Pete Zahut

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  Norm Macdonald 1959-2021

  by neat blue dog in

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  any other fans of norm macdonald here?

  i think this is the only time where i actually felt a celebrity death.

  what a loss.

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  Pete Zahut

  His comedy definitely came from an obscure way of seeing things. He was known to be quite quirky, didn't drive, was a compulsive gambler who lost all of his money 3 times and had all sorts of hang ups.

  I used to think he was an interesting guy until I heard him tell a story about how he had slept with his best friends wife while his friend was outside mowing the lawn. He figured as long as he could hear the lawn mower running he, would be safe.

  I didn't like him as much after hearing that story.
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  Anyone have an obvious gay or lesbian in the congregation?

  by mickbobcat in

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  when i was a kid we had a kh with a basement and this guy joe winestien lived in it.

  he has passed away i believe.

  he was about 24 and used to hang around the young boys.

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  Pete Zahut

  There was a very flamboyant/eccentric effeminate skinny (kinda' creepy) older man in our Congregation who was a wealthy hairdresser and was married to an elderly non JW woman. He admitted that he was attracted to both men and women and unbelievably was somehow DF'd several times for carrying on with both sexes. The last time I knew of, he was in his high 70's and was involved in a car accident in the wee hours of the morning while drinking and driving and his young female passenger ( a bar-maid) was injured and he had a stroke. He recovered but eventually he died of old age and l understand he left a lot of his money to different collection of young single brothers he had befriended over the years.

  There was a boy in our Hall who was an elders son and he was a sweet kid but was more like a girl than a boy and stayed that way as he grew up. In his late teens, much to everyones surprise, he got engaged to a very nice heavyset girl at the Hall and his father was over the moon about it. When he told us about the engagement, he said "Yes...he is a Man after all !!"

  They couple got married. He with his dyed blonde hair and she in an enormous white wedding dress. We wondered who would carry the bouquet. Unbelievably, they soon had a son but not surprisingly, they ended up getting divorced a few years later. Over the years he was shunned by his family. He eventually married another man and he is a very nice person but is still unbelievably effeminate, so much that you have to wonder if he's mentally "all there". He and his gay husband and his former wife (who remained single) and their now grown son (who is also gay) are all on good terms and seem to be doing well. Decades later, the Elder father passed away so now his mother and the rest of his family are back in contact with he and his gay family members. They seem to be making things work.

  You can't make this stuff up.
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  Just changed out the summer quilts.

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  i just washed all my summer quilts and put them away for the season.

  i brought out the thicker and heavier winter quilts and put them on the beds.. i love patchwork quilts and have a couple of heirloom ones actually made out of the scraps of old family clothes.

  my mom can point to a fabric and say," oh, that was a dress of mine when i was little," or, "that was my mother's apron.".

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  Pete Zahut

  Summer aint' over till I say it's over !
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  Empty hands

  by Gorb in

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  Pete Zahut

  I wonder if Jehovah would accept some fresh eggs, a chicken or some home grown vegetables?
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  I have never been to Las Vegas.

  by Iamallcool in

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  i would like to visit las vegas one day.

  if you have a choice, would you want to live there?

  low humidity sounds good to me.

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  Pete Zahut

  I have family in Vegas and they like it well enough and I wouldn't hate living there. There are some nice residential areas just outside of the main downtown area. The strip is a bit much in terms of being gaudy and overwhelming with lights and glitz. With Covid, the hotels/casios were offering expensive hotel rooms/meals for drastically reduced prices so the low rent ghetto out of town visitors came there on the rampage bringing all their behavioral problems with them, while the more normal tourists had the sense to stay away. There are things to do other than gambling (rollercoasters, stage shows, water slides, sightseeing in and outside of town etc)

  They are having serious water shortages this year and with "global warming" they expect it to get worse. The Colorado river is fed from snow runoff from the Rocky Mountains and powers the Hoover Dam and feeds Lake Mead which is the water reservoir Vegas uses. It is currently at 36% of it's capacity and they don't expect it will ever get completely full again because of the lack of snow in the rockies. Water restrictions are in effect.
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  Bible

  by Iamallcool in

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  do you have some scriptures that makes you scratch your head in wonder?.

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  Pete Zahut

  What the heck does this mean. Pin the slave to the door
  

  You have the slave put their earlobe against the wooden door and you pierce a hole it by hammering the sharp pointed awl through it until the awl stuck into the wood door. I imagine they'd put some sort of earring into the hole once the person stopped screaming and they cleaned up the bloody mess.

