http://www.s2smagazine.com/stories/2012/03/serena-williams-wants-man-her-faith.
she says that she is "studying" to become a jw , so i guess that fits in with the report that her & venus are ubps , not baptised.. personally i prefer caroline woznaicki , but i don't doubt that there will be a quite a few jw guys that regard her as ace & might be tempted to play mixed doubles , court and have a love game with serena.
and with her 85 million usd wealth , i'm guessing that that part time janitor or window washing job might no longer be necessary..
I'm sure No Room For George would be more than willing.
She's a little too much woman for me and I don't mean she's fat or anything, but I couldn't handle all that. I can see it now, she'd come into our suite on our first honeymoon night looking like this on some Shaka Zulu type stuff..............
I mean, I love a good challenge just like any other man, but sometimes one has to be man enough to recognize when he's out of his league.
"a live dog is better off than a dead lion"-Ecc 9:4
i have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.
in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.
even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.
(((((((((((sickandtired))))))))))))))
"and war broke out in heaven: michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven.
9 so down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called devil and satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
" - rev 12:7.
Never made much sense to me either. If anything you would think he'd manipulate events to support his own argument. Maybe his pride is so strong that he'd rather die be destroyed trying to prove a point rather than live forever in servitude? Why'd he even think he stood a chance in warfare?
On another note, 1 Kings 22: 19-22 throws a monkey wrench into Satan always being the manipulator of events.
19 Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’
“One suggested this, and another that. 21 Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’
22 “‘By what means?’ the LORD asked.
“‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said.
“‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’
i have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.
in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.
even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.
Man SIAM , as always, awesome post!!!
As Elders and Servants most of us worked our tails off, at meetings, conventions, quick builds, service etc. Despite this, no matter how hard we tried and worked we were told that we needed to do a better job. Gratitude was rarely expressed. Many of us became burned out and disillusioned with the organization. We saw the corruption, simony and hypocrisy, the changing doctrinal positions and decided that we could no longer teach something that was not true. So we did research like any student is taught to do, we analyzed history and doctrine and came to the conclusion that it was wrong. Then…
My COBOE once told me that some days he'd like to simply find someplace in the middle of nowhere so that he could just scream and yell to release the tension and anxiety within him, which is a direct result of his position. You're right too SIAM, meetings, field service, special campaigns, parts, talks, elder meetings, meetings about meetings, ARRHGHGHHAH. It's enough to drive you nuts some days. Check this out, my celly has been ringin and vibrating like crazy lately to the point you would think I'm a celebrity, and you wanna know why I'm getting all these phone calls all of a sudden? Even if you don't, I'll tell you! It's other brothers courting me because they want me to assist them with their privileges at the upcoming circuit assemblies and district conventions. Each call starts off the same too like, "Hey Brother Whore, I was just ummm wondering, if you're not busy during the upcoming convention, would you like to help me in the hemorrhoids department?" SMH
Our training helped us to realize that it was all a lie and then try to lead our families out. We were burned out teachers that knew how to research, were skeptical, critical, and determined to do what was right. That is why we left the organization. Watchtower, you trained us well.
Had I remained a Ministerial Servant, I'm not entirely sure I would have ended up on this message board or FreeMinds, or even know that Ray Franz was different than Fred Franz, and 1975 along with the purge in the early 80's would have been a JW Urban Legend to me. Second I got appointed I felt the need to step my study game up, and THAT's when the internal conflict began. The same way the WT taught us how to completely demonize other organized religions and belief systems, we've been able to apply the same criteria towards the WT. It's like they created a monster that they're having trouble controlling.
So why do some wives stay in this false organization? It is because they have been trained also. They have been trained to never question, and to humbly submit to the headship arrangement. They accompanied us in service and study, always at our lead, rarely with anything to offer in the family studies. They always looked to a man to provide direction and answers for them. They had no mechanism within or even a voice to question what they were taught. Their single job as a witness wife was to support their man, who in turn had to support the organization, who in turn was supposed to be supporting the Christ.
