against our wishes she got baptised at 16 because she got brainwashed by her cousin.
the last year or so she hasn't been so gung ho about the "truth".
anyway the elders came down on her for not getting her time in the last couple months because she absolutely hates zoom letter writing.
The Elduh's told her she need a 5 year plan to pioneer, learn a foreign language and or serve where the need is great.
This is excellent news: even the "elduhs" don't think the "end" is near. She's got at least 4.5 years to do what she wants and then she can still "repent" and survive armageddon.
Wasn't there a time the jws said a "five year plan" was worldly and unnecessary?
i did this in my facebook group for my podcast and it was fun.. so what's the craziest thing you ever saw?.
for me it was watching a brother have a heart attack during the meeting in the auditorium.
i was a kid and noticed him shaking and acting strange.
There are a lot of incidents I remember from my childhood, funny, shocking, scary, etc. But this one stands out:
Every year the two congregations that used the building would swap meeting schedules. Everyone preferred morning Sunday meetings to afternoon Sunday meetings. Everyone preferred Thursday night TMS and SM to Wednesday night TMS and SM.
When I was in junior high, the other congregation passed a motion to keep the same meeting schedule indefinitely (while they were on Sunday morning/Thursday night), and our congregation was presented with the same motion-while we had Sunday afternoon/Tuesday night.
That elder who was in charge of exacting our concession to the sucky schedule took the first vote-it failed. Took a second vote, it failed. He then put us into a five minute prayer about why we needed to approve the motion. Took a third vote, pretended to count, and announced it passed. It clearly had not.
When I finally left 6 years later, we still had that horrible schedule, except I think we switched to Monday night Book Study and Wednesday night TMS and SM. This was long before they dropped Book Study and slashed the long evening meeting.
I have always wondered why is was so important for 1. the congregations to stop swapping the schedule, and 2. the other congregation HAD to have the preferred meeting times. Who really made that call and why?
this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.
apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!
smh :-/ ) .
What, no Drama?
with many people's jobs been put and "on hold" and other people's jobs going away for good, i couldn't help but think about all the different jobs i've had over the years.
i have been able to adapt and make do.
maybe this will kick in again....or maybe not.
I did filing for a small office
helped reconcile books with a propane delivery service before bookkeeping software was prevalent in the 1980s
I ran digitized (paper tape code, no digital memor yet) embroidery machines producing what we now call swag
retail work in the children's department at a large national chain (worst. job. ever.)
high school math teacher
high school foods/nutrition teacher
law clerk
lawyer
real estate agent
I'm still employed and not needing to look for work and won't need to in the foreseeable future. I am grateful and feel blessed.
i really think time of birth influence behaviour..
Duh, it's in the name: Capricorn, the Goat.
... will they take it upon themselves to warn their bible studies of pedophile activity in the congregations so they can protect their children, or will the cycle of abuse continue with the attitude of letting new ones take their chances along with the rest of us?.
This one defies all reason and logic. Is Sister Unevenly Yoked supposed to go with her 12-year-old-son into the men's restroom? Or is that the price she (and her son) pay for her marriage to a non-witness.
Now let's include all the single (for all the usual reasons) parents of children of the opposite gender who now have to deal with this situation.
Did they start building "family restrooms" at their facilities?
the last lines from the movie platoon.
"i think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.
the war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.
Among other great lines, from Shawshank Redemption, I have always loved this little monologue by Sean Astin in Goonies:
Don't you realize?
The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town.
The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school.
Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us.
But right now, they got to do what's right for them.
Because it's their time. Their time! Up there!
Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here.
That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.
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Jesus Christ. Check.
Jehovah. Check.
No mention of God at all.
Makes perfect sense to me. Never felt any connection to God with those guys.
Blondie-My mom's friend's elder-husband has been disfellowshipped for adultery, reinstated, and reappointed 3 times, in the last 30 years or so. If the 20 year rule still applied, the math wouldn't work. But maybe if it had applied, transgressions 2 and 3 would not have occurred. 3 times. What a winner.
watctower has posted a $40,000,000 bond following montana's upholding of the nunez v watchtower verdict of 2018. punitive damages have been upheld, and wt has purchased the bond from travelers insurance (35m+ interest)-montana sc will rule later this year on the appeal.. .
The way a bond in an appeal works is that the appealing defendant (WTBTS) MUST deposit the actual judgment amount with the surety company for the duration of the appeal. Once the appeal is decided, the surety company distributes the funds in the bond to the prevailing parties as decided by the appellate court.
So they did have that cash. And currently they don't. That's a lot of money to be sitting in someone else's account for who knows how long. OK rank and file how do you feel about that? You gave them that money.
