last night, during the congregation bible study, the conductor (overseer?
) used this as a platform to say that the movie avatar is of satan and no christians should see it.. .
he said that he googled the (original) meaning of the word avatar and it was of hindu religious origin.
leper...God, its scary when you give an a--hole a microphone........too funny!
I remember at the Milwaukee Convention in '78 when the speaker announced that it had been reported that some witnesses had seen Saturday Night Fever....People at the convention were gasping in horror...I expected ones to start swooning.
during my life as jw i have studied many, many books of the wt at the weekly book study.. here you will find some of the books considered during the years with their publishing date:.
1955 new heavens, new hearth.
1961 from lost paradise to..... 1962 let your will be done on earth.
That Youth Book was the worst - especially the chapter about growing into manhood. Wow, I remember having the family study with my parents, three brothers and sister. I had to read the paragraph about how the man lays very close to his wife for "intercourse". I was 12, and I much preferred my jr high friends description of "intercourse" much better.
how does he keep up with his hairstyle daily?
shampoo?
( alots of hair in between!
Judging from the 2007 youtube of him - it is a given he also has his hair colored on a regular basis (and it is definitely not a home job)
a semi-serious request.. i hate exercise (yes i am an indolent slob), i sit in an office or a car most of the time and eat and drink too much.
so my new year's resolution is to lose weight (about 3 stone would be good) to try and prolong my life a little since i ain't got eternity in mind anymore.
i am looking for fun ways to get fit, or an effective home based diet programme that has worked for other people.
Get off the booze - you will be amazed at how much weight you will lose.
one congregation phenomenon i have observed in a variety of halls - older, not so model material brothers have a real chance with younger, attractive sisters - and often at the prodding of the young sisters parents and congregation members.. and if you have a little more scratch than the average jw brother (which isn't hard to do with a bunch of window washers), you really have an advantage.. a 40 year old man walking through the mall would have zero chances with an attractive 18+ year old girl.
but take that same man, who has been faithfully attending meetings and doing all the right things and put him in the kingdom hall and suddenly anything is possible.. sad, but true.. of course, who wants all the drama that comes with a girl that young - but it is something i have observed.. when i was in my early 20's and came back into "the truth", and i had a few dollars - and i had so many sisters tripping all over themselves for me... and the ages range from late teens to late 30's.
it was crazy.
As the only parent to two gorgeous teenage girls (ages 17 & 18 who actively date), I would take a shotgun to any man they brought home that was more than a year or two older than them. It is infuriating to hear about these parents that allow (and even encourage) a relationship with a dirty old man. How is it any different than the parents in the Hebrew scriptures that sacrificed their children? Where are these parents' brains?
i am a support worker for adults with profound disabilities and some with autism and i love caring for people ..
Editor for a classical music magazine
hey!.
the following story is apparently circulating in several south-american bethel-branches: after the earthquake in haiti, the wts was the first provide help in the form of 18 doctors who was transported in by air.
this clearly show how well the organization work bla bla bla.. im curious if anyone else here has heard this story, or have information about how effective the wts helping work really was..
Sounds like this should be listed under the "JW Tall Tales" thread
i knew a girl who got married at 19 despite objections from the elders , they got disfellowshipped and reinstated after 18 months , he chose her clothes and would not allow her any money , he insisted on doing the food shopping with her , he hit her if tea was not on the table when he returned from work , he broke her nose once when she was holding her 2 year old child , when she approached the elders , onesaid to her "what are you complaining about ,he hasnt broke every bone in your body , there are sisters who put up with much worse !
if a jw man is not supposed to be violent why would they not give him a telling off ?.
Dissed......"He was so controling, that just before sex, he would stop and pray allowed that they keep it 'moral'. Speaking of a kiljoy"
What a condescending ass. This was probably what he considered foreplay for his wife.
here is a fugue i composed and perform titled the watchtower fugue.. a fugue is a theme chasing itself around.
in this fugue, the themes are monothematic and don't really make.
any sense.
Very Lovely as long as it is not critiqued.
i am so ready for the world cup to start!.
who are you pulling for?.
what players are you looking forward to watching?.
Sorry the Ukraine will not be a part of it this year. They were fun to watch in 2006
