This was one of the songs that everyone would sing loudly to so my brother and I could get away with changing the lyrics :
"Stick- e - buns I sure am hungry...
think I'll have a Milk-e -Waaay"
Our Mom would just give us the filth look.
the rest of that song is completely trash, but you have to admit that part where the beat changes and it gets all thunderous.....is serious business.
i mean it goes from yellow canaries to godzilla in a flash and you can't help but to get into it.
leave it to the wt to not capitalize on the part that's actually good.
This was one of the songs that everyone would sing loudly to so my brother and I could get away with changing the lyrics :
"Stick- e - buns I sure am hungry...
think I'll have a Milk-e -Waaay"
Our Mom would just give us the filth look.
as i was walking to the station today i passed three people handing out watchtower tracts at the precise moment that one of them happened to turn to the other and say, "it's going to rain.
" i thought it was quite amazing to hear such an accurate prophecy from them after having come across this rather interesting wikipedia entry and counting how often they have made the same failed prophecy (13, if you include the bible student movement):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events.
i'm reading a book, called "when prophecy fails," quite an interesting book for someone like me, being rather interested in psychology, human behaviour, logic, truth, etc.. the example in the book explains what happens under certain conditions, when people have a very strong commitment to a prophecy which fails.
"It's going to rain." I thought it was quite amazing to hear such an accurate prophecy
I heard one time that the society was thinking of going into the umbrella manufacturing business in preperation for the thousand year rain. (har har)
so sad to lose anther of the bee gees.
robin lost his battle with cancer today.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehz5rjfnh4.
The Brothers Gibb....B.G's . ...the Bee Gee's.....can't imagine my younger days without their music playing somewhere in the background. Must be rough for Barry to be the oldest and yet be the last man standing. Hopefully it helps to know that he and his brothers lived less than ordinary lives.
i like the "sudductive woman with long dark hair", for one.
very funny pictures..
Good one Jookbeard but you forgot to mention that 67 of her 68 children all wound up in either the full time preaching work or Bethel servece except for the one who was eaten by Piranha while swimming to a secret banned assembly in the jungle. There were no tears or sadness, rather the family was overjoyed to know that their sibling died while serving god and will be resurrected any minute now.
i like the "sudductive woman with long dark hair", for one.
very funny pictures..
Whenever the magazines feature photos of bethelites dressed up as worldly persons, someone always winds up wearing sunglasses, a bandanna and a menacing scowl on their face.
this is just sickening, no respect for other human beings!.
on a jw facebook forum .
original post: --- ------: while riding with my work mate he plays podcast the whole time and i learned that the gay community is becoming powerful and huge like an infection!
The tone of that exchange of words was one of personal superiority,haughtiness and arrogance rather than a tone of concern over what they perceive as a lack of obedience to God's law.
is ignorance really bliss?
may i share the qualities of the perfect jw couple with all you here?
i mean no ill will towards these decent people, they are kind, but ignore everything evil that is happening around them.
All in good time....all in good time but the disillusionment is a sad thing to see when it finally occurs.
I remember different ones over the years who were like this. When reality strikes, it really takes a toll on them compared to those who saw certain flaws and dealt with things realistically all along. It's sort of like a case of arrested development. They stop progressing once the magical thinking takes hold.
I remember a sister who was absolutely floored when she got into a fender bender while out in the door to door work. She had the notion that Jehovah wouldn't allow anything bad to happen to her while she was in service, especially since she was pioneering that month. This woman became a JW as an adult, is a college grad and an RN who's husband is an unbelieving Medical Dr. It was quite a blow to her to face the fact that Jehovah wasn't providing a force field around her while out in service.
mp has asked which country has lost the most publishers, and i decided to investigate.
one thing led to another, and i decided to produce another world map, this time showing the net reduction in publishers for each country.. this has been calculated by means of the following equation for each country:.
2011 total no.
I would be curious to know how many of the 263,131 baptized were raised as JW's . This would tell you how effective or ineffective the door to door work is compared to the "in house" indoctrination we have all been a part of.
these shows and a few others were banned in my parents home when i was a kid.
demunz and the like were the reason given by the wts and thus my folks followed suit with the the rule of the house.
shhhh i watched them anyways.
We discouraged from watching "Touched By An Anvil Angel."
so, i actually stopped at two different tables that i saw.
the first was 2 elderly men - they were so sweet and open to discuss.
i brought up the topic of the divine name and why the wt inserted it into the nt with no evidence from greek manuscripts.
I mentioned that I was out preaching, contrary to what they say that no one else preaches, but she said it didn't count because it's not door to door. !!
An odd thing to hear coming from someone counting time in the ministry by sitting at a table...or was there a door attached to the talbe ?