the honorable mr reyes, manitoba minister, man o man, lets his wife, a nurse, shovel out the driveway after her 12 hour shift at the hospital, so she can park her car.
sir.
where did you learn such behaviour?
My understanding is that he is Filipino. And if you want to get into racist stereotypes, as a group they are probably the hardest working people around. His wife is Filipino also, hence the great work ethic.
Mr. Reyes served in the military for 10 years, earned a university degree, owned two businesses and now is a conservative MLA. It is fairly obvious by his accomplishments that he has work ethic and isn’t the lazy exploiter that you believe him to be.
the honorable mr reyes, manitoba minister, man o man, lets his wife, a nurse, shovel out the driveway after her 12 hour shift at the hospital, so she can park her car.
sir.
where did you learn such behaviour?
Wow! It looks like you have a problem with his skin tone. He was born in Winnipeg so he is as Canadian as I am.
I don’t think that he mentioned if she had more shifts or if she was going on days off unless you are privy to that information.
the honorable mr reyes, manitoba minister, man o man, lets his wife, a nurse, shovel out the driveway after her 12 hour shift at the hospital, so she can park her car.
sir.
where did you learn such behaviour?
I see you still follow the sexual stereotypes of the watchtower organization. Women are fully capable of shovelling the driveway and some of them like doing it. In mr Reyes tweet he mentioned how proud he was of his wife and that he was headed to the kitchen to make her breakfast and there is nothing wrong with that either. How they manage their lives and operate their household is their business.
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
The only reason Watchtower does not like education is it trains you to think critically. Once you start to think, you start to question.
Once you start to question, you leave.
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
There are experiences where someone got fired for going to assembly. Every one I had any insight on were poor employees,''
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
You don’t choose the vagina you were born from or the sperm donor that put you there.
This is what these overbearing clowns don’t understand. Some people just don’t get the breaks in life that others do and have to work harder just to make ends meet. Some people are born with well off, socially connected parents and others are born to society’s outcasts. Some people are born with superior intellectual capacity, whereas others are genetically prone to learning disabilities like dyslexia, adhd, autism and obsessive compulsive disorder. Some people have unresolved trauma from an abusive childhood that affect their employment prospects, while others had a safe and happy childhood.
A few decades ago we had a hatchet man circuit overseer. He had a reputation for deleting elders and ministerial servants who missed meetings because of working. This CO was born with a silver spoon. His non jw father owned a chain of high end retail stores. I knew this CO when I was a teenager and he was a pioneer in our city. He partied, drank heavy and drove high end sports cars when he was younger.
This guy never worked a real job or had to worry about how the bills were going to be paid but was eager to tell others how to live their lives and manage their money.
edit .. i messed up the title, on this touchscreen tablet and now i can’t edit it !
the title should be “ the watchtower’s (sort of) apology for 1975 ….. sorry.
january 1st 1976, i remember that day when i heard a radio disc jockey gleefully announce that the world had not ended as jehovah’s witnesses had said it would .
My parents lived through 1975 and vehemently deny that the organization made a big deal about that year even though some in our congregation left “the truth” shortly thereafter.
absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!
so we were told in the 1980's!
so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.
The guy that influenced Charles Taze Russel in pyramidology was Charles Piazzi Smyth.
This is where is gets a little weird.
Smyth was the chief astronomer for Scotland and the underlying reason for his study of pyramids was to show that the British imperial measurement system was god given so that he wouldn’t have to learn the metric system. In fact he hated the metric system because he hated the French.
So our whole Jehovah’s Witness existence and all the bs we’ve put up with over the course of our lives might just be because some guy in 1864 hated the metric system.
And the French.
absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!
so we were told in the 1980's!
so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.
The reason that 1914 is so hard to explain is that the date was originally concocted by charlatan Charlie (Taze Russel) by measuring the length of some passages in the great pyramid and assuming that the numbers meant something. BTW the original guy that did the measuring had to come up with his own unit (pyramid inches) to make it all work. CTR taught that Jesus came in 1874 (invisibility) and that Armageddon would happen in 1914.
As every person in history has ever done Charlie died in 1916 and Rutherfraud did a hostile takeover of the corporate a$$ets. It was obvious by 1919 that Armageddon hadn’t taken place so he set 1925 as the date of the end. This date came and went as 100% of end world predictions fail and he needed a new plan. Thus in 1928 they denounced the pyramid scheme and came up with the times theory that many of us on this site tried to explain in the field ministry. They changed 1914 to the beginning of the last days and worked the 2520 years back to 607 bce even though Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 but who cares about historical accuracy at this point anyway.
It’s been 151 years since CTR started his religion in 1870.
The problem with end times cults is they have to keep changing the end times.
