lol...this one kills me.
again this year brothers had to walk the halls carrying signs that said "quiet please" everyone just ignores these poor embarrassed brothers.
the assemblay is going on and yet the halls are full of ppl walking, visiting, cruisin'.
This year I saw the dumbest thing yet with regard to these QUIET PLEASE signs.
They had attendants carrying them around during the lunchtime intermission - a full 20 minutes before the music started. Do they really expect people to be quiet during lunchtime too now?
so, i'm thinking about becoming a high school teacher.
i'm finishing up a summer course at my community college and will be going to northeaster illinois university in the fall.
i've been thinking about majoring in biology and secondary education (instead of history and secondary ed.).
Yep, I'm a teacher. Lots of work for not a lot of pay. And I don't get the summers off either - teachers have to do graduate work on their own money and time. But if you enjoy teaching, it's not a bad way to go.
okay, i don't mean by "donating" your hard earned money in the contribution boxes.
or, by having your purse or pocketbook taken.
or, by armed, masked men storming into the hall demanding everyone's money and jewelry.
A few years, a guy (non-Witness) was caught in the KH parking lot siphoning gas out of cars. But I wasn't personally robbed.
So much for Jehovah protecting his "Witnesses"...
i've seen this topic debated/mentioned on other threads.
but i'm wondering if i'll get any jw apologists on this one.
question 1: .
Sorry PurpleV, the Adventists Russell hung around were NOT Seventh Day Adventists.
when i joined the org.
in 1988, every once in a while new halls were being built here and there.
i couldn't pass a month without hearing that a new hall was being built.
All the new halls I've heard of in the last several years were built only because the old buildings were either falling in or were on the bad side of town. I know of none built because of they actually outgrew an old building.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1614&dept_id=161052&newsid=6011345&pag=461&rfi=9
banned church member sues jehovah's witnesses .
by brian justice, the sunday news staff writer november 09, 2002 .
I just hope that this case drags WT mud out into the open, so the public can see the way they treat their members and ex-members. I'm wondering how Barbara came up with the 2 million dollars in compensatory damages.
Anyway, I hope she wins!
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Teachers, and thier union, are a major part of the problems in this country. That problem could be solved if more people showed up at school district meetings, demanding change, rather than letting it slide.
Incorrect. The bureaucracy and administration which cripples the sytem are a major part of the problems in our country. Teachers are overworked, underpaid, and anyone who says otherwise has never been a teacher in a U.S. public school or is in an ideal teaching situation. Local school boards are also a major part of the problem. When the people running a school district are concerned only with the next election and spending less money, it is destined to fail. Say what you will, but the vast majority of teachers are NOT the problem.
several have made outright statements and others have suggested that the society's negative position on higher education has changed.
'the society does not discourage higher education where i live.
' worse, 'apostates have made it all up--the society has never discouraged education.
When I went to college in the mid-90's, I was personally taken to the library by the Service Overseer and told I shouldn't go off to college. You see, not only did I go to college, I lived on campus for 4 years, I was the first person at the meetings and the last one to leave all four years. I went out in service twice a week the whole time I was there.
You see, I wasn't going to allow myself to be the scarecrow the elders back home could point to and say, "Don't be like NotBlind, he went to college and then he quit the Trooth." Maybe more JW's back home will go to college, like I did, and buck the elders.
Of course, I never told them I learned the truth about the Trooth on the internet while in college.....
it's remarkable the memories we repress.
one came back today.
many moons ago as a young zealous "publisher" i lived with a house full of single brothers (some former bethelites and others aspiring wannabe bethelites).
Well, the guy had the right body part, anyway...
He would have been more accurate if he had compared to WT and Awake and KM to the stuff that comes out your a$$.
an ex-jw friend of mine once agreed with me that the letters in the "questions from readers" section in the wt/awake!
were all made up by the wbts.. does anybody have any evidence either way?.
has anybody had their "question" published?.
There are seven letters - two from Italy, one each from Germany, Japan, India, Czech Republic and the USA. Only ONE from the USA! As everybody knows, the majority of JWs are in the States, but reading where these letters (allegedly) came from implies a global JW distribution!
Think again. There are about 1 million active JW's in the US. Most of them don't even read the mags. There are about 6 million active JW's worldwide. You do the math. The "From Our Readers" section in the Asleep! is probably real. But I'd bet the QFR is made up.
