greetings, friends:.
the opening query is presented, loosely, in the past tense, assuming that you are not currently a reader of watchtower publications.. not that i'm already rather certain of your reply, it's just that i would like to know if in your english-speaking country (or esl [english as second language]) the society deigned to tailor the publications to your spellings, expressions, idiomatic renderings, etc.
as you will read below, so-called american english is a dialect of english.. i found this online under american english vs. british english:.
Although the mags were printed in London, they occasionally contained American phrases that were incomprehensible to British ears. Apart from the spelling, the first that I recall is the WT stating "No way" when it disagreed with some course of action. No way? WTF does that mean? Ok, I know now.
Another one was "points up" supposedly meaning that something or other was highlighted.
Then there was the perils of "necking". We didn't know what it meant so were happy to carry on snogging..
some people believe that stealing, lying and killing, is not moral.
some people don't.. does morality exist?
if so, prove it..
So when we do something good for someone else where does that little glow that we experience come from?
apparently i'd been in prison, gone to wife-swapping parties and consorted with fortune tellers.
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i guess they have to demonise those who leave less others too are tempted to stray.. what did they say about you?.
Apparently I'd been in prison, gone to wife-swapping parties and consorted with fortune tellers.
I guess they have to demonise those who leave less others too are tempted to stray.
What did they say about you?
did you have a plan to leave the organization?
i did.
it took a couple of years but we did leave and never had a desire to go back!.
The weird thing is that even now, so many years later, I still get a buzz from having the evenings to ourselves and the weekends free to do as we like.
did you have a plan to leave the organization?
i did.
it took a couple of years but we did leave and never had a desire to go back!.
No. Just suddenly saw that it was bullshit. It happened overnight. Went to a pub, got mildly drunk, smoked several cigars, went home told then wife who went berserk, who told parents who reacted in similar fashion. Never went back.
hi guys.
sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.
just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.
Show me what connection there is between Jesus' parable of the Faithful & Discrete Slave and the 144,000 in Revelation.
the australian govt has set out a survey to see if people are in favour of changing the marriage act to include same sex couples.. hm here have received their papers?
the survey promises to be anonymous but has a substantial bar code at the bottom... anonymous yeah right.. the marriage act once said "two people" then a previous prime minister changed it to say "man and woman" all that is needed to amend this situation as required by the gay community is change it back again to "two people" there, done and dusted.. and millions of dollars need not be wasted on this survey which is not compulsory as is voting in australia.
can anyone here who still goes to kh tell us if this has had a ruling from the platform?.
So-called "equality" isn't the same thing as freedom. IMHO, the whole marriage equality thang is just a government sop to those who can't tell the difference. You don't have to be free to be equal.
i've only just stopped laughing.. in my old hall there's a brother who's now claiming to be of the anointed.. he's 28.. i do wonder if he's doing this for attention, if he's awake and messing with them, or if he really is that deluded.
when i was in he was an ms. which surprised even me because only a year earlier than that he was "a bit of a lad", is rubbish at talks and relies on his elder uncle to get him out of trouble all the time.. i guess this now means he's get his pick of jw sisters.
he's been after the same one as the rest of his peers since 2014..
We had one of those turn up too. All the warning signs were there. Back in the day, us pios would make a living selling from door to door a gadget called an Allgrip. It was a muli-purpose handle into which could be inserted a paint brush or duster or sponge,,you get the picture. A bro in Southampton turned them out and charged us 10 shillings - 50 pence - each for them. We would sell them for a pound, doubling our money. This new guy however, on his first outing with us as we sold from door to door, reckoned we were making too much money and so sold his Allgrips for 15 shillings - 75 pence - each, thereby making half the profit that we did and lectured us on our money grabbing habits, although as I recall was unwilling to pay his share of our petrol expenses. So we dumped him after 1 week.
You've guessed it - within a year he had decided he was of the annointed. I always knew he was a pratt.
probably everyone here knows something about the photo drama of creation.
but i wonder how many know anything about other early watch tower films.. https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if anyone knows where we can find the cedar point films, please let me know.
The New World society in action came out in the 50's and shows some remarkable footage of the then GB:
if watchtower has no reason to df ones.
they have just become inactive.
do you all think wt will begin a witch hunt (df'ing) for these inactive ones?
It was noted by a visting CO to my old congo that shepherding calls were too often made on only the prettier sisters.
