i was cheering wendy williams on when i saw her on et calling paula deen to the carpet for her use of racial slurs.
i use to work for a woman that reminds me of paula deen.
she was s caucasian woman her mid 60s and she was raised in georgia and she constantly would make racial jokes and do racial jestures in front of me.
And to think, just last month, this older black couple in the congregation was asking me to help them find directions to "The Lady & Sons" (Paula's Atlanta restraunt), as they had company coming and wanted to take them there (even making a weekend trip of it).
Wonder if they still want to go...
goatshapeddemons mention of chess being banned by jw's at one time was a new one to me.
it got me thinking.
they never corrected that did they?
Goatshapeddemons mention of Chess being banned by JW's at one time was a new one to me. It got me thinking. They never corrected that did they? There hasn't been 'new light' on the subject?
Check the June 1, 2013 WT - page 7. A witness family is shown playing chess together.
LOL! it gets better. WT cautions against playing Pacman
In all fairness, that was less about the game itself and more about the (supposed) environment of arcades as well as the possibility of gaming addiction (which was and is still a real problem).
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!
first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.
he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
A pedophile will always be sexually attracted to children.
Having a sexual attraction to children and acting on it are two very different things. Some folks have a genetic predisposition to alchoholism or other addictive behaviours, yet they can overcome it with tremendous willpower.
Not that I approve of GL's comments - he's a senile idiot, as are the rest of the GB.
cult members are property.. living property consisting of non-persons and non-individuals with disabled self-expression.. the tool used by this religion to control a member's desire to self-improve is attaching guilt as a stop-sign and crying: "disloyal.".
like any owned property, you are under the total control of others.
any wrong move, word or deed can label you a "danger" to the group-think.. there exists in such an authority structure only three possible stats you can achieve.. 1.compliant usefulness in carrying out assigned missions.
The silly explanation given for the oppressive facial hair restrictions is that it prevents the JW from looking like a minister.
The truth, of course, is that they just want their drones looking as "normal" as possible, so as to distrubte the most books.
I read, I believe it was on here, that brothers in some scandanvian country were allowed beards, as people considered beardless men effeminate.
Then, in my most recent pioussneer school, the brother was telling us how the way we do things in the US isn't universal (something to do with preconcieved notions and prejudices) - and mentioned that brothers among some native tribe or other were allowed long hair (even to the waist!), as among that tribe, cutting the hair meant that one had disgraced the tribe, and no one would talk to them.
Obviously, the WTBT$ will do whatever it takes to keep the $$$ rolling in.
cult members are property.. living property consisting of non-persons and non-individuals with disabled self-expression.. the tool used by this religion to control a member's desire to self-improve is attaching guilt as a stop-sign and crying: "disloyal.".
like any owned property, you are under the total control of others.
any wrong move, word or deed can label you a "danger" to the group-think.. there exists in such an authority structure only three possible stats you can achieve.. 1.compliant usefulness in carrying out assigned missions.
Mustaches must be a variable thing. Several in my cong have them (myself included), including some MSs and Elders.
Could depend on the style, too. Extremes like a Charlie Chaplin or a big ol' handlebar might get you a talking to.
http://www.townofwarwick.org/wt_con/_appendix%20j.pdf.
of course i was aware that the new headquarters would be there but according to the above plans it is immense!.
253 acres???
So, are the facilities at Walkill and Patterson going to be closed down eventually, like Brooklyn?
They just read a letter last night about expanding... Walkill, I think it was. Also that Warwick was proceeding apace. How happifing.
one of the most persistent myths on this website is that jws are already in decline, the rot has set in, and the descent of the watchtower is inevitable from here on in.
unfortunately the facts do not bear this out.
jws are still increasing even in most developing countries, and they are still growing worldwide at a faster rate than the general population.
I think the amount of hours they have to spend to get a convert is the most telling. Some thing like 7500 hours and 32 bible studies to get one convert and that includes born ins.
One of those rare occasions when I feel like quoting the Bible:
Matthew 23:15 - "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."
so i was randomly watching a show on investigation discovery today - the show was called killer next door, and the episode was called murder without motive.. the show is a french-canadian program that has been translated into english, and this particular episode had to do with a homicide that took place in ste-croix-de-lotbiniere, near quebec city, in november 1999 of a young man named victor lemay.. the confessed murderer was his friend, andre roy, then aged 22.. in the year or so that preceded the murder, andre roy had been disfellowshipped from the jws and had, as a result, been kicked out of his parents' home.
he had no social support outside of the jws and had to start making new friends.
the psychologists on the program felt very strongly that the shunning he experienced by the jws in general, and his family in particular, contributed to increasing rage, and that his friend, victor, became a convenient outlet for his rage.
I'm amazed that someone hasn't yet "gone postal" over being DFed and shunned and grabbed his high capacity magazines, body armor, combat boots,etc., and paid a branch or KH a friendly visit...
That's because I haven't been DFd yet.
people going door to door uninvited should be required to get a licence and sercurity check if they are going door to door and required to show it on demand while engaged in the door to door work.. after all it is a perfect stranger for the most part who could be an imposter or maybe even a violent criminal or rapist.
no one convicted of sexual molestation or violent crimes should be given a permit.
an added benifit would be less people knocking on your door trying to sell you something be it a vaacum cleaner or armegeddon life insurance protection.. what is your opinon?.
I do believe that in the US, religious people are not subject to the same laws and this has been established legally.
Luckily, Supreme Court rulings are not writ in stone.
i made a tiny comment about the smaller and poorer quality of the wt magazines to my wife (in) she retorted "thats because they are using the internet.!".
it was not her words and her reply was almost rehearsed no doubt learned at the ms.. pretty good given the wts warnings against all things internet until relatively recently..
What about countries with no Internet
They don't have money. Why should the WTBT$ care about them?
