you are worth a few hundred bucks a year to them.
nada.
zip.
You have once again hit the nail squarely on the head.
Never thought about it like that, but it's true.
I understand that now you can't even write a letter to Borg Central if you've been hurt by an elder or group of elders. You can be DFed for doing that.
Just send the money and keep your mouth shut.
ft
i was raised a poor white child in the deep south...ok, florida, where i still am.
i was the typical slightly self righteous witness, miss goody goody, left school at 16 to pioneer, which i did for 4 years, met a guy and married him.
he had 2 kids from a previous marriage and we had 2 kids of our own.
Hi Think41self:
Actually, my name is Frank. I use Francois just for the hell of it. I was born and raised in Savannah, GA, but consider Atlanta, specifically Decatur, GA my real home.
My wife is a Cuban expatriate whose parents still live in Miami and so we are down there a lot. When they cut Florida off at St. Augustine to tow it to New Jersey, they ought to cut it off again just north of Boca Raton and tow that part down to Columbia to hook it back on.
ft
my hubby had a question for me that i couldn't even come close to an answer for.
ps.
i used to be a witness.
As far as I know, epidurals are indeed allowed "THANK ya Jay-sus." If this were not the case, then the elders - all guys as we know - would be expected to undergo even thoracic surgery without anesthesia.
And could you imagine undergoing a colonoscopy without anesthesia?
ft
i just happened on this place a few days ago, and thought i would stop in to see what it was all about.
it claims to be a jehovah's witness forum, which it is not.. dont want to come here and point fingers, as i am sure there are some good people in here, just seems the bad have followed the good.
i guess in reality thats always the case, but hey, what else would these people do if they couldn't wage their little war on the truth.
Redline, don't take our word for it. Keep an eye peeled on NBC Dateline this summer and try to catch the program now in the works dealing with JWs protection and concealment of pedophiles.
And perhaps you should check out the following site while you're cruising the net:
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/the_list.html
Since you're into truth, this site should really ring your chimes.
Flip, speak for yourself. Use of metaphor is indeed helpful. And the similarity between the Nazi regime and the organization of JWs is virtually congruent. And as noted elsewhere, apostates are to JWs what Jews were to Nazis.
ft
i was 'moved' to share with you the words of my lord.. he said:.
"i am the living bread that came down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.. unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.. whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and i will resurrect him on the last day.. for my flesh is true food indeed, and my blood is true drink indeed.. whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me and i in union with him.. this is the true food that came down from heaven.
if anyone eats of it he will live for ever.".
I think people may be put off by your approach. God as father is approachable by all his children. And remember how much trouble has been brought to the world by people who say they've been instructed by God to say this and do that and speak for him to others and on and on.
"Have you faith? Have it unto yourself."
"Be quiet, mind your own business, and work with your hands."
FT
has anyone seen some of the movies that's just come out?
evolution and swordfish looks interesting to me.. reviews?.
"it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly--you usually don't use it at all.
Wouldn't you just love to see another Indiana Jones film? God, I would.
"Indiana Jones and the Priests of Machu Pichu"
ANYTHING!!!
FT
this is clever.. everyone thinks the society are becoming more open as far as education is concerned.. we have had a few articles in recent years which even go as far as encouraging youngsters to get trained, got to college and acquire useful job skills for the future.
then these are the magazines that the public also read and then think that the jw's maybe arent so weird after all.. but then go to this years dc's and we get the following;.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=6326&site=3.
Goes further than that.
When I was still in the borg there was a firestorm about pants suits for the sisters. Bad. No-no. Evil. Wicked. Mean. Bad & Nasty. Worldly. Egotistical. You know the drill.
Then, at the assembly in Macon, suddenly it's announced that pants suits are Okee Dokee. Well.
The local congregational tyrant (the one I finally drove off the body of elders with a well-placed letter to Borg central a couple of years later) announced from the platform the week after the assembly that even though it had been okayed at the assembly, he wanted to see "what the sisters at Bethel" were going to do. Not that he was forbidding it, you understand, but he was expressing his disapproval. And lots of the sisters were conflicted. Some flaunted their pants-suits in his face.
And myself? Although I hate to admit it I got myself outfitted with a kakhi leisure suit that looked like something Ernest Hemmingway would wear on safari. Wore it all the time to the meetings. Drove him nuts. And he spent a lot of time telling me how inappropriate it was, to which I rejoined how tacky it was to wear white socks with a business suit. We went round and round. Gads, it was fun. But what a waste of intellectual energy!
ft
it's not really, but, what can ya do?!.
i was just thinking, is matt 24:14 meant to be taken literally as the dubs do??.
that's my question, someone please answer..... chris.
"End" of what? And how? Blood and guts? Eyeballs rotting in their sockets? Two month-old babies being speared on the bills of secretary birds?
Maybe it means that all the people on the planet will accept whatever it is they're supposed to accept and the end means the end of doubt and division and then we all live happily ever after.
Y'reckon?
are you angry?
disappointed?
disgusted with a corrupt.
Beautiful plan. Maoist, actually - "Boring from within". I wish I had taken that tact, but after a life time of being in the Borg (25 years since birth) I couldn't stomach it anymore. I detested the very smell of a Kingdom Hall: cheap paper, second rate binding glue, and bad ink: eau de Watchtower.
But it would be very good to get reports from the "front."
F
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http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000391
They're coming to take me away, ha ha
They're coming to take me away, ho ho
To the funny farm, where life is wonderful all of the time.
That's all I remember. Maybe we can put the little snippets together.
