Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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Find What Your Social Status Was in the Congregation

by Mary in

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friends

ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.

1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.

SnakesInTheTower

I attained a status of 1.5, never made PO/COBOE. I did make secretary, was a single elder, pioneer MTS grad, but had to fight for every bit of so-called privileges I got. Trust me when I say that I had elders fighting my upward climb at every turn. Apparently, I didn't know my place. LOL.

Eventually, the local elduhs didn't like one of their own going to college. After they deleted me as being "unreasonable," I changed congos, quickly faded, and have been off their radar, mostly, since 2007. Guess that makes me a zero.

Snakes

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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)

by out4good3 in

i think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.

i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.

it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.

SnakesInTheTower

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-tale-of-a-house-a-pastor-and-one-of/article_db89b266-e5eb-56ea-a73a-a2c06756d769.html

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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)

by out4good3 in

i think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.

i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.

it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.

SnakesInTheTower

Ironically, Ferguson in the 1960s was a white community. I drove through there recently while working. What the media shows is the burned out convenience stire (QT) and other businesses. What they dont show is the nice, quet, neat bungalows where white and black get along fine. My friend Jackie is right in her assessment.

I just hope when the grand jury returns with their decision not to indict Officer Wilson, the few bad apples dont overpower the majority goid ones.

Snakes

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Looking for Alan F's essay

by BluesBrother in

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friends

can anybody help me find on line the essay about the watchtower' s deceptive use of quotations?

i mean the one where alan goes to bethel and has a meeting with a senior person from the writing dept, and he can see no wrong in misrepresenting anothers words, if it makes a good quote.. alan's old on line url of geocities,com/osarif does not seem to be up any more .

i would like to use this in discussion with an ex elder of my acquaintance.. thank you..

SnakesInTheTower

Marked

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Door To Door: Meet The Father Daughter Team Of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Bangalore in

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door to door: meet the father daughter team of jehovah's witnesses.. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismt6inuklg.

bangalore.

SnakesInTheTower

Watchtards.... I gotta remember that one.

Snakes

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New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

by stuckinarut2 in

ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

(yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

SnakesInTheTower

My wife, never a JW, watched the video. She said thst if she didn't know the dark side about TTATT, she would be impressed, not creeped out.

Having said that, it seems that WTBTS has finally come into the 21st century wth their METHODS of DELIVERING their message.

Too bad they haven't changed THE MESSAGE. Dead men's bones in a whitewashed grave.

Snakes (of the "ready to puke" $heep Class)

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BOE 2014-06-09 Adjusted approval and financing process to accelerate Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall construction

by WatchTower87 in

2014-06-09 adjusted approval and financing process to accelerate kingdom hall and assembly hall construction.

to all bodies of elders.

the congregation secretary should arrange for this letter to be retained in the congregation permanent file of policy letters.

SnakesInTheTower

Sounds like the New Kingdom Hall Time Share. YOU buy the place, then each year YOU pay a maintenance fee. Oh, by the way, Hurricane Ivan hit the island and the condo, I mean Kingdom Hall, needs repairs, YOU cough up more money, oh, and by the way, while on vacation, YOU get to help fix the place up.

Wait, was I talking about time shares or Kingdom Halls? I forgot.

Snakes (of the "shaking his head in disgust" Sheep Class)

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Stupid paragraph in this weekends wt study

by stuckinarut2 in

how's these comments in this weeks study?.

i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.

i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.

SnakesInTheTower

The story is either fiction or a conglomeration of real stories. I was on a CA program once and asked to relate my experience about MTS.

During rehearsals, the CO keot trying to enhance (i.e., make $hit up.) what I said. I got him back. During the actual CA! I downplayed so much that it was dull. LOL.

A friend said to me "you never used the pronoun 'I.'" That's because it was not really MY experience.

I remember one SAD when the CO had to import a couple from another circuit to relate their experience because no one on either side of our circuit had an experience to match what the part called for. The sheeples ate it up.

My disillusionment was nearly complete. MTS opened the curtain on the Wizard of Oz...

I mean the GB.

Snakes..(of the not into making $hit up Sheep Class)

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MINISTERIAL TRAINING SCHOOL, full course leaked!

by hildebrando in

all classes, all questions, all anwers, all 9 subject!

all leaked for do in spanish!.

http://www.hildeydesa.blogspot.com/2014/06/escuela-de-entrenamiento-ministerial.html.

SnakesInTheTower

I went through the damn course in english in 02. Recently burned my notebooks. You are not missing anything. Pioneer school on steroids.

Snakes

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Elder: I threw out all WT & Awake and only keep the last ten years...

by adjusted knowledge in

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friends

i had a recent conversation with an elder from my mother's congregation.

he with another elder was at my mom's house.

my mother has all the bound volumes for both the awake and watchtower plus most of the older books.

SnakesInTheTower

Please rip the covers off the hardcovers and recycle instead of landfills.

WT should quit printing everything and go all digital. Issue WTFire tablets that the dubs can download everything. Then, when "New Light" expires and becomes "Old Light", WT can just sync their WT approved tablet and "update" to "New Light 17.4" and remove "Old Light 17.3."

Just a thought.

Snakes (Rich)