has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?
i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!
i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....
That's interesting. I knew that the elders' "arrangement" was new in the early seventies. Was it really pinched from the Mormons?
Ive honestly no idea--but the Mormons used the term before.
I cant think of a worse idea than young men being called elders.
has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?
i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!
i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....
StanLivedeath: drunk, 16 and a Christmas party...did the elders ever find out? 😱
no--this was about 7 years before the elders idea was copied from the mormons.
has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?
i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!
i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....
Mother can also mortgage Kingdom Halls & Assembly Halls to generate cash...but that means she'll have a ton of monthly mortgage payments including high interest costs.
no she wont--she will get the bruvvers to cover it all
Brilliant !
i remember a couple of decades ago when the internet was relatively young and the wt was at war with it, that they were battling to keep the pay attention book secret, commencing legal action against anyone who published it online (and of course, trying to out anyone who leaked it).
i think it was a norwegian skeptics organisation who had it available for download and dared the wt lawyers to come after them.. so i guess the new shepherd the flock book came out to try and put the genie back in the bottle and reassert some air of mystery and secrecy back into the equation.. so i typed jehovah's witnesses secret elder book into google.
colour me gobsmacked!
Kingdom hall. Dont recall that term in the barble.
has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?
i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!
i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....
mid 60's--i was about 16 and due to give a ministry school talk that evening. But it was christmas eve--and i went to an after work christmas party.
I was found passed out pissed in the lavatory--on the floor with my arm round the toilet.
i woke up next morning--couldnt remember anything.
do you want to know what is really behind the fake coronavirus pandemic, so-called vaccines and the war in ukraine?
to understand current events, you must first learn the history.
the world's biggest secret is that there have been tremendous global disasters in the past that decimated populations and caused the collapse of empires.
fun ere innit.
thought inspired by my post on tattoos: within the watchtower organisation, how many "conscience issues" actually are?
are people who actually do exercise their consciences in grey areas painting a target on their backs for the more hard-line dubs?
are they quietly avoided because " bad associations spoil useful habits"?
your jw conscience issues are whatever the elders decide them to be.
i was wondering about the jw attitude towards getting tattoos.. redditors suggest that the only jws who have them would have got them before they were baptised.. jw.org gives a meally-mouthed "true christians wouldn't" response.. but no-one (that i've seen so far) answers the question i'm actually asking: is getting a tattoo after being baptised a disfellowshipping offence?.
if not disfellowshipable, how would a typical jw congregation treat someone who got a tattoo after baptism?
would they really treat it like it is a conscience issue?.
when i was a kid i fancied having a tattoo--but when i see all the riff raff on the planet covered with them im glad i didnt.
well, that is my prediction for 2024 anyway!
hey, if watchtower can speculate..... https://youtu.be/dn8askhhwkw.
, maybe he will follow the example of Raymond Franz
...and have a nasty fall in his driveway ?
