it has often been said that the jw organisation of today is far, far different to the organisation that ct russell set up, both in beliefs and teachings as well as administration.
i've even heard it said that if ctr were alive today, he would be disfellowshipped for all manner of 'offences' as proscribed by the modern-day wts!
so, if it were possible for you to ask ctr just one question, what would it be?
I'd ask the bearded bastard if he was really a Freemason or not so we could end these damn boring threads.Gumby
I love those threads... Hey...You sold any Pyramids lately ??? If not I have a bridge you might want to sell...A sucker born every minute and you counted on it.
if you ever had a bible study with someone, did you ever admit how hard it was in the truth or did you pretend how great everything and everybody was ?.
and if you did, did you feel guilty?.
i remember the person i studied with glossed over every question i brought up, stuff like not celebrating xmas and your childrens birthdays.
because I was raised a witness and could never compare it to anything else.Gumby
Yeah...Like Gumballs said...I was "raised" in the Truth™ and opted out briefly.I got back in with the scare of 1975.
When I studied with persons (few and far between) I didn't even think how SCREWED UP the whole thing was. It seemed so normal to me.
I think a good example is a dysfunctional family. Many don't even know they are in one until they get out and look back on it.
We had a illegal brothel set up in a house in our territory. I used to dread having to go knock on it. Sometimes the 'ladies' would come out dressed in skimpy lingerie sneering at us sometimes you'd see them peeking behind the curtains just laughing at us. Errrk....
HOW TERRIBLE...I am suprised they didn't assign that call to elders or mature brothers...
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a few of the friends i have spoken to over the years seemed to think that jehovah would never allow man to leave the planet and visit another.. "we have to get this planet right first", they said.. i thought at the time, perhaps the furthest man would be allowed to go would be the moon.. recently, president bush announced a new space initiative for nasa - first the moon by 2017, then mars by 2020-2030.. what are your thoughts?.
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The old dubs did not speculate about space travel...They knew it would never happen...cause the "Truth Shall Make You Free" (1943) told them that it could and would never happen.
Man on earth can no more get rid of these demonic "heavens" than man can by airplane or rockets or other means get up above the air envelope which is about our earthly globe and in which man breathes. God Man on earth can no more get rid of these demonic "heavens" than man can by airplane or rockets or other means get up above the air envelope which is about our earthly globe and in which man breathes.
Thanks to Quotes...http://quotes.watchtower.ca
so i'm at the literature counter last night picking up my latest magazines (that are used for floor mats in my car when its raining) and there are these 2 bible students (mom and daughter) who are studying with some sister in the hall.
(its obvious since they apparently have not got the memo yet on wearing pants to the meeting but i'm sure that's next chapter in the require brochure) anyways so here they are in front of me at the literature counter with a whole list of books and publications they want from the desk including the reasoning book, to tracts even to the wt cd-rom!
the brother looked obviously uncomfortable and gave them what they wanted till of course they asked for the cd-rom.
Nobody needs a literature counter anymore or even to go to the KH.I am sure a lot of witnesses and (others ) use free file transfering programs such as this one http://www.yousendit.com/ to get what they need.
i couldn't figure out whether to put this in "research", "humor" or "adult".
however, since i had to do research to compile it, it ended up here...awake!
1. wash your hands with soap and water after contact with feces and before handling food.. .
People were so busy in the potty, they couldn't get to the contribution boxes.
If they would have thought about it a little more they could have put contribution boxes right in the wash rooms...
i couldn't figure out whether to put this in "research", "humor" or "adult".
however, since i had to do research to compile it, it ended up here...awake!
1. wash your hands with soap and water after contact with feces and before handling food.. .
I only hope that the brothers wash their hands before handing out the literature.
I think they should wait until after they hand out the literature to wash hands.They are after all still handling shit.
Awake! Nov.22, 1997 p 11-121. Wash your hands with soap and water after contact with feces and before handling food.
Let me think...After having a big dump you go over to the sink and turn on the taps with your poopy hands. You wash well and then turn off the (still poopy) taps. You then exit the washroom and touch the door handle where the last person ( who did not wash his hands) had touched it.Time to make lunch...
metatron suggested on a recently started thread the wtbts may dump the awake completely.
i personally think this would be too much for them - however, i predict the bound volume will be just one in 2007 - the wt/awake for 2006 combined -certainly would save some money.
also may eventaully go cd-rom only.. agreed?
I think after a little more time has passed they will drop the WT back to once a month also in an attempt to "simplify" things for the publishers.The publishers will naturally have to be reminded that even though their spiritual food™ has been cut in half the need for "donations" remains the same.
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our congregation had some of the best circuit overseers money could buy!.
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The last CO in my wife's cong may not have skimmed too much money but he sure was a lazy bugger.He always changed the service meeting times to 10 or 10.30 in the morning because"we don't want to disturb people at too early an hour" The very next week the group was back to it's usual 9:15 time....seems a little strange to me that the elders didn't want to take his advice on service times.
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our congregation had some of the best circuit overseers money could buy!.
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Their wives are who I feel sorry for.Gumby
And I am sure you did all you could to make them feel better...
