most brothers are shocked when i tell them chess is banned because it's un-wholesome!.
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 ..."the spirit of competition between players can lead to unpleasant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in a game to the chess board.
but, in some homes tensions linger long past "checkmate.
chess is reportedly good for developing math & thinking skills
Good point Carla, good thinking skills are something most JWS lack and the leaders frown down on pursuing.
As long as you can read your language in a basic elementary way, you have enough education and you
can be programed easily to their will.
watchtower's magazine editor clayton woodworth recommended smoking in the "golden age" magazine.
10/25 1933 "...infeebled constitutions inherited from fashionable mothers cannot stand up under tabbaco.
" {translation= only a pussy doesn't smoke} he prefered a pipe until 1951 when he had his voicebox removed due to throat cancer...months later he died.
Ironic is it not that the people that are said to be the voice of god here on earth supported the use of tobacco and the consumption of alcohol.
Wasn't Rutherford blatantly against Prohibition, when it was instituted in the 1920's .
I always wondered too why Jesus turned water into wine for some people, didn't he care about their health or did he just wanted to see them all get drunk,
very strange way for a perfect man to behave .
I'm going to ask him that when he returns.
most brothers are shocked when i tell them chess is banned because it's un-wholesome!.
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 ..."the spirit of competition between players can lead to unpleasant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in a game to the chess board.
but, in some homes tensions linger long past "checkmate.
And you wonder why JWS suffer from guilt complexes and phobias !
The oppression of the powerful ones is suffocating
my wife and i sent my 22 yr.old pioneer witness daughter and her husband a anniversary card and $ 40.00 and flowers the end of april.
my daughter wrote mrs. flipper and me each our own individual letters thanking us initially for the gifts - and then went into detail as to why she has not spoken to me for over a year and shunned me.. keep in mind as i paraphrase some of the highlights to these letters that the only negative thing i have said about the organization to my daughter in 3 years was to show her the ap news release about the child abuse settlements by the wt society .
i'll quote parts of the letter to mrs. flipper first :.
Perhaps you might want to quote a few scriptures such as Revelation 20:10 and therefore do not want to be associated with any false prophets,
of any kind ! Quoting bible scriptures may actually force her to rethink what she is involved with and may eventually unbind her from this form
of mental slavery. Maybe one day she'll see too that the WTS is just one of many man's con jobs that originally started out as a business venture
that evolved into a power venture by disingenuous men.
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
last year when i renewed my driver's license i was asked if i wanted to register to be an organ donor.
of course, in the past, i never did.
joking with the driver's license employee, i asked if they wanted the arm and leg now... they had good humor and responded equally joking that it was ok, they would wait until i died.
Another side thought, since transplanted organs still contain the blood of the donor, when the organ is transplanted to another person that person is
essentially receiving a blood transfusion .
most brothers are shocked when i tell them chess is banned because it's un-wholesome!.
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 ..."the spirit of competition between players can lead to unpleasant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in a game to the chess board.
but, in some homes tensions linger long past "checkmate.
Yes many international chess tournaments turn into fights and brawls,
chess players are known for their violence
most brothers are shocked when i tell them chess is banned because it's un-wholesome!.
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 ..."the spirit of competition between players can lead to unpleasant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in a game to the chess board.
but, in some homes tensions linger long past "checkmate.
The pretentiousness of power is written all over the WT and AW magazines, its the GB responsibility within the organization
after all to keep this illusion going, call a initiative of survival and self sustaining the power.
taken from his experience in the 1984 watchtower.. 1934 karl klien {governing body} had a nervous breakdown after being at bethel many years.
baptized at 12 he didn't go door to door till he was 18 and serving as an elder!
at bethel he very honestly mentions the pressures that led to his breakdown.
This is what happens to people that try hard to live and breath off of an illusion, side stepping away from reality.
I'm not surprised that he mentions Rutherford for he has to be the most solitary power driven egomaniac in the JWS
history that would easily run over people that he deemed weak to his own self developed indulgent stature.
Rutherford was all about obtaining power over and above everyone else elevating himself to a demi-god status.
He saw himself much more than a judge of the land and people which he resided, after all he had obtained the greater power of god in his hands.
my wife and i sent my 22 yr.old pioneer witness daughter and her husband a anniversary card and $ 40.00 and flowers the end of april.
my daughter wrote mrs. flipper and me each our own individual letters thanking us initially for the gifts - and then went into detail as to why she has not spoken to me for over a year and shunned me.. keep in mind as i paraphrase some of the highlights to these letters that the only negative thing i have said about the organization to my daughter in 3 years was to show her the ap news release about the child abuse settlements by the wt society .
i'll quote parts of the letter to mrs. flipper first :.
Boy this girl sounds well deeply indoctrinated, its humanly sad to see a cult like this control people social relationships
with their personal family members, it almost appears criminal in intension.
Sorry Flipper for this unfortunate dilemma.
Selling and preaching the message of Christ was one thing, the proclamation that a select few of men that have
placed themselves as the leaders or kings of this kingdom was where the corruption started to establish itself with
this organization. Men with this kind of power usually turn into vial corrupt men and the people that are under their control
usually suffer in many real ways. The only honest and real way to show that those men are not who they say they are is
show clearly and decisively how they came into this power, step by step and let intelligence take its course.
Take care Flipper
i have to wonder what actually is in their heads,.
i called a former elder who i like and who lives close to my mother and asked him to do me a favor.
her phone was off the hook for the entire day and i got worried that maybe she fell or something.
Hey, who told you guys that you could post that x-ray of my brain ?
It was suppose to be personal.
