by Warlock 41 Replies latest watchtower bible
his horny mother had an affair with a JW stud
There were Jw studs? I was shocked to learn this just now.
Also I never knew about 'the green handshake'. That was a shocker.
I was shocked when a pioneer visited Brooklyn Bethel and came back with gushing reports of how opulent and rich it was. I thought how hypocitical that was when we were scrimping and scraping to feed the eternal pleas for money.
LMAO at garybuss and his 'broken' vending machines!
Greetings Warlock,
I was shocked when I read a bunch of letters on file at the KH I wasn't supposed to read,(the head dubs left the cabinet unlocked) about the reasons that different ones were DF'd. Reasons like lying, playing porniea patti-cakes, stealing, immortality. Fun but shocking.
Dismembered
Warlock wrote:
2. The "Green Handshake". I was in for over 20 years before I found out about this one. We were at a C.A. and this is the D.O.'s last assembly with our circuit. My wife tells me "My sister just gave the D.O. a check". I said "What?" She said to look at the D.O. shaking hands and to see how after some of those hand shakes he would put his hand in his pocket. When he did that, he was putting money in his pocket. She says the same thing happens with the "Guest" speakers. She laughed at me and just couldn't believe I had never noticed. For me that was shocking.
While I don't know of any general justification for extending a "green handshake" to a D.O. or C.O. -- since their expenses are covered through local congregation-/circuit-/district- funds anyway, the unofficial honorarium offered to "Guest Speakers" was often viewed as a common courtesy: if the visiting speaker was obliged to drive for some distance outside of his home territory (often with his family in tow) in order to deliver a discourse at a KH, the monetary gift served to compensate his personal out-of-pocket expenditures, e.g., petrol and lunch/dinner for the family away from home. As a child, I looked forward to those Sundays (on rare occasions, a Saturday) as a reprieve from both the boredom of routine and home-cooking!
-V
Reading the old books and seeing all the crazy dates that were written down in black and white
Being appointed by Holy Spirit as an MS what pish that was
The fact that their love is conditional not all encompassing so not really AGAPE love that they teach
DO's and CO's being looked upon as great guys when really they were paid and given a company car, what an easy number
Having to report your hours is not a requirement to be a follower of Jesus
BM
Elders can pick up prostitutes and even be arrested with a prostitute but can chalk it up to having a "weakness" or "problem" so no action was taken.
that would have been a shock to me but i personally know of instance in my area recently of a MS doing this and he's married...mentioned it to my mom who told her elder BIL and he pretty much told her to let Jehovah handle it like I lied about it or something..it is still listed on the police website...i don't get it, its like they out to get certain ones and the ones thats publicly known to do something wrong they let them get away with it...
And that they don't have Gods Holy Spirit...because if you lie they don't know.
Ha Ha - very true. I was waiting to be struck down, but it soon became clear there was no Holy Spirit there.
While I don't know of any general justification for extending a "green handshake" to a D.O. or C.O. -- since their expenses are covered through local congregation-/circuit-/district- funds anyway, the unofficial honorarium offered to "Guest Speakers" was often viewed as a common courtesy: ; if the visiting speaker was obliged to drive for some distance outside of his home territory (often with his family in tow) in order to deliver a discourse at a KH, the monetary gift served to compensate his personal out-of-pocket expenditures, e.g., petrol and lunch/dinner for the family away from home. ; As a child, I looked forward to those Sundays (on rare occasions, a Saturday) as a reprieve from both the boredom of routine and home-cooking!
Then why is it hush, hush? Why isn't it announced from the podium? Why don't they pass a resolution to pay for those expences?
When you walk up to that brother, he EXPECTS you to put some green in his hand, otherwise move along to make a path for someone who will.
Warlock
I was shocked and hurt when I saw pictures at a jw friend's house of a gathering they had for all the kids a few years before. Everyone was there! Well, except me. It stung the worse because it was held less than a mile from my house. I asked my mom about it, and she didn't know anything about it. We were not invited, and I didn't understand.
Also, just being brought before the elders to talk about my short haircut. I was 14, and I had gotten my haircut to just below my ears. They told me it was a worldy sign of lesbianism to have such short hair and asked me if there was something I needed to discuss with them. I asked them if it was so wrong, why were all the sisters complimenting me on it...then they wanted those names. My mom just looked on while they were harrassing me. I told them I liked my hair short, and asked if there was something written about not having short hair. Then, they went on to say that since I was in high school they wanted to make sure I was presenting Jehovah well to my classmates.
Child molesters. I knew two. Both were not reprimanded, but the children were blamed by the elders. Plus, the families were specifically told to let "Jehovah handle it."
Juni,
You're absolutely right. What bothered me was that they always suggested profit based prices for thier "NON-PROFIT" literature! The WT library on CD probably cost them 1.00 to produce, if that and they were saying, "Similiar collections could cost 40 or 50 dollars elsewhere."
That always pissed me off. Why should it cost the same as some worldly organization that "Sold" CD's for profit? Really made me mad.
W.Once
