i went looking for convention releases by year and i did not find a handy source.
so i've started one.
help me complete it, my friends.
Holy moley, the hours I wasted sitting through those things.
I love that list! Brings back memories. I was in the drama "Beware of Rebellious Talk" in 1981. Guess what prompted them to write that one?
It's so interesting to see the change to 4-color programs and then back again.
badwillie wrote the following experience about an ignorant comment from a do:.
case in point:.
a friend received a full scholarship from a local college to study to become a veternarian.
Skippy - Your mustard story is hilarious!
I've told this story before on other threads. We had a CO in Massachusetts who was completely out of touch with reality. He used to brag that he'd never held down a full-time job (pioneer-bethel-CO). It became obvious when he started spewing his opinons.
He condemned anyone who failed to wash their dinner dishes before coming to the meeting.
He railed against the louts who didn't brush their teeth before a meeting.
I remember sitting there thinking, "I get home from work at 6:15 and it's a 7:00 meeting. Which one is it - wash the dishes or brush the teeth? Cause I can't do both and make it to the meeting."
This same CO swept through the circuit and imperiously insisted that the seating arrangement in every hall be rearranged - even the ones that had theater seats bolted to the floor. Then he instituted a policy that upon entering the hall for a meeting each publisher had to apply to an attendant who would escort them to a seat, filling up each row, starting with the front row - no seat left empty.
The elders all hated him - marathon elders' meetings, no excuses for failing to appear for field service on Wednesday evening (he'd even use the circuit assembly as an opportunity to shame any congregation that had less than 100% of the publishers out on the Wednesday evening of his visit), and he'd work only with children out in service.
He was a pompous ass, but the kids loved him.
i lost my wallet when i was at the supermarket yesterday.
but i did not notice it antil today.
anyhow, i went to the supermarket.
It's sad that our mental conditioning as JWs makes it inconceivable that worldly people can be nice, honest, decent, and just all-around folks!
I remember that realization hitting me like a thunderbolt while I was on my way out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/05/budget-committee-united-nations-drunk-_n_2809970.html.
what a sweet gig.
land a big salary, go to the best restaurants, stayed hammered at work.. metatron.
What surprised me was that it was such a problem that they had to make a big announcement about it. I can see one or two of them being a little tipsy, but...
seriously, do people really believe that these events actually happened?
or that they are in any way justified oir right?.
a guy and his small family gather up severy single living animal, bird, insect, puts them in a huge boat which saves mankind & all animal life.at the word of a prophet, a few bears tear apart half a dozen kids for calling a guy a baldy bastard.
I remember something that was written or in a talk about the Apocrypha. They said that you could tell those books were false because they read like fables or fantastic stories. One day it occurred to me that a lot of the OT reads the same way.
Jehu and his wet/dry fleece.
The guy who chopped up his dead concubine into 12 pieces and started a civil war.
Lot's wife.
Just about anything any of the judges did, Samson being a notable example.
Adam and Eve.
The list goes on. I quickly reminded myself that the bible is inspired of God (because it says it is) and I wiped those disloyal thoughts from my mind. Like a good JW.
yestarday all our elders were invited to a one day meeting urgently .i know they had their elders meeting few months ago .does anyone know what it was about .i heard from the grapevine that among other issues disgussed was a)how to deal with disfellowshipped ones and, b) how to offer councel to fellow elders .any elder attended this meeting in britain please feel free to share some info.
bump
this is so a made up example .
written as ifs it was real .
whats your opinion ?.
Thanks Blinders off/Cedars!
What kind of twisted logic leads someone to think that a suicide attempt somehow correlates to a college education?
i have not been able to post for a while due to my health issues.
i am in need of prayers because i am still having problems with diarrhea and very bad stomach cramps every single day that will not go away and my gastro doctor has taken me through stool tests and x-ray tests and cannot find out what is causing the diarrhea at all and i have been crying because the diarrhea is very bothersome.
i also need some prayers because i really need to know someone that has gone through the rny gastric bypass surgery and has had their gall bladder removed because i have a lot of questions.
STT - I had Roux-en-Y surgery, but I still have my gallbladder. As GMA said, it's usually something you're eating, and you're getting dumping syndrome. It could be something you had tolerated well in the past. I know when I get dumping syndrome I spend an hour writhing and wishing I were dead.
The diarrhea is a concern, though. It could be a gluten intolerance. Make sure your doctor checks that out.
Hugs and best wishes!
this is not monumental... i am sure all of you think it all the time.. but as a 3rd gen born-in ex-elder ex-pioneer ex-bethelite i spent so much time in this relion believing that for some reason that god, who loves all humans and created all things only wanted a few people to get knowledge of him - and this small group in america was his choice.. .
now as i said i am sure 99% of you probably came to that realization before and it is common sense, but the very fact that as a grown man i never really thought about this for more than 15 seconds.
the whole idea is just ridiculous and freaking stupid.
Just remembered something that got the ball rolling for me.
My ex-father-in-law, who died "faithful," used to say, "It amazes me that a bunch of old ladies sitting under the trees in Cedar Point fulfilled bible prophecy."
He was referring to the prophecies in Revelation about pouring out the bowls of wrath (or was it opening the seals? I love it that I can't remember) where each bowl was fulfilled by a resolution passed at some assembly of Bible Students back in the day.
It occurred to me that it was ridiculous to think that something that was supposed to be a worldwide proclamation with stunning effect could be accomplished by passing out pamphlets in a few American cities.
Check it out in the Revelation Climax book.
before the meeting at the kh, little billy runs up to his grandma and says, "grandma, grandma!
make a sound like a frog!".
grandma gives him a hug and asks, "what are you talking about?".
Billy - LOL!!!
Etna - LOL!!!
Smiddy - LOL!!!
