the october 15th watchtower gives advice on social gatherings.
try not to throw up or pee your pants laughing at some of the advice!.
'paragraph 5 page 24.. 'many hosts have faced the issue of whether to serve alcoholic beverages.
It sounds like they are just getting worse and worse! How do they keep anybody?
Either people must not be really applying all these "encouraging suggestions" in real life, or they are flat out leaving in droves. This should open many more eyes to how twisted and cultlike this is! There was a little bit of fun allowed in the 80's, but it sounds so grim and serious now. I just don't see how human beings can live this way.
i've noticed several people on this board mention they have fms and similar type afflictions.
fms is known to be brought about by physical/emotional stress.
i have suffered from it for many years.
Many at the Hall had chronic illnesses, including me. Mine was from the stress of trying to set the perfect example, and pretend to believe in what I strongly disagreed with! It was acceptable to be sick and blame it on "this old system." This awful old system of things causes so much suffering. I would think, "This awful old meeting causes so much suffering!"
Now that I'm away from all the rules and "suggestions" I feel really great!
anyone have any good home execise equipment that you unreservedly recomment?
I use my AB Lounger every morning to do sit-ups. It's a light weight piece of equipment, but effective. I also use the old exercise bicycle to trim the hips and tone the calves.
i bet some still carry them.
you all know what i'm talking about; there were at least 3 brothers in the congregation that had one.
thank god my father wasn't one of them.
Thanx, Gregor and Jgnat. I hope no one thinks I'm putting my Dad down, when sadness is really what I'm feeling when remembering the big brown leather briefcase. Sad that he never went to college, and craved to be somebody important, and found what he needed in the adoration at the Hall when he dressed up and carried that case. He was a small town boy, and they hooked him in thru his need to be important.
A guy can be important at the Hall, even if he's nobody at work. I just wish he knew he was important anyway, without the suit and the case and the silly religion that sucked away his whole life. Now he's elderly, and still faithfully lugging that briefcase, only it's harder to carry now. His audience is smaller now, mostly conducting the book study for the elderly ones in the morning. But he's still important to me.
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...thereby taking money out of the pockets of anti-gay bigots - in 12 easy steps: .
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Focus is a huge presence in Colorado Springs. People either love them or hate them. A popular bumper sticker locally says "Focus on your OWN damn family!" Presently, they are engaged in a pissing contest with local gay groups over whether people are born gay, or "choose perversion." There are banners downtown on Tejon Street with a puppy who says "Moo" and was born different. Focus countered by running their own newspaper ads with Norman, a puppy who is born "normal." The city is really burned out on Focus and the whole thing is really back firing. Letters to the newspaper pretty much say, who cares, leave people alone to live their lives if they're not bothering anybody.
I think their harping is turning people off, and they come off looking really mean. Maybe they'll be broke soon, they're always in a financial crisis and did some major cutbacks recently for cash crunch reasons.
Believe it or not, tourists actually come to Colorado to visit the Focus headquarters.....hmmm, compare to BethHell?
It got so bad for us, that we finally cancelled the land line. Now we only use our cell phones. Only friends, family and work have the numbers. This solved our problem.
i bet some still carry them.
you all know what i'm talking about; there were at least 3 brothers in the congregation that had one.
thank god my father wasn't one of them.
Yep. I remember. My Dad would come home from his greasy, grimy factory job, shower, and put on a suit and tie. He shined his new Florsheim shoes with the tassles, and proudly carried his official elder brief case into the Hall, setting it down by his seat. This let everybody know, someone important was sitting there. Suddenly he was transformed from a lowly factory worker, into someone important! To all outward appearances, he was a well to do businessman, maybe an attorney with files to take to a meeting.
I remember Dad clicking open the important briefcase during the meeting, to take out important books, such as the Aid book, or his Kingdom Ministry. This was accompanied by putting on his scholarly looking reading glasses, and rummaging thru the accordian folders in the top of the briefcase. Sometimes, he would warn me never to look inside because very secret folders were in it, about comittee meetings.
This pomp was very impressive to me, as a child, and to the little old ladies, who could see how sharp the elders were, in their suits and spectacles and smart brief cases.
i am a bit too young to remember this but, was disco really banned by the jw's??
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I remember it mostly being forbidden because supposedly those dreadful perverted homosexuals invented it to draw nice people into their depraved dance clubs to become mesmerized and have sex. Going to discos made people become gay. Hahaha! I wasn't old enough to go dancing, but I loved the music and I still do. It's fun, happy music, upbeat and you can really dance to it! It's got a good beat, and it's cheerful. It was just a fun era.
I don't have any statistics on how many people decided to become gay from listening or standing under a strobe. Isn't that ridiculous, just another example of how anything fun must be squashed.
i had an eye exam today and am really impressed with my new contact lenses!
ok, so ahem, it was time to get progressive glasses...or was it?
vanity indicated i try a pair of "multi-vision" contacts, and they are fantastic!
I had an eye exam today and am really impressed with my new contact lenses! OK, so ahem, it was time to get progressive glasses...or was it? Vanity indicated I try a pair of "multi-vision" contacts, and they are fantastic! No adjustment period, and I have gathered up my reading glasses to give away. It's all clear, near and far!
Anybody else try these yet? Best thing is, nobody can tell I'm a bi-focal wearing chik, because I'm still wearing nice blue lenses! (Old Bat Virgochik)
i think i was about 3 yrs when my mom started studying.
raised in a protestant religion.
she had said several times that all she learned in that religion was hell fire and damnation.
A warm welcome to Annie and to Lady C!
