i found a company and employed an elder as an underwriter and two ms as sales and marketing.
anyway, this elder will delegate his work to the ms in sales and marketing, so he can go home early.
he knew when he got started that this would be a 10 hour a day job with some saturday.
I had an Employee who I had to warn he was in serious trouble, and if he did not do the right thing, I would take him to Court.
He smugly replied " We don't take our brothers to Court" . Even though I was a believer fully at the time, and risked the wrath of the Elders, I immediately replied " I DO ! and I WILL!"
The little shit did the right thing, so I didn't have to, but trying to pull that one on me made me so angry, that I would have taken him to Court.
at a certain point, as the years tick by, you start to realize that you have forgotten a lot of things.
typically, something you learned, some knowledge or skill you used to have, that you just haven't used for so long you no longer remember anything but that you once knew it.. i saw an article about electrical resistors the other day, and how the colored bands signify the rating.
now all i remember is that i used to know it, and that resistors do something with, erm, electricity ...
It is weird what the brain does, it seems to park stuff in a deep vault until needed, though some things cannot be dragged up from that vault.
The way the brain seems to work is that if IT decides you don't need that stuff anymore, it sends it to the Vault, or worse, takes an executive decision to erase it altogether !
But long buried memories can be suddenly whooshed up from the vault by the strangest of things, recently I had this happen simply because of a smell ! Another thing that drags them back is meeting a long lost friend, who reminds you of many things you did, which had been in theory long forgotten by you.
I had this a while ago, I met an old mate from my teens, and he reminded me of one occasion where we had been on the Beer all night, then went for a Curry, and then I, as he recalled , but I had forgotten, in a car full of guys, I dropped the worst Fart any of them had smelt in their life !
i was blown away when i found these watchtower records with rutherford on them.
these aren't the ones that were used door to door.
these are 16 inch records that were sent to radio stations to broadcast rutherford over the airwaves.
I have a number of Records, 78 RPM, that have Rutherford's ravings on, I also have a record Player as used by J.W's here in the U.K to play these on people's door steps. Inside it has a plate that says it is a Watchtower Inc. player.
I really must get around to putting them on E-bay, and pick up a few quid. I think the player, with the records, will be popular with a weird kind of collector.
I listened briefly to some of them back when they came in to my possession , probably around 40 or more years ago, I was laughing like a drain at them, as to me, Rutherford sounded JUST like W.C Fields !
I think here a W.C Fields quote is appropriate : " The best thing a woman ever did for me, was to drive me to drink".
theres a couple of threads re: 1914 on the board right now and it got me thinking.. the jw doctrine of the 1914 generation is a key doctrine , yet it is probably the number one reason most have left over the decades.. 1975- within one generation.. 1995 - new understanding of the word generation.. 2010- overlapping generation first mentioned- some anointed survive armageddon.. 2015- infamous overlapping generations chart featuring david splane.. its obvious the org is changing the goalposts and constantly trying to squeeze as much time as they can before they have to abandon this altogether.
or will they come up with something new?.
does anyone else think this ever changing doctrine is responsible for the biggest loss of members?.
For me, the 1914 rubbish was THE reason I left. I read the prophecy in Daniel and decided there was NO WAY a sane person could make a prophecy out of it that went further than what it says in the chapter, that it was fulfilled by the temporary madness of the King ending after seven years.
An Elder said he would come back to me on it, and prove 1914 to me. He never returned. I then researched on line and found that the date 607 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem was wrong, wrong totally and without doubt.
Therefore this meant that No 1914 = No 1919 choosing of a GB = today's G.B are self-appointed Charlatans.
I then spent many hours researching everything J.W , and the whole House of Cards that is their teaching and Claims fell down.
You and I have been conned by a massive, money making Scam.
i don't have the link but i am trying to post this, this is from a previous post on jwn.
watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc. dear brothers:.. we received your letter of december 17 in which you inquire about handling a situation involving a brother who has been guilty of serious violation of the law in the past.. you explained that you received information indicating that this brother ?committed several murders and crimes before his baptism.
you ask if law obligates some action on our part.
Here in the U.K there is no Clergy/Penitent privilege, things confessed need not be kept confidential, though in practice usually are by most Churches, if they are not criminal offences. If they are Criminal acts, the priest/vicar/minister is bound in Law to disclose the Crime/crimes !
The silly thing about the Org. is it is so parochial it thinks its advice is universal.
Without doubt, even though in law they may be alright in the USA, it is a moral duty that they are again not willing to fulfill. The Org really is despicable, and Immoral.
the bible depicts king david as a deeply flawed, unsavory character, the perpetrator of evil acts including: murder, insurrection, adultery, banditry, and extortion.
the sanitizing of david’s character during the following centuries and millennia created an image that idolizes him as the paragon of virtue, closely associated with the promised messiah.
my study identifies the davidic sanitizing process.. https://www.academia.edu/s/390a7ba170?source=link .
Thanks Doug.
does anyone know what year?
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J.W's never did that in my time, I was born in to the "religion" in 1950, and always the reciting of prayers by rote was condemned as wrong based upon Jesus' words.
Was your experience different in the J.W's ? I find that strange if so. Rogue Congregation ?
alanf threads
confirming wts scholastic dishonesty http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/3174/1.ashx.
bad defensive arguments http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/3719/1.ashx.
alanf threads
confirming wts scholastic dishonesty http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/3174/1.ashx.
bad defensive arguments http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/3719/1.ashx.
Alan sadly died recently. Details of Memorial Service etc on Facebook.
so, i was wondering what are the funniest insults i've heard/been called.. the woman who taught me the arabic alphabet did a lesson about insults in colloquial palestinian arabic.. the one that stuck out to me was iniqbir or ini'bir.
literal meaning: bury yourself.
"go and bury yourself".
"May your next turd be a hedgehog !".
