i have been collecting the public talk outlines.
i have almost all of them but there are a few missing.
i have tiles for some but just numbers for others.
Miz, I don't know how you do it man. The last public talk I gave made me ill. I had a kind of out of body experience during the talk, I looked down at my self on the platform giving a talk on something that i knew was false...... I just couldn't do it anymore. I figured life is too short to try to convince people of something that I did not believe. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to be critical of you. You just have a lot more internal strength than I had.
Best wishes
SIAM
i had one (elder) who loved to pick on the sisters who had an unbeliveing mate......he had short mans syndrome and got a kick out of it.. co, han hubler...anyone that knew him will know what i mean.. he was so disliked it was hard to get anyone to have him for a meal when he visited..
@ Ldrnomo
Don Ami was a prick. His wife Natasha was an ice queen. I was a young servant when they served our cong. We were so glad to see them go. He had a thing about going out in service on the holidays. He gave a talk about it and was sadly disppointed when only a few showed up for service on Christmas Morning.
SIAM
i finally resigned as an elder.
my conscience wouldn't allow me to continue.
i've battled for years trying to reconcile the fallacies of the wt society with my own personal beliefs.
Good for you! I too took a similar path and resigned a short time ago. I am trying to wrestle with the fade. It is tough as a born in because your entire social network is tied up in the religion. I have begun to miss more meetings and have stopped field service but am still reporting time I get reading the Bible story book to my kids.
Best wishes. PM me if you want to talk.
SIAM
Cadellin- perhaps being on the inside as an elder has something to do with it...
In retrospect, if I wasn't appointed an Elder I probably would not have seen the hypocrisy and duplicity in "God's Org". As an elder I dealt with the legal dept on occasion and saw how the org was just interested in covering its ass. I saw the HLC in action strongly encouraging the use of all fractions available. I saw the discord within the BOE and I saw Elders who were supposedly under the direction of the spirit commit incredible wrongs and continue to serve. And the the icing on the cake was the crazy new Elder book and KM school this fall. None of this would have happened if I wasn't an appointed man. I would probably be just floating along happy in my misguided belief that this was the one true religion with God's Spirit on it.
I think that is why so many elders are resigning. They see that the organization is not everything it claims to be. Most of the elders I know are stand up dudes, and are sincere. I think that is why so many like Burnedout, Punk, Cantleave, Massey, myself and others are standing up and stepping down.
SIAM
Burned out,
I sat there in my school and looked around and wondered how many of the Brothers sitting in that KH actually believed it. The talk on protecting your kids from blood just about put me over the edge. Good to have another ex elder on the Board. I have been telling my wife that there are many more like me out there who are quitting as elders for reasons of conscience. It is nice to see.
SIAm
Burnedout,
Are you my twin?? LOl I recently quit as an elder also, for many of the same reasons. I am still active but have begun my fade. I will never forget walking out of the last Elders meeting I was a part of with a bigass smile on my face. Nothing better than knowing that you are done. Was KM school excruciating?
Best wishes
SIAM
the first summer a$$embly finishes this weekend.. tell tell!.
who are the toes.
the verrucas and fungus?.
I am skeptical. There has to be more to it than this????
Maybe a new book, "Revelations its Grand Anticlimax at Hand"?
SIAM
i looked on the web and can't seem to find any numbers.
are they as big as the jw's?
approximately 7mil.
Answer: none they are all followers of Jesus Christ. Harold Camping is just the messenger that Jesus is using in these "last days". The true believers would never question the date of 5/21/2011 because it would be the same as questioning Jesus.
It is crazy how similar to the WTS this nutty group is.
i don't want to get trapped in a building when i am called to the lord.
these are details you gotta think about.. my rapture checklist.
clean underwearbiblesnickers and trailmix (you never know how long the trip up might be)sunscreen (the uv rays at 50,000 are killer)harmonicais there anything else i am missing?.
Good point Stealth! I should add a Helmet to my list.
i don't want to get trapped in a building when i am called to the lord.
these are details you gotta think about.. my rapture checklist.
clean underwearbiblesnickers and trailmix (you never know how long the trip up might be)sunscreen (the uv rays at 50,000 are killer)harmonicais there anything else i am missing?.
Would it be inappropriate to play AC/DC's Highway to Hell on the way up?
Lol I will never forget playing Van Halens "running with the devil' out in service one time. There was this very emotional "annointed" sister in the car. I thought her head was going to spin around on her shoulders. You should have seen the backroom meeting that resulted lol. One of the elders was young and couldn't keeep a straght face as I was being counseled.
Its funny, that Sister refused to work with me anymore in Service. Good times....
