just got a phone call this morning from a very upset anointed brother.
he said he didn't believe me when i told him about the pedo problem and selling off of halls.
he said he was disgusted with the watchtower and had to go to a special meeting last night.
Lhg..... remember THIS:
1975
People DID sell houses and business thinking the end would come.
OR
People BOUGHT houses and cars thinking the end would come and they would not have to pay them off.
I was only 9, and my folks had only been dubs 5 years. I remember older ones telling me these stories.
Either way, "There is a sucker born every minute."
Snakes
if you go to jw.org, you can download the program for 2019 convention.. what i notice is that nowadays there is no meeting for ones wishing to serve at bethel or for those interested in gilead missionary school.
rather, there is just a meeting for those interested in 'the school for kingdom evangelizers'.. two things strike me about this.
first, although there was once a big play on bethel and gilead being held out as career options, this is now just about dead and buried.
I got sucked into MTS (the now defunct 8 week Ministerial Training School, part of WT School of Gilead, apparently also defunct). 62nd US Class, 2002.
Left very disillusioned but determined to make it work. Too many years invested.
3 weeks out, WT tries to send me to Middle-of-Nowhere, Kansas. The locals did not want me or my classmate (who DID go). Made NO effort to help us find housing, or a job. They ran off a previous graduate.
I declined, had knee surgery, kept my full time job, restarted pioneering. (Thanks in no small part to Steve "Rubber face" Lett). But WT sent me 75 miles from home to Not-Much-Work, Illinois. Me and TWO other grads from our class. This congo was THAT fu&ked up.
I did that 150 mile round trip 3 times a week. Sunday, Thursday, and Saturday for 4 months. Did Tuesday and some FS close to home and worked FT... back home. NO support from Crooklyn. Got sick, lost 25 pounds, got down to 115 pounds. Doc checked for cancer....nope...stress. Told me to quit the commute. I did. Got kicked out of the MTS program. Took 10 months of fighting to get reappointed as an elder to where I ended up close to home.
Fast forward 5 years. Former elder, pioneer, MTS grad. Walked away, never to return. Forward 12 more. Never set foot there again. Why? Because they LIED to me all those years, told me at those conventions to make FT service my life. You know who encouraged me to keep applying for MTS at those CONventions?
Samuel "Turd" Herd.
I pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster I never see that fu#ker again.
Snakes
2019-07-09-new features on jw.org.
https://docdro.id/zrl1ojx.
instructions for congregation secretary.
So I guess you could leave the congregation and a few months later send a "death certificate" to your old congregation with a fake lawyer letterhead. Saying Joe Person (I mean Joe Publisher) is deceased and to update records.
Boom, no more being bothered. Just stay out of sight. LOL
Snakes
i was just wondering if there is any official rules on dealing with this.
a sister in the congregation is planning to divorce her husband who is also a witness so she can marry a different brother in the same hall!
yes this is a huge scandal!
Carlyle, IL. Big scandal. Elder and pioneer sister did the deed IN THE KH. Known throughout the circuit.
Wouldn't want to clean the carpet THAT weekend...just saying.
They married, got reinstated, rubbed it in everyones face as if no big deal.
No idea what ever happened to them. I was only there a few months as an MTS grad back in 02.
Snakes
is there anything that will make that loyal witness ever see the light??
you know, that well respected elder, pioneer, or witness who has been in the “truth “ for decades..
I had crap happen in 1991, should have left then. Worked my way back up the ladder. 95 REALLY bothered me. Should have left. Stayed, kept climbing the ladder, became an elder. Went to MTS in 2002, seen some disturbing behavior, should have left, kept on. In 06, I could have fought being deleted as an elder and won. Instead, I quit fighting and let them.
Changed congos in 07, faded, should have left then.. Oh, wait, I DID. NEVER went back.
Snakes
so how many of us who conducted the b school have the reoccurring flashbacks every damn time we now pomo, put our hand on blinds to raise or lower them?.
we either fiddled with lowering them every week as we got the school underway or fiddled with to raise them to "listen in to the #3 in progress" up front.
every time i grab the pull string or the louver adjustment wand anywhere i inevitably have a kh ops moment of pause.
Lol.
I remember having a B school fore the sole purpose of some little boy doing a bible reading, then doing just what you said. Or....we timed it with the main school to send everyone back to the main auditorium and out of the cramped B school. Stupid.
Snakes
if we haven’t associated with the congregation in years, could it be said we are not jws?
or must you be disfellowshipped or disassociated to officially say you really aren’t a witness?.
I walked away in 2007. Never DF, DA, ABCDE....whatever. I DID make it clear to the local PO, that if my name were ever mentioned from the platform, or that my name was being drug through the mud "unofficially," that don't worry about being sued. When I was done dragging JW's through the mud, it would just make it impossible for them to accomplish their ministry in their area.
They haven't bothered me since --"officially" or otherwise.
$hit don't stink unless you stir it.
Snakes (Rich)
this last tuesday was one of the most stressful and sad days of our life when we had our lab morgan put to sleep.
she was so sick and out of it we just had to do it.
when i called the spca on monday to make a appointment to have her put to sleep i felt like i betrayed her.
Stadd.... so sorry to hear this. We have lost many over the years. Our dog was 19 when we finally had to do what you did. Probably we waited a year too long. Rare time I seen my JW dad cry.
We have a LOT of cats now, one from a rescue,the rest we rescued ourself. We love them all.
Cats are more loyal than ANY JW. Peace to your family.
Snakes (Rich)
there is so much wrong with the newly released october, 2019 but that's not unusual.
what stands out is there statement claiming that survival through armageddon depends on loyalty to those 'taking the lead'.
since they claim there will be a point during the gt that they (the gb) won't be physically around, jws must still be loyal to jw leaders.. whats interesting in this article is that they make it clear that they, the governing body are going to take part, from heaven, in the war of armageddon.
Exit strategy to...NOT heaven, but.....THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. LOL
Snakes
i often wondered over the years what happened to a lot of the old posters from this group.
going back to the late 1990s a few of the names i recall...blacksheep, gypsywildcactus (i know she's ok as we're friends on facebook still), onacruise, minimus, veniceit, flower, prisca, bendrr, refinersfire, kent, englishman, shit...dare i say it evilforce lol, snittlesnacks (what a twat), scully, mouthy, talesin from nova scotia, xenawarrior.
littletom (from glasgow in scotland), outlaw, goaty, bisous, uncle brucey (australian character who loved his wildkife photography) - struggling now to remember more names.i know there are many more.
I started on here around 2007, though I lurked before that as an elder.
I met Dagney and Uzzah at an Apostafest in Toronto, what was that, 2008, along with others from here. (What happened to Eclipse)?
Anyone remember the Werewolf games we used to play here? Completely UN JW related, but fun. I still have feiends IRL because of that.
The Silence is still a friend, ***waves**** though I haven't talked to her in awhile. Ironic since we live and work near each other, (on certain routes at work, I think I pass her neighborhood). Indirectly, I have her to thank for meeting my wife. She knows. lol.
My life has changed so much due to this place. If not for Simon and JWN/JWD, I wonder if I would have left TheBorg.
Snakes (Rich)
