Posts by gone for good

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An anthropologist visits a JW community in Santa María Zapotitlán, Mexico

by OrphanCrow in

dr. jena barchas-lichtenstein is an anthropologist who received her doctorate through ucla.. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jena-barchas-lichtenstein/43/427/702.

in 2013, barchas-lichtenstein submitted the paper "when the dead are resurrected, how are we going to speak to them?

": jehovah's witnesses and the use of indigenous languages in the globalizing textual community as a partial submission for her doctoral dissertation..

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Orphan Crow-

Thanks so much for that. Smart woman that, and you also!

I would surmise that if WT operates in Mexico as a cultural entity that this would be their best opportunity to get a double-edged return on investment. Cultural education that is inseparable from WT authority, and a new souce of converts who come preprogrammed by the linguistic afinity.

Canadian Aboriginals are likely targeted in the same fashion. Unbelievably, the Revenue Canada Agency grants tax free status to the cult, partly on its claim to be an educational entity, irrespective of its views of higher education. Canad being what it is, there is likely money flowing to WT to do cultural work there as well.

Canadian aboriginals hopefully will equate Bethel et al on a par with residential schools and not get sucked in again by white guys with a bunch of ''bible based '' baloney.

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'Tracing All Things With Accuracy' - How the Watchtower Society's Writing Department never makes a mistake

by jwleaks in

from the 2011 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses.. source: 'tracing all things with accuracy'.

tracing all things with accuracy.

jesus said that the faithful slave would be discreet in giving the domestics their food at the proper time.

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It was Watchtowers journalistic dishonesty that was my first clue that they really didn't value factual truth.

At a district convention (organized by WT) one brother from each attending congregation was given a ''press release'' to take back to local newspapers in their espective teritories, to garner free local PR.

It was just a printed infomercial for the cult extolling the numbers in attendance. It was made to appear as an interview including a longwinded quote - to which we brothers were supposed to fill in our own names as the source of the quote!

They not only orchestrated this deception but expected to foist it off on unsuspecting local newspapers.

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Groanfest. Share your daftest jokes .

by jhine in

lots of serious stuff being discussed on site .

i thought!it would be nice to make each other groan/ smile for a change .please share your corniest ,punniest , or daftest joke .. i will start with this shocker , borrowed from tim vine .. vandalism in a multi story carpark ....... ...................................,............................ wrong on sooo many levels !.

come on now share yours.

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A guy goes back to the doctors office to hear the results of his tests.

He knows something is wrong when the doctor enters, staring at his test results and looking shocked.

''Give it to me straight doc, how long have I got ?'' the man pleads.

The doctor replies slowly ''You've got six ..''

''Six ?'' the guy screams '' six what, six weeks, six months ?''

Doctor looks at his watch and says '' five..,four.., three...''

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Leaving Christendom for the Kingdumb Hall

by gone for good in

most of us old timers left behind a stable, respected, religious heritage in our disillusioned haste to join a stupid cult.. as i recall, there was no rite of dissociation required - no reason offered to your church, no resignation required - it was a non-event from the dubs viewpoint.

what was your experience?

were you expected to do or say anything as you abandoned your spiritual heritage to become a drone in the watchtower hive?.

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Village Idiot

Catholic Schools provide excellent education - couldn't have JW kids exposed to that could we?

Half of my grandkids prefered our local Catholic high school over the public one as it is a wonderful school and they did very well too - smart, socially active, well adjusted kids who went straight on to university and well paying jobs. The JW grandkids are a socially retarded pioneer and a very angry rehab patient respectively - keep up the good work Watchtower.

Pete Zahut

You observed the same as I, that such actions are merely childish vendetta. It is actually important that Watchtower officially requires nothing from those abandoning a religion when joining theirs. It logically follows that persons abandoning the Watchtower cult, likewise, owe them no explanations, reasons or justifications of their freewill actions.

Don't involve these self-righteous assholes in your decision to leave - just make your demands known in harmony with your available human rights and enjoy your freedom.

