october 1, 2011 annual meeting of watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania at the jersey city assembly hall .
(observations made by xxxx and xxxx of xxxx of california) (highlites by dogpatch).
the meeting began with the singing of song #28 the new song followed by the opening prayer.. .
Brother Baltasar Pala [sp:PERLA] who is on loan from the U.S. Branch to the Bethel in Mexico spoke next. Six Central American branch offices have now been merged into the Branch office in Mexico.
I worked with this sucker...his picture is on the first page of the Ministry School Book (the red one where the elder suckers mark on what you have to work on your next assignment)
i was talking to one of my jw ex-friends today (we keep in contact every once in a while) and she was all excited telling me about the new arregment, a special meeting only for elders, their wives, pioneers and other sheep of "exemplary" conduct... (of course she was invited)..... something about one meeting from bethel that is going to be broadcasted to everyone at assembly halls and translated via radio for those who cannot speak english... is by invitation only (and they are "being discreet w the invitations to avoid offend the ones not invited") and they even gave them tickets they have to present at the door..... anyone has the scoop??
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As a Bethelite I've had "my share" in "Zone Visits". This is like a UBER-District Overseer/Circuit Overseer. Usually some GB-Guy or representative (normally some Branch Committee member).
Here is a summary of what to expect:
+++< lots of it = (for losing time/energy/breath/money/.... for NOTHING)
last week the elder giving the public talk mentioned that in.
the usa we have 9.1% unemployment but under god's kingdom.
is a new house.
Hahahahaha charlie brown jr. fortunately we all know that this is a fantasy that will never happen. So, you will not be able to shovel-kill Br. Thorn....sorry for that. ;-)
i recently did a favour for one of my co-workers by exchanging a shift with her so she could have a day off when she needed it for a family event.. we worked together last night, and she was so excited about the family event that happened a couple of days ago - she really appreciated being able to go.
so this morning, at the end of our shift, she tells me that she is going to church before she goes home to sleep, and she is going to pray for me to have many good things from god for doing this favour for her.. i'm flattered that she thinks it was such a big deal, but i told her "no really, that is not necessary... you really don't have to pray for me!
" she was insistent!!
Tell her to pray for the Governing Body in Brooklyn...
last week the elder giving the public talk mentioned that in.
the usa we have 9.1% unemployment but under god's kingdom.
is a new house.
Nope. You don't trade anything. You will do EVERYTHING yourself - this is the explanation that some Brooklyn-bigwig gave me. Yes, my friend, be prepared to spend hard days producing your shingles from clay....naked, shoveling with your barehands! Once you have enough shingles, YOU and only YOU get up on that roof of your miserable little mansion and layout the shingles....there is no such thing as "John's Paradise Roofing"-company in "Jehobahs Yellow Pages - serving you since Armaggedon fried the old Telephone book". Nope. You will lay them quick and dirty, because rain is such a bitch on your living room carpet that took you 23 years to string together with fingernails and teeth - again: naked!
Then you will dedicate yourself to construct a god damn shovel....because, you know, you hate diggin your fingernails into the dirt. You will start ore mining and using your toenails you will scratch rock to get basic metal splinters and then you will create a fire and melt this shit and create your basic shovel (did I mention that you are still naked, because your lazy wife takes forever to string a thread that is long enough to clothe you and your children and besides that she is still working on the red yarn, which means you will all look like stupid shitheads).
Sounds like fun. Takes lot of millenia until you find out that your life is living HELL!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....(you will one day USE that shovel to kill Brother Thorn by beating him endlessly....I promise.)
but when they end like that three times....it's strike three... or maybe it was strike #3,333,333.......but it is sad and painful for us both i know.....a person must be in a very very bad place to act like that in front a man you have loved and been intimate with for 15 years....and at that moment i am satan in front of her....a begging pleading attempting to reason satan...but still satan to her and her friends.....but this nice woman needs satan out of her life now....oompa.
i am not a bad person...i am not satan...i asked her why she thought i had tried so hard....told her that if she was in a burning building just how hard would she think i would try to get her out??
she did not like that analogy either...so i have started the painful process...the building is going to burn to the ground now....and i will never put her through that fingers in ears thing again.... and i will be fair and reasonable....and pay her the alimony and give her half....i could so be a satan to her in divorce....but i won't!...i can at least prove to them all that i am decent man...and not mentally diseased or satan.....and ahhhhh i feel good about that....plus both my boys are free now...
