Posts by Sweetp0985

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Ever work for Witnesses?

by free2beme in

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i worked for a witness owned business for 10 years.

three as a witness and seven as a former witness.

it was a formal wear (tuxedo) store.

I worked for my step-mom years ago...It was hell..first off I didn't like cleaning all those filthy ass houses (she owned a house cleaning service) while the dirty-uppers just sat around watching us clean...But it was 4 of us most times (her, another sister, my step-sister and me)...everyone else got paid the big money while I got a lil change because I was still in school and didn't have expenses yet....WTF!?! So I was doing as much work as them but getting paid less cuz of that..But once I graduated, I moved out cuz if I would have stayed there, it was understood that housecleaning with her was the only job I could have so that I could reg. pioneer.... never encouraged me to go to college...ok I'm getting angry now..and thats a whole nother thread...

Only good thing about it was I got to hear all the juicy gossip that her and the other sister would discuss...

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What's the oddest thing you have eaten?

by PopeOfEruke in

hey i was on holiday last week and we went to a sea-side night market and there was a food stand called "roadkill restaurant".

the motto was "you kill it, we grill it".

charming place.. they had crocodile, buffalo, camel, and kangaroo and emu kebabs.

Sweetp0985

ElderBarry....

Made me think of something that happened to me once tho...I may have eaten a roach or some weird bug before....Never actually saw it, but boy did I taste whatever it was...I was about 11/12 and sneaking a chocolate chip cookie cuz I was being made to diet...So I grabbed the cookie and stuffed the whole thing in my mouth....That was the nastiest cookie I ever had in my life...I spit it out...Saw nothing weird but of course I had chewed a couple of times...

So I just chalked it up to a lesson learned from trying to sneak and break my diet....I still to this day think a bug was on the bottom of that cookie...

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PO said automation and declining contributions reason for Bethel layoffs

by truthseeker in

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last week at the meeting, the po, who has very close connections to bethel, said that he never thought he would see the day that bethelites were being sent home.

he said that the biggest two reasons he thought bethel were cutting back, was automation and a massive decline in contributions.

looks like you're right metatron about the contribution aspect being their achilles heel.

Sweetp0985

This is from that same article.
Awake! 1975 September 8 pp.24-26 Economic Woes Strike the Churches:
Well, consider: Back in 1879 in the second issue of The Watchtower (then called Zion's Watch Tower), it was noted:
"'Zion's Watch Tower' has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support. When He who says: 'All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,' fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication."

I guess they got that prediction right...(highlighted area).... Already got rid of one of the bi-monthly Awake's..wouldn't be surprised to see no Awakes pretty soon...

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PO said automation and declining contributions reason for Bethel layoffs

by truthseeker in

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last week at the meeting, the po, who has very close connections to bethel, said that he never thought he would see the day that bethelites were being sent home.

he said that the biggest two reasons he thought bethel were cutting back, was automation and a massive decline in contributions.

looks like you're right metatron about the contribution aspect being their achilles heel.

Sweetp0985

why dont they just go on and tithe and get it over with?? they're doing enough "subliminal" begging already...just tithe already...

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Floating KH (pics)

by Jourles in

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here is a description and pics of a floating kh in nicaragua.

notice how they had to come up with the funds themselves and where some of the donations came from??

where was the wts's helping hand?

Sweetp0985

isn't the conducter sitting on a hammock? must be nice..

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Is Prince Still a Jehova's Witness?

by Silvia Plath in

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has anyone heard of what happened with prince being a jehova's witness if he still is or not?

and how is he pursuing his music career while doing it?

Sweetp0985

A year later, in a private ceremony at the Kingdom Hall in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Prince and Mani were baptised into their new faith in front of the 167-strong congregation.
A small bathtub-sized pool was hired for the occasion. Wearing knee-length robes with swimsuits underneath, they became full members of the church by being immersed in the pool.

Hmmm special privilieges even for baptism...I never heard of baptisms at the Kingdom Halls...Why didn't he have to wait for the DC or CA? Oh its a wonder the things money can buy...

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Is Prince Still a Jehova's Witness?

by Silvia Plath in

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has anyone heard of what happened with prince being a jehova's witness if he still is or not?

and how is he pursuing his music career while doing it?

Sweetp0985

I think he might be..Don't remember when it originally aired but on the recent BET Awards...when he received an award...he thanked Jehovah....and later on in the closing performance he did...(he did a really none dublike lil dance move too...made me say..yeah he still got some freakiness in him)...but he said something to the extent of "it's going down..like this system of thangs"....so I'll take a wild guess and say yeah he's still in...

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Major (5 star) barf alert about DC experience

by blindersoff in

comments from our dear sister in the fort worth, tx area.

her email address is: xxxxxxxxxx [ pm me if you want it]

"i went to the sunday session of the convention this week and it was so .

Sweetp0985

Because the jws are so cloistered they don't know or realize that there are many many many other religious organizations who have conventions. From what I have seen on TBN those conventions are joyiously rocking, quite a difference from the mindnumbing drone of a jw convention

I went to a Megafest (TD Jakes) convention in Atlanta last year....Very fun and very very different from any of the many JW conventions I had to go to...Wish I was going this year to Megafest but I'm stuck at work...Too bad I can't be like good 'ole Kevin...damn you Kevin and your boss....lmao

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I miss the "free" food.

by Justice-One in

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free food.

it used to make the conventions almost bearable.

i rememeber telling the wife and kids to not put anything in any contribution box, because as the head of the family, i had taken care of it.

Sweetp0985

Dang, well I was part of one of the "good" lil JW families that made it a point EVERY DAMN ASSembly to be there a whole 3-4 hrs early just to make sandwiches...I admit during that time, I was anxious about it..why I have no clue, but now looking back.......I remember once there was this sister that was on the roast beef line with us..and she picked up these 2 lil pieces of roast beef (barely enough to make a mouthful unless you have a huge mouth) that had fell on the table and loudly said "we have to stop being so wasteful, this amount of roast beef im holding that was gonna be thrown away is enough to make a whole sandwich." I think I personally had one of her sandwiches too...it was literally "where's the beef?"

I guess I'm the only one that liked the lil bagels with cream cheese and jelly....thats all i really remember...cuz i was always making the damn sandwiches...didnt really want them when lunch time rolled around... I never bought tickets unless my parents were standing right there behind me cuz I felt they should have been free for me in the first place..

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The 12-Member Governing Body - Pics, info and analysis on the new additions

by Neo in

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guy pierce samuel herd gerrit losch david splane.

"no more additions!".

"no, no more additions!

Sweetp0985

Morris is from Italian descent and, unlike most of the predominantly childless GB, has raised two sons "in the Troof.

Were they his biological sons or like adopted or something, cuz I could have sworn the anointed are supposed to be "virgins"? Oh wait, maybe the virgin part is spirtual and the 144,000 part ONLY is the literal part. Oh wifey might have been artificially insemitated(sp?) or whatever the hell they call it...