i fondly remember my teenage days as a jw--back in the 1960's.. circuit assemblies-in birmingham, england uk.
after the sunday afternoon god-fest there was usually a party--somewhere--in the evening.. one of the lads--his parents were care-takers (janitors?
) of an office block in the city centre.
Between 1950 and 1959 the word ELDER appeared 37 times.
Between 1960 and 1969 the word ELDER appeared 24 times.
Between 1970 and 1979 the word ELDER appeared 446 times.
Remember that during the 1950s and 1960s they didn't use the term "elder" and considered it a clergy title like "Reverend" or "Father." It only makes sense that they started using it a lot more when they decided it was OK to apply the term to their own people.
When I was 16, I got a job pumping gas at the gas station across the street from my house. It was the least stressful, most fun I've ever had in a job. I have a ton of great memories of that place.
I still have a bit of the JW mentality in that I consider my job to be something I do to support the things I really want to do in life. My job isn't my life, and I've never had a job that I loved so much that the money became irrelevant. I wish it could be like that, but I've never been able to achieve it. My goal in getting a job now is to make enough money to keep afloat while enduring the least possible aggravation. That's why I gave up management years ago in favor of sales. I could surely make more money as a manager, but I refuse to work the 60 hour weeks, on call weekends, etc.
what songs or groups were you forbidden to listen to as a jw?
were any specifically mentioned from the platform or were you counseled not to listen to a certain song?
for me it was the entire def leopard hysteria album - bad heavy metal told it was demonic, i listened to it in secret, silk's "freak me" - a virgin listening to a song about hot sex?
In 1970, my regular pioneer application was turned down because I listened to the Beatles' music (and read comic books).
A year or two after that, an elder informed me and my friend that we shouldn't listen to Santana albums because "Santana" is a feminine form of "Satan." He didn't seem too fazed when we told him that Santana was actually the guy's name.
i recall about 25 years ago that at the district assembly, it was mentioned that the fulfillment of the declaration of "peace and security" was made by president george bush (sr.).
was this just a verbal thing or was there anything written in any of the publications about it at that time?.
rub a dub.
Let's not forget 1974, when President Nixon resigned and, in his inaugural speech, the incoming President Gerry Ford promised, "truth, peace and security." Those words formed the headlines in a major newspaper, which I believe I still have a copy of somewhere. The Witnesses, of course, went nuts.
i`m just curious if such books as "life everlasting in freedom of the sons of god " " let your will be done on earth" etc.
are still available in the kingdom hall libraries and if they are then that should be a wake up call to all jehovah`s witnesses.. if they are not then that should be an even bigger wake up call to all jehovah`s witnesses.
the bible has never been altered in 2000 years under the direction of holy spirit.
Of course, if you aren't a member of the congregation and want to walk into the KH library and start researching older pubs, they will probably want to know why.
i had one (elder) who loved to pick on the sisters who had an unbeliveing mate......he had short mans syndrome and got a kick out of it.. co, han hubler...anyone that knew him will know what i mean.. he was so disliked it was hard to get anyone to have him for a meal when he visited..
There was one CO - I think his name was DaCinti or something like that - who would end every talk with a threat of death at Armageddon if you didn't follow whatever he was ranting about. He would somehow bring the topic around to the first hours in the New System, then put his hand above his brow as if looking into the distance, and he'd say "On that day, we don't want anybody saying of US, 'Say, has anybody here seen brother or sister so-and-so?'" In other words, 'do what I say or you won't be there.' He was also a pretty nasty guy apart from that, as I recall. A real so-and-so...
this saturday, fundygod removes his bestest believers from the earth.
how many of these ascenders do you know?
are you having a farewell party, or anything for any of them?
Since Harold Camping, who made the prediction, assures us that only HIS followers will be raptured, most of you probably don't know very many of them. According to Camping, the run-of-the-mill born-again Christians who have failed to abandon their churches and follow him will be left behind to suffer with the rest of the wicked. This guy isn't a typical evangelical; he's a whacked-out cultist right up there with the JWs.
hey everybody, i'm in the middle of an ongoing debate w/some jws and they are asserting that everyone knows what they're getting into when they are studying and getting baptized and that nobody forces anyone to become a jw and that you can leave anytime you want.
ok, we know that's not true.
how would you counter that argument?
the bible refers to the book of jashar at joshua 10:13. this is when the sun stood still and the moon stopped.. it is also referred to in the 2nd book of samuel 1:18 where it says: "behold it is written in the book of jasher.".
why did they leave it out of the bible yet quote from it as an authority?.
the bible refers to the book of jashar at joshua 10:13. this is when the sun stood still and the moon stopped.. it is also referred to in the 2nd book of samuel 1:18 where it says: "behold it is written in the book of jasher.".
why did they leave it out of the bible yet quote from it as an authority?.