Thanks Zid. You are right. I just wanted to share with oompa that a new and better life IS possible and yet, it isn't "all fun and partying"...going away and leaving the cult and everything related to them is not easy. I thought it would be a "walk in the park" and now I'm noticing that it isn't...
...but you are right, this cult WILL destroy marriages and families with no mercy! oompas wife thinks he is satan, my soon-to-be-ex continously insisted that I am mentally sick and need to take medication and "come back" to the "warm bathtub of Jehovah".....(my words, not hers, but that is how they make the Borg sound).
but when they end like that three times....it's strike three... or maybe it was strike #3,333,333.......but it is sad and painful for us both i know.....a person must be in a very very bad place to act like that in front a man you have loved and been intimate with for 15 years....and at that moment i am satan in front of her....a begging pleading attempting to reason satan...but still satan to her and her friends.....but this nice woman needs satan out of her life now....oompa.
i am not a bad person...i am not satan...i asked her why she thought i had tried so hard....told her that if she was in a burning building just how hard would she think i would try to get her out??
she did not like that analogy either...so i have started the painful process...the building is going to burn to the ground now....and i will never put her through that fingers in ears thing again.... and i will be fair and reasonable....and pay her the alimony and give her half....i could so be a satan to her in divorce....but i won't!...i can at least prove to them all that i am decent man...and not mentally diseased or satan.....and ahhhhh i feel good about that....plus both my boys are free now...
Dear oompa,
I have appreciated your continuous comments on this site and have always looked forward to read your comments. For me you are a decent human being. I feel sad. Please don't let yourself go down.
"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear"- Marcus Aurelius
at bigmac and MrFlipper and Outlaw (I LOVE your intelligent sarcasm/humour - it often lightens up very serious threads!!! Thank you, thank you and thank you again): Not wishing to hijack this thread, but I think oompa could benefit from yours and others experience. Myself? I don't know whats happening with me. My experience is almost the same as oompa's (18 years of marriage, been Bethelites, etc.) she decided to walk away with our 2-year old baby girl. It made my heart bleed.
Now I am in a new, wonderful, refreshing new relationship with a girl that can handle my "shitty-JW-past".....and now I am confronted with this: 2 weeks ago my former wife (divorce has not gone through yet) is "re-thinking" our situation and she wants me back and says she can handle and put up with my apostate thinking......I miss my little girl sooo much, and the years and years of marriage are coming back through memories.....she put me through with lots of pain because of her fanatical JW-thinking, and now I am almost considering going back to her, because of my daughter....I don't know if I love my former wife....maybe I will sorry for her, because of her pain.....but I'm in love with my new partner.....at the same time I feel egoistic for "doing this" to my ex-wife........the past days I've been struggling, not sleeping and crying a lot.....with no reason as I was enjoying life and a wonderful new partner for a while now.......this new "offer" is making my life miserable again....I don't think she can put up with my thinking because we spent almost five years fighting over this shitty cult......I think it could become a trap........
I am counting all this, because oompa might go through the same process.....I hope you will be well my friend.
poor people are poor simply cus they cant manage their money, right?
wrong.
you have lost your job and your house, you are down to your last $1,000.. how would you make out at the end of the month.. accept the challenge, .
I have been in that situation twice in my Life........living with only 5 Euros in my pocket FOR A WEEK!
Game results:
Ended up with 987 US$ and paid rent and gave kid 10 Bucks.
(But don't ask me how.........being an asshole pays off I guess.........forget about your grandfather that passed away...I will see him in Paradise and apologize...OH WAIT, that isn't going to happen....damn it... I knew I forgot something.
Yes, I let my Pet suffer..... to save 50 Bucks for the "final solution"......in real Life I would go to that funeral, pay for the Pet, be a nice guy and end up where I have been many times: BROKE. ;-)
I hear Greece is broker than me.....
thanks to 'gayle' for bringing our attention to the fact that the december 15th watchtower has now been uploaded to jw.org.
it doesn't take long to reach the first juicy bit on pages 8 and 9, this time regarding higher education:.
it would be good to ask, am i taking to heart solomons example of treasuring divine wisdom?
King Solomon was a good man:
http://www.bricktestament.com/king_solomon/solomon_loves_foreign_women/1k11_01f.html
pastor charles taze russell died on a train outside pampas texas in october of 1916.. shortly afterward a phonecall was placed to j.f.rutherford that "the old man is dead.".
as we all know, rutherford wasted no time.
he engineered a series of moves that placed himself at the helm of a publishing company.
My mother would have donated EVERYTHING to the Vatican (as her mother and several aunts did! MORONS! Again: STUPID morons....)