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Crazy shootout in LA

by James Mixon in

guy jumps out his car like the wild wild west and fire at deputies.. deputies return fire and suspect shot.

stand off at this time..

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Outlaw-

You made me laugh man. Where do you find those insane pictures??

I have a personal attachment to two of the accessories that guy has mounted on his gun!

Had to save that picture - thanks again for a good laugh (as always).

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Please,I need non-"apostate" info./sites for my exit case on following topics

by Kensho in

i'm preparing for my exit after 4 years of de-programming myself from the cult (much help from here..thank you) been fading for as long as i can to keep decades of family and friends, but the moment the "real truth" is arriving soon.. i desire to make an intelligent defense for my actions and of course will never get to first base using any resource material that will shut down the process by my blind brothers and family members.. i have collected some resources on my own, but would appreciate help in the following.. 1) child abuse.

2) ngo un docs.

3) follow the money any public records of what the borg spends or invest our money on.

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Kensho -

Please search on this site for the topic entitled

'' Important to put in your letter of DA'' posted by Roberta804

a thread about a successful DA letter, posted by the woman who wrote it

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Leaving Christendom for the Kingdumb Hall

by gone for good in

most of us old timers left behind a stable, respected, religious heritage in our disillusioned haste to join a stupid cult.. as i recall, there was no rite of dissociation required - no reason offered to your church, no resignation required - it was a non-event from the dubs viewpoint.

what was your experience?

were you expected to do or say anything as you abandoned your spiritual heritage to become a drone in the watchtower hive?.

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Wow Gone and Forgotten you studied with real old school Nazis ! I'm surprised you made it out alive!

Giordano - Thanks for that link - it led me to a really good one from the Mormons trying to escape

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"Why I don't like people coming to my door, selling religion"

by Captain Schmideo2 in

jw
friends

this is from a blog, "news from me" that i read fairly regularly.

mark evanier is, among other things, a comic book writer (co-writer for "groo-the wanderer), a television writer, a great raconteur, and was a close person friend of jack kirby, one of the world's greatest comic book artists.he got an email from a jw trying to explain why they come to his door.evanier's answer is well thought out, and should explain to even the densest j-dub why people really don't like being bothered.

maybe his correspondent will take it to heart, but probably not.

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No wonder this man is famous because of his pen. Bravo

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Leaving Christendom for the Kingdumb Hall

by gone for good in

most of us old timers left behind a stable, respected, religious heritage in our disillusioned haste to join a stupid cult.. as i recall, there was no rite of dissociation required - no reason offered to your church, no resignation required - it was a non-event from the dubs viewpoint.

what was your experience?

were you expected to do or say anything as you abandoned your spiritual heritage to become a drone in the watchtower hive?.

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Interesting that some of you remember being told, or at least encouraged to take this action.

Was any reference from cult publications ever shown as to why this might be necessary? or just JW puffery?

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Please,I need non-"apostate" info./sites for my exit case on following topics

by Kensho in

i'm preparing for my exit after 4 years of de-programming myself from the cult (much help from here..thank you) been fading for as long as i can to keep decades of family and friends, but the moment the "real truth" is arriving soon.. i desire to make an intelligent defense for my actions and of course will never get to first base using any resource material that will shut down the process by my blind brothers and family members.. i have collected some resources on my own, but would appreciate help in the following.. 1) child abuse.

2) ngo un docs.

3) follow the money any public records of what the borg spends or invest our money on.

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Kensho

Do not do this!

They already know that they are a fraud in every regard you could mention. They have been fully aware of this for the last 130 years. They bring in about one billion dollars annually by perpetrating the same frauds on the same captive group of ignorant Jdubbies.

The Mormons learned to do it right in 1989, following the example of Norman Hancock, whose 18 million dollar lawsuit actually changed Mormon church policy the same year. ( isn't that really our goal too?)

Please search and read Leaving the Mormon Church How to get out by Richard Packham

You have actual legal rights in regard to religious freedoms - learn them! use them!!