the wt of september 15, 2010 (kool-aid version) has two articles on unity.
one is titled: unity identifies true worship and the other christian unity glorifies god.
of course it is more uniformity, not true unity.
The propaganda wolves are out in force trying to keep the sheep convinced that they still need to follow the faithful and not so discreet slave.
This propaganda stuff really works, it keeps the people in submission to men and allows these men to impose their righteousness on them.
LD
click downloads > digital magazines and download the latest september 2010 watchtower.... look at the last study article, the last picture.
is that barack obama that jesus is destroying???!!!!
it sure looks a lot like him to me.
Uh let's see, in the picture there is a capital bldg. that looks a lot like the one in Washington DC and next to the capital bldg is a black man with a suit on that looks a lot like the President of the United States and in the picture Jesus, I guess that's who it is, has his hands and arms ready to crush all of these things.
I think the person drawing this had Obama in mind.
LD
based on this video shot from seattle, i think this 17-year african american teenage girl acted beyond normal expectation.
she is seen threatening or attempting to hit a law enforcement officer who was doing his duty.
the officer had to hit her face.
let em jay-walk. If they get hit by a car then watch the Urban league complain that the police aren't doing there job to prevent these people from jay-walking
No matter what the police do they will be critiqued by the public. Especially if the perp is "African American" and the cop is "some other continent American"
LD
in the latest km i read something about the latest awake topic: 'what does god think of women pastors' or something like that.
i asked for the latest awake, but it wasn't available yet (dutch) in our hall.
who has seen this awake and want to upload it for us all?
This seems to me to be so hypocritical.
Jehovah has seen fit to select women to serve as part of the "faithful and discreet slave class" however he doesn't allow them to do anything in their ruling position. Maybe up in heaven the women are all cleaning, cooking, and shopping.
LD
startfragment.
barbara anderson described ted jaracz as kind and nice to outsiders in the congregations, but mean as all get out to the average bethelite worker, sometimes seeming like two different people in one body.
i think that is a fair assessment based on what i had observed over the years.
I met him at a CA he was in town to give the final address or whatever they do. Anyway, he was sitting in the auditorium on Saturday and right after the noon song and break I walked up to him. Now I wasn't much for fawning over these guys I figured they put their underpants on the same way I did. Walking up to him I pretended not to know who he was. I put out my hand and told him who I was and what congregation I attended and asked him his name and what congregation he attended.
He seemed quite put out that I did not know him. He proudly told me his name and that he came from Bethell. I said oh and walked away. This was about two years before I escaped.
LD
i was told when i hit thirty and was catastrophising, "just wait till you are 40, it just gets better.".
ha!.
i am fifty in a few weeks.
Your only as old as you feel and obsess about. Attitudes have and are changing about senior citizens. I know all this stuff and I get it and at 63 I can only complain about two things.
1) I feel I wasted at least 30% of my life following MEN who think they have some kind of direct connection to God (Jehovah) the name is what gives them the connection. My son is still trapped in the bORG through marriage.
2) As I grow older in this race of life, I get closer to the finish line. And now I know I have to finish. No special dispensations from the Mighty God or Jehovah or anyone else. We're all going to cross the finish line. Wait did I say cross? I'm not sure about that but at that given moment when we hit the finish line everything changes or ceases.
It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years
LD
is a publisher's record card necessary to df someone?
if a person had one, faded and does not live near nor had any contact with the congregation who holds it, nor any other congregation for 30 years, would you say they are off the radar?.
ex elder and PO here.
Yes definitely off the radar
30 years, that was a generation ago LOL
LD
yesterday, i brought a batch of cupcakes to my son's school.
in passing them out, i started to give one to one of the children, who was a jw.
he immediately started freaking out and screaming "no thank you" over and over.
Any good cupcake recipes out there.
LD
i'm wondering if this phrase is perhaps being pushed recently in letters to the elders or circuit overseers.
i have heard it a time or two here in the last few days on the forum - specifically from a bethelite.. also, the last conversation i had with my presiding overseer about 5 weeks ago, he used this exaxt phrase: "i believe armageddon is only weeks away".. i know its been right around the corner for 130 years, but it seems this exact phrase seems to be floating around a lot lately.. what are your thoughts?
jw's usually don't think for themselves - they just repeat what those above them say.
Still waiting for the shout of "peace and security"
If I hear that in a week or two then there is a possibility of weeks away.
so congrats ted your a "king and preist" in heaven ruling with jesus, so.....how is this different to his bethel job?
he can"t smite me for showing disrespect.
does he sit there and take down names for armagedon?
He's begging Ray for a drop of water to wet his parched tongue.
LD
