my roommate(baptized) met with 2 elders last night and gave them "the discoveries of barbara anderson".
she told them that she believed mrs. anderson was telling the truth.
she didn't think that mrs. anderson would have given so many years of service to jehovah and then just walk away.
Trace, let me get this straight -
This was post 50 for you; and you are telling Scully (forum assistant and over 10000 posts) proper etiquette for this forum?
Next I guess you have some advice for Chuck Yeager on how to fly, or maybe for Jackie Stewart on how to drive?
I have only been here a few months, but have seen Barbara give personalized assistance several times with not a word on identy protection.
I kind of get the impression that she is hiding from nobody...
James
i saw a short piece last night on an activist group in a little town in (i believe) connecticut -.
they were trying to enact local legislation to limit door knocking.
the issue was not the jws - it was about one of those general magazine salespeople who got into some elderly ladies house and robbed & murdered her a year or two back.
I saw a short piece last night on an activist group in a little town in (I believe) Connecticut -
They were trying to enact local legislation to limit door knocking. The issue was not the JWs - it was about one of those general magazine salespeople who got into some elderly ladies house and robbed & murdered her a year or two back. However, it did mention commercial, political, and religious purposes.
The idea was that all doorbell solicitors would have to register and accept responsibility to abide by a list of homeowners who opted to register as a "don't knock" address. This was modeled off of the famous (and IMHO successful) act to limit phone solicitation during the dinner hour by those annoying "charities" , carpet cleaning salesmen, etc..
It reminded me of the so-called Green River Act years ago which some communities tried to use against the JWs. As I recall, the WT legal dept fought against this tooth and nail and also traditionally refused to register as door-to-door salespeople (which of course they were).
Wonder if this fight is on again, this time fueled by the murder outrage?
i just watched the wgn- chicago evening news.
i was so moved by the segment on the gates foundation.
bill and melinda gates have already donated 10 billion dollars to charity.
I think it is quite obvious that, like Adam and Eve before him, he took a bite out of the forbidden Apple...WT logic is fuzzy on the resurrection hopes of the original sinners, however.
James, who had one of the first original Altair 8800 kits with the Gates/Allen basic interpreter back in the 70's.
Now a Macintosh owner - at home.
But a Windows programmer at work; finally figured I could not make a living as a Macintosh developer.
so, on tuesday afternoon i am driving in downtown austin.
there was this car in front of me that must have been lost and was completely stopped.
i decided i did not want to keep waiting behind him.
As you might suspect, as a sports car freak I side with Lo-Ru on this issue. Also, because the cyclist was in the wrong.
IMHO, a few of the on-the-street bicycle people often display an unbelievable degree of rudeness. It often does not bother them at all to sit right in the middle of your lane on an uphill 2-lane stretch so you pull up behind them at about 5 mph, smoking out your expensive clutch.
Then, when you stop legally at the next red light, it again bothers them not at all to just ride right past all the cars lined up and get in front of you again in between the gaps. This may be what actually was happening with Lo-Ru(cannot remember the rest of her handle)..he wanted to get ahead of you by sliding up between you and the curb.
To put this into Texas perspective, my step-kid worked as a carpark while he went to UT in Austin until graduating last year. These guys used skateboards to get back to their station after parking customers cars sometimes several blocks away. This was sort of on restaurant row near the campus. He tells me it really was a blast to park some guy's Ferrari 360, and then skateboard back in true Bart Simpson style. However, he says they were under very strict instructions to use good manners and good sense both with the cars and the skateboard. This was apparantly a most coveted job for these guys and they were not about to mess it up with bad behavior. He thinks he got this job in part because he showed up for the interview in a 6-speed Corvette and with a clean driving record. (they had to prove they could drive a stick and stay out of trouble). Family rules to keep that vette were Grade Point 3.5 and NO TICKETS OR WRECKS.
He made it - but I'll bet there will always be a fraction of kids with both sports cars and bicycles that have not grown up to their rides.