  After that, they looked around for some poor little baby boy to circumcise.
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  GB / Wives ,wont voluntarily give up their lifestyle

  by smiddy3 in

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  just an observation viewing some of their on camera appearances , and their arrogance believing they are the only one`s used by god to reach and teach the people ,despite what gj said at the arc on the subject.. no doubt the gb men wear designer tailor made suits from the best tailors in nys ?

  and their wives adequately provided for in a similar way ?

  nothing from kmart or target ,walmart or whatever.. shoes are probably made from form fit cobblers to fit the individual ?

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  Pete Zahut

  When I was in Bethel, certain Bethel Elders, clad in 3 piece suits were driven along with their wives to meetings in black town cars. They used to pull out of the Bethel garage as the rest of us trudged by in the snow as we made our way to the subway or bus station and back again late at night. Supposedly the town cars were donated by some witness with a car dealership.

  The rest of the JWs were admonished in the literature and from the platform to not distract from the message by making a showy display of our means of life.

  I remember seeing my housekeeper and her elder husband in the back of one of these cars. They were a black couple and I don't know about him but I know she was from very humble beginnings in the south and I think she may have felt ashamed or at least very uncomfortable about this because she sort of slunk down in her seat when she saw the group of us stoped on the sidewalk so that the luxury car they were in, pulled out of the garage.
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  GB / Wives ,wont voluntarily give up their lifestyle

  by smiddy3 in

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  just an observation viewing some of their on camera appearances , and their arrogance believing they are the only one`s used by god to reach and teach the people ,despite what gj said at the arc on the subject.. no doubt the gb men wear designer tailor made suits from the best tailors in nys ?

  and their wives adequately provided for in a similar way ?

  nothing from kmart or target ,walmart or whatever.. shoes are probably made from form fit cobblers to fit the individual ?

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  It was probably PAY-BACK- from the Sister in the laundry

  Ha! or maybe it was her and she was involved in some kind of money laundering this time.
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  Bible

  by Iamallcool in

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  do you have some scriptures that makes you scratch your head in wonder?.

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  Deut 15:17 But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you, 17 then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
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  GB / Wives ,wont voluntarily give up their lifestyle

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an observation viewing some of their on camera appearances , and their arrogance believing they are the only one`s used by god to reach and teach the people ,despite what gj said at the arc on the subject.. no doubt the gb men wear designer tailor made suits from the best tailors in nys ?

  and their wives adequately provided for in a similar way ?

  nothing from kmart or target ,walmart or whatever.. shoes are probably made from form fit cobblers to fit the individual ?

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  Pete Zahut

  I used to sit at the governing body table for all my meals while I was in Bethel. As I remember, most of the wives were very nice (think circuit overseer's wives) but there was an "air" about a few of them (one in particular) that let you know that you were beneath their radar. I won't mention any names but her initials were/are Marina Sydlik.

  In terms of being superior/privileged, the ones who seemed the worst back then were the wife's of the Overseers in the factory or "Bethel Elders". In the basement there was a single washer and dryer for us to use because the Bethel laundry used to shrink/ruin our clothes. I used to take my nicer stuff down there and do a load once in awhile. I put my soap and clothes in the washer and walked over to the Commissary which was a few steps away, to get a snack to eat while I waited for my laundry. When I got back a few minutes later, one of the Elder's wife's had taken my sopping wet soapy clothes out of the machine and tossed them and my laundry bag, into the slop sink. She stood there with a sour look on her face as if there was no way in Hell Hades, she was going to wait around for a lowly "Bethel Boy" to do his laundry. I didn't say anything because I thought there might be some rule about not leaving the machines unattended, so I left and came back later just as she was pulling her wet stuff out of the washer and putting them into the dryer. She turned the dryer on and left ( apparently it WAS ok to leave...or maybe it was ok for HER to leave).

  I resumed washing my stuff and waited there for the cycle to finish. When they were done, she hadn't returned so I took her still damp stuff out of the dryer and put it into her laundry basket and set it on the floor and put mine in the dryer. I wanted to see her face when she returned and discovered what I had done but unfortunately/fortuantely mine dried and I was outta' there before she returned but I was ready to go toe to toe with her.

  I'd have gladly given up the machine and waited if she'd have asked. I couldn't believe that something this petty was happening at Bethel....they never mentioned this kind of stuff in the brochure ! This was one of many things that happened there (including having my room robbed) that told me something was very wrong with this organization and Jehovah wasn't watching.

  To answer the original question, I think they'd more likely tweak the scriptures or come up with "new light" to justify their lifestyle, than they'd be to give up their luxuries. Right now, I'm sure they feel that their looking and having the best, reflects well on the organization and brings glory to or vindicates Jehovah's name.