When I pioneered, I was friends with an older sister who had been pioneering for ages. One morning, she and I were discussing how difficult it was for me to make my time. She gave me this advice: "Come up with your own way of counting time... whatever works for you." Then she lowered her voice and said: "Never discuss your way of counting time with other pioneers." I got what she was saying, and I followed her advice. By the time I stopped pioneering, I was VERY liberal with my method of counting time. Some mornings, I would start counting from the moment I woke up, and not stop counting until I came home and took off my dress clothes. I just knew to never, ever talk about it with other pioneers.
Posts by fugue
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32Pioneers and Their Way of Counting "Time"
by Eiben Scrood inin the congregations in my area there was an expression to the effect that 'there's counting time and then there's the way pioneers count their time'.
the watchtower's guidelines were pretty strict on when time could be counted.
some pioneers followed it and others didn't.. on particularly motivated young man comes to mind, he would work full-time or close to it and pioneer.
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An email sent to me- we are reallly close to the end
by Sour Grapes insubject: short illustration regarding the "cowbird"hello, we recently dedicated our remodeled kingdom hall here in los angeles , and our guest speaker was bro.
javier hernandez from brooklyn bethel.
bro.
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WOW THE END MUST REALLY BE CLOSE NOW!!!!!
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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Back in the early 90s I went to visit Brooklyn. We had a friend who had married a bethel boy and now they were serving there together. She was in housekeeping. I remember her telling us that these morning worship sessions were torturous for her. She's not a morning person at all, so she said that every morning she would want to stay in bed until the last possible moment, then rush to put on a skirt or dress, fix her hair, and her and her husband would get there just in time. She said she just wanted to be left alone in the mornings, but there were inevitably irritating people at their table who wanted to talk. Then, she suffered through these ridiculously long sessions. She said she would try to just stare at the clock, willing it to go faster so she could eat and get out of there.
That's the way I would be. I absolutely hate mornings. If anyon comes around me in the mornings, I'm an asshole to them. I just don't want to be bothered. My eyes are blurry, my mind isn't awake yet... I just don't want any human contact until I've had time to wake up.
I can't imagine having to endure this every single morning. What's the point of it? I bet at least half of the people sitting there at the tables aren't even listening.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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Could you actually see or smell the breakfast food that you weren't allowed to eat until this old booger shut his piehole? That would kill me. Knowing that my breakfast was RIGHT THERE, just out of reach. And I couldn't touch it until the monotonous droning voice stopped making noise.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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Oh my dear lord. You folks really got out of bed at the crack of dawn, got dressed in your Sunday finest, went to the breakfast table by 7 a.m........ for THAT?????? He almost put me to sleep within the first 2 minutes, just watching him try to figure out what DAY it was. Holy crap, I wouldn't have lasted 2 days in beth-hell.
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@JeffT: I struggled with where to put Jehovah. I can see your point, that he belongs on his own tangent, similar to Jesus. But... I kinda like him being below elder's children, but above ministerial servants. I kinda feel like ministerial servants might be the highest eschalon in the Witness world that actually pretends to be obeying "Jehovah." Granted, most of them are only doing it as a pretense to hopefully get appointed as elders. So I made an editorial decision to put Jehovah right there, between Min Servants and Elders' families.
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"the VISIBLE Golden Calf"
HAhahahahahahahaha that cracked me up... haven't heard that one yet. I love it.
As far as adding deceased GB members... that could really open a floodgate. I mean, in addition to Rutherford (wine steward), Russell (pyramid guy) Knorr (sodom expert) and Franz (linguist)... shouldn't you also add these ex GB members:
- Leo Greenlees (boy's wrestling coach)
- Percy Chapman (hot tub party organizer)
- Ewart Chitty (male model talent scout)
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New JW chain-email going around
by FaithfulBrother inapparently, the society knows exactly when the great tribulation is going to break out, but they're only letting the public know through subliminal messages in their images.
here's a new chain letter that's being passed around between witnesses:.
(daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45).
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Here's another progression among the Witnesses, as seen in photos.
1950s: notice how the elder is keeping a safe distance from the young boy.
Current day: now the elder has his arm around the little boy.
Ahh, the progress that jehovah's organization makes. It's wonderful, isn't it?
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Someone pointed out that Jesus doesn't really fit anywhere in the chart. So I made a new chart to reflect Jesus' actual position within the JW hierarchy.
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