How bad is the economy? The economy is so bad that.....

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How bad is the economy? The economy is so bad that......

I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

African television stations are now showing 'Sponsor an American Child' commercials.

Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can't afford batteries.

CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

B.P. laid off 25 Congressmen.

A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced.

I saw a Mormon polygamist with only one wife.

I bought a toaster oven and my free gift with purchase was a bank.

If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.

Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America.

Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.

My cousin had an exorcism but couldn't afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her.

A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.

Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.

A picture is now only worth only 500 words.

They renamed Wall Street "Wal-Mart Street.

The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.

How bad is the economy? Can you think of other examples?

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Yan Bibiyan

It is so bad that the Watchtower will now charge you for outgoing ISP bandwidth, when you are downloading their PDF magazines.

straightshooter

The economy is so bad that the WTS stops giving Bethelites, traveling overseers, and missionaries any money. They will all get part time secular jobs and also volunteer part time for the WTS.

BurnTheShips

You need to reuse the toilet paper?

You go to McDonald's and put a Big Mac on layaway?

BTS

donny

Walmart is referred to as "that expensive place".

The Society has named the theme for next years conventions "The Kingdom Decrease" convnetions.

snowbird

The whole family takes turns bathing in the same water!

(Used to happen)

Syl

BurnTheShips

My folks know that kind of po from a few decades back. Saving the bones for soup. If a duck landed in the yard, stones would fly.

They survived. We will too.

BTS

MMXIV

to save money "New light" will be run from solar energy

the retirement age for the GB will be extended indefinately to save on pension costs

the WTS printing presses will cease and every dub will have to download and print their own magazines causing divisions between the more spiritual "publisher printouts" and less spiritual "inactive iPads".

on memorial night a picture of the wine & bread will be passed around the room, whilst the money saved will be donated to the WTS GB healthcare fund.

MMXIV

AGuest

They survived. We will too.

Indeed, dear BTS (peace to you!). Things were "really bad" when I was growing up. There was the Vietnam War, Civil Rights march(es), assassinations of 2 Kennedys, Malcome X and MLK. Rock/Pop stars were dropping like flies from drug overdoses (Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, etc.). The Temptations were singing "Cloud Nine," "Runaway Child," and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." Marvin Gaye was singing "What's Goin' On?" Diana Ross "Love Child," Beatles "Revolution," and the Stylistics "People Make the World Go Round." And James Brown was singing "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud."

Watts was on fire, the Cold War was in full swing, Beirut and Lebanon were being bombed, and friends of my fathers were being shipped back from Vietnam fairly regularly.

Just in my short lifetime I've seen recessions, depressions, shortages of milk, sugar, chocolate, pennies, water (several times), gas (many, many times), paper, newspaper, aluminum foil, tin, rubber, and more. I've seen opium, heroin, cocaine, free-base, crack, and meth epidemics, as well as STD blowouts and HIV/AIDS. The S&L industry tanked, banks have come and gone, stock markets have crashed, earthquakes have occurred "in one place after another"... and we've had so MANY "wars and reports of wars."

And what have I learned from all of this? That we will survive such things and that there really is nothing new under the sun. Truly, "the world keeps on revolving."

Am I apathetic. Absolutely NOT. Because, as my Lord is recorded to have said, "But... the end... is NOT YET." Folks forget (at least, those who pretend to be paying attention), that it's NOT when everything appears to be going BAD that means anything. It is when everything appears to be going GOOD. The CALM... that comes before the "storm."

Always blew me away that JWs didn't get that. Asked about it, once. No response. No surprise.

Peace!

A slave of Christ,

SA

serenitynow!

The whole family takes turns bathing in the same water!

How do you decide who gets first?

How bad is the economy? The economy is so bad that.....

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