it's the co visit in our hall this week.
last night he gave a talk about all the changes that have taken place in the last few years, like the change in the book study arrangement and the changes in public forms of witnessing, the rise and importance of jw.org.
he then emphasised what our reaction to these should be.
Listen, Obey, and be blessed.
The WT teaches that being human and alive is a bad thing.
In their perfect world all people are nothing more then robots without human needs. No need for feelings, family, recreation, eating, drinking, health, wait a second they are talking about that at the district convention this year :)
This is a perfect JW .....
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well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.
we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.
hmm you sound young. Girls like confidence, if you don't ask because too afraid or shy with others around, it will turn out bad. Here are some easy options.
1. When you are next to her, get into a conversation with just her. Her friends can be around and talking but it's just both of you talking. Bring up something about an upcoming movie you want to see, or some fun activity, and if she seems interested as well, then casually ask her if she wants to go to it with you. (but it seems you don't have her phone/facebook/email/etc yet and since you seem a bit shy, it might be hard for you to get that 'after' that point which brings #2 option...)
2. Facebook, instagram, snapshot, etc, tons of excuses to get her phone number or contact info where you can then text/email/etc. You can casually ask over that too if you really have a problem asking in person.
so i faded over a year ago...i told the elders that if i needed them i would call them.
1 year and 3 months later, today, i get a call from an elder who used to be my good friend...he calls and i dont pick up..he leaves a voicemail, saying "hello ____, please call me back at 444-444-4444 whenever you can".
i was like wow, this has to be one of those calls to get inactive ones back to the memorial.
does anyone remember when the arrangement changed from having 1 congregation servant to the body of elders arrangement.. i have been out of the religion for so long i am getting a little rusty on the changes that happened.
i am writing down my memoirs and right now i am recounting my teenage years as the daughter of a congregation servant.
there was a big change in our family life when i was 15 because of the change in the arrangement.
it was a company servant, because Rutherford wanted to run an army and termed many things in army terms.
with the decease of guy pierce, i was thinking tonight about the day i shook hands with albert d. schroeder.. it was during his zone visit talk in a convention hall in the netherlands.
i was 12 and walked with my father in the hall.
a lot of people around someone.
I remember when I was maybe 9 years old, Karl Klein visited. Not only could I not understand a single word from marble mouths talk, but he was a mean cranky old man. I just remember he yelled at us kids for something.
i note that they're making reference to this in the upcoming convention programme.
someone has has dropped a bollock here, have they not?.
i mean, if i were a jw, i'd be sitting thinking of all the promises made and broken.
they are trying to use reverse psychology, instead of defending why it's 100 years later, trying to make it seem like a good thing and how it is this time, etc, and based on the 2014 district convention, make sure everybody is putting everything, family, health, finances, etc, as second fiddle to worship of the GB and placing the magazines they defecate.
last night i was watching the secret elder's video about the jw who sleeps with a worldly women and i could not stop laughing.. when i was 17 i thought that all worldly women would sleep with anyone, i remember a beautiful neighbor who i tried to kiss and she just flat out said no.
i tried twice to make out with this girl and i just could not understand why she would not say yes .
she did not have an aquarium.... .
I never lived in dallas but had friends there years ago and visited once, your description of that brother sounds familiar lol, there was one that all the single sisters ran from all the time.
it seems that in my neck of the woods there is no social interaction between jws outisde of fs and the kh.
the last get together was 3 summers ago.
other than that there is no bond.
the rules are if a congregation has time for a congregation picnic, they should instead be going out in field service.
i have seen this photo several times but never any back story on it.
was this at bethel?
was this before or after the prohibition?
^ jam said. Also many stories about Rutherford not being a moderate or occassional glass of wine drinker, but a heavy drinker/drunkard. AND where do you think the money to purchase all those cases of booze came from? Did the apostle paul take in money from the early christians to buy alcohol and throw 'symposiums'?
I just had a , symposium was most likely introduced to JW terminology by Rutherford. In ancient Greece, the symposium (Greek συμπόσιον symposion, from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together") was a drinking party.
Possibly his love of the drink inspired calling those presentations symposiums, as he probably through a few symposiums after the conventions.
i just noticed on jw org they have a publication called the 2014 jw research guide.
browsing the topics, you can see it's the up to date doctrine.
one category for example is 'recreation and entertainment' and it's filled with gems referenced for research for jws, articles such as, "keep leisure in it's proper place", "why won't my parents let me have fun?
The reason it's a 'partial' index is because there is only so much crap they can publish in 14 years time compared to the past 100 years. They only want things from 2000 onward and ultimately want all members to ignore anything older than a few years so they can things up as they go with no accounting for it and can be unchallenged in their claim to power.
