Posts by SadElder

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Call Me Stupid But.... Who Is Ted Jaracz?

by adelmaal in

jw
friends

i keep seeing that name and would love to know who in the heck he is/was.... was he part of the governing body at one time?

is he in coc?

i have only gotten 1/2 way through the book so far...

SadElder

Ted Jaracz ... not only is he a Grade A a... but he is the Boss of the Bethel CIA (AKA Service Department). Through this department the collective consciences of the elders, CO's and DO's is controlled and manipulated. Jaracz reportedly told another member of the GB (a more liberal one) the he was standing in the way of a benevelent dictatorship.

As to the pants issue... he was reported to have accosted some sisters, visiting New York and staying in Brooklyn Heights, over their wearing of slacks while visiting Bethel. They were not visiting Bethel but friends in the area, but Jaracz was not assuaged.

BTW Bethel housekeepers who work in public access areas must now wear dresses not slacks. Allegedly a Jaracz rule that found its way to reality.

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Pay Attention to Yourselves and to All the Flock book

by rebel8 in

maybe i'm dreaming, but......is anyone out there willing to scan the book and sell the scan to us ex-non-elders?

i would love to have a copy of the whole thing....i'm sure others would, too.

i scour ebay, but no luck.

SadElder

BTW word has it that a new Flock book is under way to be released for the next eldub school this winter. Don't have reliable confirmation of this yet. Reportedly it will be looseleaf style, but that too may change.

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Are those your kids? Where da' %&*# is Bey Bey?

by prophecor in

i must be an old fart, but i gotta' a real problem with opc's or other peoples children.

you know the kind you see in the supermarket runnin around like a buncha' wild indians, (no offense to any indians), but could you just smack dem' lil' suckers, or what?

then, there's the one in the record department of the borders books, he's justa' flippin thru the cd's while listening to ludacris or some foolishness on the headphone listening station, be-boppin his head and just makin' a mess of all the cd's that happen to be in ma' peoples section.

SadElder

Oh my have you struck a nerve. Unfortunately it?s not just the children who need a whack, it?s half the adults as well. The bleeding hearts aside (sorry of you?re insulted bleeding hearts) when we were in school, discipline and respect were common place, the norm not the exception. I know we?re pushing 60, and that dates our values perhaps. But, in those days if you got in trouble at school you got in more trouble when you got home. Oh yes, guess what? No students showing up blowing away their counterparts or bombs in the hallways.

Today?s teachers are faced with insults and worse from parents irate that their Johnny or Suzy was corrected, or failed, or didn?t get an A for the F quality work they turned in. Give the parents detention too.

We raised our three with a whack on the bottom in they needed it, and guess what? They?re still here functioning and doing well in their respective practices. They don?t need analysis, they don?t hate us or blame us for some imagined damage to their psyche because we made them live to a moral standard. So bring back some discipline (not abuse) and teach respect and values.

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March KM also gives instructions to POs

by stillajwexelder in

also in the march km apart from the big front page article about awake being monthly - is a rebuke to pos to distribute kms as soon as they arrive.

i am glad about this - far too many pos are control freaks and distribute kms at last possible minute - it is almost as if they are saying - i am better than you because i get my km about 3 weeks before you do.

anyway we got our march kms last night and they were distributed immediately

SadElder

The gestapo tactics of the Service Department (Bethel CIA) rise again. The KM is a product of the Service Department and is used as a means to ~~beat~~ communicate with the sheep. How is it that the "Christian" Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses feels it has the authority to infiltrate and regulate every aspect of of the dub's life?

Perhaps a reading of Acts 15:10 is in order for Ted "The Boss" Jarascz head of the Service Department (Bethel CIA).

