untitled document <!-- .style1 {font-family: verdana} --> the seven christians this past evening sitting in a restaurant there were seven christians.
who were "witnessing" to me.
they belonged to a non-denominational.
They belonged to a non-denominational
religion and quite naturally they proclaimed to have the "truth."
I work with someone who is a big "religionist" , always talking about how necessary it is to be "saved" by Jesus. Which is fine with me. When I asked him what church he went to he replied it was a non-denominational one. He never mentioned a specific name. Isn't that the lastest fad now though?
my brother and i had good harmony.
i played lead and i'd sing but i preferred just to play lead.. .
this was about 1967. i was about 23. i still have the jazz and the fender amp.
When Delores was real sick I asked Lester and his wife if either of them could come and help care for her for a couple days and they both said no, they had to get their pioneer hours in. I can relate to this. When I pioneered I asked the other pioneers (5 of them) to come with me to visit an inactive sister who had MS. Not one of them would come along because they would have had to stop their time after 15 minutes. I went alone and spent 90 minutes with her and her husband, It was the best 90 minutes of my 2 years of being a pioneer. I asked the others pioneers what they acomplished by not going with me.....they knocked on empty doors. When the temporary CO came to our congregation I brought up the incident. The other pioneers were counseled for not being Christ like in being concerned for the sister with MS. They were really pissed at me, but I loved it.
my brother and i had good harmony.
i played lead and i'd sing but i preferred just to play lead.. .
this was about 1967. i was about 23. i still have the jazz and the fender amp.
Those two guys lived in a dump of a camper trailer and one night they were giving me crap and I knew they weren't home so I went over there and dropped a padlock on the clasp on their trailer door and snapped it shut. They retaliated by chaining my Caddy to a parking meter. I fixed em. I married their sisters.
Now that's funny. Maybe you should have used the lock when they were in the trailer. Chaining the Caddy to the meter was a good payback on their part. You're right though you got the last word in.
my brother and i had good harmony.
i played lead and i'd sing but i preferred just to play lead.. .
this was about 1967. i was about 23. i still have the jazz and the fender amp.
Gary how did you hook up with Delores if you don't mind me asking. Sorry if I'm getting too personal.
bronzefist
have you ever thought about the isrealites beginning to enter the promised land and how they then had to turn back and wander in the wilderness for 40 years?
have you ever wondered if there is a modern day parallel in our time?
perhaps 75 was our approach to that promised land that we then had to turn back from and "wander"... .
Maybe she is getting confused with the Mayan Calender ending in 2012?
My guess is that there will be door to door work being done on Mars before this old system comes to an end.
my brother and i had good harmony.
i played lead and i'd sing but i preferred just to play lead.. .
this was about 1967. i was about 23. i still have the jazz and the fender amp.
i got a call today from a member of the judicial committee asking if i would meet with them.
i asked them what for?
i was told it was about my asking questions about wts involvement with the un and bethel layoffs and my getting information from an apostate website.. i told them i have never attended their kh and had been inactive for more than 20 years and no longer accepted their authority and they no longer had a control over my mind or what i read or say or do.
I told them I have never attended their KH and had been inactive for more than 20 years and no longer accepted their authority and they no longer had a control over my mind or what I read or say or do. I hung up.
PO at my congregation ALWAYS has another elder on the line listening so he can use the 2 witness rule. My guess is that this might have happened to you. Your statement was an admission that you no longer viewed the FDS as the "voice of Jehovah" thereby stating that you have "turned away" from him=apostate.
i have not been a member of the "theocrappic misery drool" for the last eleven years.. recently i was approached by a toddler and asked "why not?
" because of course it is for training us in public speaking.. i said it's not compulsory is it?
no, but you need the guidance and teaching to put your points across effectively.. i said - but my job involves standing up in front of literally hundreds of people on a regular basis and delivering policy and instruction.
When I was on the school I used it as an opportunity to "counsel" (with tact) the elders and those idiots in the congregation who thought they were more righteous than anyone else. The #2 talk allowed me to shape the introductions and closings of the talk. The #4 talks were a free for all. I only got one "work" while I was on the school from my "fleshly" brother who was the school overseer. It was my last talk on the school before I was appointed an MS. The introduction and closing of that talk was based on Wizard of Oz characters (Dorthy,Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion). Ooops. I actually had quite a few in the congregation applaude even though you weren't suppose to because it wasn't my first talk.
I became inactive...came back at a different congregation and gave a #2 talk to make another "point".Left that congregation after being cheated by a "brother" I worked for. I came back to my "home" congregation and gave one last #2 ( now it's just read the scriptures no introductions or closing remarks), but still managed to make a "point". The scriptures I got to read were Job 7:1-21 it was perfect for my situation at the time, because I got to emphasize the scriptures I wanted to stand out in everyone's minds.
Is it another hoop? Sure it is, but it can be used to your advantage. Becoming an MS is just an ego trip for most and an awakening to those who think it will aid them to "change" the cold-hearted elders dealings with the lowly ones within the congregation. It ain't going to happen. It took me 5 years as an MS to realize that.
i remember that happening a few times.
one sunday morning my son went up to a young elder and said "hey, i thought you were giving the talk today in xxx xxxxx.
the look of horror on the elder's face!
This happened at least 4 or 5 times at the hall I attended (15 years). It was all nose bleeds for the "faithful", because the Watchtower study had to be done first (it threw them off the cycle) and an elder had to come up with one of their talks we heard a millon times before.
i know of very few that would "dare" tell off a co but elders were different.
having been an elder for many years, it was very easy to go back and forth with a fellow elder and basically tell him he was dumb.
I have a deep rich voice...somewhat booming at the slightest rise in volume.It was ideal for reading the Watchtower on Sundays which is a lead in to:
I've set a CO "straight" when he told me I "lost control of my son. Told him I don't CONTROL my son he has his own free will. Asked him if he CONTROLS the congregations and he turned stark white then red. he said, "You will suffer the consequenses for your decision!" I lost all my privledges when the CO left.
Had the PO tell me during a sit down with the entire body of elders (rare?), "Don't put words in my mouth!!!" Told him,"I'm not putting words in your mouth YOU'RE putting words in your mouth."