He busted out laughing. "Just kidding you. I had you going there."
That is even creepier.....Did you find out if he was really kidding?
and it really used to annoy me that jesus and john the baptist both had such neat and well trimmed beards in the watchtower literature , how unlikley would that be in reality ?
also they never wore a suit so why do "true christians "have to wear one , is all about appearences by any chance and giving a false impression ?
He busted out laughing. "Just kidding you. I had you going there."
That is even creepier.....Did you find out if he was really kidding?
and it really used to annoy me that jesus and john the baptist both had such neat and well trimmed beards in the watchtower literature , how unlikley would that be in reality ?
also they never wore a suit so why do "true christians "have to wear one , is all about appearences by any chance and giving a false impression ?
This is actually one of my main reasons for fading away from that bunch. I grow my beard now and have done so off and on since the early 1990s. One of the elders approached me once and suggested that I trim my moustache more along the lines of how elder so-and-so had his trimmed. I asked him why and he said that I should feel lucky to be able to grow one at all. That only Hispanic and Arabic brothers at beth-HELL are allowed moustaches at all. That set me on my research.
I was looking into the facial hair issue and to this day I hear jw's say that "facial hair is WORLDLY HAIR".... I found scriptures that they use to back up their argument against homosexuals. Not far away there are commands to never cut the sidelocks of the head or the beard. So not only are they hypocritical about beards, but about long hair for men too. I know it says it should not be long like a woman's but my length is not flowing and feminine. especially with my beard.
Anyway, now I am growing out my hair again to about shoulder length and I cur my full beard to what the locals here call a PADLOCK (the wt always shows criminals with your style of beard they say).....I say FU** 'EM!
Oh, and to answer your question, I think Rutherford hated beards because they reminded him that he was once little boy to Russell's man.....
do you know where this quote comes from?.
it's from a favorite movie to many: casablanca.
what is your favorite "quote" from a movie?
Toby? Toby Wong. Toby Wong? Toby Wong. Toby Chung? Fu**ing Charlie Chan. I got Madonna's big dick coming out of my left ear, and Toby the Jap... I don't know what - comin' out of my right. Mr. White in reservoir Dogs......
have a very happy birthday...... .
and some eye candy..... .
bfd .
Yes, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
May you have many more......
is it just me or did breaks seem unusally long - well, at least in the groups i worked in.. we'd do 45 minutes of door-knocking (lots of "not at homes") and take an hour break ... sometimes longer!
lol!.
other times we'd just drive around trying to find the street we are supposed to work.
Breaks were an all morning thing in Albuquerque, West Sacramento, and Foothill Farms. Can you imagine me a nobody actually pointing out this lack of regard to the group? The attitude usually spilled over into their work too. I made the mistake of working with several jw's and found them to be very lazy.....
i'm just curious if you seriously take what people have to say about you on this forum.
do you care if they cause offense or call you namesl.
does it effect how you feel about yourself?.
Hi Sweetie, Thanks for asking Lou. I have not yet been slammed, and I say yet becauseI figure it is just a matter of time. It won't bother me when it happens tho. I look at this place as sort of a place to vent and get real about how we feel. I care about everyone in this board room and expect to feel some wrath now and then. I think it is part of the healing. I am new here and most of you folks are not so new, so we are all healing at different rates, so I just ask for some patience and I will offer it back.....
there was an elder that asked me to fix his computer.
i was being nosy and found out he looked at a lot of porn.
he was a nice guy and was at bethel for years... i never said anything about it....
I know a couple of guys who used to have movies of that sort dropped off by a cab service. The cabbie spilt the beans eventually about these guys.
Why would a cabby rat them out? Was he a jw too?
there was an elder that asked me to fix his computer.
i was being nosy and found out he looked at a lot of porn.
he was a nice guy and was at bethel for years... i never said anything about it....
Lots of times. In particular, there was a friend of the family/former df'd guy that I ran into outside the local adult bookstore. I had dropped by to return my video rental and as I came out he was on his way into the place. We looked right into each others eyes and then both walked in a different direction. It never came up at all.
since i am about to partake (*smile*) in my favorite sunday breakfast, i thought it would be fun for everyone to describe their favorite breakfast here.. sunday breakfast was always a big deal for my family and growing up, it was the one day and time that we actually sat together had breakfast and talked about our week and sat for a good hour or so just catching up with each other.. for over 20 years, this breakfast consisted of bacon, sausage (kielbasa or italian), biscuits, eggs (cheese or plain), and grits.
to this day, i still feel it's a special nice time.. do share, i thought it would be fun to see other people's traditions on sunday breakfast....
Oh man you just had to start me up on this! This fat old cowboy loves PANCAKES! Along with some eggs over medium, bacon sausage, and hash browns or even better a french potato cake! OJ, Milk, Coffee.
Anyone remember John Wayne's breakfast in Brannigan?
A Short Stack, two over-easy and a half a dozen rashers!
this has probably been talked about but my wife went to this morning's meeting and she usually comes home after the talk.. she isn't home and it hit me that it's way harder to leave after only 30 minutes.. ahhh, shaming the flock into staying for the wt.
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That makes all kinds of sense to me! Now I wonder how they are going to wise up and drop the wt all together. Back in the 1970's I remember some studies being 35-45 questions....for one session! And the idiot wt conductor muddling thru, asking for three comments on every question and reading all the bible texts. I could have appreciated reading all the texts more if they didn't read the wt, or if they asked for a brief comment. Some of those studies went on for over two hours! Even my dad said once that Sammy sure knew how to prolong the agony! And dad claimed to be of the annointed.......