freddo

Joined

• started 77 topics
• posted 3,022 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by freddo

• 
  23

  Attendents sit at the best seats

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well it's been awhile since i got angry and wanted to post on here again.

  last week's watchtower about the subject of love had something to say about the hard working attendants.

  it seems that they are choosing to sit in the best seats at the convention.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  I agree curiousconfused.

  I've done my share of attending in draughty stadiums and car parks and most brothers serving want three things.

  A) An excuse not to have to listen to the repetitive drivel from the platform. (Maybe that was just me!)

  B) Help the brothers and sisters in a kindly manner.

  C) Feel they have done a good job.

  But there are the occasional ones who are bumptious and jumped up twits which stand out in the memory. Also the ones who climb the greasy pole (or more likely daddy is a prominent one giving them a little leg up) and like the prominence of swanning around in the inner sanctum with the assembly organisers.
  
• 
  4

  When did "no part of this world" exclude crowdfunding ?

  by redundantcartworker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if this family are j.w's, is this not a bit hypocritical ?.

  http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/local-news/parents-launch-35000-fund-raising-859314.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Sorry ... but what a set of self-entitled leeches (pun not intended) those parents are. I do feel sorry for the lad as scoliosis is an awful condition, but ...

  Won't have the op offered by the NHS - then "can't remortgage their house" then "the "autistic son" can't face having someone else's blood - I wonder how that got planted in his brain?

  I personally know of two jw's in my region who have had the approved operation on the NHS without blood and who are doing well.
• 
  17

  CLAM MEETING Dumbing down

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so yesterday was the midweek meeting - the first of the month for december so instead of locals doing the little talk skits we get the on screen shadow puppets.. after each one the ms taking the item asks the congregation for "positive" comments.. part way through i get a text from a pimo brother enduring the show which reads thus (and i quote word for word ...).

  "it's like listening to a bunch of people from a mental institution.

  ".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Out4good4 said about his wife ...

  "Then she presents the idea that I would be a good person she can practice her presentations with with me being the householder."
  

  Of course you could look at that as an open goal mouth!
• 
  20

  Talking to women

  by Holden Caufield in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i recently asking this women out who here has problems with women after being a jw.

  i still do.

  i will try to talk with with women..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Don't forget "FORD" when you feel tongue tied.

  In a non intrusive way ask about her:

  FAMILY (People usually like it when folk take a non threatening interest in their family background)

  OCCUPATION (ditto job, charity work etc)

  RECREATION (Hiking/Cinema/Sports/Books/Cosy up in front the fire ...)

  DREAMS (Plans/Holidays/Goals)
• 
  17

  CLAM MEETING Dumbing down

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so yesterday was the midweek meeting - the first of the month for december so instead of locals doing the little talk skits we get the on screen shadow puppets.. after each one the ms taking the item asks the congregation for "positive" comments.. part way through i get a text from a pimo brother enduring the show which reads thus (and i quote word for word ...).

  "it's like listening to a bunch of people from a mental institution.

  ".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  So yesterday was the midweek meeting - the first of the month for December so instead of locals doing the little talk skits we get the on screen shadow puppets.

  After each one the MS taking the item asks the congregation for "positive" comments.

  Part way through I get a text from a PIMO brother enduring the show which reads thus (and I quote word for word ...)

  "It's like listening to a bunch of people from a mental institution."
• 
  34

  Another congregation bites the dust

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  went to the meeting last night with my believing wife.

  the co was visiting and delivered a really cult-ish talk on loyalty but that's another story.. they made the announcement that starting january 1st they were going to have only 3 congregations in this town instead of 4.. they are dissolving one and growing the territories of the remaining 3. the reason given is that many of the elders are getting up there in age and can't do what they used to do.

  basically not enough elders and ministerial servants...or even men reaching out for that matter.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Fantastic news! Remind me ... what part of the world is this?
• 
  60

  Can someone tell me why Joan's ark and the flood not true and impossible?

  by Gokumonkey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey everyone.

  i have a question and i hope i'm not confusing this with something else i heard.

  while watching ex jw videos on youtube many of them talk about how noah's ark and the flood didn't happen and it's impossible.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Don't worry Gokumonkey, everyone knows that Noah's wife's name was Joan. And their surname was Covenant.

  
  
• 
  23

  Attendents sit at the best seats

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well it's been awhile since i got angry and wanted to post on here again.

  last week's watchtower about the subject of love had something to say about the hard working attendants.

  it seems that they are choosing to sit in the best seats at the convention.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  While the higher-ups moan and point out attendants "choosing the best seats" in their sections in the cheap seats they sit on cushions in air conditioned offices drinking coffee and eating biscuits.
• 
  17

  Plymouth / Hull UK

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  copied from a facebook post :.

  "heard on a youtube channel that " a purge " is taking place disfellowshipping quite a lot of witnesses in both hull and plymouth area,s ?".

  anything to add ?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Any updates?
• 
  21

  Counting time calling on inactive ones?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  had a couple of witnesses stop by yesterday to say the usual "we miss you, missed you at the meeting, just checking in on you, etc.

  " i've always liked this guy so we spoke for a few minutes.

  my wife said that they could count their time since i am inactive.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  freddo

  Sparrowdown wrote: "I thought they could only count time if they were "assigned" to a specific inactive person by the BOE. Has that changed to all inactive all the time?"

  When I was last an elder (2000's) the "rules" were that someone had to be assigned by the service committee to have a bible study with an inactive person.

  So sister "come to the memorial and other occasional rare surfacings, inactive but no hanky panky going on" might be assigned to study with (usually) a pioneer or elders wife.