like many others, our local church produces a newsletter.
church car park sign... “for members only.
trespassers will be baptised”.. a sunday school teacher asked, “johnny, do you think noah did a lot of fishing when he was in the ark?” “no,” replied johnny, “how could he, with just two worms?”.
Like many others, our local Church produces a newsletter. In it were the following;
Church car park sign... “For Members Only. Trespassers will be baptised”.
A Sunday school teacher asked, “Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was in the Ark?” “No,” replied Johnny, “How could he, with just two worms?”
i remember a roman catholic priest acknowledging on the bbc that the outrageously anti-clerical tv comedy father ted was a humorous mocking of his church but an acceptable thing.. try mocking the jw religion to a believer and the result is so very different.. just why is it that jehovah's witnesses can never take even the faintest hint of criticism of their religion?.
I’m not entirely sure the average Dub is so
sensitive to criticism, at least that’s not been my experience of late. Mind you, I don’t get to see them much these
days, I haven’t had a call in about three years. But one thing’s for certain, the GB are on a
par with the Muslims when it comes to sensitivity to it. And you can see they would go apoplectic if
you were to hold their TV performances up to ridicule.
i remember a roman catholic priest acknowledging on the bbc that the outrageously anti-clerical tv comedy father ted was a humorous mocking of his church but an acceptable thing.. try mocking the jw religion to a believer and the result is so very different.. just why is it that jehovah's witnesses can never take even the faintest hint of criticism of their religion?.
Try mocking Islam to even an even unbelieving Moslem and the result will be different still.
not that i was any better(lol - but as i sat back and thought about the time i spent there, and the things i saw i feel disgusted.. i could literally write a thousand stories about the discrimination, favortism and all out dishonest that took place but i doubt anyone would actually care.
the one thing however that really sticks out in my mind is when i was in a nice room with my roommate that he kind of inherited after his previous roommate left.
it actually had a bathroom and we both had space for real beds(not those dang trundle beds like we had in standish).. .
If anyone reading this thread hasn't already
done so, I would strongly recommend reading this one: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/160509/1/Warren-Schroeder-from-Bethel-on-Freddy-Kline-and-the-apostate-books And even though many continued as JWs after their
Bethel
experience, they were never the same again.
most witnesses i knew were exteeemly reluctant to go out in the ministry.
but when they did, they were simply scraping by, eager to avoid conflict and just do their hour or so speaking to lonely old ladies or widowed old men.
placing magazines in a car group, doing route calls, plodding along in the utter boredom of their responsibility to get some time on a report by the last day of the month.. this was never a warning work.
I can concur with snugglebunny. In the early 70s we certainly did believe we
were doing a vital warning work, and our field service rendezvous points were
usually pretty well attended every day, and quite a lot of us were very zealous about the
message we had and the role we thought we played. Once I saw through the nonsense of passages like
2 Peter 3:9 it did become merely a matter of putting in the time. And in my last year I quite often didn’t even
bother knocking on the door. When I could
get away with it I just pretended I did, waited a suitable time, and then moved
on. Whether those today feel they are
doing a vital warning work I can’t say, but the evidence is they don’t. But do they actually believe the end is
near? My sister certainly did, and in
her last days of cancer treatment last year, her greatest disappointment was that she
would not live to see the “signs in the sun and the moon” that were coming so soon .
i think i'm just ornery when it comes to equality.
ever since i can remember, i've always believed that all people were created equal.
the colour of a person's skin is irrelevent to me.
It’s funny how PC changes over the years. I have a female friend in her early eighties who won’t call black people “black”. In her day that was like calling a black person a nigger, so she uses “coloured” instead as that was the PC word when she was young. I agree that there are many cases where PC has gone too far, in some cases absurdly so, but that doesn’t make the fundamental principles of PC invalid (which I think was OC's point). As with most things there are always going to be dick heads who will go to extremes, and in the PC cases it’s likely because they want to show-off how liberal and fair minded they are.
In a similar vein, I despise the way you cannot criticise Israel without being accused of being anti-Semitic, or say that you can’t stand Louie Spence without being accused of being homophobic, or say you can’t stand the Indian caste culture without being accused of being racist.
the london stock exchange up, every share index up, the pound up against the dollar.
where is the fire and brimstone?.
the rebel..
When I woke up to the result last Friday morning I wondered how long it would be before the Leave voters would regret their decision when the promises fail to materialise and the price of Brexit comes to their doors. Well it didn’t take long, but for different reasons. It would appear that some Brexit cretins thought they were voting for migrants to Leave the UK rather than the UK to leave the EU, so quite a few examples of racial hatred have resulted as many migrants have been told to “f**k off back to your own country, cos we voted to get our country back”. One voter said she now bitterly regrets voting Leave because of this. I have no doubt that many more will live to have similar regrets – this was far too important a matter to use it to send a protest vote to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, but many did just that.
As the Boris/Farage campaign was based on half truths and lies it was clear to anyone with even half a brain that the £350 million could not be spent on the NHS, for they had already promised that all currently EU supported sectors would continue to receive that support (that way they could appease the farmers etc who rely heavily on EU funding). And anyway, we know only too well from experience that even if the Tories had extra money in the coffers, their first priority would be tax cuts for the rich, with the NHS a long was down the list.
However, what I want to know is this, how does all this fit in with the King of the North v King of the South prophecy? Especially as we could be heading for an Anglo-American World Power headed by a pair of buffoons.
