the (workers) have to pay the society ,by way of mag sales and donations, in order to give their free labour, no trade union protection or minimum wage.

g--gle, p--si,ya-oo, micro---t, would kill to have these advantages in the market place..

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the building of more KH, again built with free labour and tax breaks, which are never owned by the Cong,s who built them, but belong WTS.

For the last time,

local congregations hold the deed to their Kingdom Hall, not the Watchtower Society!!

Posting untrue allegations just makes ex-JWs look either misinformed or intentionally deceptive.

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Check this website out! Pretty pricey stuff for the JW

by Lynnie in

http://chbook.stores.yahoo.net/2006items.html.

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Back in the day I made some awesome laminated bookmarks with the book study schedule printed on them, I could've been selling them instead of just handing them out to everyone in the book study group!

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