Ah, wily, I remember calls like that - but in the UK we can't drive so far. I used to do a little rain dance in the sittingromm whilst getting it ready for the FM meeting. I would also pray to the Gods of Doom to make it pour with rain. Such joy when they were answered. We'll do RV's we would all rejoice, knowing for the next 1hr 15mins we would drive around 'looking' for the RV. I would sometimes work with a sister - if my wife was not going - who would say ' I'm doing RV's' ' I'll come with you' I would quickly say before anyone else. If I was on my own I would zoom off and do a couple of NAH RV's I knew and then go back for coffee and biccies. All and sundry would be full of 'a good time today'. I hated the ministry. I did not invent time until the end, then when I couldn't care less I just did not report - even if I went out. We had the group in MY house and I 'lost' my 'privilege' of reading and opening/closing in prayer. I did not answer up and if asked to read a scripture I just read it in a monotone. When we had to decorate the kitchen, we needed the space for boxes of stuff so I said the group could not meet here for a couple of weeks. When we finished the decorating I just did not invite them back. That was 2 years ago. Bliss.
Posts by uriah
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31Fudging on "Field Service Report"
by Clinton inwhen i was a jdub i used to write down whatever hours i wanted to write down.
when i was pioneering for 7 years i would add a few hours to my time each month so that i wouldn?t fall too far behind.
even when i wasn?t pioneering though i would inflate my hours a bit sometimes so i wouldn?t have the elders hounding me about my time and also so i could hold a ?position?.
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WT to Congregations, Grow or Go
by benext init was related to me this morning the society has instituted either a new or unofficial policy that congregations with attendance (not publisher) averages of less than 70 will be merged into the nearest congregation.
i know of one elder who will inflate his cong.
average to keep his "spot.
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uriah
You only have to look at a circuit assembly to see how well you can fade into the wallpaper. No-one from other congs talks to anyone from another cong - unless they know them - , the 'ones' in the cong don't talk to anyone outside their cong clique so you have little huddles. I once tried to break into one of these - just for the fun of it (fun?!) - talk about frost, you'd think I was a lepper asking for money and holding out a pus covered stump than one of the 'loving brotherhood' My old cong is down to about 65 - on a good day - and falling. No new 'New "ones"(tm)'. In fact most of the growth was imports.
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Answers to elders who ask " Do you consider yourself one of JWs"
by blondie inor similar questions by the elders?
were you asked something similar and how did you answer?.
blondie.
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uriah
I Agree with franklins statement. You will not win. They are convinced that they are right and you are wrong. Just go and see the e-watchman board. Talk about head in the sand.
I have found it best to say what they want. It appears that they do not see through the subterfuge and are happy to go away with what you tell them. I would be thinking, Hey this guy's trying to pull a fast one. I'll ask some more searching questions..' but they don't. Still, I can remember being just as blind and marking down a house, when on FM, as mine when the emcumbents (who said p -orf) were transmogrified into manure at the big A. -
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I am covered in cheese and sickly goo
by uriah ini just got out of a vat of cheesey, sickly-sweet goo.
what is that i hear you all shout - aghast and a-gog (but not of maygog, oh no) and where.
oh, i fear for the unwary and timid.
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uriah
Why, are you first in the queue?
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I am covered in cheese and sickly goo
by uriah ini just got out of a vat of cheesey, sickly-sweet goo.
what is that i hear you all shout - aghast and a-gog (but not of maygog, oh no) and where.
oh, i fear for the unwary and timid.
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I just got out of a vat of cheesey, sickly-sweet goo. What is that I hear you all shout - aghast and a-gog (but not of maygog, oh no) and where. Oh, I fear for the unwary and timid. It is none other than the (trumpet blast) e-watchman discussion board!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO APOSTATES WELCOME Whats-your-favourite-colour-and-why-type-old-'witnesses.com' subjects. All watched over by the kindly old man in the sky, the new head of JW's eeeeee-WATchMan. Go and see, but take a sour-ball Yuk. I'm orf to take a shower.
