don't know if this has been covered before, but who noticed that at every talk at the district convention (mine anyway), every speaker was introduced by name and then 'brother x has been serving for 25 years as a pioneer" or "he has served on the branch committee" etc etc.. what is it with these credentials?
i've been an elder on and off for most of the last twenty years.
big deal.
"Brother X has been serving for 25 years as a pioneer"
Well, you can expect them to tell the whole story...
"Brother X has been slaving for 25 years as a pioneer and supporting himself with his window washing business. Please try not to stare at the huge scar on his face since he could never afford insurance, but is confident that Jehovah will make his face normal again very, very soon."
it was entitled earth's new ruler - who really qualifies?
given by brother mark neumeyer*, "who has been a full-time servant for nearly 35 years, and is a helper of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
" it was his second talk of the convention.
Awful. Truly an awful conclusion. He didn't sound like he was particularly convinced of what he was saying. Guys like Mark have said this same crap often enough that they just can't muster genuine enthusiasm, so they read it and fake it... and he's a terrible actor to try to fake it.
I'm trying to remember the spelling of his last name. Neumair, something like that. They didn't introduce him as gilead instructor, so evidently they've promoted him to brown-nose GB2.0 as his full-time job. I was privy to some of the gilead graduation stuff and for his parts that involved relating experiences of the students, he seemed to be pretty good at making something out of nothing. And they really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel with some of these 'experiences'. A gilead student talks to someone twice that's not particularly interested, and the story gets retold during the graduation that they're studying and making 'excellent progress'. Sometimes the students have even acted out the experiences that other local publishers had, not something that they themselves ever did. He never impressed me much, although he seemed to be plenty impressed with himself. He knew the JW stuff well enough, but never seemed to have an original thought. A company man with a "more of the same" attitude.
these 2 options are before me right now-.
1. write a letter to the elders and my family, not da myself but basically saying i have too much going on in my life and am confused, so that they will stop bothering my wife and stop asking me questions all the time.
after i write the letter continue to go to the hall less and less.... 2. appease my wife.
As already recommended, don't put anything in writing. If you're interested, here are links to threads with my observations and some great comments from others:
Plan well!
can't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pastafarian-man-niko-alm-wins-right-to-wear-colander-on-his-head-in-driving-license-photo-9610859.html.
.. .. an austrian man has won the right to wear a plastic colander on his head in his driving license photo, by apparently insisting that the kitchenware was a part of his religion.. niko alm decided to wear a pasta strainer on the document after he read that headwear is only allowed on official documentation, such as driving licenses, on religious grounds.. he submitted his application to wear the pasta strainer three years ago, citing he was a pastafarian the name given to a member of the church of the flying spaghetti monster.. the us-based parody-religion made headlines last month, when guy albon, a member from adelaide, used a photo of him wearing a metal colander on his gun license photo.
officials feared the photo suggested he did not have the mental competency to hold the license.. on its website, the leaders of the religion claim to have existed in secrecy for hundreds of years and claim to have atheists, agnostics, christians, muslims and hindus among their members.. niko alm who won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driving licence niko alm who won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driving licence following the confirmation, mr alm wrote on his blog: my headwear has now been recognised by the republic of austria.. however, a police spokesperson in vienna said: the photo was not approved on religious grounds.
"The US-based parody-religion"
Although most followers are in the US, it's pasta roots are ancient and global... indeed universal.
Don't be deceived by the name "string theory" of theoretical physics. The proper name is "Noodle Theory"!
had you going there for a minute ;).
now you're here... there are several problems with that illustration, as i see it.. ..... 1) god is the one who inflicted the life threatening ailment that requires an operation.
(he supposedly decided what sin would be defined as, then once adam 'sinned', he cursed all of adams descendants to sin, grow old and die.).
I think the greatest logical problem with that illustration is that there only needed to be one "operation" on one "child". Christ underwent death to remove sin and suffering from all mankind.
Here we are 2000 years later and "children" are still being wheeled in for "painful operations" because... why?
Let's review... It's a cult!
a minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.
(not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.
what do you make of that?.
Oh, there are quite a few brothers with beards. Plenty of brothers have been encouraged by elders and overseers to have beards.
And by beard , I mean:
11) ( LGBT , slang ) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
yes, the jws continue to bleed their young ones, so far in my local kh 3 were dfd, one girl just turned 18 this month and packed her bags and said goodbye to the cult and her cultish parents, another young 18 year old man decided to have a non-jw girlfriend and decided to stop attending and is no longer a witness.
they continue to leave and wt leaders dont give a damn.
they dont do anything to help kids be successful and live a healthy life.. .
If the newest DVD released is the GB's secret weapon to try to slow the exodus of young people, they better completely give it up. That mess would only appeal to the most shallow-thinking but deeply entrenched JW. The happy ending portrays this friendless, isolated family with late teenage kids with no goals except to study with Daddy and Mommy and act out bible dramas. This as the family sells their home and downsizes so that they can send more money to the WT pedo fund. Rather than actually address the issues raised by the kids about evolution or nonJW friends, it all gets magically scripted away with no real answers provided.
And the video was very, very offensive in the racial portrayals.
In case I haven't made myself clear yet, that newest video is so bad that words fail me. Imagine there is a huge pile of crap. Then imagine that that pile of crap took a crap. Now you're getting close to understanding how that DVD is the crappiest crap that ever crapped.
like all the best comedy this is hilarious and agonising in equal measure.. if you have not bookmarked the jehovah's trumpet blog do it now.. shunning makes us joyful .... "fiends, we are the happiest people on earth because of true worship, and this includes the practice of shunning our closest loved ones...".
That's some great satire.
the whole article makes me ill with its worse than average mind control.. i was going to only include one quote but there are so many doozies that i will post what i feel to be the worst.. from paragraph 6.
"gods organization survives and flourishes on earth because the people who are part of it have his approval.".
the great tribulation has been "so close" for over 120 years of wt history.
nonJWS: "...being "in union" with the GB..."
Sounds like somebody's sharing tight pants with Tony da Turd.
"God’s organization survives and flourishes on earth because the people who are part of it have his approval."
If survival is all it takes to prove that an organization has god's approval, it logically follows that Apple, Inc. also has his approval. WT has new teachings, while Apple has new products. "Friends, are we keeping up with the latest nulite coming from the inspired engineers at Apple, Inc.? ... Well, we should be, otherwise we'll be birdfood very soon now!"
