new cartoon, i hope this isn't considered spam but this one took me a while and i'd like to share it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pqu0bln74.
one criticism (god, that word reminds me of the tms) was that my other videos weren't boring enough to match what it's really like as a jw, i think i've captured it a bit better in this video.. also, it's meant to be fairly non offensive because i hope jw's can take a sneaky peak.
Just watching that makes me feel even more sorry for myself about how long I stayed in that pathetic lifestyle. Even when my family was pretending to go witnessing -- just turning up at the damn field service group to give the impression we were going on calls in order to keep the elders off our backs -- we sat through that excruciating meeting with all those losers.
It's so accurate in every detail it's just depressing. Thanks ... I think!
what im about to post is the exact words from the co during the last talk of the most recent special assembly day.
even though im out i still try to keep up with what is being said just cause i find it interesting, and alot of stuff i find funny, but this stuff is starting to get scary, and i fear for my friends who are still in.
here are the exact words:.
It's difficult to know just how "official" this guy's comments were. I think we've all encountered Witnesses with a measure of seniority who tend to run off at the mouth with their own private interpretations. When I was first studying, an elder referred repeatedly to God using anti-matter after Armageddon to remove all the bodies and buildings. Others have similarly talked from the platform of their own wacky theories.
It's possible that, since no one else seems to have heard this comment at a convention, this guy was getting carried away with his own sense of self-grandeur. "Jehovah is USING me right now!" Speakers like that probably do it with the certain knowledge that people will be talking about HIS talk for months.
"Kingdom control" is a phrase the WTS would be trying very hard NOT to use. It's fascinating, and another indication of the bubble circuit and district overseers live in, but I don't think it indicates a trend. My view only, but many thanks for the recording.
it's true!
according to a december 13 announcement at http://stuffofinteresttojws.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-news-from-hq-new-governing-body.html:.
the branch committee has decided on a new arrangement during morning worship...wherein the different brothers on the branch committee will transfer to sit at a different table every two months.. this will give opportunity for more of the family to get to know their branch committee members better.. wow!
It's true! According to a December 13 announcement at http://stuffofinteresttojws.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-news-from-hq-new-governing-body.html:
The Branch Committee has decided on a new arrangement during Morning Worship…wherein the different brothers on the branch committee will transfer to sit at a different table every two months.
This will give opportunity for more of the family to get to know their branch committee members better.
Wow! and Wow! A few years back my family was invited by relatives who were Bethel inmates to spend a couple of nights at the Australian Bethel. Breakfast was just embarrassing: we made the stupid mistake of thinking we could sit wherever we liked at the table (sorry, all seating places are allocated by the Head of the Table, who is deputised by a Foot of the Table), we infuriated the Head of the Table by passing the food in the wrong direction around the table!!! and because I was trying to dish out food on to my little kids' plates, the plates didn't make their way all around the table before the prayer started, which then led to the Smugness Session. There was a big electronic clock up on the wall counting down as well ... I couldn't work out whether I was surrounded by Nazis or robots.
So now they have come up with a New Arrangement, probably debated over for many hours and, naturally, made after "prayerful consideration". Imagine if it was all true and it was THESE GUYS running a post-Armageddon New Order. We'd be allocated time to crap each morning and be given directions on whether to scrunch or fold the toilet paper. Is there no end to their regimentation???
according to the governing body letters blogspot, the february 2011 km establishes a prohibition on reading the daily text at meetings for field service.. no further details are given.
anyone have theirs and can post a scan or a summary?.
Here's a link to a bunch of pubs including (supposedly) the OKM, but it's in a .pdb file for Palmpilots. Can anyone convert this?
"Wow, Brenda, the whole office is buzzing afrter you told all the girls you start every day with a good one and can't stop thinking about it all day!"
"Shame on you, Brad! I was talking about the Daily Text!"
Honest to God, Brenda! I saw your textbook on display and all I said was, "What a great rack!"
Sheesh, Edwina, don't treat me like an idiot! I lend you my copy of the elders' handbook for one night. ONE NIGHT! And next thing the whole damn thing is on JWNet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-frdngnwvm .
here's a rare one you'll not find elsewhere, send it to your friends!.
new bethel entrants introduction to the governing body circa 1985. two new bethel boys at watchtower headquarters somehow managed to videotape this introduction to the brooklyn bethel headquarters of the governing body off of the bethel tv screen.
It is just awful, isn't it? The air is thick with platitudes, that John Wayne dude with the big nose oozes insincerity and between the lot of them you realize, Oh it was THOSE guys making all the rules?? I wish I'd seen this video earlier!
Randy (or anyone else), are you able to identify all the GB speakers by appearance/voice? Lloyd Barry (or Lord Barry as we used to call him when I lived in NZ and he visited), the New Zealander I know; Barr, the Scotsman, I know. The rest I don't. Who's who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-frdngnwvm .
here's a rare one you'll not find elsewhere, send it to your friends!.
new bethel entrants introduction to the governing body circa 1985. two new bethel boys at watchtower headquarters somehow managed to videotape this introduction to the brooklyn bethel headquarters of the governing body off of the bethel tv screen.
Others have already highlighted some gems. My favourites:
"I started off in the bindery, stitching booklets. The brother told us to hurry up and put the covers on the booklets because Armageddon was coming. So we hurried up and got the covers on. And Armageddon hasn't come yet, so ..." (6.04) And that doesn't make you wonder if it's all bullshit?
"When you receive a direct invitation from Jehovah through his organization, this is the place he wants you to serve." (Barr, 17.45) So a letter from the branch headquarters is actually a communication from God?
"There's nothing here on this earth to compare with God's organization. There's never been anything, even in Bible times, to compare with what Jehovah has now or what he is doing." (Barry, 18.54). Moses parting the Red Sea, amateur stuff! Manna? Don't make me laugh! Jesus and the apostles healing the sick and raising the dead? Pretenders!
i've been doing a lot of research lately and decided i'm not going to allow the losers in cheap suits to order me around like their dog.
they are not masters of my faith and have no authority to 'lord it over' me.. all the same, many even of the rulers actually put faith in him, but because of the pharisees they would not confess [him], in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; for they loved the glory of men more than even the glory of god.
- john 12:42-43 .
You are so right WontLeave: Among Witnesses there is a dread of displeasing The Organization, which:
The shame of it is that so many of the decent people sickened by the pettiness, control, hypocrisy and lies not only quit the Organization, but abandon God along with it.
Matthew 23:23, 28: "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummon and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law -- justice, mercy, good faith! You appear to people from the outside like good honest men, but inside you are full of hyporcisy and lawlessness."
