@Dunedain... That video is TRUE. lol WT actually happily produced it. It came on here 3 years ago in the summer. We all laughed our heads off. It is hilarious.
LL
below are a few screen captures from the video to serve as a reminder of what he looks like.
below those will be a few captures from a weather forecaster now at our kark tv (arkansas).
his name is matt peterson.
@Dunedain... That video is TRUE. lol WT actually happily produced it. It came on here 3 years ago in the summer. We all laughed our heads off. It is hilarious.
LL
i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.
i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.
i do not condone any crime.
Is this LARS??? Hi, LARS. I have missed you! You always had a cettain way at looking at life that put a smile on my face. (I also shook my head, but I did smile).
LL
has there been any discussion about why jehovah would guide his people to a polluted property to build their world headquarters?
Knowing the history of WT, really, who can honestly say, WT is an honest business? No one can. They get guillible people to believe whatever they say, and among them they get men looking for an easy power trip becoming Elders, and women who want to be looked up to, so they comment and pioneer or make sure they are in the weekly service group so they are in the in crowd with gossip and parties. Yuck!
Good hearted people will think, "Oh, they didn't know there was any polution left on this dirt cheap property, no normal person wanted".
While all along WT business men thought, cha ching, let's buy it, pretend we don't understand how chemicals can stain the ground for years, buy it, build on it, and then!!! Hey!! How come you sold us this good for nothing land so cheap. You were trying to deceive us that it was OK for thousands of people tp live here". (All the time WT high ups are laughing and rubbing their greedy hands together thinking they are the smarter businessmen, and going to get repaid in millions in compensation).
LoisLane
i war reading an interesting research article about charles taze russell and all of his financial dealings.
this caught my eye:.
charles taze russell and the watchtower society were in deep business distress after the "busted" october 1914 prophecy failure, and particularly after the "busted" october 1915 prophecy failure.
@WasOnceBlind and everyone else, Wow. Such timely information.
One hundred years ago. The First World War and all that went with it, helped garner more desperate people, looking for someone to tell them everything is alright, you will be alright and stick with WT and we will lead you to the Promised Land! It, of course was never true, but the poor injured 'sheep' were yearning for someone, anyone, to make sense of what they had gone through. Spin the wheel, where it stops, nobody knows. Catholic, Jew, Mormon, Baptist? Or, what about this new group that says the earth will SOON be a paradise and all wickedness will be done away with. They say so, and it is in print, so it must be true, right? Let's join them! And Russell and Rutherford and Knorr/Franz had it made. They preyed (notice preyed, not prayed) indifferently on these poor souls.
This new group? hahahaha
With this most wonderous time in history, the information highway is up and running so I cannot see the WT getting bigger. Their hope is in immigrants to first world countries, that are affected by the love bombing and the fantasy hope of, geez, I even hate to recall, the dream of everlasting life on a paradise earth, with your resurrected loved ones.
What a false and shameful image to put out there for lonely, gullible, uneducated, innocent human beings.
LoisLane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbpbb5k_mc
I listened to a poor speaker for 2 minutes. Two minutes that I will never get back. He is a 'helper to the GB"? What a joke.
The subject? hahahaha
In WT/JW land, anyone can aspire to be with the 'greats'. But what type of man (man as a guy with real balls) wants to be a brown noser?
my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.
our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.
he hung himself.
Oh Rich, I am so sorry to hear your bad news. I feel so bad that someone, anyone is in so much turmoil and pain they think they should do themselves in.
He was so young. I am so sorry for your loss.
Hugs.
LoisLane
is this a beautiful story, or what?.
act one________.
now in an ordinary romance of the golden hollywood era, the boy goes off to war while the young lady waits nervously for his safe return.in a cary grant, debra kerr movie, the two vow to meet after a certain period of time and tragic circumstances intervene.. in my story, the young man is a conscientious objector who goes to prison instead of off to the vietnam war.
Terry, It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
All the best, you two!
LoisLane
dear all,.
my health took a beating over the years with stress from various sources, not a little from the wt; and dangerous areas of work involving fumes and so on.
the arc also took its toll and i have had recently a heart attack.
If you want to look superior when you are walking the halls at the hospital after your operation, pack a snazzy bathrobe/house coat/happy coat. All the other men will be wearing the usual cotton hospital issue that makes everybody look like they are in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Also slippers. (The jammies are up to you. If you wear theirs, you won't have to wash yours when you get home).
Sending you virtual home made organic chicken soup, right to your door.
Get well soon! Hugs.
LoisLane
i saw this on ex jw reddit:"this may not be news to you but it was to me.
forgive me if this has already been posted before.
it came from a reliable source working on the warwick project.. wallkill bethel had broken ground and laid the foundation for a new recreation building.
Help me out here if I am wrong but isn't the property they are building on a chemical dump? The same with the property they bought in England. Both properties they bought on the cheap because no one wanted to live on a toxic waste site. Did their JW Law degree graduates tell them buy the land, start building and then oops, file a substantial claim, sue everyone, and say that this property should never have been sold to anyone, thus getting all their money back plus interest? That's what I am waiting to hear. Cha ching.
That is what has been going through my mind, evil though the thought.
@As to the OP and 'burying" a foundation for a rec hall, I cannot figure what these 'enlightened' ones have done in the past, let alone what's the next idiotioc thing they are going to do. Whatever it is, WT/GB is all about making sure no one wises up and takes money AWAY from THEM. lol
LoisLane
i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.
could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?
perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.
As in the sit-com, TV show 'Cheers', this is the place 'where everybody knows your name'. lol After waking up and leaving WT behind, it is relaxing and fun to be part of a forum such as this, where you are sorta 'known'.
Someone talks about the New York asembly in 1958, I was a little kid but I was there. Beth Sarem (I almost wrote harem lol) most of us know what that is.
At Simon's 'house' I always feel welcomed, understood and cared about. Coming here is in a way, coming 'home' a place that only exists now in my memories.
Lonely? Sure. Sometimes. But I enjoy the camaraderie here. We all have been through trauma not really understood by others.
LoisLane