Osama Obama was heard to use racial slur against Israelites.
Proof please, WTWizard?
DO Brown Payne tells SA audience Serena Williams "disciplined" by her local elders for swearing on TV
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Pistoff
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Theocratic Sedition
No biggie.... her run-in with the elders was mentioned in a profile published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine a month or so ago.
Glad you mentioned that, wasn't aware of the article.
Because she seemed to be handling uncomfortable topics surprisingly well, I moved on to maybe the second-biggest oncourt scandal of her career — her notorious outburst at a lineswoman who had made a questionable foot-fault call against her during the 2009 U. S. Open. To be fair, the call looked bogus in replay, and Serena has suffered enough bad calls at that tournament — some that were almost surreally so, including one in a 2004 match against Jennifer Capriati — to justify a little paranoia. Even so, she went over the line and said things that would have scared the living hell out of me if I’d been in that chair.
“How do you feel about that now?” I asked.
“I was definitely stressed, and I was angry,” she said. “I don’t foot-fault. Like, I have in the past, but this woman should never make a call in the semifinals of a Grand Slam on a person who doesn’t foot-fault. She was totally wrong. I’m sorry. I’m not sorry. I looked at her like — I tried to warn her. And then she did it again. And I’m thinking, This is ridiculous.”
“But you admit you went over the top?” I said.
“What bothered me most was that I was representing my religion. I just felt like anyone who knew I was a Witness was stumbled. And I really don’t want to stumble anybody.” Indeed, Oracene had told me that the Witnesses called Serena in for a dressing-down. “They had to have a talk with me,” Serena said. “And I knew it was coming. I just felt really bad, though, because it’s like, that’s not who I am.”
“How does that work?” I asked. “Were you summoned by a minister?”
“They just talk to you,” she said. “They show you Scriptures. Not ministers, they call them elders. It’s almost like a reprimand, but it’s not bad, because in the Bible it says God loves you, and if someone reprimands you, they love you.”
Interesting.
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sir82
We had a CO who covered Michael Jackson's congregation many years ago. He used to tell stories, but never from the platform in front of a thousand people.
That DO sounds like he gets off by name-dropping. Did he also mention how many GB members he knows & plays golf with?
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Christ Alone
I was recently told that she is not a baptized JW and does not associate with the congregation anymore. Anyone hear the same?
It would make sense. She was drapped with an American flag during the Olympics and mouthed the words to the national anthem as well. If she is still a publisher or baptized, I don't think she has much to do with it anymore.
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wha happened?
we should be growing crops because there's plenty of BS flying around. Getting outted from a platform would be enough for me to never go to a KH again. Some brothers are bullies and Iheard things alluded to on the platform in a cat and mouse game. But this is blatent and that's why it didn't really happen. I see it as a PR game for all those who are NOT in the know. The other 99% of the population
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Vidiot
Satanus - "If she resists the ass smack, then she should be tied up, first."
She can tie me up and smack my ass anytime...
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Quarterback
So the transcript of that meeting with the Elders started like this, " Well, sister Williams. What the "F" were you thinking of." "This F.....g mouth of yours have to F.....g be controlled." "Bad speech" must be avoided at all costs. Why are you grinning? There you go again lauging at my Touret's Syndrome again".
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DaCheech
I've been to his meetings............. this guy is a bitter diehard!
His name actually describes him!
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shamus100
The guy sounds like an ass-clown. Just like 90 percent of jobie nitwits.
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NOLAW
Public nudity is OK, Adam and Eve were naked.