there are hundreds and hundreds of permitted extra-curricular activities for jw's to enjoy.
activities that have nothing to do with religion or worship where jw's can really have a ball!.
so, for all of you people who sometimes wonder if you should perhaps go back, lets all list the permitted fun things that any witness can do in his / her spare time.. i'll get the ball rolling:.
how about blowing bambi to pieces.
My wife was relating what the person studying (yeah she started studying again) with her said,
"sometimes, my husband prays to Jehovah when he is out hunting, while he's waiting there [to blow bambi to pieces] because the things Jehoavh created are just so beautiful." -BLAME, KABOW. "oops i missed, now where was i? oh yes thank you Jehovah for this most delicious ice cream. and thank you for my boys who i will raise to kill other bambi's."
hi everyone.. my name is caspian, i am an elder in a congregation in england.. i have been reading this forum for about 12 months, never having the confidence to log in.. however after all the information that has come to light in the recent weeks, i feel that i need to start coming to terms with the crisis that i now feel.. i am a third gen jw, and been an elder for 15 years, my family whom i love dearly are all naive fully committed jw's.. please if any current or ex elders in a similar situation care to make any good advice.
please help.. sincere regards.
cas
hey caspian
watch who your friends are
i have read Ray Franz's books (all of crisis and part of in search of) and found them insightful; however, i feel they/he are/is also duplicitous, and more of a catharsis and a CYOA than anything else. don't get me wrong, they are useful, but you do have to remember where he is coming from. he's pointing the finger at everybody else and sharing very little of the blame.
read the Orwellian world of Jehovah's Witnesses.
but if you really want a book or video that will open your eyes and has no bias whatsoever and was not specifically written for or against the WTB&TS please, please, please, read and watch Animal Farm by George Orwell. In all truthfulness, Animal Farm is the scariest book and recently there was a made for TV of Animal Farm, not sure if it is available to you in the UK. It is completely unbiased.
also George Orwell's book 1984 - it gets more complicated than Animal Farm but it is revealing.
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most of the people i knew as witnesses were nice people with genuine motives.. in fact those with obvious personnallity flaws, would not , in my congregation anyway , be made servants or elders.. but i wonder did the postion attained in the org actually change the people who were chosen?.
does the extra respect , power and aurthority over others cause changes in a person makeup they can not help?.
absolutely
i would have to say the worst (aka: funniest) thing i ever did at a meeting was when i sat with the circuit overseer and his wife (many moons ago......) .
anyway, he was really prim and proper and she was of course, a very submissive wife who barely spoke without her husbands permission.
anyway, he goes to the platform and starts off by asking th audience: who was ahab?
raised my hand and corrected them on something. They were all commenting (especially elders and their wives) and saying that elders (in the cong i was attending at the time, and i guess any cong for that matter that anyone would be going to go to -after all who would admit to such a thing) don't tell their wives about who did what and etc.
so i raised my hand and asked, "so what was that talk we heard a couple weeks ago that bro. elder so-and-so gave based on a WT article from the WTB&TS from about 2 mo's ago that said that the number one problem with elders is they 'talk' to their wives. i heard that talk right here in this cong based on a WT we studied right here in this hall?" -you could here the crikets outside after that comment -because we had windows :)
oh yeah, farting and then blaming one of my kids. you need the kids for cover.
you have to like these kind of movies in the first place but, even if you don't go see it!..
and see it with a full audience!.
i love movies that engage the audience and in this movie they were truly engaged.. either screaming or laughing profusely.
pomegranate
sad thing is, they could probably kick everones ass who post here.
i think i seen the guy on the left pick up a car.
don't underestimate ugly.
i used to hate the kingdom melodies, but maybe i did like one or two i think one was called "apostates on the march" @ i feel so human
drahcir yarrum
Tommy Lee? from Motlet Crue-(x)?
he isn't, but his dick is; wit h it's own area code too, I think the zip on that is 666 and that's in inches.
there should be a song in there called: "i'm a mindless idiot"
Edited by - thewiz on 23 July 2002 19:54:30
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in which part of the planet are you?
i'm in the sf bay area, ca, u.s.a. i have been there for 17 years.. how about you?
D.C.
ted yack-ah-rez (i know it doesn't make sense from the spelling, but that's the way i have always heard his name said) the yack part is a kind of soft guttural sound. like a cat coughing up a fur ball, or hacking at your throat to draw up a loogie to clear your throat and spit on the sidewalk. same thing, but different.
a thread started by realist which mentioned the flood and the disappearance of the dinosaurs got me thinking.
since i do not own a bible i had to download one from the internet to check a few things out (my computer is really pissed at me now).
it's been many years since i read the bible but i needed to be accurate in my research to ask my question.
all i know about george washignton i read from books (that someone else wrote). i've been to mt vernon, va. twice. but how do i know if he ever really existed? so why not question absolutely everything.
i remember hearing stories as a kid that john denver would ask all the witnesses present at his concerts to stand.
and, then after they stood, he would play the national anthem.
any truth to this?
i posted on this before, search for my thread (i'm not doing the work), where i relate a story on smurfs, to teach a lesson on listening to gossip
i went to 4 JD concerts in my life, he never the national anthem thing.
i "DO" know he had a strong dislike for people who didn't vote (some public service announcement commerical on tv; which i seen and heard with mine own two ears & eyes).
BTW, what was the last thing JD said?
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
