one of the few things i've been able to hold down in my stomache the last few weeks is frozen grapes.
i love how they never completely freeze.
anyone try this before?.
Oh, yes! I have a friend with a lovely Concord grapevine - nearly every autumn I slip down to her house and strip her vine of grapes - she invites me over and we make a party of it.
Heck, I've got grapes from last year, still in my freezer - and they taste pretty good, despite freezer burn...
i've raised this idea before but recent events seem to support it.
changes in the watchtower may be guided by more than a need for cash flow: they may simply be liquidating/shutting it down as discreetly as possible.. of course, this doesn't mean they stop working on their upstate ny country club - but it could mean that the throrough going exposure and disproof of their beliefs on the internet, when it emerged, took many of them by surprize, as it did many of us!
after awhile, they generally gave up trying to make any sense of their doctrines - and coupled with cash flow issues - moved towards a quiet retreat.. take a look at a few things:.
FAscinating, Flipper...
Yet another reason that I wish laws could be passed making religious organizations far more transparent regarding their finances.
fresh off the recent 1-day elders school.
to keep things readable i'll post "highlights" over the next several days in different topics.
point 1: they have progressed from "just plain" stupid to dangerously stupid.. .
Wow, ArbolesdeArabia...
Back when I'd just exited the cult and was seeing a therapist who unfortunately hadn't had much experience with cult survivors - it was the early '80's and the Jim Jones tragedy had just awakened peoples' awareness of destructive cult craziness a few years earlier...
Anyway, she wasn't being as helpful as I would have liked, so I started making suggestions TO her about possible ways to re-program cult-mangled brains.
One of the suggestions I made, was to have the person get a tape recorder, sit down and write down all the good things about themselves that they could think of, and then TAPE their own voice saying those good things, over and over - my hope was that the sound of one's own voice saying GOOD things would help over-ride the negative "parent" tapes - and cult-leader 'tapes' - imprinted in the cult-survivor's mind.
I wonder - could that help a hypomania sufferer??
it is very well documented over this past century, in the watchtower as well as other wt society publications, their hatred and "expose" of the roman catholic religion .
no other religion christian or otherwise comes anywhere near the articles denouncing the roman catholic religion.. during the years between 1960-90 their were a couple of articles printed that indicated that if the witnessing work was intensified it could influence the big" a" coming sooner.
( words to that effect anyway ).
Ah, Ha ha ha ha!!!
I suspect that you may be right - though I've never considered it before.
It would depend on how many illustrations of the prophet "Muhammed" - complete with subliminal images - they stuck into the pages of the Watchtower and Awake mags...
But since they're trying to expand in Africa and other Third-World countries, I suspect that they're going to tiptoe softly around Islam - they wouldn't want to endanger potential financial increases from areas with a moderate to strong Muslim presence.
i woke up this morning to a few post trying to get the moderators attention to take care of a few post by user smithmandy.. so like a user will do, they start looking for these post to see what is going on.
i was not able to see these post as they had already been edited by the mods.. i've also thought that possibly smithmandy had set their account to autologin and a fmaily member found the site and posted the content.
i was not able to see it so do not know if there was more content that would show something else.
Hmmm...
I wonder if "smithmandy1" is the infamous "reniaa" reincarnated...
continuing on with my haphazard review of the recent one-day elders school..... in one of the introductory talks, the co was making the point that we can't view things merely from a black and white perspective.
many issues have "shades of gray" and we need to use discernment in such situations.. and i'm thinking "finally!
maybe he will continue on to make an actual, reasonable point!".
Marking and bumping...
fresh off the recent 1-day elders school.
to keep things readable i'll post "highlights" over the next several days in different topics.
point 1: they have progressed from "just plain" stupid to dangerously stupid.. .
"... However, the "gallant" elders, showing the "Society approved" way to handle such a shepherding call, handled it something like this (not direct quotes, but the gist):
"We know how difficult this is. When we are upset, it is easy for irrational thoughts to occur. Did you know that Job experienced wild thoughts when he was suffering? Look at Job [chapter][verse] (something about how his life was detestable to him). Also Job [chapter][verse] (something about how he wished he had never been born).
"So you see, even Job had these irrational thoughts. Yet he was determined to be an integrity keeper, and you can do the same."
There was a lot more "filler" in there, but that's the idea.
The "gallant" shepherding call ends with the sister drying her tears, realizing she forgot to set out cookies for the brothers, and going off to get them. I.e., all is wonderful and back to normal now." Sir82, OP
Isn't it amusing? Technologically they're trying to catch up with the latest methods of communication and indoctrination [videos, DVDs, downloadable magazines from their re-designed website]...
But mentally they're still back in the 1950's....
i've raised this idea before but recent events seem to support it.
changes in the watchtower may be guided by more than a need for cash flow: they may simply be liquidating/shutting it down as discreetly as possible.. of course, this doesn't mean they stop working on their upstate ny country club - but it could mean that the throrough going exposure and disproof of their beliefs on the internet, when it emerged, took many of them by surprize, as it did many of us!
after awhile, they generally gave up trying to make any sense of their doctrines - and coupled with cash flow issues - moved towards a quiet retreat.. take a look at a few things:.
Re-read the comment - took me a couple times, too...
"...I've talked personally with a (deceased GB member[']s) ex-JW relative..."
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
"Lambchops?" New Chapter
Gyros???
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
Geez, again with the sheep...
What? No giraffes?? Leopards? Aardvarks???
And no one ever thinks that baby aardvarks are cute...
