by therevealer 39 Replies latest jw friends
My kids were grown when they heard of my experince in Nam.
The guys that boast about their time in Nam, I have found quite
A bit of exaggerations on their part. Don,t get me wrong, any one
that served in Nam my hat is off to them. But the ones who really
was in the sh---t, they don,t talk about it.
I don't know what action he saw in Vietnam, but I wouldn't expect him to be honest about it or anything else. When I was still in bethel and trying to believe it all, he was among the "partaking dudes" that were brought in for grooming to join the GB. As I got to know these guys, my brain was telling me, "NO FU@K!NG WAY!" These guys have no particular intelligence and don't have the experience to become the directors of a large religious organization. They're just 'yes men' that got where they are by kissing as$es. They're not leaders, they're Watchtower-trained, empty-headed drones. And as individuals, I wouldn't buy a used car from any of them. I learned that they were of the minds that felt completely entitled to tell me a lie as long as they could pretend it was truth.
And obviously, I'm a better prophet than Watchtower. Rather than organizing to lead the way into a new world, meetings are being reduced, property sold, publications reduced, writing and speaking have gone from a 5th grade level to a 3rd grade lever, and doctrine is a complete mess (overlapping generations?). The assylum is now being run by the patients, so of course Watchtower is becoming bedlam. Instead of beefing up the organization with scientists, mathmaticians, accountants, engineers, and highly trained and skilled workers who could financially support the bOrg now and would theoretically have the brains to help build a new world, WT is encouraging a lack of training and education. Bad situation for now, and if the big A were to come, there would scarcely be enough brainpower for the surviving dubs to live at a Stone Age level.
I'll paraphrase what I heard at a convention from Tony Morris the Turd's own mouth: "Some of the brothers say that they need more education in order to get a good job. When somebody says they need more education, that means they don't have faith. I was able to work in cleaning, pioneer, and raise a family. You don't need education to make a living."
What he obviously failed to mention is that he nibbled and sipped his way out of janitorial work. He got into the circuit work and as a partaker got the call to join the GB. He didn't need to worry about retirement like real people. He doesn't have to worry about housing or healthcare or anything. He faked his way into a position of authority at WT and is the type of nut that will do far more damage to the organization from the inside than we can do from the outside.
Right on Billy!
I remember some post about his life, saying he served as a medic in VN. If he was a medic, wouldn't that qualify him for a job in the medical field?
Why did he become a janitor? What are the qualifications for a Medic? Just carry the dead bodies?
Good post BTX....I wonder how many janitors/window washers/other cleaning occupation JWs are out there right now, breaking down physically into their 60s and 70s with nothing but a small social security check heading their way in the years ahead.
Meanwhile Tony jets around the world like a rock star with millions of adoring fans.
Don't know for sure, but my best guess would be that he was not raised as a JW, got drafted at 18, went to Vietnam in 1968 or '69, got back, got baptized in 1970 and started pioneering in 1971.
Left unsaid is how much the assurance of "how fitting it would be" for Jehovah to bring Armageddon by 1975 factored into his fast track.
I'm listening to an Anthony Morris talk, here's a quote...
"A bomb shelter is built for survival - not a pleasant place to be... Yesterday I mentioned to the brothers and sisters that I've been in bomb shelters when I was in Vietnam, ah, new, young soldier, I did operating room work there, but when I first got there they were bombing... you know after you get by orientation up round long bin (???) I went down in the delta, was down there for some months, and they were bombing all the time. It was like the fourth of July, but it was real. Not a pleasant thing (mumbles about wars)... Well anyway, I was working twelve-hour shifts, seven in the morning until seven at night, later I switched and went to night one, so... I got tired. Even though I was young and I loved working and I loved medicine, ah, and so, when I'd go to bed I remember when I was first there just my first few days there - they'd start bombing us... And then these mortars. "Morris, get up!" you know, and cause I mean "wadya mean get up! I heard the bombs too dummy!" (audience laughs) So, get your helmet, so I had to get a helmet, and a flack jacket and all this stuff to go down in the bunker, which was right there by where our barrack was, there. I get in there, and it held about twenty as I recall, it's not an exact science, the memory of that... And I'm looking around at them all wearing their helmets and flack jackets, of course mine was brand new, everybody knew I was brand new, and I'm looking at all of them and I said "hey, let me ask you a question".... "what" (coz they're all nervous)... I can tell they're nervous and let me learn something here, I said "what happens if one of those mortars hits us directly?"... they said (gestures)... I said "so this is a coffin?" (audience laughs) So, and I don't recommend this, and I was young, I'm just telling you the experience... so, from henceforth, I didn't get out of bed. (audience laughs) And they'd say "you're nuts!" I said "forget it, I'm not going down in the coffin" I said, "I hope it doesn't hit ya." And one night a big chunk of shrapnel tore my locker up, by the way, and I was so glad that hit the locker instead of me! (audience laughs) So I, they could say it was foolish, I got used to it. Coz I gotta get some sleep some time."
He WAS in Vietnam, but even back then he was a jerk!
Cedars
Cedars, that excerpt reeks of phoniness.
Room 215 - I know what you mean!
Cedars
This is the story we would have heard at Ponderosa for years if anyone in our congregation saw that talk.
"So I was listening to a talk by Br. Morris (he's in the governing body by the way) and he was telling of his time as a doctor in the Vietnam war. He was fearless even then. When all the new solders would be cowering in bunkers, he would be asleep even as bombs were falling! One night he felt like rearranging his tent and switched the bed and his lockers position, and that same night a bomb destroyed his locker but he was completely unharmed, of course there's no arguing, THAT was Jehovah's work there. Even before he was a witness Jehovah was protecting him!"
