this new comedy duo is starting to get more air play around and i think they're pretty good, check them out, they get the homey stamp of approval .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nre8mxjrvai.
The thing about great comedy is that is real life exaggerated - e.g. the Simpsons.
I kid you not we used to have someone like Andy in our congregation. He used to come to the KH in a wheelchair wearing a neck brace but I once popped round his house and found him winching the engine out of his 4x4!
story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28415661/.
george francis was born in june 1896. that means he was 18 years old when jesus returned "invisibly" in 1914. he was 22 when judge rutherford first gave the lecture titled "millions now living will never die.
" he was 24 when the watchtower society published the famous booklet of the same name and began the heralded "millions campaign.".
I remember how we still hung on to the 1914 generation well into the 90's. I remember pointing out the fact that Vaso Cubrilovic (After World War II, Vaso Cubrilovic served as Minister of Forests in Yugoslavia's government. He died in 1990, the last surviving participant in the conspiracy to assassinate the Archduke. - wikopedia) was still alive as being proof we were still in the 1914 generation.
before baptism this was the second more doctrinal book that had to be studied.. 1980 united in worship chapter 19 "what does the mosaic law mean to you?.
chapter 20 "life and blood do you treat them as sacred?.
2002 worship the true god.
The new book is just further proof of the dumbing that is going on.
Besides the ommission of any specific about, there is virtually nothing said about 1914.
mrs eyeslice has an extra evening off due to the new meeting arrangement now.. .
given the extra night is supposed to be for a family study night; any suggestions as to what we could study together?
Mrs Eyeslice has an extra evening off due to the new meeting arrangement now.
Given the extra night is supposed to be for a family study night; any suggestions as to what we could study together?
so how are things going for you folks ?
times are tough economically for sure for lots of people.
things going well for you otherwise in your life ?
How is Your Life Going ? - fine
What do you Hope to Accomplish in 2009 - keep things together but somehow I thing 2009 is going to be hard
i cannot live without my laptop and jwd at the moment (i have been visiting hourly of late).. .
what one thing can't you do without at the mo?.
mtsgrad.
Drinking a glass of port at the moment. How sad is that!
wow, i've just seen my wife's copy of the jan 09 new format kingdom ministry.
can they get any more controlling?.
how to handle every part is detailed giving absolutely no room for any personal input or freedom to express any ideas other than copyrighted watchtower thinking.. .
Unfortunately, don't have a working scanner at the moment!
wow, i've just seen my wife's copy of the jan 09 new format kingdom ministry.
can they get any more controlling?.
how to handle every part is detailed giving absolutely no room for any personal input or freedom to express any ideas other than copyrighted watchtower thinking.. .
Wow, I've just seen my wife's copy of the Jan 09 new format Kingdom Ministry. Can they get any more controlling?
How to handle every part is detailed giving absolutely no room for any personal input or freedom to express any ideas other than copyrighted Watchtower thinking.
It is a wonder they don't just script the prayers as well - after all we are part of God's united earthly organization? Aren't we?
where there little things that you did just to express yourself and feel like you weren't just some robot clog in a machine?
i was thinking of stuff i did over the years: .
read whatever books i wanted, even apostate ones over the years.
I once conducted the Ministry School and had a Service Meeting Part in a full beard that I had grown when I was on holiday.
In out totally clean shaven congregation that really put the 'cat amongst the pigeons'. Some loved it but unfortunately the PO hated it and took on his self to personally counsel me. I simply replied that as far as I was concerned the beard ban reflected more the right wing politics of the Society than anything in the Bible. That was about as rebellious as I ever was.
Like Min I too was often the sole elder not to vote for various things, including against disfellowshipping people in JC meetings. But I would regard that those sort of things as a matter of principle not rebelliousness - there is a huge difference
this is a re-hash of a post i made a few years back when i had only just 'left'.
but as time has gone by i have become even more convinced that the witnesses are, how can i put this, a fairly miserable lot.
it seems to me that what separates humans from other animals is our culture and traditions.
The ban on wishing people a merry Xmas always seemed a bit silly to me. I once worked with a young pioneer brother on Xmas day who wished everyone a merry Xmas in return. It was just a bit of a laugh. After all, it is not as if celebrating Xmas is on the same level as mass murder or something. And you can't exactly have wished people a crap Xmas, though perhaps that what the Society really wants.
