awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.
somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.
anyone remember it?.
road to nowhere: "should there be an abacus in your pocket?"
You won't believe this:
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101979890&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101986887&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101976250&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101971844&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.
somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.
anyone remember it?.
You've got to remember that calculators were very expensive at the time. My brother, an electrician, bought a fairly basic calculator at the time for about fifty dollars. That was a hideous amount in those days.
And you can bet that the WT would much prefer you to spend your hard-earned on them, rather than on frivolous expenditures like tools for work. 🙄
a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).
i opened the door a crack to : hi!
just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".
Fortunately, I've never been one*. I chickened 🐓🐔 out because I wasn't in the mood for a fight.
As I said above, I thought later that I should have engaged, provided that they promise** not to run away. That's my biggest peeve: after two minutes, and the conversation starts to get interesting, they excuse themselves and leave!
* When they came earlier this year a lady said I seemed quite knowledgeable about JWs. I told her I've known a few in my time, but I'm not what she would call an apostate***. I'm probably still seen as an opposer, though. Seemingly not enough to have them avoiding my door, though! 😕
** Even if they promised, they might still leave abruptly; apparently they're allowed to lie! 🤥 😱
*** Probably well informed enough that they could conclude that I'm in contact with "apostates", which makes me bad association anyway. Or, of course, I could be lying; I don't imagine that they have a high opinion of outsiders.
a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).
i opened the door a crack to : hi!
just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".
careful, paradoxically, if they hadn't stopped the door to door work during Covid, they might have been able to have more conversations with people who were stuck at home and bored 🥱.
Does D2D result in conversions any more? Even twenty years ago it was not looking like a very effective use of time.
family move to remote pacific island to serve were the need is great get a mention in the year book.. however one of the (married) boys in the large family has sex with his sister while his wife is in hospital giving birth to their child.
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all hushed up not even a word said and hes now an elder d.fing people for lesser crimes.. young couple dating leave the jws and move in togather doing drugs partying ect.. his family grandfather,uncles, dad ect are all elders.. after a few years they decide to come back to the jws and are married in the k.h a few months latter.. 1 elder questions them getting married in the k.h and is voted down by his family.. to many drunks and c.s.a to mention.. karter..
Vidiot, that's gotta be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. But it rings entirely true. I've mentioned before about some JW ladies who said: "People say we're brainwashed, but we like to think that our brains have been washed clean!"
"...if it’s this bad in “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization”, it’s gotta be an absolute nightmare in “The World"
I might have taken a beating, but you should have seen the other guy! 🙄
a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).
i opened the door a crack to : hi!
just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".
I've been in this Australian country town for a couple of years now, and yesterday was the third visit. The other two were presumably memorial invitations. This is the first visit that actually felt like old fashioned field service (I say that based on my experiences as a recipient of their visits). As mentioned above, there were at least seven people canvassing this street.
The first visit I received two years ago was basically their first venture out after the Covid lockdowns. They seem to be getting their confidence back, for better or for worse. I see the trolley/cart in town from time to time, manned (or womaned [staffed?]) by different people.
i had a visit from jws yesterday.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5993895939276800/there-some-sort-campaign-going-on.
the opening question was "do you think that the world is getting better or worse?".
I had a visit from JWs yesterday.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5993895939276800/there-some-sort-campaign-going-on
The opening question was "Do you think that the world is getting better or worse?"
I imagine that this is one of many questions that they could open with, meant to lead into a chance for them to talk about their beliefs. I understand that there was, or perhaps still is, a ministry training school that taught techniques like this.
What are some of the other questions that JWs use to open conversations?
after a jehovah's witness secretly confronted a foster child, eunice spry was jailed for torturing three children; she is now set to be released from prison and re-homed near her victims.
uk.
(warning - graphic pictures and story).
The article is horrific (and old; why has it been brought BTTT? Is there a new development?)* But:
"More... Rolf Harris's daughter accused him of sexually molesting her friend and was in such a state she furiously 'banged her head against a wall"
How did Rolf Harris get in here? 🤔
On the Spry case, I found this:
Daughter, 34, who suffered years of abuse hanged herself
Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10195911
Sad that she never lost her ability to wound her daughter 😞
* ETA: Okay, I see that the video is recent. Perhaps a bit of a description here, rather than making me follow the link to find out what it's about?
a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).
i opened the door a crack to : hi!
just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".
Knowing me, I doubt that I would have risen to their bait, but would have immediately headed off on some tangent. I guarantee you, conversations with me never follow their script, for some reason.
If I did, I'd probably do what I always do when confronted with present day gloom and doom: quote the first line from "A Tale of Two Cities" and go from there.
Is this particular question going to be the theme of the conventions?
i think we have to see jw.org like the corporations named in the topic on linkedin:.
jon davids.. 3e+ ceo of influicity | author of .... .
mcdonald's does it.
They used to be a publishing company masquerading as a religion. Now they're a real estate development company. The latter model isn't working well like it did. One: the payouts for all their CSA settlements must be eating into it in a big way. Two: even without the legal problems, simply sitting on large land holdings isn't viable without some cashflow. Without the cashflow from the publishing business, the real estate business probably isn't sustainable long-term.
Interestingly, all of a sudden, McDonald's business model doesn't seem to be working for them as well as it once did. A lot of similar businesses that once were coining it aren't doing as well as they did.