James
<div>hi i am in the middle of writing some memoirs of my time on the travelling work.
well anyone be interested in reading them?????
i have some heavy editing to do to protect identies and the like, but i should be finished at the end of the week.
I sure hope we are not being "had" by this poster. It sure could be entertaining and useful if it were only real...
I hate to be cynical, but how long should we give this one before application of the BS brand?
it is a shame that people are here portraying themselves as jehovah's witness as having some knowlege or going to meetings.
what exists here is a complete lack of faith in anything.
and a great amount of stupidity.
Is it just me, or have we had a very strange major influx of this type of thread over the last few days?
BTW - could anyone shed some light on what happened to the guy yesterday with the Pontiac Grand Am who leaned back in his seat and was given the oxygen from God and just needed to shed this light upon us?
I couldn't find this fascinating thread anywhere today - wonder why?
James
i feel like this all the time.
i have a husband that loves me, but i still feel like if i ever were on the singles market that i would not be a "good catch".
my health problems and most of all being a former jehovah's witness makes me feel less than perfect.. i'm having a pity party.
Well, Ms McD - I think it is readily apparant that you are much less damaged than the previous idiocy. Or than this, from GrissonXXXX = It is a shame that people are here portraying themselves as Jehovah's Witness as having some knowlege or going to meetings. What exists here is a complete lack of faith in anything. And a great amount of stupidity. The statements of "I'm a former Witness and people don't talk to me". Well Duh!!!. Why would anyone want to. Can all people do here is complain? No one has any backbone anyway. Stop complaining and do something to increase your faith and appreciation for God's word and his people on earth. This group will not do that. Ms McD - what this group WILL DO is stick by one another because we actually care about one another. No need to beat anybody up about it, including ourselves. Hang tough, James
my mother once told me a story of how john denver supposedly hated jehovah's witnesses more then life itself.
my legend, these are two examples i heard while in the witnesses .... 1. at a john denver concert, he once asked all jehovah's witnesses in the audience to leave.. 2. johnny carson once asked him if he did this, and when he said he did, johnny carson asked him to leave the show in rehearsal and re-booked someone else.. ... awhile back i started looking on the internet for information on this and could not see any proof of this and wondered if anyone ever heard this before or was it just something that was in our area.
i have a feeling it is something others heard of.
OK, I went and looked at my archives, and it was Mason Williams, who had the NWT on the shelf. Not Glenn Cambell.
Lionemane from the wichita county would never knowingly lie.
i told you today would be a day to remember did i not?
i know, weve withheld the day and hour from you but as i mentioned, it is only for those in the extreme reaches in authority to know the exact hour.. i lay back on my seat in my vehicle, as i have many times before, and a presence appears before me like before, but this time is different.
i feel my mind and body being filled with strength and vigor unlike before.
Please do so - first of all, what kind of car was it?
And, please do not think I am not being respectful - I am merely bewildered!
James
most people would consider it very wacky to connect the pyramid of gizah with the bible.
russell's claim was that the pyramid, the 1.st wonder of the world, was a witness down the ages containing god's plan.
the teachings and ideas on this seem to be so complex, that few people would spend / waste the time required to study these things.
OK - in the interest of reasonableness:
1. Now I understand, Rooster. You are right, no buildings needed. And especially not somebody else's sun worshipping crypt - monument.
2. Forscher, maybe I am reading you wrong. Surely you were not advocating rolling back the doctrine to Russell of the 1890 - 1910 era? In the interests of peace, it does seem somewhat more intellectually sincere than the cynicism or Rutherford. However, I still have my crackpot alarm go off whenever I read anything from the guy. Did you know that the old TV Rev. Gene Scott was also a great apologist for pyramid symbolism? While I often watched him for entertainment purposes on late night TV, he also gave me quite a few ticks on the crackpot counter.
3. And, now - my real culpa: I think I forgot that this thread got started by a fairly new poster called OneLord, who looked mostly to have put up a pretty reasonable question. I see OneLord has not been back - I hope we didn't get somebody mad for no reason except a little bit of fun!
Sincerely, James
