Just remember - The "Worldwide Witness Work" being carried out by the JWs is an important (only?) sign that we are "Living in the Last Days."
Reefton Jack
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Creative House-to-House Time Wasting Manuevers
by Black Man inanyone here master the art of pressing in the doorbell without really pressing it?
how about knocking where it seems loud on the outside, but you know it can't be heard on the inside.
or standing at a door for up to 5 minutes when you know nobody was there.
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Reefton Jack
My understanding is that you are residing on the West Island!
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Most hated WT publication
by Nosferatu inwhat is the wt publication you hated the most?
why did you hate it?
for me, it was probably that damn pink great teacher book.
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Reefton Jack
The "Happiness - How can you find it" and "Making Your Family Life Happy".
In the case of the first one - because they haven't a bloody clue what they are talking about.
In the case of the second one, because the borg is not family friendly to start with.
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Reefton Jack
Our side of the ditch is "Down Under" as well!
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What I remember from 1975
by Big Dog insince i am sort of late to the party this has probably been beaten to death and if it has just kick this thread to the curb.
i was 11 years old in 1975 and i remember being scared silly the whole year.
i mean there was so much hype about it and the tension in the air was so thick it was unreal.
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Reefton Jack
David2002, you obviously were not there in the lead up to 1975 - otherwise you would have no need to raise that question!
I was an avid reader of all their literature from 1966 until 1994.I know what they said, what they emphasised - and what they later tried to deny that they meant!
While the WTS may not have written it in so many words, it is obvious that they wanted their readers to believe that the end was coming in 1975 - by the way that they left that thought hanging there.
AlanF is correct: anyone who thought otherwise at the time was branded 'spiritaully weak'.
And it is not what was wriiten that condemns them - it was also the Assembly programs. I can recall a Circuit Assembly late in 1974 - in which the District Overseer proclaimed "We still stand by our date of 1975".
(On hearing this, I can recall the audience wildly applauding).
AFTER 1975, I met some JWs who reckoned that they never believed all about 1975. But I tell you what, I never heard any speak up before 1975. What does that tell you!
No, as we say in Australia & NZ - by not saying so in so many words, but in still leaving the thought hanging there - the WTS was being "as cunning as a Shithouse Rat."
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Bethel wants lawyers!
by zack inat this week's service meeting it a letter was read to all congregations in usa:
bethel wants lawyers, lawyers specializing in tax law, and cpa's.
if you are in any of these professions you were supposed to talk to the po that evening.
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Reefton Jack
Zack,
That is typical WTS wanting (and expecting!) to have it both ways.
They have run into similar difficulties with their "quickbuild" Kingdom Halls i.e. the skills they needed were in short supply - and for only one reason. In our part of the world, we were warned off ever even learning a trade ("Tying up five years of your life in an apprenticeship") - and unlike in the USA & Canada, the "trade" training in our High Schools is more of a liability than an asset.
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The sort of person that gets to be an Elder?????
by chuckyy in.
do you think that the better the job that you have or the higher the social standing you have, makes it more likely that you will be an elder in comparison to those that are less fortunate???
quite a few elders in my old kh even had their own private car plates.. chukky
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Reefton Jack
Being a "Pioneer" is the fastest way to get yourself appointed firstly a Ministerial Servant, and then an Elder.
It is so fast, in fact, that it is almost a certain way!
In my experience, an impressive number of "hours" on ones Field Service Report counts for far more than an impressive amount of dollars in ones Bank Account. In fact - as some have commented here already - material wealth could be viewed as a mark against you in some congregations that I have known.
I only ever knew personally one Elder who was wealthy.
On the other hand, I knew many Servants or Elders who were either Pioneers - or who at least were pioneering at the time of their appointment. (Come to think of it, that once described me, back in the bad old days of 1976!)
I did know one particularly obnoxious, but wealthy Ministerial Servant Wannabe. He went to great lengths to both flaunt his money, and to grovel to the Elders. If being an a*#$%hole is a useful quality - as some hear have claimed - well, he sure had that in abundance! However, I never heard if he ever succeeded.
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Buying houses, building houses - where's the URGENCY of the times?
by truthseeker inrecently while at a witness gathering, i noticed that many "young ones" in their twenties and thirties are talking about buying or building a home.
buying or building a home is one of the most expensive commitments you could ever make.
in the usa, an average mortgage lasts 30 years.
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Reefton Jack
Why would any knowing person treat the times as "urgent".
After crapping on for generations about the "Last Days" - and being wrong every time about everything - the whole WTS Last Days Theme has worn thin. (And no wonder!)
As others have commented, for those that remain, it would have to be no more than a Social Club.
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Reefton Jack
Knew that one already, but good on ya anyway!
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congregational cliques
by chuckyy init was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.
in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.
if you were in the clique, fine.
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Reefton Jack
Cyber-sista, from experience, the bitterness can last for decades.
Yes, don't the JWs like to kick you when you are down! My family went down that road.From one moment when I was in line for becoming a Ministerial Servant, and we were very popular. Then my wife's health rapidly deteriorated, to the point that on one occassion she almost died. The brickbats came out then! "Weak' was an epithet bandied around by some of the conregation's self-appointed "elite."
These self-appointed spiritual hotshots resented having to come around to the house to prepare meals ect. These were the same ones who always boasted about how much time they put into the "Field Service." Showing some acts of Christian Kindness, though, was another matter.
We can't count time for that, can we?
Yes, their whole emphasis is arse-about-face!
I am still resentful after 22 years.