btt.......so hopefully I can get more examples on this thread. I love these stories!
drewcoul
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Hypocritical Elders giving talks......give examples
by drewcoul inthe thread started by someone else that was asking about "local needs" talks that are given and the people who need to hear them are never there, got me to thinking.. i remember an elder giving a talk on local needs on "praising jehovah with your valuable things.
" .......this was the same brother who everyone in the hall knew had just bought a new lincoln town car.
his wife was a regular pioneer, and he would not allow the car do be driven out in service.
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Hypocritical Elders giving talks......give examples
by drewcoul inthe thread started by someone else that was asking about "local needs" talks that are given and the people who need to hear them are never there, got me to thinking.. i remember an elder giving a talk on local needs on "praising jehovah with your valuable things.
" .......this was the same brother who everyone in the hall knew had just bought a new lincoln town car.
his wife was a regular pioneer, and he would not allow the car do be driven out in service.
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drewcoul
At one point he said the dopiest thing I've ever heard, he said . . ."$7000 in two years! . . . I could have saved that on my own!
You guessed it . . . a brother who remained unidentified was heard to say from the back . . . "Well why didn't you then?"
LOL......I wish I could have been there. What was the reaction from the rest of the cong? Was there laughter, a collective gasp, or what?
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Hypocritical Elders giving talks......give examples
by drewcoul inthe thread started by someone else that was asking about "local needs" talks that are given and the people who need to hear them are never there, got me to thinking.. i remember an elder giving a talk on local needs on "praising jehovah with your valuable things.
" .......this was the same brother who everyone in the hall knew had just bought a new lincoln town car.
his wife was a regular pioneer, and he would not allow the car do be driven out in service.
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drewcoul
The thread started by someone else that was asking about "Local Needs" talks that are given and the people who need to hear them are never there, got me to thinking.
I remember an elder giving a talk on local needs on "Praising Jehovah with Your Valuable Things." .......This was the same brother who everyone in the hall knew had just bought a new Lincoln Town Car. His wife was a regular pioneer, and he would not allow the car do be driven out in service. She was only allowed to drive their older car in F.S. This congregation was relatively poor, and he was not wealthy, but was better off than most in the congregation.
Another elder in a hall I attended gave a talk about lending money and paying back loans especially among brothers..........He was indicted within a year for swindling people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in an investment scheme. He ended up going to prison. He was doing this while giving talks to the rest of us about not taking advantage of one another, and paying back what is owed. BTW- many of his victims were elderly witnesses. Oddly enough, the P.O. was able to get his money back in the nick of time, just before he was DF'd and the police arrested him.
Do you have any examples? Please post.
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drewcoul
The first thing you have to do is identify the terms. There are three terms in the equation: (X),(6/2), and (1+2).
You have to perform the operation in the parenthesis first then work left to right. so you get 9.
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POSITIVE POST TIME!! We just want to know 3 things you are FOR.
by Terry inon this topic we don't care what you are against.. let's be positive and tell three things we are for which are meaningful to us.. .
1.music lessons for kids.
learning to read music and play an instrument.. 2.memory training and math strategies in schools.
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drewcoul
Nuclear families providing love and support
taking care of those around you and not relying on the government to do it
fishing when I have a couple extra hours
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JWN Is Not The Same Place It Was minutes Ago .
by cyberjesus inpublishingcult made the following statement.
how has jwn changed over the years, old timers?
so how has jwn changed over the minutes, new timers?
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drewcoul
I have discovered an interesting formula that can be used to determine how much JWN changes. it is: x(y+b)^e(t)
where X is the total number of posts which is right now approximately 1046(20) or 20,920; y is the number of members which is approximately 14,184; b is representative of the number of years we are removed from 1914, which is now 97; e is the algegraic expression of infinity or continuous change; and t is the time of day in hours, which at the moment is 9.51 eastern standard time.
Therefore, we have the formula (at the moment) of 20,920(14,184 + 97)^e(9.51)
which equals 4.031445771 X 10^12
If anyone has a better formula, please let me know.
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What action should I take with my favorite cousin who is very condescending?
by RULES & REGULATIONS ini think i had enough of my cousin!
i'm planning to cut him from my life.
this is a cousin who has complained to me the last 10 years about his wife,kids,work and troubles with his brother and father.
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drewcoul
First, learn to spell the word "Surgery", and then get a new favorite cousin.
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So......Obama IS a US citizen after all?!
by Black Man inapril 27th, 201110:06 am etobama releases long-form birth certificateposted by:cnn white house producer shawna shepherd.
by cnn's alan silverleib.
washington (cnn) the white house released copies of president barack obama's original long-form birth certificate wednesday, seeking to put an end to persistent rumors that he was not born in theunited states.. "we do not have time for this kind of silliness," obama told reporters at the white house.. obama's long-form birth certificate [pdf].
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drewcoul
If your mother's legal first name was STANLEY, you'd want to keep your birth certificate to yourself, too.
LOL
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Time Article on Ray Franz - 1985 (scanned)
by waiting inhey y'all,.
hope this works.
if not, see scanned article under the thread about donating books to the local libraries..
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drewcoul
THis person was "running ahead of Jehovah's Organization" and Jehovah cannot be pleased.
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No Governing Body in 1925
by VM44 infrom the june 15, 1938 watchtower, p. 185: "in the beginning of the first hebrew month the watchtower of march 1, 1925 published the article "the birth of the nation," meaning that the kingdom had begun to function.
an editorial committee, humanly provided for, then was supposed to control the publication of the watchtower, and the majority of that committee strenuously objected to the publication of that article "the birth of the nation," but, by the lord's grace it was published and that really marked the beginning of the end of the editorial committee, indicating that the lord himself is running his organization.".
there was no governing body, judge rutherford was the watchtower president making the decisions and running the organization.. .
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drewcoul
But in Russell's time, the "organization" was basically just the publication of the WT. He wasn't interested in creating a religion of folowers. He may have been wrong in his calculations, but he wasn't establishing an authoritarian religion. That came with Rutherford, and even more with Knorr/ Franz. At least that's always been my take on this.