Posts by 2tone

it would be super funny to pay a non-dub like, $20 to dress up like a smurf and try to attend a meeting at a kh or assembly while someone else posing as a dub films the whole thing.

maybe the plant could even wear a changable disguise and duck under his seat, quickly put smurf attire on, stand up, scream, "i'm tired of this shit!

", and run out of the assembly hall.. it would be epic.

Zordino - omg omg omg. I just remembered my bro and his friends left there bong in the backseat of the family vehicle on a friday nite. anways that saturday morning i went to the car early before service to look for the bags and stuff and I found a bong and I was like omg. I can only imagine the look on that poor old ladys face when she would have picked up that bong and said whats this. Or the time I kicked a box of condoms under my seat during service

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Was everyone surprised by how nice worldly people can be?

by Inisc in

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i, like most born ins grew up being taught that everyone who was not a jw was inherently wicked, that they were dishonest, unloving, selfish, bad parents who don't care about their children, and also sad empty people with no direction in life.. as i grew older i started to see that this wasn't always true with every one, that what i was taught wasn't equating with what i was seeing.. by high school i could see that my friends at school, (yes worldly friends eek!

) we're actually decent people with morals, they may have engaged in a little fornication here and there but not promiscuously, and they were good honest people, with goals and parents that cared for them.. but after high school i was phsycologicaly bullied into ceasing contact with my friends altogether, leaving me with little contact with outside world, and the cult mentality had more room to grow, not fully, but enough to unconsciously not fully trust 'worldly' people.. however, once i'd left the org and began to meet people again, i was amazed at actually how good, honest, loving, kind, and caring many people can be!

who love their spouses and children and try their very best to be good parents and partners.

2tone

Hey ricky bobby

A little off topic but I always knew something was wrong with the theory that everything in the world was bad. Because my grandmother who isnt a witness was a devout christian and always volunteered so much of her time with social work. I just had a hard time believing god would destroy her

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Passing out invites after the meeting

by 2tone in

there was an experience i had at the kingdom hall not to long ago.. my family was hosting a party or some sort.

i had to hand out a couple invites after the meeting.

they were sealed in envelopes.

2tone

Toth - thats great

Zordino - funny thing ive had elders try to give me some quick counsel sometimes and ive always giving them the i dont care or so what attitude. For the most part my elders are kind of scared of me probably because I went to college and use big words some times.

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Is Watchtower Having Financial Problems?

by 2tone in

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i have to wonder if the watchtower is having financial problems of some sort.

at the very least they are spending more than they are taking in.

which would explain all of the cutbacks of the last decade.

2tone

I have to wonder if the Watchtower is having financial problems of some sort. At the very least they are spending more than they are taking in. Which would explain all of the cutbacks of the last decade. I was thinking of three different things currently going on with the Watchtower that all together make me think they have some problems. I welcome everyones thought or feedback.

We know that Watchtower is selling all there property in Brooklynn for roughly a billion dollars. They have already sold a few properties. Altogether it may take several years to sell off everything in Brooklynn and to completely relocate to wherever there going(hopefully in the heavens).
They have just announced the cutting back of Watchtower and Awake literature. I'm no Watchtower Wizard(i sure hope he comments and includes something about gold or silver) but those two magazines have to account for the majority of there printing expenses. Most corporations make cutbacks within a year or two of when they would start having serious financial problems at best. It seems to me there becoming very conversative with there spending which goes against the saying of you have to spend money to make money. All I'm saying is that if they had the money coming in they would be spending it and producing as much propaganda as they could.
This may be a small point and may only pertain to my geographical area. The Watchtower has made plans to build a ASSembly hall in Cincinatti, Ohio by selling the Indianapolis and London, Ohio halls and combining them. They have not even bought land for the new assembly hall as far as I know of. Let alone start building it. I understand these assemblly hall's will be such money making machines for the Watchtower. They claim it will cost 6-9 million dollars to build. If they had the money to build it why not build it so they have money coming in from people attending and they can charge whatever they want for it by sending the congregations the bill for it.

I guess what i'm thinking, the things they have been doing lead me to believe they don't have the long term capital to sustain themselves which explains all the cutbacks and combining assemblies. Obviously the majority of there money is tied up in real estate in one form or another. I they dont have the liquid cash right now to build a 6-9 million dollar facility on volunteer work then they must have problems.

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Anyone been to a meeting after a drink...or three?

by MMXIV in

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i recall going to the second half of a thursday night meeting after what was meant to be a cheeky after work beer (three strong beers downed quickly on an empty stomach).

i would have been ok had a caring elder not decided to grab me for some encouragement afterwards.. i hoped the faint odor of smoke on my clothes (smoking in pubs was still the done thing in those days) wouldn't be noticed but hard to hide alcohol on the breath.

i tried to say very little and talk in a way that avoided me beathing over him.

2tone

I was lit up numerous times in college when I decided to attend the local kingdom hall where nobody that knew anybody from home knew. The best time was when I popped like 4 percocet before the meeting. I thought I was gona stop breathing but it was great.

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Awesome idea for a prank.

by baltar447 in

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it would be super funny to pay a non-dub like, $20 to dress up like a smurf and try to attend a meeting at a kh or assembly while someone else posing as a dub films the whole thing.

maybe the plant could even wear a changable disguise and duck under his seat, quickly put smurf attire on, stand up, scream, "i'm tired of this shit!

", and run out of the assembly hall.. it would be epic.

2tone

Im drinking rum and coke. I want to do this so bad. I can only imagine the distraction a smurf walking around the convention would cause.

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Passing out invites after the meeting

by 2tone in

there was an experience i had at the kingdom hall not to long ago.. my family was hosting a party or some sort.

i had to hand out a couple invites after the meeting.

they were sealed in envelopes.

2tone

There was an experience I had at the kingdom hall not to long ago.

My family was hosting a party or some sort. I had to hand out a couple invites after the meeting. They were sealed in envelopes. This one bitch sister said to me you cannot hand out invitations at the kingdom hall. It was liked i had just committed the unforgivable sin or something. Anyway this bitch has had a rod stuck up her ass since her husband was promoted to MS.