i'm impressed with sophisticated thinking on this site.
after all it is an ex-witness site.
i wonder what changed in the former witnesses.
Let's see... I was born in... baptized at 16... regular auxiliary pioneered for over a year... ministerial servant at 19...
my father told me the end was so close I would never graduate high school... that was over 20 years ago...
research says that C.T. Russell thought the end would come in 1874... J.F. Rutherford said King David would live in his house in 1925... the Society later pointed to 1975 as the end...
pretty soon you add it all up and realize it's just plain bullsh*t...
i attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
I watched my Dad waste a lot of time working on talks for the WT Society.
It made me realize it wasn't something I wanted to repeat myself.
i am curious as to what the members here look like.
be totally honest now.
not everyone looks like a knockout or mr. buff.... .
I get Keanu Reeves and Noah Wyle a lot.
you are flipping the channels......name 3 movies you can't help but watch again even though you seen it dozens of times.. 1. shawshank redemption.
2. my cousin vinny.
3. happy gilmore.
All About the Benjamins
Rush Hour 2
Dumb and Dumber
saturday, january 8, 2011 .
4:30pm est nbc - new orleans @seattle.
8:00pm est nbc - ny jets @indianapolis.
The NFC West: the Battle of Who Wants it the Least. Way to go, Suckhawks!
the wt would always say things like "satan knows our weaknesses and how to exploit them".. so if he knew i wouldn't be able to resist a hot chick as a teenager, why wasn't that wily serpent sending them my way by the bucketfuls?.
if he knew i wouldn't be able to resist a job offering me six figures a year, why wasn't that angry lion trying to devour my spirituality with it?.
it was damn disappointing!
i read somewhere that this top model is a witness:.
http://www.coco-rocha.com/.
anybody can confirm?.
She's most likely into Kaballah now LOL.
it seems to me that the kh's in many areas have lost the critical mass they need to stay healthy and to expand.
loss of their youth and loss of ministerial servants makes it obvious that these khs are doomed.
maybe not this year, but before this decade is out we will see many closings and subsequent mergers of kh's to the point that it is obvious to jws that they have become a has-been religion.
The congregation I grew up in is pitifully small now, made up of mostly the elderly. So is the neighboring congregation. However, most of the dubbies I grew up with are now a large army of ex-JWs who continue to be my friends on Facebook!
the wt would always say things like "satan knows our weaknesses and how to exploit them".. so if he knew i wouldn't be able to resist a hot chick as a teenager, why wasn't that wily serpent sending them my way by the bucketfuls?.
if he knew i wouldn't be able to resist a job offering me six figures a year, why wasn't that angry lion trying to devour my spirituality with it?.
it was damn disappointing!
The WT would always say things like "Satan knows our weaknesses and how to exploit them".
So if he knew I wouldn't be able to resist a hot chick as a teenager, why wasn't that wily serpent sending them my way by the bucketfuls?
If he knew I wouldn't be able to resist a job offering me six figures a year, why wasn't that angry lion trying to devour my spirituality with it?
It was damn disappointing! Or was it just me?
hello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"
Beatles "Sgt. Pepper"
Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
INXS "Elegantly Wasted"
Elvis Presley "Live at Madison Square Garden"
Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
World Party "Goodbye Jumbo"
Michael Penn "March"
Lenny Kravitz "Mama Said"
