Posts by BettyHumpter

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Avoiding Temptation As a Young Elder

by TMS in

it was the summer of '72.

i was 24 but had been the presiding overseer or congregation servant of a small congregation in the county seat of an arkansas county for about 3 years.. my regular pioneer wife of nearly four years was big and pregnant, with our attempts at birth control unsuccessful.. one of my wife's several bible studies was with a young woman named brenda whom my wife had encountered in door to door work.. brenda had two young children she could barely handle and was married to a very countryfied arkie named henry who worked as a chicken catcher, one of the most difficult jobs at the local chicken plant.. brenda eventually revealed that she'd been raised as a jw, but was never baptized, having left home to marry henry at age 14. she spoke of her family in texas, mentioning her mother and two older sisters, all jws she said.. one morning, just before the meeting for field service, we noticed a small car in kingdom hall parking lot.

my wife and i were parked to one side of the hall in our aluminum nashua house trailer.. two young women got out of the car and soon joined us for the meeting for service, identifying themselves as brenda's sisters from texas.. the two girls, ages 17 and 20, were distractingly beautiful, with the eldest decked out like a magnificent southern belle including hat and heels, her high-end clothing accentuating her very obvious curves.. with no one else showing up for field service, it ended up just the four of us in the car group with the two texas girls in the back seat.. starting our time at a not-at-home, the 20 year old asked if she could accompany me to "hear my presentation.

BettyHumpter

Dear Penthouse Forum: "You'll never believe what happened to me........"

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Is doomsday coming as the Bible predicts or will nothing happen eventually?

by Fisherman in

the bible predicts that at some point, the god of the bible will take action.

this is very convincing when reading bible prophecy and history to back up prophecy as represented in the bible.

—exactly when god acts is another subject..

BettyHumpter

"Revelation and the other riders famine, disease, war"

That's some prophecy. "I have a vision. That which happened in the past, and is currently happening in the present, will continue to happen in the future. " Praise the Lord.

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Is doomsday coming as the Bible predicts or will nothing happen eventually?

by Fisherman in

the bible predicts that at some point, the god of the bible will take action.

this is very convincing when reading bible prophecy and history to back up prophecy as represented in the bible.

—exactly when god acts is another subject..

BettyHumpter

"This is very convincing when reading Bible prophecy"

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Would you still be angry with Lloyd Evans ?

by BettyHumpter in

jw
friends

if instead of thailand, he had gone to a place where its legal and (supposedly) has some sort of oversight to prevent exploitation?

like nevada in the u.s or amsterdam in europe?

would the being unfaithful part still be a deal breaker as far as supporting his channel?

BettyHumpter

If instead of Thailand, he had gone to a place where its legal and (supposedly) has some sort of oversight to prevent exploitation? Like Nevada in the U.S or Amsterdam in Europe? Would the being unfaithful part still be a deal breaker as far as supporting his channel? What if he was single?

For me, apart from the potential exploitation factor, it was the making it public. If my spouse confessed to me that they had cheated with an escort, i'd be hurt and furious. If they then told the world via the internet they had done this, i'd be hurt, furious with the additional dagger of public humiliation thrown in.

If he had been single, i'd say "Yuck, but to each his own".

What do you think?

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“The United Socialist States of America?”

by Fisherman in

when i was growing up, some people were on welfare but the vast majority were working people that paid their own rent, doctor’s bills, medicine, food, etc.

—and saved money.

so, a working person did not need financial help from the government if they didn’t have vices.

BettyHumpter

No idea if this is actually true or just one of those anecdotes you read, but supposedly in many countries parents don't have this bizarre expectation that the kids need to punted out the door as soon as they graduate. Work, Yes. But I think maybe they see the wastefulness of someone in an entry level job pouring most of their paycheck into rent and therefore unable to save much of anything to buy something of their own. It becomes a trap.

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“The United Socialist States of America?”

by Fisherman in

when i was growing up, some people were on welfare but the vast majority were working people that paid their own rent, doctor’s bills, medicine, food, etc.

—and saved money.

so, a working person did not need financial help from the government if they didn’t have vices.

BettyHumpter

"So you make 600 week and I will say take home less 20% = $480 x 4 = $1920 a month. The average apartment rent here ( I just looked it up )is $1464 a month. ( you are right-no designer purses! ) if you keep the utilities on, I guess you are going to the food bank"

True. The bright side, at least if you're in your 20's, is that there are lots of single people in the same boat so finding roomates is not too hard.

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Jehovah's Witnesses - Where is Your Money Going?

by Sea Breeze in

after discouraging and in many instances prohibiting jw's from getting an education, like in computer graphics, film-making and design, the wt is employing these kinds of professionals and throwing vast sums of money at their new film-making adventures doubtless from all the properties they confiscated, sold that the local members paid for.

kim and mikey talk about this primarily starting at 13:15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqafxmsjirk&ab_channel=kimmikey .

BettyHumpter

"The rank-and-file are strongly encouraged to eschew a secondary education in favor of a low-demand job so that they have plenty of time to recruit more people into the cult."

Do you think the leadership is aware that this is a futile effort? How many people covert to JW via the door to door ministry? On these type forums, reddit etc, it seems almost everyone's story is of being a 3rd or 4th generation JW.

Looking back, I struggle to remember anyone having a regular bible study, much less a baptised convert. In my entire childhood/teenage years I remember one couple who joined and a few random weirdo's who I guess were 'studying' but were probably also dealing with mental health issues. Otherwise it was the same faces i'd known since birth and any growth in membership was just people having a bunch of kids.

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Will Ukraine win?

by Fisherman in

i was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.

seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.

no guess how it will all end..

BettyHumpter

"Something that doesn't to make US history books is post 1970, the South Vietnam army had become a capable fighting force, the government was rather stable and the communists had become rather unpopular in the South. The whole anti-war movement was more about the prospect of rich kids getting drafted than an actual moral opposition to the war."

Hmmm. Well...you're an interesting cat. You seem to believe Vietnam could have been salvaged post 1970. I think the idea is fruit loops.

Just curious, did you read Robert McNamara's memoir / mea culpa that he put out in the mid 90s?

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Will Ukraine win?

by Fisherman in

i was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.

seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.

no guess how it will all end..

BettyHumpter

"and then pulled all funding for ARVN. No bullets, no paychecks"

Not completely true.

Fiscal year July 1974-June 1975 Congress approved $700 million in aid. Nixon had requested $1.45 Billion.

You may be right that the ARVN could have held the line on their own given enough aid. I don't know enough about the endgame of Vietnam to say. But no way would ground troops or air support have remained or rather,been recommitted at that point. It seems to me we had been running on the sunk cost fallacy already for years.

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Will Ukraine win?

by Fisherman in

i was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.

seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.

no guess how it will all end..

BettyHumpter

"Perhaps Japan felt that an attack on Hawai's military was justified given the encroachment of whitey on the Asian hemisphere they considered their domain."

Of course they did. They stated as much. The whole 'east asia co prosperity sphere' was outwardly to kick the colonialists out and let Japan take what they considered it's rightful place.'

Pearl Harbor was to knock out the US Fleet and giving them 6-12 months to grab as much as they could, dig in and (they hoped) make it costly enough that the US would say its not worth it and keep what they had conquered.

They may have even had some support from the colonised asian countries had they not been so horrifically brutal to the people they were claiming to liberate.