I visited my 77 year old mother the other day and noticed she had a new JW book on her kitchen counter titled "Isaiah's Prophecy". Having just started visting this forum I thought I might be able to pick out some gems from these books to pass along. Well, two things have resulted from picking up this book: 1. My mother has told my sisters that I am thinking about coming back into the borg and 2. I have realized after reading a few pages that this book it is nothing more than recycled bilge from the past 50-60 years. In fact, I started yawning uncontrollably after reading two pages. How does this crap keep the masses entertained?
drahcir yarrum
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Isaiah's Prophecy
by drahcir yarrum ini visited my 77 year old mother the other day and noticed she had a new jw book on her kitchen counter titled "isaiah's prophecy".
having just started visting this forum i thought i might be able to pick out some gems from these books to pass along.
well, two things have resulted from picking up this book: 1. my mother has told my sisters that i am thinking about coming back into the borg and 2. i have realized after reading a few pages that this book it is nothing more than recycled bilge from the past 50-60 years.
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True Bethel Story
by drahcir yarrum ini arrived at bethel in december of 1968 on a cold night.
i had the taxi drop me off at the old columbia heights building.
the door was locked so i knocked and was reluctantly allowed in by another bethelite.
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drahcir yarrum
I arrived at Bethel in December of 1968 on a cold night. I had the taxi drop me off at the old Columbia Heights building. The door was locked so I knocked and was reluctantly allowed in by another Bethelite. After waiting in the lobby for more than an hour an assistant from the Home servants office finally showed up to help me find my room. He looked over a list and finally said that I'd be rooming with a black brother from Mississippi who happened to be of the "annointed"
Can you imagine how I felt? Arriving at "God's house", full of awe and I'm rooming with one of the annointed. WOW! I thought I'd be writing Watchtower articles pretty quickly. Now me being white and rooming with a black also gave me an attitude that I was going to be a real diversity champion as well.When I arrived at my new room, my new roommate was sitting on the edge of his bed reading his bible. He seemed completely uninterested in his new roomie.
Things went pretty well for a couple of days until one night, my room mate woke me up and asked me if I had been smoking cigarettes. I was incredulous. Why would he ask me that? He said that upon entering the room late a couple of nights earlier, he could smell cigarette smoke in the room and was smelling it now. We had common restroom facilities on each hall, so during the night when nature called you had to leave your room. I assured him that I didn't smoke and perhaps he smelled cigarette smoke from the street below. He didn't seem convinced.
A couple of days later after breakfast I returned to my room to pick up my coat for the walk over to the factory and found a written invitation to meet with George Couch, the home servant, at 10AM. I had no idea about what, but I dutifully walked back from the factory for my 10AM meeting. I waited in the outer office for a while and finally was invited into Couch's office where my roommate was already sitting in a chair by his desk. Couch wasted no time in telling me that my roommate was accusing me of smoking cigarettes. (A disfellowshipping offense) I think, at that moment, the whole accusation was so absurd to me that I laughed about it. Couch, as I recall thought the matter was much more serious than I did. In the course of examination and cross examination, Couch asked my roommate if he ever actually saw cigarette smoke in the room, since he had also accused me of smoking while he was sleeping. He responded that he had not. When Couch pressed him as to how that could be, my roomie said that he suspected that I was smoking in the closet and blowing the smoke into my suitcase and trapping the smoke therein. At this, even Couch laughed. He sent us back to work and when I returned that evening, I was assigned to a new room in the Margaret Hotel building.
After a few weeks, I learned that my anointed ex-roommate had been asked to leave Bethel. No explanation was given. Now the area of Brooklyn Heights around Bethel is an area of old brownstones and a residential area where many homosexuals live. Several weeks later, I saw my ex-roommate walking hand in hand with two other men outside the St.George Hotel. I think at that point I could have used a cigarette.
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night you will be disfellow or reproved should u?.
by jazz ingo to the hall and face the music or stay home and watch t.v this thought went through my head when an elder asked a sister if her husband was to embarrased to sit in the hall when they made the announcement what do you think?
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drahcir yarrum
I ran into someone several months later who told me that they had a nice reproval night for me. I haven't been back since.
