remember them days @ dcs where we'd all get up at some god awful hour to make hoagies for the lunch time crowd?.
and shasta was the cola of choice?
does anyone know how those vendors were negotiated?
"I wonder what would have happened if you really asked a restroom attendant for help? "Brother, would you please pull my finger?" "My butt itches, would you scratch it for me?" JK"
LOL
i should've stood in line with a penthouse and a tube of vaseline and keep a straight face.
you couldn't even make a movie of this stuff b/c who the heck would understand that there are bathroom attendents and they're considered jws w/ 'priviledges', and they're dressed in suits.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/20/mngt7r3oh41.dtl
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i've heard there is a very secretive process the wts uses to determine whether or not they'll consider someone "of the annointed.
" from what i've heard it's a very rigorous set of questions.
can anyone here confirm this?
" indicating that the number 144 000 is not to be taken as literal. That way they can keep the two-class/two-destiny system without worrying about the non-declining number of Partakers. The number 144 000 was conspicuous by its absence in the 01. May 2007 QfR. And an increase in the number of partakers won't threaten the current power structure because the Governing Body has already declared that the "genuine" (non-GB) anointed willingly serve under the direction of the Governing Body, have no special insight, and may even be 'spiritually weak.'"
Holy shit, excuse my french, Divine Merde!
that's been the defining belief for so long. oh please oh please let more see the light from this if it happens...the dark light. :)
i've heard there is a very secretive process the wts uses to determine whether or not they'll consider someone "of the annointed.
" from what i've heard it's a very rigorous set of questions.
can anyone here confirm this?
gary, i'm interested in more info on that...i believe you wrote about it in another thread. could you link me to that thread or give more info?
thanks.
i've heard there is a very secretive process the wts uses to determine whether or not they'll consider someone "of the annointed.
" from what i've heard it's a very rigorous set of questions.
can anyone here confirm this?
my 'love study' to come back into the borg after i was inactive a couple of years was w/ an annointed brother who was in his 30's in 1991-ish.
every KH he went to the elders were on his ass for claiming annointed...they automatically wouldn't let him pray, it was always phone calls to bethel and tons of shit he had to go through. i hit him with many questions and here's the interesting things i got out of him.
for a few years he got physically ill and felt there was something really wrong during the memorial time when he didn't partake.
he prayed intensely every year asking if it was his calling.
the year he finally partook, all his physical symptoms went away and there was a huge sense of relief....nothing too much more than that.
he also told me that if the wtbts was not the truth, at least it was a decent way to live...so there was some reasonableness in there that it might not be the truth.
he was a bethelite for many years and i have a feeling his claiming annointed got him pushed out, though he'd never admit it and said it was because of health problems.
i wonder if he's still a jw, i seriously think it's a 50/50 shot, but the last we chatted, he was still an elder, annointed, and all about the wtbts.
he was against my seeking therapy b/c 'the bible was all i needed' and i disobeyed him and would like to give him a kick in the teeth for even suggesting that due to my family tragedies and background.
i don't want to give his name in the public forum, but if this person seems familiar to you and you have an update on him, pm me. he is/was VERY well known all over.
i've heard there is a very secretive process the wts uses to determine whether or not they'll consider someone "of the annointed.
" from what i've heard it's a very rigorous set of questions.
can anyone here confirm this?
"I heard you don't even have to be annointed to be on the GB now."
"I've never heard this and it would go against JW theology if they made this change. The governing body justifies their power because they claim to be the representatives of the faithful and discreet (slave), the anointed. They fancy themselves a sort of elder body for the anointed. Since they interpret Mathew 24:45-47 to mean that Jesus has appointed the remnant of the 144,000 as the FDS, they draw their own authority from claiming to be the spokesmen, an elder body, for the FDS. To put non-anointed on the governing body would make no sense keeping these teachings in mind. The non-anointed are not supposed to be taking a leadership role under JW theology because Jesus didn't appoint them to oversee the "domestics."
