The EX Jehovah's Witless thread. AMA.

[Drazzil]

So rather then pull the "confessions" thread off topic. I'm going to post this here. I was a JW. Spend my first 18 years in the "truth". Ask me anything. I will answer. May or may not be current but I'll take a bite.

[Roman]

Is it true that there is a global plot for ex JWs to lie in wait for years before posting similar AMA threads on general interest forums - the posts are in fact a scheme to increase the hold that the JWs have over Hollywood and the Pentaverate?

[Carpet_pissr]

Other than being on the receiving end of door-knocking experiences, my only real connection was a co-worker at my first professional job.

Sample of one, but I liked her well enough. However, she was exceedingly..."aloof" is the nice way to put it. "Self-righteous" is the not so nice, more accurate way.

This was my first professional job, approximate age...23?

Will never forget that one early morning, she leaned over into my cube to say very directly: "I had a dream about you last night. In that dream, you were dating Susan (one of our co-workers in a different dept., who I WAS in fact seeing on the low down, due I guess to appearances)" She MAY have even said or at least suggested, that we were having sex in her dream. I just remember being completely blown away not because she had "guessed" what was going on, but that she was being so blunt about it (also pretty sure there was some refernce to sex or I would not have been that shocked, and remember it so well).

[Scraper]

So many things that you've talked about over the past years now make a whole lot more sense.

[hepcat]

Is it true that the average JW has three times the lung capacity as an Episcopalian? And that they aren't taught about shoes until they're 27, then dropped off at a Picway Shoes where they sometimes die from shock after seeing open toed sandals?

[Drazzil]

So many things that you've talked about over the past years now make a whole lot more sense.

I used to joke that the JW's were right about Armegeddon; but totally wrong about the caus.....

Holy shit. I never really considered the idea that my views on things spilling towards an apocolypse might have been *slightly* influenced by my upbringing.

Thanks for that.

[Drazzil]

Is it true that the average JW has three times the lung capacity as an Episcopalian? And that they aren't taught about shoes until they're 27, then dropped off at a Picway Shoes where they sometimes die from shock after seeing open toed sandals?

[Drazzil]

Is it true that there is a global plot for ex JWs to lie in wait for years before posting similar AMA threads on general interest forums - the posts are in fact a scheme to increase the hold that the JWs have over Hollywood and the Pentaverate?

No no... Its the illuminati and the freemasons you gotta watch out for.

[Zarathud]

And the Amish. Don’t ask hepcat about the Amish.

[hepcat]

I’m the one that likes the Amish as I grew up in central Ohio near Sugarcreek and other Amish areas. JeffV is the one that believes they’re evil.

[Holman]

Something I've wondered about the JW:

Am I right in believing I've heard that they say only 144,000 people will be Saved and taken to Paradise?

And haven't there been more than 144,000 JW's already?

Seems like an incentive to quit proselytizing.

[Zenn7]

Something I've wondered about the JW:

Am I right in believing I've heard that they say only 144,000 people will be Saved and taken to Paradise?

And haven't there been more than 144,000 JW's already?

Seems like an incentive to quit proselytizing.

It's a pyramid scheme - each person you get to join counts as 1 for you and you get partial credit for each person they get to join and each person the person they get to join that joins...

The top 144,000 is a revolving door. When someone beats the lowest guy's total, out he goes to be replaced by the new higher recruiting guy.

Don't know why, but it seemed like a funny thought when I was thinking to write it. Less so now that it's written.

[Drazzil]

Something I've wondered about the JW:

Am I right in believing I've heard that they say only 144,000 people will be Saved and taken to Paradise?

And haven't there been more than 144,000 JW's already?

Seems like an incentive to quit proselytizing.

The JW's believe that 144000 people (those born on or before 1914) would go to heaven and the rest of the JW's will live on a perfect renewed earth with everyone who died before the JW's were a thing being resurrected and given a chance to "know Jehovah". They preached the world would end before the generation born in 1914 completely died off. Of course with everyone born on or around 1914 just about dead, their views on this "changed".

The JW's claim that the Watchtower organization and the "governing body" are gods direct line to the JW faith. Over the last twenty years or so the "library" of all JW literature dating back to the founding of the organization belonging to every "Kingdom Hall" got cleaned out, so that its just "up to date" stuff now.

You used to be able to read stuff back to the founding of the organization, including some of the founders stuff. He was fascinated with the Pyramids and thought that the Pyramids held clues to unlocking bible secrets. Also you could easily read how "Gods chosen organization" Got many, MANY predictions about the end of the world wrong.

[Unagi]

I find the number 144000 to be both gross and grand.

[hepcat]

Father Guido Sarducci explained how all this works years ago. We should listen to him.

[coopasonic]

I find the number 144000 to be both gross and grand.

[Kraken]

In the "people still alive who you thought were dead" department, Don Novello (Guido Sarducci) is still on this side of the sod and apparently still doing voice work. I always enjoyed that character's G-rated routines.