Posts by tijkmo

i think i heard the word "intellectual" for the first time when i was less than ten years old.. my grandmother said to me that the presidential candidate for the democratic party (adalai stevenson) was an "intellectual".. the way she said the word...the timbre of her voice...the look of admiration on her face...led me to believe this was a good thing indeed!.

i think i may have asked her what the word meant, but, i don't recall exactly what she told me.

perhaps enough to confirm that this fellow stevenson was a "thinker" of admirable stature.. fast forward.. by the time my teen years came along there was a kind of dichotomy in society between so-called "eggheads" and common folk.

tijkmo

No innovations are allowed. No great ideas are born at local levels, you see. No scholarly investigations can "improve" the FDS pronouncements.

i think i am a psuedo intellectual

but only cos i wasnt allowed to be a real one.

for the same reason i am also decent at music sport and anything else i turn my hand to...but dont really excel at anything.

it is a valid point you make..no-one is allowed to excel or even better themselves in the org unless it is beneficial to the org.

how many musicians can they use on kingdom recordings..and yet genuine musicians cannot make jazz arrangements of kingdom songs because of copywrite (ironic in that most songs are written and donated by r & f)...

how many singers are not allowed to sing loud in the kingdom hall because they are drawing attention to themselves.

how many artists are told to work some menial job because the society doesnt need any more artists.

how many inventors must tow the line - and wait till the new order.

how many sportsman could work less hours and miss less meetings and contribute better financially than a shift working mcdonalds worker.

i was watching a documentary recently with my jw parents about the making of a steinway piano..my folks were oohing and aahing about the craftmanship and detail...and the musicianship of the players including the very young ones. it was a sure sign of a loving creator that this music could be produced....and i thought...yet when i was young i was discouraged from pursuing my natural musical ability and interest in order to clean windows.

this is an organization that uses all the abilities and endeavours of humans to prove the existence of a loving god whilst denying its adherents the prospect of ever pursuing them without someone somewhere looking disdainfully at them for doing so.

the irony is that i was willing to deny my creativity for the cause...and so many others are too. i had no problem making that sacrafice and i gladly did a job that i hated to serve a god that i loved. and yet when i needed his help he was nowhere to be found. and accordng to his own words "expectation postponed is making the heart sick". no wonder creative talented inventive intellectual people are leaving in their droves. it has nothing to do with thinking more of themselves than it is necessary, or not even being prepared to wait. it is simply that having waited for so long and had their abilities thwarted stunted or pooh-poohed many of them have simply gotten sick and given up.

surely a loving god can see that...

and yet still he waits.

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CO talked to me to encourage me

by stillajwexelder in

well the co asked me to reach out again to be an elder because the organization needs men like me - i am serious - that is what he said.

if only he knew.

so all i need to do is get my hours to average 12 or better per month.. no chance.

tijkmo

i would love to be an elder again...it would be like being an mischeivous adult back at school

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Elder in my old hall is DFed wow!

by Alexia in

i ran into an old friend spontaneously over the weekend.

(one of the few jws i actually considered a friend back in the day).

we were briefly catching up and she mentioned an elder in my old hall is now dfed.

tijkmo

aha but you miss the point..

he wasnt df-ed for defending his daughter

he was df-ed for defending his df-ed daughter

thats a big no-no.(and in point of fact, not too easy to say either)

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Cross is a pagan symbol, watchtower is a pagan symbol too

by Noelle in

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you all jehovah witnesses that said jesus didn't die on a cross but on a stake your wrong because the romans were pagans and what better way to crucify someone than on a pagan symbol.

i have a fact that you need to listen to as well, the watchtower which you symbolize is a pagan symbol as well.

oh no how can that be you ask, well let me tell you.. in ceremonial magic and some traditions of wicca and neopaganism, the four cardinal points are believed to have spiritual guardians called watchtowers.

tijkmo

I wouldntve been seen dead with one of those even when I was heavily indoctrinated

haha guess what...i had one

what an idiot

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Sitting her forgetting it all.

by Sparkplug in

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friends

trying to remember what it is i have been supposed to be doing since monday.

don't have a clue.. my daughter ran away and all her stupid ass friends are not giving her up.

the police are looking and nothing.

tijkmo

wow dont know what to say cos i have never been there

so will just say im thinking of you and hoping it all works out.

ian xx

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England 2 USA 0

by digderidoo in

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friends

well i said i wouldn't watch the game but i changed my mind.. ok it was only a friendly, but i have come here to gloat our victory.

usa were poor.. i was impressed with the england fans not booing the american national anthem, sung beautifully by kelly rowland.

a bit different to the ricky hatton fight in vegas.

tijkmo

I was reading a history of the game in NZ in the late 1800's

wow how old are you

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What do you think about small children commenting in the meetings?

by asilentone in

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tijkmo

Ridiculously stupid and moronic to do that to innocent children, fu...en parents should be shot.

parents encourage children to do things they dont necessarily want to do in all aspects of life..they do it because they believe it will be for their benefit ...or because they get some pride in it.

thus children become athletes, musicians, politicians, dentists, etc etc etc almost always because it was the parents choice initially.

seldom if ever does such encouragement demand the shooting of such parents