the thread about got me thinking about my very early childhood, back when witnesses were allowed to be social and have get togethers.
they also had a piano in every congregation i ever attended, and an older sister would always play the kingdom melody.
there was actual singing - not mindless droning and humming.
I'm old enough that when I was a kid they still had the pianos on in our hall there was this 30 something bombshell that played. I remember as a young teen thinking lightning was going to strike me for oogling her as she strutted up the aisle to the piano.
Definitely better than the canned stuff that was just coming in when I was getting out of high school and not going to meetings anymore.
i am sure that cesar millan has been talked about before here.
however, the more i watch this show the more i am amazed at his ability with dogs and other animals.
however, what gets me is that i was using many of his techniques about 15 years ago with my dogs, and never even thought about doing it professionally.. the thumping sound you hear is the sound of me kicking myself.
And here I thought I was just hearing voices in my head.
i still don't believe in hellfire.
i think astrology and palm reading is ridiculous.
that's a couple of things that i know i got from being a jw......what about you??
Interesting question, I had to really think about that one. Nope, I can't say that there is one thing that I have kept from being raised by dubs, I rejected the whole mindset lock stock and two smoking barrels.
well from what i understand a cult is something that expects you to follow some man.
you must give up your individual thought processes and just go with what you are told to think.
this way you are released from individual responsibility.
Let's see, first you are told you are under satan's control, a sinner, with no hope for the future. Hmm, sounds like the tearing down phase to me.
Then you see the "truth" bit by bit and are praised for your maturity and insight. Hmm, sounds like the building up phase to me.
Then you find you are in an elite corps of faithful witnesses who alone have God's blessing. Hmm, sounds like you feel better than everyone else thanks to the WBTS.
Drop and give me twenty maggot!
i was just thinking today, that the number 40 also seems to hold significance in the bible.
i did some research and found this site.. .
maybe leolaia, narkissos or others can help here and explain if there was any symbolic value that the number 40 held.
When I was an undergrad I took a class called, "The Bible as Literature". The class was taught by a Jesuit Priest. He said that the number 40 was a plug number when the writer didn't know how long it actually was and that was a popular convention at the time. So, anytime there was an extended period and the writer didn't know how long it was, they just said 40 days.
here are my notes from the 2006 special assembly day "keep your eye simple".
i added emphasis to some of the notes.. why keep your eye simple (local elder).
what are some of these things?
I just love those goofy little catch phrases and buzzwords they come up with, Keep Your Eye Simple indeed, should have called it Keep Your Mind Simple, would have at least been closer to the truth.
"if you can't do da time don't do the crime".
former church elder denied parole montana standard - 2 hours, 35 minutes agoanaconda parole was denied wednesday for a former jehovahs witness church elder convicted of fleecing more than $7 million from a 100-year-old deer lodge womans trust estate.
former church elder denied parole man convicted in 2003 for bilking elderly deer lodge woman out of $7 millionby vera haffey - 03/24/2006.
I hope those ex-elders remember not to drop the soap.
Scumbags.
just thought i would let you all know, that as part of my ongoing theocratic warfare strategy i placed 6 magazines this morning.
i will be recording about 20 on my time slip though
I've got to say I agree with many here, why even place the things? Why not just fudge your time slip to keep them off of you? You never know, one of those rags might actually ring the cherries with someone and we all know what can happen after that.
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http://www.speedtrap.org/speedtraps/stetlist.asp
i don't encourage anyone to drive over the speed limit, but i find this site interesting, and could help you avoid a speeding ticket.
There was an interesting story locally. It seems a private company was contracted to set up radar guns and cameras at many of the local school zones. If you tripped the gun the camera would photograph your license plate and you would get a ticket in the mail. Several thousand tickets were issued in the space of a month, many to police offices, lol. The city raised holy hell and the program was suspended even though the voters had complained (and rightly so) that speeding through school zones was epidemic. They are still wrangling over it in city council.
this occured to me in the car today.. lenin - the true believing idealist who launched the revolution.
the dream was to throw off the shackles of oppression (this system of things) and create a new utopia of a worker's paradise (paradise earth).
ct russel.
Pretty slick stuff, I'm impressed. Rank and file dubs vs. Russian citizens, the defections, the seeing how life was on the otherside (the West) while the administration continued to them them we were the devil incarnate and they lived in a perfect society.
So, is Bethel the Berlin wall, are we going to be around to take that bad boy down?
