So this CO/DO didn't even believe the BS he was pushing. While he was wisely putting away for his retirement he was busy telling others to not worry about retiring in this system as it is coming to an end within our life time.
William Penwell
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Former Longtime Elder- Met up with a Former CO,DO
by James Jackson inat a convention recently, i met with don wallace, a former co and do.
he told me he came off the road 6 years ago and is living in scottsboro al.
him and his wife are in their late 70's.
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Baffling comment by my JW parents about non-witness funeral
by joyfulfader inmy parents attended the funeral of an elderly family member today.
being out of state i was unable to attend.
i asked how it went and was told that "worldly" people don't care enough about anyone to mention anything personal.
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William Penwell
The two most recent JW funerals I have attended have actually broken rank and given a very nice eulogy of the deceased. I was shocked. Both were prominent elders in their local area. A VERY prominent former Bethelite gave one of the discourses. I thought perhaps there was a new outline allowing some kind comments about the dead person. After all, that individual's memory is why we all gathered.
I have to say that when my father passed away the Elder giving the talk knew my dad and really personalized it. I would say he spent most of the time talking about my father and maybe 10 to 15 minutes about the religion. The Elder that gave the talk knew my dad and really genunely liked him. I think that made a big difference.
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Baffling comment by my JW parents about non-witness funeral
by joyfulfader inmy parents attended the funeral of an elderly family member today.
being out of state i was unable to attend.
i asked how it went and was told that "worldly" people don't care enough about anyone to mention anything personal.
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William Penwell
I think it depends who is giving the memorial talk. As long as the Elder that is giving it is not a conservative type and have to stick to the outline and they know the person personally then they might perosonalize the talk some what. Otherwise in my experiance it just becomes a big preach fest.
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Dinosaurs and the Bible
by The Quiet One inhttp://sianrose.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/the-genesis-account-and-dinosaurs/.
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William Penwell
I can't read anything by someone that is not even qualified to speak on this subject.
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The more time I spend with "worldly people" the more I realize...
by confusedandalone in... that they actually have more of a desire to get to knoww you then jehovah's witnesses.
for years at the kingdom hall although i was an elder everyone "knew of me" but no one knew me.
i realized that i never really had a friend who knew anything about me as a person or my background.
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William Penwell
It is because JW's practice only conditonal love.
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Role Reversal: Placing 1969 Awake with JW's Manning the New Portable Literature Displays
by snapdragon4 inin recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.
as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .
the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.
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William Penwell
This brings me back. I to am around the same age as snapdragon4 and remember like it was yesterday all the hype leading up to 1975. I should have applied myself to better myself with a higher education but was told not to bother as this would take too much time away from the preaching work. I put most of my time and effort into the JW service thing. After when 1975 came and went by with nothing happening I was stuck with a menial job that I hated. Well it is now over forty years and I will be retiring soon from this system that I was not supposed to grow up in. I have also seen my parents age and die and that was also not supposed to happen. Then the WT wonders why some of us have no love loss for their organization.
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what ever happened to the king of the north and king of south?
by nowwhat? inafter the daniel book came out, nothing has ben said about it in at least 10 years.
did that prohecy get thrown out the window when the soviet union fell?.
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William Penwell
I recall as a kid reading the old Babylon book and the king of the north and the king of the south was a big prophesy pushed by the dubs and my wacko brother in law.
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What is WT policy on a persons deceased ashes?
by William Penwell ini ask a question on my other post but i think it got lost.
what is wt policy on what is approprate way of handling a person that is deceased ashes?
the reason why i ask is because we are having a family disagreement of how to handle my fathers ashes..
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William Penwell
I think most communities have laws about scattering ashes but if you do it discreatly who is going to say anything. I think a lot of these laws are pushed by the sleezy Undertakers and Funeral Homes as they want to try and squeeze out every last nickle they can out of the deseased.
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What is WT policy on a persons deceased ashes?
by William Penwell ini ask a question on my other post but i think it got lost.
what is wt policy on what is approprate way of handling a person that is deceased ashes?
the reason why i ask is because we are having a family disagreement of how to handle my fathers ashes..
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William Penwell
The borg is not in control of me but I was asking the question for those dub relatives that find this offending. Anyway I have spoken with some of my dub relatives and they are going to allow me to honor my father the way I want to.
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Bipolar Landlady kicks me out!
by Terry infun times.. a year and a month have passed since i moved in to the house where my cousin deb and her husband bobby live.. i had a small but comfortable room, tv, etc.. a nice cozy family situation, you might say....right?.
i pay $600 a month to defray expenses.. hunky dory.. sure.
until the first few eruptions!.
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William Penwell
I feel for you. I rented out my spare room to a woman that after I found out she was a little looney and fly off the handle for nothing. After a couple of months I had my fill of her. I was ready to give her notice but she beat me to it and gave me her notice to move out. Once she was gone I decided it was not worth my piece of mind for the extra money to rent the room out.