i keep hearing rumors elders are going to be getting permanent badge cards to wear to every meeting.
one excited brother told me, "it would be nice if new ones to the kingdom hall could see who their shepherds are.
there is a great surge in activity, new bible students will be able to locate the proper elder in charge of bible studies!
Hey, maybe they'll steal a page from the Salvation Army's playbook and have officers w/ uniforms?
This would be really cool. You could have the MS as Cadets and the Elders as various ranks up to Major.
"Colonel of the Urinal" or "Major F***up"
Or, how about Sheriff's badges? They could do a Matt Dillon thing and have standoffs in the parking lot (maybe at the "Elderly Parking" slots)?
This is pretty rediculous and hardly supported by Scripture. It would be funny if it weren't all so bizarre.
calling all tos, tng, ds9, voyager, or enterprise fans, what's your favorite serries and why?
and what's your favorite episode and why?.
(too many choices on netflix for me to decide which to watch right now).
Has to be TOS episode: "City of the Edge of Forever". Won an Emmy, written by Harlan Ellison, starring Joan Collins. As an alternative, "Mirror Mirror" w/ evil, bearded Spock. Awesome!
jehovah's witnesses control body, marriage, and bedroom!.
not sure if this has been previously posted.. she makes great videos.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfelnrjytk&list=pl1xsr2_zngamxbaimr5ppcgied-wlvm3k&index=5.
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I remember getting spanked but I don't recall any genital stroking. So, after all of that, it appears that I even missed out on the genital stroking! (I'm kidding of course)
my mom seems to railroad me into a debate at least once a week.. anyway long story short,.
she says 'there is no where in the literture that the wt writers claimed that a specfic year it was going to be armageddon.. well i thought there was, and id like to print it or show it to her, i have some older books but not many.. so, is there?
i told her that the wt claimed that 1975 was going to be the end, she said no, they said that was the beginning of the tribulation.. wow, she forgot about the most recent article ablout that already!.
"The published timetable resulting from this independent study gives the date of man's creation as 4026 B.C.E. According to this trustworthy Bible chronology six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. So six thousand years of man's existence on earth will soon be up, yes, within this generation. So in not many years within our own generation we are reaching what Jehovah God could view as the seventh day of man's existence. How appropriate it would be for Jehovah God to make of this coming seventh period of a thousand years a sabbath period of rest and release, a great Jubilee sabbath for the proclaiming of liberty throughout the earth to all its inhabitants! This would be most timely for mankind. It would also be most fitting on God's part, for, remember, mankind has yet ahead of it what the last book of the Holy Bible speaks of as the reign of Jesus Christ over earth for a thousand years, the millennial reign of Christ. It would not be by mere chance or accident but would be according to the loving purpose of Jehovah God for the reign of Jesus Christ, the 'Lord of the Sabbath,' to run parallel with the seventh millennium of man's existence." Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God 1966 pp.26-30
"Does God's rest day parallel the time man has been on earth since his creation? Apparently so. In what year, then, would the first 6,000 years of man's existence and also the first 6,000 years of Gods rest day come to an end? The year 1975. It means that within a relatively few years we will witness the fulfilment of the remaining prophecies that have to do with the "time of the end"." Awake! 1966 Oct 8 pp.19-20
"It did not take the brothers very long to find the chart beginning on page 31, showing that 6,000 years of man's existence end in 1975. Discussion of 1975 overshadowed about everything else. "The new book compels us to realize that Armageddon is, in fact, very close indeed," said a conventioner. Surely it was one of the outstanding blessings to be carried home!" .. Brother Franz. 'Does it mean that Armageddon is going to be finished, with Satan bound, by 1975? It could! It could! All things are possible with God. Does it mean that Babylon the Great is going to go down by 1975? It could. Does it mean that the attack of Gog of Magog is going to be made on Jehovah's witnesses to wipe them out, then Gog himself will be put out of action? It could. But we are not saying. All things are possible with God. But we are not saying. And don't any of you be specific in saying anything that is going to happen between now and 1975. But the big point of it all is this, dear friends: Time is short. Time is running out, no question about that." Watchtower 1966 Oct 15 pp.629,631
as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.
however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.
i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
As an Engineer, it is my opinion that Psychology is fluff (like Sociology, Philosophy, and Poly Sci). It's pure snake-oil.
It's a course of study for mental defectives that can't pass math or materials science. Or, for dope smokers on their way to Law School.
Vy do zu hate your muther? I don't hate my mother, I love my mother! Ahhh...zo, you vant to haf zex mit your muther?
Tards, with really bitchin' couches.
i don't know if this question has been asked before,.
but, in any case,.
based on the comments of the governing body, at various conventions, annual meetings , info-mmercials, etcetara, etcetara, etcetera, [ i loved yule brenner in the king and i],.
I would be more interested in their respecitve MBTIs.
I'm thinking they would fall in the ENFJ or ESFJ group.
on the 100th anniversary of coca-cola, the company's marketing division made a bold move.. trends in the sales of coke were headed in the wrong direction.
competitors were eating away.
at the soft drink market once dominated by coca-cola.
I don't know about the rest of us but this stuff comes off to me as a bit bizarre. This is such a departure from what I grew up with that it's unrecognizable. The fact is, they should indeed change the name because it's completely different. When I went door-to-door (and mind you I Pioneered myself - big deal), I pretty much stuck to "arguing" directly from the bible. I would offer mags or books (depending on what we were campaigning) but I wouldn't use them as reference for discussion. I used the bible. Fred Franz' doctrines could be convincingly argued to even the most competent amateurs, if you could lead them down the right path of illogical/logic.
I can recall my late grandfather, he was a former "Bethelite" that "partook" until the early fifties when he "decided" he wasn't of the heavenly calling, studying for hours every day. Pouring over his concordances and bible translations in an attempt to fully assimilate the deep-teachings of Franz. My grandmother studied the "Harp of God" during her initiation into the Org.
The two of them knew the old doctrines inside-out and I learned from them. What I believe is sad for so many of us is the time wasted. It was akin to learning to make really fine buggy-whips (I know, they're still in use in some circles but not for driving horses - but maybe "Ponies") or button-hooks. Obsolete knowledge? Actually, the analogy isn't very good because buggy-whips had a legitimate use. This knowledge was spurious/apocryphal.
RIP - WTBTS
Oh yeah Baby, "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum."
John Carpenter and this is one of my and my assistant's faves.
You should have PhotoShopped (Premiere) in "Listen, Obey, and be Blessed" onto those billboards and newspapers. And the clip needed some Keith David action as well.
on the 100th anniversary of coca-cola, the company's marketing division made a bold move.. trends in the sales of coke were headed in the wrong direction.
competitors were eating away.
at the soft drink market once dominated by coca-cola.
But, Coke Classic has funky sweeteners so I only drink Mexican Coke w/ real cane sugar.
Perhaps we need a Mexican GB w/ real old-fashioned doctrine?
anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.
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I pioneered when I was a kid and back then it was called "Vacation Pioneering" and it was something like 75 or 80 hours (I forget). Then they changed the title to "Temporary Pioneer" and started dropping the hours for both Temporary and Regular.
