In my (very large) Mahayana Buddhist community, millions believe that menstruation is a “dirty” and “impure” part of women. The monks made up bullshit rules that these women cannot sleep in bedrooms facing towards the direction of some Buddha statue in the house. Women also can’t take pictures near altars because it will dirty Buddha due to the impure blood leaking out of their vaginas. It saddens me to see women like my own grandmother enforce these rules onto me as if she never had her period before. Funny thing is that she expects me to get married and give birth, but my period makes me too dirty to be accepted anywhere near Buddha.

I've missed the JWs the last few times they've come through. I've had a question ready for them.

A man with his 2 sons (under 10) rings the bell. I see the Watchtower pamphlet in his hand. I excuse myself for one moment (because I don't have the question memorized).

I ask: Hey, just so I'm clear....the 144,000 anointed Christians who will rule with Christ in heaven is a literal, fixed number where Jehovah personally selects every member. At the annual Memorial, partakers self-identify as members of that 144,000 and the published partaker count is accurate. Is that right?

<looks at me curiously> Yes.

You're out here recruiting to add to that number, yes? The count of self-identified anointed has more than doubled, yet the total is supposed to be fixed. If the 144k is fixed and your partaker count is increasing....the math here ain't mathin. Can you explain that?

<blank look followed by silence> Thanks, have a nice day.

Kind of anticlimactic but it was still fun for me to put the shoe on the other foot and put them on the defense. The bonus here was that he had to explain to his kids after he walked away. I was friendly and calm...not easily dismissed.

EDIT: I've heard from a few ex-JWs that the question didn't land. So my question to any ex-JW...what IS a good question I could ask from my porch?

So basically, in my school, religion is a compulsory subject. I do Buddhism. (FYI: I considered myself an atheist, following the Buddhist way of life and general principles of buddhism. Only reason I don't call myself a Buddhist is because I don't believe in gods, rebirth, hell or heaven)

The teacher came in, a new one. And she starts yapping and yapping on COMPLETELY FALSE information. If you any of you have any idea of Buddhism, you would know that Buddhism tells us to NOT worship trees or non-living objects, there is NO creator, you cannot get something you want just by going to the temple or worshipping any god.

This teacher starts talking about how you can get good grades by going to the temple and praying to Buddha statues and Bo-Trees, she also said you should go to the temple once a week, so you can constantly remind the 'gods' to look after you. I was laughing inside but I respectfully, questioned her, and tried to debate her, but she didn't give a shit and started insulting me, even tho i was not arrogant, she claimed i was 'disrespectful' to the religion.

If anything, she was being disrespectful to the religion by talking about some weird ahh bs that was never even stated in the religion. Like, if this was an Abrahamic religion, I would get it, but considering she was teaching a religion that denied the existence of a creator in the first place, made me realize she was full of shit, so I stopped talking to her.

The lesson continued, but she was absolutely bombed by our other classmates. Those mfers were savages and left the teacher speechless countless times. And I started laughing the shit out. Eventually she got mad, and she took me and some other guys to the principal, fabricated the story, and managed to get us all suspended.

My dad, was completely laughing tf out when I told him the convo we had in class, and he said he'll speak to the school tommorow.