some months ago, someone, maybe maximus, mentioned that fred franz or one of the other top dogs at bethel used to always carry a series of self-help tapes around with him.
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does anyone know what the title of the tapes was?
Carnegie was the originator of the "How to win friends.." stuff. His influence can be seen in many more recent techniques, including EST, and its offspring "The Forum". The bulk of it is hooey, but it is very well pacakged hooey, and it gets its own share of rabid followers.
What is very interesting about the Carnegie seminars is that many of the very same techniques were repackaged and presented as part of the Service Meetings.
last night on one of the entertainment magazines shows they said that michael jackson just gave an interview to tv guide.
in it he says he is still a jw and still goes door to door in disguise.
i had heard a rumour recently that he still donated a lot of money to the society but had no clue he still claimed to be one.
Does he disguise himself as a black male? No one would recognize him that way.
well, our resident sooth-sayer yk has once again missed the mark, as october ends and the world spins on.
but then again, as was the case in 1914, the world may have come crashing down but i failed to notice.
And don't we know it, those Armageddon fashion designers can be fickle indeed. One year, you find the perfect outfit for having a bear eat you, and by the next Fall you wound not be caught dead in it while falling into a huge crack in the Earth. Personally, I look for the timeless black look, which is ideal when the birds are pecking the eyes out of my lifeless corpse.
well, our resident sooth-sayer yk has once again missed the mark, as october ends and the world spins on.
but then again, as was the case in 1914, the world may have come crashing down but i failed to notice.
Well, our resident sooth-sayer YK has once again missed the mark, as October ends and the world spins on. But then again, as was the case in 1914, the world MAY have come crashing down but I failed to notice.
14 years or so ago, when i used to go around with my best mates steve and keith in west sussex, england, a frind of ours from one of the brighton congregations got a public reproof for bumming up to a car or having sex with it in some peculiar way.
has anyone ever heard of this before, cos we could never quite work out what that involved no matter how much we tried to work out what he'd been up to?.
any offers to put my puzzlement to rest?
No, the Society frowned on autoerotica in all forms.
jehovah keeps sifting and cleanning out the organization.
this board is proof of that sifting work.
congratulations on being cleansed out of jehovah's organization because of your inmoral and prideful lives.
You can say that again! It is indeed great to be here in the real world.
By the way, you hit the nail on the head with immoral AND prideful, that's me!
well, a post on the good ol days got me thinking about the vehicles people drive and why.
in the jws, a vehicle had to be appropriate for service, four doors, holding at least five.
i remember back in 1978 i bought an mgb and the brothers had a fit (hehe), i was selfish, etc.,.
But it is a very NICE cement mixer!
well, a post on the good ol days got me thinking about the vehicles people drive and why.
in the jws, a vehicle had to be appropriate for service, four doors, holding at least five.
i remember back in 1978 i bought an mgb and the brothers had a fit (hehe), i was selfish, etc.,.
the" creator book "helps us to see how many of the bibles predictions came true.. for instance on pg 106 we find,.
"consider this point.
isaiah wrote about babylons final situation:babylon the decoration of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the chaldeans, must become as when god overthrew sodom and gomorrah.she will never be inhabited, nor will she reside for generation after generation".
In my dub days, I had never gotten a good answer to that question myself. All of the examples that were given were all so vague and/or convoluted that they didn't make sense to me even then, much less so now.
sometimes i do a lot of thinking.. yeah, i know that is dangerous.
regardless, at times it seems that even though ive been out of the borg for a little over two decades now, gone through expensive therapy, had a long term relationship once with another ex-dub and spent 8 years in college, i still find my personal thinking effected in some negative ways by my being raised a jw.. for instance, i have a really difficult, if not impossible time, ever finding a community where i feel i belong.
ive lived everywhere from san francisco to cocoa beach on the opposite coast and no matter where i live, i feel like im an alien from another culture.
I just started doing volunteer work in the past three months, and wish I had started LONG ago. I am meeting some great people, and having a very enjoyable time. My work is as a patient/family representative in the ER / Trauma Center of a local hospital two afternoons a week, and it has been both rewarding and humbling. For one thing, I will never take my good health for granted again. I have also learned some very important facts, such as; nailguns and fingers do not mix; and when you are under your car dropping the transmission, do NOT attempt to catch it with your forehead.
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