Posts by pontoon

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No More Life Story

by Farkel in

for reasons i've stated in the window washers thread, i will not write and post any more about my life as a jw.. thank you, "yesidid.

" you're a real gem.. farkel.

We don't know each other, but I've been lurking for about a year and a few posts for a month or so now. I had over 40 yrs. in. I think you must have a long JW history as well. Your posts always make me smile. I enjoyed reading your part 1. In life there are always people that are best to just ignor. Just not worth getting your blood pressure up over them. I admire you squeege skill. When my older sister married a special pioneer ex-bethelite, (way back in the 70's), they moved way up in the NE. Dead of winter time. I went out window washing with him on big store front windows on Main St. You had to squeege that window down and at the same same time pull the pole out so it didn't go into the sidewalk. I was freezing. it was snowing, my brother in law was pissed I was streaking the windows. He took the pole away from me. I thought my sister married a crazy man. One or two days a week he made A LOT OF MONEY!! Long time ago. Keep that story comming.

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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?

by Witness 007 in

a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!

not encouraging.

this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!

pontoon

Totally agree Sue. If Jeh were providing he would do much better than food from the gutter. Unless maybe the angel he assigned to provide was slacking, maybe he needs to be talked to. Like how about a pizza hut garbage pie and Coke delivered to their house by mistake. Should be workable, we're talking supernatural here.

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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?

by Witness 007 in

a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!

not encouraging.

this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!

pontoon

without question fine examples of modern day miracles----no, wait, Jeh we learned doesn't do miracles for individuals any more, must be just chance & they don't mind eating garbage

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Favorite quote from 2011 School for Ministerial Servants

by iamwhoiam in

"let's see a show of hands of those who know that the end is very close (everyone raises thier hands while looking around at each other).

excellent!...we know this because we have a whole-hearted faith in the faithful and discreet slave don't we?".

no explanation needed .

pontoon

Talked to my dad on the phone a week ago. He is old. He thinks I'm missing a few meetings because of my work schedule. He doesn't know I haven't been to the hall at all since April. He just got back from his first MS school, all he had to say about it was how wonderful the GB is. Thats what stood out in his mind. Not able to reason with him. It depresses me.

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Pink Floyd - Your Favorite Songs by Them ? You-tubes Welcome !

by flipper in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gv-w93-oy.

pontoon

same as Magwitch--Us and Them

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The Doors - Your Favorite Songs By Them ? YOU-tubes Welcome !

by flipper in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv7hs7k7w8.

pontoon

LA Woman

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What Was Your Attitude When A Householder Slammed The Door In Your Face?

by minimus in

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friends

did you get angry?

feel pity?

not care?.

pontoon

got that one done

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What oh what ... is the point of a blog???

by highdose in

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friends

something i've never understood.

could someone please explain this to me and finaly answer this nagging question?.

pontoon

Why does someone who participates in a blog question what the point of a blog is?

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At Bethel it was at times ordered that you MISS the meetings due to a hot job

by life is to short in

the poster ex dub ms reminded me of something i had forgotten.

at bethel especially in construction if there was a hot job going on or a deadline you missed meetings peroid!

no questions asked.. now if a rank and file husband who was working a low wage job to support his family or a single mom had to miss meetings due to a hot job at work what would happen to them?.

pontoon

It's the Watchtower Society of Double Standards. It doesn't have to be a hot job for bethelites to be a no show. We had one kid who only made a few meetings a month. He kept saying he had to work overtime. Another bethel elder in our hall spoke to his overseer and found out he kept on offering to work late (just late enough to miss his ride to KH). When CO came attendance was always an issue. Bethelite elders used to play it off like it was a problem with the local bros. I did my own survey, the bethelites missed FAR more meetings than the locals. When it was time to pick blueberries and strawberries at Wat Farm, they would invite local bros & sisters to come help, especially pioners--and yes they could count their time. Put that life saving work on hold because we need our blueberries! Yes, this IS SACRED SERVICE, but only if your a pioneer. If you are just a publisher you can't count you time because it is not sacred service. How about that crap! I could go on and on but I'll stop. Living close to the Wat Farm you see and hear a lot. Double standards and who you know politics.

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Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!

by JT in

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yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?

pontoon

I was around in 1972 I think when we built the Monroe Assembly Hall. The first or second of the Org owned halls. Anyway, it must be about 5 or 6 years ago we replaced it with a new one, Newburgh Assembly Hall. Much more elaborate and fancy than Monroe. I remember the Org talking to the circuit elders that would be involved in it why it would be cost effective to build new. It sticks in my mind that one point was that to put a new roof on Monroe it would cost half the price of a brand new hall. Of course they figure in labor even though that would have been free. The whole business was ridiculous. At Wat Farms anything 10 years old may be considered to be replaced or remodeled. Bethel biggies love new and expensive. Why not---its not their money. I heard of brothers from other parts of the world that are just floored when they visit here and see the org waste and materialism and uppy lifestyle of the bethelites here.