sparky1
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Manufacturing Consent
by StarTrekAngel ini have been pondering over the wt study last sunday.
the title, when i first read it, told me that i was going to hear a lot of the same crap i had to put up with during the 2014 international convention.
while some of it was there, the subliminal message given on the magazine was far from what the title implied to me.
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" I would like to introduce you to Brother Slice of Bread. He may look like a slice of bread but he is actually a secretary to a secretary to a helper to one of the Overseers of the Baking Department here at Bethel. You may now break into a chorus of 'Happy at Bethel'. Thank you Brother Slice of Bread." - Ken Flodin (Complete loser in the real world)
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WHEW!!!!!! At least these illustrations don't apply to me. I'm GLUTEN free for medical reasons. -
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What Was The Silliest "Offense" That You Were Counseled For?
by minimus inwhen i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".
so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.
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Two things that I thought were silly:
1. At Bethel when I was a newboy, I left a few scraps of food on my plate. I got an ass chewing from the table head
that I must scrape my plate clean and eat every morsel of food on my plate. My Grandmother would have rolled over in her grave. She taught me that it was bad manners to scrape your plate clean because it made you look like a pig.
2. I had very curly hair and when I was a young Pioneer in the early seventies and I was counseled by the Circuit Overseer. He told me that my hair was too curly and that I should get a haircut, keep it short and use Brylcreem to keep it looking neat.
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My Bethel Experience Part 3
by new boy indon't get me wrong...........there was no one more self righteous, than me at 19. i moved to kansas at 18 to pioneer and even printed up cards that said............ .
"have sword, will travel"---------contact casarona salina kansas------ aaa which of course meant available after armageddon..
oh, i was full of myself!
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Ed Kostacheck...........my table 'foot' at Watchtower farms and John Janney was the table 'Head'
Fred Hilmo...boy did he get the shaft. Relegated to cleaning typewriters and graphotype machines at the Farm. As lurker pointed out, he was 'demoted' to doing only menial tasks at the Farm. Nice meek and mild gentleman. Kind of eccentric and still brainwashed in the cults theology. He talked to me once about the 'scientific' CREATION book (Rutherford's wacky tome) and how it was way ahead of its time.
One guy no one seems to mention much is Phil Wilcox. He wound up being the Factory Overseer at Watchtower Farms. At the risk of being demonized by other ex-Bethelites here, I want to say that this guy was like an older brother to me. He knew how I felt about the Organization, it's theology and the 'political bullshit' in general, yet he still respected me and treated me with dignity. I will never have a bad word to say about him. Spending time talking with Phil was one of the real highlights of my time at Bethel.
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Chapter 1 My Bethel Experience First Posted 9 Years Ago A Walk Down Memory Lane
by new boy inpart 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months (they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?
because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 30!
homosexuals (at one time) ....the would kick out 1-2 bethelites a week.
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The press operator that I was an assistant operator was very gay.
Was that Jim Mazza?!
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Jehovah's Witnesses accused of covering up historic sex abuse
by defender of truth inwww.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12073247/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-covering-up-historic-sex-abuse.html
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Well, the Governing Body(tm) LOVES to use the word HISTORIC in describing the banal minutiae of the everyday goings on in their religion known as Jehovah's Witnesses. At least now, Satan and his system recognize the HISTORIC significance of the everyday actions of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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The story of my exit
by mrsObfuscate ini have been lurking here for about 6 months, and being the last day of the year, and ready to start the new one afresh, i want to share the story of our exit from the org.
i have found the personal experiences of others of immeasurable value, (and its been a while since a good exit story has been posted) that i hope this can be of benefit to at least someone.. .
my mother became a jehovahs witness when i was about 9 or 10. i remember initially hating all of the new sanctions put on our lives (no birthdays and christmas anymore) but for some reason i soon after joined her in attending the meetings and eventually got baptized at the age of 14. my staunch catholic father converted a couple of years later.
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"I felt like an outsider."-mrsObfuscate
Here you will be welcomed with open arms!
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I hope they have enough cash on hand to purchase the new 'double screen' video setup now required by the "Governing Body' (tm) for all Kingdom Halls. Morris and Lett can only be appreciated fully in the new Watchtower(tm) sanctioned 'STEREOPTICON' video system. Now you can see both ASSES....I mean donkeys in visual stereo!
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Answers to this weeks Oral Review
by rosesinbloom ingreetings.
does anyone have the answers for this weeks last written review?.
thank you.
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Answers to this weeks Oral Review.
Oral review? More like Anal review ..................same shit repackaged year after year.
WHEW!!!!!! At least these illustrations don't apply to me. I'm GLUTEN free for medical reasons.