the literature servant told me that their instructions are to only give one study wt per publisher starting with the january 1st, 2008 issue.
under no circumstances are they to provide any other copies (if lost or whatever, much like kms are provided now).
any guests attending the wt study will be provided a copy, but then the servant who gave them the copy must confiscate it after the meeting.
Based on some of the ignorant pissant power hungry megamaniacal uneducated office cleaner wackjob elders and servants I knew when I was still in, I can believe this happened.
You've always got the ones who will bend/interpret instructions to fit their own tiny world view of us vs them.
i got a pm from richie.
shockingly, he has a side to the story!
so i have a legitimate sounding story from richie, who i know to be a young, rebellious man.
Maybe Ritchie is taking the High Road . . .
hmmm
let me start = "kiss" stood for knights in satans service, "ac/dc" was anti-christ devils children.
"hotel california" was demonic who knew!
"yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy.
All of them, but in particular . . . Steppenwolf
After an elder was flipping through my collection and found the inside cover picture of the "For Ladies Only" album.
This one went way beyond the circuit actually, was even mentioned at the DA
yeah, baby!
or for that matter, if a candidate didn't believe in god or belonged to a sect or was a believer in islam.....would you be leery?
Considering that Joe Smith prophecied that a Mormon would become president at a time of trouble for the US and save the republic from collapsing . . . How can Mitt Romney, if he is a devout and obedient Mormon, and in subjection to the 12 leaders of the LDS (called Apostles, the leader of the 12 is called the Prophet) not allow this to color his judgement and his own perception of what role he plays in his churches world view/agenda.
yes, that troubles me
Imagine one of the GB as president
President George Bush is an eschatalogical christian, and by his own admission, it does color his perceptions of the world and his role on the world stage.
thats pretty much it....my at home son seems so much younger than he should be...he is now 20 but hangs with much youger dubs...and has no girlfriend to date.
i had like ten by then and had done everything but impregnate a girl................................what the hey is going on here?....................................oompa..
plus he is a ministerial servant and reg.
I left home a week after i turned 17, first week of August 1970, couldn't take the beatings from my superfine elder father anymore. Moved from Kent Bridge to Stratford, Ontario, got a job in the Kohler Furniture factory, an apartment on the west side near the tracks, and a red electric guitar . . . stayed in the Kult though, I didn't know anything else.
i saw the movie the mist this weekend.. i was surprized at how good it was.. it is based on a novel by stephen king, how does that guy continue to crank out novels and movies?.
if you like thrillers this is a good movie to see.. i won't spoil it for you, but the ending is a shocker!.
I read Carrie when it first came out and I was still in the Kult. I was convinced that it was the authors intention to portray them as dubs. This was one of many things that made me start to think about what this Kult was about, King showed me how outsiders viewed the JWs. Of course a GOOD little dubby wouldn't be reading King anyway, but I always had a very open and inquisitive mind and books of all sorts were my escape from the mind numbing drone at the sales meetings . . .
Freedom from guilt and depression
Self esteem
Giving back to my community
Getting an Education . . . got my BS in Engineering at 49, Summa Cum Laude, yeah baby, take that you miserable pudknockers
Pursuing and developing my own god-given gifts and talents . . playing blues/rock guitar on a loud, red Stratocaster at the local dives
Realizing that there are alot of good people in this world and actually getting to know some of them
Voting
Sleeping in on the weekend
Not answering the door when some dolt selling religion knocks on it
Driving a fast, red, sports car
Loving family and friends for who they are, not what they do according to the dolts mentioned above
Having friends whose friendship and love is unconditional
just a while ago, i was looking at the clouds in the dark sky, and i saw a rotating pattern of lights, moving clockwise going left, then moving counter clockwise and moving right.
it did that for a while, going back and forth maybe 10 times.
about 100 lights made up this rotating pattern.
JH
yeah I've seen something strange. It happened when I was about 5 or 6. It has affected my life but not in a huge way. I am what you may call a "skeptical believer"
I have recounted my experience here somewhere before . . .
so i am inactive for nearly 3 years now..... .
huge issues dealing with molestation of my children.... long sad and sordid tale of woe and devastating outcome .
i will confess to this.... for several years in the "truth" i was happy.
Welcome Chickpea! We have a nice litlle community here, stay awhile, I am looking forward to your next post!
Back in Franklin, NH in the late 70's my own 4 yr old daughter was molested along with others in a huge scandal there. It was handlesd internally, "Swept Under The Rug" and when I wanted to notify the authorities, I was notified in no uncertain terms that to do so would result in judicial commitee action. I caved, and I regret it every day.
Peace and out . .
ex witness of 20 years here.
by the grace of god (or something anyway) i managed to get out.
i visited this forum about 5 years ago and noticed the u.n. issue.
psst . . did anyone tell him the noob buys the next round??