I'm single, but what you posted here about wives can apply largely to women in general within the organization regardless if they're single or married. The one thing that I will always find attractive about nonJW women is how they're more opinionated and ambitious than JW women. God I can't tell you how much I love an intelligent woman who can school me and who doesn't have a problem recognizing when someone is attempting to pull the wool over her eyes and calling them out on it. I love that!!!!!! The women in the KH however, too many are like stepford wives or something and that goes for both the single or the married ones. Man, there was this one pioneer who had a love/hate relationship with me prior to me getting appointed. When I got appointed, she was serving where the need is great. When she came back, and got wind of me being an el-duh, everything changed. Granted, she won't call me lord, but she'd definately think about it longer than what should be called normal before saying no.
yesterday i read about the new watchtower & awake magazine simplyfying (15 pages) on jwd and i got a very big big simle at my face.
(yes, the face is big also...).
because: the simplyfying is based on a new strategy: using internet (jw.org) for distributing the magazine content.. the big smile came from this: at a recent co visit, the co told the congretation the following: "everyone of us who suggests that our magazines and litterature has to be distributed by internet is a potential apostate and against the will of jehovah.
Evidently, that CO didn't get the memo.
thought you folks might appreciate this article: http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html.
the only thing i could think of while reading it was those silly head coverings for sisters..
afternoon all,.
a bit on my background.
i studied with the jw's a while ago in my teens, was acitve in meetings, and all the other things good witnesses do.
I was told by several Bethel elders that homosexuality was a worse sin than adultery or murder, that it was a GROSS sin. Like the punishment under the Law was different, execution; like God would resurrect the person and kill them twice or tear them asunder.
This is interesting to me because I've heard elders say, and it's also my personal belief that, being that homosexuality is not mentioned as much as adultery and fornication, it can't necessarily be worse than the other two, or even other sin. It's all sin, and falling short of God's commandments. 1 Cor 6 immediately comes to mind where Paul talks about a variety of sins, and nowhere does he imply that any one sin worse than the other sin.
the announcement of the reduced number of pages in the watchtower & awake will be made after the watchtower study following the "special talk" on april 8.. theoretically, that's when there will be more visitors and "outsiders" than usual.
even the talk itself has 1/2 of its content directed at inactive jws.. obviously this reduction in pages has been in the works for several weeks if not months.
why pick that date to announce it?
This is what the announcement will sound like to the conscious class....
Dear Slaves,
The past several years have brought about great change to the publishing industry. Even though we are a "bible and tract" society that has been supposedly appointed by God, paper and ink have become really expensive and we recognize that fewer people read the crap we publish. God isn't cutting us the same deal on printing supplies as in the past. It is undoubtably the paper unions being used by Satan to stymie the preaching work.
Therefore, in a blatant attempt to stop our financial hemmoraging, Jehovah has directed us to cut the magazines in half and to use the tool of the devil as the means of spreading our false message. Yes, God warned you recently about the internet but now he has changed his mind and directed that we merge all three websites together into a triad of information.
We pray that you supporters of our false religous scheme will continue to increase your hours in the pointless ministry with less product to sell. If anyone in the ministry wants to know the truth about Jehovah's Witnesses we invite them to use only jw.org to research our beliefs and practices.
Your devotion to us will continue to be shown by the amount of time that you spend delivering our URL to empty homes. You are reminded that June has 5 Saturdays and would be an excellent time to increase your activity.
Your masters,
Governing Body
Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they usually have it in reading,pa but this year according to jw.org there's only four conventions in reading instead of the usual 9 or 10. does anyone have any idea where the other conventions will be held?.
Sovereign Center Arena 700 Penn St Reading, PA 16902-1107
6/22/2012
6/29/2012
7/6/2012
8/10/2012
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
You guys/gals walk into this mess.......SMH..........LOL Seriously fellaz? LOL Cot-damn.
