in 1968 merle haggard released a country song with the lyrics " and i turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.
no one could steer me right but mama tried, mama tried.
" the following year i too turned twenty-one and found myself in prison but not for the reasons haggard sang about.
"Once when changing the toilet seat in Knorr's suite I peeped in one of his closets and it was filled with all different kinds of liquor" - wasone
What really shocked me was George Couch's suite at Watchtower Farms. I had to do some exterminating in there once and couldn't believe it. He had a fairly new, console color television and a bar that could rival a cruise ships bar.
the pledge is over and all the children sit back down at their desks.
many kids look at keith as he walks back into the classroom.
then your religion is weird.” .
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.
Great story so far, I look forward to your continuing saga.......................
so we received the obligatory "shoved under the door" memorial invitation and "return to jehovah" brochure the other week.
it also had a hand written note from two elders saying "we love and miss you" etc.... so why then when one of them saw us at the grocery store, did he pretend to not see us and then ignore and quickly walk away?.
the sincerity is wonderful..... dont get me wrong, we dont want any attention from them, but it's an interesting observation anyway.....
Ha...ha...ha...MarkofCane. THE TWILIGHT ZONE................a perfect analogy!!!!!
so we received the obligatory "shoved under the door" memorial invitation and "return to jehovah" brochure the other week.
it also had a hand written note from two elders saying "we love and miss you" etc.... so why then when one of them saw us at the grocery store, did he pretend to not see us and then ignore and quickly walk away?.
the sincerity is wonderful..... dont get me wrong, we dont want any attention from them, but it's an interesting observation anyway.....
WE.....LOVE....YOU....Beep....Beep....Beep....We....LOVE....YOU....Beep...Beep.... Beep....WE....LOVE....YOU....Beep....Beep....Beep.......................
setting the scene.
pastor russell died in 1916. those who had 'followed' him were known pejoratively as russellites.
you could call it a 'cult of personality' if you wanted to sneer.
Actually he said that 'there is more evidence for the kingdom, than there is for gravity, electricity and wind'. But the point Vidiot made is basically the same. Take a look, Fink.
hello, i thought i should introduce myself.
first, i apologize if my writing is not too good because english is not my first language.
my name is art and i am 25 years of age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt3d72rd1wm.
"YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"- Circuit Overseers Talk
"HUH......I guess I'm a Pork Roast!" - Mark Sanderson
it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?
the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.
the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever" - Ecclesiastes 1:4 King James Version.
I guess this is one scripture that the Governing Body(tm) interprets literally.
setting the scene.
pastor russell died in 1916. those who had 'followed' him were known pejoratively as russellites.
you could call it a 'cult of personality' if you wanted to sneer.
I believe that lid came off the paint can and the painting of themselves into a corner began with the QUESTIONS FROM READERS in the September 1, 1952 WATCHTOWER magazine. On page 542 the question was posed:
"Your publications point out that the battle of Armageddon will come in this generation, and that this generation began A.D. 1914. Scripturally, how long is a generation?" - G. P., Liberia
Answer: "Webster's unabridged dictionary gives, in part, this definition of generation: 'The average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child; an age. A generation is usually taken to be about 33 years.' But the Bible is not so specific. It gives no number of years for a generation. And in Matthew 24:34, Mark 13:30 and Luke 21:32, the texts mentioning the generation the question refers to, we are not to take generation as meaning the average time for one generation to be succeeded by the next, as Webster's does in it's 33 year approximation; but rather more like Webster's first quoted definition, 'the average lifetime of man'. Three or even four generations may be living at the same time, their lives overlapping. (Ps. 78:4; 145:4) Before the Noachian flood the life span was hundreds of years. Down through the centuries since, it has varied, and even now is different in different countries. The Bible does speak of man's days as being threescore and ten or fourscore years; bit it assigns no specific number of years to a generation.-Ps.90:10
Even if it did, we could not calculate from such a figure the date of Armageddon, for the texts here under discussion do not say God's battle comes right at the end of this generation, but before it's end. To try and say how many years before it's end would be speculative. The texts merely set a limit that is sufficiently definite for all present practical purposes. Some persons living in A.D. 1914 when the series of foretold events began will also be living when the series ends with Armageddon. All the events will come within the span of a generation. There are hundreds of millions of persons living now that were living in 1914, and many millions of these persons could yet live a score or more years. Just when the lives of the majority of them will be cut short by Armageddon we cannot say."
please post your favorites too.
my favorite quotations:.
you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." - R. D. LAING
