first post on here.
i've been lurking for 3-4 years and i mean i've been a mega lurker, doing marathon reading sessions for months or weeks.. sometimes i proceed by researching specific topics, or posters; other times just reading current discussions.
i'm particularly fond of "old" post, i.e 10-12-15 years ago.. i have laughed, smiled, got mad, cried etc, just reading some threads here.. as you can see i suffer from some kind of "accute lurkitis".
When talking about the injustice in today's congo, they always say wait for God. The stars are in Jesus hand. And yet, God held Eli to a different standard when he condoned his two son's wrongdoing!
So why was Eli punished so harshly, but today the problem is with the people who are stumbled by an elders wrongdoing? I could never figure that logic out.
Welcome
wife ended up sick this evening.
so i'm by myself because i have talk #3 and i didn't know she would be sick.
buzzing on 4 beers and 1 bourbon and coke.
I haven't read anything that suggests that anyone in his congo knew he was drunk. He gave a great talk and no one but us is the wiser.
Quitting isn't that easy for some of us. I'm in the same spot as cappytan, I have a few drinks before the meeting, than I go and just sit there playing on my phone. This act alone helps pacify my wife. I don't cause a scene, I smile and wave to people, and go home.
If I could just quit and still have a relationship with my family I would.
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
alert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
Bethel's phone system is set up that if it's a call from inside bethel, the phone rings once, if it is an outside call, the phone rings in a short double ring.
They also have caller ID now, when I call my friends and family up there, they know its me. I would guess that whomever he used to call Morris room or office has already been talked too.
alert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
If I had his direct line number, (and I don't think Cedars does) I would release it online so that he would be swarmed with calls from people who are having their lives torn apart because of his policies!
While he did have a good line about Morris being delusional, why not use your time to ask a real question to see if he would answer you?
It did seem like Morris knew who Cedars was and hung up immediately after hearing his name.
campaign of hate said this on another thread:.
they are quite clearly trying to copy the business model of apple.
it reminds me of the 2013 agm when they had an apple style technology section, focusing on the new jw apps.
That executive from Apple is a very wealthy brother who lives in Miami right on the ocean. Has a yacht and all.
you must see the musical video at the end of this month program (aprox.
at 1:04:30).... i don't like to use "must" but this is wow... if you think they couldn't get any lower... just be prepared...
How could that song possibly accomplish giving a cart a big heart? No one watches that and wants to be friends with the cart, they shove back to the garage at the end.
I still have feelings for wilson the volleyball in Castway, and he didn't get his own music video.
i decided to update my avatar.. since the society says that disagreeing or speaking against the governing body is like korah challenging moses, i decided korah would be a fitting avatar!.
what do you think?.
by the way, if you didn't realize this was korah or don't know where this came from, it's from one of the new "comic book" bible stories..
I always like to point out that the current WT teaching is that Korah will be resurrected.
So both Moses and Korah died in the Wilderness, neither made it to the promised land, and both are in line for a resurrection.
Being associated with Korah isn't so bad.
i was going through old email and i came across the below email from a former acquaintance of mine who is a jw.
when we were both jw's, we were both pretty liberal in our beliefs.
its quite interesting how cognitive dissonance kicks in, for many & not too much for others.
My biggest frustratation is when they say "How do you know you have the truth?"
By us pointing out Watchtower doesn't have truth should be satisfactory. I haven't seen anyone on here claim we know the full truth about the bible. No one does. But We do point out and prove the Watchtower does not have the truth.
i was thinking about this today, after seeing another thread on the subject of serving in israel, of all places.
there have been many comments on the recent thread, and the ones a little older, about how utterly ridiculous that premise is.. the bigger question is why do i have to apply?
permission?
I got grief for going to my families International this summer. I live away from my family, all my family, (including bethelites, and missionaries) were going to be together at the convention. I just went. Peoplet asked why I didn't apply, I said, "We invited the public to come to all of the conventions, how is the public welcome, but I am not!
No witness ever responded to that!
