I also remember being admonished to abstain from buying cat food with "animal by-products" in it, because this might be blood. They even try to tell you what cat food you can buy. I swear I am not making this up.
Elgiard
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Lunacy on leeches, blood and bone.
by hamsterbait inback in the pre apostasy days of the witchtower:.
leeches cannot be used for medical purposes as we are deliberately feeding them on blood.. the elduhs would take a dim view of couples having sex during the wife's menses, and will take action if it is brought to their attention.. the use of blood and bone meal in the garden is unscriptural.. all the above appeared during the late 70s and early 80s.. all are based on mosaic taboos.
"true, christians are not under the mosaic law, but...".
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WTS "good cop bad cop" strategy
by sir82 inover the past few years:.
"good cop": reduce the public talk to 30 minutes.
"bad cop": condemn higher education with their strongest language in 40 years.
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Elgiard
When people have been opressed for so long and don't think for themselves anymore, just about anything can be seen as good in the eyes of the opressed.
Many women in Islam have been forced to cover their heads for so long, they actually see this, opression, as their freedom. It becomes a part of you. If they were ordered to take it off their heads, they would see it as violation of their rights. Authority in any cults, can never be questioned. That is why there was no outcry when several Muslim women died in a fire. They couldn't leave, because they were not wearing proper Islamic attire.
WE as humans get complacent to the strangest of things. In some cases, even folks who have been in prisons for so many years and get released, later do something to go back to the prison enviornment. It is something they are familiar with and even feel a degree of security and comfort.
I'm suprized the Crotchtower, hasn't started selling magic beans and getting people to tie magnets to their heads.
But Russell did sell magic beans for a while. It's one of those things that sounds almost too perfectly ironic to be true, but it is.
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Urgent health alert.
by IP_SEC indangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide now found in every river, lake, and ocean on the planet.
it was only a matter of time.. http://www.dhmo.org/.
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Elgiard
It has even found its way into most bottled waters.
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The Perfect Crime
by usualusername indear members.
if you could commit the perfect crime and not be caught;.
would you commit it?against who?feel any remorse?thanks.
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Elgiard
How many times can I do it? I mean, like if I could go as fast as I wanted anywhere, that would be a lot more practical than some one-off act of revenge, if maybe not quite as satisfying.
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What is your strangest "supernatural" JW story?
by donny ini had just became a witness and a guy i worked with, who was also a jw, told me a story that actually made me laugh and i think it upset him a bit.
the storys were almost always in the third person.
it went as follows.. this brothers wife and him were sitting at the kingdom hall on the end seats of the row next to the back of the room.
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Elgiard
My favorite smurf story is the one where the smurf jumped off of the smurf print wallpaper and ran down the hallway or something.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure this story was actually told at an assembly, where the pioneer lady called on the serial killer and he didn't mess with her because of the two big guys dressed in white who were with her, even though she was alone. I think it made it into one of the yearbooks back in the day as well.
Growing up going to the circuit assemblies, every year in the back there were these two old ladies sitting with a man on a hospital type cot, They were always there without fail, every time. The man was always asleep. I just assumed that he had some kind of illness and they had no one to take care of him while they were away at the assembly so they took him with them. I found out later that the guy had actually been brain dead for years, but they kept dragging his body to the assemblies because they thought he would be miraculously healed at one of them. This was at the London, Ohio assembly hall, BTW.
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Dear GB: What should we do?
by outofthebox indear gb, .
we have some very old elders in our bod, and they sleep whenever we have a bod meeting.
sometimes we need to take votes but they are even snoring.
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Elgiard
Traditionally, a thump to the skull is the cure for sleepiness during meetings.
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Human Rights For Apes?
by hamilcarr inanother hot topic in contemporary legislation: should human rights be extended to include non-human species?.
the spanish parliament answered in the affirmative to this question.. .
world briefing | europe.
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Elgiard
So... are the apes now allowed to drive, seek employment, earn minimum wage, attend public schools, retire, go on welfare, travel, etc? No? But these are all rights that humans take for granted. So would it be logical to conclude that this is truly about granting rights to apes, or about taking them from people?
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Do you hate elders and ex-elders?
by nvrgnbk indo you think they all ended up being elders because they were ambitious and loved to exercise authority over others?.
or do you realize that each elder has his own story and that some became elders under great pressure?.
do you really think that all of the elders enjoyed participating in judicial committees?.
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Elgiard
Only one, but that's because he's a conniving, back-biting, greedy blowhard of a prick. Which has nothing to do with being an elder. I'd hate him anyway.
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Elgiard
My very first exposure to the wintesses was when I was six and my mom was studying, and the pioneer lady she was studying with brought a pioneer friend and her son along. The son was a few years older than me, and I'm not sure why he and I both weren't made to sit there during the study, I guess they just didn't want to mess with us. Anyway, it was suggested that we play in my room and I forget the gory details, but the witness boy ended up swiping whatever toys of mine that would fit in his pockets/bookbag/whatever.
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embarassing fs moments
by jehovahsheep inwhat are some strange things that have happened to you in fs?i remember accompying a sister 20 years my senor in the door to door.she started slipping on the ice=i reached out to help her and got 2 handfulls of breast.she proceeded to hold my arm and give me this lustful look with her tongue showing.talk about uncomfortable..
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Elgiard
I was at a house with the PO and his wife. We were inside, talking to an old man and woman whom they knew, but I had never seen before. The old lady asked the PO's wife if I was her son, which was a little weird because she was easily old enough to be my grandma, maybe great grandma. But whatever, she said no, we're just friends. So they keep talking and about thirty seconds later she again asks if I was her son, and the PO's wife again said no we're just friends. So this keeps going on, and the old lady obviously has absolutely no idea what's happening, because in ten minutes of conversation she asked if I was their son no fewer than a dozen times. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being a downer on old people, because this was truly sad. I'm like, do I excuse myself, or what, because I'm being a distraction, or just wait it out so I don't look like a jerk. It was really awkward.