" Now, therefore, why are YOU making a test of God by imposing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we were capable of bearing? 11 On the contrary, we trust to get saved through the undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus in the same way as those people also"

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Snubbed by an eldub

by SadElder in

haven't been in the door of a khall in nearly a year and haven't had one visit from any of my old elder "buddies?".

did have two newer eldub idiots stop by about two months after i stopped completely.

told them that if they were there to complain and bitch then they might as well get their fat asses down the drive and not come back.. ran into a eldub that i served on the body with last weekend, he completely ignored me even when i acknowledged his existence.

SadElder

I decided next time I see him I'm going to give him a one digit salute and not acknowledge him.

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Snubbed by an eldub

by SadElder in

haven't been in the door of a khall in nearly a year and haven't had one visit from any of my old elder "buddies?".

did have two newer eldub idiots stop by about two months after i stopped completely.

told them that if they were there to complain and bitch then they might as well get their fat asses down the drive and not come back.. ran into a eldub that i served on the body with last weekend, he completely ignored me even when i acknowledged his existence.

SadElder

Haven't been in the door of a KHall in nearly a year and haven't had one visit from any of my old elder "buddies?". Did have two newer eldub idiots stop by about two months after I stopped completely. Told them that if they were there to complain and bitch then they might as well get their fat asses down the drive and not come back.

Ran into a eldub that I served on the body with last weekend, he completely ignored me even when I acknowledged his existence. So I just snubbed him with my nose in the air about ten feet higher than his. What a bunch of jerks. My wife just laughed at him.

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Did you notice that they were a lot of "rich Witnesses" in the organization

by inquirer in

i remember this guy once, after the book study (the one where you go to someone's house to study a book) boasting on this house he wanted to buy!

it made me feel sick!

he was showing off so much!

SadElder

Through the years we've served in several congregations. Some were quite status conscious others couldn't give a rat's butt about who had what.

Because we've always had more than enough we've always tried to put people at ease who had less than we did. The measure of a man in our mind is what they do with the wealth they have, be it riches, intelligence, quick wit, or kind heart. We have a big house, in fact two of them, what does that make us? Nothing, but old farts with two houses. But alas many dubs are indeed impressed with the have's. Let them eat cake.

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What's so wrong with phone sex??????????

by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

what would your response the the question below be?????????????????.

mine is....................................................(see below).

young people ask .

SadElder

Don't know, but I do know a dub in Florida that got df'd for it. Direct instructions from Brooklyn as I understand it.

whew!

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Name Things That You Can Be Counseled For

by minimus in

jw
friends

i'll start.......a woman wearing a skirt higher than her knee and a child crying during a meeting

SadElder

Some of the rules we've seen over the years, some of which have been directed at us from time to time. We would just roll our eyes and say, WHATEVER

Two door cars, can't use them in the service

Too many gatherings - why they couldn't be called parties who knows

No wanking

Skirt length inspections by some over zealous elders

Various hair length inquisitions against the young brothers

Not enough gatherings

Having too much money

Too many autos

Too big a house

Too many vacations

Dangling earings or earings that were too large

No hose or panty hose, even in the heat of summer one CO told all the sisters he wouldn't work with them if they failed to wear hose in service. My wife told him to "get the hell out" of her car. Wish I'd seen it.

On and on and on... rules of the week keep on coming

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song writers of wtbs songs..

by candidlynuts in

jw
friends

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i remember about 1993 or so at an assembly some name dropping of who wrote some of the kingdom melodies.. anyone remember any?

i dont remember any of the names dropped and would like to.

SadElder

The one who had the most influennce over the last two song books was Karl Klein. Very much a Salvation Army horn man. There was a fellow named Vern Duncombe (sic??) who was part of the last song book assemblge. Hece the umpa feeling of most of the songs. He was a Klein favorite.

There are some talented writers among the dubs, but generally they are kept on a tight leash. Folks we knew back when that were involved in the music arrangments

Tommy Mitchell , Drew Wasko, Ted Adams, Danny Baker, Harol Blanchard. Doug... forgot last name... from Florida some were, Mark Nevejans. Several of these guys were / are really talented. Perhaps if they were given more latitude the songs wouldn't be so mundane.