hi, guys.
found this one on the alternet blog site, and had to share:.
from "but what if i think 'people of faith' are a little crazy?
prozac-popping bank tellers
"I'll check... computer says 'Nooooooooooo....' <cough+spit>"
My apologies to those who've never seen Little Britain. If you haven't yet seen Little Britain, you should!!
To those of you who have, have you ever met a JW who looked like that bank teller?
INQ
so let me see if i got this straight.... to be a publisher you have to have 10 hours a month.
if you miss that target you are "irregular".
if you miss that target for six consecutive months you are "inactive".. what if you get your time in but miss all the meetings?
What if you get your time in but miss ALL the meetings?
Many elder bodies would not accept your time slips...though some might.
Blondie,
Did you mean that there HAVE been cases where a person misses meetings BUT still goes for field service?!
That is sooo bizarre! How does that happen??
INQ
i just got this in from ebay this week.
it's a 1956 article by father neil g. mccluskey, s.j.
on the witnesses.
In the market place there will always be crowds of the simple, the illiterate, the dejected, the novelty seekers, the under-privileged and the genuinely hungry for God to buy the wares of the Father Divines, Brother Robertses, Prophet Joneses, Sister Aimees and the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
What a condescending jerk in a penguin suit is this McCluskey! He mocks JW doctrines only on the basis of them being so different from orthodoxy. Like a pimply-faced school-yard bully who gets off on name-calling, McCluskey makes no attempt to qualify how the JWs have succeeded in twisting the scriptures to make their theology credible. No, in his eyes, you have to be stupid to buy all that.
McCluskey clucks away that JWs are all simple-minded. What an insult! If that were true, none of us would ever have figured out what was wrong with the religion now, wouldn't we?
INQ
this photo (taken from a jw group on aol) is quite typical of jw marriage matches.
don't get me wrong, i'm sure they are great people as far as jws go.
but, it made me think.
I knew a few single sisters in a foreign language cong who married older, shapeless, brothers from Europe and America. Some of these blokes have gone through several marriages. Basically those sisters saw these unattractive brothers as a meal ticket out of a developing country. I don't know if in that case, either party feels they are being "ripped off" as you put it.
Btw, isn't it a tad unkind to pluck a couple's photo out of the web and then to make fun their appearance?
I mean it's not like they have buck teeth, an afro, wearing leopard-skin leotards! lol
Come on, don't you think we're being unnecessarily mean to this couple?
INQ
i made one of my rare appearances to the sunday meeting today...and really picked a doozy for a talk to have to sit through!
misery loves company, its said, so i'm sharing the latest on "serving with jehovah's unified organization" (please bear with me..... the speaker(who was actually quite entertaining with his illustrations and props!
) opened up with a definition of belonging to an organization: it was, he said "complete conformity by a person to the standards and requirements of an organization"....then he used the example of how any org will kick out a member who chooses not to follow the standards and requirements of the organization...but in fact, in j's org they kick themselves out!
The dangerous attitude is taking a HUMAN viewpoint of the org....that its easy to view it as human, fleshly, earthly instead of being heavenly
We were reminded at the end that the FDS is not perfect
Isn't the speaker contradicting himself here, bythesea? Either the Org is led by perfect, infallible men, or it isn't, in which case the org is "earthly", tainted with error. You can't have the best of both world's: giving the org's representatives the glow celestial authority when demanding obedience, yet acknowledging their human imperfections when confronted with undeniable proof of theological bungles.
They are either one or the other.
INQ
(1)how many of you out there, back when you were still a jw, heard the bros say "yeah the cong is a little cold cos of <insert scapegoat here>, but there is genuine love among the country congs/ the foreign lang congs etc??
(2)how did you respond to that remark?
did you accept that concession or did the absence of unpretentious love in your cong continue to bother you?
Quandry
I read your post with sympathy and amusement! I believe my JW folks would be amazed at how much they can identify with your feelings esp. about housekeeping, being ready with a kick-arse sermon and looking at one's watch in the field. In the rare moments of self-evaluating honesty, they can even bring themselves to admit there is no love. BUT when pressured to admit that there is something wrong with the Religion, that's when they switch to "but-we're-imperfect-humans" mode.
Yup, other religious groups have no love cos they are not the Truth. JW's lack love only because they are imperfect.
INQ
(1)how many of you out there, back when you were still a jw, heard the bros say "yeah the cong is a little cold cos of <insert scapegoat here>, but there is genuine love among the country congs/ the foreign lang congs etc??
(2)how did you respond to that remark?
did you accept that concession or did the absence of unpretentious love in your cong continue to bother you?
They have consciences? - Honesty
Ouch! lol INQ
(1)how many of you out there, back when you were still a jw, heard the bros say "yeah the cong is a little cold cos of <insert scapegoat here>, but there is genuine love among the country congs/ the foreign lang congs etc??
(2)how did you respond to that remark?
did you accept that concession or did the absence of unpretentious love in your cong continue to bother you?
Why does the truthful GB avoid discussing this fading love when the topic of Jah's spiritual paradise comes up?
I mean surely they oughta give us an expert opinion on whether the country congs actually have a stronger shower of Holy Spirit so the rest of them tired dubs can go and refresh themselves in those backwater places where "the need is great".
INQ
(1)how many of you out there, back when you were still a jw, heard the bros say "yeah the cong is a little cold cos of <insert scapegoat here>, but there is genuine love among the country congs/ the foreign lang congs etc??
(2)how did you respond to that remark?
did you accept that concession or did the absence of unpretentious love in your cong continue to bother you?
(1)How many of you out there, back when you were still a JW, heard the bros say "Yeah the cong is a little cold cos of <insert scapegoat here>, but there is genuine love among the country congs/ the foreign lang congs etc??"
(2)How did you respond to that remark? Did you accept that concession or did the absence of unpretentious love in your cong continue to bother you?
And (3) did you discover that "the grass" was truly "greener on the other side (i.e. other congs)"?
INQ
1. the president of the watchtower society is really jesus incarnate .
2. plural wives are now allowed (but, only pretty young ones!
3. special silk robes for elders (and maybe fancy headgear) .
To seriously keep the authority of elders in check, I propose an Elders Karaoke Night with the congregation. Preferrably held at the end of service meetings, so the elders needn't eat humble pie in front of new comers.
For starters, I am really eager to see BOE perform to "Macho Men" by the Village People. What do yall think?
Wipe those frowns and drop those foreheads. Lording over the sheep is a guaranteed thing of the past when the PO duets "My Heart Will Go On" with the Service Overseer in front of the congregation.
INQ