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White House Lunatic Imperils Us All.
by Englishman innot just content with attempting to scuttle the kyoto accord by claiming it was anti-american, bush has now pulled the usa out of an international agreement on tightening up controls on chemical warfare, citing almost exactly the same concerns.
can't you blokes across the atlantic impeach this lunatic?.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
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drahcir yarrum
Long, long ago Americans learned to ignore the political thoughts of Brits. No offense intended!
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Question for Jim Ladd.
by voltaire injim,.
i just read on another post that you are close to being df'ed for having doubts.
i, too, am on the bubble, so to speak.
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drahcir yarrum
About twenty years ago, I simply walked away. At first, I would visit other congregations sporadically and even had my publisher record transferred to another cong. Then I simply quit attending meetings altogether. Whenever I would run into another JW, and they would ask about my status, I would tell them that I was affiliated with a certain cong. but was thinking about moving to another (which I never did). They would seem to buy it and after awhile, no one ever asked me again.
I moved to another city and a young witness girl called at my door one day and I invited her in to chat. My wife, who was never a witness, thought I had lost my mind. I told this poor girl that I used to be a JW, had pioneered and had served at Bethel, but no longer believed in the organization or it's deceptive teachings. I tried to engage her in some thought provoking conversation, showing the inconsistancies of the J.W. teachings. You would have thought I had loosed Satan's demons on her. She jumped up, headed for the door and said she would bring some brothers back to discuss these matters with me. They never came to see me. Now I live in a gated community so they can't get to me if they wanted to.
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Babylon The Great
by drahcir yarrum inlike most jw's, i used to believe that the whore of babylon was christendom, particularly the catholic church.
that is until i actually saw the whore of babylon in a jazz club in new orleans.
scary, and it changed my life!
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drahcir yarrum
Like most JW's, I used to believe that the Whore of Babylon was Christendom, particularly the Catholic Church. That is until I actually saw the Whore of Babylon in a jazz club in New Orleans. Scary, and it changed my life!
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bethel
by musky ini am curious.
how many here have served time at or have relatives that have served at bethel?
i have heard different stories when people came back.
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drahcir yarrum
I was at Bethel for about two years in the late 60's and there really wasn't much to tell when I left. Lots of thankless hard work and little indication that it was appreciated for what it was. . . voluntary work. It was and probably still is considered a family and we were always admonished to keep Bethel problems inside the Bethel family.
I was just glad to get the hell out when I left and saw no need to talk much about it. If there is anything you want to know now, if I can remember it I'll tell you.
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Demonic Music
by drahcir yarrum inhaving recently learned of prince becoming a jw, i dug out an old prince lp and played "little red corvette" backwards on my turntable(yes i still have one).
it was a little garbled but i thought i could faintly make out the words to "we're jehovah's witnesses".
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drahcir yarrum
Having recently learned of Prince becoming a JW, I dug out an old Prince LP and played "Little Red Corvette" backwards on my turntable(yes I still have one). It was a little garbled but I thought I could faintly make out the words to "We're Jehovah's Witnesses".
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1st door-to-door?
by Moxy inthe society tries very hard to present the idea that the door-to-door work was essentially the same in the 1st century as now.
the rendering of 'door to door' in ac5:42 creates that impression.
so do the talks that discuss the missionary efforts then in modern terms (eg "paul was making a return visit here on an interested one") philo's hospitality question earlier shows that we have all been a bit taken in by this.. wt covers like this (4/1/01) sure help too:.
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drahcir yarrum
Yeah, and the apostles had a janitorial service in Corinth too!
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My Story
by Commie Chris inive been lurking hear for a few weeks.
heres my story:.
i was raised in a catholic family in toronto and went to catholic schools until grade 9 (age 13).
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drahcir yarrum
Chris:
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Judicial Committee. I have never understood how someone who voluntarily confesses an act of "wrongdoing" could have their motives questioned, much less be disfellowshipped. But then again, I also could never understand how anyone who goes door to door, conducts bible studies, goes to Bethel or becomes a missionary could have their "VOLUNTEER" work criticized or demeaned by pompous assholes.
The organization has a long history of contemptable treatment of those to whom they claim God has asked them to care for. I wish there was such a thing as eternal torment for them. Alas, getting free of them is our only solace and will have to be sufficient for now.