"it's the intent that counts not the result.".
i have been out of the jw organization for some 22 years now and i sometimes get a reminding jolt out the hoops that some will jump through to make their religion make sense to them.
the first line in this post is what a jw on the street here in salinas told me on saturday when trying to justify the society's history of false prophecies.
Not to nitpick, but did they not explicitly say in the 1969 Awake that 1975 was the year?
Checking back through the posts, insearchoftruth found the text from Awake 1969, May 22, p. 15, and Atlantis posted the pdf file in that same thread from 2008. I could not open it due to the security settings on my computer at work.
hello friends,.
it has been a while for me since i last posted.
i've been busy getting some degrees, now working on my doctorate.
Hello friends,
It has been a while for me since I last posted. I've been busy getting some degrees, now working on my doctorate. I need some help finding a reference. I believe it was from a '95 Watchtower that referred to the WTB&TS as Jehovah's "perfect earthly organization." Does anyone at least know where I can look? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
v/r,
Troucul
I hate hippies
cleveland your proud to be from one of the shittiest biggest cities in the u.s. -it's only soda if it's orange soda, otherwise it's pop.
-it's dinner, not supper.
-if you get the head nod, you know you are part of the crew.
How was Spinal Tap?
HELLO CLEVELAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they want money, no. If they want a specific favor, then maybe. A guy offered to show me specifically how to get to Hunter AFB if he came along. I obliged, but he wanted some money for breakfast at McD's before the gate. I obliged and thanked him. Especially since he saluted me when I was in uniform but only wearing a PFC rank. Now I know what officers get off on. Still I admire his ability to get a few bucks.
I gave a couple bums a ride back to their home in tent city. Funny mudderfukkers. Wreaked of rum, when I dropped him off by the utility box in the parking lot, his wife came out of the bushes and started yelling at him. He told her to 'shut the 'f' up bitch'.
I guess I only get involved if it's going to end up like a train wreck. It's like virtual rubbernecking.
i know many of you are dfed, daed, and faded.
what do you do to fill the void of the time left that was devoted to the religion?
i just like to know what activities you all are into.
drink
okay, here goes.... i've seen many many many references to kool-aid here, such as "don't drink the kool-aid" etc etc but i can't work out what it's all about.. but, my imagination tells me that maybe someone went to a memorial meal, "partook of the emblems" and discovered that it wasn't wine, but kool-aid.. am i right or is there something else going on?.
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Just saw a production on that tonite. They're now choosing to no longer call it a mass suicide, but rather a mass murder. Jones was a bitch. There was evidence to suggest that he had someone shoot him. He did not necessarily shoot himself. One of the biggest pieces of shit that a mother could bear. I feel bad for his parents. That man was an unstable piece of garbage. 300 children out of the 908 that died. Many were forced to take it. They interviewed Jones' son and several others who made it out alive. The guy who killed the congressman got 18 years and got out in 2002. He's roaming free after killing a congressman. Yay justice!
people who speak non-tonal languages are more likely to have a more recently evolve form of the genes aspm and microcephalin.. this raises an interesting idea.. possibly no non-tonal languages were spoken at the time of the towers of babel.. how would a jw explain?.
Outlaw...Ukrainian????really! Those people are indestructible. My great grandpa smoked non-filtered Lucky Strikes and Camels since he was 8, gassed by the Germans in WWI, and lived until he was 97. Go figure. My gramps told me a story about this guy. As a policeman in the early 30's in CT, he was driving through the neighborhood on his day off with his family. He saw a young "gentleman" beating the crap out of an old man on the side of the road. He slammed on the brakes, told his family to sit tight, chased that dickhead into the bushes, beat the crap out of him, dragged him to the corner, had a neighbor call the police that were on duty, and waited for the cops to take him away. Then he got back into the car, and drove away as if nothing happened. That man was a badass. God bless the Ukraine.
as witnesses, you are trained to feel guilty.
i don't know if i'm rare regarding my guiltless feelings but i have not had any guilt whatsoever after leaving the witnesses.
not even a little bit.....what about you?
alcohol makes everything go away
20 years ago (in my teens!
) there was a well established rumour that the paisley pattern had demonic origins.
no brothers in my hall wore ties with that pattern, until a watchtower had a brother wearing a tie with this pattern.. a co said that sisters feet should not seen at the meetings for the sake of decency.
I loved Paisley ties...I guess that was a sign of things to come
