growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.
in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.
thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.
Joe Gibson from the old days in Liverpool. He was already dead by the time I was born in 1984 but in the late 80s and early 90s he was still talked about. Only ever saw one photo of him sitting in Manchester City football ground where we used to have conventions back then. He lived to about 95yo.
The fact that he was still talked about shows how few and far between "the annointed" were back then.
Nowadays they're ten a penny I hear.
apparently the jws of coventry, england, have been spending their congregation's money buying names and addresses from the local council.
i wonder what they want them for and is this something that each congregation does?
i'm curious now.
When I worked in immigration and was in the Polish group, I was asked by the elder running it if i'd kindly make a list of names and addresses of Polish people in Liverpool.
I told him it's against the law. He replied "who's law?"
I never did it. And I'm glad I never did. Even though I was a zealout back then it stank of underhandedness.
i need to vent again here.
because i have no one else to talk with and no one who really understands except for the people here.
my wife is the most dangerous kind of jw.
My go to line is:
Do you think your organisation is perfect?
No
So what’s wrong with it?
as much as i enjoy you and pete's company, you also know our understanding of how much we want you to be reunited with jehovah and his people.. .
we did not set the standards for what jehovah says about our associations with those who choose to not serve him.
so we will always be there for you and pete, but it is in your hands as to how we can enjoy your friendship.. .
Trotters, are you SURE you don’t shun?
according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.
the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.
it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.
So when the GB are all dead, "the helpers" will run the show as GB Lite?
And so it goes on. The next step is immortalizing the dead GB like the North Koreans do with Kim il Sung.
she certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
There's lot of young people just like her who get no media attention at all. I dont know why she of all people got to be the face of enviromentalism.
She's young and feels passionate about something and I think it's good that someone speaks out for something that they genuinely believe.
But she doesnt make me want to start using paper bags or carrying around my own bottle to fill up at work. Greta has zero effect on my way of dealing with the enviroment. I mean, seriously, are we all to stop travelling by plane and get on a boat now?
jehovahs witness yearbook, 1967 p.105: cameroon"on one occasion a large crowd was following a man who had a talking serpent.
the serpent gave greetings and spoke in foreign tongues....a brother was passing by, attracted by the commotion, he went to the house to see what was happening.
as soon as he entered the room the serpent stopped talking.
Oh please.
They'll be telling us to hide in bunkers next.
my wife and i were in edinburgh on saturday (did a ghost tour) and around dusk we passed two trolleys on the high street — aka 'the royal mile' — that both had two rows of led lights under the little shelves.
has anybody else seen this or is it a local innovation?
i'm happy to report their pimped-up trolleys were attracting no attention as usual.
How... festive?
although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".
the first paragraph asks '1.
what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?
I remember the Watchtower study one Sunday when I was about 8 years old. The study conductor, all wide eyed and frothing at the mouth, assured us that it will definately come before my generation left school.
I'm 35.
It was "the last seconds of the last minute of the last days" then.
yesterday i got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not?
it’s monday.
the shop is conveniently round the corner from my place.
The worst I get is where they look at the ground or pretend to be looking at something else.
Ah yes, the "take out your phone and pretend to text" routine. I love making them feel awkward. I make them notice me and make them go out of their way to ignore me. If they think I'm going to "humble myself" and obey JW rules they can F off.
