it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.
it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.
hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.
Set up indeed. CO playing good cop to their bad cop. Classic. Not classy. I agree with Blondie, unannounced visits are rude. Will tell a story later about a recent set of visits we had..unannounced. watch out for these jokers. This is not the last of this.
SnakesITT...(of the "nice snake" sheep class)
so, there is a bit of a fight going on in our hall between our pioneer sisters and our magazine servant.
since the new magazines are boxed with two issues together, there is a bit of work to be done separating them.
our magazine servant stacked them on the counter as usual, right out of the box.
The Borg, back in the 70s when my dad was the lit servant, brought home a box or two of tracts. They needed a stamp on the back cover with the KH contact info before handing out to the publishers. He paid my brother and I (we were probably about 7-10 years old) to do it.
so this has been going on for years.
about 10 years ago I think, when this personalized tract thing started up again, I figured out how to print the info directly on the tracts by feeding them in the printer. I probably lost 20% of them to printer jams. I also toasted a whole toner cartridge. Unfortunately, it was my printer and toner, and worst of all, my time.
The next campaign I printed out 1,000 labels separated the tracts, and put the labels on the tracts myself.
The next campaign I printed out the labels but separated the tracts and gave them to the publishers with the labels to put on.
The last time I was involved I just gave them bundles of tracts and thought "f*ck it"
The next campaign.... oh wait... I left the borg for good summer of 2007.
Ironically, I think I still have a partial box of address labels left from that nonsense.
Snakes (Rich )
so, there is a bit of a fight going on in our hall between our pioneer sisters and our magazine servant.
since the new magazines are boxed with two issues together, there is a bit of work to be done separating them.
our magazine servant stacked them on the counter as usual, right out of the box.
I am sure any day now the Governing Body® and its pharisaical Helpers™ will issue yet another mind numbing page and a half Letter to the Elders® describing in step by step detail how to handle this new Arrangement™ with an accompanying Announcement© to the Congregation™ to be read at the shortened Service Meeting® and then read again after the shortened Watchtower© Study, along with a postscript advising the Elders® to destroy all previous Letters to the Elders® and update the Index of Letters®© showing the new procedure will involve the Service Overseer©, and the Magazine Servant™ along with their assistants (in larger congregations) to meet on Saturday after Field Service™ to open the boxes and separate these smaller magazines tracts so that the Publishers® will more willingly offer them in the Magazine Tract work.
Oh, I am sorry, did I forget paragraphs in my run on sentence.
Snakes (Rich, of the formerly having lots of titles in the Borg Sheep Class)
wow.
i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.
i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.
not just yet:
Nah..... WT cannot do that. Two reasons a) yellow ink costs more and, more importantly b) the elders cannot look over your shoulder as they walk down the aisle to see if you "studied" (i.e., highlighted) your WT on Sunday.... esp true if DF and trying to get reinstated... proving you are coming back to being a good little mind numbed dubbie.
my JW mom has not mentioned these new improvements to the wt and g! rags. Looks like the Golden Age of the Watchtower is over....
Snakes (Rich ... of the "1 page is too many pages of The Watchtower" Sheep Class)
it is eight months since i went to a meeting in a kingdom hall.
in that time i've met one or two witnesses, including elders, as i've been out and about in this small town.
some have been pleased to see me, some have avoided me.
charikio---
Chariklo: ... my name had been read out as being no longer an unbaptised publisher
Huh? They fired you even though you never took the job? Did they forget to direct their blows so as not to be striking the air?
you took the job, but just as a temp/independent contractor. They just let you go since you quit showing up for "Work." LOL
Snakes (Rich )
i read this post more than a year ago: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/212313/1/watchtower-publications-for-ipad.
since i saw it, i've been waiting for the first brother or sister to show up at the hall with an ipad to see what happens.
a little here and there at the conventions and assemblies.
If I were on the platform giving a talk off of an Ipad, I guarantee you that I would have a paper back up underneath it. Gremlins and all. Do not ever trust electronics 100%.
Rich (Snakes ... of the "glad I do not have to worry about 'giving talks' but want an Ipad® now" Sheep Class)
our friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
R.I.P. Eric (OOMPA)
wow. Being on JWN only sporadically these days, it was via a friend's FB page who is (was) friends with Eric that I first heard the news.... not knowing, until I got to JWN, that Eric = OOMPA. It took me awhile to read through 23 (and counting) pages of posts. What a tribute that the view count is over 17K and ticking up in such a short time. To go back and read some of his posts that I had missed .... wow.
Like so many others, I did not know Eric by anything other than OOMPA and that avatar that always made me smile and/or laugh. Reading many of his posts in the past to see he was hurting ...without realizing just how much. It is good to read that there were many here who at least tried to help Eric.
Sometimes a person is just so far down a mentally dark place that it is a miracle if they come out. In this case, tragically, he did not. Maybe now he can be at peace. Maybe now he is in a place that he can see us all typing at our keyboards and remembering him. And maybe he will smile and know he was cared about.
And.....Maybe now some in his family can wake up, because the unmentionable group that booted him never will.
Snakes (Rich )
part 3 (which is where the actual meeting begins) is finished.
it took my computer hours and hours to render and upload it!!
anyway, this is what i just posted on my youtube channel:.
marking for later viewing.
ain't technology grand? see my earlier post on another thread about digital audio recorder spypens.
As an elder and a chair of a couple of JC hearings, we always had the obligatory question "do you have any recording devices." or the statement "no recording devices are allowed." HELLO... we were doing with so-called "wrongdoers" what would a little lie about not having a recording device matter compared to whatever reason they were there in the first place? DUMB.
Snakes (Rich ... of the "glad I ain't in that anymore" Sheep Class)
during my first few years at bk, i spent a significant amount of time at jcah.
i am really trying to make at least one connection with someone i know personally.
lol.
I knew an older black couple last name of Hall. I cannot remember their first names, very nice. They were locals near that assembly hall and I know they gave tours a lot and gave us a tour when a bus group I ran went to NJ/NY and Canada. The Hall's son and daughter moved to my congregation and each married locals here. Nice folks all.... at least they do not shun me when they see me.... usually.
Snakes (Rich )
somehow when clicking on jw things, i ended up with jw news, history, etc.
as a friend.
it needs to be removed.
i think if you go into your Privacy Settings (upper right corner hit the down arrow next to Home)... go to Ads, Apps, and Websites. click on Edit Settings. I think by removing the apps and pages you have visited, and deleting the history with the apps, etc., it should remove its influence.
I did not realize how many were on my list. Of course, be sure it is an application you want blocked.
Snakes (Rich )