It's possible, probably highly likely, that they changed the 1935 teaching in order to persuade "capable," long-time Bethelites to decide that they are part of the anointed after all in order to qualify for vacant GB spots."
i thought that was the 'new light' like 7 years or so ago, that they were setting up non-annointed to participate in GB duties...can someone confirm or tell me i'm off my rocker.
mr. flipper here again gang!
so who do ya like all time?mr.
flippers list is as follows, almost in this way.
i gotta say that i'm really happy to find this forum and i agree with most of you on a lot of stuff.
but, i sure don't understand everyone's taste in music here....wow, some horrid top tens.
props to the beatles, led zep, metallica (sans black album and those years, master of puppets baby!), sure hendrix, ok, nirvana even though they were ripping off the pixies and mudhoney and others.
the rest, i guess i'm at a huge disconnect with the lot of you....but i'm admitted music snob...a cynic and in the industry...so threads like this make me want to find comrads and people who surprise me w/ stuff i haven't thought about or heard...but, ouch.
i believe i saw dead milkmen in someone's top ten....that's reaching. i saw them live twice right around 1990 i think, pretty much one of the lamer bands to come out of that era and their opening acts were always so much better...people would clear out of the venue two or three songs into their sets, it was hilarious.
oh, i forgot props to abba, seriously, abba inspired a lot of bands in ways most people don't realize.
prince, pre-i'm-a-jehovahs-witness-would-you-like-to-live-forever-in-paradise, i also agree with...respect wise, but he produced a lot of crap as well......i'll also put some of michael jackson's work into the respect zone.
anyway, this thread is great and i disagree with most of you.
the rolling stones are an embarrassment, they were cooler than the beatles for a few years, then since the 70's found their formula and stuck with it to purchase their mansions....i respect yoko ono more than rolling stones, let's go play a stadium b/c they'll still sing to 'start me up' and i can get my plumbing fixed in my castle.
remember them days @ dcs where we'd all get up at some god awful hour to make hoagies for the lunch time crowd?.
and shasta was the cola of choice?
does anyone know how those vendors were negotiated?
thanks gopher, that's a trip. i can't believe they doubled it, so they were making 50% profit (but the whole operation was volunteer, from the prep to selling and everything....that is a huge profit margin not to have to pay out to anyone), then when the tax 'gods' came down on them, like for the literature, they went to donation, found jws weren't given it up like before and cut out the meals.
which after they discontinued it, it was hard to imagine that we actually ate that crap.....and there are times when i walk by a cheap deli and i smell shitty meat that i'm reminded of the assembly.
ok, in layman's terms .
can someone explain to me the technology of fax to email?
i surfed the web but only found where to buy the software and whenever i call a company they either do not know or just don't want to tell me.
do you need fax to email specifically, or can you just use something like windows built in fax console.
if you just need to fax or receive faxes ---you'll have to have the computer connected to you land line to do it, you have to install the fax component service in xp, then if you're faxing, when you print, select fax instead of print and dial the number.
if you need to receive faxes you open the console.
it should be in the help section if it's xp or similar. MAC, i couldn't tell ya.
but i use the fax option all the time to fax out and i don't need to receive faxes.
remember them days @ dcs where we'd all get up at some god awful hour to make hoagies for the lunch time crowd?.
and shasta was the cola of choice?
does anyone know how those vendors were negotiated?
remember them days @ DCs where we'd all get up at some god awful hour to make hoagies for the lunch time crowd?
and shasta was the cola of choice?
does anyone know how those vendors were negotiated? was it a jw on the other side, say, the bread provided for the hoagies, if someone made 1/2 cent off of every hoagie in the usa they'd be millionaires after one run of DCs.
or was it society provided?
it's so funny, they're giving talks on the harms of smoking, and clogging everyone's arteries at lunch.
AND CONSPIRACY THEORY:
all that food ended up constipating me after the first day....was that a plan to keep the people in their seats. by day four i had to take a laxative...even though i was a teen.
segue, what about all them bathroom attendents? i have a hard enough time relaxing to go in a public restroom, but when a 'humble volunteer' directs me to where i need to poo all i could think about what, he totally knows i'm pooing and for how long.
and those poor sisters...did they just think, hmm, i'm most likely going to have a BM in an hour, so time to get in line for the bathroom.
anyway, all that food had to be a profit to the society somehow.
