this morning as i was trimming my beard, i was thinking about when i was a drone and the times that iws counseled about my 5:00 shadow at the meetings, and i rembered a time when my dad was told to go and trim his sideburns b 4 he could go on stage at an assembly.. at one time it promted a friend of mine and i to write a letter to the society, since they could change thier minds on doctrinal issues as the light gets brighter we thought maybe we could get them to change thier minds on this issue, (yeah right).
a few months later he recived a letter from the society the essence of it was like this : it would not be inapproiate for a brother to wear a nice trim beard but the elders in the local area would have to detirmin if it would be acceptable for the brother to be used in the cong.
and go door to door, as some areas might be more open to it than others.
Hi 'not interested',
I wouldn't believe that story about a Greek sister either! Remember---if it sounds outrageously absurd it's safe to assume it was humor. However, if you think about it long enough you might see there's a thread of truth there somewhere!
Regards, Spaz
this morning as i was trimming my beard, i was thinking about when i was a drone and the times that iws counseled about my 5:00 shadow at the meetings, and i rembered a time when my dad was told to go and trim his sideburns b 4 he could go on stage at an assembly.. at one time it promted a friend of mine and i to write a letter to the society, since they could change thier minds on doctrinal issues as the light gets brighter we thought maybe we could get them to change thier minds on this issue, (yeah right).
a few months later he recived a letter from the society the essence of it was like this : it would not be inapproiate for a brother to wear a nice trim beard but the elders in the local area would have to detirmin if it would be acceptable for the brother to be used in the cong.
and go door to door, as some areas might be more open to it than others.
I knew a Greek sister who had short cranium hair and long nostril hairs which melded with her crumbcatcher; she also had a voluminous amount of pubic hair which protruded through her panties fabric and through the button-up fly on her trousers and which gave her much chagrine after she'd finished peeing in the urinal in the 'brothers' restroom. It was quite a sight to watch her urinate; she dropped her draws to the floor, arched backwards and streamed forth. After watching her so urinate I suggested to the elders that they install a urinal in the 'sisters' restroom so as to eliminate those pesky long waits that women traditionally complain about. It was a perplexing issue because most elders squat down to pee. In their wisdom they simply elected to change the gender signs on the restroom doors.
i've just been looking back over some of the old posts and remembering some of the people we have had on the forum, been friends with and now miss.. one of the down-sides of running a place like this is that it becomes harder and harder to really 'get to know' many of the new ones like it was at first and i'm often working on the system and seeing so many names that they sometimes almost become a blur.
sometimes i see a post by a name i don't recognise and they've already made 100+ or so posts !.
many people are bound to move on eventually (although we're lucky to have a good bunch of 'regulars') and it's unfortunate that some are put off posting by personality clashes (possibly mine!
I've been more of a peruser seeking information than a poster, but there was a flash-in-the pan poster called fatjack. Guy was a fiery sort of curmudgeon. Enjoyed those posts!
i have a long time interest in china -- and continual amazement at the similarities between the way the wts presents it's propaganda and the way theat the chinese communists do it....... last sunday, in beijing, a fire in an internet cafe killed 24 people - there was a swift response from the "leadership" -- all 2200 internet cafes in beijing were closed as a result.
just like politicians in the west, this was clearly a knee-jerk response by beijing leaders, as they tried to make sure that they could not be blamed for poor supervision of the growth of these places.. but the really interesting thing, is the way that the state owned media jumped on the bandwagon and the language they used..... .
"don't let the internet bars destroy kids" - headline in the people's daily.. .
Lest it's forgotten: Read, or re-read Orwell's novel 1984. The similarity of WTS policy is glaring. In real life Blair, H.G.Wells, Huxley, Webb and others were socialists. Their works reveal that their brand of socialism was communism. In his later years, Sydney Webb fawned over the Bolshevick style of socialism. Fascism is another form of socialism that's sweeping the western world. Large, wealhy corporations control governments, economies and social agendas. The WTS is a large and wealthy fascist corporation running a socialist agenda with political and banker links.
Regards, Spaz
another example of gross hypocrisy - do they honestly think that these type of things will never be discovered?
unbelievable.
i suppose their excuse is that the shares were donated as gifts and through wills etc, yet surely they should not accept them if they are not appropriate to the teachings of the organisation.
Hi dedaisy, I'm fairly ignorant of complex corporate intrigues. I suspect that the corporate WTS may be connected to the CIA controlled Rand Corporation. Could you tell me if either Rand Energy or Rand Cam is any way linked to the Rand Corporation?
Regards Spaz
does anyone know of any good rumors about specific members of the wt governing body?
Is this Poster,Norm from Norway?
How can I help?
i am currently doing some research on the early days and struck a few obstacles for which i need some help from anybody.. 1)russell predicted several times the "rapture of the saints".
this meant a visible return of those saints and that russell & co would rise to heaven.
when they failed to return visibly it was concluded that it did happen but invisible.
My recollection about the Third National Bank is a bit hazy, but it had Standard Oil as owner. I may be wrong. Conley, if I'm correct was the banker through whom the Rothschild-created B'nai B'rith channeled funds for the corporate Watchtower Society to come into existence for a zionist cause. Zionism wasn't articulated until 1897 in Herzl's Judenstaad, but the Haskalah movement, from which zionism developed, also funded several ostensibly Christian fundamentalist groups during this period. those groups were keen to promote Palestine as a State for the Jews and other pro-jewish views.
anyone in australia heard this one... .
apparently sometime in the 1980s a congregation in south-east melbourne had half its publishers resign due to those publishers reading apostate literature.. true?.
from ak
There was the StKilda congregation where most of the ministerial servants resigned when the elder body dismissed them and assigned their duties to several elderesses. This was in the early '80's.
at one time, this board seemed to be fair.
but i no longer think that it is, to jws, at least.
ex-jws here can cuss, insult, say fu to everybody they don't like, and call jws pedophiles.
Yeah comforter I think you make a good point. This forum seems to attract all the jw rejects now xjw reprobates with their self-righteous, myopic and judgmental ways they learned from the WTS. Most of the participants here are big whiney girls, the rest are bulldykes with and without penises.
this person posted a parody to illustrate a bias in commenting on this forum.
it is entitled,"i raped him when he was 15" and the jwf admin.
relegated it to redundancy and a no-reply status.. twenty years ago i personally knew a female jw who lived in the san diego area and worked in law enforcement.
I'm not in the business to make friends with administrators, fornicators or masturbators.
Was it Shakespeare who said,"thou protesteth too loudly"? I guess I hit a raw nerve. If the shoe fits then wear it; that's all I'm gonna say!