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Does anyone remember those hideous murals?
by Country Girl infrom around 1964, until our congregation had a new kingdom hall built in the mid-70's or so, we had this mural behind the speaker's platform on the stage.
it was supposed to be paradise.
it had a nice range of mountains, a beautiful lake, and some flora and fauna in the foreground.
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We had one in a kent cong. Most kids and probably adults used to look at it to kill time and try to ease the boredom. It was eventually painted over. We also had a score board - I never understood, then, what it was all about but I do remember some brother pasting numbers on it. Then there ws the map with litle pins in it denoting 'active', 'lapsed', 'disfellowshipped' etc. Then there was the drawing of battles on the cover of the old style watchtower - that had a watchtower on the front and putting a little flag on the mountain and blokes falling off the top of the tower, not to mention the speech bubbles on the line drawings.
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E-Watchman campaign
by dustyb ini just thought i'd do an e-watchman campaign (explained at http://www.e-watchman.com/commentaries/feb_14_time_to_speak.html and also on another thread somewhere's else).
but what i'm wondering is if anybody knows who the po is for the sw missouri district (i'm not sure on district divisions).
i'm going to pull a maverick and put his address as the return addy and put about 100 letters in the mailbox.
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uriah
It's all very well and 'big' of e-watchman to orchestrate a 'campaign' but I smell a rat. I sent the following email to his 'ask me, I'm a watchman' page
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Well, well, e-watchman, finally coming off the fence with your 'A time to speak'
Will you have the strenght of your convictions and stand up and be counted like you are asking other JW's to do or will you hide behind their skirts, as it were. I hope that you are not just the loading bullets?==
It is all very well to ask others to put their family and friends on the line, let's see some 'fine examples' of how to do it by e-watchacleverchapman I am.
Or am I just being 'picky'
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What has happened to E-Watchman?
by uriah in.
what has happened to e-watchman, has his site gone?
i just get msn can't find it pages.. don't bother - it's back up.
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uriah
What has happened to e-watchman, has his site gone? I just get MSN can't find it pages.
Don't bother - it's back up.
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Ever give a ridiculous 'talk'?
by Steve Lowry inone day at the hall when i was about fifteen i guess, i looked at the talk schedule to see my name posted next to my next talk.
i hated giving a talk.
it made sick to my stomach before i would go 'on'.
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uriah
I was 15 and had to give a talk on Labour Pains. I tried to keep it 'spiritual' i.e. israels labour pains but had to make reference to real ones. I was ragged rotten by the sister afterwards. It took about a week before my face returned to normal. I should have been used to it with 2 sisters - my mum would send me down to the shop to by sanitary towels. In those days the shop assistant would say 'who's next' and you would tell them what you wanted and they would put it on the counter for all to see. 'Tin of baked beans please' 'Tin of baked beans threppence (3d)' or 1.5p or less than a cent for you over-ponders 'anything else sonny?' 'er... whisper.. whisper blush blush'. Good thing was the assistant liked me and knew what i wanted and came back with it in a paper bag - which was nice of her. Of course, in those days they did not have wings or would fit in a small space like now, they were almost the size of a bath towel and the world and his wife could see what you had. Ahh, those were they days.
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Governing Buzzards - Part 3 - Does the WTS lie about being Exonerated?
by Amazing inand likely rutherford and other top society officer must have known about this event ?
government motion in judges chambers:
this was fascinating, because while the society was allowed many motions, the government only made one motion ?
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uriah
This is a really great post and has supplied me with info I have needed but not had time to research. Thank you all for your enlightening posts.
To my mind, it boils down to one thing. Truth.
Has the WTBTS been telling the truth. As, I believe, John Lennon said, 'All I want is the truth, won't someone just give me some goddamn truth'
That is what I want. I can handle the truth, whatever it is.
Lies. Well lies are a whole new ball game.
Let's keep the truth coming for as my Grandmother pounded into my brain 'The truth will out'.
She wasn't wrong.