for any lurkers who don't believe the watchtower taught that the world would end in 1975... rare jehovah's witnesses 1968 interview "armageddon and 1975" london watchtower rep speaks to bbc.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npmt-ml-m-g. --------.
but where will this system of things be by that time?
Thanks for posting that recording.
Such verbal remarks as these were very common place during those years 1966-1975:
- so much so that, very quickly, a person hardly gave the 1975 thing a second thought.
Immediately afterwards, though, it seemed like everybody had a collective case of amnesia!
Bill
around the 39:00 minute mark the focus shifts to a single sister who cannot find a mate.
at the 42:30 minute mark she states "i cannot believe it crossed my mind...to look on jw dating sites".
guess a new unwritten rule is added to the many oral traditions of these pharisees.
As my late mother would have described it, "they have broken out in a fresh place."
Bill.
i just learned that sometimes people give "green handshakes".
is this the same as bribing your way up?.
thanks for any posts..
Never heard of a greenhandshak letting someone get baptized.
Without giving too much away, there was one who was a prominent businessman in the city, and who fell for what is arguable the oldest one in the book - i.e. his secretary.
Furthermore, this same person insisted that he was not going to get baptised unless he could firstly discard his wife, and instead marry this secretary. Amazingly, he was permitted to do so. Even more amazingly, he then went on to rapidly rise up through the ranks of the JW organisation - in an unbelievably short time.
Upon reflection, though, maybe not so amazingly:
- to use the vernacular of the time and location, this guy had "More money than the Bull could $h#t", and he sure waved plenty of it around (but only in front of those who mattered, of course!).
Bill.
i just learned that sometimes people give "green handshakes".
is this the same as bribing your way up?.
thanks for any posts..
I , too, never learned about this practice until I came to this site.
The "green handshake, though, would certainly explain a few things:
- not only how certain individuals rose rapidly "through the ranks": but also, how they were even ever permitted to get baptised in the first place.
Bill
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
we're all bigots.
Speak for yourself!
Bill
paragraph 13. .
ever since [ 1914 ], mankind has experienced the truthfulness of these inspired words: woe for the earth and for the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.. i cannot believe how dubs allow themselves to be convinced that the world is getting worse and worse each year.. poverty -.
http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity/world-poverty/.
I cannot believe how Dubs allow themselves to be convinced that the world is getting worse and worse each year.
While by no means a fan of Schnell's 30 Years a Watchtower Slave, he was probably right about one thing - namely, that the Watchtower Society capitalised on the tremendous upheaval that occurred across Europe in the wake of the First World War. This is what lead to their mantra about "everything is continuing to get worse and worse" - a mantra continued to this day, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Bill.
i`ve heard many pioneers claim that they are deserving of material things because they are the ones who make all the sacrifices.
one claimed that jehovah had made sure that she got absolutely everything she wanted right down to shelfs so she could put up pic`s of her family because, to quote "we are so deserving, we`ve made the sacrifice".
mind you this is the same sister who told me "it`s harder for me having my son d.fs than for a mother loosing her child in death".
I well remember one absolutely delightful (not!) special pioneer brother who was wont to broadcast that, to quote:
- " Pioneering gives you a licence to bludge."
(For those outside of Australia, the term "bludger" originally referred to a person who lived off the earnings of a prostitute. Long since, though, it has come to refer to anybody who is fed, clothed and housed at the expense of others.)
In my experience, this attitude seems common place amongst the "pious-sneerers".
Bill.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
Do you know their names? If you don't want to disclose that imfo I understand but ask them if they know "Toothless". In my old life I knew a few lads from Herefordshire.
I will pass that on next time I see them.
Bill.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
SecretSlaveClass,
I have two friends who have been regular visitors to that part of the world - one of them an ex British SAS commando, and thus extremely knowledgeable about firearms.
After one visit, they brought back with them a sample of the North West Frontier Province's gunsmithing. This was a neat little 0.25 calibre piece - very, very easy to conceal. (How they managed to get it through customs, though, I didn't want to know!)
The gunsmiths of Peshawar will turn out almost anything, not just AK47s. They have no difficulties with affixing an authentic looking brand name on it, either. With the illegally made British 0.303s that have turned up in Australia, you have to look very carefully to see that they are not the "real deal".
Bill.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
all illegal weapons start out as legal.
most of the weapons used in crimes are not from across the border or from ISIS or wherever. They are firearms originally purchased legally.
So now it is "most" instead of "all", as you originally claimed.
Bill.
