SENSITIVITY TO HYPOCRISY

by ricoananas 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  ricoananas

  I might have been even OVERsentivive to things like these:

  (From the KM) Sp Pios, Reg Pios, Aux Pios, "PUBLISHERS". Were we not ALL "publishers"? JW Caste System? Elder comment: "He's just a publisher."

  Rigid adherence to a King James Bible type of pronunciation of Hebrew words from the Bible in English: MARA becomes May-ra, BAAL becomes Bay-ul, BACA bushes becomes Bay-ca bushes. I could understand and accept Anglo pronunciation of all the names commonly used or at least referred to in English, such as David, Adonijah, Saul, Abijah, Jeremiah, etc, but the WBTS insisted that's how we should pronounce ALL Hebrew words in the Bible. Very hard when you know real Hebrew pronunciation of Hebrew names. Spanish pronunciation of Bible names not far off from Hebrew pronunciation, so in Spanish it's not too bad. Long time ago I wrote to WBTS saying, "If we're all going to speak Hebrew in the New System, why don't we have some kind of classes in REAL Hebrew pronunciation, for our benefit now and so we can talk to all the resurrected Israelites intelligently?" Answer: "We should not concern ourselves with trifles, brother." So I reveled then in being able to say SHIT acceptably in the congregation (WT pronunciation of SHIT-tim, rather than She-TEEM.

  Being so crashingly bored with the usual monthly Accounts Report presentations when I were a MS, I tried giving one rounded off to the dollar so that the cong. would not fall asleep in my face (or so I would not fall asleep on my feet giving the report). Many PUBLISHERS afterwards sed "That Was Refreshing, I Actually Understood The Report Without All The Cents." However, our Gestapo PO ripped me apart for doing it that way, reminding me of the "widow's mite" and how that was perhaps just a few cents and that lots of people in the cong. were poor and that I hurt lots of feelings by eliminating the cents. Yeah, Right.

  "I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A ELDER AND NOW I ARE ONE" seemed to be his shtick.

  I'll add more when I remember more stuff, unless this New Post gets no replies indicating of course "I'M NOT INTERESTED."
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  JT

  . Long time ago I wrote to WBTS saying, "If we're all going to speak Hebrew in the New System, why don't we have some kind of classes in REAL Hebrew pronunciation, for our benefit now and so we can talk to all the resurrected Israelites intelligently?"

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  this is just too good

  i know guys right now who work the service desk up at patterson- and they HATED WHEN LOCAL YOKELS LIKE you would right them telling them what to do- i recall this one guy Harely Miller he would say:
  do'nt they know the food comes from the top down

  and we all as young bucks would sit there and nod our heads in agreement-

  when i was in WT i was truly like your PO- you seee he was merely being a good "Society Man"

  smile

  o the days of wt
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  blondie

  That PO sounds like he eats a lot of camel.

  (Strain out the gnat)
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  ricoananas

  Re JT: when i was in WT i was truly like your PO- you seee he was merely being a good "Society Man".

  I'm confident you've changed for the better, JT.