Damn... impressive catch... but a bit obsessive compulsive
Ha ha, I know. It has become more of a hobby now. I have become a bit more focussed on the other issues I have been reading about on this board. Some of you folks are the greatest and I am glad to be out with the rest of you fine peeps.
H
Me too is looking for hidden pictures and I know there are many within the printed matters of WTS.
I have quite a few more that I can't show on my site because the hidden images do not show up clearly on the scan.
H
I always love these things, Hunyadi - and have you already commented on the many faces in the water in the inside back cover of the Insight Volume I, especially the trolly-looking one on the lower right?
I have looked over the artwork in that volume, but really can't see anything remarkable . . . but you never know.
(The picture in your post identifies this as coming from the Insight Vol. II, which is correct; you just made a little boo-boo at the top, calling it Insight Vol. I. But because of this, I looked at Insight Volume I as well. Take a look for me please.)
Thanks for the correction.
Hunyadi
Check it out:
has there been previous discussions on the nature of animals in the new system?
most people seem to think that the animals will suddenly become completely different than they are today.
lions and tigers will eat hay, not meat, etc, but if you think about animal natures and the perfect system that exists in the animal food chain, it doesn't make sense.. what would a horse be if it had no fear of predators?
All I know is that I was promised a pet tiger in the new system when I was a wee boy.
this was mentioned on another thread briefly.
this needs it's own thread.
i want someone to tell me what the hell these things are?
Ha ha ha ha, I saw the commercial on tv for the first time tonight and thought it was stupid-halarious. It feels good to laugh.
H
at least one act of kindness when you were active.
i mean i have been sitting here reading threads.
some are very depressing infact about the lack of love, acceptance, socialbility and such.
The best time I had as a kid sitting in the KH was sitting with my cousins and drawing gapped teeth on the faces of characters in the mags and books, with bubbles over there heads saying silly things to eachother. It was a temporary release from the solomn crap. We would simply laugh our asses off silently, shaking like jello in our seats, until mom or aunt esther would threaten us with beatings, lol.
Mostly, I was just constantly afraid to be myself around the JW's. I never really laughed or had much of a good time around the witnesses, unless it was an unsanctioned youth party at someone's house. I had a best friend, James, and we would hang out alot. He was awsome, and while he is inactive for years now, he still can't bring himself to talk to me or even have a scotch with me which is both our fav cocktail. So sad.
All I remember about being a Witness was the anger and the fear of rejection and being alone if I ever strayed. Since I did stray, I have never had better or more real relationships with people. I found real love and warmth in my wife and my life as an XJW.
H
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many people who post here have had similar experiences to my own: x number of years going door-to-door, informal witnessing, placing books, magazines, doing return visits, but having no one ever come into the truth?
by virtue of their efforts.. members of my own family who are still jws similarly have nothing to show for their trouble of regularly engaging in the ministry over many years (decades, actually).. any guesstimates out there as to how much of your life you wasted participating in the preaching work?
Well, new ones are coming into the org somehow. Somebody out there is starting Bible studies and bringing the minds of worldly folks into harmony with the WTBTS's dogma.
While the many hours I spent in the field ministry proved, for the most part, to be fruitless, I was actually instrumental in bringing a couple of new ones into the org, and I wish to apologize profusely to them, but one of them is my exwife, therefore I should actually apologize to my children. I was a true believer and a hell of a salesman; what can I say?
I am sure you have noticed, if you have ever had any direct sales training, that, the service meetings are designed to teach Witnesses how to be better peddlers of the Watchtower. Tried and proven sales methods are taught to everyone who attend the meetings, and demonstrations and roleplaying is utilized in the ministry school just as in sales training meetings, but just like any other sales company out there, some are just no good at it and prefer to be "order takers" not "closers", but order takers simply don't get paid what the closers do. Some are just naturals at it and have success in starting Bible studies. Just as in sales, the art of closing the deal becomes "the thing" and something of an addiction. "I close, therefore, I am". Whether it is simply the thrill of getting a WT or other publication into the hands of a householder, or starting a Bible study, or bringing the new one to the point of baptism, it is a challenge, a thrill and an obsession.
Just an observation . . .
Hunyadi
yo - do u see yourself - obsessing about the wtbts or whatever the hell they call themselves - all this beautiful intellect spent on thoughts of an alleged abuser u all allegedly left - oh my - free yourselves - you didn't leave - u r all in this funky stage of mourning and hatred and realization that not all lovers are true - but, forgive my rambling - i have a question here, what do you think they did to mess with your minds so much that u r still obsessing?
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It could be that there's a reason why You joined in, and also that now You aren't as effected.
There's the point, and well said.
Hunyadi
did you love it?
were you in awe of it?
were you a true believer?
" . . . Needless to say it was an experience that I will never forget. Now I can think for myself again. " (Puternut)
I was born and raised in "the Truth", so I am now, for the first time ever, thinking for myself.
I was of course a true believer; didn't know anything else.
Hunyadi
