Pete Zahut

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  Something more than physical life.

  by Charles Gillette in

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  most every night, where i work i transport dead persons to the morgue.

  others i work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.. i asked them have they experienced something more than physical life?

  just the voices inside the cold morgue.

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  Others I work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.

  People who feel ordinary and or have nothing much to say on their own often like to have a story to tell and they even start believing them after they've told them long enough.

  These stories are always fear based. If they're going to hang around after death, why is it that the spirits in these stories never do anything fun like go to the beach or to Disneyland? They always lurk about in dark lonely places....the same places they were afraid of when they were alive.

  Billions of people have lived and died on this earth. It seems like there's been enough of them that have come and gone that we'd all have had at least one encounter with a lingering spirit, in our own lifetime.
  
  
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  "Kingdom Rhapsody"...WTF???

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i just cant begin to express my reactions to this....just watch it right through and see what i mean..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poxpsj5s4q4.

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  Looks like fun....too bad we were shown from the Bible how the end was too near to be spending time on such frivolities and that we shouldn't be drawing attention to ourselves instead of the serious message we were commissioned to preach. Anything other than what was organized by the Governing Body, was frowned upon and considered overstepping our place in the organization.
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  Df'd minor thrown out of home

  by purrpurr in

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  have you ever heard of a jw minor getting disfellowshipped and their parents then throwing them out of home?

  i know of 1, 14yr old, df'd for smoking and the very same night it was annoced his mother kicked him out of the family home on to the streets!.

  unsurprisingly as an adult he's never returned to his mother or the wt .

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  In the U.S. parents are legally obligated to support their minor children.

  Imagine the "reproach" that could be heaped upon the congregation if the kids in question went to the authorities or the local news or newspaper.
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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the Cong?

  by purrpurr in

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  i notice that several of the congs i've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men.

  very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc.

  it also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.. would you agree with this?

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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the congregation.

  I suspect the only roles being taken on are the Cinnamon Rolls and Jelly Rolls they consume during their coffee break, 8 minutes after they've knocked on the first door.
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  5 kingdom halls in New Addington for sale

  by usualusername1 in

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  i had it confirmed today that 5 kingdom halls on one site in new addington are for sale.

  price being asked £3.5 million.. every witness in london worked on that site.

  am in shock.

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  Pete Zahut

  I had it confirmed today that 5 kingdom halls on one site in New Addington are for sale. Price being asked £3.5 million.

  Sorry....I'm a bit thick sometimes but 5 Kingdom Halls on one site?? Who's idea was that?
  
  
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  Watchtower Study Edition - April 2019....Thank you for not doing enough in the field ministry

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  watchtower study edition- april 2019. are you fully accomplishing your ministry?.

  the study article starts off with praise and admiration for members who are out in the field ministry.

  the wtbts understand that you have family responsibilities, work, get sick, and have pains due to aging.

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  Simply put, to accomplish our ministry fully, we must have as full a share as possible in the preaching and teaching work.

  They say they want you to be effective in your ministry but I'm convinced that the GB aren't concerned in the slightest, with the closeness of the end or getting the word out. Imagine what would happen if a wealthy JW or a group of JW's wanted to "fully accomplish" their ministry by purchasing television air time to give the same presentation they would have in used the door to door ministry. They'd say they were running past Jehovah's celestial chariot and not humbly following the direction of the "Slave" who in reality want to keep their members on a never ending treadmill of busy work.
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  Research Opportunity

  by researchstudentsophie in

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  my name is sophie mueller, and i’m currently in the class ap research.

  the aim of ap research is to have students enter into an academic conversation that exists about a specific topic or issue.

  for my research project, i have chosen to evaluate the social stress levels, or sense of belonging, within members of the jehovah’s witnesses community, due to my personal background with the religion.

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  Survey completed.
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  Anyone know of elders talking private KH matters to wifes?

  by Tobyjones262 in

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  i knew of several elders who would tell their wife's everything that happened in a committee meeting.

  he is still and elder and very old but i doubt he has changed.

  we used to call him.

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  Pete Zahut

  Normally I'd never say something like this but the answer to your question is a resounding- Yes.

  Her name was Peggy (fatty) McMonogle and his name was Jerry. Jerry (allegedly) told her everything that went on behind closed doors and she'd (allegedly)drop hints to let people know that she knew things about them, then she'd waddle away with a smirk across that buck-toothed face of hers, looking quite pleased with herself.

  After passing judgment on scores of congregation members for years, Jerry (allegedly) ended up cheating on Ol' Fatty (don't blame him) with some chain smoking hag of a woman from his job and was removed as an Elder. They split up and she had to go out to work for the first time in her live in her 50's and got a good dose of reality out in the real world. Last I heard, her ignorant clod of a husband was still stuck hanging drywall well into his 50's despite his back and knee troubles. (maybe there is a god, after all )

  Do I sound bitter?? That's good, because I am.

  In the end, Fatty M. and Jerry got what they deserved, as far as I'm concerned...they caused a lot of damage. The only thing good that came of it was that their conduct woke my family up with out me having to say a word.

  ( allegedly sometimes means it happened, but you didn't hear it from me)
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  Old Goat

  by vienne in

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  some of you may remember old goat who used to post here.

  he died last night in his sleep.

  he was 92 years old.

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  OLD GOAT
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  You might have been a JW if...

  by Incognigo Montoya in

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  ... unlike the rest of humanity, you looked forward to mondays because it was a day off from a meeting..

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  Pete Zahut

  You may have been a JW if :

  • Your digital clock reads 6:07 and you still mentally add the letters B.C.E. to make it 607 BCE.
  • You hear a song in an old movie and can still hear bits or entire sections of a kingdom song that was lifted from it.
  • You need to make an important decision and out of habit you start looking for a bound volume to see what the correct "thinking" is on the matter.
  • You used to thank Jehovah at every meal and for providing your food and for blessing your family with a roof over their heads even though and your worldly neighbors have the exact same house and buy their groceries at the same supermarket as you do.
  • You run into your old JW friends who are aging and you delight in saying " Hey....weren't we supposed to be perfect by now...where's my pet Lion ?? "
  • Your graduated from highschool in the year 1975 even though they said the system would be over by then but now you're 61 years of age, a grandfather and will be retiring with a pension at the end of the month. They even scoffed at the notion that you'd ever be able to use a pension and viewed saving for retirement as a lack of faith.