Posts by Saintbertholdt

for people who already are bedazzled by the current stream of information about watchtower / jw.org real estate planning, renovation and the emergency stop on the building programma called out, i found today that the renovation design of the (impressive!

) toledo buildings for the watchtower real estate staff, is designed by a state of the art designer.

http://www.hudsondesign.pro.

Saintbertholdt

Nothing but the best...even if you can't really afford it.

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My Mom Is Dying

by minimus in

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friends

i just wanted to say that my dear 89 year old mom is terminally ill and will soon pass.

she is on morphine and hanging on.

she has been a devout witness for about 60 years and a wonderful mother.

Saintbertholdt

Sorry to hear your mother is dying. Its good that you have had a great friendship wit her throughout her life. She must be very happy about that.

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I went down in the first Round!

by John Aquila in

there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

Saintbertholdt

Well if the Watchtower membership went down to 1 million, 7 out of 8 people around that table would be among those who left. So perhaps they were subconsciously clapping at the prospect of being free.

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How did your close JWs react when they found out you know TTATT?

by ivanatahan in

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i'm not sure if this topic has ever been posted (surely, i believe it has), but it would be interesting to revive such a topic and hear your stories!.

when my parents heard my first rant (after they told me to be home schooled when i was caught kissing a girl) they entered into a long depression that continues to this day.

my father suffers knowing his once amazing family is now divided, and my mother is equally angry.

Saintbertholdt

How did your close JWs react when they found out you know TTATT?

I was thusly banished like Biblical Cain and now walk the earth in search of a new adventure every week.

Image result for kung fu series cain

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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

by LaurenM in

do any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?

even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.

the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.

Saintbertholdt

millie210
God died after he created the universe.
Thats actually a very interesting statement [Fl]unkie!

And God gets fully reborn just as this universe ends...so that he can die and the next one can begin.

FlunkieJimmy, have you been reading my diary again? Stay out of my room!

MOOOOOM!!!!!... Jimmy's been in my room again!

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Why zombies?

by FadeToBlack in

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i just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?

is it just easier to justify the carnage?

it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.

Saintbertholdt

. Are the zombies in 'Walking Dead' slow or fast? Does the first series show how it got started?

They're mostly slow...but they're everywhere and when they come its at least a battalion.

The series has flashbacks in the early episodes and the first season has an origin type story for many characters. But I guess you're actually referring to patient zero. Well that's in the companion series 'Fear of the Walking Dead' which is only showing now and which I haven't been watching. I want a good number of episodes to build up before I jump in. In the Walking Dead series by the end of the first/beginning of the second season is where you get their twist in the tale and that's when you realize how badly mankind is in the doo doo.

Some researchers theorize that we find zombies scary because of the 'uncanny valley' effect - they are almost human, but not quite, which throws us off balance and feels very uncomfortable.

Cool. A new talking point with my neighbor... Oh yes I've seen this... Its like why most animation of human faces don't really work unless you make them more cartoon like (bigger eyes, simplified features etc.). Otherwise they look stiff or just plain off.

but I think my fave zombie flick is Zombieland - so much fun.

Mine too... double tap.

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Question: What would it take to get the BORG'S tax exempt status REVOKED?

by Black Man in

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i've always wondered about this.

i've always felt the main reason the borg made publishers do time slips/field service reports was to show that they are doing a community service to justify their tax exempt status.

we all know about their money grabs with the kh build scams, their selling off millions of dollars in real estate, etc.

Saintbertholdt

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET THE GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THEIR TAX EXEMPT STATUS? Public pressure? Media blitz exposing their finances. Political pressure? What?

The separation of church and state would prevent that. The US supreme courts formal neutrality test would not allow for tax exemption on churches to be lifted. I think the argument should not be one of losing tax exemption, but the argument should be for full public disclosure regarding financial matters for all churches. That is still a neutral stance and the only thing the state would be doing is leveling the playing field for its citizenry by giving access to information.

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Why zombies?

by FadeToBlack in

jw
friends

i just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?

is it just easier to justify the carnage?

it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.

Saintbertholdt

Do the non-zombies (the good guys?) always win or at least have some kind of happy moment at the end of the movie?

Tradition dictates that its never over and we're all ******.

I skipped the whole vampire thing though. Hope that is ok.

To me after the first Twilight movie vampires became forever unclean.

Time may heal all wounds though.