Posts by Alligator Wisdom

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Role Call!
by new boy in
1. jw
2. friends
how many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.
Alligator Wisdom

*raises hand*
Discovered this site at its infancy and officially registered over 16 years ago. Don't post much, but more of an avid lurker.
Alligator Wisdom
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Japanese JW woman "volunteer missionary" murdered in Guatemala
by Alligator Wisdom in
1. social
2. current
saw this in the headline news in japan as a jw sister "need-greater" in guatemala was murdered and her partner stabbed, but survived.

the news agency nhk on tv was quick to note a statement from the japan branch that these two women were volunteers and were doing their "bible education" work on their own dime.. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/06/national/crime-legal/one-japanese-woman-killed-another-injured-guatemala/#.w-gzporrd9a.
Alligator Wisdom

Saw this in the headline news in Japan as a JW sister "need-greater" in Guatemala was murdered and her partner stabbed, but survived. The news agency NHK on TV was quick to note a statement from the Japan Branch that these two women were volunteers and were doing their "Bible education" work on their own dime.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/06/national/crime-legal/one-japanese-woman-killed-another-injured-guatemala/#.W-GZpORRd9A
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Posters You Miss
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone that you miss from this site, dead or alive??.

i miss farkel, blondie and a host of others!.
Alligator Wisdom

Gary Buss
Onacruise
AuldSoul
Dogpatch
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Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.
by Wasanelder Once in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

in one sentence tell why you left the org.

not 2 sentences.
Alligator Wisdom

The Watchtower makes Politics, Policy, Protocol and Procedure a high Priority rather than the basic tenets of Christianity.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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suicide
by zeb in
1. jw
2. friends
who among us has known a jw who has committed suicide.

i believe this as a separate subject has not been covered..
Alligator Wisdom

Two.
Both were wives of elders.
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Today's text caused a fight between myself and my "Still In" wife.
by NikL in
1. jw
2. friends
she insisted on reading it to me and i just couldn't keep my freaking mouth shut.. see if you can tell why.... sunday, february 18.

they would go where the spirit inclined them to go.—ezek.

jesus has appointed the ‘faithful slave’ to be the only channel for dispensing spiritual food.
Alligator Wisdom

Celestial chariot = Ezekiel's UFO encounter
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How Many Elders And Ministerial Servants Are There In Your Congregation?
by Village Idiot in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm curious to see how much manpower a little congregation - a hundred?

- requires to keep it running.
Alligator Wisdom

Local foreign language congregation : 50 publishers / 9 elders / 2 MS
Local congregation : 100 publishers / 3 elders / 2 MS
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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Names of GB's wives?
by Esse quam videri in
1. watchtower
2. bible
does anyone know the names of the gb members wives?

where could i find them?

just curious!.
Alligator Wisdom

I've met Susan Lett and Gloria Herd during my "zealous years" decades ago. This was before their husbands became GB members. Steven Lett was my Circuit Overseer and Samuel Herd was my District Overseer in southern California.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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Use of first names at the KH
by Sour Grapes in
1. jw
2. friends
have you ever noticed that know one uses first names at the kh?

it is how are you brother jones?

how are you sister smith?
Alligator Wisdom

Whoa! A very significant topic for me ~
I would call the members of the congregation Brother/Sister "First Name" (e.g. Brother Jason, Sister Karen...etc) when I conducted question and answer parts at the meeting. Some of the members of the congregation came up to me and told be that they liked to be called in such a way and that it felt warm and family-like.
Well, one elder in particular (former Bethelite and missionary) couldn't contain himself and would have none of that. He call me in the back and counseled me with the same Watchtower article as Blondie quoted above. He even accused me that I didn't love Christ's brothers because I wouldn't follow their directions.
I had him read Hebrews 13:23 and told him that was my Scriptural basis for using the first name after saying "brother/sister".
He grimaced and sat there silently. He never liked me again.
This form of legalism was the start for me to fade and leave the WT.
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OMG, I’m gonna get Old and Die.
by John Aquila in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when it finally clicked,.

and you realized there was no 1914, there was no generation that would see the end of a wicked system, there was no paradise around the corner, .

what went through you mind?.
Alligator Wisdom

I'm still trying to get a handle on this. Some days are harder than others.
Normally, people learn to deal with the experience of death from childhood on and to develop on how to accept it as they mature.
However, for this JW born-in, I never had the normal view of my own death because Armageddon was supposed to be here before I reach adulthood. Now I'm pushing 50 and my mortality is rearing its ugly head in front of me.
The way I'm handling it now is by cherishing the life of my young son and teaching him all the good things I know. Somehow of a condolence, I know I will live on through him..........
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)