i am reuniting with past students and return visits.. i met up with a young lad i used to call on.
he is not baptised, but at university in his 20's and living away from home.
his mother is a jw and his father is not.
It has never happened to me yet:
- but if asked, I would describe myself as "a former JW who is now non-religious."
I refuse to wear labels that other have dreamed up (particularly the Governing Body), and if "former JW who is now non religious" sounds quite a mouthful - then I couldn't care less!
Bill.
looking at the percentage of average publishers of 2013 over 2012 (not the peaks):.
brazil 1.46%.
nigeria 2.60%.
Japan:
- how back in the 1980s, this country was upheld as showing the rest of us how to do it.
Now it is in decline.
Shame the bloody rest of this empire founded on bull$h*t wouldn't go the same way!
Bill.
they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.
most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?
upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .
And for how many years have they been trying to suggest that!
Bill.
2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.
2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?
but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..
And the challenge is to keep guns out of the hands of crazies!
Bill
2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.
2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?
but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..
One of my interests is small bore shooting, so yes, I own several rifles. Additionally, in our district we grow a lot of berry crops. Consequently, one of my weapons was acquired specifically for pest control uses.
As for owning a firearm for personal protection, though:
- if you were abiding strictly to the Firearms Act in this state, I doubt if any home invader would have the patience to wait around while you :
(i) unlocked the gun cabinet
(ii) removed the rifle from its compartment
(iii) unlocked the (second) ammunition compartment
(iv) fitted the bolt back into your rifle
(v) loaded the weapon
(vi) and only then were finally ready to fire the thing!
Bill.
just letting off a bit more steam.
why can't sisters look after the library or the sound.
what makes the brothers so damned special???.
I once saw them use an unbaptised juvenile delinquent to operate the sound system at a DC.
This low life's only qualifications being that he was "regular in field service" - and of course , of the correct gender. But allow a sister to operate that same sound system? Like bloody hell!
Bill.
i stumbled across this old chestnut.
i remember a jw telling me this when i was a kid, and he believed it.. i only recently found out how well known this is, and has been for some time.
does anyone know which of the jw mags or books had it in?.
I recall mention being made about this story in either a Watchtower or Awake article about a year after the one Blondie quotes. It, too, said much the same thing.
Bill.
sometime in the early 1990s i made a commitment to myself that if the end did not come in 2014 i was going to walk away.
then i started thinking - if i waited until 2014 i would be 57 years old with very few options.
that is when i realized that i needed to make changes to get my life back.
What does 2014 mean to me?
Just another year, nothing more, nothing less!
Bill
go to jw.org right now friends and you will see a young male jw witnessing in a rural setting with publication in hand and - take careful note - wearing a crisply-white open-neck shirt.
bring out the carnival, light the lights: the organ ization is kicking itself into an ongoing casualization of its rank and file.. in the 1960s through 1980s i know brothers who dared to attire themselves sans ties who were reprimanded or worse.
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At least in Papua New Guinea they were practical about what "publishers" could wear while engaging in field service.
In the cities, nobody wore a tie while out in FS (although we did when attending meetings).
The missionaries, pioneers and local Witnesses working in the rural areas (which is where 85% of the poulation lives) were very often having to rough it in the bush. They were allowed to dress in a very practical manner for the conditions - and usually did so.
(Imagine slogging up the muddy Kokoda Track in smooth-soled shoes , let alone a three piece suit as well!)
Bill.
i think it may have been in the mid '80s a new arrangement was started for the 2nd and 4th saturday of every calendar month.
they were designated "magazine days" and the idea was to place as many as possible with 30-60 second presentations.
personally i hated feeling like a magazine seller, i wanted to talk to people.. i think this, and the release of the "reasoning book" was the beginning of the end of jehovah's witnesses as evangelists..
They introduced those days as part of combatting the slump that happened post-1975:
- the idea being to get everybody out two Saturdays of the month hawking magazines, and also out on the first Sunday of the month, which was called "Family Day."
These ideas were only the thin end of the wedge, though. By the late 1980s, it was made plain that "Christians" would be out in service every weekend.
Bill.
