what signs do you look for in determining whether someone is really telling the truth, outright lying or possibly using "theocratic strategy"??
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I usually put matchsticks up their fingernails and give them chinese burns until they admit they're telling porkies.
Evan if they are not lying about the subject in hand they would have no doubt lied about something in the past and usually fess up about that to stop the agony. Bonus!
anyone care who gets made pope?
anyone read dan brown's angels and demons?
surely god could make the smoke rainbow coloured - with laser lighting in this day and age - just so we could be sure like?
Surely God could make the smoke rainbow coloured
Would that mean the next pope would be gay? If that's the case I vote Graham Norton for pope. His move from Channel4 to BBC hasn't gone too well so that could be just the career change he needs
well kids... i'm home from bethel.... i made it.
i didn't kill anyone, although i was tempted.
and the scariest part of all was: i semi-enjoyed it!
Hey man, glad you made it back in one piece. It's a good thing the HQ is in a cool city like NY so there's more to do than the tour. Can you imagine if it was in a backwater place... shudder.
She told them that that was where the "empire trade tower" fell
Yeah, yeah.. wasn't that when King Kong drove a jumbo jet into it.
since investigating the history of the society i thought i would do research on the dawn bible society to others known as the russellites.
today in the mail i recieved a booklet and it is all about pastor russell his life and what happened after he died and the split from the watchtowe society.
some great reading and a real eye opener to the truth of the breakoff .
Sounds interesting. I had no idea the Russellites were still around in any form. I'll second Honesty's request for more info as well. I've done a search round the internet but haven't come up with much about them.
didn't it drive you up the wall how, after a long week of working or going to school, you had to spend your entire weekend at an assembly?
the saturday and sunday that you could've spent catching up on some yard work, or even relaxing was wasted away by sitting in a bunch of chairs, listening to stuff you've heard many times before.. i know this used to drive me up the wall.
it felt like i had absolutely no time to myself during these weekends.
Whenever I complained about assemblies I always got the story from my mum about assemblies in her day when they travelled 300 miles for 7 day assemblies that lasted from morning to evening with field service even being thrown in. They stayed in strangers houses, miles from the convention ground, that were often pretty terrible or the people were really weird. After that guilt trip modern assemblies seemed like a weekend at the Ritz... actually no they didn't, they still felt like crap.
I used to volunteer for security to break the monotony and follow anyone who had a beard or was missing a name badge or wasn't wearing a shirt and tie. It was no respite really cos the weather in Yorkshire usually meant that being on security you meandered around in the rain for 4 hours at a time.
This has probably been asked before but what was the real reason for the org. getting rid of the food at the assemblies? I think the reason they gave was that bros. and sisters weren't able to listen to the drivel from the platform while making food or something like that. I'm sure the real reason is different from that though.
i'm curious.
do you call it the uk, england, or britain?
i have the sneaking suspicion that these terms each mean something slightly different from one another, but i thought i'd see how the natives use them.
The United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
Britain is England, Scotland, Wales
If I remember correctly from my history classes the term Britain was first used by the Romans for the Island of Britannia. The United Kingdom was created by the Act of the Union in the 1800's (I think) which tied in the territory of N. Ireland politically. I think most N. Irish unionists call themselves British which while not technically correct is as good a term as any. To me the term English always sounds too nationalistic and football hooliganic so I prefer British.
did you ever dream that you'd be posting here too?
I had a feeling as a teenager that at some point I wouldn't be a JW any more. I never thought I would be, as they term it, an apostate though. When I saw apostates outside assembly halls with placards or heard about people writing books like '30 Years of Watchtower Slave' I used to think why do they bother. I didn't know why they didn't just leave if they didn't believe what the society said and have done with it. It was only later I realised the pain and anger that a lot of people felt when they exited the dubs.
my parents are really into genealogy and looking into their ancestors at the moment.
pretty interesting thing to do you might say.
i have a funny feeling their going to turn it into a witnessing opportunity though.
My parents are really into genealogy and looking into their ancestors at the moment. Pretty interesting thing to do you might say. I have a funny feeling their going to turn it into a witnessing opportunity though. By coincidence some long lost relatives from southern England have been researching their genealogy too and they have all met up online. The southern family aren't witnesses of course and I can see it's only a matter of time before the whole JW subject is brought up.
At the moment it's at the point where everyone is just really glad that they have found each other, but hints by my grandma and mother imply that they would like to 'save' this 'worldly' family (and 'count time' when they send emails too no doubt). I think I'm going to keep out of it and not interfere for now as this long lost family will hopefully give the thumbs down to the whole JW thing anyway. I really hope my family don't press the issue as it could turn this new family relationship sour after it's only just started and spoil something that started out as fun.
Anyone else's family ever done something like this? Or turned a pastime into a witnessing opportunity and spoiled it?
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for an oldie i'd pick audrey hepburn singing moon river ... mmnnnn, i never get tired of that.. currently i'm listening to norah jones an aweful lot.
she is very easy on the ears and is my "audible-heaven" right now.. so who's voice makes you 'melt' ?
LOL fleaman!
Didn't sting say recently he made that whole tantric sex thing up and didn't actually pound way like a frog up a stick for hours on end.
The throwing of fireworks and flares at a football match in Italy is nothing new. I've seen them hit or nearly hit players quite a few times over the years. It does seem to be a particular problem in Italy with regard to flares. I think I'm right in saying that fireworks and flares are actually banned from the grounds but short of frisking everyone as they enter there's no way to enforce it.
A big deal has been made of the flare hitting the AC keeper but I think it was just an idiot in the crowd doing a stupid thing and not organised hooliganism which is a much worse problem in Italy at the moment.
