i'm in a major uk city, and we're assigned to an out of city location for our district convention.. to set the scene this site is off a busy motorway (freeway).
it's a football (soccer) stadium.
there is nothing around aside from one petrol (gas) station which also has a tiny supermarket in it.
Simon -
OMG! I remember the HUMUNGOUS walk to the Maine Road Stadium.
I also remember the LONNNG walk back after the evening sessions (they still had them then) with adults desperately singing Kindumb Songs to jolly us on when we were dead on our feet.
i know some have a flat or apartment that they can go to on the odd week off but i believe that the majority have no base to call home.. my parents have the co and wife stayng this week again and i asked my mum about it.
she says that if they do get the any time off they go to her mothers to stay but thats only every few months.
i just can't imagine having to live out of a suitcase in someone elses home constantly.. how to they not crack up.
NOT_bitter-
I dont agree - with the very early average marriagable age of the Dubbies, a CO's wife has to have gone along with it. More and more it is the "School For Christian Couples" where the selections are made. Even the now defunct Gilead ended up as a couples club where only couples were selected, presumably with the female "attachment" allowed in case HE molested children, or copulated with occasional boys or married sisters.
(Or - JEHOOBIE FORFEND!!!! - pleasured himself)
A friend of mine visited NY many years ago and went for lunch with a young sister.
She ACTUALLY asked him "What are your ambitions with regard to the Truth? I want to be a Circuit overseers Wife."
Having testimony on this board that some women say "I am the CO's wife so I can < insert relevant verb>" we know that they see it as giving them status, much as the dumb blondes in the world are attracted to the rich and powerful.
One CO was a single man for many years, then he was roped in buy an Uber- elderette. He looked dreadful after a few months, and died a couple of years later.
Did the WT care for his widow?????????
The sad thing is a Co's wife can only get mad. She cannot get everything if it goes tits up.
HB
jw leaks has published the respondent's brief prepared by rick simons in the case: candace conti v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york & fremont congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
(90 pages).
http://jwleaks.org/candace-conti/.
i know some have a flat or apartment that they can go to on the odd week off but i believe that the majority have no base to call home.. my parents have the co and wife stayng this week again and i asked my mum about it.
she says that if they do get the any time off they go to her mothers to stay but thats only every few months.
i just can't imagine having to live out of a suitcase in someone elses home constantly.. how to they not crack up.
If they are living that way it is by their choice.
They wanted the position and perceived prestige it brought. After years of counselling others badly on life choices (education, savings etc)
Why shouldnt they pay the same price? I dont feel sorry for any of them.
HB
well i have been up and down this year with this current company i work for.
from the time they employed me they have paid me late, without explanation.
i have been miserable coming in here.
You have turned a corner:
Standing up to your jdub "family", action to get your health back, and now a new job!
All the best Hon. Get yourself some flowers to mark the occasion.
HB
gen 6:7. so jehovah said: i am going to wipe men whom i have created off the surface of the ground, from man to domestic animal, to moving animal and to flying creature of the heavens, because i do regret that i have made them.
8 but noah found favor in the eyes of jehovah.. .
does he still regret making us, or did he change his mind and now he is happy?.
There are times when I wonder why the Babble portrays Jehoobie in a "masculine" light.
His pets, sulking, "if you dont know what's wrong I wont tell you - I'll just kill you instead"
The constant need to be told how beautiful and lovely he is, how his backside does not look fat when we are kissing it in double cut time so he wont kill us - all so feminine.
How many men have sat down with their bible and isloated the traits that Jehoobie shares with hormonal females?
HB
Roquefort, or a nice runny Gorgonzola.
I came across a local cheese near Sophia-Antipoulis near Cannes: Chat-urse. I still dream about it...
Hard british Cheeses are good: Cheshire, Wensleydale, Caerphilly, Lancashire.
Emmental is great with good vine tomatoes. Did you know that the holes in Swiss and some French Cheeses are because it is cooked? The steam trapped as it sets and cools.
All soooo fattening though...
HB
on another thread gingerbread said (ouch - the poetry is not deliberate!
) that all sunday public talks are now manuscript.. is this why the brothers have been doing babble readings without adding any comment?
so they can just regurgitate words convincingly whether they understand or not??.
on another thread Gingerbread said (ouch - the poetry is NOT deliberate!) that all Sunday public talks are now manuscript.
Is this why the Brothers have been doing babble readings without adding any comment? So they can just regurgitate words convincingly whether they understand or not??
I have not been now for 3 years, so this is news to me.
HB
how did the watchtower develop "pogonophobia"?
(beard fear) 1950-1960's long hair and beards were a sign of rebelious youth.
then in the 1954 watchtower p.511 questions from readers.
The Adam and Eve picture from the "Truth Shall make you Free" shows how the Witchtower has no real sense of timescale.
Adam has no beard because Eve was created so sooon after him, it had not had the chance to grow. Was he created as a 15 yr old boy at his sexual peak, but like most males at that age a sparse growth??
As for the little cute snake with legs and its wee hands clasped with glee:
Snakes did originally have legs. Some varieties still have pronounced hips and shoulderblades, as well as vestigial toes with a claw.
But they got that way millions of years before the Eden fairy tale.
HB
how did the watchtower develop "pogonophobia"?
(beard fear) 1950-1960's long hair and beards were a sign of rebelious youth.
then in the 1954 watchtower p.511 questions from readers.
The Adam and Eve picture from the "Truth Shall make you Free" shows how the Witchtower has no real sense of timescale.
Adam has no beard because Eve was created so sooon after him, it had not had the chance to grow. Was he created as a 15 yr old boy at his sexual peak, but like most males at that age a sparse growth??
As for the little cute snake with legs and its wee hands clasped with glee:
Snakes did originally have legs. Some varieties still have pronounced hips and shoulderblades, as well as vestigial toes with a claw.
But they got that way millions of years before the Eden fairy tale.
HB
