the march 1,2003 wt.
states: "trusting in jehovah means trusting those whom he trusts.
for example, jehovah has arranged for 'the faithful and discreet slave' to care for the earthly kingdom interests.
Making waves WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! If you question the dictates of the Elders, regardless of how moronic that they are, and despite that you are merely keeping in mind the Boreans....you will be ousted because it CANNOT BE TOLERATED!
Ern
Sheesh...are these guys for real?
marine corp's general reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other day.
and you have to read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning.
guns and children.
It may be made up, but it's still pretty freakin' funny! I'm going to shamelessly use this.
Ern
i find that sunday meetings started too late.
started at 10am and finished at 12 noon.
before people left the hall, drove home, got changed, cooked the dinner, and started to eat, it was past 1pm.
I know that as a kid, I HATED getting out so late. I was usually starving. Also, when I was a pre-teen in the early 80's, it cut into my time w/ Casey Cassum and the American Top 40 radio show.
Coon
you got it, racefans.... today is the superbowl of nascar,the daytona 500. dale earnhardt jr. is the favored driver to win and he won last night's busch grand national "koolerz 300".. today is also the start of the tennessee region of the sports car club of america's race season.
i didn't get to make it to today's race to drive, but i'll be ready for the next one.
i still have to work some kinks out of my brakes on my car.. so, y'all get out there and make some noise!.
You Got it, Racefans...
Today is the Superbowl of NASCAR,The Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the favored driver to win and he won last night's Busch Grand National "Koolerz 300".
Today is also the start of the Tennessee Region of the Sports Car Club of America's race season. I didn't get to make it to today's race to drive, but I'll be ready for the next one. I still have to work some kinks out of my brakes on my car.
So, Y'all get out there and Make some Noise!
Coon
"150,000 screaming rednecks can't ALL be wrong!"
this is a funny commentary comparing the prices of different cults.
what is really entertaining is the email back and forth between the reviewer and the bethelite.. http://www.fadetoblack.com/bestcult/jehovah.htm.
have fun.. country girl
That was GREAT, CG...Loved it. "Maybe you should try Roman Catholicism"....I wonder if his Service Overseer plans to submit that one for inclusion in the Reasoning book?
Coon
gotta make this one quick 'cos simon's thinking about pulling the board down for a day to facilitate the changeover.
hope your weekend's going ok. heck, it should be, arsenal knocked manu outa the cup and the socceroos thrashed the poms at soccer!!!!!!!!!
this morning we were talking about when we used to go to the meetings and mrs ozzie remarked about all the excuses people came up with for missing them.
Well, I have to say that for me, it's number 3. At first I felt a little guilty...but like onacruse, my main motivation was to stop living as such a hypocrite. I also began developing, as Francois did, an unbelievably bad attitude...mainly to ward off unwelcome shepherding. That began by growing my beard and daring any of them to say a word...and culminated at it's high point when I met a carload of elders unannounced, after they had already been repeatedly asked to call first. These men pulled up for an unexpected shepherding call at my remote, mountaintop, rural location. No one came up there for the fun of it and the road dead ended at my house...so it was unlikely that one was just wandering lost. When I wasn't expecting any visitors, I would arm myself and go see who it was and what the f*ck they wanted. This time was no exception...so I met the load of elders with a 9mm pistol on my side and an Assult Rifle in my hands....with the intimidating 30 rnd. bananna clip sticking out the bottom signifying that there was plenty of lead to go around.
Well, for some reason...they didn't stay very long when they saw that I had no intention of a.) inviting them in. b.) putting down my gun. and c.) coming to the kingdom hall. I took the opportunity to let them know that unless they were summoning me to a committee meeting, I had no desire to meet with them for shepherding or otherwise.
Coon
all i have to say about this article is, that pretty soon, they're going to try to ban peeing because we use our genitals to do it.
ash
father, son team up to battle offensive video game music .
Yep...Gimme a BREAK! Hasn't anyone learned YET that it is IMPOSSIBLE to LEGISLATE MORALITY? Jeez...you might as well go back to putting women in stocks or burning people at the stake again. That's why it's called a "Freedom".
That's what I love about this country...Everyone has the guaranteed right to stupidity.
Please....someone slip a bit more chlorine into the gene pool.
Coon...
PS...I like just about any kind of music.
do you think that if the us made peace with iraq and nations in the middle east, that terrorists would stop targeting us citizens around the world?
couldn't peace become contagious??
?edited by - jh on 15 february 2003 14:21:19.
Personally, I think that peace in the middle east is pretty much a pipe dream. As others have said, the hatreds are ingrained. Even if the US were NOT a factor, do you honestly believe that those nations could set aside the differences that they have w/ each other and have had for generations? Just HOW long did the Iran/Iraq war last? Just HOW would Israel fit in, if their borders weren't guaranteed by larger nations...or at least their military technology? The US consistently has a foreign policy that engenders bitterness in many. Some are bitter simply for the fact that they are on the receiving end, rather than powerful enough to be on the giving end. Vietnam...the US and other western nations had ol' Uncle Ho ready to eat out of their hand after WW2...well, guess what? We squandered it. Iran...was a longtime ally of the US...well, they finally got tired of Britain and the US letting the Oil companies ravage the only saleable resource that they had left...as well as playing their games with Iranian internal politics. Those are but a couple of examples.
The US bringing "Peace" to the region? I hardly think so...Holding things at a standoff? Maybe.
JMO
Ern
i just thought i would post a little about myself here, even though some of you might know me from the "beyond jehovah's witnesses" forum.
my name is bradley and i live in a suburb of chicago illinois.
i'm currently twenty six years old and left the jws about nine months ago after a year and a half of intense doubts, many hundreds of hours of research, cognitive dissonance and bouts of vomitting (stressful, eh?).
Hey, brad..
Welcome over here too...and you too, Naddia
Coon
currently the co is visiting the congo (congregation).
sadly i was not paying much attention to his talk and by the time he got to something interesting i wished i was listening.. he was babbling on about identifying a "pattern" and how the jw's have a pattern of identifying the truths (trininty, hell, etc).
it got interesting when he bgean to say dont worry about the mistakes made, we have a pattern of truth and these mistakes should be ignored (my paraphrase).
we have the "two witness are required" policy and this will prevent these problems from occuring
Well, I'll be sure to keep that in mind as a reason why the cops weren't called by the elders when my daughter's abuse came to light. I actually had one of the elders tell me of my daughter's case when I asked why nothing had been done, even though it is their obligation by law to do so, "Well, at the present, it's her word against his." I essentially told him that I don't give a flyin' F*ck at a rollin' donut what their rule is...they have an obligation.
Coon
